This bill will run into pushback from the companies that restrict warranty work to purchses from authorized resellers. regardless of the logic of that policy, there is a huge number of companies that don't want that to change. As I read the quotes, if I buy from an unauthorized reseller (ebay)the warranty would still apply. Not the way it works now.
Qucik negotiation test. Will loss of your channel result in an adverse financial result to the other company? If no, you have no leverage and should take whatever they offer.
I also agree that emergency weather alerts and dishes are mutually exclusive. Your signal being out should be a pretty good alert alone.
Coders and decrypters have been going back and forth since the middle ages and it will continue forever.
Although the NSA won't be happy, they would be naive to assume there would be no reaction. It does put the NSA's reaction in a different context, although it was embarrassing and the terrorist's a red herring, the exposure of wide spread email monitoring will impact the ease at which they spy as programs such as dark mail are developed.
I worry less about the corruption in the process, they are a fact of existence and hope that they are accounted for. I worry more of the zealots. Those whose mission is a higher calling and that the ends justify any means. Their purity of cause will obliterate any contols and limitations that interfere with what they think is the right thing to do. Their motives justify any action, any subtrefuge.
Remember that the goal of the Spanish Inqusition was to save man's souls. Justification for any action on such a noble cause.
I have seen it written on other sites that the WH was looking for an excuse because there wasn't anything to accomplish (in a PR sense) through meetings. No agreements, not even a significant joint statement. And the WH doesn't actually want to discuss serious issues without knowing the answer in advance. It is all theater
I disagree that the benefit should accrue to the labels because content is irrelevant; it is fungible. If EMI and it's back catalog disapeared tonight (or never existed), does one doubt that the pipeline would be filled?
the value is in satisfying the customer, a concept that the labels have a very skewed persective.
I think that people are taking the request at face value instead of what is really intended. The Brazilian newspapers want their vigorish. They figure that since Google makes money from GN, it would be cheaper to share the spoils than it would be to drop the newpapapers from GN.
Of course, content owners have a realistic idea on how much Google earns from GN (not!)
Eric Flint at Baen Books has been doing a similar thing for several years. I think their focus is more on authors with a catalog.
One thing that has always confused me with regards to the control publishers demand around the copywrite is the failure to republish their back catalog. You would think that would be free money but they seem to have no interest in epublishin what they already have.
I wonder what the optimal mix of prices would be for the traditional mix of Hard cover, paperback/trade and ebook would be? I don't remember any mention of an analysis similar to this for that mix.
Nothing I have read indicates that publishers are interested in optimizing book prices. The approach seems to be 'what the market will bear' and must protect the whale authors.
OTOH, if I was only an ebook author, I would be crazy to add the overhead of a traditional publisher and pay for expertise they eveidently don't have.
I think we must acknowledge that the Web, especially Web 1.0 is old enough that there are now legacy players and they will be have that way. to wit: ' It works fine and I am threatened by anyone that does it differently'
the second part is usually: " I have money and you don't. Let's go to court'
Think about it, would 98% of the readers even know of the contest if this hadn't been the result? I am sure that the media will pick up on this as well, wouldn't be surprised to see this on leno or letterman (or is this more a
Conan thing?).
By rolling with it, Walmart and Pitbull both get a LOT more press than if it were just a run of the mill contest
This strikes me as wishful thinking. In a rational world, organizations would learn from failure. In a political world, they just seem to think that more is better and if it didn't work the first time, double down.(see TPP)
I would consider it newsworthy if there is any indication that the USTR was actually reconsidering and changing their approach but nothing in this blog would make me think that this is happening.
Let's Go XXXX has been around for decades. For that matter, Let's go Thunder has been around for about 20 years for my local AA baseball team the Trenton Thunder. I think there is prior art.
Re:
Friendly?
authorized resellers
Leverage?
I also agree that emergency weather alerts and dishes are mutually exclusive. Your signal being out should be a pretty good alert alone.
As it ever is
Although the NSA won't be happy, they would be naive to assume there would be no reaction. It does put the NSA's reaction in a different context, although it was embarrassing and the terrorist's a red herring, the exposure of wide spread email monitoring will impact the ease at which they spy as programs such as dark mail are developed.
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Remember that the goal of the Spanish Inqusition was to save man's souls. Justification for any action on such a noble cause.
Juveniles
And based on the story, this guy is in the wrong line of business. He should not be allowed anywhere near the education of children.
Didn't want to go anyway
Content is irrelevant
the value is in satisfying the customer, a concept that the labels have a very skewed persective.
Dinos
However, we do know that Ancient Greece, the Roman Empire, and biblical Jews didn't have copyright and that is the reason that they had no literature
Re: Gutenberg?
Freedom fighters
Where does Hamas fall according to the UN?
Vigorish
Of course, content owners have a realistic idea on how much Google earns from GN (not!)
Baen
One thing that has always confused me with regards to the control publishers demand around the copywrite is the failure to republish their back catalog. You would think that would be free money but they seem to have no interest in epublishin what they already have.
Print Publishing
Nothing I have read indicates that publishers are interested in optimizing book prices. The approach seems to be 'what the market will bear' and must protect the whale authors.
OTOH, if I was only an ebook author, I would be crazy to add the overhead of a traditional publisher and pay for expertise they eveidently don't have.
Legacy Players
the second part is usually: " I have money and you don't. Let's go to court'
Obscurity
Conan thing?).
By rolling with it, Walmart and Pitbull both get a LOT more press than if it were just a run of the mill contest
ORLY?
I would consider it newsworthy if there is any indication that the USTR was actually reconsidering and changing their approach but nothing in this blog would make me think that this is happening.
Until that time, these entries are just filler.
Re:
They had something of great value and knew it. the Moeny would come.
Now everyone wants Google to share that Money by hook or crook.
Originality
what a greedy little idiot
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