Hydrogen is over before it even begun. It's less efficient than electric by any measure, and if you're betting on a big breakthrough (this isn't it) then the smart money is on capacitors (powered by wind, wave, solar, geothermal), not some magic leap forward in hydrogen production or fuel cell construction. At this point, it really is an academic proposition.
Electricity needs a storage medium. Batteries are not there yet. Capacitors may never be there.
For large scale energy storage, pumping water up against gravity is a good thing. A dam of some type. Hydrogen can be good for small scale things.
I think steam electrolysis of hydrogen will be a good way to go. All you need is a mirrored parabolic dish. No earth-made energy to use.
I think it's a fine idea. the spectrum is public land.
No, spectrum is not "public land". It's just there. Next the government will ban the sun because it's infringing on the visible spectrum that it rented/sold/leased to someone else.
All you are renting/selling is a monopoly to use said spectrum. In fact, it's an active deprivation of others who could put that spectrum in within their private lands.
Now, I know the practical reality and the reasons for it. But it would seem to me when the government uses eminent domain of something, to grant someone a monopoly on said resource, it should be for the public good. The public good does not mean filling government coffers. This is the heart of the dispute of the Kelo decision, where local governments took it to heart that anything that bought them more tax money was for the "public good", and thus the logic that farmers could be deprived of their farms simply because a developer swooped in and his construction would bring in more property taxes. It used to mean land was taken for a road or utility.
The same thing is happening here: filling government coffers is equated with "for the public good." This is not the case, because America was built on the principle of limited Government, not more of it. Filling public coffers only supports bureacracies the same way the PA Turnpike (now being given I-80 even though that was built with Federal Funds, pushed by the crook Rendell) monopolizes it's route, and the only thing is does (given the crappy generally 2 lane roads) is become a bigger and bigger bureacracy. You should see the public administration building dedicated to this one highway.
Monopolizing a section bandwidth in exchange of free national wireless internet would be for the public good. Monopolizing a section of bandwidth in exchange for money grows this insatiable government, just makes the system the domain of the highest bidder, raises the costs to the end consumers, and is not for the public good.
I don't think DRM (we called it "copy-protection" when I was a lad) should be stopped because I think authors should have a right to protect their labor from theft. How would you like to spend a year creating a document, and then your boss decides to take the document without paying you? In essence that's what happens to authors every time someone takes a book. It's stolen labor.
Your analogy doesn't quite work because:
1. What about libraries? 2. Where are people guaranteed their labor will bring them money? Lots of small business go under. 3. People tend to have a contract with their boss, either verbal or written. The boss here commits breach of contract. OTOH, readers of books don't have a contract with the author.
I can see where you are going, but I don't agree with DRM at all. It always punishes the legitimate customers only.
"Needy window" is the internal term we use for a window that requires your attention. Since the '90s, the taskbar has always provided some type of visualization to alert the customer to this state such as by flashing the button. A careful balance must be struck between providing information and not irritating the customer. With the new taskbar, we received feedback that Outlook reminders or a Messenger chat sometimes went unnoticed because needy windows were too subtle. For example, Mudassir opened a bug to say "The flashing is not obvious enough to get user's attention. Sometime I don't even notice it. It flashes for a little bit and then stops. If I am away the icon flashes and stops before I come back. The icon is not noticeable." We've made three changes that should address the issue. First, we changed the flashing animation curve to make it more noticeable (from a sine to a sawtooth wave). Second, we used a bolder orange color. Finally, we wanted to double the number of flashes which is currently set to three. As a nod to Windows 7, we decided to go with seven flashes instead.
Oh, in OS X (at least Tiger), I hate this "needy" state of constantly jumping up and down like a student wanting to give an answer. It's usually an app wanting just to be clicked on like it needs attention with absolutely no reason for it. I know way too much of Vista also tends to be needy out of the box pestering you with bullshit. After a few flashes, why don't they just silently invert the colors on the icon or rectangle (or give it a halo or something) on the task bar so that it sits there quietly, STFU, stays still, and lets you get to it in your own time?
But it always goes back to the original iPod review on/. "No wireless. Less space than a nomad. Lame."
There is a schism between the features crowd and the functions well crowd. Apple bridges that well enough for the American market to come up with products people really want. But the problem has always been the solely American-centric focus. Japanese and many other markets don't have the same tastes. Perhaps the Japanese are more toward the features side and are techy enough not to worry about seamless integration (I have no idea).
