17 In late 2007, Amazon.com, Inc. (“Amazon”) introduced the Kindle, a portable
18 device that carries digital copies of books, known as “ebooks.” This innovation
19 had the potential to change the centuriesold process for producing books by
20 eliminating the need to print, bind, ship, and store them.
But it *is* 70% to Amazon for books between $0.99 and $2.98. Maybe that's justified by the fixed costs Amazon faces, which are a greater percent of a smaller price, but it still seems absurd to me. Of course my response is just to not price ebooks under $2.99, and then I can avoid it.
But it's proof Amazon is preventing authors from selling ebooks below $2,99. And thanks to their most-favourite-nation-clause, they also prevent that on all other places that sell ebooks.
Ohh, DOJ! We have a new victim for you!
Unless of course you want to prove your in cahoots with them. Who watches the watchers again?
Not a lot of storage is necessary as long as electricity is never priced below market equilibrium
Those of us who have to run our air-conditioners 24/7 seven+ months of the year disagree. A lot of storage is necessary, or a lot of the energy producers have to be baseload. For which read "nuclear"....
Too bad nuclear power plants want cooling too - and have to be shut down when their cooling water supply either dries out or becomes to warm. And it takes weeks to get them running again, even when the cooling returns the next day. And coincidently those shut downs are happening more and more often, you know, because AGW.
Yes, perhaps we too can do it the German way. All we need to do is replace all our old coal-fired power plants with brand new, more efficient ones, while at the same time encouraging Mexico to install nuclear, so we can export our cheap electricity to them.
Or maybe Germany is awesome at propaganda.
They import 2/3 of their energy (including nuclear energy from France and Czech Republic).
Funny thing: they export far more electricity than they import. https://www.energy-charts.de/exchange.htm. In fact, they export more than France and Czech Republic combined.
Which, depending on the subject, can lead to totally off-topic results
What is off-topic about those results?
The organisation in question's website - which is no longer called the Wisconsin Tourism Federation - comes second in the list, and only because you've used google.de. Use its new name, or use google.com, and it comes top.
Seems like it's working perfectly to me.
It was a fucking example, you bloody moron. An example that was sort of fixed in part by the fact that they changed their name because the bloody search mostly returned off-topic results, and in part because it was one that was reported.
Isn't NAT and private address space a method of overcoming the limitations of IPv4? Shouldn't IPv6 be able to enable new home routers to be designed to avoid some private addresses where needed, specifically for the purposes of allowing access to our things. Old routers seem to be needed in order to circumvent our privacy. Until this is answered then no employee of a cloud based service would be expected to come clean about why they use such external servers. In other words aren't old IPv4 routers underpinning the current business model for any home device that needs to be accessed from outside?
First of all: you mean PAT, not NAT. Port address translation. And that leads to tons of problems (on top of those plain NAT brings) network admins would like to avoid - by using IPv6. Google for "NAT traversal" and "Application Level Gateway" for just a small part of the problem.
You obviously have not had to install Java recently. They have been bundling the Ask Toolbar (checked by default, and also making Ask your default search provider) for the last few years.
Honestly, bundling Yahoo is a step up - or at worst sideways. But, it is still criminal that this kind of crapware is enabled by default, preying on the novice users who are not savvy enough to un-check it.
AC is right - if this is a change from Ask.com to Yahoo, it is an improvement. If the Ask-bar still gets installed - fuck you Oracle.
maybe try turning safe search back on and not searching with such ambiguous keyword combinations as "giant cock"?
Have you used Google lately? A couple of years ago they began to also search for "similar" words, including abbreviations and acronyms. Which, depending on the subject, can lead to totally off-topic results. E.g. https://www.google.de/search?q=Wisconsin+Tourism+Federation - WTF indeed. Their search-by-data is also often useless (esp. when looking for older stuff), because most sites now include links to current articles even on ancient pages, which of course drown out the actual content.
You in no way countered the point that I made. The US was started on religious values. It certainly wasn't a scientifically oriented government..."In God We Trust".
IOW you are part of the Religious Right that wants to rewrite history - thanks for proving my point.
Winners: Canada, Greenland, and Siberia, which will have nicer weather.
Even that is doubtful - thawn perma frost tundra just turns into swampland slightly above freezing. Not to mention that in the populated areas it's already quite warm in summer.
Don't mythologize native Americans. They were very few in number, yet did manage to hunt a few species to extinction. If everyone in North America were native American today, our ecological footprint probably wouldn't be much different.
Actually, they were not that small in number, its just that most were killed before the Whiteys came to see them because the diseases the Europeans brought over spread much faster than the invaders themselves.
The most scientific oriented government, both in policy and origin, is undoubtedly the modern democracies, created by men who were careful to study the flaws of the powerful, to account for them, and to allow for change should future generations gain more wisdom on the subject.
