"Have you ever had to move 8 moving boxes filled with paperbacks"
Yes, but they were not mine;)
I'm not a squirrel, I have one bookshelf with the favorites I have collected over the years, the oldest is a hardback copy of wind in the willows that I got for my birthday in 1966. If I want to keep a new book then I sacrafice something on the self to make room. I'm not saying keeping a shed full of books is a bad thing, just not my thing.
Yes, if "taking the idea" means inspecting the customers shoes and nodding while they tell you what they *think* they want then you might as well hire a chimp to punch random characters into the machine.
"It makes the UK a haven for those who want to gag perfectly true statements"
I gave an example of a just application of the law, can you give an example of an unjust case or are you just waving your hands? As far as I understand it the UK laws are similar to Aussie laws, the defendant must show why they believe the accusation to be true. This does not mean I can't print a derogatory opinion, it means I can't fabricate evidence and make baseless accusations without risking a law suit. In otherwords, it's simply extending the concept of "innocent until proven guilty" into the fourth estate.
Call me a ludite but I just don't see the point in paying $300AU for a device (DRM'd or otherwise) to read e-books that cost virtually the same as a real book. With real books I save $300 in up front costs and will never experience the frustration of batteries running out on the last chapter. And when I'm finished I can go to the seconhand bookshop and swap it over for another book for pennies. What's the attraction?
"Just don't go to England. Extradition doesn't apply to civil law."
Wouldn't it be simpler not to publish deliberate and harmfull porky-pies about people?
Sensible libel laws are a good thing in my books. Arthur C Clarke was accused of being a peodophile by a UK tabloid. He asked the tabloid to withdraw the story and apologise but they told him to take a flying leap. A lot of people belived the story (some still do), so he dragged the tabloid into court kicking a screaming, it took 2yrs but he got justice in the end.
"...you crapped all over it with an ad homid attack. Also -- wikipedia? Seriously?"
Yeah, seriously. If you can point out where the WP entry is factually incorrect you may have a point otherwise dissmissing something because it comes from WP is simply intellectual snobbery. The GP was correct and rather than a pedantic reply about the word "develop" you could do your homework before posting crap and/or grow some balls* and admit you were wrong.
And if you think either the GP's or my advice is an ad-hom then you should back away from the keyboard now becuse the internet is chock full of genuinely offensive insults.
As the OP stated "He made his argument. He lost. Move on." - Unless you have supernatural powers that make your arguments invincible you have done the same thing in the past, no?
All of the random ass-headed cruelty of the world will suddenly make perfect sense once we go Inside the Monkeysphere. - I think that's basically what you were saying.
"they surveyed 5000 people which is just 0.0178% of the total units sold, so statisticly it's a worthless sample size"
The statistical power of a survey does not depend on population size, a sample of 5000 is more than sufficient to get a very good estimate of the real failure rate, (assuming the real failure rate is not extremely small).
However a failure rate is meaningless without considering length of time and under what conditions. And as you imply the sample must be random, self selecting readers of a particular mag is not at all random, so even though they have a good sample size the quoted numbers are complete bullshit.
In otherwords the only thing the survey demonstrates is that an unhappy customer is far more likely to take the survey than a satisfied customer.
"A simple way around this is to allow Disney to keep Mickey, you do this by creating a new class of limited rights for National Icons"
Maybe we could call such a thing a "trademark".
Personally I never understood the Mickey Mouse thing, if Disney make a new cartoon staring Mickey then that is a new work and the copyright starts the day it is released not the day Mickey Mouse was dreamt up. How many copies of Steamboat Willy does Disney actually sell these days?
These corporations remind me of art theives who keep stolen artwork in their basement and won't show it to anyone. Art theives at least have a logical reason to hide their stuff, what is the corporate rationale for doing likewise?
"In the US, most in the Snow Belt heat their homes with oil or gas, not electricity." - because they are no longer allowed to burn soft coal in their basement.
"One of the causes is huge number of gov't regulations in the past 40 years. It and unionism are why so much manufacturing have moved away from the US, leaving millions under-employed."
Yes, they moved to SE Asia where the regulations are half a century behind the west. Pea soupers are not a thing of the past in China and the trade winds are blowing it back to N. America.
As for your link the fact that 30,000 scientists drink 175 kegs of beer at their convention is supposed to demonstrate what? Mercedes Benz allows beer drinking on their factory floor, doesn't mean they make crap cars.
