The people creating the book are likely getting the same royalties they would regardless as to the medium. Since they're the ones actually producing the creative content, they shouldn't really care how it gets sold, as long as it sells.
If you're talking about movies, then you really need to examine how many people actually create them get screwed over by production companies and get left with little to no monetary gain for their time and effort. In fact, what artist or technical person involved in creating a movie isn't subject, at some point in their career, to bend over for the people producing it, because they didn't understand the idea of "gross" vs "net", or because the movie had one scene that was "too racy" for the company?
The production houses have been abusing the people who work for them, distorting their visions and screwing them out of money for decades. There's no reason to give them the money, when we can buy it in a medium where the money given to the people actually doing the work and creating the product, and absolutely not giving it to the companies that have mostly been screwing them over for such a long time.
If you had a perfect photographic memory, you would breeze through most any modern school curriculum. That doesn't mean you'd actually understand what you have memorized or be able to adapt that knowledge to different situations.
As a person with a very good (albeit not perfect) photographic memory, I'm going to let you in on the workings of the process a bit. If you have a memory of that caliber, you're very likely to remember a large portion what the idiots around you say and do, which lends itself very well to the processing necessary to avoid those mistakes. When you have a memory of that quality, all it takes is to think to yourself "that was dumb" as you see what happened, so that if and when you end up in that situation, it's not very hard to do something different.
Photographic memory is made out to be just an insanely good memory by sight, while in reality, it is not quite so simple. All it takes for a person with this kind of memory is to remember the "picture", as this is their strongest memory, and the easiest to recall vividly. At that point, the flood gates are opened to allow anything else (in terms of fine-grained details) you remember from the event, or even related events. When I say flood gates, I mean it as a near-perfect metaphor. I don't quite know exactly what will come through them, but I know it'll be a lot of random things surrounding the event in question. I find no control over what memories pop up, other than to pull up other objects/images I know were involved, and hope that what comes through the flood gates is the right stuff.
One point about photographic memory that you don't quite seem to understand involves anything written. To be quite frank, photographic memory doesn't work for text. At the point you're reading a textbook, or looking at a formula on a whiteboard, other sections of memory take over the process of remembering what is on the page. I seriously have nearly no recollections of what exactly was on specific pages in any book I've ever read. I have a collection of words and pictures floating around that I can access, and if I grab an image, let's say, a diagram of the nitrogen cycle from my old biology textbook, it'll bring up the details of the cycle with it. This is just something to consider when a student near you, using an older textbook that doesn't have a picture on every page, seems to be looking around the room constantly, like they may have ADD or something. They may just be looking for something to link with what they've just read, regardless as to how unrelated what they find may be. Text without an image, to someone with a photographic memory, is nearly worthless because of the additional difficulty then presented in recalling said information at a later date.
Thus, the problem in this case is truly no longer the student's. It becomes the teacher's problem, for not catering to the learning styles of all of the students. You can also argue it becomes the school's problem, for not arranging kids into classrooms by learning style, so the teachers know exactly how to teach to get the information across to every student in the classroom. You can also argue that the school should be providing different textbooks to different classrooms to help accommodate the different styles of learning. This way, the teachers don't have to deal with vastly different styles of learning, which makes it much easier for them to present information quickly in a format that makes it easiest for the classroom to learn.
If you cannot recall information because of various failures in the educational system, you will not be able to use that information. I concede the point that many people don't like to use information they obviously know, and that the uses of the information should be taught in schools, but we currently have a system that doesn't educate everyone at their strong suit, which lends a disadvantage in recollection. As recollection is the basis of implementation, this aspect of the educational system needs to be fixed first.
You need at the very least a Granary and a Marketplace so that you can grow your population while making income.
Are you seriously still playing Caesar?
This allows you to finance all the other fun stuff you want to do like developing war trolls
....war...craft?
or building sorcerer's guilds
I'm starting to think you've got alot of RTS mechanics floating around your head at this point
Without the basic income stream, you're just going to get screwed when some bear rushes in and eats all your citizens because you don't have even a single halberdier around to guard the town.
I got it! You're Stephen Colbert posting from the past!
To get said license, you need a driving test. You can have your license revoked at any time that you're found doing something wrong. You can't take away a right, only a privilege.
Not a single one has done any running while they were in the background. The only exceptions to this are the phone and iPod "apps", which allow for running in the background. Otherwise, your apps all go into a sort of sleep mode every time you change to another one, and resume when they are reopened.
Oh, and obligatory: correlation does not imply causation
If playing videogames causes you to be inside and thus not get sunlight, and not getting sunlight causes one to get rickets, then there is a causation here.
They also very likely had no intention of fixing the bug, and no tenative patch. Then, the moment they start getting a boatload of bad PR from Google and a couple governments, they have a patch out extremely fast. So yes, it does prove they could have an amazing turnaround, if they spent the resources for it.
