Catching up with a previous post, I was again prompted to answer the same question.

Well, this time I choose “More than two flights (more than one return flight)” and this is what they got for me:

It’s like, I accepted the licensing terms without reading it and its mentioned there:

“WordWeb free version may be used indefinitely only by people who take at most two commercial flights (not more than one return flight) in any 12 month period.”

It may seem silly to you but these guys at WordWeb have an explanation for such a deal:

“…the WordWeb licensing is just reflecting the current huge under-pricing of air travel. Every time you fly you are not paying the cost to the environment (and hence other people); in economics terms climate-changing emissions are an important externality leading to a market failure. WordWeb is trying to slightly increase the cost of flying via its licence to correct for this anomaly. If and when air travel is charged correctly to reflect the total cost, which is much the most efficient solution, the WordWeb licence will be changed to a more sensible economic model.

The licence also has the advantage that people who cannot easily afford to pay can use the program for free. If you can afford to fly, so that you do not satisfy the licence, you can afford to buy the program.”

Nice thoughts, but still makes me realize the number of software applications that I have installed without reading the license! Hmm…

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This is so unacceptable.

I generally don’t share my rant for the application that I use often but what Facebook showed me today, is totally unacceptable.

Very recently, last month?, I happen to have used the “Friend Finder” utility from them, I guess its called “Contact Importer” now; So anyways, its like this, I use the utility and find many many of my contacts on Facebook, and using the brilliant list selection web control, I choose whom I like to add on Facebook!

Now, it’s today, I log to my work mail and I see this message. Wtf, seriously Wtf, does “Find your friend” means “Invite your friend for we love spamming?”? My understanding prefigures, Facebook sent a mail to all the “non-friends” on Facebook, inviting them instead of just looking up the email addresses on its server.

The next thing, I like to know is that why did they mail the contacts after a month or so? Did they store my Google credentials even though they fruitfully said: “We fuk whores love to say that we don’t save your password"? You know my say, you “fuk whores” bitch me!

My guess is that it’s in the new “Contact Importer”, they accidently mailed every other left out contacts. The mail is not a spam, but I’m unsure about who sent the mail, the Facebook or it’s thirty-party applicits!

So here it is, my apologies to any of my contacts who got the mail from my address, this was just something that I did not expect.

Off you go all, all the additional permissions!

Here’s a copy of the mail header, in case you are still considering Facebook clean and taking the side of the my unwanted.

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