...does not automatically make them a benevolent actor in the marketplace.
Apple is removing Holly Lisle's book from their store, apparently, because they don't want any information about their competition to reach their users. They only admitted this after they first LIED about why they were removing it. The obvious conclusion is that Apple is acting like a complete douchenozzle. There seems to be a reluctance to admit this, likely because Apple makes cool products that a lot of people use. Supporting Apple's censorship because you like their products is a pretty vile choice.
You're quite deliberately failing to make any distinction between a physical bookstore, which is limited by available space, and an e-book store, which is not so limited.
Because, like it or not, there are going to be more women in the IT workplace in the future, not less. Our society is becoming more integrated, which is a good thing! Step back for a minute, look at what you just said, only replace 'female' with 'black' or 'irish' or 'peasant' and 'male' with 'white' or 'British' or 'noble'.
"Why should the group have to change for one new incommer?" Because it's the right thing to do, even if it's inconvenient and doesn't go smoothly.
I agree. I've never had a negative thought about Wikipedia's look. I like the way it looks. It's clean, useable, and easy on the eyes. It doesn't need anything more. I'd even say it shouldn't add anything more. Clutter is the opposite of information. And the charge that it's difficult to edit is ridiculous.
I'm actually glad to see the Pauls taking this obvious pro-corporate stand. Maybe it will help get some folks both here on slashdot and elsewhere to realize that while libertarians (of both the big 'L' and and small 'l' varieties) are very keen on getting rid of government oppression, they never seem interested in doing anything about corporate oppression. It seems to me that libertarians have become little more than shills for unmitigated corporate power, and this move seems to really drive this point home.
Supreme Court also consists of people who came out of the general population, so to speak.
I beg to differ.
The citizens of the United States self-identify as 51.3% Protestant, 23.9% Catholic, 16.1% Unaffiliated, 1.7% Mormon, and 1.7% Jewish. The Supreme Court is two-thirds Catholic and one-third Jewish.
Of the nine Justices, four are from New York (6.19% of US Population), two are from California (11.91% of US Population), 2 are from New Jersey (2.81% of US population) and one is from Georgia (3.1% of the US population).
Between them, the Justices have attended the following law schools: Yale and Harvard, with Justice Ginsburg having also studied law at Columbia.
Whatever your opinion of the Supreme Court Justices may be, claiming that they "came out of the general population" is a best highly misleading.
Apparently the truckload of bad publicity they got from their launch difficulties was wearing off, so they decide they needed to rustle some more up, quick.
The reason I have seen given for Assange to fear extradition to Sweden is that apparently it would be much easier to extradite him from from Sweden to the United States. In other words, it's not Sweden that he's afraid of, but that the Swedes will hand him over to the Americans with a wink and a nod.
As Thomas Babington Macaulay said in a brilliant speech on copyright back in 1841 "The public seldom make nice distinctions. The wholesome copyright which now exists will share in the disgrace and danger of the new copyright which you are about to create. And you will find that, in attempting to impose unreasonable restraints on the reprinting of the words of the dead, you have, to a great extent, annulled those restraints which now prevent men from pillaging and defrauding the living."
American corporations of the 20th and 21st centuries, thanks to their endless quest for profit and control with scant regard for anything else, have succeeded in thoroughly discrediting the very idea of copyright. While I empathize with David Lowery and the artists on whose behalf he speaks, he is missing the point. Until the corporate-instigated abuse of copyright is ended, there is no chance of rehabilitating it in the public mind. Even then, I expect doing so will take generations if it can be done at all.
P.S. In case you missed it, the same corporate abuses that destroyed faith and trust in copyright are being applied to America's entire legal system.
Even if this case turns out to be a false alarm, allowing a nation that you repeatedly refer to as a 'near-peer competitor' to build parts of your high-tech weaponry is idiotic.
You're right, but the corporate behemoths are likely far to stupid to understand that. And even if they did, corporate America seems perfectly fine with making the pie smaller, as long as they continue to have the most pieces.
Just like the term 'star' actually covers a huge range of objects with some basic similarities (fusion-driven radiation emitters), so does the word 'planet'. We have terrestrial planets, ice giants, gas giants, ice dwarfs, and now apparently surviving protoplanets like Vesta.
The TSA already is killing innocent people. Fear (or hatred) of the TSA causes many travelers to choose to drive instead of fly to their destination. Driving is considerably more dangerous than flying. The resulting deaths from increased road travel can be laid squarely at the feet of the TSA.
Then let the Russians either work on the project, or agree to let them station observers on the base, as they have repeatedly requested and the United States has repeatedly refused!
They can quit. No matter how bad the economy is, no matter how much they need the job, there's no excuse for abusing their fellow human beings day in and day out.
Except that neither of them will do a damn thing about the TSA, and since we're only allowed to choose between the two of them, the TSA will continue to terrorize and sexually assault people for the foreseeable future.
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...does not automatically make them a benevolent actor in the marketplace.
Apple is removing Holly Lisle's book from their store, apparently, because they don't want any information about their competition to reach their users. They only admitted this after they first LIED about why they were removing it. The obvious conclusion is that Apple is acting like a complete douchenozzle. There seems to be a reluctance to admit this, likely because Apple makes cool products that a lot of people use. Supporting Apple's censorship because you like their products is a pretty vile choice.
