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  zo1dberg on 24/01/2013 - 17:27

  No free coffee this time?

  I got the last deal with 4 free issues and a free bag of "fair trade" coffee which was alright. Wouldn't pay for this socialst crap, but I'll gladly take free coffee and free BBQ kindling at their expense!

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  rekabkram on 24/01/2013 - 17:42

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  Thanks for the laugh, I love how there's a magazine for SALE that promotes ideals such as 'the feral rich'.
  Also love how the are giving away the peters map, a quick wiki shows that it has been almost universally panned by his peers. (spheres can't be flattened into a perfect rectangle and it's been proven that he twisted the proportions to suit his design.)

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    Aids on 24/01/2013 - 20:30

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    Thanks for the laugh, I love how all you can think about is money when it's a not-for-profit magazine.
    Also love how you only read the parts that discredit Peters and failed to interpret the maps inclusion as a social statement.

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      rekabkram on 24/01/2013 - 20:57

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      Not for profit…
      So the entire $88 yearly subscription is taken up by the print cost is it?
      Not for profit doesn't mean that the owner (who could have various titles) isn't in a paid position.

      The bit about Peters map, when it was tried to be discussed by his peers Peters went on a campaign stating that his is the only map with any relavence and that he would refuse to adjust any of his findings even when proven to be wrong.
      How can it be seen as a social statement when he refuses not some but all of his peers? That's the exact opposite of a social statement, it's an independent one.

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        Aids on 24/01/2013 - 21:25

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        Yes. Its been a co-op since '92 so while people do get paid so they can eat there is no fat cat at the top raking in profit.

        As for the map it was most likely included by THE MAGAZINE as a social statement, as it represents underdeveloped countries more prominently than other map styles which portray America as larger.

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        rekabkram on 24/01/2013 - 21:36

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        So it is a dishonest map that over represents country's. A maps purpose is to give an accurate indication of your surroundings, in this case the world. Any misportrayal only acts as being detrimental to its purpose and THE MAGAZINES decision to include an inacurate peice of information such as a incorrect map while trying to give an accurate portrayal of how corporate fat cats are ruining the world it's detremental to what they are attempting to do.

        Once a lie is revealed (an incorrect map) it brings the authenticity of all other facts that the magazine are trying to push in to question.

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        Aids on 24/01/2013 - 21:50

        The geographic and cartographic communities do not unanimously disparage the Peters World Map.

        All maps of this type are dishonest, just varies where the compromises are.

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        paddy567 on 24/01/2013 - 22:11

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        That's a pretty simplistic view of map projections, dude. Portraying a sphere on a flat plane always has distortions - I presume you like Mercator, well it's got limitations, too.

        I'm not sure why you care so much, doesn't sound like you're gonna be buying this one, and it is free, so still a bargain, whether you line up ideologically with it or not.

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  paddy567 on 24/01/2013 - 18:21

  I dunno, I think New Internationalist is a good magazine for teenagers starting to display an interest in the world beyond the six o'clock news.

  Teenage-nascent-pinko paddy567 found it educational and interesting. I don't know that it holds water compared to more, hmm, thorough reads like Grist, Nat Geo, Le Monde Diplo etc, but for what it is, it's fine.