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shadowfyr · 09-06-2007, 02:54 PM

Love threads like this... Always fun to try to keep up when people are posting 10 times more than you. lol But, yeah, sub-options do help. I would rather maybe find 3 that make sense, then add sub-options though, since otherwise you invariably get overlaps between, "Free as in beer", "Free as in, 'You can get in the building, but you are going to have to pay for the second. third, etc. beer.'", and "What? Free? You're not even getting in the door without a cover charge." Which is really what we are talking about here. In the first case, tossing some cash to the person shouldn't be an issue at all, other than maybe IRL they might not let you back if you keep showing up without cash (but we are not talking about RL here). There is still a clear difference between the later two. Sub-options need to be used as refinement, not as some people are going to "insist", by saying that the second category belongs with the third, while others invariably argue that it belongs with the first. In fact, it really isn't in **either**, but is imho, an entirely different animal all together.

At least that is my thinking on the issue.

09-06-2007, 02:54 PM	#366
shadowfyr Senior Member Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 310	Re: What does "Free" Mean? Love threads like this... Always fun to try to keep up when people are posting 10 times more than you. lol But, yeah, sub-options do help. I would rather maybe find 3 that make sense, then add sub-options though, since otherwise you invariably get overlaps between, "Free as in beer", "Free as in, 'You can get in the building, but you are going to have to pay for the second. third, etc. beer.'", and "What? Free? You're not even getting in the door without a cover charge." Which is really what we are talking about here. In the first case, tossing some cash to the person shouldn't be an issue at all, other than maybe IRL they might not let you back if you keep showing up without cash (but we are not talking about RL here). There is still a clear difference between the later two. Sub-options need to be used as refinement, not as some people are going to "insist", by saying that the second category belongs with the third, while others invariably argue that it belongs with the first. In fact, it really isn't in either, but is imho, an entirely different animal all together. At least that is my thinking on the issue.