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If the OP meant to link to the 4th edition on Amazon whose Kindle counterpart is $10, then you should be linking to the 4th edition from 2012, which is ASIN: B0073U0UHI here:
http://www.amazon.com/Microsoft%C2%AE-Manual-of-Style-ebook/dp/B0073U0UHI

I understand your reasons and I think you agree they aren't the sorts of reasons to sway tens of millions.

A few comments:

d) With the developer SDK you can put any app you want on. That being said, software diversity doesn't appear to be something customers by the tens of millions express much interest in.

(e-f) iPhone is designed to work with iTunes or iCloud. That's the product. You can mount the drive but you really want to use an application (and there are plenty of others) unless you know what you are doing. The file system on iOS is not designed to be user accessible and there are complex non obvious connections. I will agree that iOS is power user unfriendly.

g) Actually you can get them for free: http://store.apple.com/us/browse/home/shop_iphone/family/iphone/iphone3gs

h) What gender has to do with that one is again tens of millions. Men (in huge numbers) care more about phone size since their wear it on their waist. Women (in huge numbers) because they carry it in a purse aren't as concerned. I'm BTW a man who would like a bigger screen as well. There just aren't ten million of us so no one cares.

i) Agreed on Apple patent enforcing, possibly too aggressively. I don't think it is fair to call them a patent troll. They do really do R&D and they don't buy up other's patents.

j) Actually you can buy travel batteries for iPhone. For example: http://www.amazon.com/Kensington-K39264US-Travel-Battery-Charger/dp/B003XU5YSM
As for memory you can get up to 64g, that's a lot for a phone. As for external storage, iCloud provides that.

k) Me thinks you are just a bit hostile. They have excellent customer satisfaction numbers and the stores rate high.

http://www.amazon.com/Code-Complete-Practical-Handbook-Construction/dp/0735619670/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1332256957&sr=8-1

"MDs have extensive training on the importance of nutrition, lifestyle,"

Citation needed. How many hours out of their medical training does the average MD have in these topics? Factoid for you to start with if you want to talk BS:
http://www.ajcn.org/content/83/4/941S.full
"A total of 106 surveys were returned for a response rate of 84%. Ninety-nine of the 106 schools responding required some form of nutrition education; however, only 32 schools (30%) required a separate nutrition course. On average, students received 23.9 contact hours of nutrition instruction during medical school (range: 2-70 h). Only 40 schools required the minimum 25 h recommended by the National Academy of Sciences. Most instructors (88%) expressed the need for additional nutrition instruction at their institutions. "

That's 25 hours out of how many thousands?

Anyway, I could go point by point though the rest of this, but I won't. :-)

But a few comments anyway.

First off, the lung cancer may be more from vegetable deficiency disease and iodine deficiency disease and vitamin D deficiency disease and other messed up social processes leading to distress than from smoking. I'm not saying smoking is good for you generally, of course, but consider:
"Why I Recommend to NOT Stop Smoking"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s9DZBzKppHQ

Ask your wife, outside of an initial patient intake interview, how many minutes can her practice let her spend actually with a patient per visit? I doubt the average is higher than ten minutes. How can that result in good outcomes? It's like schools. No matter how well the staff means, the overall institutional dynamics prevents really good stuff from happening for most people most of the time.

Contrast with:
http://www.patchadams.org/
"The Gesundheit! Institute is a project in holistic medical care based on the belief that one cannot separate the health of the individual from the health of the family, the community, the world, and the health care system itself."

Or read the last chapter of:
"Why Our Health Matters: A Vision of Medicine That Can Transform Our Future" by M.D. Andrew Weil
http://www.amazon.com/Why-Our-Health-Matters-Transform/dp/B004KAB3U2

I'd just suggest you, your doctor, and your wife read "Eat To Live" by Dr. Joel Fuhrman, MD and you'll see why sending a patient to the hospital for heart disease may someday be considered malpractice. :-)
http://www.drfuhrman.com/library/PCI_angioplasty_article.aspx
"Trying to figure out how to pay for ineffective and expensive medicine by politicians will never be a real solution. People need to know they do not have to have heart disease to begin with, and if they get it, aggressive nutrition is the most life-saving intervention. And it is free."

