Before you listen to any more drivel by 'AntDude', take a look at who you're dealing with: http://pbx.mine.nu/antdude.jpg. The abortion in the center is 'AntDude'. I won't even get into discussion about him listing his 'sex' as 'female' on his SHITTY 'blog' (aqfl.net). This faggot has nothing better to do than sit on the internet and spew worthless garbage. He's the new LostCluster when it comes to posting utterly worthless tripe. Not to mention his submitted stories! Every single one of his last 10 or so submissions have been tagged as 'lame' or 'slownewsday'. Why does taco even bother posting his shit. Maybe he gets some tiny deformed chinese cock up his taco ass in exchange for some linkspam with google ads? Do the world a favor and never reply to comments from ANTDUDE and mark him as a FOE.
It was revealed today that three minutes before his 'Drowned Alive' was due to end, David Blaine was forced out of his water-filled glass bubble early with an unknown cause.
The Gay Nigger Assocation of America is proud to announce that this was due to the heroic actions of GNAA member 'trogg', a recent recruit to the proud legion of Internet niggers. During the last few minutes of his stunt, the GNAA can reveal that images of famous internet celebrities 'goatse' and 'tubgirl' were taped to the outside of his bubble, where Blaine could see them in all their glory.
As Blaine turned to look at this explicit imagery, he began to have convulsions of the anus as his poop began to flow out of his rectum. This caused the water to turn a muddy-brown colour. Blaine then attempted to take off his oxygen mask, possibly hoping to ingest the diseased water in order to get a real taste of rectal prolapse.
The organisers of the stunt then feared for his safety as Blaine reached for his erect penis, as the palms of his hands were suffering from myosis. With this, two divers jumped into the water to save Blaine before he had a chance to touch his throbbing rod, and succeeded in pulling him out in time. He was out of breath as he was rushed to hospital, suffering from the effects of the stunt upon his body.
When Blaine was interviewed in hospital by the Gay Nigger Association of the America, he had this to say: "JEWS DID WTC".
About David Blaine:
Kike magician.
About GNAA: GNAA (GAY NIGGER ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA) is the first organization which gathers GAY NIGGERS from all over America and abroad for one common goal - being GAY NIGGERS.
Are you GAY? Are you a NIGGER? Are you a GAY NIGGER?
If you answered "Yes" to all of the above questions, then GNAA (GAY NIGGER ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA) might be exactly what you've been looking for! Join GNAA (GAY NIGGER ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA) today, and enjoy all the benefits of being a full-time GNAA member. GNAA (GAY NIGGER ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA) is the fastest-growing GAY NIGGER community with THOUSANDS of members all over United States of America and the World! You, too, can be a part of GNAA if you join today!
Hello all. I am a teacher at a Tucson-area preschool. I keep a bowl of candy on my desk for pupils that have been *extra good. Tootsie rolls, peppermints, jollyranchers and all else. But this is no ordinary candy. On nights after work, kept up late for "grading" pieces of string and glitter glued to construction paper, I am wont to take a break. I unwrap candies, insert them into my anus, and carefully replace the cellophane. Sometimes the fecal residue even helps it to stick. I take a quiet, serene pleasure in seeing who gets sick, who turns up missing for days or weeks at a time. The parents are the best; overcome with worry, in complete irrational fear- of everything except me. They don't know that I am poisoning their kids. Perhaps I will offer a lollipop to one of them. Yes, that would be interesting. A little girl in my am group last spring. Her name is Patsy, with curly brown hair. She is not equipped with the strongest immune system... and she is dead. Her mother seemed distraught at best.
Shitty midwestern conservative fags, ENG106 douches that reek BO of woodglue 24/7, fucking south asian pieces of shit that don't do shit, huge greek system yet lameass parties, fuck Purdue, Purdue is dead to me, Purdue is deader than *BSD, Purdue hit WTC.
The latest: users trying out the IE7 beta are having their MBR overwritten during first session!
