RTBTCKI (Will it or Won't it rain edition)

[puppetmaker]

Try 2 since my word program ate the first one.

The weather is iffy. If I go out and start yard work it will rain. If I stay inside and work, it won’t. Yes, I can control the weather with my actions.

Peter saw Iron Man 2 and enjoyed it. Unfortunately one of our favorite scenes from the trailers is not in the film. But overall he gives it a thumbs up.

Peter came up with a theory about LOST that makes me feel a little better but not much. It is getting harder to watch it these days (I am asking for vagueness in your comments and lets avoid spoilers right now.)

I want to answer a question that was posed to me the other day. If you buy a book (say you bought Interview with a Vampire in Hardcover when it first came out) and then sell the book on E-Bay, you aren’t breaking any laws. You purchased a physical book and it is yours to do with as you want. If you make a profit on the book, more power to you. But scanning it and putting out on the Internet is wrong. Using the library argument is so wrong that I am not even going to start explain why. You have one copy of the book and if you sell the one copy, then you have none but someone else has the one.

Peter signs various things that he wrote from free because he feels that you have already paid for the book or comic or fill-in-the-blank and the least he can do is sign it. But scanning in one of his books so your friends can read it robs us of royalties that keep the lights on and put food on the table. Lending the physical book or comic to a friend is fine because again it is your copy to do with as you will. And maybe that person will then buy some of Peter’s other books. But if they can find everything online for free, where is the incentive to buy anything?

Supernatural is wrapping up with a big bang. We’ll see how this plays out.

Mets are apparently are trying to lose 8 straight after winning 8 to balance the cosmic scales or something. The number of games going into extra innings is getting absurd.

Well the weather is improving so I think outside is where I am going for a bit.

Also I can feel the coffee kicking in so Have a great day.

I am grateful for people who buy my husband’s books, comic books, and other things.

Comments

[chazari.livejournal.com]

Oh. My. God. Lost. I cried like a baby. It was so beautiful. I have theories and have determined there will be a happy ending otherwise I'd still be crying. I am dying to know Peter's theory.

Oh, and I cannot wait for Supernatural tonight!

[puppetmaker40.livejournal.com]

PEter has his theory up at his website www.peterdavid.net.

[chazari.livejournal.com]

Just read it and that's roughly our current theory. The question is how much gets um...merged and what happens to the "winner." Sun already remembered Locke when she was going into the hospital, what does that indicate for the end?

I think the answer is in Watership Down. I've just never read the book.

[queenanthai.livejournal.com]

Just wondering your opinion on this:

I have a pull list of comics at my LCS. I can't get out there till at least next Monday, but I'm dying to read a story. If I download the comic and read it and then buy it next week, is it still absolutely horrible?

I'm easily guilted. :(

[wookieegunner.livejournal.com]

To me, the idea is transfer of ownership. When I loan a book out, I transfer ownership of that book with certain restrictions, for example you have to transfer ownership back to me when you are done. If I sell it, I transfer ownership to you with a restriction, that you habe to give me money gor it. When I give a book I have transferred ownership with no restrictions.


Now when I post a scan of a book online, I still retain ownership and therfore have done something wrong because when I purchased the book, by modern law unless there is a specific copyright clause, I am not allow to release the book without transfer of ownership because that is the heart of copyright, that the original creatordecides who has the right to increase the pool of owners (i.e. Make copies)

PS about the project I PM'd you about, am I waiting on you, you waiting on me, or have you decided you aren't interested?

[popfiend.livejournal.com]

The Mets are playing tough and gritty baseball which is more than anyone expected this season. The problem is that they are coming up on the losing end of too many of these games. But I think they have a shot. They just need to get that ship righted. But it is possible.

[ghilledhu.livejournal.com]

I'm glad Peter liked IM2 - I enjoyed the first one so much that I've been approaching the sequel with mingled anticipation and dread.

Re. book scanning - I think the difference between selling a book you bought and scanning it for the web is volume. You have one copy of a book, you sell one copy of a book. One copy changes hands. Hundreds of other people who want the book still need to buy a copy if they want to own it. If you buy a book and then scan it onto the web, one copy of the book becomes hundreds or thousands, and that's hundreds or thousands of people who now don't have to buy the book.