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The DS Scene has been mired in chaos since its inception. One of the main reasons is that it's taken a very long time for a standardized viable piracy solution to appear, so there has been no real standard for releasing or way of testing releases.
DS Scene - PHWiki
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I use the term __“efficacy” to describe the quality or virtue that the Politics journalists took to be the mark of a good and worthy journalist in these circumstances—that is, the ability to handle one’s news assignments in a way that effectively achieved the ends and outcomes that needed to be achieved in order for one’s newsmaking project to continue.__ I examine three reportorial skills that the Politics journalists cultivated to make themselves more efficacious newsmakers. These are, first, the ability to identify __“doable”__ (keyi zuo de) news items, topics that are likely to result in publishable articles; second, the ability to approach the news reporting process __“as a game”__; and, third, the ability to bend the rules of the news reporting process to make one’s assignments __easier to complete__.
The Currency of Truth
Emily H. C. Chua
If this sounds familiar, it is broadly similar to the trade that Bed Bath & Beyond Inc. did earlier this year to sell stock. In each case, there is a weird instrument that looks like a convertible security, and a big “investor” who is buying most or all of it. But in each case, the buyer is not really set up to be a long-term investor in the company: The investor is getting the stock in installments, at a discount to market value, and selling each installment to retail investors on the stock exchange. And the investor is getting paid a nice fee for structuring the trade, giving the company the money upfront, and generally obscuring what is happening. “We are selling $365 million of stock to retail investors to raise $300 million” just sounds less good than “we are selling a $340 million convertible with a 30% conversion premium to a big investor.”
A Stock Fund That Can’t Go Down - Bloomberg
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