The actual quote as opposed to the reporters paraphrasing of it that you mistook for a direct quote is as follows: “You have to think outside the box, you’ve got to release your inhibitions, and beer is one way to do that,” Saltus said. ”Anything that helps you get to that epiphany, that realization of what’s there in the rocks and not easy to see but there to spin a story from.” - sarcasm toward a reporter seems to have escaped some people, including you and the reporter.
Create a "level playing field" by placing an international ban on new coal fired plants and cheap, clean alternatives will sprout faster than mushrooms. It's not a matter of spending extra gazzillions replacing coal plants, every single one of them was built in my lifetime and they all need replacing in the next 3-4 decades anyway.
"investing in new technologies to eliminate existing jobs." - is at the heart of the industrial revolution and is a GoodThing(TM). For example millions of people including children are no longer needed to work the coal face by hand, a much smaller number of skilled adults with modern equipment can accomplish the same task.
Yes, and that is only by virtue of government regulations restraining the power of monopolies and cartels. Competition alone is not a solution to the tradgedy of the commons, rather it's the root cause of the problem.
First off the coal industry not the oil industry are the main funders for anti-science propoganda (Exxonn have a large stake in both industries). Secondly they are feeding us poison.
And please the IPCC is not a government in any sense of the word, nobody is trying to take the free market away. The word "market" in "free market" refers to a set of rules for exchanging goods and services (ie: government regulation). The word "free" refers to the fact you are free to join if you play by the rules.
People want those rules changed so that unintended side effects such as AGW are minimised. But we have had this converstaion before and despite the wealth of cotra-evidence I don't expect you will change your extreme view of capitalisim that colours most of your posts and blinds you to every other issue.
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Thanks, unlike the other replies, that was genuinely informative.
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Oh that was easy, let me try another one... Give me all your money. ;)
Yes, I can see the advantage for a proffessional who needs lots of books at hand. I hadn't thought of that angle.
Interesting use. I didn't know they could talk.
"Have you ever had to move 8 moving boxes filled with paperbacks"
;)
Yes, but they were not mine
I'm not a squirrel, I have one bookshelf with the favorites I have collected over the years, the oldest is a hardback copy of wind in the willows that I got for my birthday in 1966. If I want to keep a new book then I sacrafice something on the self to make room. I'm not saying keeping a shed full of books is a bad thing, just not my thing.
Yes, if "taking the idea" means inspecting the customers shoes and nodding while they tell you what they *think* they want then you might as well hire a chimp to punch random characters into the machine.
Fox news = outright lies.
The Australian = half truths and inuendo
You might not see the difference but I do.
"Simpler, sure. Completely ineffective though"
I think A. C. Clarke would disargee.
"It makes the UK a haven for those who want to gag perfectly true statements"
I gave an example of a just application of the law, can you give an example of an unjust case or are you just waving your hands? As far as I understand it the UK laws are similar to Aussie laws, the defendant must show why they believe the accusation to be true. This does not mean I can't print a derogatory opinion, it means I can't fabricate evidence and make baseless accusations without risking a law suit. In otherwords, it's simply extending the concept of "innocent until proven guilty" into the fourth estate.
Call me a ludite but I just don't see the point in paying $300AU for a device (DRM'd or otherwise) to read e-books that cost virtually the same as a real book. With real books I save $300 in up front costs and will never experience the frustration of batteries running out on the last chapter. And when I'm finished I can go to the seconhand bookshop and swap it over for another book for pennies. What's the attraction?
"Just don't go to England. Extradition doesn't apply to civil law."
Wouldn't it be simpler not to publish deliberate and harmfull porky-pies about people?
Sensible libel laws are a good thing in my books. Arthur C Clarke was accused of being a peodophile by a UK tabloid. He asked the tabloid to withdraw the story and apologise but they told him to take a flying leap. A lot of people belived the story (some still do), so he dragged the tabloid into court kicking a screaming, it took 2yrs but he got justice in the end.
"...you crapped all over it with an ad homid attack. Also -- wikipedia? Seriously?"
Yeah, seriously. If you can point out where the WP entry is factually incorrect you may have a point otherwise dissmissing something because it comes from WP is simply intellectual snobbery. The GP was correct and rather than a pedantic reply about the word "develop" you could do your homework before posting crap and/or grow some balls* and admit you were wrong.
