Qur'an 16:115.
He has only forbidden you dead meat, and blood, and the flesh of swine, and any (food) over which the name of other than Allah has been invoked. But if one is forced by necessity, without willful disobedience, nor transgressing due limits,- then Allah is Oft-Forgiving, Most Merciful.
Qur'an 2:173.
He hath only forbidden you dead meat, and blood, and the flesh of swine, and that on which any other name hath been invoked besides that of Allah. But if one is forced by necessity, without wilful disobedience, nor transgressing due limits,- then is he guiltless. For Allah is Oft-forgiving Most Merciful.
Not sure about Jewish religious laws but I'm a bit inclined to believe that Jehovah (I'm not a Jew, not blasphemy, can't stone me. Jehovah, Jehovah...) would look more kindly upon a pig eater than on a man eater. Particularly if you have to chose between hurting/killing a man and hurting/killing a pig.
Nobody does a mobile phone promo saying "your phone can do more than call sex lines and download porn clips while you call for a pizza and a six pack".
It should be coming preloaded with sex-line and "adult company" numbers and a voucher for free pizza and beer. Naturally, it should be personalized to have your local pizzeria (or your other take-out joint) on the speed dial.
You don't waive candy at the baby and then try and feed it vegetables.
Note that the one that actually represents the photographed object the best got horrible grades, but the blurred, oversaturated and cropped version got nearly perfect score.
and you can have a web page with a link which allows people to donate money directly to you without middlemen, and you can make money on advertisement.
Use the present situation for promotion. You are on slashdot already, which is not a bad start. As the Parent Poster said - create a donation page. And to screw with the pirated copy - open source it.
Give the book away for free, attach a link for donation at the bottom of every page, sell printable copies from the same site for a $1.00 or so, sell high(er) quality printed books from the same site. Six or 12 months later have an update to the book and sell it only in printed form at first, then add a printable copy, then a free one - and then make a new update. It's the digital age. Use the advantages of on-demand-printing and of quick and easy money and file transfers.
Oh.. and most importantly - make sure the product you deliver is worth reading, using, buying, stealing... People will sometimes download free stuff just because it's free, but if it is no good...
Hey.. PP started talking about comparing them and their "authorial merit".
How does this have any relation to their opinions on how the law affects them?
It has nothing to do with the law itself. Law affects them both equally. It also fails them both equally just as DMC fails makers of music and video. But, as sole creators of their work they have far more control over their relationship with their fans. And it is solely up to them how they will threat them - like friends, like fans, like customers, like thieves, like terrorists...
Hell... I've read most (or at least a great deal of) books I've read without paying a dime to the publisher or author. Through libraries, borrowing books from friends, used books... If it is all about the money - I've stolen millions in revenue from hundreds (maybe thousands) of authors and their kids (in case of dead authors).
People read based on personal preference and/or obligation (required reading for school etc.). If he has fans, those fans will continue to read (and buy) his books. If he doesn't... well... then your theory on "obscurity through ubiquity" works.
But I can tell you right now - it doesn't. Popular and new books (in English) get OCR-ed and put on the internet in the matter of weeks if not days. Remember those Harry Potter snapshots from couple of years ago?
What doesn't get as much OCR coverage are books in languages other than English, books by obscure authors (try finding some African authors in.txt format) and obscure (or just not that famous) books by "hard literature" writers like Sartre.
There are plenty of unauthorized copies of popular e-books out there at the moment. If anything, it is cheap and easy to use (and easy to read) readers that are missing. And by cheap and easy to use I don't count iPhones and Kindle.
Cheap would be at about the price of a single paperback. And easy to use would be just copy any text file on a SD card, stick it into the reader and click on it. And bookmarks should be automatic and easy.
She is 42 years his senior. And most of her work was published DURING those 42 years.
