A company is producing free books, they are generating no income likely running off donations. The publishers had go togethor knowing full well their case is bullshit and sharing the cost in case the company producing free books manages a legal defence.
This is a straight up corrupt abuse of the legal system. The publishers know their claim is a lie, they are simply relying of the company producing free books not having the money to pay for a legal defence and hoping against hope someone like the ACLU doesn't jump to the defence of the free book company.
This of course makes you wonder what actually Law and Regulatory agencies were doing in they time, apparently the same thing they are doing now, nothing.
Murdoch created his own private psychopathic police force, which apparently other government legal agencies are leaving alone in hopes of getting a high paying job or just for collecting straight up bribes.
It is surprising that some foreign intelligence agencies haven't become so offended by the Murdoch family action's, that they haven't ensured an untimely demise for the lot of them.
Well actually that would be called an exaggeration. More likely he would have said by the time we have screwed enough out of them in licensing fees to feed our greed and to cover the risk of damaging the marketability of Star Trek, there would be so little money left the project is bound to end up looking like cheap shit, ha, ha, ha.
Just like the last Star Trek movie, they cashed in but crippled the saleability of Star Trek. Reality no one really gives a crap about the crew or the ship from the last movie and not much of a crap is given about the next movie. The series got 'kick started' all right, from ongoing saleability and merchandise to a single shot milk the cheetos crowd, psuedo science fiction action scenes no story movies.
"Any ideas on business models that would allow me to open source while guaranteeing I can feed myself?". I guess the exact same business model for closed source proprietary software that guarantees you can feed yourself, wait, what, there are none.
Reality here, sorry can not answer your question, you have provided insufficient details. Nothing about what the software does, the market it is targeting, the quality of the software or it's competitors, those details at a minimum are required to even guess at the future profitability of the software. Can you patent it, does it infringe existing patents are also important questions.
Whether it or it is closed source proprietary or open source is all pretty meaningless as to whether you will make money or not. Just like the stupid claim that closed source proprietary licences guarantee an income from software,er , 'NO'.
I'll reply to yours because it is the funniest. You remind me of all those mini-computer specialists selling 14 inch green screens. Graphic user interface, business's will ever buy it, maybe for games but never in the business environment text is enough.
Android is becoming the top selling computer OS by number of devices, why else would M$ play up such stupid patents, now that's, feeling end of life approaching. Linux will never win on the server, do you remember that as well?
The whole idea of Android is provide Google with access to a market from which it would otherwise be excluded. So what Google makes on Android is still a whole lot more than what it makes on iPhones.
With Android now looking to expand across the whole computer spectrum including, shock horror, the desktop. That gives Google access to the whole market, regardless of the efforts of Apple and of course M$.
Just to be clear, the solution I have given is neither desirable nor representative of justice, it is simply the logical easiest solution to implement. There is no shoot out the regular military crew handling the laser guided anti-tank weapon are not mercenaries they are regular military from a recognised defence force.
When fired upon, they target the laser guided anti-tank weapon at the attacking motor launch, pretty much destroying the attacking motor launch (missing would be very rare and military personal would be severely chastised for wasting ammunition), they then radio to a military vessel to send a helicopter for pick up. The merchant vessel continues on it's way leaving the surviving pirates sweating in out as shark bait for quite a few hours, until the remaining survivors are gratefully picked up then spending some time in indefinite detention until released.
'All' merchant vessels entering the are would be contacted and given the option of taking on a military squad. This does not represent any form of justice but would still be preferable to bombing land based targets and injuring those who had no involvement with piracy.
1% of human society are also psychopaths infallibly detectable at an early age by testing brain wave reactions due to modern science. So repeating patterns can be broken through the application of modern science. Quite simply psychopaths need to be forbidden from gaining positions of control, governance or influence and, the behaviour extremely constrained. Quite simply problem over.
You are not arming the merchant vessel of the merchantmen, specifically sailors from a recognised military force are boarding those vessel's and simply returning fire, once fired upon. Those sailors do not reach port upon those vessel's they are picked up by naval vessels, either transferred by small boat or helicopter along with their equipment.
The principle is, you can spread people a lot further than military vessels and the pirates generally pretend to be fishermen when military vessel or helicopters are in view. The only way to catch them is in the act. First they threaten and the ships captain refuses whilst the military personal get in position and ready. The vessels captain continues to refuse and the military personal wait. Once the pirates attempt to board or fire upon the vessel, the military personal return fire.
