This is the first time in a long time I've considered commenting on TC (for the gawdawful headline typo) - and so just now discovered comments were not displaying. It then occurred to me it might have to do with my use of facebookblocker.
Yep. Turning off FBBlocker displayed the comments - and would have permitted me to comment. Sorry. Not interested in unifying all my visibility on the web. Am I the only one that is uncomfortable with this inescapability of to participate in web discussions?
> the falsehood that high net worth requirements somehow protect consumers
Perhaps they serve to protect that vulnerable segment of our population, the mega-corporation?
Once yours reaches sufficient size/influence [never to be explicitly specified] it may be able to claim such rights for itself before the U.S. Supreme Court, the supremely sympathetic arbitrator of such matters in this country. [/sarcasm]
I don't think it's a foregone conclusion that Isaacson is "seeking more attention."
I think the attention-people (media) are begging for his early words and competing intensely for his time/words. The publisher may also have some stipulation in Isaacson's contract about how available he is to make himself to interviews with media outlets. Not saying I have evidence that's the way it's going down - just that such factors are at least as arguable as a hypothesis that Isaacson is an attention-monger.
Agreed. Some of the specifics made me stand up and pay attention, e.g.:
"It appears that Amazon wants to be the one controlling the price of my product. As it seems, they would be able to simply define any price for the product, and change it at any time they want, without asking me about this."
Got it now in my permanent file of links on Amazon practices.
Google search on "amazon's battle with sales tax" shows that several media outlets have published articles with this title. So, wsj, what's so valuable about yours?
Until someone can provide an enticing tl;dr from behind the paywall (and indicating a significant addition to the years of analysis that already occurred about this phenomenon), I'll be declining to contribute to Rupert's NewsCorp.
Actually the article is more about trading in "secondary markets", something that had been completely off my radar:
"the secondary markets -- the private exchanges where early employees and investors can sell off the shares they hold in not-yet-public companies to willing buyers."
Note the alternative presented: "Citrix gives staff a stipend and they then buy the computer of their choice."
That would work for me (as an employee).
However, if I ran a despotic company where employees were apt to act out against "the man" I'd be pretty nervous about letting Pandora bring in her own box, so to speak.
[another pop-culture disconnectee here]: I wouldn't know the name if he had not instigated an infamous "wardrobe malfunction" at a superbowl (not that I actually watched the game/halftime).
I mean, I like my size how I like it - and adjust it all the time ( cntl/cmd -/+ keys) as I move from site to site or use windows of different sizes. [And have even set a hot-key combo to toggle on/off Safari's "Zoom text only" feature.]
I've been told that only the geekiest 1% of population are even aware of the possibility of text zoom, but for us... doesn't anybody else tweak on the fly all the time?
I prefer: "In God we trust. The rest show data."