Here are a collection of links I put together about wellness:
http://www.changemakers.com/discussions/discussion-493#comment-38823

See especially this on losing weight:
http://www.drfuhrman.com/library/article16.aspx

I feel 20% of what most MDs do is miraculous (e.g. burn care, reattaching severed limbs, therapies for genetic defects, etc.), even if much of the other 80% is probably misguided (the part mostly about treating the symptoms of malnutrition, and where a good alternative practitioner probably does better). The problem is being able to learn which is which... So, this is not to disagree with that aspect of your point about homeopaths.

By the way, strep throat may be a sign of vitamin D deficiency and other nutritional deficie

Your rhetorical question is cute, but let me give you an answer, or, more correctly, an upper boundry on the "how much would you pay" question.

You obviously wouldn't pay enough to buy an aux battery to recharge your phone, which I put at twenty five bucks.

Just a note on running the cerowrt distribution (where the bufferbloat research is implemented) - you need to run a wndr-3700v2 (I've been consistently successful getting v2 refurbished units) but now that the wndr-3700v3 is out, that doesn't work with cerowrt - you'll need the wndr-3800 if you're buying new (I haven't seen 3800's available as refurb yet).

It closely parallels the WRT-54G and then WRT-54GL situation (without Netgear having learned from the headaches Linksys caused us with that one). The wndr-3[7,8]00 does appear to be the heir apparent to the 54G series, though. I'm happy I bought mine.

Just a note on running the cerowrt distribution (where the bufferbloat research is implemented) - you need to run a wndr-3700v2 (I've been consistently successful getting v2 refurbished units) but now that the wndr-3700v3 is out, that doesn't work with cerowrt - you'll need the wndr-3800 if you're buying new (I haven't seen 3800's available as refurb yet).

It closely parallels the WRT-54G and then WRT-54GL situation (without Netgear having learned from the headaches Linksys caused us with that one). The wndr-3[7,8]00 does appear to be the heir apparent to the 54G series, though. I'm happy I bought mine.

Or even better, get a good book on the subject (there are a few) by someone who knows what's he's talking about (there are fewer). "Presenting to Win" isn't a bad start. The subject of presentations is irrelevant, study the techniques being used. http://www.amazon.com/Presenting-Win-Telling-Your-Story/dp/0130464139

Perhaps one should not run around committing felonies..

Three Felonies a Day: How the Feds Target the Innocent

I'm part of the one percent, the leaders of this country, the job creators, the people who make your iPads and your Corvettes and your Xboxes possible, and I am not ashamed of it. And yet it is fascinating to see after all we have done for you this entitled attitude that you people are developing. Do you even fucking think you would have a job without people like us? Have you ever read Atlas Shrugged? Modern philosophy has advanced beyond retarded ideas like socialism and stalinism, and you idiots need to smarten up and quick.

PS: The day I hear the word "union" in my IT shop, I'll be firing every single motherfucking worker and hiring all new people. You marxists want to play hard ball? I'd literally bet my company that you can't fucking handle it.

I wouldn't rule out Gates having said because he's said a lot of really stupid things over the years

Many of which have been collected in his book The Road Ahead

Bananas are not seedless. Slice a banana down the length in the center, and you'll see the seeds. They're very small.

Those aren't real seeds, though -- they're where the seeds would be, if the banana had any seeds. No modern cultivated food-grade banana has real, viable seeds, precisely because they're so big and hard that you really wouldn't want to try eating a banana that did. See this image for an example of a wild variety with real seeds.

Have a look at the book Banana: The Fate of the Fruit That Changed the World for more fruity fun.

Agreed. It's really hard to find a Starbucks (or pretty much any other coffee shop with decaf). Some will brew on request, others you might be stuck with a decaf americano, and the local Starbucks seems to be using these (presumably a different brand though) to brew single cups upon request.... if you call that last option brewing.

My coworkers all think I'm weird because if I need the caffeine in the morning, I drink a coke.

That's probably because according to Mayo Clinic at least, a 12oz bottle of coke has 30-35mg of caffeine, and a cup of brewed Starbucks coffee has 330mg. A cup of Starbucks decaf has 25mg, so you're essentially drinking slightly more than what regular coffee drinkers would consider decaf.

That said, coffee doesn't always taste like crap. I'm pretty picky myself and wouldn't touch the sludge you get at work or restaurants for the most part that's been sitting there all day. However, $25 gets you an Aeropress which makes coffee that tastes excellent, quickly. Of course you'd also want a coffee grinder and ideally 175F water on demand, but hey, you don't need an expensive coffee maker.