Now... As we can't compare any of the books they have not yet written or published - we are left with their work during their first 37 years of life. For Le Guin, that is all her books published up to 1966. Which comes down to 3 books. So, Doctorow wins hands down. Hey, it's not my fault she pissed away half of her life before getting serious about writing.
It's nonsensical to try to quantify and/or compare two authors or their work based on anything but personal preference. Aaaand... that kinda does not count because of the Asshole Paradigm. Can't compare numbers published or read or bought - just think of all those copies of The Da Vinci Code or all those Sidney Sheldon books. Can't compare number of fans (or their quality) for the same reason. Can't compare critiques or critics (personal preference again)...
We are left with only comparison that can't be called out as unfair - personal preference. Because it is your, mine, his, her, their... PERSONAL MATTER. I can't tell you which books to like any more than you could tell me.
So, whose word counts more base on the authorial merit? Neither. It's their personal thing if they see people reading their books for free as fans or thieves. Only it is smarter to look at them as fans and threat them so. Fans tend to eventually own the copies of the things they are fans of. Even the cheapest asshole out there has friends and/or family who will eventually figure out that he really likes that book/music/game/movie and buy him a copy for his birthday or Christmas or whatever.
But threat him as thief and he might just say "Hey fuck you Mr. High And Mighty Too Good For His Own Fans Writer". Just think of all those people who don't listen to Metallica anymore.
How do you sell it? Simple - just compare the price of a 300$ ticket to the price of gas for a daily two-way ride at that same distance. Then, on top of that, compare the time spent driving a car to time spent reading, sleeping, working etc. on the train.
People who would be making those trips would jump right on it. Many others would probably be lured in by the notion of making a bargain.
Anyway... money is not really the problem. If anything, this crisis has shown us that all you need to do is just ask for A LOT of it. Can they get enough of power from just solar (and provide it regularly) - that is the question here.
But mainly it is different cause if you keep a detective in a Faraday's cage for couple of days - he just stops working. Also, if you drive fast with a detective attached to your car he tends to fall of.
you could pretty easily alter it in significant ways that could never be fixed by an observer unless they were somehow outside of the time line but could look inward. How would you know something was actually changed? From the future point of view that is "history".
a sensor network to work out where potential eavesdroppers are...the array of speakers... aims a mix of white noise and randomized office hubbub at the eavesdroppers
How do you point your white noise at a hidden mic or two? Or three...
I have a feeling that if this device ever sees the light of day, that it will stay true to the legacy of the device it was named after.
I think that the dislike towards voice-mail in "these here parts" has something to do with the fact that we have never picked up on the whole "leave a message after the beep" thing - due to the rarity of answering machines in use. Think about it... how many people you know actually have or have had one?
Father of a friend of mine does some to and from German translation from time to time. So, his fax machine (BTW he is the only person I know that has one at home) has the greeting message recorded in 2 languages. You could count the messages recorded from "locals" all these years using only the fingers on one of your hands. Germans on the other hand have regularly left voice messages when ever no one answered the phone.
Also, about 6 months ago, I got a new phone with a built in answering machine. So far I had dozens of "missed calls" and not a single recorded message.
Somehow, people here are just not used to talking to a machine I guess.
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IF you are starving - pork is just fine.
Qur'an 16:115.
He has only forbidden you dead meat, and blood, and the flesh of swine, and any (food) over which the name of other than Allah has been invoked. But if one is forced by necessity, without willful disobedience, nor transgressing due limits,- then Allah is Oft-Forgiving, Most Merciful.
Qur'an 2:173.
He hath only forbidden you dead meat, and blood, and the flesh of swine, and that on which any other name hath been invoked besides that of Allah. But if one is forced by necessity, without wilful disobedience, nor transgressing due limits,- then is he guiltless. For Allah is Oft-forgiving Most Merciful.
Not sure about Jewish religious laws but I'm a bit inclined to believe that Jehovah (I'm not a Jew, not blasphemy, can't stone me. Jehovah, Jehovah...) would look more kindly upon a pig eater than on a man eater.