Let's face it: the killer app on the iPhone are two things: seamless integration among components (hardware/software) and now the App Store - giving you thousands of capabilities that competitors don't have now (but easily can). (Balmer: Developers, developers, developers!!!)
But you can't go into foreign markets with the exact same thing, prices, etc and expect not to be completely beaten up. Just like most domestic US cars are unsellable almost everywhere else: they are simply too big in both exterior and motor size.
Apple is a design house. It's problem is that it is so centralized and secretive, it's hard for it to compete in other markets. It needs design houses in other countries to start competing elsewhere. And be willing to individualize their approach to regions/countries.
Were I unemployed, I would still contribute to open source projects. The only thing I think would be worse than being jobless and broke would be being bored, jobless, and broke.
Idk about you, but if I were unemployed - I'd try to work. Now, it depends how much cushion money I have. If I could live of my saving for a year, I'd probably contribute to a OS project hoping to get noticed. If I didn't. Well, I'd probably forget about programming pet projects for a while and get any job I can in any industry, or come up with some money making scheme like that guy who made $700k programming some iPhone artillery game over the course of a month.
I can see OS development slowing down. But by the same token, closed source as well, and even worse. Computer upgrades won't be such a big priority, for sure. Perhaps distros like Ubuntu will benefit as well, as places are looking for something less labor intensive to maintain than windows -- which means less sys admins to pay.
OTOH, with some developers unemployed, they may be more willing to tweak OS to a potential customer's needs.
It wasn't just that he admitted that it was his laptop; he actually opened the Z drive for the border agent who then saw evidence of child pornography. This is like you standing at your door and saying, "Of course you can come in and search my house, officer." Once you've done that, you can't really take the 5th with regard to the illegal items they find in that search.
Of course you can. Stop spouting bullshit. They have the items against you in evidence. That will hang you regardless of what you say. You can still take the 5th. How come they don't have the evidence in this search?
I really don't care. In America, you are free to STFU when it suits you.
What happened to the 80 billion worth of printers, loggers, paper mills, transport, and fish-wrappers? Did they all go on Welfare so we can ship their jobs overseas to the Kindle manufacturing countries?
A good economy seeks the most economical solutions to their problems. Otherwise, they have unnecessary "drag", costs. Decreasing drag will raise standard of living as people can live cheaper for the same standard of living.
News print is a renewable resource. Is the Plastic in Kindle?
Is the gasoline delivering those newspapers and paper book a renewable resource?
You can look around the ads (or read them as you see fit) in newsprint. Will you be able to do that on the Kindle when corporate sponsors for media grab control of the device and make you stare at an advertisement for 6 seconds prior to viewing the content of a story?
Avoid those newspapers that doo that then. Just like I now avoid magazines that have a really interesting front page story, but avoid to mention where it is in the magazine, making me hunt the entire thing, including seeing their ads.
Also, you are under impression there is only the kindle when there are many companies making ereaders. I like iRex, they support open source, although the products themselves feel between the prototype and finished stage, imnsho.
Kindle might be great for books, but remember, its principal reason for being is to enforce DRM, to keep the book you bought on ONE device, to prevent sharing, or even transfer.
I hear you. I hate DRM. I'm glad apple got rid of theirs. I read a lot of non-drmed computer books though, that I downloaded from their official websites, and like to read on an e-ink reader instead of a computer screen.
Netbooks is where mass media is going. And once you have a netbook, who needs a Kindle.
Either you don't appreciate or know what e-ink is, I do. I hate computer screens for extended reading.
Warner has actually led the industry with a policy of signing bands to so-called 360 deals, in which artists give the label a cut of everything they sell, be it ringtones, merchandise, or concert tickets.
Yet it doesn't detail why the artist should give a cut to everything. Perhaps a $10k higher advance? Or does it become like the contracts all employees have to sign these days, with non-compete clauses, and other filled-to-the-brim bullshit which "everyone signs" because their peers do it - with no actual value added ever to the weaker party, everything always going for the stronger party in this case?
The music "industry" is not music. It's just middle men. They create drag, friction, between the musicians and the fans. They are an unneeded artifice, a relic of an earlier age, in my mind. For instance:
"Despite the fact that these games are very successful and are drawing a great deal of attention to the music represented in the games, the industry is not pleased with the licensing arrangements that allow the games to use their songs."
