I wonder if anyone in the police upper ranks even realize that the worst they can do to fix the police's already dismal public perception is to stop doing out of control shit? Killing a human being by asphyxia is a horrible thing to do and even if it got recorded by the Devil himself still its the police doing the evil deed. They need to focus on reigning-in the "we are absolute authority, and above the law" mentality since it creates more enemies and distrust from the general public. Focusing on the cameras recording them not only makes them seem petty in the face of murder, it is also a retarded thing to do.
Id say it is more opportunistic than narcissistic, she more than likely is focusing the potential money and publicity this could bring. What she wants is of course impossible in the real world but I kinda doubt she's ever lived there. (And I don't think anyone sane would ever accuse her of being smart...)
The ability to pre-order is not related at all to availability if a book is still unreleased no amount of pre-orders will make it release any faster. Pre-ordering is nice for locking in some early sales but is basically a promise to do something in the future.
Consider this: Wouldn't it be irresponsible for Amazon to take pre-orders when they know full well that the dispute with the publisher/supplier of said books will more than likely prevent them from delivering on the pre-orders?
Supplier holding the books hostage means they will be unavailable indefinitely until the dispute is settled and I suspect people pre-ordering in such a situation would be more than a bit angry when the book releases elsewhere and their pre-orders get delayed indefinitely.
That it somehow fosters innovation, new works and discoveries... How? It is so focused on the side of profit and locking away works in effective perpetuity that it works against innovation at every step.
Let's put copyright in perspective: If I build a house I get paid one time for the services rendered and that's it. but if I write something or compose a song somehow people are expected to pay me in perpetuity... it should be credited to me as the original author and perhaps protect my song from being distributed for a very reasonable amount of time to allow me to make some money off it but the current model of people expecting to make a living on copyright royalties alone for even a single work and then handing it off to descendants so they can mooch off it too is hardly conducive to innovation nor new discoveries.
This is such a messy situation! I for one support the right to be anonymous on the internet but at the same time abhor the notion of people (Especially elected officials)using said anonymity to spread racial/hate speech or to manipulate public opinion.
Perhaps there should be a la where elected politicians are forbidden from using anonymous accounts as long as the hold office and that includes having proxies post on their behalf (Yes I do know it is a pain to enforce but what else can we do?)
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Re: This is tragic
Crap I put stop instead of keep when talking about the out of control shit. Sorry about that.
This is tragic
I wonder if anyone in the police upper ranks even realize that the worst they can do to fix the police's already dismal public perception is to stop doing out of control shit? Killing a human being by asphyxia is a horrible thing to do and even if it got recorded by the Devil himself still its the police doing the evil deed. They need to focus on reigning-in the "we are absolute authority, and above the law" mentality since it creates more enemies and distrust from the general public. Focusing on the cameras recording them not only makes them seem petty in the face of murder, it is also a retarded thing to do.
Re: One word: narcissist
Id say it is more opportunistic than narcissistic, she more than likely is focusing the potential money and publicity this could bring. What she wants is of course impossible in the real world but I kinda doubt she's ever lived there. (And I don't think anyone sane would ever accuse her of being smart...)
Re: Are you serious?
The ability to pre-order is not related at all to availability if a book is still unreleased no amount of pre-orders will make it release any faster. Pre-ordering is nice for locking in some early sales but is basically a promise to do something in the future.
Consider this: Wouldn't it be irresponsible for Amazon to take pre-orders when they know full well that the dispute with the publisher/supplier of said books will more than likely prevent them from delivering on the pre-orders?
Supplier holding the books hostage means they will be unavailable indefinitely until the dispute is settled and I suspect people pre-ordering in such a situation would be more than a bit angry when the book releases elsewhere and their pre-orders get delayed indefinitely.
The first wrong assumption about copyright is...
That it somehow fosters innovation, new works and discoveries... How? It is so focused on the side of profit and locking away works in effective perpetuity that it works against innovation at every step.
Let's put copyright in perspective:
If I build a house I get paid one time for the services rendered and that's it. but if I write something or compose a song somehow people are expected to pay me in perpetuity... it should be credited to me as the original author and perhaps protect my song from being distributed for a very reasonable amount of time to allow me to make some money off it but the current model of people expecting to make a living on copyright royalties alone for even a single work and then handing it off to descendants so they can mooch off it too is hardly conducive to innovation nor new discoveries.
What an ugly mess!
This is such a messy situation! I for one support the right to be anonymous on the internet but at the same time abhor the notion of people (Especially elected officials)using said anonymity to spread racial/hate speech or to manipulate public opinion.
Perhaps there should be a la where elected politicians are forbidden from using anonymous accounts as long as the hold office and that includes having proxies post on their behalf (Yes I do know it is a pain to enforce but what else can we do?)