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Amazon sued for bullying Kindle accessory maker M-Edge
M-Edge, an accessory maker for the Kindle and other such devices, has sued Amazon for "unlawful corporate bullying." Filed in Maryland, the federal suit alleges that Amazon attempted to "hijack" M-Edge's products through threats, deceit, interference with customer relationships as well as patent infringement.
M-Edge has been building protective cases for Amazon's Kindle since it first launched in 2008, addressing a common complaint about the e-reader's flimsy default cover. At the time, Amazon commissioned 8% of M-Edge's sales, but that changed as the Kindle (and inherently, M-Edge's products) grew more popular.
After the Kindle appeared on Oprah Winfrey's show in October 2008, M-Edge's inventory sold out. That drew attention from Amazon, which requested that the accessory firm become a "special partner" in January 2009. As part of the relationship, Amazon vowed to give M-Edge pre-launch details about next-generation Kindles.
A month later, M-Edge entered a "Kindle Compatible" agreement that placed its products in Amazon's "Kindle Store" page. In exchange, Amazon requested another 7% slice of the sales (totaling 15%). Amazon wanted to advance the relationship in May 2009 by making M-Edge a "first-party" seller, but the firm declined.
Fast forward to November 2009, the companies penned a three-year agreement that locked M-Edge into the 15% commission while affording it special status as a preferred seller. Only two months into that deal, the e-tail giant demanded a new contract that would grant it 32% of sales and make M-Edge a "first-party" seller.
M-Edge refused and that's where Amazon proceeded with various strong-arm tactics. The company supposedly threatened to "de-list" M-Edge from Amazon.com unless it complied. Although the parties never signed a new agreement, in February 2010, Amazon demanded that M-Edge retroactively pay the 32% commission.
Unwilling to part with the $600,000, M-Edge told Amazon to take a hike. The harassment continued through May 2010 as Amazon kept pushing new contract terms, demanding unfair retroactive pay as well as threatening to "de-list" and bury M-Edge's products on Amazon.com. M-Edge caved to the pressure in July 2010.
The revised contract granted Amazon a 32% commission, allowing it to "extort" an extra $6.5 million from M-Edge. Despite making more cash, Amazon failed to honor its old agreement to share pre-launch details about the Kindle. The third-gen e-reader launched on July 28, 2010 and M-Edge only received a one-day notice.
What's more, the filing implies this was an attempt to hijack M-Edge's sales. Amazon launched its own covers that bared a stark resemblance to M-Edge's designs, all the way down to the colors chosen. M-Edge took the beating and in January 2011, Amazon demanded even more cash -- another $150,000 a year, to be precise.
Amazon resorted to similar bullying methods, demanding onerous reporting requirements, vowing to de-list M-Edge's products and withholding payments. By March 2011, Amazon allegedly owed M-Edge nearly $2 million. That's a summarized version of the filing's background section. You can read the full 15-page complaint here.
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That' sick !! Didn't expect a business as huge as Amazon to act this cheap
Whoever at Amazon decided to do these greedy moves should be fired. That employee is defnitely not healthy for Amazon to have around.
If this was true, I might start to look else where to shop.
wow lol sounds like something apple would do, not amazon
If anyone is surprised by this, then they do NOT know Amazon as well as they think they do. This is not an unusual or unheard of tactic from them, and personally, I hope that M-Edge wins their case. There's no reason or excuse for schoolyard bullying of third-party vendors who make your company's product look more appealing to the consumer. BAD FORM, AMAZON.
P.S. Those with a background in negotiation will recognize this as a standard tactic from the win-win negotiations playbook (which almost always results in a win-lose for the little guy unless they stick to their mission and purpose).
this is just shitaki i hope the win the case and recover all the money plus 1000% in damages .
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That' sick !! Didn't expect a business as huge as Amazon to act this cheap
I guess companies don't get that big unless they exert these kind of practices...
Maybe Amazon should change there name to Apple!
Corrupted forces are drawn to perceived power such as money, the only problem is they can never achieve this power, they never have enough and always need more.
