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Or, wait for a torrent with a cracked version and elephant them off. Pay 0, get all the updates when they get released cracked and the cracks themselves prevent MS crapware.
GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP. -- TNCaver
When I was six, there were no ones and zeroes - only zeroes. And not all of them worked. -- Ravi Bhavnani
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I know several honest people who've gone down that path.
Criminal activity begets criminal activity.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Runs with criminals. No surprise there. 
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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I run with scissors, as well, so you'd better get out of my way, if you see me coming.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Except I simply don't believe it's actually happening. I know plenty of people still with Windows 7, I have Windows 8.1, and NONE automatically upgraded. You had to click on something first to allow that upgrade.
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Kevin Marois wrote: IT SHOULD BE ILLEGAL FOR MS TO DOWNLOAD AND INSTALL ANYTHING ONTO SOMEONE'S PC WITHOUT THEIR PERMISSION
It is. It's called hacking. There are laws.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Mark_Wallace wrote: There are laws.
You are 0 for 1 so far. Here's your second chance. Can you back this up? Where is it illegal for Microsoft to update their own software?
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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Just like with the bible, you appear to know it's there, but not know anything about it. I suggest you look into hacking laws before accepting any more wu mao payments from ms for promoting winio.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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0 for 2 and getting personal, proof you have nothing and are trolling.
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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If you spoke like a fanboy, I could accept that -- tastes differ, and all that, and everyone strongly defends things that they like -- but you don't talk like a fanboy.
You talk like a wumao.
If it waddles like a duck, and it quacks like a duck...
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If you allow automatic updates, you've given permission. If you don't want updates, turn them off.
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Huh?
Clicking the X in a control toolbox is not "allowing automatic updates", and being stuck with an operating system that is forced on you doesn't constitute "permission to do whatever the Hell you want with my property".
I had to take quite extensive steps to disable automatic updates on my winio tablet, and just as extensive steps on all my other machines to keep winio at bay.
Having to defend my property from attacks by foreign corporations is not how I like to spend my day.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Huh?
Disabling automatic updates is easy as hell.
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On weven, maybe, but the tools you can pick up on the Interwebs for disabling winio's auto-updates don't work nearly well enough (e.g. ms managed to get an unwanted "upgrade" of onedrive past them, on my winio machine), so you've got to get your hands dirty.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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I've done the Windows 10 update and I don't recall it saying "Downloading updates for Windows 10".
Frankly, I find Windows 10 better than 7 anyway. There are a few PCs which are genuinely incompatible, but even then you can update to 10, get a license, rollback and then fix the compatibility issues.
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Except you clearly did give them permission by enabling automatic updates.
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A very good reason for making regular system backups 😉
We're philosophical about power outages here. A.C. come, A.C. go.
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Fireworks Set Off in Phoenix Walmart, Some Mistake It for Gunfire - ABC News[^]
WHY DID THOSE IDIOTS DO THAT?!?
I hope they are found and put away for a LONG time!
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.
Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???
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Brisingr Aerowing wrote: WHY DID THOSE IDIOTS DO THAT?!?
I hope they are found and put away for a LONG time!
Do you mean the people who think it's ok to put fireworks on the shelf in a supermarket? Rather than locked away in a fireproof storage area.
(As well as the idiots who lit them).
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Yes
If it's not broken, fix it until it is
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Once upon a time - when we were mostly normal, if a car was crashed into a coffee shop, the customers would run and see how they can help the driver, who probably lost consciousness... As today, the customers still run, but the beat the driver to death, as a terrorist...Brave new world?
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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Or leave them alone so they won't get Sued for trying to help.
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