If you want to pursue this idea a little further: Stanislaw Lem: "His Master's Voice". It's a good read.

I don't know that it's necessarily the Average Joe being an idiot. Privacy is a non-positional good, which (as Frank notes in The Darwin Economy) usually loses to positional goods. This is why a "rational libertarian" should support laws (such as privacy laws) that counteract individuals acting in a rational way to the detriment of the collective individuals. I.e., we all win with better privacy laws, but none of us can afford to individually opt-out (because the cost to the individual is too high, unless we all agree to act together).

no one needed a book to use facebook

Let me introduce you to Facebook: The Missing Manual , an earlier installment in this same series from O'Reilly. Amazon also shows several other Facebook manuals in print. Eventually there's a market for Facebook help.

I am a little happy that Pi day is noticed, and perhaps gives an excuse to think deeply about something rather than just bake pies - but it's a pretty lame list. I propose my own:

1) Read about Tau vs. Pi. The arguments for what we can choose in mathematics vs. what is given, require one to think quite a bit about what is useful in math vs. what is convention and makes one, frankly, appreciate pi far more than any of the activities in the article.

2) Actually try to measure pi. Note I didn't say, 'calculate'. It is revealing how hard it is to actually measure things in the real world beyond three or four significant figures, and it makes one appreciate the beauty of abstract calculations.

3) Read about e. e is actually much cooler in many ways, but because there is no ridiculuously simple, visualizable definition of it, it doesn't get the limelight (such as it is.) A great historical book on e: "e": The Story of a Number

But if you insist on knowing what the slideshow list of ten things is:

1) Make a pi-themed pie
2) Rock a Pi Day T-shirt
3) Write Pi-kus or Pi-ems
4) Go on a pi scavenger hunt (this, at least, has some vague mathematical attraction, although you could accomplish the same with a random sequence)
5) See how many digits of pi you can recite
6) Watch "Pi" the movie (gibberish math, but a cool movie that gets a little bit of the obsessional nature that can capture those who dive into abstract mathematics)
7) Listen to Pi music
8) Tell Pi Day jokes
9) Celebrate Albert Einstein's birthday (same day)
10) Read a book about pi (they don't even suggest the classic historical work on pi, by Beckman: A History of Pi

Like I said - mostly silly, not very mathematical. I would prefer pi day be a day of observance rather than a secular holiday :-)

I am a little happy that Pi day is noticed, and perhaps gives an excuse to think deeply about something rather than just bake pies - but it's a pretty lame list. I propose my own:

1) Read about Tau vs. Pi. The arguments for what we can choose in mathematics vs. what is given, require one to think quite a bit about what is useful in math vs. what is convention and makes one, frankly, appreciate pi far more than any of the activities in the article.

2) Actually try to measure pi. Note I didn't say, 'calculate'. It is revealing how hard it is to actually measure things in the real world beyond three or four significant figures, and it makes one appreciate the beauty of abstract calculations.

3) Read about e. e is actually much cooler in many ways, but because there is no ridiculuously simple, visualizable definition of it, it doesn't get the limelight (such as it is.) A great historical book on e: "e": The Story of a Number

But if you insist on knowing what the slideshow list of ten things is:

1) Make a pi-themed pie
2) Rock a Pi Day T-shirt
3) Write Pi-kus or Pi-ems
4) Go on a pi scavenger hunt (this, at least, has some vague mathematical attraction, although you could accomplish the same with a random sequence)
5) See how many digits of pi you can recite
6) Watch "Pi" the movie (gibberish math, but a cool movie that gets a little bit of the obsessional nature that can capture those who dive into abstract mathematics)
7) Listen to Pi music
8) Tell Pi Day jokes
9) Celebrate Albert Einstein's birthday (same day)
10) Read a book about pi (they don't even suggest the classic historical work on pi, by Beckman: A History of Pi

Like I said - mostly silly, not very mathematical. I would prefer pi day be a day of observance rather than a secular holiday :-)

Thanks for the perspective. You might find of interest this book on cognitive dissonance (a chapter is on justice system): http://www.amazon.com/Mistakes-Were-Made-But-Not/dp/0151010986
"Their discussion of confirmation bias, one of the worst breeders of bad decisions is outstanding and undertandable. And the chapter on how the police get the innocent to confess is chilling. ... Most terrifying: The justice system operates this way. Once someone is accused of a crime - even under the most bizarre circumstances - the police believe he's guilty of something. Even when the DNA shows someone is innocent, or new evidence reveals the true perpetrator, they hesitate to let the accused person go free."

