I'd not only accept your offer -- but welcome it. Having ethical concerns with a practice and not being entirely sure that the fruits of the practice are identifiable (and hence avoidable) is a much worse state that if we could be sure that those who find this troubling could fully avoid supporting or abetting the practice by buying products or services derived from it.
I'd say it is way too little in some cases, unless you can psychically be assured that the ebook will sell many copies. And while lower price / supply and demand may encourage that, I wouldn't be certain that's always sufficiently the case.
I can't help but think of Stephen R. Donaldson in this discussion -- his General Interview on his website touches on ebooks, publishing and author's rights several times, and it fairly well boils down to "As long as I receive a reasonable remuneration for my work, things are fine."
And here's the catch -- it is pretty obvious to me (as very much a non-writer), that it is a serious level of work. And as such, I'm more than willing to pay a reasonable price as compensation. $9.99 for all his books (given he's more than a little of an acquired taste and unfortunately doesn't seem likely to build a huge new readership)? Unlikely to be enough unless we could ensure that money went mostly directly to him. So -- in the same way I prefer acquiring his work in hardback to both get a product that lasts better through multiple reads and to knowingly pay the "early adopter" fees that funnel more money his way than el-cheapo paperback editions, I would pay more for an e-book as a support mechanism.
I'm sure others have similar niche or less popular authors, or can cite other examples such as more limited interest books (some of the more arcane history texts probably fall into this category).
Back more on-topic, there's no way I'm ever buying a serious book with anything jumping, wiggling, flashing or spamming me. Nor do I want a book which requires a net connection to update or check anything. Probably why I have no interest in an ebook reader in the first place.
I don't remember Carly being bumped for misconduct - it was performance and just generally clashing with the board once too often, if I recall correctly [Hey, maybe I don't].
You may be thinking of Patricia Dunn who left the board due to the pretexting scandal when she was Chairwoman. That's when Hurd got both roles (even though the board and he made such a big deal about how that was such a danger when Carly was ousted... funny how that didn't seem to be a problem for them anymore...)
You rather glossed over the whole inaccurate expense reports, misappropriation of corporate resources and undisclosed close relationship with a contractor part of things that was uncovered while investigating the non-violation. Either that or your opinion of "didn't really do anything wrong" is substantively different than most other folks'. Perhaps you should get your resume over to the HP board soon?
Part of me wonders if it was actually in his contract that even on being fired for ethical/criminal reasons [i.e. not just fired because "we don't think you're pumping the stock quite enough"] he gets a severance or if the board just wants this over with / is such pals with him / whatnot that they gave it to him anyway. If the former is true -- the hiring committees really need to make better contracts (and stop being packed with the friends of the folks they're hiring... but I suppose that's what happens when boards keep cross-pollinating as they do).
Considering the Central Valley is unlikely to go with you, that narrow strip of coast with no military to speak of and having cheesed off Washington seems to me primed for a more formal reconquista....
Sorry about the phrasing -- the "you'd" there is the general/rhetorical you, not addressed to you as a person. Or in other words, that was meant as agreement that the designers and folks in Newport News would be planning ahead or capable of handling this with what we expect today.
Yeah... but when we annex Canada, China's going to invade Alaska -- and then you'd better get to the Vault (and hope your Overseer doesn't have too weird of an experiment ordered...).
Considering they're planning to try to get linear induction catapults in the Ford class -- I wouldn't be at all surprised if part of the A1B specification is a good chunk of surplus capacity. (Isn't the Navy also planning on moving to lasers for CIWS and railguns to replace 5"? Granted, not all that would come about -- but you'd have to think the Ford designers are complete morons not to plan a 50-year life span ship [and who knows how long in service class design as a whole] with surplus power for the projected peak draws. This may fit just fine since you'd presumably only be making fuel in the "off" times (i.e. when you aren't in direct combat operations, steaming at cruise instead of flank, etc.) If this gets worked out -- I'd presume enough tanks on board to handle N days worth of expected worst-case flight ops and the plant keeps that tank topped off as needed, not a "must use the plant to launch planes" only model).
