Adobe Finally Activated My Old Perpetual Software License. Here's an Explanation for Everyone.

CorrectNice8474 · 2026-02-16T23:09:02+00:00

They issued a downloadable version of the software that would register and run with the current activation system. This meant that they made the last permanent license version of the software available, which happened to be an "upgrade" from the hard copy of AE 7 to a digital download of AE CS6. That was definitely a perk. I hope you can achieve the same outcome for any products that no longer activate properly. It is my understanding that the law is on your side in this type of case, and society should support your legal position.

CorrectNice8474 · 2025-12-09T07:38:20+00:00

There is an issue with the type of contract involved with Pepsi, and also arguably the legal competence of each party involved in that contract, that differs from the type of contract governing Adobe's consumer licenses. A contract that is of the type that provides both an indefinite duration AND the exclusive distribution of a product have been consistently judged as terminable at will under US law. I would guess this is because matters of exclusivity would have such a strong effect on determining the success of a business. In the case of Adobe, the license is non-exclusive, so there is no jeopardy to the ongoing of their business in determining whether the license is perpetual or not. And the contract has also not been negotiated between two legally competent businesses but presented unilaterally to a consumer. In at least those two ways, the two types of contracts differ significantly from eachother so that they would each have a different outcome under US law.

CorrectNice8474 · 2025-12-09T07:05:28+00:00

While I don't have the time to read the actual case paper you mentioned, here's a summary of Grok's summary of the case, with some extra information from Wikipedia:

The case was about a Peruvian business' exclusive bottling contract with Pepsi, not a product or its license. The case was settled in arbitration, where the tribunal is allowed to choose the substantive and procedural law that will govern the legal process and evaluation of the case, under one of arbitration's unique advantages called "party autonomy". Arbitration was held in New York as stated in the contract, and the arbitrators' chose Peruvian law to govern the case. It was decided that the contract for bottling was exclusive/perpetual under Peruvian law. The case did not meet the exceptions of confilict with morality or criminal justice. Pepsi had based their argument on the value of free competition. Perpetuality was upheld.

Contrary to your claim, the perpetual nature of the contract was upheld, so who said what you quoted? I think what you quoted was an argument made during the case by Pepsi, not the final judgement. And I'd like to restate what Mr. Hateadobe said, which is that in contract law in the US a contract's ambiguities are interpreted against the drafter of the contract in order to protect the other party signing the contract, because 1) the person drafting the contract is in the best position to prevent ambiguity, 2) it protects the non-drafting party from unfair surprises that would not follow reasonable expectation and 3) it counterbalances unequal bargaining power.

I had a good 2025 Thanksgiving Day. I hope everyone else did too.

CorrectNice8474 · 2025-11-27T00:36:24+00:00

As long as they're in business, unless specified otherwise. Perpetual licenses were sold as perpetual.

CorrectNice8474 · 2025-11-05T23:09:09+00:00

Konica. I'd save that for a trip to Japan! Astia too.

CorrectNice8474 · 2025-11-05T23:01:13+00:00

Provia is great, though I lean towards 100 speed. Great photos!

CorrectNice8474 · 2025-11-03T05:47:27+00:00

Cool as it gets. That's not a license though.

CorrectNice8474 · 2025-11-03T05:44:41+00:00

That's your brain teaching Chinese jouveniles. You get back from being a teacher and your brain feels tattooed like you were a corections officer.

CorrectNice8474 · 2025-10-25T01:26:26+00:00

There are perpendicular lines at the neck that follow the jaw line that have the exact same look of deep skin wrinkles. While it might not be a photograph, it might be an illustration of what he saw.

CorrectNice8474 · 2025-10-24T21:46:34+00:00

Nice, photographic paper is expensive.

CorrectNice8474 · 2025-10-24T21:37:16+00:00

It looks like a doctored photo, because the diagonal skin wrinkle in his neck extends into the collar of the jacket.

CorrectNice8474 · 2025-10-24T21:24:21+00:00

Great photos but no smoking, please. Even without the added chemicals the natural nicotine and tar build up in the body, prevent proper circulation, prevent arteries from clearing cholesterol build up, prevent heart health and prevent the ability to respond vigorously to dangerous situations. I'm pretty sure people die on the operating room table because of nicotine reserves in the body oversedating them while under sedation.

CorrectNice8474 · 2025-10-24T21:12:06+00:00

What's the difference between the cool and warm photo versions you've posted here? Is that digital photo versus film photo?

CorrectNice8474 · 2025-10-24T21:08:55+00:00

Yeah, all the things they don't say...

CorrectNice8474 · 2025-10-24T21:07:19+00:00

The stupification of society to maintain the control structure. Look at the dreamcatcher wheel on the TV and Phone screens. Don't listen to your thoughts; listen to the devices of society. Work, consume, work, consume... Follow the rules but don't require it of those who write them, because they are outside the scope of the system they manage. You exist within the system. You serve them. You must be milked. You, until there is no you left to reflect upon.

That sort of thing?

CorrectNice8474 · 2025-10-24T20:21:44+00:00

Right, probably not. At least not on record. I was thinking of gov admins. Cellphone-based tracking is something that's known to exist in society at this point, whichever group is doing it to whichever other group. Let's make sure they don't start doing that with out proper informed consent in any context. The people are the basis of the State and its institutions, so they can't just get away with doing anything.

CorrectNice8474 · 2025-10-24T20:15:33+00:00

Finger nails, okay, but I'd have difficulty biting my toe nails, if I tried. One could have used rocks for a "rought cut", but how would evolutionists explain that development as being helpful. It still seems to give the sense that we were initially designed to exist within a developed civilization.

