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They Are Scribd 18 years ago

i love scribd, more for the comunity (groups, friends, comments, related docs, etc) than for the ipaper itself.

but i'm afraid that if the site become too popular they will be teased by copyright, and ruin the whole site (for my personal usage).

I never understood the (North) American "high school popularist fetichism". Must be a cultural self spreading virus (meme). I wonder how can you get rid of it? Because i haven't see such behaviour in South America, there the division is rather blured, the nerds are friends with everbody else, an the populars aren't so "elitists" and bulliers... that reminds me this clever bully fight back story: http://www.cbc.ca/canada/nova-scotia/story/2007/09/18/pink-t...

Off course immad, is based in the believe that using our brains as measurement tools for experiencing the universe we can only make models of it, partial maps (filtering a lot of information in the meanwhile). In this process we use our senses, experience, conditioning, prior beliefs, and other non-objective factors to create our unique map.

Every brain make his own reality tunnel (or reference frame) to experience the universe, and we may share some of it with other brains around (also called culture).

So if reality depends of the observer there must be more than one.

It's just another mind trick, enveloping the whole universe in something that we now understand (discret computer simulations).

Anyway, reality is an opinion, so any model is a valid model.

[dead] 18 years ago

then you would be reinventing scribd, it saves a copy of the original pdf and you CAN download it.

[dead] 18 years ago

I'm a heavy scribd user and i think that is great to share documents, you can create groups and start discussions, find similar books and people that share your tastes.

You can't do that with acrobar reader.

[dead] 18 years ago

tell them that IE6 is a virus, you wouldn't be liying