The commencement of operations would be announced with a high occupancy rate, once pirate activities slow down, the occupancy rate would drop with no announcement and from then on would fluctuate according to attempts.
Especially as dumping fuel at low altitude just prior to impact could create a fuel air bomb, not a very good idea in a populated area. Considerable altitude should be required to dump fuel. The pilots will be judged by the distance between where their ejection seats landed and where the plane impacted, the greater the distance the worse they will look. Either way, pressure will mount to shift pilot training to a safer location.
The simplest solution is to place armed naval personal on each boat travelling through those waters. Once attacked they simply return fire with the appropriate weapons in order to ensure the attacking vessel is disabled, a rescue vessel could the rendezvous with the disabled vessel to pick up survivors. The merchant vessel continues on it's way and once out of troubled water's the sailors are transferred to another vessel travelling in the opposite directions. Taking on the military personal would be strictly voluntary due to the extreme response ie use of laser guided missiles.
Reality always has a way of stumping everything. Percentage of religious fundamentalist buying games, likely down in the sub 1% category, impact of a boycott, meh. Alternate, exploit the boycott to make EA look good and improve sales in the rest of the market (I don't see treating LGBT as a separate market, one slight difference does not a whole different consumer make except in TV and Hollywood exaggerations).
EA is using the boycott to try to improve it's reputation. Religious fundamentalists, wake up to yourselves, unless you represent a significant market your boycott is meaningless, even worse if those who represent the largest market share dislike religious fundamentalism and are likely to buy more games just to annoy religious fundamentalists.
The only way to stop it for good, is to destroy the industries that bright it into being. They will never stop, insane psychopathic greed drove them to seek ways to censor and shutdown the peoples version of the internet so they could create an eighties version of mass media on it instead.
That kind of sick thinking doesn't stop until the people behind it and then people behind them have lost all the power.
We will be fighting the SOPA battle for the next decade at least and possibly longer. They spend years perverting the news, they spent billions buying up control and they still lie on those mass media channels day in and day out. Fox not-News is just the very worst example, not just the only one spreading corporate propaganda as news.
No this is a straight up political censorship law. Don't you think your typical corrupt right wing politician is intimidate (might lose their job), threaten(might lose their job), harass(interferes with their ability to collect campaign bribes), annoy(your interfering with their get rich quick scheme) or offend(their lies make them look good and the truth you spreading offends them).
This law is targeted at making all anti-public relations speech illegal, whether true or not you would be forbidden from making criticisms of any person who can afford a skilled lawyer.
This is we must protect paid for mass media lies law and the truth when it intimidates, threatens, harasses, annoys or offends must be banned and those that spread it imprisoned. This is an enormous corrupt overreach and a direct violation of free speech.
Actually to work really well and allow all waking hour wearing without headaches etc. the glasses would have to be specifically fitted. likely by an optometrist.
As for targeted advertising it possibly might not exist in the long run. Sure idiots will try it in the short term but with eyes being an important part of balance and controlling where and how your walking, every accident people have whilst wearing those glasses will result in civil suits targeted at advertisers, that's every trip, every slip, every accidental bump (even headaches and eye strain could results in tens of thousands of dollars in penalties). All in all way to dangerous to play.
All your computers replaced with one interface would be interesting and comfortable lying back in a hammock, typing with twitches of your fingers as your hands rest on your gut.
Except of course wind turbines spin at a much higher speed than the wind especially at the tips. What needs to happen is VAWT, vertical axis wind turbines should be used as these spin at the same speed as the wind generating no extra noise (when serviced properly).
Social networks aren't really driven by the skill of it's management, simply the herd trending to that location. No matter how much effort a social network put's in when the herd starts trending somewhere else it dies. You don't think Newscorp put hundreds of millions of dollars in free advertising in trying to keep myspace popular but found out their PR dogs could not herd the sheep.
Every single social network site once they peaked has lost popularity, every single social network site has proven to be a fad and that's over 20 years internet history. Yahoo is a full breadth portal. Likely the biggest problem Yahoo faces is it's name, 'Yahoo' was never really a long term personally associative name, much like hotmail, once the surge is gone it really doesn't suit the long haul.
Not just move on but reassess your reliance on the cloud and read all that fine print in cloud contracts, I am sure you will find all sorts of exclusions, to limit their liabilities at a complete divergence to their marketing.