Does anyone here think "their songs" refers means "the artist's songs" or does it rather mean "Corp X's songs". Their original argument in the opening salvo of their war against the internet was "think of the artists!" Well, apparently they don't abide by their own logic (nor have they ever). From the very same article:
"Music games are proven earners--Aerosmith has reportedly earned more from Guitar Hero : Aerosmith than from any single album in the band's history."
Fuck the music industry. Please, just die already.
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Yeah, but most of these "friends" aren't real. It's like facebook where you can have 100s of so-called friends but none of them would actually do anything for you. What use is that? It's like the late-90s/early-00s internet bubble, where instead of companies trying to grow marketshare but having no viable business plan, you have people trying to be popular but with real viable end goal for it all.
Social networking to meet new people is great, but as far as networking goes, the more people that are in it, the less each individual is worth. I would think you're almost better using social media to meet new people, but having fewer but true friends and some contacts around the industry that know your potential value to a business from real contact rather than just another face online hyping him/herself.
First they come after criminals, but you are not criminal so you stay quiet. Then they come after child molesters, but you are not one, so you stay quiet. Then they come after punks and people who don't want to be government sheep. But you are not one of them. Then they will have only sheep in society, so they can do as they like, increase their wages, say "there are terrorists who want to hurt you out there, we must still rule to protect you" and in less than 30 years there will be new dictatorship.
While I agree with your larger point, that's truly a stupid take on the "First they come for...." story.
Also, from what I read, crime is hardly going down, IT JUST DOESN'T WORK. There are always ways around it for a determined criminal. So the "out of business" is nonsense.
At the very least, even if crime were to become minimal/nonexistant through some miracle, Police have more to do than just criminals. They have legitimate functions in maintaining law and order - traffic, disputes with your neighbor, crowd control so people don't stampede each other to death at times, etcetera.
and demand cameras/microphones in the houses, offices, and cars of all public officials, elected or otherwise. Actually, make them wear an ankle bracelet as well.
It seems to me they are far more dangerous and corrupted than the general populace they wish to spy upon.
On the old Perry Mason TV shows, it was a common sight to see someone burst into the crowded courtroom at a dire moment and confess aloud that they, not the defendant, killed so-and-so. In reality, courts do not allow evidence to enter trial without a chance for the opposing council to view it and for a judge to rule on their admissibility.
Correct me if I'm wrong, I was under the impression that this burden was placed far more on the prosecutors who had to share with the defense council their lot of evidence, than the other way around.
Although, as in this video by a law professor, what you say to a cop can be used against you, but never for you - as that would be ruled as hearsay: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6wXkI4t7nuc
You know how the latency in a satellite kills that way of communications for gaming, correct? Considering that light travels 180,000 miles per second, and that geostationary satellites are 20,000 miles away minimum, that is a good fraction of a second where the satellite can be knocked out by space debris or what not. Imagine the swath it's aiming at with just a small degree, we are probably talking at least dozens of miles.
OTOH, the energy would be distributed along that entire area, but still.
to get where the controversy in the articles/subjects are, so as not to be led astray by any one current revision. I don't get the big deal about doing that extra bit of work.
With peak oil projected to come within a decade, and with prices accompanying the decline to make last year seem cheap, this can't come soon enough. Hopefully, they'll allow the growth of hemp to supply this.
The reason the Apple app store is as successful as it is, is because you can manage everything from that single site - browsing, buying, downloading, installing. Once installed, it's also guaranteed to *work* on your mobile device; yes, I know, that's rather easy since there only really is 1 'device', but if you keep in mind how many of the apps for, say, Windows Mobile come in at least 2 different flavors just to deal with square display vs 4:3 display devices, not to mention the resolution separation, then a user easily gets lost.
Well, if Apple ever wants to upgrade its iPhone's display resolution for play with the form factor, hopefully the API can handle that easily enough without most apps having overlapping elements and the like. But I'm sure that apps will eventually have compatibility icons for which versions of the iPhone its guaranteed to work with (when there are more versions in the future).
