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Originally Posted by speakingtohe
Are you saying that Safeway will let you eat a steak in their store without paying for it? They won't let you eat a cookie or a grape (I have seen people hustled out of the store for doing that) And where would you cook that free steak or do people just stand their eating raw steaks till they find a good one?
And the benefit that witholding a text from someone who cannot pay for it is/are the same one(s) applying to all commercially sold goods. If I walk into a store or onto a car lot, they will withhold the goods unless I pay, whether I can afford them or not.
Plus as you know many books(texts) are available in libraries as ebooks or paper books. The excuse that they are not always available immediately is just immature and greedy.
If you want a book and cannot immediately acess it, you can always wait till you can afford it or it becomes available.
And for the edification of all of us, please give the location/address of the Safeway store that lets you eat the steak before you pay for it.
Helen
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Well, your locality might have legislations concerning the preparation of cooked foods. This might hinder your consumption of a cooked steak on the premises of a particular Safeway. But I assure you that if you were to ask for a sample of meat from the meat counter of your local Safeway, that the proprietor behind the counter would be happy to provide you with one. Rare meat is not for everyone of course, but the taste should give you an inclination as to what the meat will taste like when it is properly prepared.
I still think that many are locked into the idea of physical information. Why, if a text is available as a stream of electrons, should we have to wait in order to read it?
And if a text is currently not available thus, should those who undertake to transfer the text into electrons be punished for doing so???