And if you think either the GP's or my advice is an ad-hom then you should back away from the keyboard now becuse the internet is chock full of genuinely offensive insults.
Balls* - yes I realise you have a feminine tag.
As the OP stated "He made his argument. He lost. Move on." - Unless you have supernatural powers that make your arguments invincible you have done the same thing in the past, no?
I never calimed that you are free to refuse to participate. ;)
All of the random ass-headed cruelty of the world will suddenly make perfect sense once we go Inside the Monkeysphere. - I think that's basically what you were saying.
"they surveyed 5000 people which is just 0.0178% of the total units sold, so statisticly it's a worthless sample size"
The statistical power of a survey does not depend on population size, a sample of 5000 is more than sufficient to get a very good estimate of the real failure rate, (assuming the real failure rate is not extremely small).
However a failure rate is meaningless without considering length of time and under what conditions. And as you imply the sample must be random, self selecting readers of a particular mag is not at all random, so even though they have a good sample size the quoted numbers are complete bullshit.
In otherwords the only thing the survey demonstrates is that an unhappy customer is far more likely to take the survey than a satisfied customer.
Speaking of asian porn. The funniest porno I have ever seen, Crouching woman, hidden boner
There are workplaces with free drugs?
"A simple way around this is to allow Disney to keep Mickey, you do this by creating a new class of limited rights for National Icons"
Maybe we could call such a thing a "trademark".
Personally I never understood the Mickey Mouse thing, if Disney make a new cartoon staring Mickey then that is a new work and the copyright starts the day it is released not the day Mickey Mouse was dreamt up. How many copies of Steamboat Willy does Disney actually sell these days?
These corporations remind me of art theives who keep stolen artwork in their basement and won't show it to anyone. Art theives at least have a logical reason to hide their stuff, what is the corporate rationale for doing likewise?
"In the US, most in the Snow Belt heat their homes with oil or gas, not electricity." - because they are no longer allowed to burn soft coal in their basement.
"One of the causes is huge number of gov't regulations in the past 40 years. It and unionism are why so much manufacturing have moved away from the US, leaving millions under-employed."
Yes, they moved to SE Asia where the regulations are half a century behind the west. Pea soupers are not a thing of the past in China and the trade winds are blowing it back to N. America.
As for your link the fact that 30,000 scientists drink 175 kegs of beer at their convention is supposed to demonstrate what? Mercedes Benz allows beer drinking on their factory floor, doesn't mean they make crap cars.
The actual quote as opposed to the reporters paraphrasing of it that you mistook for a direct quote is as follows: “You have to think outside the box, you’ve got to release your inhibitions, and beer is one way to do that,” Saltus said. ”Anything that helps you get to that epiphany, that realization of what’s there in the rocks and not easy to see but there to spin a story from.” - sarcasm toward a reporter seems to have escaped some people, including you and the reporter.
I'm not a libetarian but it's obvious that many who claim to be have not read their own material on environmental policy.
"The market crash was caused by government intervention and the policies of the Federal Reserve."
Yes, if by "government intervention" you mean allowing greed to overpower sane regulation and due dilligence.
Create a "level playing field" by placing an international ban on new coal fired plants and cheap, clean alternatives will sprout faster than mushrooms. It's not a matter of spending extra gazzillions replacing coal plants, every single one of them was built in my lifetime and they all need replacing in the next 3-4 decades anyway.
"investing in new technologies to eliminate existing jobs." - is at the heart of the industrial revolution and is a GoodThing(TM). For example millions of people including children are no longer needed to work the coal face by hand, a much smaller number of skilled adults with modern equipment can accomplish the same task.
"Companies don't set prices, their customers do!"
Yes, and that is only by virtue of government regulations restraining the power of monopolies and cartels. Competition alone is not a solution to the tradgedy of the commons, rather it's the root cause of the problem.
First off the coal industry not the oil industry are the main funders for anti-science propoganda (Exxonn have a large stake in both industries). Secondly they are feeding us poison.
And please the IPCC is not a government in any sense of the word, nobody is trying to take the free market away. The word "market" in "free market" refers to a set of rules for exchanging goods and services (ie: government regulation). The word "free" refers to the fact you are free to join if you play by the rules.
People want those rules changed so that unintended side effects such as AGW are minimised. But we have had this converstaion before and despite the wealth of cotra-evidence I don't expect you will change your extreme view of capitalisim that colours most of your posts and blinds you to every other issue.