This surprises me. I have never really seen Amazon in the news much, especially anything bad. I wonder now that M-Edge came forward with this if other 3rd party retailers are going to start to come forward also.
Makes me a little sick since I just bough a Kindle Touch and have been very happy with everything I have ordered through Amazon. I had a pretty high opinion of them.
It sounds almost like an individual at Amazon, probably someone in marketing/sales that relies on commissions. Amazon is a BIG corporation, maybe this is something only a few mid level managers know; The CEO may not have known about it. If true, this person will certainly be fired and new policies put in place.
Unfortunately every big organization always have a few bad people. You can't unfairly blame an entire organization for that. Just like everyone always blames the government for everything. Yet there are many many people working hard to earn an honest living.
It's always SO easy to target and blame an antire person or organization, rather than find the underlying cause and reason. I'm not protecting Amazon, they are of course responsible.
But I' not going to stop purchasing because of a few ID10T's in the system. Just like that seasonal employee af Fedex tossing TV's over the fence.
Come amazon no need for this?
When a company goes public. The board don't give a F$ck about ethics or honor. All they want is to keep profits up and stock prices high so they can sell out.
I hate to say it, but Guest is right about the board's goals. Companies this large become exclusively a for-profit organization, and seldom will you find a company that functions in a capacity that doesn't revolve around wealth and greed.
Also, while a single individual or group of individuals may have been responsible for these strong-arm tactics, the fact is that these people reflect the level of integrity that Amazon is willing to hire; and it reflects the integrity of the business practices that Amazon is willing to approve of for the sake of capturing their client's attention. This wasn't a fluke; it happened over a two-year period!
Therefore, Amazon deserves any flak it receives for this, and as I said in an earlier post: there is simply no reason to bully someone who makes your products/services look better to the consumer.
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That' sick !! Didn't expect a business as huge as Amazon to act this cheap
I guess companies don't get that big unless they exert these kind of practices...
Well met.
Oh Deer what a Boar. If only they hadn't bared their TeeTh instead of their ****. To be Barred would be so bad.
Ghost of Kim-Jung-IL.
So much for buying the kindle fire.
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The story of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz is known to countless millions worldwide because of the motion picture version of the story, The Wizard of Oz (1939), starring Judy Garland. Although Garland was considerably older than the Dorothy in the book and her adventures are dismissed as a dream, the film is otherwise reasonably faithful to L. Frank Baum's novel.
A cyclone carries Dorothy and her dog Toto from bleak Kansas to the colorful Land of Oz, then drops their house on top of the Wicked Witch of the East. The Munchkins, who regard Dorothy as a witch herself, are so grateful to her for killing the witch who tormented and enslaved them that they offer Dorothy all the help they can. They advise her to put on the dead witch's silver slippers, which have magical properties. Dorothy's chief motivation throughout the story is to get back to her Uncle Henry and Aunt Em in Kansas. She is told to follow a road of yellow brick that will take her to the Emerald City, home of the Wizard of Oz. The Wizard, Dorothy is told, should know how to get her home.
Along the road of yellow brick, Dorothy encounters the Scarecrow, the Tin Woodman, and the Cowardly Lion. Each asks to accompany Dorothy to the Emerald City. The Scarecrow wants to ask the Wizard for a brain, the Tin Woodman wants to ask for a heart, and the Cowardly Lion wants to ask for courage. After some misadventures, they reach the Emerald City. The Wizard tells Dorothy that he will use his magic powers to send...
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Farmer, Philip Jose, "Baum, L(yman) Frank," in Reference Guide to American Literature, 3d ed.,...
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Carpenter, Angelica Shirley, and Jean Shirley. L. Frank Baum: Royal Historian of Oz. Minneapolis: Lerner Publications, 1992. A detailed account of Baum's career and writings. Includes numerous maps and illustrations. Also contains plot summaries of most of Baum's books.
