Precisely, there's a reason that these days, books made for libraries are made to an entirely different standard than books sold at your local book store.
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They also weren't destroying rare books. They were buying in-print books from major retailers, which means that while yes, that is environmentally wasteful, it's not actually destroying books in the classical destruction of knowledge sense since the manufacturer will just print another one if there's demand for it.
No, it was after their lawyers told them that was illegal and would cause them to lose a fair use copyright claim.
The diagnosed ones generally are, the others are generally self medicating in a variety of other ways, from caffeine to alcohol to nicotine to marijuana to illicit amphetamines.
For countries like Finland, the Ministry of Defense is not about offense, and is very heavily armed.
- embearassed
Oooh what an insult. I'm totally going to be embarassed by my public display name.
Yeah, it would not surprise me if the Supreme Court blocked it for being too reasonable.
Yup, gave mine to a neighbourhood kid that I babysat.
Honestly, over the years I think I've come to sour on the whole notion of collecting things as a hobby.
It's one thing if you're collecting stuff that no one wants and will be junked otherwise, or are collecting things to restore them and get rid of them again, but collecting stuff that is either highly desired or potentially used, just to collect it and have it sit there, feels really wasteful and self indulgent.
This judge actually fully understand how companies abuse two sided marketplaces and is thus forcing Google to open up both sides of the marketplace to competition. Both forcing Google to host new app stores inside the Play store so that they're visible to consumers, and forcing Google to allow those app stores to distribute the Google Play apps so that the app stores aren't crippled by a lack of developers.
This is a way way way bigger win than I could ever have hoped for.
If you want to know why it's taken seriously:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=kTXTPe3wahc
Tl;dr: you need to actually understand the physics at play that lead to serious consideration of the many worlds theory. It's not the pop-sci it gets painted as. It's much more specific.