2016年12月6日 星期二

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Over three centuries the union between Scotland and England has survived skirmishes, rivalries and, last year, a nail-biting referendum. But increasingly, Scotland is its own country. It will soon decide its own income-tax levels and bands, control half the receipts from the VAT sales tax and set some welfare payments http://econ.st/1FFtc6U

Binyamin Netanyahu’s dramatic declaration to world leaders in 2012 that Iran was about a year away from making a nuclear bomb was contradicted by his own secret service, according to a top-secret Mossad document.

Harper's Publisher Standing Firm in His Defense of Print and Paywall

By RAVI SOMAIYA
John R. MacArthur, of Harper's Magazine, is part of a small group of publishers who say they believe that the Internet is bad for writers and readers.


ON THIS DAY
On Dec. 24, 1992, President Bush pardoned former Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger and five others in the Iran-Contra scandal.


The emerging business model is now the metered paywall: a few free articles entice readers, but they must pay if they want more (a model used by The Economist and the New York Times, among others). Paywalls have doubled in America this year. Other outlets are banding together to charge for access. Piano Media, a Slovakian firm, lets users buy access to multiple websites, TV and radio stations in a single country for a flat fee. It pays publishers in proportion to time spent by users on their sites. Such ideas may work better than hoping for a cheque from Google.




A person need never have assessed the evidence for anything in order to be rich in opinion. On the contrary. Sometimes, sad to say, one even goes on assenting to sentences that contradict one another. This, however, is because inconsistency is not always obvious. We can no longer believe all of a set of sentences to be true once we know them to be in contradiction with one another, since contradiction requires one or another of them to be false.



Murdoch Finalizes Paywall for Two British Papers

By MATTHEW SALTMARSH
The Times and The Sunday Times of London will sell daily and weekly subscriptions to users of a combined Web site starting in June.



A pay wall (or paywall) blocks access to a webpage with a window requiring payment. Web sites that use them include some owned by periodical publications.[1]
In 2002 the Financial Times started charging for Web access to published stories. [2]
In the UK, MoneyWeek started using a paywall in 2005. Now sixty per cent of the magazine content stays behind the subscriber paywall for one month. This includes cover stories and in-depth articles. Managing Director, Toby Bray says they are keen to emulate the FT.com model which gives access to a certain number of articles per month across the entire site.[3]
The Wall Street Journal is the last major newspaper in the USA to still have its website behind a pay wall.[contradiction] The Journal has almost one million paying online readers, which generates about $65 million a year. [4] [5]

Pay walls removed

The New York Times had a subscription program, TimesSelect, which charged $49.95 a year, or $7.95 a month, for online access to the newspaper's archives. In 2007 paid subscriptions were earning $10 million, but if every reader who reached the pay wall had entered the site, ad revenue would have been higher.[citation needed] 2010}} In 2007 The New York Times dropped the pay wall to its post 1980 archive. Pre 1980 articles in a pdf format are still behind the pay wall, but an abstract of most articles is available for free. [4]
In 2008 the Atlantic Monthly dropped its pay wall. [6]

First click free

On December 1, 2009 Google announced changes to their "first click free" program which is running since 2008 and allows users e.g. of the Wall Street Journal to find and read articles behind a paywall. The reader's first click to the content is free, and the number after that would be set by the content provider.[7][8]




contradictLine breaks: contra|dict
Pronunciation: /kɒntrəˈdɪkt/



Definition of contradict in English:

VERB

[WITH OBJECT]
1Deny the truth of (a statement) by asserting theopposite:the survey appears to contradict the industry’sclaims[WITH CLAUSE]: he did not contradict what he said lastweek
1.1Assert the opposite of a statement made by (someone):he did not contradict her but just said nothingwithin five minutes he had contradicted himselftwice
1.2Be in conflict with:the existing layout of the city contradicted thelogic of the new centre

Origin

late 16th century: from Latin contradict- 'spoken against', from the verb contradicere, originally contra dicere 'speak against'.

contradiction
(kŏn'trə-dĭk'shən) pronunciation
n.
    1. The act of contradicting.
    2. The state of being contradicted.
  1. A denial.
  2. Inconsistency; discrepancy.
  3. Something that contains contradictory elements.
邏輯學上,矛盾自相矛盾牴觸(contradiction)被更加特殊化的定義為同時斷言一個命題和它的否定。這個想法基於亞里士多德無矛盾律,它聲稱「你不能同時聲稱某事物在同一方面既是又不是」。

contra

  
音節
con • tra
発音
kɑ'ntrə | kɔ'n-
contraの変化形
contras (複数形)
[名]((しばしばC-))コントラ:ニカラグアの反政府右派勢力(1981-1990).

contra‐

音節con・tra‐ 発音記号/kάntrəkˈɔn‐/
【接頭辞】
[]…(againstcontrary)」「【音楽】 普通の低音 (bass) より 1[2]オクターブ低いなどの.
ラテン語against' の

    band[band2]

  • 発音記号[bǽnd]
[名]
1 縛る[くくる]もの;ひも, 帯, バンド;(本の)背とじ糸
a rubber band
輪ゴム
a band for hair
ヘアバンド.
2 (機械の)ベルト;《建築》帯飾り.
3 ((古))責務, 義務;縁.
4 すじ, 縞(しま)(模様)
blue bands on a white ground
白地に青い縞.
5 ((〜s))
(1) (法服などの)首から折り返ったえり.
(2)Geneva bands.
6
(1) 周波(数)帯, 帯域.
(2) ((英))(課税所得に基づく)階層区分.
7 (レコードの)音みぞ;《コンピュータ》(磁気ドラム・ディスクの)トラック.
8 《解剖学》靭(じん)帯.
9 《採鉱》薄い鉱床.
━━[動](他)
1 〈物を〉くくる, 縛る;〈服などに〉バンドをつける;〈鳥などに〉識別標をつける;…に縞をつける
a jacket banded with black
黒い縞入りの上着.
2 ((英))〈課税などを〉(支払い能力に応じて)階層区分する.
3 ((英))〈生徒を〉学力別に分ける.

band

A range of values or a specified category within a series (used especially in financial contexts):your home was placed in one of eight valuationbands


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