Free speach exists because everything changes and we must be able to change it through free speach, we must be ready to change anything at any time.
Sorry, but you can't throw this out there as a given and just build your anti-religion argument from it. Free speech exists so you might describe how everything changes and so you can advocate for change -- but no one "must" be changed because of your speech (nor "must" you be changed by theirs) and no one "must" be ready to change "anything at any time". Sometimes things aren't broken and shouldn't be changed -- and a resistance to someone's speech saying "You must change now!" is right and proper.
And on that note -- humans looking at the universe and asking "Is this all that I am? Is there nothing more?" (yes, I watched ST:TMP again recently) and finding an answer that works for *them* (true or not, of course -- religions are almost certainly unprovable by their very nature and hence a reliance on faith results) has been occurring almost as long as there have been humans or something close. No matter how much you love your answer of "No, there isn't -- no get over it." and define any other answer as insane, you aren't likely to stop this yearning or decide the question. Perhaps a nice religion like Zen Buddhism would relax you? (grin)
Seems like a non-story to me. Wrath of Khan didn't have any spoken Klingon either (closest was Khan claiming the Klingon proverb: Revenge is a dish best served cold.... It is very cold, in spaaaaaaaaaaace.) I don't seriously think anyone missed it there, and while I know little of the plot of this film (intentionally, so no -- I don't want a summary) if the story doesn't really involve Klingons, no need to toss them in just to have them.
You'd have to pretty much say that the Republican party shouldn't have formed and run a candidate. Anyone they ran that won would have pushed the South over the edge.
And when you're at that point (people shouldn't run on their principles nor seek office) -- then we might as well just give up the country anyway. It would equate to surrendering everything you have in case anyone feels bad.
As to your other comment -- there are tons of historical archives of newspapers / letters / etc. touching on what folks thought of Lincoln. Certainly the Copperhead Democrats despised him with even *more* venom than Bush was despised (and more overt acts of treason, being funded by enemy agents, etc.). But the rank of file letters are also available and have been poured over. Grade school history, schoolhouse rock summaries... yes, those are going to be boiled down "Good... baaad" assessments. But anyone sampling history on Lincoln is not going to get just a rose colored version these days.
Oh, please... maybe the Japanese Navy had some active plans -- I'm sure the Pentagon has a plan for invading Mars somewhere too (military bureaucrats in search of something to do) -- but no one with any sense of logistics would seriously think the Japanese could have invaded the West Coast, including the Japanese themselves.
Take a look at http://www.combinedfleet.com/pearlops.htm -- even Hawaii was unrealistic. Crossing the rest of the Pacific (and presumably having to do Hawaii first)? Illusory.
At best, Kido Butai could have raided the West Coast a few times -- but that would have been pushing it. In the middle -- what really happened, with periodic submarines hassling the West Coast being able to cross undetected easier than a fast carrier task force (and get refueled via seaplane instead of slow oilers) and slip away afterwards.
The best excuse for an overly paranoid US security agency would be espionage by naturalized Japanese citizens. That at least was credible given Hawaii... but obviously, that can't be stretched to cover families and Nth generation citizens.
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I'd not only accept your offer -- but welcome it. Having ethical concerns with a practice and not being entirely sure that the fruits of the practice are identifiable (and hence avoidable) is a much worse state that if we could be sure that those who find this troubling could fully avoid supporting or abetting the practice by buying products or services derived from it.
Lobby Congress and the President (who are rather in the majority at the moment) to change the law in the first place?
Oh wait... that's not weaseling, sorry.. I'll come in again.
No, can't say I noticed that at all.
Next question?
I'd say it is way too little in some cases, unless you can psychically be assured that the ebook will sell many copies. And while lower price / supply and demand may encourage that, I wouldn't be certain that's always sufficiently the case.
