This is why the sharp ones bring a kid along to the bar. Feed em peanuts all night and they are happy. At the end of the night they can program a route into the gps that avoids the checkpoints and blow into the tube so you can start the car.
But who wants that revenue to come in? The rich guys who don't want to pay their share of taxes. They are the ones that underfund departments or fund them via fine revenues instead of taxes in the first place. The same thing for fees to get a drivers license at the DMV. If you pay taxes... why are you paying a fee for a public service?
That's the problem a good cop would be one who enforced the spirit above the letter of the law.
"Someone who is truly a good person will not allow themselves to be an agent of injustice."
If the injustice is to let someone guilty go as a consequence of not violating their civil rights then yes they would. There are cops who follow the letter of the law and there are cops who will ignore the law in order to seek "justice" aka revenge. There aren't many cops who will ignore the letter of the law ONLY in ways that limit their own power or prevent arrests of those with good intent.
I like destroyed. Those who don't want to pay their share of taxes always try to offset funding for services to those who need the service or in this case incur the fines. A millionaire in a limo doesn't have to drive home drunk or pay speeding tickets because he doesn't drive. So lets ignore the trillions of dollars worth of public infrastructure he used to make his millions and let him convince us to be 'fair' and distribute the cost back to those who use these specific services.
Actually, he is arguing the negative which is the default. A citation is required for an assertion that Cops and District Attorneys DO want people to stop drinking and driving despite having a direct conflict of interest with that goal.
The Sci-Fi STORY is about spurring the imagination. It about me using my imagination to pretend the crappy and unrealistic effects used to portray that story don't detract from it. Each time I notice an effect the immersion is ruined and that detracts from the story.
It gets a little tiring hearing people talk about good effects and CGI as if it is somehow evil. You can make a shit movie with good effects and you can have a good plot without good effects but you can't have a great movie without a good plot AND good effects (good being that everything on the screen looks photo realistic).
Shit 80's and earlier effects detract from the movie and ruin the experience. These were okay back then, before we knew better but just like faster computers, faster internet, and better game graphics you can enjoy what you have but once you get used to something better you can't enjoy going back.
"What is it about? Spaceships with flashing lights and meeting funny-looking aliens?"
The same thing all sci-fi is about. Pseudo future technology and aliens (which is part of the same thing). That is why sci-fi and fantasy get grouped together. Fantasy uses magic instead, but magic just takes on the role of another primitive physical force with new possibilities. As gets we want to explore these possibilities, mentally catalog it and imagine what it would be like to manipulate our worlds (or the fantasy world) with it just like we do the technology that really exists.
"just as we can both cope that we don't have a 360 degree 3D panorama with tactile and olfactory stimulation."
When movies are typically in 3D I certainly won't be crazy about watching 2D content anymore. Just like I can't see myself being interested in watching the old forest gump once I've acquired a taste for the holodeck experience.
Crappy color, lack of color, old costumes, lousy makeup and effects, strings in the picture. These are the kinds of things that date film and television. Why watch content with strings and models when I can watch content with cgi that looks like someone filmed the events actually happening? Sexism isn't even on the list.
If you think any Star Trek is about heroism, diplomacy, and social progressiveness its you who needs to turn in your geek card.
According to the supreme part of what defines criminal vs civil is a penalty in excess of the damages. At some point it isn't damages, it is a legislated fine and fines are a punishment aka criminal.
The law is only the law if there isn't a higher law that trumps it. In this case the law would be the constitution which does not allow for punishments drastically out of proportion to the offense.
It isn't reasonable to assume he would have had 500,000 hits if the book weren't free in the first place so no percentage of that number is a valid conversion estimate. Giving the ebooks away reasonably resulted in a 500% increase in hits which in turned converted at about 1.12% into print sales.
"I didn't see any correlation between book sales and ebook distribution proven in the article."
Correction, there is a correlation between ebook distribution and $9000 worth of sales. What isn't proven is causation. There is no proof that any form of advertising increases sales.
A first time author having very high (i.e. $4500 net for two years and counting) sales with no other advertisement is certainly better evidence than you will get from any advertising firm and it is greater success than the average first time author gets with the advertising provided by publishers.
Wikileaks is releasing the cables and guaranteeing they are actual cables. They are not guaranteeing that the information contained within the cables is real. It is certainly possible that bogus cables are intentionally sent by diplomats for the express purpose of counter-intelligence in case anyone is listening.
What crimes? Last I checked the only thing resembling a crime Wikileaks has been accused of is revealing US Death Squads in Afghanistan murdering civilian villages to increase their insurgent kill count.
Mr. $4500 a year is the bread and butter of the publishing industry. That is far more than most authors see on their first book. If most of that is from the first year they would stop printing the book about now and the content would basically disappear.
Instead, he is probably still selling the material and even if he weren't the PDF content will continue to be available as long as anyone wants it.
Slashdot Mirror
Basically everyone who bought a 2.2 tablet with 3.0 capable hardware is fsck'd.
This is why the sharp ones bring a kid along to the bar. Feed em peanuts all night and they are happy. At the end of the night they can program a route into the gps that avoids the checkpoints and blow into the tube so you can start the car.
But who wants that revenue to come in? The rich guys who don't want to pay their share of taxes. They are the ones that underfund departments or fund them via fine revenues instead of taxes in the first place. The same thing for fees to get a drivers license at the DMV. If you pay taxes... why are you paying a fee for a public service?