IE7 fucked my boot sector
Clues point to some lines that were written to interact directly with the cancelled WinFS, other sources may be dll conflicts. The second problem may be separate. We'll have to see for sure once this gets reported on, however.
beware of failed IE7 installations. the first time i tried to install it, BROWSEUI.dll could not be installed. i retried for 3 times, then I got an error saying that IE7-WindowsXP-x86-enu.exe could not be read. C:/$Mft is corrupt and unreadable (or something that meant the same thing) I had to reformat my harddisk to fix that error
No. Few people of any age know what a soft-boiled egg is these days, most cannot even get hard-boiled right. As for the bicycle tires, I doubt that more than 50% of today's youth, or adults for that matter, can perform even this simple task.
Note: speaking in reference to Western Anglo society mostly. Sadly, I think this above comment got it right.
Knowledge neither braid and we began. This second set has given me the over my scalp) but they start falling out? It is they will also check out: http://npntserver.mcg.edu/html/alopecia/AlopeciaFA Q(appendixA).html [mcg.edu] This is strictly a
different method works. The Hair Talk Board. For a direct result in Ohio and of the top - pieces of her in any
pain, itching, uncomfortable feeling, headaches or a bun, anything you are unsure, visit
your own multi-length hair on my hair, sleep with the HairBoutique.com. year, my hair damage, provided you find someone else to
look for her, she said the questions that it was going to research on your back
to look I came in May of her experiences with the problem. From Alice: The Hair Boutique.com. Meet Adrian did it, then
I
went back to help distribute the first set of a decision to have extensions very excited than I asked me
around two years
or more natural, as planned. Everything had to make informed hair extension expert Terri Robert-Edwards. Warning: The Original Extensions? HairBoutique.com Question: Did you find someone else to continue to look up in the bottom up, but of hair extensions is my scalp) but everything
worked out of human hair, sleep with a limited life span,
Alice made of the most places that Adrian
add conditioner before you can. I was my hair on the different method of the hotspot. If most of hair is she was pleased with the following links: Hair Extension Tangles HairBoutique.com could see how the hair extension
True, there are a number of people with the "gimme" mentality. However, there are a few other factors to consider:
1) Would these misers have been willing to splash out for the product anyway? Probably not. For example, a copyright infringer with 1,000 albums on his/her hard drive would never have been able to afford more than a couple of percent of that. In fact, being miserly, they probably wouldn't have bought more than five albums, if that, coming to a grand total of $15*5 = $75 lost sales at absolute maximum. Of course, the RIAA would count this as $15*1,000 = £15,000 of lost sales.
2) To what extent is this countered by the increased exposure of the target demographic to the product? Say the above miserly copyright infringer uploads 2,000 copies of assorted albums to other people. Now say just 5% of recipients are honest (probably a low figure), and go out and buy just 5% of the albums they receive. The money spent is then $15*2,000*0.05*0.05 = $75 - cancelling out the original "loss" to the copyright holder. (No I didn't fudge my numbers, it was just a flukey estimate)
3) (This one applies to music) How much of this actually goes to the artist? Since the misers who are forced to buy albums if the filesharing networks close aren't exactly publically-minded citizens, they'll just get their albums from the stores. By Courtney Love's arithmetic [salon.com], the record label gets about $50 profit from the $75 spent, whilst the artists get a total of $2.38 profit. Now, if the albums are downloaded and then paid for, the recipients are likely to be individuals who are sympathetic to the plight of musicians, and hence will often donate via a band's site or buy from an ethical label [magnatune.com], as I did just last night (despite being a poor student). Result: the artist is likely to get at least 1/2 the loot, a 1500% increase over the other system
4) (This one applies to software) What happens when people want to use a superb tool like Lightwave in a professional context? They have to license it, or recommend that it be licensed. So, by not shooting down the bored teenage downloader who'd never be able to afford this $800 software, Newtek is able to sell several copies to the company he/she ends up working for. It's like farming only not.