Hitchens was right, religeon poisons everything.

Hitchens was wrong, ask his brother. http://www.amazon.com/The-Rage-Against-God-Atheism/dp/0310335094/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1331675960&sr=1-1

30 micron is good enough, people actually measured this.

Remember, we have free wifi at almost every coffee shop and McDonalds. Here's a pre-paid 4g hotspot: http://www.amazon.com/T-Mobile-1661-4G-Hotspot/dp/B005MKERVQ/ref=dp_return_1?ie=UTF8&n=2335752011&s=wireless http://www.t-mobile.com/coverage/pcc.aspx

Oh, I didn't realize that was an old edition. The new one is cheaper.

I just started learning a fourth (Japanese), and am really looking forward to reading Japanese books in their original form (even though learning enough of the kanji characters will be a pain).

Might want to check out this book, it is good. And since I'm giving completely unsolicited advice, the exposition of grammar in "Communicating with Japanese by the Total Method" is my favorite of all language textbooks I've seen.

http://www.amazon.com/Language-God-Scientist-Presents-Evidence/dp/0743286391

And more who would support belief more than atheism.

"The fanatical atheists are like slaves who are still feeling the weight of their chains which they have thrown off after hard struggle. They are creatures who--in their grudge against traditional religion as the 'opium of the masses'-- cannot hear the music of the spheres." --Albert Einstein

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1607298,00.html#ixzz1owehfaA6

http://www.amazon.com/Einstein-Life-Universe-Walter-Isaacson/dp/0743264746/

"The situation may be expressed by an image: science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.".......... The two go hand in hand.

http://www.amazon.com/Language-God-Scientist-Presents-Evidence/dp/0743286391

And more who would support belief more than atheism.

"The fanatical atheists are like slaves who are still feeling the weight of their chains which they have thrown off after hard struggle. They are creatures who--in their grudge against traditional religion as the 'opium of the masses'-- cannot hear the music of the spheres." --Albert Einstein

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1607298,00.html#ixzz1owehfaA6

http://www.amazon.com/Einstein-Life-Universe-Walter-Isaacson/dp/0743264746/

"The situation may be expressed by an image: science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.".......... The two go hand in hand.

Well now we just need a nano track and a shrink ray to shrink you down Fantastic Voyage-style, and you can race in the Indy 500! (millimeters)

I was thinking I could use a tiny violin but it turns out you can get them off the shelf.

Almost exactly the post which I was going to write up.

Some additional information about this era can be found in the book _ThinkPad: A Different Shade of Blue_ by Deborah A. Dell:

http://www.amazon.com/ThinkPad-Different-Shade-Deborah-Dell/dp/0672317567

Other machines from this era included the Momenta, Fujitsu Poqet PC and the AT&T Eo. Lots of interesting software from this era as well, e.g., FutureWave SmartSketch for PenPoint which got ported to Windows and the Mac OS and morphed into Flash.

William
(who owned for a while an NCR-3125 which dual-booted PenPoint and Windows for Pen Computing and which the guy I sold it to donated to the Smithsonian).

You're welcome. It was actually meant a little tongue-in-cheek :). But yes, a pretty important part of British history. If you wish to read more, I recommend Sieze the Fire. You'll be truly amazed that she could still float after the Battle of Trafalgar. At the time, it seems the core strategy of naval warfare was to pump as many canon balls as possible through the other ships to obliterate the other crew in some primitive form of the maritime equivalent of trench warfare.

Published 1970. Ed. Robert Silverberg. 26 stories chosen by Science Fiction Writers of America. cite: http://www.amazon.com/Science-Fiction-Hall-Robert-Silverberg/dp/0999174061/ . The best SF Anthology. Ever. I have the paperback issued by Avon (4th printing, May 1972). Search your local used book store!

He already has. (Novel's premise is that the Eugenics Wars have already come and gone - they just weren't the big military conflicts people expected.)

Watch this to understand how to cure many cancers: http://www.amazon.com/What-If-Cannabis-Cured-Cancer/dp/B003SSBSQQ (not that you will be allowed to...)