So review your hosting, options taking into account the likely realistic difference between marketing and actual performance. Local hosting at a local ISP where you meet with them face to face, might cost a bit more but the real performance, reliability and trust is much more likely to exist.
I am always content to pay more to deal with people directly and in person. Remote might save money but you might be pinching pennies to waste pounds. In this case how much did they save with the cloud versus how much they lost and how many years would that have paid for higher priced personal and direct hosting.
Edmunds is a for profit rag, everything it produces must be viewed through that persepective. It is becoming apparent that Fox not-News attacked the Volt because of the significant Saudi ownership of Fox not-News (paid for with oil money), so nothing but greed driven propaganda.
The Saudi's fear the takeover of electric vehicles, increasing production with a reduced parts set and further battery development means electric vehicles will price undercut infernal combustion engines. Of course the money flow to whiny greedy Texans will also be cut off, so Texas will join the rest of the southern US states as basket cases in need of Federal charity.
When the majority of vehicles are electric and cities are smog free, people will have trouble believing they are the infernal combustion engine on the roads in metropolitan areas.
A 'bad' manager does the annoying crap.
A good manager enjoys the varied trouble shooting they do every day, dealing with problem clients, calming upset employees, reorientating upper managements ideas into something workable and basically planing ahead sufficiently well to make themselves redundant (others always create problems to make that goal impossible).
Look at it this way, it wasn't that you were so fast, it was that the rest of humanity was soooo slooooowwww and booorriiiinggggg. Attemtping to adjust to their lack of speed can be quite annoying, slowly painfully drawn out instructions, desire to repeat the same boring task over and over again, bogged down in pointless detail and, demand constant attention even when you just peacefully want to daydream;D.
At least with computers you can go at your own pace and so can your daughter. All she needs is an adjusted curricula to allow that and some behavioural training to learn how to adjust to the slowness of others.
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A company is producing free books, they are generating no income likely running off donations. The publishers had go togethor knowing full well their case is bullshit and sharing the cost in case the company producing free books manages a legal defence.
This is a straight up corrupt abuse of the legal system. The publishers know their claim is a lie, they are simply relying of the company producing free books not having the money to pay for a legal defence and hoping against hope someone like the ACLU doesn't jump to the defence of the free book company.
Talk about vested interest lame, anything that threatens your profits you hater, your greed is showing, hater.
They are looking for patterns of gaming behaviour. Psychopaths let the camouflage drop when they are gaming and, well, play like psychopaths.
Of course US intelligence will not spy on US citizens, that what Australians and Pine Gap http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pine_Gap http://maps.google.com.au/maps?q=pine+gap&hl=en&ll=-23.798833,133.737559&spn=0.006047,0.012392&sll=-25.324167,135.74707&sspn=3.058333,6.344604&hnear=Pine+Gap&t=h&z=17 are for.
This of course makes you wonder what actually Law and Regulatory agencies were doing in they time, apparently the same thing they are doing now, nothing.
Murdoch created his own private psychopathic police force, which apparently other government legal agencies are leaving alone in hopes of getting a high paying job or just for collecting straight up bribes.
It is surprising that some foreign intelligence agencies haven't become so offended by the Murdoch family action's, that they haven't ensured an untimely demise for the lot of them.
Well actually that would be called an exaggeration. More likely he would have said by the time we have screwed enough out of them in licensing fees to feed our greed and to cover the risk of damaging the marketability of Star Trek, there would be so little money left the project is bound to end up looking like cheap shit, ha, ha, ha.
Just like the last Star Trek movie, they cashed in but crippled the saleability of Star Trek. Reality no one really gives a crap about the crew or the ship from the last movie and not much of a crap is given about the next movie. The series got 'kick started' all right, from ongoing saleability and merchandise to a single shot milk the cheetos crowd, psuedo science fiction action scenes no story movies.
"Any ideas on business models that would allow me to open source while guaranteeing I can feed myself?". I guess the exact same business model for closed source proprietary software that guarantees you can feed yourself, wait, what, there are none.
Reality here, sorry can not answer your question, you have provided insufficient details. Nothing about what the software does, the market it is targeting, the quality of the software or it's competitors, those details at a minimum are required to even guess at the future profitability of the software. Can you patent it, does it infringe existing patents are also important questions.
Whether it or it is closed source proprietary or open source is all pretty meaningless as to whether you will make money or not. Just like the stupid claim that closed source proprietary licences guarantee an income from software,er , 'NO'.