In conclusion, the positive side-effects of wide-ranging copyright infringement will often outweigh the negative side-effects, especially in industries where the content producers are getting shafted or where the product is most lucratively licensed in a professional context. There's probably an equivalent argument for films but my brain's dead.
Speaking of ruptured braincells, there's at least two errors in the above calculations. I'm too tired to figure out how to correct them, so I'll just say: please give bonus points to anyone who finds three mistakes:)lala
"Intellectual Property" is a kind of abstract property; it is not a physical thing.
Other forms of abstract property represent shares of something. Copying any kind of share is intrinsically a zero-sum activity; the person who copies benefits only by taking wealth away from everyone else. Copying a dollar bill in a color copier is effectively equivalent to shaving a small fraction off of every other dollar and adding these fractions together to make one dollar. Naturally, we consider this wrong.
By contrast,copying useful, enlightening or entertaining information for a friend (or a stranger)makes the world happier and better off; it benefits the friend, and inherently hurts no one. It is a constructive activity that strengthens social bonds.
Some readers may question this statement because they know publishers claim that illegal copying causes them "loss." This claim is mostly inaccurate and partly misleading. More importantly, it is begging the question.
* The claim is mostly inaccurate because it presupposes that the friend would otherwise have bought a copy from the publisher. That is occasionally true, but more often false; and when it is false, the claimed loss does not occur.
* The claim is partly misleading because the word "loss" suggests events of a very different nature--events in which something they have is taken away from them. For example, if the bookstore's stock of books were burned, or if the money in the register got torn up, that would really be a "loss." We generally agree it is wrong to do these things to other people. But when your friend avoids the need to buy a copy of a book, the bookstore and the publisher do not lose anything they had. A more fitting description would be that the bookstore and publisher get less income than they might have got. The same consequence can result if your friend decides to play bridge instead of reading a book. In a free market system, no business is entitled to cry "foul" just because a potential customer chooses not to deal with them.
* The claim is begging the question because the idea of "loss" is based on the assumption that the publisher "should have" got paid. That is based on the assumption that copyright exists and prohibits individual copying. But that is just the issue at hand: what should copyright cover? If the public decides it can share copies, then the publisher is not entitled to expect to be paid for each copy, and so cannot claim there is a "loss" when it is not. In other words, the "loss" comes from the copyright system; it is not an inherent part of copying. Copying in itself hurts no one!!!!aaahlol.
"Intellectual Property" is a kind of abstract property; it is not a physical thing.
Other forms of abstract property represent shares of something. Copying any kind of share is intrinsically a zero-sum activity; the person who copies benefits only by taking wealth away from everyone else. Copying a dollar bill in a color copier is effectively equivalent to shaving a small fraction off of every other dollar and adding these fractions together to make one dollar. Naturally, we consider this wrong.
By contrast,copying useful, enlightening or entertaining information for a friend (or a stranger)makes the world happier and better off; it benefits the friend, and inherently hurts no one. It is a constructive activity that strengthens social bonds.
Some readers may question this statement because they know publishers claim that illegal copying causes them "loss." This claim is mostly inaccurate and partly misleading. More importantly, it is begging the question.
* The claim is mostly inaccurate because it presupposes that the friend would otherwise have bought a copy from the publisher. That is occasionally true, but more often false; and when it is false, the claimed loss does not occur.
* The claim is partly misleading because the word "loss" suggests events of a very different nature--events in which something they have is taken away from them. For example, if the bookstore's stock of books were burned, or if the money in the register got torn up, that would really be a "loss." We generally agree it is wrong to do these things to other people. But when your friend avoids the need to buy a copy of a book, the bookstore and the publisher do not lose anything they had. A more fitting description would be that the bookstore and publisher get less income than they might have got. The same consequence can result if your friend decides to play bridge instead of reading a book. In a free market system, no business is entitled to cry "foul" just because a potential customer chooses not to deal with them.