Truth be told, I'm surprised Apple doesn't ship an App Store with regular OS X computers by now. It would basically be their version of a repository, so reduce possibilities of malware by going to 3rd party sites plus I know enough people who have problems installing Apple programs (yes, they are that computer illiterate). It would make the newbs completely comfortable with buying, downloading, installing, and deciding whether to have the icon in the dock (with a checkmark) in one shot. Plus, it probably would drive some extra life into developing for the Mac - especially if developers don't have to bother with their own website and can expect decent payback.
That anyone ever thinks differently must lack critical thinking. The people in power are corrupt, and the weaker party, which happened to be in power last time, is going to swoop in and fix everything.
Fuck, half the problem is that this country wasn't set up as a democracy, but a republic. But then it started with electing the president directly instead of state legislatures deciding themselves, sending electors that were little more rubberstamps, and then an amendment where the senators get voted in by the people, instead, again, of the electors deciding. The republic originally envisioned would have had several layers, with people voting the bottom local layer, and then those layer of people voting up another level, etc.
The net effect is that, I as a lone and insignificant voter, instead of just voting for a few people that I know better on a local people - get swamped with choices on every level - local, state, federal. Who has the time for it? You know how people complain about choice and linux distros? This is 100x worse. The end effect is that people start voting down the line for parties. National Parties evolved.
Such a system also gives the mainstream media undue power, puppet strings whereby to agitate voters into their agendas who in turn wail to their politicians, all the way up to Senators and Presidents, about the latest insignificant thing. It's not a good way to keep government limited if people always demand things from the government. If senators, as originally, were appointed by state legislators or governors - there would be focused on more than winning the next election.
The major problem with this suit is that Amazon isn't producing audio books of other people's works and selling them as derivative works. It's letting people access the content they paid for in a different way.
This lawsuit deserves to fail and the author's guild should pay the legal fees of amazon and the court as well for this idiocy.
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Electricity needs a storage medium. Batteries are not there yet. Capacitors may never be there.
For large scale energy storage, pumping water up against gravity is a good thing. A dam of some type. Hydrogen can be good for small scale things.
I think steam electrolysis of hydrogen will be a good way to go. All you need is a mirrored parabolic dish. No earth-made energy to use.
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No, spectrum is not "public land". It's just there. Next the government will ban the sun because it's infringing on the visible spectrum that it rented/sold/leased to someone else.
All you are renting/selling is a monopoly to use said spectrum. In fact, it's an active deprivation of others who could put that spectrum in within their private lands.
Now, I know the practical reality and the reasons for it. But it would seem to me when the government uses eminent domain of something, to grant someone a monopoly on said resource, it should be for the public good. The public good does not mean filling government coffers. This is the heart of the dispute of the Kelo decision, where local governments took it to heart that anything that bought them more tax money was for the "public good", and thus the logic that farmers could be deprived of their farms simply because a developer swooped in and his construction would bring in more property taxes. It used to mean land was taken for a road or utility.
The same thing is happening here: filling government coffers is equated with "for the public good." This is not the case, because America was built on the principle of limited Government, not more of it. Filling public coffers only supports bureacracies the same way the PA Turnpike (now being given I-80 even though that was built with Federal Funds, pushed by the crook Rendell) monopolizes it's route, and the only thing is does (given the crappy generally 2 lane roads) is become a bigger and bigger bureacracy. You should see the public administration building dedicated to this one highway.
Monopolizing a section bandwidth in exchange of free national wireless internet would be for the public good. Monopolizing a section of bandwidth in exchange for money grows this insatiable government, just makes the system the domain of the highest bidder, raises the costs to the end consumers, and is not for the public good.
Your analogy doesn't quite work because:
1. What about libraries?
2. Where are people guaranteed their labor will bring them money? Lots of small business go under.
3. People tend to have a contract with their boss, either verbal or written. The boss here commits breach of contract. OTOH, readers of books don't have a contract with the author.
I can see where you are going, but I don't agree with DRM at all. It always punishes the legitimate customers only.
Oh, in OS X (at least Tiger), I hate this "needy" state of constantly jumping up and down like a student wanting to give an answer. It's usually an app wanting just to be clicked on like it needs attention with absolutely no reason for it. I know way too much of Vista also tends to be needy out of the box pestering you with bullshit. After a few flashes, why don't they just silently invert the colors on the icon or rectangle (or give it a halo or something) on the task bar so that it sits there quietly, STFU, stays still, and lets you get to it in your own time?
But it always goes back to the original iPod review on /.
"No wireless. Less space than a nomad. Lame."
