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LinkPizza posted...
And no. Your lunch isn't free. You friend paid for it. It was literally paid for. It's just that you didn't pay for it.

Meaning it's free, at least from your perspective.

If you disagree with this, then literally nothing free has ever existed in the history of humanity outside of robbery, because someone always paid for something somewhere along the way. Which is, y'know, a completely ridiculous way to look at it and not something any normal person would think.

If a restaurant gave you a free meal, you could use this logic to say, "Nuh-uh, it's not free! The restaurant paid for the ingredients and the cook to make it! It's not free because somebody paid for it!" Which, again, is absolute nonsense.

LinkPizza posted...
And if you had read my other post, you see I consider free sample as free.

So if your friend pays for it, it's not free, but if a company pays for it, it is free?

That's really stupid and logically inconsistent.

LinkPizza posted...
But you still had to buy it initially. Which means it's not free.

Except you consider free samples free, which - by your own logic - shouldn't be considered free because you needed to pay for clothes in order to be allowed inside the business without getting arrested.

You've literally reduced yourself to arguing against the English language. Seriously, take the loss and move on from this point.

LinkPizza posted...
And it doesn't dodge the point.

What doesn't dodge the point?

Please provide context to your sentences or quote what you're responding to, because otherwise it's impossible to tell what you're talking about when you suddenly change subjects like this.

LinkPizza posted...
And for a digital book, you could give it away for free... to anybody who had a way to read it. If you don't have a way to read it, then having a digital copy doesn't really matter...

That's like saying someone giving away pamphlets isn't giving them away for free, since you needed to pay in order to learn how to read as a child.

Please, stop this utterly nonsensical argument, you're just embarrassing yourself now.

LinkPizza posted...
The point is that internet is not free...

Did you pay money when you signed up for GameFAQs? No? Then it's free.

Deal with it.

LinkPizza posted...
And again, it doesn't reduce the cost to zero. It just means less people have to get paid.

Which is precisely the point of this whole side tangent, so thank you for acknowledging I'm right.

Less people being paid means less payment required. You could have an entire archive's worth of literary material, an entire music store's worth of songs, and more video than you could ever watch, all for the cost of an internet connection. You could not do that in years gone by. You were attempting to argue - incorrectly - that digitization and automation had not made anything cheaper when they objectively have. More stuff is available - for free - now than at any other point in human history, and that's all thanks to technology. You can keep stuffing your head in the ground to try to deny it, but you know that it's true, because you are literally posting on one of those free products in order to carry on this argument. AI and full automation simply takes this trend to its logical conclusion by reducing all remaining costs to zero via the removal of humans from the process.

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