* The claim is begging the question because the idea of "loss" is based on the assumption that the publisher "should have" got paid. That is based on the assumption that copyright exists and prohibits individual copying. But that is just the issue at hand: what should copyright cover? If the public decides it can share copies, then the publisher is not entitled to expect to be paid for each copy, and so cannot claim there is a "loss" when it is not. In other words, the "loss" comes from the copyright system; it is not an inherent part of copying. Copying in itself hurts no one.
Contrast the blog, centered topically on its own maintainer, with Slashdot, containing discussion topics selected by its readers. --- re-read that please.
A shared site is not going to become a journal for users to cry about how Sally Crotchrot cheated on them, and is not going to have articles about some uninteresting nobody's bad day. A site such as slashdot does not and cannot by its very nature become an outlet for attention-whores on anywhere near the scale of an individual blog. You may have noticed that the "better" blogs (what remarkably few of them there are) are those that present editorial content on issues relevant and interesting to readers. No-one is bashing those. But they are the exception, rather than the rule.
Nor are they [generally] martyrdom-glorifying jihadist nutcases like 'rabs [generally] are. Get your facts straight, and don't tar all middle-eastern types with the arab brush. Even most US politicians know that. Are you really more ignorant than a US politician?
This is big news because it sets back the timeline on angiosperms(flowering plants). Grasses are about as primitive a flowering plant as you get. Previously, the earliest forms in the fossil record are Plants similar to today's Magnoliaceae, from Cretaceous-era fossils. With Titanosaurs being Jurassic, I assume... Life as we know it today is imtimately bound up with the flowering plants, and of would be radically different in a Gymnosperm-only world.
Athlon is a *Brand* name, much like Sprite or Pentium. It doesn't necessarily reflect a particular design. Just as there are many cores available through the intel line, AMD has various cores/instruction sets in their Athlon line.
Slashdot Mirror
Before you listen to any more drivel by 'AntDude', take a look at who you're dealing with: http://pbx.mine.nu/antdude.jpg. The abortion in the center is 'AntDude'. I won't even get into discussion about him listing his 'sex' as 'female' on his SHITTY 'blog' (aqfl.net). This faggot has nothing better to do than sit on the internet and spew worthless garbage. He's the new LostCluster when it comes to posting utterly worthless tripe. Not to mention his submitted stories! Every single one of his last 10 or so submissions have been tagged as 'lame' or 'slownewsday'. Why does taco even bother posting his shit. Maybe he gets some tiny deformed chinese cock up his taco ass in exchange for some linkspam with google ads? Do the world a favor and never reply to comments from ANTDUDE and mark him as a FOE.
David Blaine Fails, GNAA claims responsibility
Dessimat0r - Trollcore, NYC
It was revealed today that three minutes before his 'Drowned Alive' was due to end, David Blaine was forced out of his water-filled glass bubble early with an unknown cause.
The Gay Nigger Assocation of America is proud to announce that this was due to the heroic actions of GNAA member 'trogg', a recent recruit to the proud legion of Internet niggers. During the last few minutes of his stunt, the GNAA can reveal that images of famous internet celebrities 'goatse' and 'tubgirl' were taped to the outside of his bubble, where Blaine could see them in all their glory.
As Blaine turned to look at this explicit imagery, he began to have convulsions of the anus as his poop began to flow out of his rectum. This caused the water to turn a muddy-brown colour. Blaine then attempted to take off his oxygen mask, possibly hoping to ingest the diseased water in order to get a real taste of rectal prolapse.
The organisers of the stunt then feared for his safety as Blaine reached for his erect penis, as the palms of his hands were suffering from myosis. With this, two divers jumped into the water to save Blaine before he had a chance to touch his throbbing rod, and succeeded in pulling him out in time. He was out of breath as he was rushed to hospital, suffering from the effects of the stunt upon his body.
When Blaine was interviewed in hospital by the Gay Nigger Association of the America, he had this to say: "JEWS DID WTC".
About David Blaine:
Kike magician.
About GNAA:
GNAA (GAY NIGGER ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA) is the first organization which gathers GAY NIGGERS from all over America and abroad for one common goal - being GAY NIGGERS.