Reviewed your Cargo Cult Science article.

On the topic of how we treat criminals the basis for how we treat criminals is in the inquisition, the church, and the ten commandments. Nothing scientific about our justice system. In a way we aren't much better than the theocratic systems in the middle east. Religious institutions are the moral institutions that control legal institutions whether we like it or not.

I'm not arguing for cult science. I'm not arguing for pseudoscience. I'm not arguing for religion or against religion. I'm arguing that we take science and use science to make religion better. We use science to make justice produce better consequences. We use science to create better laws. Science is how we make stuff work.

But just knowing science wont help you to understand why people do what they do. Science can tell you that its not a good idea to be mean. You can take the angle of studying the neuroscience or you can study historical consequences to determine that being mean at least in most cases isn't in the self interest of a group.

But most groups do things which are against their self interest and against their own rules. Look at governments for instances, they claim to protect the Constitution but they ignore the Constitution claiming they have to do that to defend it. Think of the justice system where police ignore the law or believe its okay to break the law in defense of the law. This kind of behavior is the type of behavior which does not seem to make any sense from the perspective of the outside observer. If we look at it via neuroscience then it's a matter of decision theory and a bunch of other stuff, and I have books on that which I can recommend. Neuroeconomics and the brain.

That being said I do recognize that not all experiment results are of equal worth. I do recognize that psychiatry is a pseudoscience and most of psychology as well. It doesn't change the fact that at this time psychology and some of these experiments are the best we have since we don't have better experiments. If you have better experiments to reveal a different set of conclusions I'm open to it but my current conclusion is that morality is just something made up by the cult science that you mention. That people learn appropriate behavior because the appropriate behavior is reinforced. And that in general if you believe in neuroscience do we even know who is responsible for behavior?

The law says people are personally responsible, neuroscience says their brains are responsible, but psychology could say language or external stimulus is responsible. It doesn't change the fact that our justice system blames the individual. At the end of the day no matter what goes on in peoples brains, the system itself is the mechanism which acts like the skinnerbox reinforcing certain behaviors and when people are nice they are rewarded which reprograms the brain and over time this can even rewrite the brain.

Yup. I post about Go frequently in relevant discussions on here, because nobody remembers them. Microsoft's anti-competitive tactics set tablet computing back twenty years, and I've been gleefully enjoying watching their ham-handed attempts to catch up to Apple since the first iPad. It seems that the universe is finally meting out some measure of karmic justice.

The whole story was detailed in former Go CEO Jerry Kaplan's book, Startup, and in a chapter of former Microsoftie Marlin Eller's book, Barbarians Led by Bill Gates. The latter plainly states that the only reason Pen Windows was brought into existence was to kill Go's product, which was viewed as a threat to Windows.

Really makes you wonder what other superior competing products and technologies Microsoft successfully killed back then, that we don't know about.

~Philly

Yup. I post about Go frequently in relevant discussions on here, because nobody remembers them. Microsoft's anti-competitive tactics set tablet computing back twenty years, and I've been gleefully enjoying watching their ham-handed attempts to catch up to Apple since the first iPad. It seems that the universe is finally meting out some measure of karmic justice.

The whole story was detailed in former Go CEO Jerry Kaplan's book, Startup, and in a chapter of former Microsoftie Marlin Eller's book, Barbarians Led by Bill Gates. The latter plainly states that the only reason Pen Windows was brought into existence was to kill Go's product, which was viewed as a threat to Windows.

Really makes you wonder what other superior competing products and technologies Microsoft successfully killed back then, that we don't know about.

~Philly

Kaplan came up with idea of a practical tablet computer in 1987, and started a short-lived craze within the highest circles of the personal computing business when various people caught wind of his idea. As he describes in his book Startup, 1) Mitch Kapor of Lotus was his initial backer; 2) John Sculley of Apple launched the Newton project within days of Kaplan's unsuccessful attempt to hire away a star engineer from Apple (it may have been Bill Atkinson, but I threw away the book); 3) Bill Gates and Jeff Raikes started the Pen Windows project within weeks of watching GO's demo under NDA, where Kaplan tried unsuccessfully to convince Microsoft to write application software for GO's tablet. There were also amusing stories in Kaplan's book about AT&T and IBM executives.