Hearn, Michael Patrick. Introduction to The Annotated Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum. New York: Clarkson N. Potter, 1973. This sets Baum's best-known work in the context of his life and work.
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does anyone have any or anyone ever used it?...i just bought a loaf pan yesterday and decided to make a banana bread loaf,,,,i am assuming that you need to let it cool completely before trying to remove the loaf...well DH was a bit of an eager beaver and did not let it cool before pulling the sides of the pan away and then flipped!!! the loaf over...made a complete mess!!!...completely pissed me off...i hate a messy looking banana bread...GGGGRRR!!!!!....so if anyone has these can ya tell me if you are supposed to let it cool completely before tryin to remove the bread...cuz at this point i'm ready to return it or just chuck it...it didn't come with very good instructions on use...
My mom loves the stuff. She has loaf pans, muffin tins and cake tins made of silicon. I think she even has the cookie sheet, but U have to use a tray to support the sheet in the oven. Anyway I haven't heard any complaints from her. Hope your next banana bread isn't messy. :)
jenjen I have used this bakeware before without any problems, i really like it for baking cakes, i had no problems removing the cake, and yes i did let it cool first, but not for a long period of time and it was fine coming out of the pan. I have never used it to make a meat loaf tho! You should try it again and see what happens and then decide!
It bakes 'differently'. I was going to buy a muffin silicone for my mom in a specialty kitchen store and they advised against it as baking times are different. They suggested I put my money into 'good' muffin tins instead.
I haven't used it but to me it just looks like something you shouldn't put food in. I'm paranoid that if I bake with it, my food will end up with some kinda unknown toxic chemical. I am assuming that because it is on the market it's ok but it still gives me the heebie jeebies.
Have you used this pan since and did it work when you let the loaf cool off. I was going to buy then as shower gifts now I am afraid.
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*Tyre. Eastern Mediterranean port city that arose as the center of the Phoenician trading empire in ancient times and afterward remained an important trading port. Located in what is now southern Lebanon. The homeland of Prince Pericles.
*Antioch (AN-tee-ahk). Ancient city in Asia Minor and the capital of William Shakespeare's King Antiochus in this play. Antioch and other cities, such as Tharsus and Tyre, are lands of treachery and blight. To avoid being murdered, Pericles flees Antioch, land of the incestuous Antiochus and his daughter, and hides briefly in Tharsus before taking ship again. Pericles later leaves his daughter in Tharsus, in the care of Cleon and his wife, Dionyza, while he returns to rule in Antioch and Tyre after the deaths of the sinful king and daughter. Years later, Dionyza plots against Pericles's daughter, Marina, who escapes to Miteline.
Pentapolis. Kingdom ruled by Simonides known as a land of opportunity and ethical judgment. Pericles shipwrecks there, wins a contest for the hand of the king's daughter, Thaisa, and marries her. They leave the land after it is revealed that Pericles is the rightful ruler of Tyre and must return home.
*Ephesus (EHF-ah-suhs). Ancient city in Asia Minor that is home to the Temple of Diana. After Thaisa dies in childbirth while traveling to Tyre, her body washes ashore at Ephesus. There, Lord Cerimon restores her to life and places her as a nun at the Temple of Diana. The play's concluding reunion scene takes place at Diana's Temple.
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Bergeron, David M. Shakespeare's Romances and the Royal Family. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1985. Emphasizes the relationship of the masquelike elements of the play to the ceremonial forms predominant at the court of James I. One of the best historical analyses of Pericles, Prince of Tyre.
Fawkner, H. W. Shakespeare's Miracle Plays. Madison, N.J.: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1992. This fascinating book does not condescend to Pericles, Prince of Tyre as so many Shakespeare studies do. Considers the play as a mature, complex, and achieved work of art.
Frye, Northrop. A Natural Perspective: The Development of Shakespearean Comedy and Romance. New York: Columbia University Press, 1965. In this work and in his earlier Anatomy of Criticism, Frye establishes a critical model of the Hellenistic romance by which the reader may better understand the plot and genre of Pericles, Prince of Tyre.