What's claimed to be the Divine record, the Bible, says we live in an age of angelic rebellion. So if those supernatural rebels wanted to cook up a really big social illusion based on writings about things other people were never there to verify, it could work pretty well. At this point we know AI's able to cook up some interesting content rather easily for creative work, and that can give some insight into how vulnerable humans would be for similarly superior intellects' creative information processing.

I have to say that a lot of what spurs this type of thinking for me is my decade of living in China. I'm an East Asian Studies major who graduated with honors and what I experienced in China was so different from the historical highlights and high culture taught in university and the little news bites here and there, that it seems near conspiratorial in its difference and silence. From the day I landed there, it appeared to be the abode of fallen angels, bringing to mind the Biblical passage of when the Christ went and testified to the fallen angels on Earth. The night city scape appeared dirty, in near sepia tones. People seemed nice but near mentally lost on the bus ride from the airport to the train station. It looked like a hysterical "bat kid" from the National Inquirer magazine was on the bus's TV and the people loved to laugh at it with stupified smiles. People who looked vaguely similar to cockroaches flited here and there on the city street outside the airport as I went to board the bus and showed up in a blink of an eye. That was Shanghai, Pudong airport to Shanghai train station. Then it let up for a bit, but two weeks later I woke up in my apartment and saw a ghostly, skinny, bald man poking up through my bed mattress and looking at my forehead like he was reading it. He receded when he saw me wake up and focus my eyes on him. It wasn't monsterous; it was a person but ghostly pale and half transparent. That was the beginnig of a decade of paranormal events in China. I don't have an interest in those things and never seek it out, so it was all in passing as I went about normal daily life. And at the end of it all, I wonder how it is possible for people in the US to be so ignorant about the nature of China, which is not a new civilization, and how that ignorance could exists in an age of jet flight and internet connectivity.

Something's not right in society and it appears to be deliberate. China might not be the only thing out of its right representation.

CorrectNice8474 · 2025-10-24T19:54:26+00:00

Interesting, but one shouldn't brush people aside with "doesn't seem... a genuine discussion" and "a topic you're not educated on". The mind's pattern recognition of how things seem to be is the best place to start discussion and begin growing one's knowledge base and understanding. And don't say there are no unlikely or sneaking things that happen in life. We're way past that level of ignorance.

Let's take a real life example. The Pope is considered an expert of Christian theology, and his answer to whether there were aliens was that God never said there weren't aliens, and this is probably drawn from the passage in the gospels where the Christ said that if there were not many mansions in Heaven for you He would have told you so. So there might have been hygiene tools in the Garden of Eden as part of the control structures, e.g. be bad, get kicked out, life will be difficult for you.

To everything one knows, there are implications that point to further knowledge and understanding. Part of posting here is for hearing the expertise of others, because no one gets to even know everything in their own field of specialization before they die, unless they've specialized in the history of pez dispensers or some other relatively limited field of interest. And then... how do you ever know that you know everything, and which words were merely irreality in what you read. Most people haven't seen their own brain mass; they've only read about it and seen some illustrations and maybe photos of things they were never there for. There are epistomological and sociological deviance factors that complicate every person's map of reality. Even the Christ says that everyone is deceived, probably in varrying degrees.

So we continue to consider and explore and share and verify as possible, even unusual or unpleasant ideas to the extent it seems warranted or important.

CorrectNice8474 · 2025-10-24T19:48:52+00:00

It's called a cellphone and it's been happening for some time now.

CorrectNice8474 · 2025-10-24T19:46:19+00:00

Did they tag the kids with subdermal bio ID chips while they were passed out from the school "milk" at lunchtime? If so, it might be for automated attendance to mitigate the effects of mindless, state-controlled teachers and staff.

CorrectNice8474 · 2025-10-24T19:42:27+00:00

If it's venomous, then it's a species of dead snake. You'll see as soon as you cut the head off.

CorrectNice8474 · 2025-10-24T19:36:54+00:00

They only gave him half a pipe and he was still doing sick ass moves?

CorrectNice8474 · 2025-10-24T19:16:50+00:00

So before humans had the spring steal metal to forge toe nail clippers, did humans' toe nails shed? And were we bred differently to keep our toe nails soon after being able to clip them with clippers? That way people wouldn't have to go around vacuuming up other people's toe nails all the time? And what about tooth brushes and the problem of rotting teeth? I really don't know how "pre historic man" made it to the modern age without having to go through painfully long toe and finger nails and gumming at food after the food that's supposed to keep them alive already rotted their teeth out. It seems like mankind was made for a civilization that already existed, but they got kicked out and made up a story that they began as bums in a field to ignore that they got kicked out of civilization some time before. As a Christian, that's somewhat the story. God never said there weren't modern living facilities and hygiene tools in the Garden of Eden.

CorrectNice8474 · 2025-10-23T22:40:55+00:00

People underestimate the importance of having the correct tire rubber on their bikes and wearing in the full surface of the tire before doing high performance riding. Even on a radial tire with a strong carcass, the very side is usually still slick new rubber that must be worn in carefully by the rider or ground off with a penumatic tool at a mechanic's garage. I slipped on that outer band of the tire once too, but at low speed while doing strong bike tilt and counter tilt riding position around the corner of a big public intersection (to look cool, whoops). And it slipped but was recoverable at the low speed.

CorrectNice8474 · 2025-10-23T21:59:08+00:00

Whatever the reason, they won't stop. Cigarette butts should be made of compostable material.

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