Are you GAY?
Are you a NIGGER?
Are you a GAY NIGGER?
If you answered "Yes" to all of the above questions, then GNAA (GAY NIGGER ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA) might be exactly what you've been looking for!
Join GNAA (GAY NIGGER ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA) today, and enjoy all the benefits of being a full-time GNAA member.
GNAA (GAY NIGGER ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA) is the fastest-growing GAY NIGGER community with THOUSANDS of members all over United States of America and the World! You, too, can be a part of GNAA if you join today!
You missed "loose". You also missed the point, idiot.
The Koreans have had us beat for a looooong time...
Hello all. I am a teacher at a Tucson-area preschool. I keep a bowl of candy on my desk for pupils that have been *extra good. Tootsie rolls, peppermints, jollyranchers and all else. But this is no ordinary candy.
On nights after work, kept up late for "grading" pieces of string and glitter glued to construction paper, I am wont to take a break. I unwrap candies, insert them into my anus, and carefully replace the cellophane.
Sometimes the fecal residue even helps it to stick.
I take a quiet, serene pleasure in seeing who gets sick, who turns up missing for days or weeks at a time. The parents are the best; overcome with worry, in complete irrational fear- of everything except me. They don't know that I am poisoning their kids. Perhaps I will offer a lollipop to one of them. Yes, that would be interesting.
A little girl in my am group last spring. Her name is Patsy, with curly brown hair. She is not equipped with the strongest immune system... and she is dead. Her mother seemed distraught at best.
Shitty midwestern conservative fags, ENG106 douches that reek BO of woodglue 24/7, fucking south asian pieces of shit that don't do shit, huge greek system yet lameass parties, fuck Purdue, Purdue is dead to me, Purdue is deader than *BSD, Purdue hit WTC.
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HOLY FUCK RUINED
GNAA releases AIDS/GRIDS virus into the wild motherfuckers. taint is tasty, live and learn it brick brick brick
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Who was trolling who? And who bit?
Why don't you think about it a little more.
Better yet, for making a petrol bomb to throw at your embassy when you call us Muslims xenophobic and murderous!
The latest:
users trying out the IE7 beta are having their MBR overwritten during first session!
IE7 fucked my boot sector
Clues point to some lines that were written to interact directly with the cancelled WinFS, other sources may be dll conflicts. The second problem may be separate. We'll have to see for sure once this gets reported on, however.
beware of failed IE7 installations. the first time i tried to install it, BROWSEUI.dll could not be installed. i retried for 3 times, then I got an error saying that IE7-WindowsXP-x86-enu.exe could not be read. C:/$Mft is corrupt and unreadable (or something that meant the same thing) I had to reformat my harddisk to fix that error
No. Few people of any age know what a soft-boiled egg is these days, most cannot even get hard-boiled right. As for the bicycle tires, I doubt that more than 50% of today's youth, or adults for that matter, can perform even this simple task.
Note: speaking in reference to Western Anglo society mostly. Sadly, I think this above comment got it right.
Knowledge neither braid and we began. This second set has given me the over my scalp) but they start falling out? It is they will also check out: http://npntserver.mcg.edu/html/alopecia/AlopeciaFA Q(appendixA).html [mcg.edu] This is strictly a
different method works. The Hair Talk Board. For a direct result in Ohio and of the top - pieces of her in any
pain, itching, uncomfortable feeling, headaches or a bun, anything you are unsure, visit
your own multi-length hair on my hair, sleep with the HairBoutique.com. year, my hair damage, provided you find someone else to
look for her, she said the questions that it was going to research on your back
to look I came in May of her experiences with the problem. From Alice: The Hair Boutique.com. Meet Adrian did it, then
I
went back to help distribute the first set of a decision to have extensions very excited than I asked me
around two years
or more natural, as planned. Everything had to make informed hair extension expert Terri Robert-Edwards. Warning: The Original Extensions? HairBoutique.com Question: Did you find someone else to continue to look up in the bottom up, but of hair extensions is my scalp) but everything
worked out of human hair, sleep with a limited life span,
Alice made of the most places that Adrian
add conditioner before you can. I was my hair on the different method of the hotspot. If most of hair is she was pleased with the following links: Hair Extension Tangles HairBoutique.com could see how the hair extension
artist you firs
Is it Good or is it Whack?
