An adult knows the meaning of "discussion", no?

If every one "shuts up", then how does a discussion progress?

And every adult has the right to opine, "courteous" notwithstanding.

Now, back to the original programing. ("Programing"?!)

Over the decades "business models" have been worked and reworked. Adobe is no different. We have no guarantees. We do have examples of many companies vacating their warranties just by closing their doors and changing the signage.

As to flawed products, I will let history speak for itself. "Debug the bug." At one time I used a portable vacuum cleaner to "debug" computers.

And when does one determine that their offered product is "flawed"? Business is such a varied animal to study.

PS., I agree with another poster, I want to get back to absorbing ideas about photography. Although, I am a firm believer in the business model which sees the end-user to be the purpose of doing business.

Add to that, the product does not have to work on its own sufficiently to be sold to the marketplace. The program can be released (something about that term) in a "fingers-crossed" form with the idea that bugs can be addressed in the next month's rent. Or the following month's rent. The lease form allows for the earlier release that may not get the beta-test stage. "Don't worry about that wheel coming off. We'll have it figured out down the road."

We are getting toll lanes built in the USA with guaranteed profits for even as much as fifty years forward, backed up by tax funds. Thus Photo processing is not the only industry the idea of leasing is applied.

For the scholastics:

BS Bull Sh--
MS More Sh--
PHD Piled Higher and Deeper


You can put your watches down....

In Boston, the Irish cop comes to investigate a bumper crusher. The first car was driven by a Rabbi. The second car was driven by a Catholic priest.

Patty asks the priest, "An' father, how fast was the rabbi going when he backed into you?"

Author's note: I thought I forgot this one decades ago.

A nice thought.

However, it can get you in trouble in several ways. The brake lights are part of the mandated safety equipment. Also, you may be actionable as a contributor to any accident that may occur as a result of your tampering with the brake lights.

I have considered putting a push button lighted sign on the back window "I do sue and my attorney's phone number is...."

There is that bumper sticker, "If you can read this, you're too damn close!!" Add the one that states "Smile, you are on Candid Camera!" (The last sticker may suggest a new UHH catagory.)

As someone passes by me above the safe speed, I always comment "Another one rushing to his/her accident for the spot on TV's next Traffic News."

I always use the "Two Second" rule and always anticipate a sudden stoppage ahead. There is no excuse for driving too fast and/or too close. The few minutes difference does not warrant either.

Chain reaction wrecks are direct results of following too closely.

It is also the differences that we have to share that make all of us greater together. -S.G.

Starbucks and others do not "absorb" anything. The cost is passed down to either their customers or the general tax paying public, more often both. The customers pay through the increases in retail charges. The general tax paying public when the companies write off the expenses in their tax information to the level of governments. Basics of doing business, 101.

By the way, businesses are not required to provide anyone the breakdown of how their retail cost is determined. The only "exposed" requirement is what is charged you in the extra sales tax that they have to pass on up the "line".

In many cases, BTW, in the USA, the charge is closer to 6%, ignoring the additional "handling" fees the banks and services may add on. Many small businesses are charged for the privilege of using the credit card system plus your aforementioned fees for the customer's privilege to borrow the funds to cover the cost of purchase. As always, credit is not cheap.

$4.00 for a cup of latte?

It is one of those catch-all laws that come in handy when there is no good violation to cite. It is still on the books. In some of jurisdictions the laws are so archaic that they do require something like one dollar to be in hand. And the laws are still enforceable. But this is a tangent to the discussion at hand,

There is a reason to have some cash on person. One can be arrested and put in jail for vagrancy violation, still. Credit cards are not considered to be cash. (This is the case in the many jurisdictions in the USA .)

Cash is the last bastion of a free and mobile society. Allows people to be untraceable to their government. Once gone, we all do become blips on many radars.

Definitely about something to be concerned by all.

Going to try to dig out the photo of a Budweiser 8-bay that just flew over a four line railroad grade crossing in west Chi-Town oh so many years ago. The flood of suds out of the bay door panels... What a sight!

To paraphrase a ditty, a life long vision starts with the first bound. What you have are leaps. The real question is which side trips to take. The answer is, always, as many as you can take.

Great work.

Look forward to seeing more.

Pulled over a speeding train?

Sorry, shades of my past being evoked.

:-)