Sir, read rule 4.

Oh come on, a worst that was "explain it like I'm in highschool." It's a complicated question but the answer explained simply enough the complex ideas.

That has more to do with the question asked than the answer given

But eggs are used to make pancakes???

Minecraft has reasonably limited game play objectives. There's a dragon you can go kill, and a couple of other bosses, but they're not really the point.

The point really is to explore and create.

It's popular because it's mechanics are simple to understand and work with for new players and even young children, but the potential for things to do is really limited solely by your imagination.

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What about a psyduck

During World War II, the Nazis were in control of much information and spread false information about what was happening to Jews and other minority groups. They also punished people who tried to spread the truth. The Jews in Elie Wiesel's town lived far from the war and the first concentration camps and didn't know what was happening. When the Nazis came to their town, it was too late for them to escape or find out the truth. This was partly because they didn't have access to information and partly because they couldn't believe the terrible things that were happening.

I only have so much flesh and blood to go around though

I mean no disrespect but Does anyone else feel the Auto moderation on this subreddit needs to be a little less strict? I feel this is a valid question and can't understand why it needs to be removed???

Hilarious. Disc drives. Sounds about right.

Many libraries do not require that you live in the area to get a library card and allow you to renew them online. You can get library cards from all over and increase your odds of being able to get the books you want. Source: I might know someone that has a few dozen library cards :)

Well, because the unfertilized fruits cannot create more trees therefore once the original trees die, the fruit would cease to exist

Publishers sell books to libraries. A book can be checked out about 20 times before normal wear and tear makes it unsuitable for circulation, and a new book is purchased. Also, they'd buy multiple copies of popular books so multiple people can read them at once. Once those books have been read, they don't often get checked out again. Imagine Oprah recommends a book for everyone to read. High checkouts one month, low checkouts the next month.

For eBooks, the same sales paradigm as physical books has been replicated. Libraries purchase bundles of X number of checkouts, with a certain number of checkouts at a time.

You're right in that you absolutely could do as you say, technically speaking. But that would infringe on copyright. The rights holders have the right to sell them as they wish.

What makes eBooks different is that each time you lend an eBook, you are not actually "lending" anything. You make a new copy on your device. Even if you are prevented from accessing the original copy, it's just promising not to use it while someone else makes an illegal copy. This would invalidate copyright. That's why eBooks are treated more like software than books. Physically, they are.

Money, and contracts requiring us to repurchase the title after a contracted number of checkouts.

Library Nerd for 20 years here.

Physical books we typically keep between 25 to 50 checkouts. After that, we figure the taxpayers got their value out of it, and if it becomes lost or damaged, we typically write it off.

Digital content come with Digital Rights Management and contracts. That same Stephen King physical book might check out 40 times before we decide to replace it. Some of our digital content becomes inactive after 17 checkouts, and we have to "buy" a new copy to keep up with demand. It's irritating. And each vendor has their own metrics, complicating the problem.

We have our own calculations and metrics to decided how many to buy on release (X number of requests means we need Y number of copies to fulfill in Z amount of time), but digital copies are a blessing and a curse and a money suck.

Edit: That being said, nothing is stopping you from checking out books on CD, and ripping them while you browse Reddit.

What you do with the material purchased with taxpayer dollars, in your own house, is your own business as long as you do not deny access to the material to other members of th community.

Doesn't the brain release chemicals to control organs? Sorry i don't understand these chemical processes your speaking about?

Vaping without nicotine may not seem as harmful, but it's still bad news for your health. That's because e-cigs heat up a liquid containing chemicals, flavorings and other additives to create a vapor you inhale into your lungs. The heating process can release toxic chemicals like formaldehyde and acrolein, and the long-term effects of inhaling these unknown. Plus, the flavorings used can be harmful and have been linked to serious health issues.

Publishers are the money grubbers .They charge exorbitant rates for public libraries to buy popular fiction. Or they insist the libraries take lousy Ebooks off their hands for a reduced cost. Our local library has a glut of lousy Ebooks that crowd the online Ebook sites. Going digital has improved the access one has to reading material 24/7 without leaving home. The good Ebooks are always in use. At Christmas I wanted to take out a bunch of Christmas festive books as I had extra time off this year. All of the Christmas stuff was borrowed. Now that it is February all of the holiday reading is available. Which is no help at all.

I've been trying to find an online library that lends Ebooks for a nominal fee , they don't exist. I really miss the old libraries.

Congratulations comrade, you have discovered the French Republican Calendar!

Not revealing any personal data, but both Fintech and Silicon Valley is paying staff this way. The annual stock award is performance based, and except for the last 2 years there has been a bull market that also swells the award granted 4 years ago.

Sea water is waaaaaaay salter than saline. We need enough salt(electrolytes) to be able to conduct bio-electrical signals, but too much salt causes water to be sucked out of our cells, as it equalizes the salinity across the water content of our body.

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It’s not conjecture, it’s what is happening. Look at the size of the buybacks. It’s tens of billions of dollars. For example Chevron’s latest $75Bn or Google at $70bn last year. That’s a huge sum, and Google’s top 3 biggest acquisitions are Motorola at $12.5bn, Nest at $3.2bn and Doubleclick at $3.1bn.

So it could remake 3 of its biggest acquisitions and still have about $50bn for a buyback. They would then have three huge acquisitions to integrate and manage, which is a lot of work for HR and a pivot for the company to new revenue sources and a risk of being investigated as a monopoly.

They have no better idea to use the vast sums of money other than a buyback.

Explain it like I'm an astro-physicist...

Thank you for your time sir