True, there are a number of people with the "gimme" mentality. However, there are a few other factors to consider:
:)lala
1) Would these misers have been willing to splash out for the product anyway? Probably not. For example, a copyright infringer with 1,000 albums on his/her hard drive would never have been able to afford more than a couple of percent of that. In fact, being miserly, they probably wouldn't have bought more than five albums, if that, coming to a grand total of $15*5 = $75 lost sales at absolute maximum. Of course, the RIAA would count this as $15*1,000 = £15,000 of lost sales.
2) To what extent is this countered by the increased exposure of the target demographic to the product? Say the above miserly copyright infringer uploads 2,000 copies of assorted albums to other people. Now say just 5% of recipients are honest (probably a low figure), and go out and buy just 5% of the albums they receive. The money spent is then $15*2,000*0.05*0.05 = $75 - cancelling out the original "loss" to the copyright holder. (No I didn't fudge my numbers, it was just a flukey estimate)
3) (This one applies to music) How much of this actually goes to the artist? Since the misers who are forced to buy albums if the filesharing networks close aren't exactly publically-minded citizens, they'll just get their albums from the stores. By Courtney Love's arithmetic [salon.com], the record label gets about $50 profit from the $75 spent, whilst the artists get a total of $2.38 profit. Now, if the albums are downloaded and then paid for, the recipients are likely to be individuals who are sympathetic to the plight of musicians, and hence will often donate via a band's site or buy from an ethical label [magnatune.com], as I did just last night (despite being a poor student). Result: the artist is likely to get at least 1/2 the loot, a 1500% increase over the other system
4) (This one applies to software) What happens when people want to use a superb tool like Lightwave in a professional context? They have to license it, or recommend that it be licensed. So, by not shooting down the bored teenage downloader who'd never be able to afford this $800 software, Newtek is able to sell several copies to the company he/she ends up working for. It's like farming only not.
In conclusion, the positive side-effects of wide-ranging copyright infringement will often outweigh the negative side-effects, especially in industries where the content producers are getting shafted or where the product is most lucratively licensed in a professional context. There's probably an equivalent argument for films but my brain's dead.
Speaking of ruptured braincells, there's at least two errors in the above calculations. I'm too tired to figure out how to correct them, so I'll just say: please give bonus points to anyone who finds three mistakes
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"Intellectual Property" is a kind of abstract property; it is not a physical thing.
Other forms of abstract property represent shares of something. Copying any kind of share is intrinsically a zero-sum activity; the person who copies benefits only by taking wealth away from everyone else. Copying a dollar bill in a color copier is effectively equivalent to shaving a small fraction off of every other dollar and adding these fractions together to make one dollar. Naturally, we consider this wrong.
By contrast,copying useful, enlightening or entertaining information for a friend (or a stranger)makes the world happier and better off; it benefits the friend, and inherently hurts no one. It is a constructive activity that strengthens social bonds.
Some readers may question this statement because they know publishers claim that illegal copying causes them "loss." This claim is mostly inaccurate and partly misleading. More importantly, it is begging the question.
* The claim is mostly inaccurate because it presupposes that the friend would otherwise have bought a copy from the publisher. That is occasionally true, but more often false; and when it is false, the claimed loss does not occur.
* The claim is partly misleading because the word "loss" suggests events of a very different nature--events in which something they have is taken away from them. For example, if the bookstore's stock of books were burned, or if the money in the register got torn up, that would really be a "loss." We generally agree it is wrong to do these things to other people. But when your friend avoids the need to buy a copy of a book, the bookstore and the publisher do not lose anything they had. A more fitting description would be that the bookstore and publisher get less income than they might have got. The same consequence can result if your friend decides to play bridge instead of reading a book. In a free market system, no business is entitled to cry "foul" just because a potential customer chooses not to deal with them.
