But the company profits only when the fund increases, thus creating John Doe's profit. Which is then used to pay for the costs of managing the hedge fund. Sucks to be John Doe.
Buying an electronic device (say, a computer) may cost a lot less money than buying ten or more expensive textbooks, and for someone with a high reading capacity, more than purchasing a hundred or more "ordinary" books each year.
So making these books available through a public library system is indeed a currently valuable service.
My point being that a device bought for a family (including kids and students - who may be the kids or the parents or both) is in general money well spent these days.
the digital ebook library would feature older titles
This sounds a bit like they are going for out-of-copyright stuff in the first place. So why not just get these books from Project Gutenberg?
Also many public libraries (e.g., The New York Public Library) offer ebooks via a DRM-enforced lending mechanism using "Adobe Digital Editions" software. I download the ebook to my PC then copy it via ADE to my Nook. They currently have only about 13,000 ebooks of this sort (not counting copyright-free stuff that they also make available through NYPL).
I have not found a source of free current technical ebooks though, other than papers and documentation provided in PDF format (which Calibre can convert to a format more suitable for a portable ereader, given that most of them don't handle PDF as well as they do other formats like ePub).
The largest hospital on Israel's southern coast, Ashkelon's Barzilai Hospital, moved its critical treatment facilities into an underground shelter after a Gaza-fired rocket struck beside its helicopter pad on December 28.[46]
On January 4, 2009, Israeli planes hit the A-Raeiya Medical Center and its mobile clinics, without warning, causing damages of $800,000. The center, which served 100 patients a day, was clearly marked as a medical facility and was located in the middle of a residential area, with no government or military facilities are nearby.[47]
Several testimonies from local Gazan population and from IDF soldiers stated that Hamas operatives donned medic uniforms and commandeered ambulances for fighters transportation.[48][49][50][51] After the Israeli airstrike on the central prison which resulted in prisoners being released into the streets, several of the 115 prisoners accused of collaboration with Israel who had not yet been tried, were executed by Hamas militants in civilian clothes in the Shifa hospital compound.[52] An IDF probe released on April 22, 2009, stated that an incident involving a UN vehicle attacked by the IDF occurred after the IDF identified a Palestinian anti-tank squad disembarking from the vehicle.[49] The Palestinian Authority's Health Ministry accused the Hamas-run government's security services of using several hospitals and clinics in Gaza as interrogation and detention centers, where medical staffers have been expelled, during and after the war.[53] The IDF probe made similar charges and stated that Hamas operated a command and control center inside Shifa Hospital in the Gaza City throughout the War.[54]
Buffett clearly was not talking about tax evasion. Among other things, he said:
The 400 of us [here] pay a lower part of our income in taxes than our receptionists do, or our cleaning ladies, for that matter. If youâ(TM)re in the luckiest 1 per cent of humanity, you owe it to the rest of humanity to think about the other 99 per cent.
and the article goes on to explain:
Mr Buffett said that he was taxed at 17.7 per cent on the $46 million he made last year, without trying to avoid paying higher taxes, while his secretary, who earned $60,000, was taxed at 30 per cent.
This ultra secret, mega-important, super-leak was protected by a relatively short plaintext password that even references the expected content of the file it "protects"?
And as someone else noted, then this stuff was made available over the public Internet for a newspaper guy to download?
Unbelievable. Who believes that any government, tyrant, or thug that may have been interested in reading this "password protected file" would have been strongly deterred by a relatively short plaintext English language phrase (that even contains reference to the content of the file)?
Those spy guys have access to "lophtcrack" too, y'know; it's not just for wizards.
The price on that movie's DVD is $398 plus shipping. It must have not been made using slave labor I guess. Seriously, do they want people to buy the movie or is that a joke?
Suppose that someone happened to "find" an unreleased version of a new iPhone and decided to not play by the rules that require them to return it to Apple, but instead they took it apart and published info on its design for all to read. Would Apple just shrug its shiny shoulders because they demanded the return of their property but, what can we do after all, the guy just wouldn't heed our demands?
