So making lots of money is only bad when it's not the gatekeepers? Would you be crying so much if it were just Wiley making loads of money in both local and foreign markets?
This is capitalism at its finest. See an opportunity, take advantage. If you can buy something elsewhere cheaper and still make money bringing it home and selling it cheaper than the local companies, then they are inefficient or gouging, and deserve to lose out.
Something people haven't thought about is secondary First sale situations. What happens if you find two copies of a US book in a London flea market - one is the US edition, one is the English. Both are 'legal' under UK law. You buy both and bring them home to the US. Are either of them 'breaking the law'? If they are, WTF?
No, he does it as a test to see if one of you trolls will come and whine at something... anything... in the article, even if you are fundamentally unable to complain about the content of the article or add anything of value. The ghods forbid you might actually say something 'positive'.
[Boy, am I glad I scrolled down before posting a correction myself ;) ]
If Floor64 is being 'paid' by Google to 'lobby against IP' then Google must be wasting their money, as I fail to see anything actually lobbying against IP. If you want frothing-at-the-mouth rants with no substance but only the corporate overlord mistaken talking points, go look at the RIAA sites for examples. Or any of bob's rants...
You can hate one element of his platform and performance (or even more), but that still doesn't balance out hating (nearly) everything about his opponent. So were I voting, I wouldn't vote for the 'worse evil' even though Obama is hardly much lesser in some ways.
Maybe I'd vote for Jimmy Hoffa, he's probably done more good for the country...
Seriously, I got a headache trying to parse that. One piece of garbage I'll point out though is "neo-cons are better about ending wars". Like the 'lefty'-instigated wars in Afghanistan and Iraq?
I'm wondering if you got your left and right mixed up here... since I think the 'left' would be more likely to legalise pot, and for all that I'm a Liberal, the left aren't renowned for cutting spending. Or, I'm just totally confused by your baloney!
I was trying to explain to a friend the other day the difference between 'stupid' and 'evil' in terms of people doing bad things. When I used the example "Bush was stupid but Cheney was evil" he totally got the distinction.
Yes, yes, no, yes, that would be a form of payment but should still be limited, within the bounds of reason and the law.
You don't have to carpet all the world, but it saves a lot of hassle if you don't have to deal with people bleeding and falling over everywhere. Unless you are advocating an extreme 'social darwinian' position?
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He's making a reference to Orwell's "1984", but yes, those are British-style names. Just change Ministry to Department and they'll fit right into your alphabet soup.
Also, since the service has not yet been found to be illegal or anything like that, theoretically he could do something like this. Of course, violating bail conditions is a totally separate issue.
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This is capitalism at its finest. See an opportunity, take advantage. If you can buy something elsewhere cheaper and still make money bringing it home and selling it cheaper than the local companies, then they are inefficient or gouging, and deserve to lose out.
Something people haven't thought about is secondary First sale situations. What happens if you find two copies of a US book in a London flea market - one is the US edition, one is the English. Both are 'legal' under UK law. You buy both and bring them home to the US. Are either of them 'breaking the law'? If they are, WTF?
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[Boy, am I glad I scrolled down before posting a correction myself ;) ]
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Maybe I'd vote for Jimmy Hoffa, he's probably done more good for the country...
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Seriously, I got a headache trying to parse that. One piece of garbage I'll point out though is "neo-cons are better about ending wars". Like the 'lefty'-instigated wars in Afghanistan and Iraq?
I'm wondering if you got your left and right mixed up here... since I think the 'left' would be more likely to legalise pot, and for all that I'm a Liberal, the left aren't renowned for cutting spending. Or, I'm just totally confused by your baloney!
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Yes, yes, no, yes, that would be a form of payment but should still be limited, within the bounds of reason and the law.
You don't have to carpet all the world, but it saves a lot of hassle if you don't have to deal with people bleeding and falling over everywhere. Unless you are advocating an extreme 'social darwinian' position?
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