Those fans weren't participating; they weren't able to trade in time. To the victor, the spoils. If the market is truly free, values change. The value of something in a free market is what people are prepared to pay for it. If you're trying to advance some sort of theory of intrinsic value, you're departing from free market principles. I'm not advocating that scalping should be allowed, but then I believe in legislation to restrict the excesses of the free market, unlike some others. Scalping is an exploitation of the ability to corner a free market, but it's still part of the ebb & flow of that free market, it's not an act that somehow stands outside of it.
If you think that's fair or "free market", then you probably thought that KennyBoy was unjustly accused.
If the people selling were happy to sell, and you were happy to buy, that's the free market right there. "Fair" doesn't come into it. A purely free market is not usually a good thing for the majority of the participants in it, which is why we legislate to restrict them (probably not as much as we should, but legislators sell themselves so cheaply these days).
There are many US produced TV shows that are far superior to any produced in other countries
Veronica Mars and Northern Exposure, to pick a couple, are that much better than The Singing Detective, Fawlty Towers or Absolute Power? No accounting for taste, obviously.
Sure, but Star Trek, for example, uses technical handwaving. I'd hate to lose my patent on a warp drive because they'd frobbled the pragnozticatrix to get from point A to point B. There has to be some level of working technical detail in there... like Clarke's commuinications satellite papers.
I thought you were only supposed to get a patent for a technical description of a working mechanism? Thus, if anyone has a patent on a tricorder or a phaser, there actually exists a working model of the device.
iTunes 7 has an "Album Artist" tag, so you can set that to, e.g. "Various Artists" (or the name of the primary artist of the soundtrack) and still set the artist tag differently for the individual tracks, and it will group the album correctly.
Most of Clarke's books for the last 20 years or so have been collaborations which seem like the product of ACC meeting with the junior author for a week, then the junior author writing up a novel based on the notes. Better than nothing, but I wish he'd chosen better writers to work with.
I think a number of people will disagree with you that Jesus was a mythological character.:-) After all, our whole Gregorian calendar is based on his birth.
The Gregorian calendar is less than 500 years old. If Pope Gregory XIII had any real evidence of Jesus' existence, don't you think we would have seen it by now?
A couple dozen people who had already chosen their flights, and were in possesion of liquid explosives with electronic detonation devices in a form that would not be detected by routine inspection, were just prevented from killing hundreds of people.
Allegedly. I'd like to see a successful court case. Innocent until proven guilty, it's one of those things that separates us from the bad guys, remember?
We got given that a while ago. The funny thing about it is that the person with the highest level of trust among the group outside the game often ends up winning, because they're using that trust in order to swing the trades necessary... and the accountant we play it with doesn't always do well, because everyone's paranoid about trading with him.:)
I like the forced order of the play as well (FIFO from the cards drawn). It means that your trades and played cards have to be woven together very neatly to keep up a good flow.
Instead of presenting thoughtful, creative or otherwise valuable content, the vast majority elect to pointlessly ramble about themselves in minute detail or engage in endless back and forth with other users about nothing in particular.
It might work for the limited case of Microsoft only, though. If the company deems itself to be outside of the control of the state, maybe the state should stop using the mechanisms of copyright to protect it?
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Those fans weren't participating; they weren't able to trade in time. To the victor, the spoils. If the market is truly free, values change. The value of something in a free market is what people are prepared to pay for it. If you're trying to advance some sort of theory of intrinsic value, you're departing from free market principles. I'm not advocating that scalping should be allowed, but then I believe in legislation to restrict the excesses of the free market, unlike some others. Scalping is an exploitation of the ability to corner a free market, but it's still part of the ebb & flow of that free market, it's not an act that somehow stands outside of it.
If you think that's fair or "free market", then you probably thought that KennyBoy was unjustly accused.
If the people selling were happy to sell, and you were happy to buy, that's the free market right there. "Fair" doesn't come into it. A purely free market is not usually a good thing for the majority of the participants in it, which is why we legislate to restrict them (probably not as much as we should, but legislators sell themselves so cheaply these days).
