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Comment: Re:Don't copy that floppy! (Score 1) 265

by WGFCrafty (#43784395) Attached to: Latvian Police Raid Teacher's Home for Uploading $4.00 Textbook

If you don't get caught, then surely you haven't technically broken any law (until you get caught and found guilty).

I'm sorry, what? If I shoot you in the face I have broken a law, even if no one knows.The fact that I'm arrested just means everyone knows I've broken the law against shooting people in the face.

Comment: Re:Don't copy that floppy! (Score 1) 265

by WGFCrafty (#43784311) Attached to: Latvian Police Raid Teacher's Home for Uploading $4.00 Textbook

INB4 wikipedia is full of propaganda. Then correct them. Controversial articles are easy to spot.

If it's 19th to 21th century, it's someone regurgitating modern propaganda.

Dig deeper, make your own mind.

You can't "dig deeper" when all you have is a collection of propaganda workers and their parrots, all trying to out-shout each other while trying to keep the impression of legitimacy.

Then enlighten us about your preferred consumption method of modern history.

For intelligent people with good reading comprehension wikipedia works for cementing knowledge that is not debatable, and much is bland facts (eva braun and hitler killed themselves where and when, who was the last Plantagenet King, and various lists).

Comment: Re:and in the us the same book will be $200-$400 u (Score 1) 265

by WGFCrafty (#43784181) Attached to: Latvian Police Raid Teacher's Home for Uploading $4.00 Textbook

When I was in college I took an Analysis of Algorithms course as part of my CS degree. The textbook was $100-something and it was on it's 16th edition or so. Several weeks into the semester, my copy of the book was accidentally destroyed. Searching for a used copy online, I found one of the first several editions for about $10. I took a chance that no that much changed. Aside from the pages yellowing with age, I never found any differences to the current edition. The current edition actually had a few minor typos that the earlier edition that I had didn't have.

New editions in cutting edge fields make sense, but in such things "basic" botany or biology , not much has changed in the last long while. Some professors understand this and let you buy older editions, sometimes they tell you that you could fail the class without the newest edition.

Well for many textbooks the cost difference can be 95% between 1-2 editions, I'd recommend buying the half.com copy for $10, and compare it to the new one, sometimes every sentence and page#s match. First time you save $100+ dollars.

Comment: Re:Your Microsoft Tax dollars at work... (Score 2) 311

by WGFCrafty (#43750045) Attached to: Bill Gates Regains the Position of World's Richest Person

(I mean, $76Bn, do you really need that much money?)

I would buy a bunch of 747s and run them between major international airports around the world - with no one on them. It would be an kinetic art project about unsustainability.

Note: Mr. Gates is worth about 2.1 times more than the endowment of the school he dropped out of (Harvard).

Comment: Re:He gave away $28 billion (Score 3, Interesting) 311

by WGFCrafty (#43749983) Attached to: Bill Gates Regains the Position of World's Richest Person

and he STILL has enough to be the richest?

Maybe he should give away some more.

I think him and Warren Buffet are doing it more slowly. Non profits are required to spend a certain part of their endowment yearly - by holding on to it and investing it and donating a trickle (a billion dollar trickle... he made several billion in one year just from having money) which could last indefinitely. I think they pledged to give much more upon their death.

I wonder why they don't set up some kind of non-profit investment group where all proceeds yearly would then fund a charity. One big donation could do $70 billion of good once, or $3-7 billion dollars of good yearly, forever..

Comment: Re:Okay, enough is enough (Score 1) 249

by WGFCrafty (#43729801) Attached to: Drones: Coming Soon To the New Jersey Turnpike?

Your cynicism is bullshit. Go to a real police state where they won't let you leave, you're insulting those people that can't leave. There is also only state press. The US has a state press... NPR, besides that it is free. A massive violation of press freedom is something to watch, rand closely, yet it is not the same as not being able to say what you want.

The system is not irreparably broken, with enough will it can be changed. You've already lost with your bullshit attitude so either shoot yourself, tie yourself up because the interrogators are on their way, or suck it up and point out what can be done to fix things, or prevent them from getting worse; and despite your baseless whining, things can get A LOT FUCKING WORSE.

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