I can't help but think of Stephen R. Donaldson in this discussion -- his General Interview on his website touches on ebooks, publishing and author's rights several times, and it fairly well boils down to "As long as I receive a reasonable remuneration for my work, things are fine."
And here's the catch -- it is pretty obvious to me (as very much a non-writer), that it is a serious level of work. And as such, I'm more than willing to pay a reasonable price as compensation. $9.99 for all his books (given he's more than a little of an acquired taste and unfortunately doesn't seem likely to build a huge new readership)? Unlikely to be enough unless we could ensure that money went mostly directly to him. So -- in the same way I prefer acquiring his work in hardback to both get a product that lasts better through multiple reads and to knowingly pay the "early adopter" fees that funnel more money his way than el-cheapo paperback editions, I would pay more for an e-book as a support mechanism.
I'm sure others have similar niche or less popular authors, or can cite other examples such as more limited interest books (some of the more arcane history texts probably fall into this category).
Back more on-topic, there's no way I'm ever buying a serious book with anything jumping, wiggling, flashing or spamming me. Nor do I want a book which requires a net connection to update or check anything. Probably why I have no interest in an ebook reader in the first place.
I don't remember Carly being bumped for misconduct - it was performance and just generally clashing with the board once too often, if I recall correctly [Hey, maybe I don't].
You may be thinking of Patricia Dunn who left the board due to the pretexting scandal when she was Chairwoman. That's when Hurd got both roles (even though the board and he made such a big deal about how that was such a danger when Carly was ousted... funny how that didn't seem to be a problem for them anymore...)
You rather glossed over the whole inaccurate expense reports, misappropriation of corporate resources and undisclosed close relationship with a contractor part of things that was uncovered while investigating the non-violation. Either that or your opinion of "didn't really do anything wrong" is substantively different than most other folks'. Perhaps you should get your resume over to the HP board soon?
$40 to $50 million by current estimates: http://www.businessinsider.com/hp-severance-2010-8.
Part of me wonders if it was actually in his contract that even on being fired for ethical/criminal reasons [i.e. not just fired because "we don't think you're pumping the stock quite enough"] he gets a severance or if the board just wants this over with / is such pals with him / whatnot that they gave it to him anyway. If the former is true -- the hiring committees really need to make better contracts (and stop being packed with the friends of the folks they're hiring... but I suppose that's what happens when boards keep cross-pollinating as they do).
You're too boring and camera shy for the photos to exist in the first place.
Works for me, anyway....
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/apr/06/obamas-nuclear-free-world-dont-bet-on-it/ Or do you think he meant something else by "a world without nuclear weapons"?
No, I'm fairly certain no one will care if you take your jacket off and have short sleeves in the post office.
Baring much else will get you in trouble, of course.
And before anyone else asks -- no, you shouldn't arm bears in the post office either.
Well, unless Mrs. Obama is a hermaphrodite or pre-op transsexual... saying she is not a "bad guy" seems pretty factual.
If she is, rather, a bad, bad girl... I think we're all better off leaving that between the Obamas.
Considering the Central Valley is unlikely to go with you, that narrow strip of coast with no military to speak of and having cheesed off Washington seems to me primed for a more formal reconquista....
I'm guessing his kitchen is a big Easy-Bake Oven (or at least the classic one [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Easy_bake_oven] indicates they use heating elements now).
No, no, no... Bob Wayman was the stand-in until Hurd was ready to go.
paying $6.66 per month for 66 minutes
Dare we ask if the contract had to be signed in blood and dealt with your immortal soul?
Sorry about the phrasing -- the "you'd" there is the general/rhetorical you, not addressed to you as a person. Or in other words, that was meant as agreement that the designers and folks in Newport News would be planning ahead or capable of handling this with what we expect today.
Yeah... but when we annex Canada, China's going to invade Alaska -- and then you'd better get to the Vault (and hope your Overseer doesn't have too weird of an experiment ordered...).
