This is tangential, but I’ve noticed that, among mainstream news sites that allow comments, Reuters is most likely to remove comments that are critical of Reuters. Even if those comments are entirely civil.
Sure, morality of the positive sort is better than what’s best if the latter is immoral. You might have a pragmatic interest in stealing my car -- it might see it as best for you to have transportation -- but if one is guided by morality it is not defensible to do so. You got a problem with that?
People who identify with philosophy rather than reality? What a repugnant dichotomy. As if those who identify with the philosophy of liberty, and have risked property and life to defend it, don’t form the basis of what Techdirt usually seems to defend.
If pragmatism is our guide, then morality has no place and we should simply try to figure out what works best, no matter who prevails or who suffers.
I’ve had several communications with Oxford Press in recent years about laggardly digital delivery of dictionaries. The companies it licensed dictionaries to for mobile devices have produced some horrible apps, and Oxford’s own web and disk products have been dismal and expensive. They don't get it. Meanwhile free and/or better offerings blew by the old school press. It is Encyclopedia Britannica v Wikipedia redux.
Academic presses are plodding, atavistic institutions ill-suited for the digital world. I have little hope that Oxford dictionaries will succeed in the free market. They will have more committee meetings producing more outlines for consideration of prospective products, and they will fail.
Why should this guy receive greater scrutiny than a law firm would? The world is awash in unjustified lawsuits filed by professionals. Don’t penalize, privatize.
You did leave out the not-inconsequential fact that almost any retailer would accept a return of the Keurig if the customer found himself dissatisfied. So, the consumer is out a return trip to the store, at worst.
Your claim that a free market implies “perfect information” is bunk. It no more requires that than free religion implies guaranteed entry into Heaven or free press implies accurate reporting.
Comcast has been building a relationship with such groups via its Internet Essentials program. As I understand it, it was compelled by the government to offer low-cost Internet to low-income families with kids in school, so it created Internet Essentials. But a household can only qualify for the program if it has not had Comcast cable for at least three months prior to applying. Since Comcast generally has a de facto monopoly in most areas it serves, and Internet is damned near indispensable, the three month rule keeps the number of eligible households to a bare minimum. But Comcast uses Internet Essentials to promote its humanitarianism and to build bridges with the minority non-profits.
How long now until the company screws millions of users by abandoning Google Voice? It has years since Voice innovation ceased, and promised features were never produced. (How many years has Google stated, as it still does in Settings, that outgoing caller id from forwarded phones "will be included soon"?)
There is a lot more churn among large businesses than most people recognize. Companies come and go. Which makes me uneasy about having my entire digital collection ripped as Apple Lossless.
Millions now rely on Google Voice, which the company has long stopped improving. How long until Google orphans us poor souls? There is little reason to have confidence in the company.
The right reasons? How did Langevin vote on detaining Americans indefinitely without trial and the Patriot Act? (in favor.) First principles are important.
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Getting the facts right
http://www.consumerreports.org/cro/news/2014/10/consumer-reports-smart-phone-bendability-test/i ndex.htm
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Reuters Censorship
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Re: Re: Pragmatism
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Pragmatism
If pragmatism is our guide, then morality has no place and we should simply try to figure out what works best, no matter who prevails or who suffers.
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Oxford Press Luddism
Academic presses are plodding, atavistic institutions ill-suited for the digital world. I have little hope that Oxford dictionaries will succeed in the free market. They will have more committee meetings producing more outlines for consideration of prospective products, and they will fail.
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Inequality
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Your claim that a free market implies “perfect information” is bunk. It no more requires that than free religion implies guaranteed entry into Heaven or free press implies accurate reporting.
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Reusable
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What
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Re: Re: Internet Essentials
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Internet Essentials
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Re: Psychiatric issue...
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Domain registration sleaze
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Money
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Google's Voice
There is a lot more churn among large businesses than most people recognize. Companies come and go. Which makes me uneasy about having my entire digital collection ripped as Apple Lossless.
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Google Voice
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