asciilifeform: good way to build a free gift of hash for usg
asciilifeform: (at times, the 'water sellers' are peculiarly slow to catch up - consider, for instance, that mains current cheap enough to mine btc with at a profit still appears to exist somewhere !)
asciilifeform: and it is very much not because they did not want to.
asciilifeform: yes, elsevier is in the position to 'you get to pay us $2mil/yr or you don't get to run a university library'
asciilifeform: just like the suppliers of $100 test tubes and $500 table legs
asciilifeform: but it is a mistake to think that elsevier, wiley, et al exist to 'keep research from the plebes.' no one gives half a rat's arse about plebes. they exist as an inevitable fly on the juicy meat of the university
asciilifeform: precisely the kind of faux reform that exists to 'check a box'
asciilifeform: don't hold your breath for this. but ~could~
asciilifeform: crown could, if wished, proclaim tomorrow 'any academic claiming a publication on his cv that is not freely available on www is committing fraud, and liable'
asciilifeform: try displaying the thing outside of turdtube, sans pestilential ads, etc.
asciilifeform: they still persist in delusions of 'ownership'
asciilifeform: copyrasts whine about 'if you made movie, you didn't make that movie' but there can be no such thing as too cruel a revenge for 'if you bought a book, you didn't buy that book'
asciilifeform: it has ~always~ been abundantly obvious what 'content vendors' think of folks dumb enough not to pirate.
asciilifeform: formats, but did not have the rights to provide all of the books in different formats.'
asciilifeform: 'In January 2009, OverDrive informed Fictionwise that it would no longer be providing downloads for purchasers of e-books through Fictionwise as of January 31, 2009. No reason was provided to Fictionwise as to why it was being shut down. This prevents previous purchasers from being able to renew their books on new devices. Fictionwise was working to provide replacement ebooks for its customers in alternative, non-DRM-protected
asciilifeform: the municipal libraries are being converted to halls where homeless folks can check email, yes.
asciilifeform: but the only ones with serious books are at universities
asciilifeform: cazalla: the libraries where i live, still have books
asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=25-07-2015#1212505 << the 'face recognizer' thing is setting the stage for some epic lulz. think 'sausage attack.' just about all the commercial face processors readily fall for inkjet-printed masks that wouldn't fool a child☝︎
asciilifeform: last thing the 'ebook' racket wants is an infinite fountain of free.☟︎
asciilifeform: decimation: folks would cotton on to the truth - them being entirely free - pretty quickly
asciilifeform: if someone is dumb enough to buy into such a chumpatron, why bother serving up anything but pablum
asciilifeform: (i.e. payments on mortgage are tax-deductible)
asciilifeform: for non-u.s. folk: the most explosively astonishing phun phakt re: american taxation, is that an extortionate tax (mechanically, lack of 'tax credit', but same thing) is applied to folks who refuse to do the mortgage thing
asciilifeform: wasn't there a link just earlier today re: dante banned
asciilifeform: 'the spartan speaks with his' nailgun.
asciilifeform: decimation: naturally. a 'lord' who has to actually dictate every 'x' is no lord, but 'floor boss'
asciilifeform: i.e. Accident4lly!11 nailgun himself to his pillow in bed, while in a single-car crash, of natural causes.
asciilifeform: and it will read 'x', not 'y', because if it were 'y', and 'y' is, e.g., 'disinherit john brennan rothchild' someone might Have Problems
asciilifeform: 'we do x because the 3-ring binder says: do x'
asciilifeform: there is no reason for them to have to think of it. it is baked into the machine
asciilifeform: because that's for the aristo children
asciilifeform: designs exist that fit in a cellar ('pellet system')
asciilifeform: jp, if you recall, played with 'cancel the nuke plants' until they got tired of breathing diesel smoke and didn't feel like going back to the 17th c. quite yet
asciilifeform: 'The senior officers of the GRU have a particular dislike of Western nuclear power stations, which reduce the West's dependence on imported oil (including Soviet oil) and make it stronger and more independent. They are one of spetsnaz's, most important targets.'
asciilifeform: because what do bedouins need mains current for
asciilifeform: 'They said it would be unrealistic to close more than 20 of 58 reactors now in operation in the next 10 years. The legislation also includes a target of reducing the country's greenhouse gas emissions by 40 percent by 2030, compared to the level in 1990. The new law aims to eventually halve France's energy consumption by 2050 from the 2012 level.'
asciilifeform: ^ often incorrectly attributed, in nth-generation derp sources, to methanol