Knight, G. Wilson. The Crown of Life. New York: Oxford University Press, 1947. Knight was the first modern critic to take Pericles, Prince of Tyre seriously. Discusses the play's verbal beauty, its adventure, and its spiritual richness.
Neely, Carol Thomas. Broken Nuptials in Shakespeare's Plays. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1985. The most important feminist analysis of Pericles, Prince of Tyre. Argues that the play affirms and subverts the conventional marriage plot of comedies.


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In their 1996 film, Fargo, Joel and Ethan Coen take a revisionist approach to traditional film noir narrative. The film can be considered neo-noir for its detective story and world of corruption, but it opposes the traditional noir of the 40s and 50s in the crucial details. Instead of the detective acting as the audience's guiding light through a corrupt world, the audience is given an objective view into the separate lives of the main characters. Contrary to the norm, the detective is no longer male, a female has embodied the traditionally male role, and in addition to that, she is a pregnant. Unlike the corrupt institutions and police of many traditional film noir, the detective and the police force are comprised of flawless, strong-willed, good people. On the other hand, the criminals are blinded by their greed and their moronic behavior leads them to their own demise. Many of the standard expectations of a film noir are twisted and given in a creative new light by exploring its ideals in a modern setting.
Fargo takes place in 1987 Minnesota, and is centered around the life of car salesman, Jerry Lundegaard (William H. Macy). Jerry finds himself in a financially precarious situation and he hires two men to kidnap his wife, whose family is quite well-off. When his father-in-law pays the ransom, Jerry plans on taking half of it for himself. Everything is going as planned until the kidnappers, Carl (Steven Buscemi) and Gaear (Peter Stormare), are pulled over for failure to display their temporary tags. When Gaear suspects their cover is blown, he kills the officer and two passersby. This scene introduces the detective, Marge Gunderson (Frances McDormand). From this point on everything goes wrong for Jerry and the kidnappers, and after several more deaths Marge and the police bring them to justice.
The first half hour of the film is told through the eyes of the criminals, Jerry, Carl, and Gaear. Unlike the corrupt institutions and police of many traditional films noir, Marge and the police possess qualities of integrity, competence and determination. Marge is not your typical noir detective. The most important difference from the classic detective is the fact that she is a woman and pregnant. In most classical film noir, the detective is a male "private dick", who is usually regarded as scum by the real police. However, Marge loves her husband and her job, and wants to serve justice.
The film also goes against the grain by excluding the traditional femme fatale. Marge Gunderson is an ideal detective and ray of light in the world of the film. Once Jerry sets the ball rolling on his get-rich-quick scheme his weak-willed and greedy mind begins to embody the role of the femme fatale to himself. The only time that Jerry even thinks about putting the kidnapping to a halt is when he thinks that Wade will give the money to Jerry for his $750,000 lot. Jerry either really thinks that he is going to make money off of this lot, or he is hoping that Wade will give him the money and ask no further questions. The evil of Jerry's greed blinds him to everything outside of his goal to get the money.
Joel and Ethan Coen's film is not a traditional "who done it"story, which is typical of the Film Noir genre. But it does maintain some of the traditions of the genre. Fargo is instead setup like an objective analysis of the noir world: good versus evil. Although Marge and the police are on a search for the criminals, the audience is already quite aware of the criminals' plans and actions. The audience can observe how the minds of both sides are working and how they interact. The good and evil of Fargo is very black and white, going back to the tradition of the Film Noir genre. The good are intelligent people who, respect and care for others' lives; whereas the evil are selfish and only work with others to get what they want for themselves. Even their intelligence is hampered by their blinding greed. Evil, in this way, is observed as self-destructive. It creates a snow-ball effect, where greed and evil creates only more of itself, offering no apparent way out of the avalanche. The efforts of good win over evil, not only because of good's intelligence and ability to work together for a common cause, but because of evil's self-destructiveness. All of the criminals are working out of selfish ambition which consequently leads to dissention and fighting amongst each other. Without the police, the criminals' self-destructive behaviors, alone, would put an end to their activities; at the expense of some innocent lives along the way. But, Marge and the police are there to catch them as they fall apart on the brink of self-annihilation. The efforts of the "good" surely aided in a speedy end to the spread of evil. In the end Fargo does transcend the customary conventions and archetypes of film noir. But as the saying goes "The more things change, the more things stay the same" and it is evident that while Fargo does add novel elements to its genre by having the star detective be a pregnant woman and the police not be riddled with corruption. However, it still plays the typical cards of a film noir movie by dealing with issues like good and evil in black and white. Joel and Ethan Coen's film pays homage to film noir by exploring its ideals in a modern setting and adding a revisionist twist to stereotypes and style.


