- Internet Activist Charged in Data Theft - NYTimes.com
La lecture de l'acte d'accusation est un véritable feuilleton.
http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/07/19/reddit-co-founder-charged-with-data-theft/ ()- Pas de gilet pare-balle à la prochaine Gay Pride - Journal d'un avocat
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Le Dimanche 17 juillet 2011 à 16:47 par Damien B
Pour ces cas, les forces de l’ordre utilisent des FAMAS (5.56 mm NATO, en service dans l’armée), des FR-F2 (7,62mm NATO)
N’empêche, tirer au NATO ça pue mais ça ne fait pas bien mal. Ça serait vraiment dangereux s’ils tiraient avec des munitions normées OTAN par contre.
- Q: I don't understand book lengths. How can books have the same number of pages but have different word counts?
()Books need to be a predictable size; they have to be manufactured to a price, stored, transported and displayed. Then they have to fit on home bookshelves. People tend to like books that are easy to read, handle, and store. We generally like and need novels to be certain sizes. If you picked up a diary-sized novel in a series one day and the sequel was the size of a family bible, you'd probably find that annoying. I know many readers won't buy hardcovers and wait for mass market paperback editions simply because the regular size of "MMPBs" fits their bookcase, or is easier to carry around.
So, production editors and typographers do a very clever job of smoothing out that big variation using white space and font sizes to get more words on each page - or fewer. They're so good at doing it that a manuscript of 100,000 words can be made into a book that is identical in overall size to one up to twice the length. Don't believe me? Pick a few books at random, do a word count, and then look at the appearance of the pages. You won't notice it unless you're looking for it.
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Page count doesn't mean a thing. It doesn't tell you how much book you're getting for your money. And, to be brutal, if your evaluation of any book is based on how many words you get rather than the impact it has on you and how well it's written - well, that's just dumb. Sorry, but it is. It's not like a pound of apples for 50 pence being better value than a pound for 75 pence. You're not being short-changed if you get a shorter novel. And left wanting more is not being short-changed. It's what good books are supposed to do.
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So don't get hung up about counting pages. A book is as long as it needs to be to tell the story. Just open it, and enjoy.
