This post is, ironically, an example of why Slashdot needs a method of blocking ACs.

A combination of laws and the funding to police them is what's required, so Mexico falls down on the second part.

Do you even lift?

Berating a woman after the fact for being "so stupid" as to allow herself to be raped is victim blaming.

Giving a woman the tools and situational awareness to avoid it in the first place is a rational reaction to an extant risk. The culture of "I should be safe to" is a ridiculous denial of reality. If you wander through a bad neighborhood alone at night and get mugged, it's not your fault either, but you avoid being in that situation because it's stupid.

Not to mention the inability to understand difficult concepts like "ratio".

What you say about the talent may be true, but what I see is posters for One Direction everywhere.

Interestingly the press release does exclude free books, but yeah, still doesn't mention prices other than (most of them) being under $9.99.

As to OCR, I was looking a one the other day and there was a thread about it being terrible and a comment 2 years later that the version they bought was all but flawless.

Anyway, it seems a fair old crapshoot. Though Amazon seems to have a decent returns policy on ebooks (albeit 7 days is a short window), where as others that I looked at didn't even have a policy on their website that I could find.

It's a reflection of community standards, in the same way that it's against them to dine with your cock out, it's not yet acceptable to play cyborg.

You might well feel that those standards are archaic, in the same way that nudists feel the standards are childish, but guess what, majority rules.

I've secreted the Hope Diamond in a highland cow, but I can't recall which one. GO!

"Sells more ebooks" sounds like a volume metric. Would that include books they sell for $0.00?

How are the "3 times the price" of the paperback books selling?

Are your Amazon figures from Amazon?

I'd like to buy more ebooks, and I don't care about the DRM, but they need to work out loaning/gifting properly, and the average quality of the ebook publishing would need to get a lot higher. I often show people my Kindle and get incredibly lukewarm responses from people that I know read a lot.

This is a publisher's fallacy. Even if you accept that a mass market paperback only costs $1 to print, and warehousing and shipping are zero (they're not) it still wouldn't explain how the mass market paperback of Game of Thrones: A Feast For Crows is $5.49 and the kindle version is $11.93. And from what I'm told, the earlier ebook versions of those books were just scanned/OCR and are full of horrible typos.

It's the same reason Microsoft (say) charge $99 for Windows in the US and £99 for the same software in the UK, even though that's $161US; the market will bear it.

Except clearly the market isn't bearing it, they're telling the publishers to get stuffed in droves.

While the $8,000/month is no burden to Adams, it might be a quiet way of condemning the "morality" that supports this ghoulish siphoning of people's estates in general.

The mugging that he needs to do because prices are artificially high and punishment is more emphasized than treatment?

I never hear this ridiculous straw man brought up in discussions on alcohol.

Fair enough. Though the difference in financial success between THL and ZDT is the epic level of hype generated for the later, and the support Sony was able to give it.

Admittedly, I haven't seen ZDT either, for much the same reasons.. but a film that opens on nearly 3000 screens is going to gross more than one that opens on 300.

Besides, ZDT benefited from "patriotic fervor". If it followed the usual 2:1 ratio of foreign to domestic grosses it would have made less than half of what it did; instead it has a ratio of 1:3. I'm sure there's a Hollywood accountant somewhere complaining that it lost $250 million in box office due to that :)

Did you just burn your straw man? ;)

I haven't seen it, should I torrent it?

It seemed to be over-hyped US-centric masturbatory fan fiction from what I saw in the press.

Can I pay you not to make another one? Like those grinning idiots with their violins at touristy restaurants.