Your math is suspect, but in any case, all I have to say is, poor baby. Maybe you shouldn't own a public basketball team if you're going to be a racist fuck. My heart does not bleed for him.
I'm sure that would work just swell with advertisers leaving in droves, and players refusing to play. You're being foolish. He's a public figure, and he held a FRANCHISE. The very nature of a franchise is it can be taken away.
I'm sure all of the players on the Clippers would have been happy to ignore it. Or maybe, they all would have been running for the exits before next season leaving the NBA with the embarrassing situation of having a team with no players to, you know, actually play the games.
Once this became public, there was no way on earth the league could avoid taking action.
This. The Kindle is drowning in a sea of horsecrap, and Amazon makes it VERY hard to sort the wheat from the chaff. And you're right, the online reviews are utterly useless for the most part. I've encountered ebooks with 4.5-5 star ratings that would fail as sixth grade writing projects. Really embarrassing stuff.
Are you deliberately being obtuse? If I want a book by, say, Charlie Stross, a book by Stephanie Meyer is not going to do. If I want a microware, I don't give a fuck whether it's from Samsung, Panasonic, Sharp or Whirlpool.
Books are not widgets. Each one is a unique, bespoke item.
Quite a few really awful books are available for free without pirating them. The business model for new-ish authors of genre fiction is to write the first novel for free and sell it for $0.00 on Amazon, then sell the sequels (self published or through a publisher). Unfortunately this model means fewer stand alone novels and more endless sagas.
Fixed that for you.
A) you really don't know Charlie Stross, and B) if you think the publishers were stifling great literature, you haven't read much of the self-pubbed stuff.
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It's a franchise.
Your math is suspect, but in any case, all I have to say is, poor baby. Maybe you shouldn't own a public basketball team if you're going to be a racist fuck. My heart does not bleed for him.
I'm sure that would work just swell with advertisers leaving in droves, and players refusing to play. You're being foolish. He's a public figure, and he held a FRANCHISE. The very nature of a franchise is it can be taken away.
But they did. THAT'S THE POINT. Once it became public, the league had to act. It doesn't matter HOW it became public, they still had to act.
His property wasn't fucking confiscated.
It wasn't a phone call.
And he wasn't charged with a crime. He lost a franchise because the corporation the franchise /belongs/ to felt he was harming their brand.
What the fuck is inadequate about 2 BILLION dollars??
Yes, because at 83 he has so long to let it appreciate!
I'm sure all of the players on the Clippers would have been happy to ignore it. Or maybe, they all would have been running for the exits before next season leaving the NBA with the embarrassing situation of having a team with no players to, you know, actually play the games. Once this became public, there was no way on earth the league could avoid taking action.
He keeps ignoring Maya which has been brought up several times.
Has anybody actually been stupid enough to try this before?
So..you're an idiot, is that what you're saying?
Record companies and publishers are not the same and don't serve the same function.
Uh, no. Amazon is already drowning me in a sea of shitty, halfassed selfpublished garbage.
This. The Kindle is drowning in a sea of horsecrap, and Amazon makes it VERY hard to sort the wheat from the chaff. And you're right, the online reviews are utterly useless for the most part. I've encountered ebooks with 4.5-5 star ratings that would fail as sixth grade writing projects. Really embarrassing stuff.
Are you deliberately being obtuse? If I want a book by, say, Charlie Stross, a book by Stephanie Meyer is not going to do. If I want a microware, I don't give a fuck whether it's from Samsung, Panasonic, Sharp or Whirlpool. Books are not widgets. Each one is a unique, bespoke item.
That's great for GRR Martin. Not so great for new or midlist authors perhaps. Hardly anybody will go to 20 different websites to get their books.
antipope is him.
Quite a few really awful books are available for free without pirating them. The business model for new-ish authors of genre fiction is to write the first novel for free and sell it for $0.00 on Amazon, then sell the sequels (self published or through a publisher). Unfortunately this model means fewer stand alone novels and more endless sagas. Fixed that for you.
Yeah, and LotR took 30 years to write for exactly that reason.
He's certainly better than Herbert.
Books are not widgets.
They also aren't his publisher. They are a retail distributer for his publisher.
A) you really don't know Charlie Stross, and B) if you think the publishers were stifling great literature, you haven't read much of the self-pubbed stuff.