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Re: Guy Asks For Software Crack, Creator Provides Free App Instead

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I can't believe this simple, kind of stupid thing I did has gotten so much attention. I also can't believe so many people hate Stella. It's not the greatest beer I've ever had, but it's no bud light.

I loved your reaction. But this isn't about your attitude, this is about far more serious things: Beer. Leaving Germany for good end of this month and - well.. Israel's beers are f...ing (well, it's kind of on topic with your app, isn't it?) baaad. So my choice in the future, after being spoiled in a country of beer drinkers, is * Local brand starts with G (Ugh...) * Local brand starts with M (Really. Life's too shor…

How about Tuborg? It's everywhere here.

Also, plenty of pubs have decent beers these days in Israel.

Re: Guy Asks For Software Crack, Creator Provides Free App Instead

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Although I find this fantastic, I also find it quite odd? I think his attitude is fantastic for someone who is having their apps ripped off, I find it strangely odd that in the comments people think this is the attitude that developers are meant to take when their work is ripped off, humbled. I purchase all apps from the app store, I had Cydia but I took the jail break off my phone. I think the 59p - £3 for an app is…

That is the inherent contradiction of IP in a digital world.

One one hand you are supposed to be paying for a scarcity: someone expending time and resources to produce something. On the other hand you are supposed to be paying by buying a copy: something that is an abundance with a natural price of zero.

Buying is not just setting a price according to the seller being a nice guy or having indirectly done something else. Buying is a market interaction: you aim to pay the lowest price available (Don't we want functioning markets?). Well, that is zero, because copies are infinitely available.

No matter how much the law tells us copies are restricted, they are not in fact, and we know it. The market will always drive toward making things available at the real physical cost of their production. As long as IP tries to force prices so far away from their real level, people will respond in odd ways.

Re: Guy Asks For Software Crack, Creator Provides Free App Instead

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First of all - it's not James', it's Jem's Beer Factory, which is indeed very good. The stout there is awesome. Now a few more if I may - Mike's Place is nice Porter & Sons on Haarbaa street has a huge selection - http://www.rest.co.il/sites/Default.asp?txtRestID=10911&...

Thanks, great additions. Mike's Place is a good place to meet foreigners. Notice the beer selection is relatively limited: https://docs.google.com/View?id=dfdfk37q_410g7h8vwhf (relative to the other places mentioned here)

Yeah, I guess as a Guiness lover I forgot Mike's doesn't actually have a great selection.

Re: Guy Asks For Software Crack, Creator Provides Free App Instead

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I can't believe this simple, kind of stupid thing I did has gotten so much attention. I also can't believe so many people hate Stella. It's not the greatest beer I've ever had, but it's no bud light.

I loved your reaction. But this isn't about your attitude, this is about far more serious things: Beer. Leaving Germany for good end of this month and - well.. Israel's beers are f...ing (well, it's kind of on topic with your app, isn't it?) baaad. So my choice in the future, after being spoiled in a country of beer drinkers, is * Local brand starts with G (Ugh...) * Local brand starts with M (Really. Life's too shor…

Is there some kind of Taboo about spelling out the names of the beers?

I live in Israel and it took me a while to guess Macabi, but maybe that's because I don't like lagers (stouts are the real beer anyway :)).

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Budweiser in Australia is drinkable, though very much generic tasting. Over all, Australia has better beer, but there are some pockets in the U.S. where there is some kickass brewing culture. I lived in Wisconsin for a bit and they do have a better drop than we do in the East Coast. I mean, Leinenkugel & Stevens Point both brew stuff that's widely available and very much enjoyable, up to bar with Boag's here in Austr…

I live in Madison right now, and I fear that I'm being spoiled on good beer. Between New Glarus, Capitol Brewery, Ale Asylum, and Lake Louie the selection is amazing. I went down to Orlando for a conference not too long ago, and found that the only thing drinkable to me was Guiness. When I went to London a couple of years back, I found that the beer was actually quite enjoyable, though I can't remember which beers I…

please dont speak favorably of Madison online, or hipsters might find it.

Madison sucks, move along, nothing to see here..

Re: Guy Asks For Software Crack, Creator Provides Free App Instead

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

I live in Madison right now, and I fear that I'm being spoiled on good beer. Between New Glarus, Capitol Brewery, Ale Asylum, and Lake Louie the selection is amazing. I went down to Orlando for a conference not too long ago, and found that the only thing drinkable to me was Guiness. When I went to London a couple of years back, I found that the beer was actually quite enjoyable, though I can't remember which beers I…

please dont speak favorably of Madison online, or hipsters might find it. Madison sucks, move along, nothing to see here..

I fear that you will find Madison is already infested with hipsters. :P At least, that was the case last time I checked (Mar. protests).
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