I wonder what workflow the author uses to take notes while reading? I prefer reading on a kindle or the iPad, but these devices are so geared towards consuming content that it's almost impossible to have a frictionless workflow taking notes.
When it comes to eBooks, Marvin for iOS has a great system where you can easily select/highlight entire sentences. If I want to add a note, I choose the highlight and annotate option and then dictate to siri what my note is. That works pretty well, and I can then easily export highlights and annotations to email (and then another system).
For pdf's I use Goodreader, and the same annotation technique.
Still not ideal though. I would be very interested in an app where I can highlight text and immediately dictate (or record) comments without an extra tap...
I've been using the Amazon web reader (mostly because I'm in Beijing at the moment and getting anything onto my kindle is a pain). I have the reader full-screen and Atom in Zen mode, and switch back and forth with i3.
For the books already there I took notes as I read. For the current book I'm trying out reading a chapter, writing down notes from memory and then skimming the chapter again to see if I missed anything.
For stuff I want to follow up I've been just putting TODO in the notes rather than breaking the flow.
Sorry for this off topic comment but it's related(kind of):
I've always wondered how a crime committed on a ship can be caught. For example, the crew of a ship mutinies against their captain and throws him overboard. When they get back to port, they claim that their captain was swept overboard during a storm. The crew, as one man, sticks to their story. Will anybody ever be able to prove otherwise?
This approaches being the perfect crime as the number of crew members go down, doesn't it?
I suppose the investigators would look for inconsistencies in 'the story' as told by different parties. If 'the story' is true then additional detail will be forthcoming and generally non-contradictory between accounts. If its all a cover-up then individual suspects will invent different details and give themselves away. 'We know at least one of you is lying.' At which point someone will betray the conspiracy for favourable terms, and the police will have a real witness. Maybe also this is the reason for a 'captain's log' - if that went missing too then there'd be even more suspicion.
It is very infrequent that the whole crew is a part of mutiny. Captain usually has at least a few adherents as well. Kind of hard to explain away disappearance of the captain and his clique.
Yes, but the scene of crime in this case is still available for the police to look at, and the dead body doesn't go anywhere.
The position of the body can in most cases show if the victim tripped or was pushed. Tampering with the body after the fall leaves even more clues for the police to find.
There is a strong dividing line between officers and crew on a ship. There is no reasonable way for the crew to recruit the officers to go along with eliminating the captain. In a mutiny, all of the officers would be killed, making any story the crew tells statistically improbable.
I think the law of the mother country applies on the boat. i.e. a boat flying an english flag is subject to english law on the boat. If you have your own boat, fly a pirate flag instead (i.e. not a member of any country), then you can make your own rules. However other countries might sink you.
The rise of the Tea Party movement in the US has most countries worried about the consequences. China, with its state media, is in a better position to influence its populace along the lines that it considers beneficial to its foreign policy.
While the same isn't true for most of the other large/powerful countries, it is a fact that even the free press in these countries take quite an alarmist view over the growing influence of Tea Party thinkers in the US.
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I'm not so sure about the Aggressive Pacifism. From the Wikipedia article about the book -->
The book is also interesting historically as Butler points out in 1935 that the US is engaging in military war games in the Pacific that are bound to provoke the Japanese.
"The Japanese, a proud people, of course will be pleased beyond expression to see the United States fleet so close to Nippon's shores. Even as pleased as would be the residents of California were they to dimly discern through the morning mist, the Japanese fleet playing at war games off Los Angeles."
Well, I didn't say that everyone in the 1930s was a pacifist. Obviously plenty of people weren't.
Wikipedia on 1930s pacifism: The British Labour Party had a strong pacifist wing in the early 1930s and between 1931 and 1935 was led by George Lansbury, a Christian pacifist who later chaired the No More War Movement and was president of the PPU. The 1933 annual conference resolved unanimously to "pledge itself to take no part in war". "Labour's official position, however, although based on the aspiration towards a world socialist commonwealth and the outlawing of war, did not imply a renunciation of force under all circumstances, but rather support for the ill-defined concept of 'collective security' under the League of Nations.
What WePay went ahead and did just proved to me that they aren't a bunch of stuck-up suits, which is unfortunately what PayPal seems to have become. Rather than seeing this as naive, I admire their creativity and their guts in pulling this off. They just earned my respect.
Hi Jacques, as someone who's had trouble with Paypal, what stops you from using, say, WePay in place of PayPal? I just wanted to understand your thought process regarding this?
Nothing, I just have not had the need to pay someone for anything in the last two weeks. Alternatives that I can use are international wire transfers and western union. Both have their own set of disadvantages, I'm most likely going to give some other service (possibly wepay) a shot when the next payment comes up. (and that's going to be fairly soon by the looks of it).
Ok, do let us know how it works out :) I'm not sure if you'll be able to use WePay though, since their FAQs[1] state that they don't allow international payments at the moment(if that's what you'll be doing)
I can't speak for Jacques, but as a fellow european, the single one thing stopping me from using WePay is: (lack of) international payments. I've just integrated PayPal in my startup against my own better judgement, but as soon as we pull in a fixed amount of money (1000$ for now), I'm switching to a decent merchant-based solution.
That sir, I believe, is the incorrect way to do it. I may believe in capitalism, and I may believe that communism is wrong and someone who supports it is misinformed. But that should not mean that I downvote all comments extolling the merits of communism. I try to keep in mind that what the commentor wrote is his/her opinion and if that comment is well-written and adds value to the discussion, it should be upvoted and encouraged.
Long story short, comments that add value, contribute positively to discussion and are insightful need to be encouraged. My stand on the topic should have no bearing.
From http://www.sarm.am/en/standarts/view/2550
regarding countries where GOST 7.84-2002 is accepted :
Ukraina
Turkmenistan
Russian Federation
Uzbekistan
Tadjikistan
Moldova
Kazakhstan
Georgia
Belorussia
Armenia
Kirgizstan
Azebaijan
