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"may the one who never sinned throw a rock at me"
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That's one of the most stupid politically correct ideas of the modern times. Thinking descendants of perpetrators owe anything to descendant of victim fails to account that, in most cases, the victims would actually have done the same than th eperpetrators had they be in the similar position of power (see slavery / natives vs europeans). It's bullshit. It's human nature that people abuse people. It's never a race/ people / specific group issue.
not saying it's good, just that it's a fact
Because ads make money to all parties except the user.
My point is just that you have to weight the cost: it provided tremendous value through the system of journals, while not really giving a "real" drawback since everyone in research who has ever wanted to get a given paper in the past 5 decades has been able to find it despite the locking by trying hard enough to bypass it.
i don't even understand the downvotes: i don't agree with the system and Elsevier can die but my point is just that they never were a really tangible "problem". Mostly a "1rst world problem".
It's always the value market which dictates what happens. Even a dictator has provide values for enough people (not necessarily its citizen) to stay in power.
which is ? seriously wondering
Actually they didn't. They just hid the option
Uh why ? I think it's exactly the opposite
Also even though a agree with your bigger point its not really what happens here. People are just being stupid here, not even understanding they are playing with their life.
(just explaining the downvotes)