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CHAPTER LXXIIthe relation of democracy to letters and artsThe question whether democratic government either favours or discourages the power of intellectual creation and the growth of a taste for letters, science, and art, lies rather outside the scope of this treatise, yet deserves to be considered by whoever attempts to estimate the value of democracy for the progress of mankind. Two opposite theories have been advanced. The Liberal thinkers of the generation which saw the American and French Revolutions expected the democratic form of government to make for progress in the intellectual as well as in the moral sphere. In delivering men's minds from bondage and arousing their civic activities it would stimulate the free development of thought and give fuller play to individuality in philosophy and art. Every man and every type of opinion would be sure of a hearing. A public enlightened by freedom and delivered from caste prejudice would have a finer appreciation of truth and beauty. With the greater simplicity of manners and the independence of view which equality would bring, the moral standard would rise, and the honour formerly paid to rank be transferred to virtue, to intellectual eminence, and to disinterested service. The other theory holds that political equality tends to depress individuality and originality, disparaging genius. Equality, making the will of the numerical majority supreme, produces uniformity, and uniformity produces monotony, and monotony ushers in a reign of dulness by bringing every one down to the level of the average man, whose beliefs and tastes impose the rules which few are bold enough to defy. If here and there a solitary voice is raised to challenge them, no one gives heed, because the principle that the majority is right, and whether right or wrong must be obeyed, has become an axiom. No tyranny is so crushing as the peaceful tyranny of a stolid and self-satisfied multitude, because against it there can be no insurrection. Grey and cheerless will be the world in which excellence excites suspicion, and the weight of numbers passes like a steam-roller over the souls of men. Both of these doctrines suggest points of view for which much may be said, but they are à priori doctrines, based not on facts but on conjectures as to what may happen under certain political conditions which are assumed for the purposes of the argument to be the only conditions worth regarding. The sphere of speculation is boundless and conjectures worthless, because political conditions cannot be isolated from other influences at work. There is only one test applicable to speculations, that of setting them side by side with such facts as we possess, so if any positive conclusion is to be reached it must be by noting what history has to tell us about the influence which forms of government have in fact exerted on intellectual life, and especially on creative intellectual power. The view that democracy develops mental activity seems drawn from the fact that such a development has often occurred in times of transition, when the old maxims and practices of arbitrary governments were being broken down. The apostles of liberty who assailed such governments were men of force and courage, eager and sanguine, inspired by their ideas, and living a life of strenuous enthusiasm, so they naturally supposed that the lively play of mind round all the subjects on which discussion, once prohibited, was now being opened to all, would continue. Freedom had won those blessings, freedom would retain them. It did not occur to them that combat is more inspiring than undisputed possession, and that the high ideals which have inspired one generation may, just because they have triumphed, lose their vivifying power for the next. A striking instance is afforded by comparing the heroes of the Italian Risorgimento (1820 to 1870) with the men of the succeeding generation. A reaction almost always follows on times of exaltation, human nature dropping back to its normal level with the discouragement of disappointed hopes. Just as there is nothing to show that democracy has intensified intellectual life, neither are there facts to support the view expressed by Robert Lowe in a once famous speech that it is a "dull and level plain, in which every bush is a tree." Plato, with all his moral censure for the government of his own democratic Athens, does not accuse it of inducing uniformity but rather of encouraging an undue license and irregularity in thought and manners. Travellers who visited the United States between 1820 and 1860 were struck by the universal devotion to material progress, and complained that only in a few Boston coteries could intellectual interests be discerned. This prosperous democracy, they remarked, even some years later, shows not only an overweening confidence in itself, but an overestimate of material success, with a corresponding indifference to the things of the mind. If the facts were so, the swift development of the country's natural resources, occupying nearly all its energy, furnished