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Comment Re:No, wait, do-over! (Score 3, Informative) 95

There certainly is an anti-trust issue here, but it's on the Hatchette side, not the Amazon side:

E-book price fixing settlements rolling out

In December, a judge approved settlements involving book publishers Hachette, HarperCollins, Simon & Schuster, Macmillan, and Penguin after a federal court ruled they conspired with Amazon rival Apple. In the lawsuit, the Justice Department claimed Apple conspired with book publishers to fix prices in order to thwart a discount initiative from Amazon.

Hatchette is now trying to reinstate the price-fixing it just got fined $69 million over via other avenues. And of course all the usual idiots are falling for the "Ooo, Amazon evil!" propaganda because Hatchette is the publisher for a lot of high power media personality who can go on TV and pretend this is all about "the little guy" rather than padding thier own pockets.

Comment Speeding Tickets as Revenue (Score 1) 398

The use of speeding tickets for revenue necessarily depends on spotty enforcement. You need lot of people willing to risk a ticket because they think they're unlikely to get caught. The problem with speeding cameras then is that they catch everyone; if they want to increase revenue, they need to make the cameras so they only issue a ticket for every 20th car they catch speeding or something like that.

Comment Re:So don't use mice or rats for experiments. (Score 2) 154

If you RTFA, they are getting their consent:

Subjects initiated each trial by poking their nose into the center port of a three-port chamber. A narrow-band sound was presented for 100 ms indicating the location of reward.

If they didn't want to participate in the testing, they were free to do so by not sticking their noses in the start port.

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