I have been successful 2 out of 3 times with BBB complaints (all of which dealt with rebates that were improperly denied). The successes were with Parago and TigerDirect ($20 and $30 respectively, last year and this year); the failure was with "The Express Group" for $150 back in 2007. FWIW, "The Express Group" is no longer in business:-)
So you're correct that BBB can't force the company to do anything, but at least some companies try to settle reasonably to keep up a good BBB score (and yes, I know about the reports of BBB giving "A" ratings to companies that paid for them).
In the case above, I don't see how it could have hurt to make a complaint with BBB and it might have helped. The online complaint form is relatively painless to fill out and in my three experiences the BBB folks did indeed contact the companies and state my case; not only that but they went back two or three times in the case of The Express Group to relay my replies to TEG regarding their replies to me.
Their manager told me that since I had gotten it open box, I would be allowed to choose another model in the $120 range as opposed to the ~$300 range that would be considered a similar product.
A letter to your City/State Consumer Affairs office and an online complaint to bbb.org would have probably cleared that right up for you. Best Buy bets that the typical customer won't bother.
Just today as I was crossing 14th Street on 3rd Avenue a driver in a red Zipcar drove through his red light right in front of me (about 1/3 of the way across the street). No police in sight, of course, and for some reason they seem to have been mostly pulled from traffic duty, leaving assholes like that to do as they please.
This type of thing is a fairly regular occurrence; I've also had drivers stop at the red light then pull off (while I'm crossing).
So yeah, I would have liked a camera to snap his plate. In this case he'd get billed by Zipcar for the fine plus their own addon fee.
That second link in the OP reads just like an advertisement for Google Cloud services. They didn't even try to make it look like a technical discussion. Maybe that's what is meant by "transparent"?
I knew, once they started printing books instead of commissioning scribes to copy them, that the end of a decent wage for educated folks would soon follow. How quickly we forget!
Furthermore such a division is cleverly artificial for the Verizon corporation to make. They cut up their company into smaller and smaller tidbits and then propose different compensation based upon how much profit they attribute to each. Imagine a department store paying clerks in the "mens shirts" department differently than the "mens underwear" department because they profit more from shirts. (Oh, I imagine there will be somebody who worked in a department store that did just that who will chime in here soon, but you get my point I hope.)
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I wouldn't but Hamas might:
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/20/world/middleeast/20gaza.html
He also said that it saves "5 milliseconds" which is a "10 percent saving in the route".
It's things like this that remind me why I find listening to news, rather than reading news, absolutely useless.
But the company profits only when the fund increases, thus creating John Doe's profit.
Which is then used to pay for the costs of managing the hedge fund.
Sucks to be John Doe.
should of course have read:
I'll be quiet now.
Buying an electronic device (say, a computer) may cost a lot less money than buying ten or more expensive textbooks, and for someone with a high reading capacity, more than purchasing a hundred or more "ordinary" books each year.
So making these books available through a public library system is indeed a currently valuable service.
My point being that a device bought for a family (including kids and students - who may be the kids or the parents or both) is in general money well spent these days.
This sounds a bit like they are going for out-of-copyright stuff in the first place. So why not just get these books from Project Gutenberg?
Also many public libraries (e.g., The New York Public Library) offer ebooks via a DRM-enforced lending mechanism using "Adobe Digital Editions" software. I download the ebook to my PC then copy it via ADE to my Nook. They currently have only about 13,000 ebooks of this sort (not counting copyright-free stuff that they also make available through NYPL).
I have not found a source of free current technical ebooks though, other than papers and documentation provided in PDF format (which Calibre can convert to a format more suitable for a portable ereader, given that most of them don't handle PDF as well as they do other formats like ePub).
Correlation does not imply causation.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incidents_in_the_Gaza_War
and the article goes on to explain:
The above quotes are from an article titled "Buffett blasts system that lets him pay less tax than secretary": http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/money/tax/article1996735.ece
This ultra secret, mega-important, super-leak was protected by a relatively short plaintext password that even references the expected content of the file it "protects"?