a sufficient explanation. America has now been a democracy for a second and longer period, yet she shows today a more vigorous and various intellectual life than was that of sixty years ago. The tyranny of the majority which disheartened Tocqueville in 1830 is not now visible except at times of unusual strain, when national safety is supposed to be endangered. In France, where democracy is only half a century old, social equality is older, and though both have alienated many men of fastidious taste, there are no signs of dreary monotony or an oppressive intolerance in the realm of thought. No one has been able to point to any instance in which equality in political rights and equality in social conditions, where they have come naturally and have not been imposed by State authority, display a tendency to induce uniformity of thought, or to prevent genius from making its way, irrespective of the accidents of birth. But if a popular government were to attempt to enforce economic and social equality by compulsory methods, and if this were carried out, as some have suggested, by allotting to each man, without regard to his own wishes and personal bent, his work and whatever remuneration for it the State authority might fix, individual initiative might wither away and thought be compelled to revolve in the limited circle which the State approved. Certain devotees of democracy have indeed argued that a democratic government must, when once installed in power, inculcate its principles not only through instruction in the schools but also by forbidding any other doctrines to seduce the minds of the citizens, an interesting return to the attitude of the Spanish Inquisition. Whoever is absolutely sure that he is right is only a step away from persecution. To make true doctrines prevail becomes for him a duty. If we ask under what kinds of government letters and art and science have flourished, history answers, Under all kinds. Among the Greeks, the great philosophers and the lyric poets came from oligarchic as well as from democratic cities. Short was the age of Athenian glory in poetry, and it ended many years before free government was extinguished in the Hellenic world. The most illustrious Roman writers in verse and prose wrote within a period of seventy years covered by the lives of Julius Caesar and Augustus, during which republican institutions were disappearing;1 and of these only one was born in Rome. In mediaeval Europe, and especially in Italy, the thirteenth century stands out as that illumined by the largest number of famous names, and in the fourteenth and fifteenth Florence produced, in proportion to her population, far more than her share of the finest genius in literature as well as in art. The explanations that may be given of these phenomena cannot be drawn from political conditions. The same may be said of the age of Shakespeare and Bacon in England, and of the age of Louis Quatorze in France. Both were periods of exciting events, of growing enlightenment, and of great mental activity, but popular government had not been born. The group of poets that was the glory of England and Scotland during the last quarter of the eighteenth and the first quarter of the nineteenth century arose under an oligarchy, and were the harbingers rather than the harvest of political freedom. This holds true also of the German poets and scholars and philosophers from Goethe and Schiller, Lessing and Kant down to Heine, Ranke, and Mommsen. The merit credited to democracy of occasionally producing brilliant orators is counterbalanced by the flood of commonplace or turgid rhetoric which it lets loose. If we turn from literature to art it is still more evident that painting and sculpture have flourished alike under kings and in republics. Music, the most inscrutable of all the arts, seems to be quite out of relation to the other intellectual movements of the world, except possibly to those which feel the touch of religious emotion.1 The causes that determine the appearance of genius in any branch of intellectual or artistic creation have never been determined, and are perhaps beyond discovery, but though we cannot tell why persons of exceptional gifts have been born more frequently in particular times or at particular spots than at other times and in other places, there are some data for determining the conditions under which genius best ripens and produces the finest fruit. Into this fascinating enquiry I must not enter, for a long historical digression would be needed to render probable the theory I should have to propound. Enough to say that history does not prove the conditions aforesaid to have been sensibly affected by forms of government, except perhaps where rulers have (as in Spain after Charles V.) set themselves sternly and steadily during a long period of years to repress the expression of any opinions except those which they approved. The movements of intellectual and moral forces are so infinitely subtle and intricate that any explanation drawn from a few external facts is sure to be defective and likely to be misleading. It is a common habit to seek the solution of large social or historical problems in a single obvious cause. Any sciolist thinks he can explain the characters of individuals by saying that such and such a one has the Celtic, or the Slavonic, or it may be the Jewish strain: and similarly it is easy to attribute to their form of government the political and moral tendencies of a people. 