Considering they're planning to try to get linear induction catapults in the Ford class -- I wouldn't be at all surprised if part of the A1B specification is a good chunk of surplus capacity. (Isn't the Navy also planning on moving to lasers for CIWS and railguns to replace 5"? Granted, not all that would come about -- but you'd have to think the Ford designers are complete morons not to plan a 50-year life span ship [and who knows how long in service class design as a whole] with surplus power for the projected peak draws. This may fit just fine since you'd presumably only be making fuel in the "off" times (i.e. when you aren't in direct combat operations, steaming at cruise instead of flank, etc.) If this gets worked out -- I'd presume enough tanks on board to handle N days worth of expected worst-case flight ops and the plant keeps that tank topped off as needed, not a "must use the plant to launch planes" only model).
Bravo, sir... bravo.
Given this and especially this you might want to rethink that statement.
Bzzzt... fail.
Free speach exists because everything changes and we must be able to change it through free speach, we must be ready to change anything at any time.
Sorry, but you can't throw this out there as a given and just build your anti-religion argument from it. Free speech exists so you might describe how everything changes and so you can advocate for change -- but no one "must" be changed because of your speech (nor "must" you be changed by theirs) and no one "must" be ready to change "anything at any time". Sometimes things aren't broken and shouldn't be changed -- and a resistance to someone's speech saying "You must change now!" is right and proper.
And on that note -- humans looking at the universe and asking "Is this all that I am? Is there nothing more?" (yes, I watched ST:TMP again recently) and finding an answer that works for *them* (true or not, of course -- religions are almost certainly unprovable by their very nature and hence a reliance on faith results) has been occurring almost as long as there have been humans or something close. No matter how much you love your answer of "No, there isn't -- no get over it." and define any other answer as insane, you aren't likely to stop this yearning or decide the question. Perhaps a nice religion like Zen Buddhism would relax you? (grin)
Seems like a non-story to me. Wrath of Khan didn't have any spoken Klingon either (closest was Khan claiming the Klingon proverb: Revenge is a dish best served cold.... It is very cold, in spaaaaaaaaaaace.) I don't seriously think anyone missed it there, and while I know little of the plot of this film (intentionally, so no -- I don't want a summary) if the story doesn't really involve Klingons, no need to toss them in just to have them.
I think she passed that class with flying colors.
I must have been reading /. too long... I first read that as flying chairs.
You'd have to pretty much say that the Republican party shouldn't have formed and run a candidate. Anyone they ran that won would have pushed the South over the edge.
And when you're at that point (people shouldn't run on their principles nor seek office) -- then we might as well just give up the country anyway. It would equate to surrendering everything you have in case anyone feels bad.
As to your other comment -- there are tons of historical archives of newspapers / letters / etc. touching on what folks thought of Lincoln. Certainly the Copperhead Democrats despised him with even *more* venom than Bush was despised (and more overt acts of treason, being funded by enemy agents, etc.). But the rank of file letters are also available and have been poured over. Grade school history, schoolhouse rock summaries... yes, those are going to be boiled down "Good... baaad" assessments. But anyone sampling history on Lincoln is not going to get just a rose colored version these days.
Oh, please... maybe the Japanese Navy had some active plans -- I'm sure the Pentagon has a plan for invading Mars somewhere too (military bureaucrats in search of something to do) -- but no one with any sense of logistics would seriously think the Japanese could have invaded the West Coast, including the Japanese themselves.
Take a look at http://www.combinedfleet.com/pearlops.htm -- even Hawaii was unrealistic. Crossing the rest of the Pacific (and presumably having to do Hawaii first)? Illusory.
At best, Kido Butai could have raided the West Coast a few times -- but that would have been pushing it. In the middle -- what really happened, with periodic submarines hassling the West Coast being able to cross undetected easier than a fast carrier task force (and get refueled via seaplane instead of slow oilers) and slip away afterwards.
The best excuse for an overly paranoid US security agency would be espionage by naturalized Japanese citizens. That at least was credible given Hawaii... but obviously, that can't be stretched to cover families and Nth generation citizens.