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  1. Re:Saw the email yesterday on Amazon Kindle eBook Users To Get Refunds After Settlement · · Score: 2

    I am only familiar with KDP, the royalty for which is 70% (unless for some reason you dont allow lending). I assume publishing houses agree on better deals, than KDP. So yeah, I would expect most money to go to authors (and publishers).

  2. Re:Redbull on Felix Baumgartner's Supersonic Skydive Attempt · · Score: 1

    1.2 mach! He broke the sound barrier!!

  3. Re:Redbull on Felix Baumgartner's Supersonic Skydive Attempt · · Score: 2

    Press conference just started at 1:30 PST - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MrIxH6DToXQ . Just in case anyone is still following.

  4. Re:Saw the email yesterday on Amazon Kindle eBook Users To Get Refunds After Settlement · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Unless you buy books authored by the Amazon, most of it will go to the authors (and publishers).

  5. Re:Hydrogen? on Felix Baumgartner's Supersonic Skydive Attempt · · Score: 1

    Mod UP! Finally some sense in this thread.

  6. Re:Cold? on A Supercomputer On the Moon To Direct Deep Space Traffic · · Score: 1

    Is the mass of the moon that conductive (unlike earth)?

  7. Re:Redbull on Felix Baumgartner's Supersonic Skydive Attempt · · Score: 5, Informative

    Before the server dies, here is the direct youtube link to the live feed - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MrIxH6DToXQ

  8. Re:the problems with more bicyclists on As Gas Prices Soar So Does City Biking · · Score: 1

    My college used to give out free bike helmets for taking taking a bike safety course. It is assumed that you had taken the course, and enforcement is pretty strict. A similar carrot and stick approach could work pretty much in any city.

  9. Re:What you do is... on The Three Pillars of Nokia Strategy Have All Failed · · Score: 1

    Unless Microsoft calls Apples bluff, and drives up the price just to make Apple pay more for Nokia, than it is worth it.

  10. Re:Don't scan my phone, scan your store. on Google May Soon Scan Your Android Apps For Malware · · Score: 1

    What makes you think they dont already do that? They would be pretty stupid not to do that.

  11. Re:Ban Orange Juice Too on Lawsuit Challenges New York Sugary Drink Ban · · Score: 1

    Juice from Orange Concentrate(TM) or Apple Concentrate(TM), yes, should be banned. Regular unprocessed orange juice, nope.
     
    Plus it easier to drink coke than orange juice. It is designed to appeal to you taste buds and to be able to drink pretty much unlimited amounts, unlike Orange/Apple juice.

  12. Re:What you do is... on The Three Pillars of Nokia Strategy Have All Failed · · Score: 2

    Nokia maps is too integrated with MS products, it would be stupid of it to let it go to Apple. Bing, Yahoo Maps, maps on Windows phones (all windows phones, not just Nokia made one), Windows Navigation devices on major cars, all depend on Nokia maps.

  13. Re:Car Insurance? on Making Driverless Cars Safer · · Score: 2

    Theoretically there is always a chance of a crash. I would expect the chances of crash to be less than human driven cars and would expect insurance to be way cheaper. But yes, the car would need insurance. And yes, it would be the cars fault, and insurance premium for all cars of the model would increase.

  14. Re:Order they are recieved? on ICANN To Replace 'Digital Archery' Program With Raffle · · Score: 1

    Because they originally announced that the order would not matter, and people took their time to submit proposals. It is like changing rules in the middle of the game.

  15. Re:ABC is a private business? on Libertarian Candidate Excluded From Debate For Refusing Corporate Donations · · Score: 1

    Ok, let me rephrase that, I did not mean that he wants to ban corporate money in politics (or may be he does, I dont know, but that is not what I meant in my comment). He does not want corporate money to influence him and his decisions and he doesnt want to depend on corporate money for basically everything he does. Irrespective of your political views, I think it is a decent opinion to hold.

  16. Re:ABC is a private business? on Libertarian Candidate Excluded From Debate For Refusing Corporate Donations · · Score: 1

    I agree with you on both points, I was just answering to GP's point about why he wants to be on the debate, run by ABC, funded by corporations.

  17. Re:ABC is a private business? on Libertarian Candidate Excluded From Debate For Refusing Corporate Donations · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I rather thought ABC is a private business, so from a Libertarian point of view, I would think they could decide whatever they want as far as who to include on their own debate?

    As a libertarian he would not support government intervention (though laws, FCC mandates, etc) in these debates, but as far I can see that is not what he is asking for.

    Or, if you are not accepting corporate donations, why are you interested in going on a debate that is essentially sponsored by a corporation -- i.e. ABC -- and their advertisers?

    He doesnt hate corporations (atleast thats my opinion of what he believes in). He hates corporate money in politics. There is a difference between the two.

  18. Re:Seriously! WTF on DRM Could Come To 3D Printers · · Score: 1

    I could make a more comfortable one I guess. Something that suits the way I hold toothbrushes, and one that conforms better to the shape of my fingers.

  19. Re:Compensation on Samsung Galaxy Nexus Ban Overturned · · Score: 1

    I suppose they can sue the district court for abusing their discretion. But I dont think it has tried before, and I would expect the district court and the judges to have some immunity from prosecution.

  20. Re:Isn't law a joke now? on Interviews: Ask Free Software Legal Giant Eben Moglen · · Score: 1

    This is a good point to discuss, but asking a lawyer about this in an interview is exactly what flamebait is.

  21. Re:Chinese regulators are like Honey Badger on Seafood Raised on Animal Feces Approved for Consumers · · Score: 1

    We buy it. Seems more like a commentary on everyone.

    In other news, your vegetables are all grown in feces too. ;)

    No they are not. They are grown in composted feces (which kills most of the harmful bacteria), or in other words manure.

  22. Re:"Commission"... right. on US Election's Only VP Debate Tonight: Weigh In With Your Reactions · · Score: 1

    Both comments were modded down for some reason. Definitely not a accidental mod. Someone mod both the AC comments up!

  23. Re:So far Biden is doing really well on US Election's Only VP Debate Tonight: Weigh In With Your Reactions · · Score: 1

    He mentioned about the accident, but did not have time to go around to whether a drunk guy killed his wife or a sober one killed.

  24. Re:What's the value here? on US Election's Only VP Debate Tonight: Weigh In With Your Reactions · · Score: 1

    I sure do hope so.

  25. Re:The best Joe Biden speech on US Election's Only VP Debate Tonight: Weigh In With Your Reactions · · Score: 2

    He is good speaker, no doubt. Connects with his audience. Debates are different though, thinking and speaking at the same time, does not come naturally for most people.