I'll reply to yours because it is the funniest. You remind me of all those mini-computer specialists selling 14 inch green screens. Graphic user interface, business's will ever buy it, maybe for games but never in the business environment text is enough.
Android is becoming the top selling computer OS by number of devices, why else would M$ play up such stupid patents, now that's, feeling end of life approaching. Linux will never win on the server, do you remember that as well?
The whole idea of Android is provide Google with access to a market from which it would otherwise be excluded. So what Google makes on Android is still a whole lot more than what it makes on iPhones.
With Android now looking to expand across the whole computer spectrum including, shock horror, the desktop. That gives Google access to the whole market, regardless of the efforts of Apple and of course M$.
Just to be clear, the solution I have given is neither desirable nor representative of justice, it is simply the logical easiest solution to implement. There is no shoot out the regular military crew handling the laser guided anti-tank weapon are not mercenaries they are regular military from a recognised defence force.
When fired upon, they target the laser guided anti-tank weapon at the attacking motor launch, pretty much destroying the attacking motor launch (missing would be very rare and military personal would be severely chastised for wasting ammunition), they then radio to a military vessel to send a helicopter for pick up. The merchant vessel continues on it's way leaving the surviving pirates sweating in out as shark bait for quite a few hours, until the remaining survivors are gratefully picked up then spending some time in indefinite detention until released.
'All' merchant vessels entering the are would be contacted and given the option of taking on a military squad. This does not represent any form of justice but would still be preferable to bombing land based targets and injuring those who had no involvement with piracy.
There is of course the second psychopath detector, those that come to the defence of psychopaths, it's more of a trap though.
1% of human society are also psychopaths infallibly detectable at an early age by testing brain wave reactions due to modern science. So repeating patterns can be broken through the application of modern science. Quite simply psychopaths need to be forbidden from gaining positions of control, governance or influence and, the behaviour extremely constrained. Quite simply problem over.
You are not arming the merchant vessel of the merchantmen, specifically sailors from a recognised military force are boarding those vessel's and simply returning fire, once fired upon. Those sailors do not reach port upon those vessel's they are picked up by naval vessels, either transferred by small boat or helicopter along with their equipment.
The principle is, you can spread people a lot further than military vessels and the pirates generally pretend to be fishermen when military vessel or helicopters are in view. The only way to catch them is in the act. First they threaten and the ships captain refuses whilst the military personal get in position and ready. The vessels captain continues to refuse and the military personal wait. Once the pirates attempt to board or fire upon the vessel, the military personal return fire.
The commencement of operations would be announced with a high occupancy rate, once pirate activities slow down, the occupancy rate would drop with no announcement and from then on would fluctuate according to attempts.
Especially as dumping fuel at low altitude just prior to impact could create a fuel air bomb, not a very good idea in a populated area. Considerable altitude should be required to dump fuel. The pilots will be judged by the distance between where their ejection seats landed and where the plane impacted, the greater the distance the worse they will look. Either way, pressure will mount to shift pilot training to a safer location.
The simplest solution is to place armed naval personal on each boat travelling through those waters. Once attacked they simply return fire with the appropriate weapons in order to ensure the attacking vessel is disabled, a rescue vessel could the rendezvous with the disabled vessel to pick up survivors. The merchant vessel continues on it's way and once out of troubled water's the sailors are transferred to another vessel travelling in the opposite directions. Taking on the military personal would be strictly voluntary due to the extreme response ie use of laser guided missiles.
Reality always has a way of stumping everything. Percentage of religious fundamentalist buying games, likely down in the sub 1% category, impact of a boycott, meh. Alternate, exploit the boycott to make EA look good and improve sales in the rest of the market (I don't see treating LGBT as a separate market, one slight difference does not a whole different consumer make except in TV and Hollywood exaggerations).
EA is using the boycott to try to improve it's reputation. Religious fundamentalists, wake up to yourselves, unless you represent a significant market your boycott is meaningless, even worse if those who represent the largest market share dislike religious fundamentalism and are likely to buy more games just to annoy religious fundamentalists.
Governments have already done that with first to patent laws. Seriously what did you think would be the outcome of laws like that.
The only way to stop it for good, is to destroy the industries that bright it into being. They will never stop, insane psychopathic greed drove them to seek ways to censor and shutdown the peoples version of the internet so they could create an eighties version of mass media on it instead.
