By: querent
Tdawwg, “None of these sources, cited by Wikipedia, agree with you and Antinous; ditto Timothy Garton Ash. Are they all apologists, too?” There are those, even in the article you cited, that do agree...
View ArticleBy: sopekmir
@#98 – yes there WAS assymetry, it trully was. I have no doubt it was bad to spy for communist regimes in free countries, while it was not bad to spy for free conuntries in communist ones. I lived for...
View ArticleBy: Anonymous
This happened to me yesterday. At 10:06 AM I received an email from amazon telling me they processed my ‘return’ and that my $0.99 would be returned for Animal Farm. With my Kindle at home, I opened my...
View ArticleBy: querent
“to praise the good and excoriate the wicked. That’s what writers do.” Right. But most don’t do it in secret lists to clandestine government agencies. Buddy66 @134 makes some great points. I’d say,...
View ArticleBy: Anonymous
And this sort of copy right bs is why Paper books are better. Really any electronic thing has this bs policy… so does the stuff on apple store music. Unfortunately everyone feels THEY own stuff YOU...
View ArticleBy: Tdawwg
Amazon held up the Kindle in its left hand, with the thumb concealed. ‘There are five downloaded ebooks there. Do you see five downloaded ebooks?’ ‘Yes.’ And he did see them, for a fleeting instant,...
View ArticleBy: bardfinn
Some said it would never happen; I get to go beat them with the “I Told You So” stick. It’s lonely being right all the time.
View ArticleBy: Takuan
in decades to come, people will look back at the Cheney Presidency and all the lives lost and blighted worldwide as a result of it. They will ask: “Why didn’t decent people DO something”. I guess you...
View ArticleBy: angusm
“This ebook is not available on the Kindle. This ebook has never been available on the Kindle.”
View ArticleBy: Tdawwg
Same here, this is a great discussion. If you mean “apologist” in the sense of “offering a reason for, explaining,” then sure: but the word carries such a weight of “mitigating, explaining away,...
View ArticleBy: Anonymous
A recent poster said (to paraphrase) “It’s also about remote sabotage of a computer-powered system.” Quite right. And therefore, it’s also about federal laws against sabotage of computer systems. See...
View ArticleBy: hohum
@47 (sort of @44), That’s how I use mine… I have nothing DRMed on mine at the moment, haven’t found the need to. Uses standard mobi format, and there’s plenty of freely available public-domain...
View ArticleBy: Antinous / Moderator
The thing is, if you told me that Orwell was a murderer or a pedophile, I would consider it irrelevant to his writing. It’s the particular relationship between the incident and his works that make it...
View ArticleBy: Anonymous
This is outrageous. I can understand blocking further sales (even if it is a dumb idea) but not taking back what has already been sold.
View ArticleBy: zuvembi
Wow, I was contemplating buying a kindle, but was hesitating because of it’s closed nature. Not any longer though, now it’s time to look for something from another manufacturer.
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