For what purposes, really, should a corporation be given the rights of individuals? They aren't an individual. They are a tool created to maximize profits.
Yeah, the passages pretty much say it's going to be forgiven if you're talking about other people. What they do also say, however, is that it won't be forgiven if you're talking about "the Spirit". Now, that's subject to interpretation. The meaning may very well be God the spirit, but it may also be the spirit of goodness in general. If that is the case, then the passages almost perfectly point to preachers who are against various groups, and thus advocate any different treatment of said groups, as the ones who will not be forgiven.
It's out in the food supply? I guess we've had hundreds of deaths due to organ failure over this then. No? Well surely someone, somewhere in the world has gotten at least a runny nose over this. No? Well, if no one died, and no one has gotten sick and tons of this stuff has been eaten by humans all over the world, then I'd guess that this product is safe. So, no. Those GM-hating nutjobs are NOT right.
You have no idea about the validity of any of these statements. Someone may very well have died due to this, but you don't know it because nobody bothered to check the person's diet over the past 20 years to see if that's a likely cause for their liver failure. The lack of direct attribution doesn't mean it hasn't happened.
(Bt, by the way, is considered organic and completely harmless to humans, pets and beneficial insects. The problem is either in the quantity of Bt toxin fed to the rats or something else in the corn.)
What you neglect to mention is that products sprayed with Bt have a period of 2 weeks before they can be eaten by people, as the toxin itself then breaks down into byproducts that aren't harmful. If it's inside of the corn and not exposed to air, it may slow down said breakdown, and it can also mean that by law, there is nothing preventing companies from selling it within that 2 week period.
However, they should not get their way, just as companies like Monsanto shouldn't get their way. We need a balance.
Monsanto had their way, apparently for years, in that they had this information and had no obligation until now to release it to the public. The same public, mind you, that is nearly forced into eating their foods containing these products. Go look for non-GM labeled foods in a supermarket in the US. It's just a bit hard to find them, considering there's no requirement to label either way.
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The people creating the book are likely getting the same royalties they would regardless as to the medium. Since they're the ones actually producing the creative content, they shouldn't really care how it gets sold, as long as it sells.
If you're talking about movies, then you really need to examine how many people actually create them get screwed over by production companies and get left with little to no monetary gain for their time and effort. In fact, what artist or technical person involved in creating a movie isn't subject, at some point in their career, to bend over for the people producing it, because they didn't understand the idea of "gross" vs "net", or because the movie had one scene that was "too racy" for the company?
The production houses have been abusing the people who work for them, distorting their visions and screwing them out of money for decades. There's no reason to give them the money, when we can buy it in a medium where the money given to the people actually doing the work and creating the product, and absolutely not giving it to the companies that have mostly been screwing them over for such a long time.
Not the paper they're printed on. The process and machinery to bind said paper onto a hardcover isn't free, either.
Yes, because you know exactly which side someone at the patent office is going to pick up the papers from.
Dude, imagine what it took to get into the friday night D&D game!
If you had a perfect photographic memory, you would breeze through most any modern school curriculum. That doesn't mean you'd actually understand what you have memorized or be able to adapt that knowledge to different situations.
As a person with a very good (albeit not perfect) photographic memory, I'm going to let you in on the workings of the process a bit. If you have a memory of that caliber, you're very likely to remember a large portion what the idiots around you say and do, which lends itself very well to the processing necessary to avoid those mistakes. When you have a memory of that quality, all it takes is to think to yourself "that was dumb" as you see what happened, so that if and when you end up in that situation, it's not very hard to do something different.
Photographic memory is made out to be just an insanely good memory by sight, while in reality, it is not quite so simple. All it takes for a person with this kind of memory is to remember the "picture", as this is their strongest memory, and the easiest to recall vividly. At that point, the flood gates are opened to allow anything else (in terms of fine-grained details) you remember from the event, or even related events. When I say flood gates, I mean it as a near-perfect metaphor. I don't quite know exactly what will come through them, but I know it'll be a lot of random things surrounding the event in question. I find no control over what memories pop up, other than to pull up other objects/images I know were involved, and hope that what comes through the flood gates is the right stuff.
One point about photographic memory that you don't quite seem to understand involves anything written. To be quite frank, photographic memory doesn't work for text. At the point you're reading a textbook, or looking at a formula on a whiteboard, other sections of memory take over the process of remembering what is on the page. I seriously have nearly no recollections of what exactly was on specific pages in any book I've ever read. I have a collection of words and pictures floating around that I can access, and if I grab an image, let's say, a diagram of the nitrogen cycle from my old biology textbook, it'll bring up the details of the cycle with it. This is just something to consider when a student near you, using an older textbook that doesn't have a picture on every page, seems to be looking around the room constantly, like they may have ADD or something. They may just be looking for something to link with what they've just read, regardless as to how unrelated what they find may be. Text without an image, to someone with a photographic memory, is nearly worthless because of the additional difficulty then presented in recalling said information at a later date.