Which ones do you speak of? I think it could easily be argued that those modern democracies evolved in an environment that included religious value systems. Do you have any examples to the contrary?
The USA - all attempts by the Christian Fundamentalist Right to rewrite history notwithstanding.
It beats the usual link to a add-supported blog badly rehashing the rehash of a news story, that also manages to distort the facts so they fit the views of the editor.
You are aware, I trust, that you are describing a very small group of men that made up some of the Nazi leadership. The overwhelming majority of Nazis were Catholics and Lutherans.
And *you* are aware, I trust, that churches throughout Germany had many of their priests/pastors/clergy killed and replaced by Party-approved men
Many? Bullshit. Most of them supported the party from day one. Digging up a handful of counter examples doesn't disprove that.
Not to mention that the parties that helped Hitler to power had deep links to the Christian churches of Germany.
If it wants to convince artists that they will gain by signing on to Apple Music, the company with the largest cash reserve in the world could easily demonstrate this by paying the subscription royalty rate for trial period music.
So paying them more than the rest of the streaming industry wasn't enough already...
Actually quite a few European labels were refusing to sign up with Apple.
IOW, despite making it sound like they did, you do confirm that Apple did not sign any musicians/labels to streaming without their consent. Nice try though.
The schools taught them that? I suppose a school that teaches chemistry may teach that but I know of no Catholic school that taught kids to be bombers or suicide bombers. I am not a Catholic (or Christian) or the likes but I would prefer honesty in debates. If you have a citation, anything close will do, then that would be interesting.
But a Madrassa teaches how to build bombs. Yeah, right. If you have any actual proof but something from Faux News, bring it on.
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And this is how copyright caused thousands of deaths because the life saving checks could not be implemented.
I feel like a story coming to me...
No, they couldn't be implemented because they can only be implemented in a Positronic Brain. At least that's closer to the truth than your claim.
17 In late 2007, Amazon.com, Inc. (“Amazon”) introduced the Kindle, a portable
18 device that carries digital copies of books, known as “ebooks.” This innovation
19 had the potential to change the centuriesold process for producing books by
20 eliminating the need to print, bind, ship, and store them.
Amazon "innovated" ebooks? Really?
But it *is* 70% to Amazon for books between $0.99 and $2.98. Maybe that's justified by the fixed costs Amazon faces, which are a greater percent of a smaller price, but it still seems absurd to me. Of course my response is just to not price ebooks under $2.99, and then I can avoid it.
But it's proof Amazon is preventing authors from selling ebooks below $2,99. And thanks to their most-favourite-nation-clause, they also prevent that on all other places that sell ebooks.
Ohh, DOJ! We have a new victim for you!
Unless of course you want to prove your in cahoots with them. Who watches the watchers again?
Really, who needs Apple? I just watched a tear down of Beats Solo headphones and its no surprise they are made of crap.
Because it turned out to be a pair of knock-offs?
Those of us who have to run our air-conditioners 24/7 seven+ months of the year disagree. A lot of storage is necessary, or a lot of the energy producers have to be baseload. For which read "nuclear"....
Too bad nuclear power plants want cooling too - and have to be shut down when their cooling water supply either dries out or becomes to warm. And it takes weeks to get them running again, even when the cooling returns the next day. And coincidently those shut downs are happening more and more often, you know, because AGW.
Yes, perhaps we too can do it the German way. All we need to do is replace all our old coal-fired power plants with brand new, more efficient ones, while at the same time encouraging Mexico to install nuclear, so we can export our cheap electricity to them.
FTFY
Or maybe Germany is awesome at propaganda. They import 2/3 of their energy (including nuclear energy from France and Czech Republic).
Funny thing: they export far more electricity than they import. https://www.energy-charts.de/exchange.htm. In fact, they export more than France and Czech Republic combined.
Amen to that.
If we are gonna claim to be serious about cutting emissions, France has already proven the technology to do so has already existed for a long time.
Too bad it fails when it gets too hot - http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2006/jul/30/energy.weather, http://insideclimatenews.org/news/20120815/nuclear-power-plants-energy-nrc-drought-weather-heat-water. Kinda sucks when you are dealing with Global Warming.
Which, depending on the subject, can lead to totally off-topic results
What is off-topic about those results?
The organisation in question's website - which is no longer called the Wisconsin Tourism Federation - comes second in the list, and only because you've used google.de. Use its new name, or use google.com, and it comes top.
Seems like it's working perfectly to me.
It was a fucking example, you bloody moron. An example that was sort of fixed in part by the fact that they changed their name because the bloody search mostly returned off-topic results, and in part because it was one that was reported.
