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[Scoops Novel]

I don't think there is a religion without faith, as that seems to be what the pic is mostly about.

Conceptually Buddhism, actually. Siddhartha was pretty big on the whole "reason this shit out yourself, I'm just offering some possible answers" thing, iirc. Meet buddha on the road, cut him down, etc.

Probably other ones out there, eh. Depends to a degree on what you classify as religion, ha. Classical buddhism was more philosophy than religion, by most standards. Largely because that whole "no metaphysics, idiots" rule Buddha kinda' put down.

And... right now, I can't actually recall what definition I was using for religion last time I cared to actually nail something down. Eh. There's more than one, which one you cleave to changes what fits in it, so forth, so on. People have been arguing off and on about it for a long damn time now, ha.

I was wondering how the surprisingly accurate buddhism and i think the deified Buddha weigh up statistically.

[penguinofhonor]

It hurts me to see an old youtube video transcribed onto 4chan, then to see that transcription turned into low quality jpeg screenshots. People could just watch the video.

I did not know the video existed, could you link it perhaps?

Here's the original. Mary happens to be a dude.

[pisskop]

Hey, fun question.  what do you all think of war bonds?  Would they be viable today?

[Pnx]

Err, would people buy into them? Maybe?

War bonds were typically war bonds were never a good investment compared to other investments, heck most of the time people lost money on WWII bonds due to inflation.

[Furtuka]

Amazon.com is going to be selling fanfiction

[kaijyuu]

The fiancee pointed out this. I was amused while reading of it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cult_of_reason

[Flying Dice]

Amazon.com is going to be selling fanfiction

So normal fanfiction, except you can only write about franchises that they have licenses for, and readers have to pay for it? Yeah, that's going to be a commercial success.

[Lagslayer]

Amazon.com is going to be selling fanfiction

So normal fanfiction, except you can only write about franchises that they have licenses for, and readers have to pay for it? Yeah, that's going to be a commercial success.

But what does it cost amazon? If the answer is anything less than "something", then there's no downside.

[Tellemurius]

Amazon.com is going to be selling fanfiction

So normal fanfiction, except you can only write about franchises that they have licenses for, and readers have to pay for it? Yeah, that's going to be a commercial success.

But what does it cost amazon? If the answer is anything less than "something", then there's no downside.

a chunk of money does go to royalties, basically they make money but have to share with the copyright holders.

[Bdthemag]

Why would you want to pay for fan-fiction? Like seriously? It's not as if the various fan-fiction communities are producing substantial pieces of work on a daily basis.

[Flying Dice]

Amazon.com is going to be selling fanfiction

So normal fanfiction, except you can only write about franchises that they have licenses for, and readers have to pay for it? Yeah, that's going to be a commercial success.

But what does it cost amazon? If the answer is anything less than "something", then there's no downside.

a chunk of money does go to royalties, basically they make money but have to share with the copyright holders.

Given the combined facts of there being established free alternatives and the fact that their selection of works to write about is... slim, to say the least, it's not exactly a stroke of genius. They might make enough to make it worthwhile, but I see no possible future where it's even remotely as successful as free fanfiction.

[Max White]

You say that, but then people buy bottled water in areas where tap water is not only safe, but recommended as a healthier choice.

[Flying Dice]

Obvious conclusions go in, idiotic actions come out. Can't explain that!



In all seriousness, my conclusion is based on the assumption that people are basically rational, at least when it comes to securing the best and cheapest supply of things they like. That's probably a poor assumption to make.

[Putnam]

Extremely. The exact opposite is true most of the time, in fact.

[Frumple]

Awareness is more of an issue, really. Something official like that is somewhat more likely to actually ping the radar of the sort of folks that believe if a thing has no price it has no worth, or the lot that really really want fanfiction but have never seen it and never heard of it (see: 50 shades sales). Bit of a preying/banking on ignorance thing, methinks.

I do rather doubt it's going to go anywhere in particular, though. Not having to go through all the license foofaraw is kinda' part of why a lot of people write fanfiction to begin with.

... is a kind of side along worry that some lackwits up top are going to try to crack down on fanfiction in order to attempt to squeeze a buck out of the concept, though. Good bloody luck with that, but given the general theme of things nowadays...