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But did he not ask more from democracy than any form of government can be expected to give? The causes that raise or depress the spirit of man lie deeper. The citizens of a democracy do, however, show certain traits which, whether or no due to the form of government they live under, find full expression in it. One of these is the self-confidence of the man who, feeling himself, because he has an equal share in voting at elections, to be as good as any one else, is disposed to think that he and his neighbours of the same class are qualified for most public posts, and who, if himself imperfectly educated, underestimates the value of knowledge and technical skill. Equality tends not only to reduce the deference due to superior attainments, but also to the older forms of politeness and the respect which used to be paid to official rank. In the seventeenth century the Dutch and the Swiss were, as republicans, charged with rough manners by the French, but manners were no less rough among burghers and peasants in the monarchical states of Germany, the difference being that those classes did not in the latter come into official contact with French critics. Broadly speaking, one finds to-day no more rudeness in democracies than under other governments, though some races have by nature more tact and courtesy than others. The manners which offended Dickens and other European travellers in Western America eighty years ago were the fruit of the conditions of a society in a country still raw, and no such criticisms could now be made. The spirit of equality is alleged to have diminished the respect children owe to parents, and the young to the old. This was noted by Plato in Athens. But surely the family relations depend much more on the social structure and religious ideas of a race than on forms of government. In no countries do we see age so much respected and young children so kindly treated as in China and Japan: the passing traveller notes their gaiety and apparent happiness. May not this be connected with the conception of the Family implanted by the worship of ancestral spirits rather than with the nature of the government? Athenian women had a life less free than Roman women, but Athens was a democracy and Home was not. More truth may be found in the view that democratic peoples carry indulgence to wrongdoers further than a regard for the safety of the community permits, because the disposition to let everybody go his own way and please himself, perhaps also in some countries the weakness of a directly elected Executive, induces leniency. The peccadilloes of public men are too quickly forgotten. Whether a tendency to self-indulgence and licence is any commoner than under other kinds of government it is impossible to say, for many other causes come into play. 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Zecco, the online stock brokerage has revolutionized online stock trading over the past two years with its ten free trades per month policy, no account minimums and the ever growing investment community that this broker has created on their site. Using Zecco's community you could get in touch with thousands of investors, who are taking advantage of the free stock/ETF trading.
Since I make several trades a month as part of my process to build my dividend portfolio, the free trades that Zecco offers its brokerage customers really saves me some money.
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5 comments:
- Ripe Trade said...
It sounds like a good deal. Can you trade options,bonds,mutual funds or futures?
- November 15, 2008 at 1:34 PM
- Dividend Growth Investor said...
You could trade options and mutual funds. Zecco does not offer forex or futures trading at this time.
Anyways I think that Zecco is a very good option for long-term investors and not so active traders making few trades per month - November 15, 2008 at 2:34 PM
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- Ammar Husami said...
I have zecco account and they have great community. Anybody here interested in crating dividend group? my id is husamia
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- Zach Tripp said...
Hello...I prefer Sharebuilder. The one-time trade is a little higher at $9.95, but having the dividends reinvested free of charge (will even buy partial shares) out weights the higher cost (IMHO). If you have an investment you want to purchase over the long time, you can set up a reoccurring buy on Tuesdays for only $4.
Great blog by the way. Huge dividend fan. The dollar cost average and compounding of reinvesting dividends is incredible. - March 17, 2010 at 7:38 PM
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