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 The White House denied Friday that Vice President Dick Cheney had endorsed  water boarding  mdash; a technique many consider torture mdash; when he said earlier this week that dunking terrorism suspects in water during interrogations was a  no-brainer. Cheney s comments sparked an outcry from human rights groups, which claimed his statement amounted to an endorsement of water boarding, an age-old technique in which a prisoner s head is kept under water to simulate drowning.   This country doesn t torture. We will interrogate people we pick up on the battlefield,  President Bush said Friday. He declined, however, to directly respond to reporters  questions about Cheney s remarks.White House press secretary Tony Snow insisted the vice president was not referring to water boarding.  You know as a matter of common sense that the vice president of the United States is not going to be talking about water boarding. Never would. Never does. Never will,  Snow said.         Asked if the vic 
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 Yesterday we posted a chart from Hugh Howey   new report on author earnings, showing indie and self-published authors pulling ahead of people published by the big five in terms of total unit sales. Now here   another chart from an e-book publishing expert who   calling some of Howey   conclusions into question.     
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stanley cup laws that you ;d already noticed. For one thing, Howey isn ;t representing all self-published and indie authors 鈥?just the top 1.5 percent, or the cream of the crop. There are also some questionable assumptions in Howey   methodology, writes Weinberg, and some statistical problems. Bu 
stanley thermos t leaving that stuff aside, even if you accept Howey   data and his conclusions, it   not clear that most of his indie/self-published authors are doing better than people published by the big mainstream publishers, argues Weinberg. What is clear, though, is that the people who are doing best, on Amazon e-book sales, are those published by Amazon   own publishing imprints. The really depressing thing  Weinberg estimates that most of the authors in the survey, whether self-published or published by a New York publishing house, are not making minimum wage: In Howey   data, 944 autho