<div dir="ltr">Three word response...Conglomerate business intelligence.<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Dec 12, 2013 at 5:59 AM, Steven D'Aprano <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info" target="_blank">steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">On Thu, 12 Dec 2013 13:35:37 +1100, Ben Finney wrote:<br>
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> Hmm, interesting Freudian slip there. I meant “cloud computing”, of<br>
> course. That's where the computer owner pretends their service is always<br>
> available and easy to access, while having terms of service that give<br>
> them unilateral power to kick you off with no warning, no explanation,<br>
> no accountability, and no recourse.<br>
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Now Ben, you know that's not true. Everybody has the only recourse that<br>
matters: buy the company and make them do what you want them to do. How<br>
hard could that possibly be?<br>
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Steven<br>
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