And as someone else noted, then this stuff was made available over the public Internet for a newspaper guy to download?
Come on. This is rank amateur bullshit.
Unbelievable. Who believes that any government, tyrant, or thug that may have been interested in reading this "password protected file" would have been strongly deterred by a relatively short plaintext English language phrase (that even contains reference to the content of the file)?
Those spy guys have access to "lophtcrack" too, y'know; it's not just for wizards.
The price on that movie's DVD is $398 plus shipping. It must have not been made using slave labor I guess. Seriously, do they want people to buy the movie or is that a joke?
Suppose that someone happened to "find" an unreleased version of a new iPhone and decided to not play by the rules that require them to return it to Apple, but instead they took it apart and published info on its design for all to read. Would Apple just shrug its shiny shoulders because they demanded the return of their property but, what can we do after all, the guy just wouldn't heed our demands?
..
I guess you can see where I'm going with this
Ah, but how much per shareholder?
I have been successful 2 out of 3 times with BBB complaints (all of which dealt with rebates that were improperly denied). The successes were with Parago and TigerDirect ($20 and $30 respectively, last year and this year); the failure was with "The Express Group" for $150 back in 2007. FWIW, "The Express Group" is no longer in business :-)
So you're correct that BBB can't force the company to do anything, but at least some companies try to settle reasonably to keep up a good BBB score (and yes, I know about the reports of BBB giving "A" ratings to companies that paid for them).
In the case above, I don't see how it could have hurt to make a complaint with BBB and it might have helped. The online complaint form is relatively painless to fill out and in my three experiences the BBB folks did indeed contact the companies and state my case; not only that but they went back two or three times in the case of The Express Group to relay my replies to TEG regarding their replies to me.
A letter to your City/State Consumer Affairs office and an online complaint to bbb.org would have probably cleared that right up for you. Best Buy bets that the typical customer won't bother.
And BB lists the warranty as 1 year while NE shows it as 2 years.
Just today as I was crossing 14th Street on 3rd Avenue a driver in a red Zipcar drove through his red light right in front of me (about 1/3 of the way across the street). No police in sight, of course, and for some reason they seem to have been mostly pulled from traffic duty, leaving assholes like that to do as they please.
This type of thing is a fairly regular occurrence; I've also had drivers stop at the red light then pull off (while I'm crossing).
So yeah, I would have liked a camera to snap his plate. In this case he'd get billed by Zipcar for the fine plus their own addon fee.
That second link in the OP reads just like an advertisement for Google Cloud services. They didn't even try to make it look like a technical discussion. Maybe that's what is meant by "transparent"?
I knew, once they started printing books instead of commissioning scribes to copy them, that the end of a decent wage for educated folks would soon follow. How quickly we forget!
Your tagline is sooooo appropriate here.
No, a "fair wage" is enough to live decently. What you are describing is squeezing the worker until he bleeds excess profits for your company.
An excellent description of the human consequences of your "fair wage" can be found here:
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/140
and an "executive summary" of the book here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Jungle
Thank you, excellent point.
Furthermore such a division is cleverly artificial for the Verizon corporation to make. They cut up their company into smaller and smaller tidbits and then propose different compensation based upon how much profit they attribute to each. Imagine a department store paying clerks in the "mens shirts" department differently than the "mens underwear" department because they profit more from shirts. (Oh, I imagine there will be somebody who worked in a department store that did just that who will chime in here soon, but you get my point I hope.)
Oh, man. Not only NSFW but an extension of the goatse image to new heights of disgustingness. You do not want to click on these links, trust me.
Hmm, this has been reported several times previously, starting around 11 years ago ..
http://humanlibrary.org/press-archive.html
OK, only 3 years after USA Today (and NY Times) got to it:
http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2008-10-17-1940310534_x.htm
Pretty soon slashdot will be the place to go for news for nerds and stuff that matters. Oh, wait.