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No, a terrible job of running a business is what Amanda Palmer did by trying to pay musicians in beer.

Wow you really hit the nail on the head with your description of Amanda Palmer + talk.

You can use this to restore it without Amanda in the event of an emergency.

Nah, it was Amanda Tapping and MacGyver that did all the hard work.

The article posted by Amanda Blum above lists at least a couple different ways that Adria Richards could have handled the situation more constructively.

While for many, backup is better on disks these days, tape is far better for archival and Amanda does this quite well for Linux.

I use and have been using Amanda Network Backup for ~5 years now, and am extremely happy with the results.

The whole thing doesn't hinge on the priors: the priors should be rather easy to agree to (i.e., the observable rate at which the general population in Amanda Knox's relative bucket commit murders).

I don't know anything about Amanda Palmer.

I'm sympathetic to some of what some MRAs say but think some of them are vile people of the same ilk as Amanda Marcotte but on the other side.

Very true, but I think their brand has also been hurt by the vacuous nature some of the presentations have (for example the one Amanda Palmer gave regarding crowdfunding).

And the CBC doesn't help its public perception (who have the power to advocate for increased funding) when they give leeway to their stars like Jian Ghomeshi and Amanda Lang that would be unacceptable in other companies.

Well worth reading "The Unthinkable" by Amanda Riley, for an interesting overview.

When Amanda Palmer delivered a TED talk about the "art of asking", I knew the platform was more interested in money and publicity than any sense of intellectual rigor.

> The "book internet" still exists Amanda Palmer recently wrote this about her and Neil Gaiman: neil and i, and many other bloggers, have discussed this with more and more worry lately.

The simplest explanation for Amanda's DNA being in the room is that she had previously spent some time there talking to Meredith.

Amanda was a housemate, it would be incredible if her DNA couldn't be found in her housemate's room.

I have no issue with people (Amanda Palmer or otherwise) asking for help at whatever price they want, including free.