Particularly if you have to chose between hurting/killing a man and hurting/killing a pig.
But it is perfectly OK for Klingons to eat Gagh.
I guess that there really is no point in pointing out that "may well be" part of the sentence, but some actual data MAY BE useful.
Nobody does a mobile phone promo saying "your phone can do more than call sex lines and download porn clips while you call for a pizza and a six pack".
It should be coming preloaded with sex-line and "adult company" numbers and a voucher for free pizza and beer.
Naturally, it should be personalized to have your local pizzeria (or your other take-out joint) on the speed dial.
You don't waive candy at the baby and then try and feed it vegetables.
Hey... it just works.
This picture gets 95.1%
This, completely different picture, gets 9.8%.
While this one gets 7.3%.
Note that the one that actually represents the photographed object the best got horrible grades, but the blurred, oversaturated and cropped version got nearly perfect score.
Buddy Jesus, naturally.
and you can have a web page with a link which allows people to donate money directly to you without middlemen, and you can make money on advertisement.
Use the present situation for promotion. You are on slashdot already, which is not a bad start.
As the Parent Poster said - create a donation page. And to screw with the pirated copy - open source it.
Give the book away for free, attach a link for donation at the bottom of every page, sell printable copies from the same site for a $1.00 or so, sell high(er) quality printed books from the same site.
Six or 12 months later have an update to the book and sell it only in printed form at first, then add a printable copy, then a free one - and then make a new update.
It's the digital age. Use the advantages of on-demand-printing and of quick and easy money and file transfers.
Oh.. and most importantly - make sure the product you deliver is worth reading, using, buying, stealing...
People will sometimes download free stuff just because it's free, but if it is no good...
Hey.. PP started talking about comparing them and their "authorial merit".
How does this have any relation to their opinions on how the law affects them?
It has nothing to do with the law itself. Law affects them both equally. It also fails them both equally just as DMC fails makers of music and video.
But, as sole creators of their work they have far more control over their relationship with their fans.
And it is solely up to them how they will threat them - like friends, like fans, like customers, like thieves, like terrorists...
Hell... I've read most (or at least a great deal of) books I've read without paying a dime to the publisher or author.
Through libraries, borrowing books from friends, used books...
If it is all about the money - I've stolen millions in revenue from hundreds (maybe thousands) of authors and their kids (in case of dead authors).
Quotation marks...
People read based on personal preference and/or obligation (required reading for school etc.).
If he has fans, those fans will continue to read (and buy) his books. If he doesn't... well... then your theory on "obscurity through ubiquity" works.
But I can tell you right now - it doesn't.
Popular and new books (in English) get OCR-ed and put on the internet in the matter of weeks if not days.
Remember those Harry Potter snapshots from couple of years ago?
What doesn't get as much OCR coverage are books in languages other than English, books by obscure authors (try finding some African authors in .txt format) and obscure (or just not that famous) books by "hard literature" writers like Sartre.
There are plenty of unauthorized copies of popular e-books out there at the moment.
If anything, it is cheap and easy to use (and easy to read) readers that are missing.
And by cheap and easy to use I don't count iPhones and Kindle.
Cheap would be at about the price of a single paperback.
And easy to use would be just copy any text file on a SD card, stick it into the reader and click on it. And bookmarks should be automatic and easy.
She is 42 years his senior. And most of her work was published DURING those 42 years.
Now... As we can't compare any of the books they have not yet written or published - we are left with their work during their first 37 years of life.
For Le Guin, that is all her books published up to 1966. Which comes down to 3 books.
So, Doctorow wins hands down. Hey, it's not my fault she pissed away half of her life before getting serious about writing.
It's nonsensical to try to quantify and/or compare two authors or their work based on anything but personal preference. Aaaand... that kinda does not count because of the Asshole Paradigm.
Can't compare numbers published or read or bought - just think of all those copies of The Da Vinci Code or all those Sidney Sheldon books.