There is a schism between the features crowd and the functions well crowd. Apple bridges that well enough for the American market to come up with products people really want. But the problem has always been the solely American-centric focus. Japanese and many other markets don't have the same tastes. Perhaps the Japanese are more toward the features side and are techy enough not to worry about seamless integration (I have no idea).
Let's face it: the killer app on the iPhone are two things: seamless integration among components (hardware/software) and now the App Store - giving you thousands of capabilities that competitors don't have now (but easily can). (Balmer: Developers, developers, developers!!!)
But you can't go into foreign markets with the exact same thing, prices, etc and expect not to be completely beaten up. Just like most domestic US cars are unsellable almost everywhere else: they are simply too big in both exterior and motor size.
Apple is a design house. It's problem is that it is so centralized and secretive, it's hard for it to compete in other markets. It needs design houses in other countries to start competing elsewhere. And be willing to individualize their approach to regions/countries.
Idk about you, but if I were unemployed - I'd try to work. Now, it depends how much cushion money I have. If I could live of my saving for a year, I'd probably contribute to a OS project hoping to get noticed. If I didn't. Well, I'd probably forget about programming pet projects for a while and get any job I can in any industry, or come up with some money making scheme like that guy who made $700k programming some iPhone artillery game over the course of a month.
I can see OS development slowing down. But by the same token, closed source as well, and even worse. Computer upgrades won't be such a big priority, for sure. Perhaps distros like Ubuntu will benefit as well, as places are looking for something less labor intensive to maintain than windows -- which means less sys admins to pay.
OTOH, with some developers unemployed, they may be more willing to tweak OS to a potential customer's needs.
You are assuming they can be interpreted correctly. Most of law and lawyering is made up due to wrangling and disputes over interpreting.
Where is that in the 5th amendment?
Of course you can. Stop spouting bullshit. They have the items against you in evidence. That will hang you regardless of what you say. You can still take the 5th. How come they don't have the evidence in this search?
I really don't care. In America, you are free to STFU when it suits you.
That is the worst fucking advice. Look at the video linked in my first post to see why.
But basically you can hang yourself inadvertantly with what you say. Even if not at first.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6wXkI4t7nuc
Also, the judge is full of shit. You have the right to shut up at any time.
A good economy seeks the most economical solutions to their problems. Otherwise, they have unnecessary "drag", costs. Decreasing drag will raise standard of living as people can live cheaper for the same standard of living.
Is the gasoline delivering those newspapers and paper book a renewable resource?
Avoid those newspapers that doo that then. Just like I now avoid magazines that have a really interesting front page story, but avoid to mention where it is in the magazine, making me hunt the entire thing, including seeing their ads.
Also, you are under impression there is only the kindle when there are many companies making ereaders. I like iRex, they support open source, although the products themselves feel between the prototype and finished stage, imnsho.
I hear you. I hate DRM. I'm glad apple got rid of theirs. I read a lot of non-drmed computer books though, that I downloaded from their official websites, and like to read on an e-ink reader instead of a computer screen.
Either you don't appreciate or know what e-ink is, I do. I hate computer screens for extended reading.
Or this here, also in the article:
Yet it doesn't detail why the artist should give a cut to everything. Perhaps a $10k higher advance? Or does it become like the contracts all employees have to sign these days, with non-compete clauses, and other filled-to-the-brim bullshit which "everyone signs" because their peers do it - with no actual value added ever to the weaker party, everything always going for the stronger party in this case?
The music "industry" is not music. It's just middle men. They create drag, friction, between the musicians and the fans. They are an unneeded artifice, a relic of an earlier age, in my mind. For instance:
"Despite the fact that these games are very successful and are drawing a great deal of attention to the music represented in the games, the industry is not pleased with the licensing arrangements that allow the games to use their songs."
Does anyone here think "their songs" refers means "the artist's songs" or does it rather mean "Corp X's songs". Their original argument in the opening salvo of their war against the internet was "think of the artists!" Well, apparently they don't abide by their own logic (nor have they ever). From the very same article:
"Music games are proven earners--Aerosmith has reportedly earned more from Guitar Hero : Aerosmith than from any single album in the band's history."
Fuck the music industry. Please, just die already.
