[time-nuts] Paywall rant

[Pete Lancashire]

I may still have the option to get something like 600 to 800 lbs of
IRE publications.
I think in South Dakota. If anyone is game/interested I can check.



On Tue, Jun 5, 2012 at 6:15 AM, paul swed <paulswedb at gmail.com> wrote:
> Its actully pretty pervasive these days. I hate those sights so now
> carefully see what googles pointing me to before jumping if possible.
> So a quick question and not to take the thread.
> Anyone know if the old IRE papers might exist someplace for free?
> I ran across a few of the actual magazines and for me it was actually a
> good read.
> Regards
> Paul.
>
> On Tue, Jun 5, 2012 at 8:12 AM, Peter Gottlieb <nerd at verizon.net> wrote:
>
>>   I dropped my membership a couple of years ago.  Every single thing cost
>>   money; I couldn't even skim through papers to see if they were
>>   applicable without paying full price and it became increasingly
>>   difficult to justify membership PLUS paying for browsing privileges
>>   especially when there is actually very little of direct practical use.
>>
>>
>>   On 06/05/12, Attila Kinali<attila at kinali.ch> wrote:
>>
>>   On Tue, 05 Jun 2012 00:26:56 -0700
>>    Hal Murray <[1]hmurray at megapathdsl.net> wrote:
>>   > The IEEE is particularly behind the times. I assume it's left over
>>   from when
>>   > they could get away with it because they only had to jack up the
>>   price of
>>   > printed stuff by a small amount. Some of this may trace back to their
>>   > standards work where they could get away with high prices.
>>   Actually they are getting worse. IEEEs Computer Society started to send
>>   out yearly reminders that it's not ok to share documents you legaly
>>   acuired with your coworkers and friends. Telling them a few times that
>>   this is in contradiction to local law, which explicitly allows me to do
>>   that didn't change anything... That and also the wording that strongly
>>   suggests that anyone who is subscribed to the CDL is a thief
>>   ("illegaly"
>>   copying files and sharing them with the world) led me to the decision
>>   to cancel my subscription.
>>   Attila Kinali
>>   --
>>   It is upon moral qualities that a society is ultimately founded. All
>>   the prosperity and technological sophistication in the world is of no
>>   use without that foundation.
>>   -- Miss Matheson, The Diamond Age, Neil Stephenson
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