Isn't NAT and private address space a method of overcoming the limitations of IPv4? Shouldn't IPv6 be able to enable new home routers to be designed to avoid some private addresses where needed, specifically for the purposes of allowing access to our things. Old routers seem to be needed in order to circumvent our privacy. Until this is answered then no employee of a cloud based service would be expected to come clean about why they use such external servers. In other words aren't old IPv4 routers underpinning the current business model for any home device that needs to be accessed from outside?
First of all: you mean PAT, not NAT. Port address translation. And that leads to tons of problems (on top of those plain NAT brings) network admins would like to avoid - by using IPv6. Google for "NAT traversal" and "Application Level Gateway" for just a small part of the problem.
What a waste of address space... That many PUBLIC IP's? What a mess that must be.
Hey, if you own a Class B net (or even Class A), why would you skimp on public addresses? You have them. Not using them would waste them.
You obviously have not had to install Java recently. They have been bundling the Ask Toolbar (checked by default, and also making Ask your default search provider) for the last few years.
Honestly, bundling Yahoo is a step up - or at worst sideways. But, it is still criminal that this kind of crapware is enabled by default, preying on the novice users who are not savvy enough to un-check it.
AC is right - if this is a change from Ask.com to Yahoo, it is an improvement. If the Ask-bar still gets installed - fuck you Oracle.
maybe try turning safe search back on and not searching with such ambiguous keyword combinations as "giant cock"?
Have you used Google lately? A couple of years ago they began to also search for "similar" words, including abbreviations and acronyms. Which, depending on the subject, can lead to totally off-topic results. E.g. https://www.google.de/search?q=Wisconsin+Tourism+Federation - WTF indeed. Their search-by-data is also often useless (esp. when looking for older stuff), because most sites now include links to current articles even on ancient pages, which of course drown out the actual content.
You are so far off base, that you're making an ass out of yourself. First of all, I'm in no way religious.
The worse you fell for it. But that's fully your problem.
You in no way countered the point that I made. The US was started on religious values. It certainly wasn't a scientifically oriented government..."In God We Trust".
IOW you are part of the Religious Right that wants to rewrite history - thanks for proving my point.
Win32.Rmnet.12 is a complex multi-component file infector, consisting of several modules. This program is capable of self-replication.
Winners: Canada, Greenland, and Siberia, which will have nicer weather.
Even that is doubtful - thawn perma frost tundra just turns into swampland slightly above freezing. Not to mention that in the populated areas it's already quite warm in summer.
Don't mythologize native Americans. They were very few in number, yet did manage to hunt a few species to extinction. If everyone in North America were native American today, our ecological footprint probably wouldn't be much different.
Actually, they were not that small in number, its just that most were killed before the Whiteys came to see them because the diseases the Europeans brought over spread much faster than the invaders themselves.
The most scientific oriented government, both in policy and origin, is undoubtedly the modern democracies, created by men who were careful to study the flaws of the powerful, to account for them, and to allow for change should future generations gain more wisdom on the subject.
Which ones do you speak of? I think it could easily be argued that those modern democracies evolved in an environment that included religious value systems. Do you have any examples to the contrary?
The USA - all attempts by the Christian Fundamentalist Right to rewrite history notwithstanding.
The content link is a google search?
It beats the usual link to a add-supported blog badly rehashing the rehash of a news story, that also manages to distort the facts so they fit the views of the editor.
Deep Impact > Armageddon
Syfy Original Movies > Armageddon
You are aware, I trust, that you are describing a very small group of men that made up some of the Nazi leadership. The overwhelming majority of Nazis were Catholics and Lutherans.
And *you* are aware, I trust, that churches throughout Germany had many of their priests/pastors/clergy killed and replaced by Party-approved men
Many? Bullshit. Most of them supported the party from day one. Digging up a handful of counter examples doesn't disprove that.
Not to mention that the parties that helped Hitler to power had deep links to the Christian churches of Germany.
If it wants to convince artists that they will gain by signing on to Apple Music, the company with the largest cash reserve in the world could easily demonstrate this by paying the subscription royalty rate for trial period music.
So paying them more than the rest of the streaming industry wasn't enough already ...
Actually quite a few European labels were refusing to sign up with Apple.
IOW, despite making it sound like they did, you do confirm that Apple did not sign any musicians/labels to streaming without their consent. Nice try though.
The schools taught them that? I suppose a school that teaches chemistry may teach that but I know of no Catholic school that taught kids to be bombers or suicide bombers. I am not a Catholic (or Christian) or the likes but I would prefer honesty in debates. If you have a citation, anything close will do, then that would be interesting.
But a Madrassa teaches how to build bombs. Yeah, right. If you have any actual proof but something from Faux News, bring it on.