Yeah, but most of these "friends" aren't real. It's like facebook where you can have 100s of so-called friends but none of them would actually do anything for you. What use is that? It's like the late-90s/early-00s internet bubble, where instead of companies trying to grow marketshare but having no viable business plan, you have people trying to be popular but with real viable end goal for it all.
Social networking to meet new people is great, but as far as networking goes, the more people that are in it, the less each individual is worth. I would think you're almost better using social media to meet new people, but having fewer but true friends and some contacts around the industry that know your potential value to a business from real contact rather than just another face online hyping him/herself.
While I agree with your larger point, that's truly a stupid take on the "First they come for...." story.
Also, from what I read, crime is hardly going down, IT JUST DOESN'T WORK. There are always ways around it for a determined criminal. So the "out of business" is nonsense.
At the very least, even if crime were to become minimal/nonexistant through some miracle, Police have more to do than just criminals. They have legitimate functions in maintaining law and order - traffic, disputes with your neighbor, crowd control so people don't stampede each other to death at times, etcetera.
and demand cameras/microphones in the houses, offices, and cars of all public officials, elected or otherwise. Actually, make them wear an ankle bracelet as well.
It seems to me they are far more dangerous and corrupted than the general populace they wish to spy upon.
Make it a mandatory law.
Correct me if I'm wrong, I was under the impression that this burden was placed far more on the prosecutors who had to share with the defense council their lot of evidence, than the other way around.
Although, as in this video by a law professor, what you say to a cop can be used against you, but never for you - as that would be ruled as hearsay:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6wXkI4t7nuc
You know how the latency in a satellite kills that way of communications for gaming, correct? Considering that light travels 180,000 miles per second, and that geostationary satellites are 20,000 miles away minimum, that is a good fraction of a second where the satellite can be knocked out by space debris or what not. Imagine the swath it's aiming at with just a small degree, we are probably talking at least dozens of miles.
OTOH, the energy would be distributed along that entire area, but still.
to get where the controversy in the articles/subjects are, so as not to be led astray by any one current revision. I don't get the big deal about doing that extra bit of work.
With peak oil projected to come within a decade, and with prices accompanying the decline to make last year seem cheap, this can't come soon enough. Hopefully, they'll allow the growth of hemp to supply this.
Well, if Apple ever wants to upgrade its iPhone's display resolution for play with the form factor, hopefully the API can handle that easily enough without most apps having overlapping elements and the like. But I'm sure that apps will eventually have compatibility icons for which versions of the iPhone its guaranteed to work with (when there are more versions in the future).
Truth be told, I'm surprised Apple doesn't ship an App Store with regular OS X computers by now. It would basically be their version of a repository, so reduce possibilities of malware by going to 3rd party sites plus I know enough people who have problems installing Apple programs (yes, they are that computer illiterate). It would make the newbs completely comfortable with buying, downloading, installing, and deciding whether to have the icon in the dock (with a checkmark) in one shot. Plus, it probably would drive some extra life into developing for the Mac - especially if developers don't have to bother with their own website and can expect decent payback.
Both parties are bought and paid for.
That anyone ever thinks differently must lack critical thinking. The people in power are corrupt, and the weaker party, which happened to be in power last time, is going to swoop in and fix everything.
Fuck, half the problem is that this country wasn't set up as a democracy, but a republic. But then it started with electing the president directly instead of state legislatures deciding themselves, sending electors that were little more rubberstamps, and then an amendment where the senators get voted in by the people, instead, again, of the electors deciding. The republic originally envisioned would have had several layers, with people voting the bottom local layer, and then those layer of people voting up another level, etc.
The net effect is that, I as a lone and insignificant voter, instead of just voting for a few people that I know better on a local people - get swamped with choices on every level - local, state, federal. Who has the time for it? You know how people complain about choice and linux distros? This is 100x worse. The end effect is that people start voting down the line for parties. National Parties evolved.
Such a system also gives the mainstream media undue power, puppet strings whereby to agitate voters into their agendas who in turn wail to their politicians, all the way up to Senators and Presidents, about the latest insignificant thing. It's not a good way to keep government limited if people always demand things from the government. If senators, as originally, were appointed by state legislators or governors - there would be focused on more than winning the next election.
The major problem with this suit is that Amazon isn't producing audio books of other people's works and selling them as derivative works. It's letting people access the content they paid for in a different way.
This lawsuit deserves to fail and the author's guild should pay the legal fees of amazon and the court as well for this idiocy.