Thus, the problem in this case is truly no longer the student's. It becomes the teacher's problem, for not catering to the learning styles of all of the students. You can also argue it becomes the school's problem, for not arranging kids into classrooms by learning style, so the teachers know exactly how to teach to get the information across to every student in the classroom. You can also argue that the school should be providing different textbooks to different classrooms to help accommodate the different styles of learning. This way, the teachers don't have to deal with vastly different styles of learning, which makes it much easier for them to present information quickly in a format that makes it easiest for the classroom to learn.
If you cannot recall information because of various failures in the educational system, you will not be able to use that information. I concede the point that many people don't like to use information they obviously know, and that the uses of the information should be taught in schools, but we currently have a system that doesn't educate everyone at their strong suit, which lends a disadvantage in recollection. As recollection is the basis of implementation, this aspect of the educational system needs to be fixed first.
You can replace each instance of "it's" with "is is" and check, then repeat for "it has".
That's what happens when idiots hijack a secular program for their own purposes...
You need at the very least a Granary and a Marketplace so that you can grow your population while making income.
Are you seriously still playing Caesar?
This allows you to finance all the other fun stuff you want to do like developing war trolls
....war...craft?
or building sorcerer's guilds
I'm starting to think you've got alot of RTS mechanics floating around your head at this point
Without the basic income stream, you're just going to get screwed when some bear rushes in and eats all your citizens because you don't have even a single halberdier around to guard the town.
I got it! You're Stephen Colbert posting from the past!
You don't start by making a $2,000 car. You start by making a $100,000 car, then a $50,000 car, then a $35,000 car....
To get said license, you need a driving test. You can have your license revoked at any time that you're found doing something wrong. You can't take away a right, only a privilege.
Not a single one has done any running while they were in the background. The only exceptions to this are the phone and iPod "apps", which allow for running in the background. Otherwise, your apps all go into a sort of sleep mode every time you change to another one, and resume when they are reopened.
Oh, and obligatory: correlation does not imply causation
If playing videogames causes you to be inside and thus not get sunlight, and not getting sunlight causes one to get rickets, then there is a causation here.
No, listen to the guy who just said it's better to get sunlight than take a pill, and better to take a pill than to not get any vitamin D.
Step sister got called sister, maybe?
They also very likely had no intention of fixing the bug, and no tenative patch. Then, the moment they start getting a boatload of bad PR from Google and a couple governments, they have a patch out extremely fast. So yes, it does prove they could have an amazing turnaround, if they spent the resources for it.
For what purposes, really, should a corporation be given the rights of individuals? They aren't an individual. They are a tool created to maximize profits.
Yeah, the passages pretty much say it's going to be forgiven if you're talking about other people. What they do also say, however, is that it won't be forgiven if you're talking about "the Spirit". Now, that's subject to interpretation. The meaning may very well be God the spirit, but it may also be the spirit of goodness in general. If that is the case, then the passages almost perfectly point to preachers who are against various groups, and thus advocate any different treatment of said groups, as the ones who will not be forgiven.
So the extra D in 3D is "dictatorship"?
We also design the majority of said stuff, not them. They do the manufacturing very cheaply, while we do the design properly.
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In which case he'd be doing more of nothing, which is the course of action you're arguing against!
It's out in the food supply? I guess we've had hundreds of deaths due to organ failure over this then. No? Well surely someone, somewhere in the world has gotten at least a runny nose over this. No? Well, if no one died, and no one has gotten sick and tons of this stuff has been eaten by humans all over the world, then I'd guess that this product is safe. So, no. Those GM-hating nutjobs are NOT right.
You have no idea about the validity of any of these statements. Someone may very well have died due to this, but you don't know it because nobody bothered to check the person's diet over the past 20 years to see if that's a likely cause for their liver failure. The lack of direct attribution doesn't mean it hasn't happened.
(Bt, by the way, is considered organic and completely harmless to humans, pets and beneficial insects. The problem is either in the quantity of Bt toxin fed to the rats or something else in the corn.)
What you neglect to mention is that products sprayed with Bt have a period of 2 weeks before they can be eaten by people, as the toxin itself then breaks down into byproducts that aren't harmful. If it's inside of the corn and not exposed to air, it may slow down said breakdown, and it can also mean that by law, there is nothing preventing companies from selling it within that 2 week period.
However, they should not get their way, just as companies like Monsanto shouldn't get their way. We need a balance.
Monsanto had their way, apparently for years, in that they had this information and had no obligation until now to release it to the public. The same public, mind you, that is nearly forced into eating their foods containing these products. Go look for non-GM labeled foods in a supermarket in the US. It's just a bit hard to find them, considering there's no requirement to label either way.
Nobody would ever invest in any weapon manufacturing or defense research company if your logic held true.
Then just upgrade to the damn fiber optics already, and quit worrying about the slower copper.