You're quite deliberately failing to make any distinction between a physical bookstore, which is limited by available space, and an e-book store, which is not so limited.
So, cheaper than bailing out the investment banks then?
Because, like it or not, there are going to be more women in the IT workplace in the future, not less. Our society is becoming more integrated, which is a good thing! Step back for a minute, look at what you just said, only replace 'female' with 'black' or 'irish' or 'peasant' and 'male' with 'white' or 'British' or 'noble'.
"Why should the group have to change for one new incommer?" Because it's the right thing to do, even if it's inconvenient and doesn't go smoothly.
I agree. I've never had a negative thought about Wikipedia's look. I like the way it looks. It's clean, useable, and easy on the eyes. It doesn't need anything more. I'd even say it shouldn't add anything more. Clutter is the opposite of information. And the charge that it's difficult to edit is ridiculous.
I'm actually glad to see the Pauls taking this obvious pro-corporate stand. Maybe it will help get some folks both here on slashdot and elsewhere to realize that while libertarians (of both the big 'L' and and small 'l' varieties) are very keen on getting rid of government oppression, they never seem interested in doing anything about corporate oppression. It seems to me that libertarians have become little more than shills for unmitigated corporate power, and this move seems to really drive this point home.
Supreme Court also consists of people who came out of the general population, so to speak.
I beg to differ.
The citizens of the United States self-identify as 51.3% Protestant, 23.9% Catholic, 16.1% Unaffiliated, 1.7% Mormon, and 1.7% Jewish.
The Supreme Court is two-thirds Catholic and one-third Jewish.
Of the nine Justices, four are from New York (6.19% of US Population), two are from California (11.91% of US Population), 2 are from New Jersey (2.81% of US population) and one is from Georgia (3.1% of the US population).
Between them, the Justices have attended the following law schools: Yale and Harvard, with Justice Ginsburg having also studied law at Columbia.
Whatever your opinion of the Supreme Court Justices may be, claiming that they "came out of the general population" is a best highly misleading.
Apparently the truckload of bad publicity they got from their launch difficulties was wearing off, so they decide they needed to rustle some more up, quick.
The reason I have seen given for Assange to fear extradition to Sweden is that apparently it would be much easier to extradite him from from Sweden to the United States. In other words, it's not Sweden that he's afraid of, but that the Swedes will hand him over to the Americans with a wink and a nod.
As Thomas Babington Macaulay said in a brilliant speech on copyright back in 1841 "The public seldom make nice distinctions. The wholesome copyright which now exists will share in the disgrace and danger of the new copyright which you are about to create. And you will find that, in attempting to impose unreasonable restraints on the reprinting of the words of the dead, you have, to a great extent, annulled those restraints which now prevent men from pillaging and defrauding the living."
American corporations of the 20th and 21st centuries, thanks to their endless quest for profit and control with scant regard for anything else, have succeeded in thoroughly discrediting the very idea of copyright. While I empathize with David Lowery and the artists on whose behalf he speaks, he is missing the point. Until the corporate-instigated abuse of copyright is ended, there is no chance of rehabilitating it in the public mind. Even then, I expect doing so will take generations if it can be done at all.
P.S. In case you missed it, the same corporate abuses that destroyed faith and trust in copyright are being applied to America's entire legal system.
They're doing great at giving the government more power, the corporations more money, and the citizenry more oppression.
Nope. What "market forces" tell these "job creators" is that the slaves aren't oppressed enough. Yet.
Even if this case turns out to be a false alarm, allowing a nation that you repeatedly refer to as a 'near-peer competitor' to build parts of your high-tech weaponry is idiotic.
You're right, but the corporate behemoths are likely far to stupid to understand that. And even if they did, corporate America seems perfectly fine with making the pie smaller, as long as they continue to have the most pieces.
Thank Jimmy Carter, along with Gerald Ford, for this particular piece of idiocy.
Sounds like an excellent time for California to rewrite or eliminate it's state laws on sales tax.
Just like the term 'star' actually covers a huge range of objects with some basic similarities (fusion-driven radiation emitters), so does the word 'planet'. We have terrestrial planets, ice giants, gas giants, ice dwarfs, and now apparently surviving protoplanets like Vesta.
The TSA already is killing innocent people. Fear (or hatred) of the TSA causes many travelers to choose to drive instead of fly to their destination. Driving is considerably more dangerous than flying. The resulting deaths from increased road travel can be laid squarely at the feet of the TSA.
Then let the Russians either work on the project, or agree to let them station observers on the base, as they have repeatedly requested and the United States has repeatedly refused!
I don't agree with all of Senator Paul's politics, but this I happily support. Thanks for a badly needed dose of sanity!
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They can quit. No matter how bad the economy is, no matter how much they need the job, there's no excuse for abusing their fellow human beings day in and day out.
That's not even counting the number of highway deaths among people who drove rather than flew in order to avoid the TSA.
So, your excuse for these assholes is "they were just following orders"?
Except that neither of them will do a damn thing about the TSA, and since we're only allowed to choose between the two of them, the TSA will continue to terrorize and sexually assault people for the foreseeable future.