Thursday, September 30, 2010

Dark Knight With Digital Copy

One day in district court

Il leggendario giudice Roy Bean, "la legge a ovest del Pecos".


La storia di Amanda ha scatenato una serie di polemiche sul tema: sarebbe stato legale fare il nome dell'agente lettararia, oppure no? Anche se le motivazioni scatenanti che giustificano (per così dire) la polemica sono fortemente illogiche, penso che l'argomento possa essere di interesse abbastanza generale per dedicargli un breve post.

Il ragionamento, ammesso che tale si possa definire, in sostanza è: non è vietato pubblicare con nomi e cognomi le email di cui sei il destinatario, e quindi tutta la storia di Amanda è una balla.

Questa would be nonsense even if the premise were true, because the fact that I could be wrong on the Italian case law does not automatically mean that the story of Amanda is false, at least for those who populate the right side of the Gaussian .

In addition, the premise is also false, which should satisfy even those on the left - if not in bad faith.

As I said, I think the argument can be of general interest, so I'll make a brief summary.

The facts: a journalist subscribes to a mailing list public used by judges to exchange news and views. Registration is free, open to anyone . The giornalista, trovando interessanti alcune delle email che ha ricevuto, le pubblica sul proprio giornale con tanto di nomi e cognomi. Alcuni dei componenti della mailing list lo denunciano e lo citano per danni.

La sentenza: il Tribunale di Milano, I sezione civile, condanna il giornalista al pagamento di 15.000 euro di danni e altri 11.000 e rotti per spese accessorie. In particolare, la sentanza fa riferimento proprio all'art. 15 della Costituzione da me citato.

Qui potete leggere l'intera sentenza.


C'è anche un'altra osservazione da fare: il giornalista non ha dovuto inventarsi una falsa identità e un relativo indirizzo di posta per iscriversi alla mailing list: l'iscrizione was free to anyone.

now, then it may be that the reporter is acquitted in the Supreme Court. But I should take the risk to go through three steps to review what to do despite a couple of prima donnas who like to think that Amanda's story is false, and that we still shit when it is established that but is it true?

There's another question then, beyond the legal issues, and most importantly, the literary agent Xyzxyz Lady is not a monster, not the stone of scandal and does not deserve to be pilloried. In the experiment, the Lady Xyzxyz was the instrument of measure of a general situation goes far beyond his intentions and his will, and whose guilt can not be unloaded on her.

Monday, September 27, 2010

Remote Car Starter Not Responding

Kindness for kindness


Uriel Fanelli A few days ago that I was part of a dedicated post on his blog (thanks to the Anonymous who pointed out to me). As this took me a lot 'of contacts, I want to return the favor.

http://www.wolfstep.cc/2010/09/il-mercato-dei-paraculi.html

I agree 100% with his analysis of the seven that make up tricks to sell the poor footage of the newsroom's editorial today, and I think Amanda should experiment to confirm this.

Question: if the experiment Amanda is in total agreement with what he says, chemminchia Uriel Fanelli want from me then? ^____^

Reading here and there on his blog, I suspect that the boy is so in contrast to finish up everything to be in contrast with the counter (yes, count as double negative). So, if you think like him but you say the same thing before him and more effectively (the young person is awake but does not have the gift of synthesis), Vittorio Sgarbi reacts like a transvestite at a party when he learns that c 'is another of him dressed as Veronica Lake.

Returning to his post, Uriel Fanelli takes an I share fully the mechanisms of choice for publishers, but also tells of crap.

Meanwhile, according to him want to become a publishing event. Too bad that I did not write no book-publishing world on the complaint, nor do I intend to write, but just a quick post on my blog.

Then, on the first and last names makes it a bit 'too easy. It is probably ignorant on the subject, because the example that the thief is a light tight. The thief has in fact committed a crime, Mrs. Xyzxyz not. I do not know if Uriel Fanelli is deliberately confusing judicial proceedings and "complaint" as a journalist is either very confused or in bad faith because it is trivially obvious that they are two different things, being the first given to the Prosecutor's Office while the second is addressed to the reading public and with very different purposes.

As I said, I did not put the literary agent's name I mentioned it to reveal the contents of private correspondence and telephone calls is a crime. Also, if I put in, the lady could always deny everything.

Whether then confirmed or denied that he had all the Lady Xyzxyz could easily have sued for defamation, because Italian law does not make any difference if what you said is true or false (art. 596 Criminal Code). To defame someone sufficiente nuocere alla sua reputazione, anche dicendo cose vere. Non puoi commettere invece pubblica diffamazione quando vai a denunciare un presunto ladro, perché alla denuncia manca la caratteristica di essere pubblica . Al limite, puoi commettere il reato di calunnia nel caso in cui il presunto ladro risulti poi essere innocente, ma per la calunnia va dimostrato il dolo , ovvero il fatto che tu abbia ingiustamente accusato un innocente sapendolo innocente.

A proposito: se proprio non avete un cazzo da fare vi invito a leggere questo post di Uriel. È un po' ripetitivo e prolisso, ma il tema è interessante, e si direbbe proprio un articolo di denuncia. I invite you to find some names of some guilty, if you can. I know the names of clubs and their owners ...

http://www.wolfstep.cc/2010/09/nascondere-i-problemi.html

^___^

Friday, September 24, 2010

Transparent Materials Adapter Hp Psc

ROTFL


Interview with Maurizio Costa, Vice President and Chief Executive Officer Mondadori.

A few steps from sbellicarsi:

seems the picture of 'publishing without publishers' marketing led by André Schiffrin told in the pamphlet: editorial choices dictated by sales. Is that so?