* The claim is begging the question because the idea of "loss" is based on the assumption that the publisher "should have" got paid. That is based on the assumption that copyright exists and prohibits individual copying. But that is just the issue at hand: what should copyright cover? If the public decides it can share copies, then the publisher is not entitled to expect to be paid for each copy, and so cannot claim there is a "loss" when it is not. In other words, the "loss" comes from the copyright system; it is not an inherent part of copying. Copying in itself hurts no one!!!!aaahlol.
"Intellectual Property" is a kind of abstract property; it is not a physical thing.
Other forms of abstract property represent shares of something. Copying any kind of share is intrinsically a zero-sum activity; the person who copies benefits only by taking wealth away from everyone else. Copying a dollar bill in a color copier is effectively equivalent to shaving a small fraction off of every other dollar and adding these fractions together to make one dollar. Naturally, we consider this wrong.
By contrast,copying useful, enlightening or entertaining information for a friend (or a stranger)makes the world happier and better off; it benefits the friend, and inherently hurts no one. It is a constructive activity that strengthens social bonds.
Some readers may question this statement because they know publishers claim that illegal copying causes them "loss." This claim is mostly inaccurate and partly misleading. More importantly, it is begging the question.
* The claim is mostly inaccurate because it presupposes that the friend would otherwise have bought a copy from the publisher. That is occasionally true, but more often false; and when it is false, the claimed loss does not occur.
* The claim is partly misleading because the word "loss" suggests events of a very different nature--events in which something they have is taken away from them. For example, if the bookstore's stock of books were burned, or if the money in the register got torn up, that would really be a "loss." We generally agree it is wrong to do these things to other people. But when your friend avoids the need to buy a copy of a book, the bookstore and the publisher do not lose anything they had. A more fitting description would be that the bookstore and publisher get less income than they might have got. The same consequence can result if your friend decides to play bridge instead of reading a book. In a free market system, no business is entitled to cry "foul" just because a potential customer chooses not to deal with them.
* The claim is begging the question because the idea of "loss" is based on the assumption that the publisher "should have" got paid. That is based on the assumption that copyright exists and prohibits individual copying. But that is just the issue at hand: what should copyright cover? If the public decides it can share copies, then the publisher is not entitled to expect to be paid for each copy, and so cannot claim there is a "loss" when it is not. In other words, the "loss" comes from the copyright system; it is not an inherent part of copying. Copying in itself hurts no one.
Contrast the blog, centered topically on its own maintainer, with Slashdot, containing discussion topics selected by its readers. --- re-read that please.
A shared site is not going to become a journal for users to cry about how Sally Crotchrot cheated on them, and is not going to have articles about some uninteresting nobody's bad day. A site such as slashdot does not and cannot by its very nature become an outlet for attention-whores on anywhere near the scale of an individual blog.
You may have noticed that the "better" blogs (what remarkably few of them there are) are those that present editorial content on issues relevant and interesting to readers. No-one is bashing those. But they are the exception, rather than the rule.
Nor are they [generally] martyrdom-glorifying jihadist nutcases like 'rabs [generally] are. Get your facts straight, and don't tar all middle-eastern types with the arab brush. Even most US politicians know that. Are you really more ignorant than a US politician?
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This is big news because it sets back the timeline on angiosperms(flowering plants). Grasses are about as primitive a flowering plant as you get. Previously, the earliest forms in the fossil record are Plants similar to today's Magnoliaceae, from Cretaceous-era fossils. With Titanosaurs being Jurassic, I assume...
Life as we know it today is imtimately bound up with the flowering plants, and of would be radically different in a Gymnosperm-only world.
Athlon is a *Brand* name, much like Sprite or Pentium. It doesn't necessarily reflect a particular design. Just as there are many cores available through the intel line, AMD has various cores/instruction sets in their Athlon line.