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Amazon Prime is simply the best deal on the Internet for consumers.

I've been a Prime member since its inception and am always amazed at how much time and money I save by not having to leave the house to shop.

Books, electronics, cleaning supplies, toothpaste - anything I can get through Amazon, I get through Amazon.

Bonus - now the Prime membership includes Amazon Instant Video.

And every Lennon/McCartney song.

I'm kinda surprised that it's 2012 and humanity still hasn't created a space station on the moon, Mars or some other planet.

How are they "talked into it"?

Football is by far the most dangerous sport but players know the risks before they go in.

I played high school football 15 years ago and the big issue back then was paralysis.

The first day of every season we were shown an extensive video about paralysis and the best way to avoid making risky tackles.

It was a scary video to watch. But players know the risks.

>> But for the players involved, it's basically a scam. Even though they're getting a free education.

Sure, universities make money off college football, but let's not call this a "tragic exploitation system."

The players aren't forced to play. They 'love' football. That's why they're playing.

The far majority of college players (in all sports) know that they're not going to be playing professionally. But yet they still play. Because it's their dream to play.

I don't think football is going away. It's by far the most popular sport in the USA and it's gaining fans all over the world.

All my friends in the UK are obsessed with the NFL.

Concussions are a major concern. This will lead to better helmets and more rules changes to protect player's heads. It will not mean the end of football.

Where did you hear this? I follow the Knicks closely and never heard they were considering cutting him.

I'm a Knicks fan visiting China right now. Jeremy Lin's game against the Lakers was the lead story on the sports program on television last night. He could catch on here.

I am a longtime Wunderlist user and am very excited for the upcoming Wunderkit. Great to learn a bit more about this company and their technology.

No company would choose to have any competitors.

But in a viable market, there will be competition.

Anyway, I'm talking about the transaction itself, which they consider a net win, otherwise they wouldn't participate.

The only time a party participates in a transaction that they don't consider a net win is when they're forced to participate (i.e. they're being robbed or paying taxes).

>> Shit like this should be illegal, but it’s not.

This is competition.

It may make things tougher for the original company, but free competition in a marketplace is always good for the consumer.

If you made this illegal, you're just going to create monopolies where there weren't monopolies beforehand.

>> could this end up being a net win for the original company?

Yes. Obviously the original companies consider it a net win, otherwise they wouldn't buy the clone.

They value the clone more than the money they're paying for it.

>> That's like saying that everyone at Occupy Wall Street had forswear all material goods in order to be considered "valid" protesters.

No, it isn't.

Occupy Wall Street isn't about giving up all material goods. A better analogy is a OWS protester who is a manager at one of the banks that got bailed out.

>> Discarding someone's argument due to a lack of complete purity is just plain facile.

I never said the arguments should be discarded. I acknowledged that Al Gore did a good job spreading the word about global warming.

I'm just saying it's refreshing when someone actually stands behind their argument by making a personal change or sacrifice.

>> Ethics aside, it's also bad strategy, and just won't work. If you're obligated to give up your car before writing about global warming, or obligated to become a vegan before writing about animal cruelty, or obligated to take monastic vows before writing about conflict in domestic relationships -- then you'll probably never write about any of these issues. And that won't help anybody, will it?

I find Moglen's absolutist point of view on this issue refreshing.

You're not obligated to give up your car or go vegan to write about certain issues, but you're a hypocrite if you don't acknowledge your own contribution to a problem.

Two examples:

Al Gore did a great job spreading the word about global warming, but he still has a larger carbon footprint than most Americans (it's well-documented).

Jonathan Safran Foer became vegan when he researched and wrote his book "Eating Animals" about animal cruelty.

We need more people like Foer, do we not?

>> Me: I think that’s totally relevant and will definitely put it in. (N.B.: In the end, I did not put this in the story for several reasons, not the least of it was the fact that it was late and over word limit.)

So what ARE the reasons?!?!

I'd like to hear why Adrianne Jeffries didn't include any of Moglen's points in the final article.

Does Adrianne Jeffries really think Moglen's ideas are "totally relevant"? The tone of her article suggests otherwise. She introduces him as a "militant" professor, and the title of her post appears to mock the entire situation.

The telephone exchange is certainly entertaining, but Moglen's points are relevant and I'm disappointed the author didn't include her reasons for omitting them from her article.

Thanks for the recommendation.

I love testing out text editors. I've been migrating back and forth between TextMate 2 and Sublime Text 2.

Looks like Vico will now be part of the rotation.

Interesting idea, but I don't see many use cases.

Are people really handing their phones out that often?

I only hand my phone to someone else when:

* I've asked them to take a photo of me.

* They're riding shotgun in my car and need to call a contact or navigate with info readily available on my phone.

Neither situation is risk for people snooping around.

+1 for trying the vegan diet

If you do this, please go to restaurants and request a vegan meal. The environmental benefits of the vegan diet are well-documented.

The best way to enact change is to get restaurants to start listing vegan options.

The average Ruby salary is about 3% higher than the average Python salary.

Not a big difference.

> these are all critiques you could have leveled with equal force in 2002

Netflix streaming wasn't around in 2002. This (and similar services) is the biggest factor in theaters losing market share.

> 5. Competition from other forms of delivery.

This is by far the biggest reason.

All of my peers own Netflix streaming accounts and watch most of their movies this way.

>> You can figure out whats happening on the field just from what they show on TV. I wrote an answer on quora on how to do this:

You've posted some great information here, but actually viewing all 22 players from a birds-eye-view affords an exponentially superior quality of analysis.

>> Um, no? There is nothing copyrighted about the on-field action of a football game. All they can do is kick you out of the stadium.

The NFL leases exclusive rights to TV stations to broadcast the action.

Anyone else who broadcasts the action will get sued and shut down.

>> why can't somebody with a good camera phone buy a seat in the nosebleed section, set up a tripod, and charge for the stream?

They can but they'd get sued.

This article reminds me of what I like to call the 'Ernie loves Skittles' story.

My childhood friend Ernie loved Skittles. He ate them at lunch every day.

But he would get so angry if someone at our lunch table ate any other type of candy. He'd say things like, "Starburst candy is stupid. Skittles are better." Or, "Why are you eating Smarties? Are you stupid?"

Eventually we just had to say, "Ernie. Relax. Skittles are great but there are other candies, too."

> A lone rich donor could cover the budget for an entire year, and many people who could afford that wouldn't even be mentioned in Wikipedia, so there would be little opportunity for any conflict of interest.

Isn't the risk of influence higher if a "lone rich donor" funds Wikipedia rather than hundreds of advertisers?

I don't understand how advertisers would in any way influence the content of Wikipedia.

I would argue that donors wield more control over an organization than advertisers.

Advertisers pay money to an organization and receive ad placement in return.

Donors (especially large ones) pay money to an organization and are more likely to ask for some sort of favor in return.

> there's never been a better time to learn to code, simply because the resources are so abundant and available.

I felt this way in 2001 when I started to teach myself HTML. There were plenty of free resources available online to learn.

The free education available now is exponentially more abundant. I would expect a similar leap during the next 10 years.

Agreed.

Learning any programming language, especially as a youth, puts you in a completely different class from someone who has no prior exposure to computer programming and its core concepts.

I am not the least surprised.

My girlfriend works for the Health Department in my home state. They paid two consultants $100,000 to convert paper documents to digital form. The contract lasted one week.

The consultants literally put documents into a scanner and converted them to PDF. At the end of the week they took their money and left, leaving the bulk of the documents unscanned.

An intern could've done this work for $10 an hour. And he/she would've actually finished the job.