That's the problem a good cop would be one who enforced the spirit above the letter of the law.
"Someone who is truly a good person will not allow themselves to be an agent of injustice."
If the injustice is to let someone guilty go as a consequence of not violating their civil rights then yes they would. There are cops who follow the letter of the law and there are cops who will ignore the law in order to seek "justice" aka revenge. There aren't many cops who will ignore the letter of the law ONLY in ways that limit their own power or prevent arrests of those with good intent.
"In contrast, for the people who are jerks, I may do something to get them out of my hair or because I feel threatened"
Which for the boss also seems like results. The difference being what you do when you don't think the boss will know.
I like destroyed. Those who don't want to pay their share of taxes always try to offset funding for services to those who need the service or in this case incur the fines. A millionaire in a limo doesn't have to drive home drunk or pay speeding tickets because he doesn't drive. So lets ignore the trillions of dollars worth of public infrastructure he used to make his millions and let him convince us to be 'fair' and distribute the cost back to those who use these specific services.
Actually, he is arguing the negative which is the default. A citation is required for an assertion that Cops and District Attorneys DO want people to stop drinking and driving despite having a direct conflict of interest with that goal.
The Sci-Fi STORY is about spurring the imagination. It about me using my imagination to pretend the crappy and unrealistic effects used to portray that story don't detract from it. Each time I notice an effect the immersion is ruined and that detracts from the story.
It gets a little tiring hearing people talk about good effects and CGI as if it is somehow evil. You can make a shit movie with good effects and you can have a good plot without good effects but you can't have a great movie without a good plot AND good effects (good being that everything on the screen looks photo realistic).
Shit 80's and earlier effects detract from the movie and ruin the experience. These were okay back then, before we knew better but just like faster computers, faster internet, and better game graphics you can enjoy what you have but once you get used to something better you can't enjoy going back.
"What is it about? Spaceships with flashing lights and meeting funny-looking aliens?"
The same thing all sci-fi is about. Pseudo future technology and aliens (which is part of the same thing). That is why sci-fi and fantasy get grouped together. Fantasy uses magic instead, but magic just takes on the role of another primitive physical force with new possibilities. As gets we want to explore these possibilities, mentally catalog it and imagine what it would be like to manipulate our worlds (or the fantasy world) with it just like we do the technology that really exists.
"just as we can both cope that we don't have a 360 degree 3D panorama with tactile and olfactory stimulation."
When movies are typically in 3D I certainly won't be crazy about watching 2D content anymore. Just like I can't see myself being interested in watching the old forest gump once I've acquired a taste for the holodeck experience.
Crappy color, lack of color, old costumes, lousy makeup and effects, strings in the picture. These are the kinds of things that date film and television. Why watch content with strings and models when I can watch content with cgi that looks like someone filmed the events actually happening? Sexism isn't even on the list.
If you think any Star Trek is about heroism, diplomacy, and social progressiveness its you who needs to turn in your geek card.
+5 Insightful
geek != nerd
That is the source of all this confusion. People can't seem to grasp the difference between nerds and geeks.
Hiding the information to establish it in classified internal US military documents doesn't seem like a good way to garner international sympathy.
According to the supreme part of what defines criminal vs civil is a penalty in excess of the damages. At some point it isn't damages, it is a legislated fine and fines are a punishment aka criminal.
The law is only the law if there isn't a higher law that trumps it. In this case the law would be the constitution which does not allow for punishments drastically out of proportion to the offense.
bad trollbot bad
I keep your daughter close as well. We should hang out.
I gave citations the last time. In this context it is the gp who needs to provide citations for wikileaks supposed 'crimes'
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/jul/25/task-force-373-secret-afghanistan-taliban
http://www.google.com/search?q=wikileaks+afghanistan+civilian+deaths+labeled+insurgents&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a
No making up needed. The leaks revealed that the vast majority of "insurgents" are civilian casualties.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/jul/25/task-force-373-secret-afghanistan-taliban
http://www.google.com/search?q=wikileaks+afghanistan+civilian+deaths+labeled+insurgents&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a
It isn't reasonable to assume he would have had 500,000 hits if the book weren't free in the first place so no percentage of that number is a valid conversion estimate. Giving the ebooks away reasonably resulted in a 500% increase in hits which in turned converted at about 1.12% into print sales.
"I didn't see any correlation between book sales and ebook distribution proven in the article."
Correction, there is a correlation between ebook distribution and $9000 worth of sales. What isn't proven is causation. There is no proof that any form of advertising increases sales.
A first time author having very high (i.e. $4500 net for two years and counting) sales with no other advertisement is certainly better evidence than you will get from any advertising firm and it is greater success than the average first time author gets with the advertising provided by publishers.
Wikileaks is releasing the cables and guaranteeing they are actual cables. They are not guaranteeing that the information contained within the cables is real. It is certainly possible that bogus cables are intentionally sent by diplomats for the express purpose of counter-intelligence in case anyone is listening.
What crimes? Last I checked the only thing resembling a crime Wikileaks has been accused of is revealing US Death Squads in Afghanistan murdering civilian villages to increase their insurgent kill count.
Mr. $4500 a year is the bread and butter of the publishing industry. That is far more than most authors see on their first book. If most of that is from the first year they would stop printing the book about now and the content would basically disappear.
Instead, he is probably still selling the material and even if he weren't the PDF content will continue to be available as long as anyone wants it.