That kind of sick thinking doesn't stop until the people behind it and then people behind them have lost all the power.
We will be fighting the SOPA battle for the next decade at least and possibly longer. They spend years perverting the news, they spent billions buying up control and they still lie on those mass media channels day in and day out. Fox not-News is just the very worst example, not just the only one spreading corporate propaganda as news.
No this is a straight up political censorship law. Don't you think your typical corrupt right wing politician is intimidate (might lose their job), threaten(might lose their job), harass(interferes with their ability to collect campaign bribes), annoy(your interfering with their get rich quick scheme) or offend(their lies make them look good and the truth you spreading offends them).
This law is targeted at making all anti-public relations speech illegal, whether true or not you would be forbidden from making criticisms of any person who can afford a skilled lawyer.
This is we must protect paid for mass media lies law and the truth when it intimidates, threatens, harasses, annoys or offends must be banned and those that spread it imprisoned. This is an enormous corrupt overreach and a direct violation of free speech.
Actually to work really well and allow all waking hour wearing without headaches etc. the glasses would have to be specifically fitted. likely by an optometrist.
As for targeted advertising it possibly might not exist in the long run. Sure idiots will try it in the short term but with eyes being an important part of balance and controlling where and how your walking, every accident people have whilst wearing those glasses will result in civil suits targeted at advertisers, that's every trip, every slip, every accidental bump (even headaches and eye strain could results in tens of thousands of dollars in penalties). All in all way to dangerous to play.
All your computers replaced with one interface would be interesting and comfortable lying back in a hammock, typing with twitches of your fingers as your hands rest on your gut.
Except of course wind turbines spin at a much higher speed than the wind especially at the tips. What needs to happen is VAWT, vertical axis wind turbines should be used as these spin at the same speed as the wind generating no extra noise (when serviced properly).
Social networks aren't really driven by the skill of it's management, simply the herd trending to that location. No matter how much effort a social network put's in when the herd starts trending somewhere else it dies. You don't think Newscorp put hundreds of millions of dollars in free advertising in trying to keep myspace popular but found out their PR dogs could not herd the sheep.
Every single social network site once they peaked has lost popularity, every single social network site has proven to be a fad and that's over 20 years internet history. Yahoo is a full breadth portal. Likely the biggest problem Yahoo faces is it's name, 'Yahoo' was never really a long term personally associative name, much like hotmail, once the surge is gone it really doesn't suit the long haul.
Not just move on but reassess your reliance on the cloud and read all that fine print in cloud contracts, I am sure you will find all sorts of exclusions, to limit their liabilities at a complete divergence to their marketing.
So review your hosting, options taking into account the likely realistic difference between marketing and actual performance. Local hosting at a local ISP where you meet with them face to face, might cost a bit more but the real performance, reliability and trust is much more likely to exist.
I am always content to pay more to deal with people directly and in person. Remote might save money but you might be pinching pennies to waste pounds. In this case how much did they save with the cloud versus how much they lost and how many years would that have paid for higher priced personal and direct hosting.
Edmunds is a for profit rag, everything it produces must be viewed through that persepective. It is becoming apparent that Fox not-News attacked the Volt because of the significant Saudi ownership of Fox not-News (paid for with oil money), so nothing but greed driven propaganda.
The Saudi's fear the takeover of electric vehicles, increasing production with a reduced parts set and further battery development means electric vehicles will price undercut infernal combustion engines. Of course the money flow to whiny greedy Texans will also be cut off, so Texas will join the rest of the southern US states as basket cases in need of Federal charity.
When the majority of vehicles are electric and cities are smog free, people will have trouble believing they are the infernal combustion engine on the roads in metropolitan areas.
A 'bad' manager does the annoying crap. A good manager enjoys the varied trouble shooting they do every day, dealing with problem clients, calming upset employees, reorientating upper managements ideas into something workable and basically planing ahead sufficiently well to make themselves redundant (others always create problems to make that goal impossible).
Look at it this way, it wasn't that you were so fast, it was that the rest of humanity was soooo slooooowwww and booorriiiinggggg. Attemtping to adjust to their lack of speed can be quite annoying, slowly painfully drawn out instructions, desire to repeat the same boring task over and over again, bogged down in pointless detail and, demand constant attention even when you just peacefully want to daydream ;D.
At least with computers you can go at your own pace and so can your daughter. All she needs is an adjusted curricula to allow that and some behavioural training to learn how to adjust to the slowness of others.