Can't compare number of fans (or their quality) for the same reason.
Can't compare critiques or critics (personal preference again)...
We are left with only comparison that can't be called out as unfair - personal preference. Because it is your, mine, his, her, their... PERSONAL MATTER.
I can't tell you which books to like any more than you could tell me.
So, whose word counts more base on the authorial merit?
Neither. It's their personal thing if they see people reading their books for free as fans or thieves.
Only it is smarter to look at them as fans and threat them so.
Fans tend to eventually own the copies of the things they are fans of.
Even the cheapest asshole out there has friends and/or family who will eventually figure out that he really likes that book/music/game/movie and buy him a copy for his birthday or Christmas or whatever.
But threat him as thief and he might just say "Hey fuck you Mr. High And Mighty Too Good For His Own Fans Writer".
Just think of all those people who don't listen to Metallica anymore.
Hookers and blackjack.
Monthly, bi-monthly etc. tickets.
How do you sell it? Simple - just compare the price of a 300$ ticket to the price of gas for a daily two-way ride at that same distance.
Then, on top of that, compare the time spent driving a car to time spent reading, sleeping, working etc. on the train.
People who would be making those trips would jump right on it.
Many others would probably be lured in by the notion of making a bargain.
Anyway... money is not really the problem. If anything, this crisis has shown us that all you need to do is just ask for A LOT of it.
Can they get enough of power from just solar (and provide it regularly) - that is the question here.
But mainly it is different cause if you keep a detective in a Faraday's cage for couple of days - he just stops working.
Also, if you drive fast with a detective attached to your car he tends to fall of.
maybe a good comedy movie will do the trick.
Like that recent JJ Abrams comedy based on Star Trek characters?
I demand to know what are you smoking and why haven't you brought enough for everyone?
That would be some really screwed up baby.
"Baby Monitors Killing Urban Wi-Fi" can be recycled as "Urban Wi-Fi Monitors Baby Killing".
One needs to recycle where one can. You know... for kids.
you could pretty easily alter it in significant ways that could never be fixed by an observer unless they were somehow outside of the time line but could look inward. How would you know something was actually changed? From the future point of view that is "history".
http://memory-alpha.org/en/wiki/Temporal_core
http://memory-alpha.org/en/wiki/Krenim_temporal_weapon_ship
http://memory-alpha.org/en/wiki/Year_of_Hell_(episode)
Alternatively, if you prefer a more "classic" approach to the story:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/End_of_Eternity
Unfortunately, I now have dreams involving a remake of the movie Shaun of the Dead starring James Doohan
Sorry, but James Doohan was cremated. He will not be coming back as a zombie no matter how much "green" he drank while being alive.
That is about the last and final indicator that you should find another job - when a masturbating gorilla gets a raise but you are skipped over.
a sensor network to work out where potential eavesdroppers are...the array of speakers... aims a mix of white noise and randomized office hubbub at the eavesdroppers
How do you point your white noise at a hidden mic or two? Or three...
I have a feeling that if this device ever sees the light of day, that it will stay true to the legacy of the device it was named after.
A Bosnian here.
I think that the dislike towards voice-mail in "these here parts" has something to do with the fact that we have never picked up on the whole "leave a message after the beep" thing - due to the rarity of answering machines in use.
Think about it... how many people you know actually have or have had one?
Father of a friend of mine does some to and from German translation from time to time.
So, his fax machine (BTW he is the only person I know that has one at home) has the greeting message recorded in 2 languages.
You could count the messages recorded from "locals" all these years using only the fingers on one of your hands. Germans on the other hand have regularly left voice messages when ever no one answered the phone.
Also, about 6 months ago, I got a new phone with a built in answering machine.
So far I had dozens of "missed calls" and not a single recorded message.
Somehow, people here are just not used to talking to a machine I guess.
We decent into anarchy.
...at least we will do it in a seemly, appropriate, tasteful and becoming fashion.