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Re:HP bricking printers remotely if the client's credit card... by alphanullmeric on Tuesday February 07, 2023 @03:21AM (#34690145)
How can you sell yourself into slavery? Slavery is forced. if you volunteered you’re not a slave.
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Re:HP bricking printers remotely if the client's credit card... by Y_Y on Tuesday February 07, 2023 @03:32AM (#34690218)
Factually untrue. There are plenty of historical examples of mechanisms for voluntarily becoming a slave. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voluntary_slavery
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Re:HP bricking printers remotely if the client's credit card... by simiones on Tuesday February 07, 2023 @05:55AM (#34691172)
Once you sell yourself, you become a slave, and have no option of reverting back to freedom. It's really not a hard concept.
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Re:HP bricking printers remotely if the client's credit card... by denton-scratch on Tuesday February 07, 2023 @07:12AM (#34691703)
It's called "indentured servitude". You get paid a lump sum up-front, then work for nothing for some number of years.

In Gilbert and Sullivan's Pirates of Penzance, Frederick is indentured to a band of pirates until his 21st birthday.

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Re:HP bricking printers remotely if the client's credit card... by addingnumbers on Tuesday February 07, 2023 @10:56AM (#34694374)
> In Gilbert and Sullivan's Pirates of Penzance, Frederick is indentured to a band of pirates until his 21st birthday.

That particular wording coming back around to bite him when it's pointed out that he was born on February 29th in a leap year...

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