There are many US produced TV shows that are far superior to any produced in other countries
Veronica Mars and Northern Exposure, to pick a couple, are that much better than The Singing Detective, Fawlty Towers or Absolute Power? No accounting for taste, obviously.
I'm afraid the oncomice might be a bit stuffed, though.
Sure, but Star Trek, for example, uses technical handwaving. I'd hate to lose my patent on a warp drive because they'd frobbled the pragnozticatrix to get from point A to point B. There has to be some level of working technical detail in there... like Clarke's commuinications satellite papers.
I've read the book and seen the film, and the film is by far superior.
(But then, I would say that, wouldn't I.)
I thought you were only supposed to get a patent for a technical description of a working mechanism? Thus, if anyone has a patent on a tricorder or a phaser, there actually exists a working model of the device.
I myself have personally protested Landover Baptist's extreme (and often cannonically incorrect) views.
Nor do I have to like that Landover Baptist protests the funerals of murdered Amish schoolgirls.
Um, Landover Baptist is satire. You're thinking of the Westboro Baptist Church.
there isn't much we can do about it at this point aside from debate his innocence based on zero information
This is Slashdot, that's never stopped us before.
the people who remember are probably just sad, sceptical and annoyed
:)
There, fixed that for you.
iTunes 7 has an "Album Artist" tag, so you can set that to, e.g. "Various Artists" (or the name of the primary artist of the soundtrack) and still set the artist tag differently for the individual tracks, and it will group the album correctly.
with Kevin J. Anderson, who is widely regarded as the finest science fiction and fantasy author in the history of either genre.
Thanks for letting us know, Kevin.
Most of Clarke's books for the last 20 years or so have been collaborations which seem like the product of ACC meeting with the junior author for a week, then the junior author writing up a novel based on the notes. Better than nothing, but I wish he'd chosen better writers to work with.
But who's going to keep our telephones clean?
I think a number of people will disagree with you that Jesus was a mythological character. :-) After all, our whole Gregorian calendar is based on his birth.
The Gregorian calendar is less than 500 years old. If Pope Gregory XIII had any real evidence of Jesus' existence, don't you think we would have seen it by now?
A couple dozen people who had already chosen their flights, and were in possesion of liquid explosives with electronic detonation devices in a form that would not be detected by routine inspection, were just prevented from killing hundreds of people.
Allegedly. I'd like to see a successful court case. Innocent until proven guilty, it's one of those things that separates us from the bad guys, remember?
We got given that a while ago. The funny thing about it is that the person with the highest level of trust among the group outside the game often ends up winning, because they're using that trust in order to swing the trades necessary... and the accountant we play it with doesn't always do well, because everyone's paranoid about trading with him. :)
I like the forced order of the play as well (FIFO from the cards drawn). It means that your trades and played cards have to be woven together very neatly to keep up a good flow.
I think it's very disingenuous of Apple to claim that the Mac "is a PC too,"
'PC' means 'Personal Computer'. An Amiga is a PC too.
See www.microsoft.com
Given how bad Microsoft's own site search is, can we have a more specific reference, please?
Instead of presenting thoughtful, creative or otherwise valuable content, the vast majority elect to pointlessly ramble about themselves in minute detail or engage in endless back and forth with other users about nothing in particular.
Sturgeon was an optimist.
I always preferred "John Howard is so far up George W. Bush's arse that he can see the bottom of Tony Blair's feet."
It might work for the limited case of Microsoft only, though. If the company deems itself to be outside of the control of the state, maybe the state should stop using the mechanisms of copyright to protect it?
Most people don't know Led Zeppelin from Pearl Jam.
Maybe that's because most 90s rock and metal music sounded like badly rehashed Led Zeppelin? (and I'm not an LZ fan, either)
Hey, it's an interesting archive of historical documents. Although I don't agree with the politics, I still find this sort of stuff fascinating...
Thanks, this looks really interesting. :)