"No. Meanwhile, the marketing is not is an abject, even though I prefer to call customer service: the proposal to let them know right quick deliveries and the product, whether books, magazines or newspapers. Today Digital gives us the opportunity to interpret the client and suggest what they want .

insist: but if you are sure that a book will sell, it published or not?

"With the spread of new forms of economic risks will be lower, we will greatly expand the offer. But who knows the publishing business knows that there is no editor who says this book is good but you do not publish. Ours is still a work idealists. "

Saturday, September 11, 2010

White Mucus Discharge

The talented Amanda


Xyzxyz Dear Madam, my name is Amanda Curcio

. I'm seventeen years old and blind since I was ten. This fortunately does not prevent me to imagine other worlds, and so in the past two years I spent much of my free time writing a fantasy novel that can be found in the Annex. It is a story set in a world dark and decadent, sometimes in brilliant colors, because the images that form in the dark can be scary when you can not see. In all this work I was near my grandmother Julia, strong reader and a great lover of all shades of fantastic, giving me good advice and cleaning out my manuscript to a million typos. Hoping that the novel would be to his liking, I greet you cordially.

Amanda

What you see above is the email I sent on August 26 last year to hold a major literary agency that also includes in its stable of well-known bestselling authors. Attached was my novel with the title changed. The e-mail on the manuscript was created for the occasion, the mobile phone number but it was mine.

After 22 hours I get this email from Mrs. Xyzxyz:


thanks Amanda,
the light '.
xyzxy xyzxyz

After another 10 hours (maybe the lady was concerned that I had not received the message) will get another:

Thanks to send, I read with pleasure. Where do you live?
Xyzxy

Sent from my iPad

answer:

many thanks to you for the availability
I live in london
good night amanda

Twelve days later, on September 7 last year I'm struggling mountain bike to the lighthouse on the summit of the island of Inish Morr off the Irish coast. I will ring the phone in the pocket of the backpack: presentiment. The number is unknown, this can become very strong. Carry forward the dialogue by heart:

"Hello?"
"Hello, I would like to speak with Amanda ..."
"Hello Amanda ... she is not here now, I'm the father. We are on holiday."
"When do I find it?"
"We are now in Ireland, but we go home tomorrow."
"My name Xyzxy Xyzxyz and literary agent. Amanda sent me a novel ..."
"Yes, yes, I know everything."
"Ah well! I and my colleagues are reading the novel and think that Amanda has very much talent. You can tell Amanda to call me as soon as possible?"
"Yes indeed."
"Where do you live?"
"Genoa."
"Thank you, goodbye."
"Goodbye, thank you."

At this point I confess that I am also a bit 'excited: I just got off the phone with the agent and Xyzxyzx Xyzxyz Xyzxyz Xyzxy Xy!

What to do now? I certainly can not carry on indefinitely the skit. Or does it? The aim of the experiment was to demonstrate the cynicism of the publishing world, but now that I'm sorry I touched a real chance to throw it down the drain. He even thought to put myself in company with a real blind girl with 50 and 50 which divide the proceeds of future best seller (it would also a good work). Then I also think that I have strung together a couple of crimes - nothing serious, stuff that surely ends with the prescription, but maybe it is better to give us a cut anyway. Also because so far I have not shown anything even if I sent the novel with my real name things would go the same way. I do not believe it, but it is perfectly sustainable.

write then two days later, on the morning of September 9. Leaving aside the pleasantries, the interesting part is the last bold.

Madam Xyzxyz,

since my intention was not to make fun of good people, after the phone call two days ago, I feel compelled to tell you that Amanda does not exist.

The novel that you have at hand was written by an engineer of some forty years' exasperated by publishers and literary agents who have never wanted to read a single line, and that in most cases have never even deign to answer the question "can I send?". A world that seems to only open to recommendations, and in the case of fantasy literature preferably minors.

With the name of Amanda so I sent my novel to a little 'of publishers and agents, as an experiment to see if a novel can be valuable in itself or if that counts for a publisher is only able to use the figure author for advertising purposes, and in this case let go of all the Italian publishing. But I do not want to run the risk of misleading people who do not deserve it at all with publishers who deserve it instead of some, so I apologize if I took advantage of his good faith. If the novel is more interesting if Amanda was not writing it, I hope you did not lose too much time on her and her co-workers, and that reading was not too unpleasant.

Sincerely, Alexander


At this point, as I have privately confided to some friends of snacks, I expect the very, very talented Amanda evaporate like dew in the sun. What that invariably happens six days after :

Dear Alessandro,

after the initial shock I realized and appreciated his reasoning.

Unfortunately I have to say that the book that starts in an excellent manner, while maintaining the excellent writing, I was disappointed. There are too many characters and the narrative line is blurred.


but I'd like to read something written by you which is not fantasy. She
-like Amanda - she has talent but the market today is difficult.

I am open to new ideas from her.

Regards,
Xyzxy Xyzxyz

The fault is not even the Lady Xyzxyz: the fact is that, for the same novel, the blind girl would go like hot cakes and publishers have made stabs to contendersela, while I certainly would have stayed on the rump.

remains the satisfaction of having heard that it was very very talented from a famous literary agent? Who knows. The famous literary agent is as good writers emeritus balls that would not be able to draw a glass or helping with, and have told everyone who had very very talented. Probably the latter than the former.


SPECIFICATION:

I have reported on Affaritaliani.it that came out a article on this post, and I thank the author Antonio Prudenzano for your attention. Article I really enjoyed it but it contains an inaccuracy in the anonymous blogger call me: in fact, even if my name is not written very clearly in the header of the blog, are not at all anonymous. In any case, my name is Alessandro Scalzo, I'm 40 years old, PhD in Robotics and I live in Genoa.