[DaSHacka]

If you sell me silverware that, unless I share my eating habits with you, automatically disintegrates, or if you break in and steal them back, what truly is the difference?

It's funny you think a vacuum automatically bricking itself if you try to prevent its connection to the mothership is at all equivalent to someone choosing to give someone silverware.

[fragmede]

it's funny you read my comment in a way I did not write. User asked for an explanation of the difference between two fairly scenarios, so I provided one.

How has making up things that other people haven't said been working out for you?

[DaSHacka]

And yet you're unable to vocalize the contrast in my interpretation and your message, because I interpreted it exactly as you intended for it to be.

How's that backpedaling working out for you?

[fragmede]

Your comments would come off a lot better, and the conversation would be less shitty, if you'd just leave off the last sentence. It's pervasive across HN, so it's not just you, but just FYI. Just write out the whole comment, including the qwip at the end that you just can't help, and post it, and then edit the comment and delete it.

The contrast is that the vacuum isn't a sentient being, and so from there, you don't see the device reaching out, vs being told what to do, as being any different. I'm not a judge in overseeing a court case in your jurisdiction though, so no matter how much of a distinction I personally may think there is, is irrelevant.

[DaSHacka]

The last sentence of my comment was a parodic reversal of the last sentence of your previous comment.