it's a corporation. the ultimate goal of any corporation is monopoly control of every stage of production possible, for every product possible.
(well, i say 'goal', but that implies that there's someone who has sufficient capabilities to actually think it through like that. more like they have lots of lesser goals that have that consequence.)
*ponders* a cartel is a single entity controlling the entire production chain making it impossible for competitors to exist who cannot also create an entire production chain from scratch, no? (assuming i'm not misremembering the definition.)
it makes good sense from the point of view of maximising profits, which is the only thing corporations generally care about (due to the people running them being responsible only to share holders who, as a rule, have no interests beyond short term profits due to the nonsense that is the share-market.)
sadly, if it's similar enough to NZ's MMP system for the quirks to carry over, if they got in on the party list, that's incredibly likely.
on the Other hand, if they got in from an electorate? if they didn't suck at representing their constituents they're all but guaranteed to keep coming back, even (especially?) if they break from their current party (if it's a major party that is doing a substandard job of representing those constituents (as most do) and was being voted for mainly to keep out the Other substandard major party...)
the things you jump over (or hurdle, in it's verb form, i guess) in a type of running race (and get penalised for knocking over in addition to what it does to your speed.)
an obstacle
hurtle is a verb.
it refers to rapid and uncontrolled flight (or running)... usually toward something and followed by impact.
amusingly, the NZ B&N (not the same company, or something, apparently?) was/is pretty much The go-to shop for Manga and comics.
we have a dedicated comic shop or two as well, but most people would rather spend ~30 NZ on those hard cover, large size books with ~ 10 or so 'issues' in them than $12 or so on individual issues, and the comic shops don't carry much manga unless you specifically ask them to.
so far as i can tell the comic shop seems to do more business in board games, RPG books, warhammer and related games, and old second hand comics than it does in actually new US comics. (and most of what i saw on the shelves of the local one were marvel's 'ultimate' series or more obscure stuff.)
probably has more to do with the market here though.
if i remember rightly it was partially that e-book reader screens are too small/low resolution for the comics to really be readable combined with a general incompetence at interface design (something the pirate sites have been outdoing official sites at for Years, due to accepting that when making a website, you should Make a Website, while the 'official' ones are terrible fail attempts at making digital 'books') contributing to a general preference for hardcopy on the part of the customer still.
also the obsession with charging Rent rather than selling digital goods has driven off a fair number of people who would otherwise be interested in the idea.
at least, these are the things i've seen floating around as reasons why various publishers won't put things out on certain platforms/customers won't buy them.
oh, and most of the readers can't handle double page spreads, or at least, not properly.
(note: most of these are for Manga, which is, as a rule, black and white, has less details going on in most of the backgrounds, and has smaller page sizes than most DC/Marvel comics i've ever seen. all of which mean it converts to digital more easily.)
actually, given what 'the press' means as it appears in the US constitution, if memory serves, and depending on how literal you want to be, it either means only things that are actually printed by way of a printing press (but covers Anything that meets that requirement) or pretty much the entire internet, or at least the web, should be covered by it.
i figure, a smart shop owner would look at that and say 'hey, if we let them rent more things, cheaper, we make more money whether they return them on time or not than if we don't! win!'
i want to mark this insightful, but something about the last paragraph seems off... can't quite pin down Exactly what.
(perhaps the fact that you just Know the corporations will find some way to twist things back to at least where they are now if that option is left available? it's substantially easier to make the use of it illegal than to remove the law making the circumvention of it when it is present illegal...generally speaking at least, i don't know about the specifics of the EU.)
perhaps the site needs adjusting so that once the comments start setting their left margine too far to the right they start being hidden and you have to expand them out in an overlay or something so that doesn't happen?
(sorry, green AC, this has nothing to do with your post, but i'm not scrolling back up past all that crap again to find the reply link you clicked, sorry.)
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duh.
it's a corporation. the ultimate goal of any corporation is monopoly control of every stage of production possible, for every product possible.
(well, i say 'goal', but that implies that there's someone who has sufficient capabilities to actually think it through like that. more like they have lots of lesser goals that have that consequence.)
*ponders* a cartel is a single entity controlling the entire production chain making it impossible for competitors to exist who cannot also create an entire production chain from scratch, no? (assuming i'm not misremembering the definition.)
it makes good sense from the point of view of maximising profits, which is the only thing corporations generally care about (due to the people running them being responsible only to share holders who, as a rule, have no interests beyond short term profits due to the nonsense that is the share-market.)
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sadly, if it's similar enough to NZ's MMP system for the quirks to carry over, if they got in on the party list, that's incredibly likely.
on the Other hand, if they got in from an electorate? if they didn't suck at representing their constituents they're all but guaranteed to keep coming back, even (especially?) if they break from their current party (if it's a major party that is doing a substandard job of representing those constituents (as most do) and was being voted for mainly to keep out the Other substandard major party...)
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good pun though.
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it is a noun.
the things you jump over (or hurdle, in it's verb form, i guess) in a type of running race (and get penalised for knocking over in addition to what it does to your speed.)
an obstacle
hurtle is a verb.
it refers to rapid and uncontrolled flight (or running)... usually toward something and followed by impact.
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the above applies to the latter.
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we have a dedicated comic shop or two as well, but most people would rather spend ~30 NZ on those hard cover, large size books with ~ 10 or so 'issues' in them than $12 or so on individual issues, and the comic shops don't carry much manga unless you specifically ask them to.
so far as i can tell the comic shop seems to do more business in board games, RPG books, warhammer and related games, and old second hand comics than it does in actually new US comics. (and most of what i saw on the shelves of the local one were marvel's 'ultimate' series or more obscure stuff.)
probably has more to do with the market here though.
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also the obsession with charging Rent rather than selling digital goods has driven off a fair number of people who would otherwise be interested in the idea.
at least, these are the things i've seen floating around as reasons why various publishers won't put things out on certain platforms/customers won't buy them.
oh, and most of the readers can't handle double page spreads, or at least, not properly.
(note: most of these are for Manga, which is, as a rule, black and white, has less details going on in most of the backgrounds, and has smaller page sizes than most DC/Marvel comics i've ever seen. all of which mean it converts to digital more easily.)
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(well, that and certain governments who shall remain nameless have an obsession with free trade deals with them.)
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not that the USA even really has That on a meaningful level, exactly.
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i'm rather partial to those myself.
'any problem can be solved with proper application of sufficient explosives' and all that.
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that said, they don't automatically get a check mark in the 'good' box either.
i'm going with neutral with less of an obsession with Order than most such massive entities.
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neutral rather than good or evil, ya know?
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(perhaps the fact that you just Know the corporations will find some way to twist things back to at least where they are now if that option is left available? it's substantially easier to make the use of it illegal than to remove the law making the circumvention of it when it is present illegal...generally speaking at least, i don't know about the specifics of the EU.)
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and you're rising to it quite nicely.
*ponders* animatronic strawman?
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the main sources of problematic abuse of the current system are multi-national and/or US based corporations, after all.
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perhaps the site needs adjusting so that once the comments start setting their left margine too far to the right they start being hidden and you have to expand them out in an overlay or something so that doesn't happen?
(sorry, green AC, this has nothing to do with your post, but i'm not scrolling back up past all that crap again to find the reply link you clicked, sorry.)
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