This all happened years before Roger Fidler's brainstorm.

This guy has it all wrong. The first tablet was invented way before by Fred Flintstone

Physics for Game Developers
Physics for Game Programmers
Essential Mathematics for Games and Interactive Applications, Second Edition: A Programmer's Guide [Hardcover]

Nothing that Google can't find. Programming language: C++ because the vast majority of examples are coded in it, plus it's fast and light if you don't get too stupidly abstract. Java if you want to write for Android. This particular application will work fine with very basic Euler integration: add the forces, divide by the mass, poof you have acceleration, integrate for velocity, integrate again for position, and shazam, physics.

Physics for Game Developers
Physics for Game Programmers
Essential Mathematics for Games and Interactive Applications, Second Edition: A Programmer's Guide [Hardcover]

Nothing that Google can't find. Programming language: C++ because the vast majority of examples are coded in it, plus it's fast and light if you don't get too stupidly abstract. Java if you want to write for Android. This particular application will work fine with very basic Euler integration: add the forces, divide by the mass, poof you have acceleration, integrate for velocity, integrate again for position, and shazam, physics.

I'll admit, I've not looked in awhile. Frankly I was so pissed at the outright price gouging that I swore off looking. The last book I tried to buy was about 8 years old and cost as much as the hardcover copy of the same book, this was about a year ago. To say I was angry was an understatement, paying $14 for a book that old was crazy and thus no sale was made. It was a niche enough book that it couldn't be found elsewhere too.

Well, that didn't take long -> http://www.amazon.com/Devils-Gate-ebook/dp/B0052RDHM4/ref=sr_1_1?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1331299138&sr=1-1

Here's another, it's cheaper than the hardcover but still $15! http://www.amazon.com/The-Storm-ebook/dp/B0074VPJLS/ref=pd_sim_kstore_3?ie=UTF8&m=AG56TWVU5XWC2

Another $15 eBook -> http://www.amazon.com/Locked-On-ebook/dp/B005P4YED0/ref=sr_1_1?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1331299311&sr=1-1 One of the hardcover sellers is selling the hardcover for $10 less!

The new Steve Jobs bio, $15 but $12.90 in hardcover by one seller and a bit higher by Amazon.

Another Clancy book at $9 with paperbacks at $5... http://www.amazon.com/Teeth-Tiger-Jack-Ryan-ebook/dp/B001QEAQOY/ref=pd_rhf_se_shvl4

Ender's Game is $6 for Kindle, cheap right? Same price as hard copy from Amazon and one seller has it new for $3. http://www.amazon.com/Enders-Game-ebook/dp/B003G4W49C/ref=sr_1_9?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1331299621&sr=1-9

IMO there's NO excuse for paper books being the same or higher than eBooks. The idiot publishers seem to think that having an eBook somehow imparts greater "value" and thus should cost more. Never mind that it cannot be lent like a real book and that it cannot be resold . Really the situation is pretty crazy and if the publishers want to try and pretend there's competition here then I'm popping some corn and snuggling in to watch the court case, it should be a real laugh riot!

I'll admit, I've not looked in awhile. Frankly I was so pissed at the outright price gouging that I swore off looking. The last book I tried to buy was about 8 years old and cost as much as the hardcover copy of the same book, this was about a year ago. To say I was angry was an understatement, paying $14 for a book that old was crazy and thus no sale was made. It was a niche enough book that it couldn't be found elsewhere too.

Well, that didn't take long -> http://www.amazon.com/Devils-Gate-ebook/dp/B0052RDHM4/ref=sr_1_1?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1331299138&sr=1-1

Here's another, it's cheaper than the hardcover but still $15! http://www.amazon.com/The-Storm-ebook/dp/B0074VPJLS/ref=pd_sim_kstore_3?ie=UTF8&m=AG56TWVU5XWC2

Another $15 eBook -> http://www.amazon.com/Locked-On-ebook/dp/B005P4YED0/ref=sr_1_1?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1331299311&sr=1-1 One of the hardcover sellers is selling the hardcover for $10 less!

The new Steve Jobs bio, $15 but $12.90 in hardcover by one seller and a bit higher by Amazon.

Another Clancy book at $9 with paperbacks at $5... http://www.amazon.com/Teeth-Tiger-Jack-Ryan-ebook/dp/B001QEAQOY/ref=pd_rhf_se_shvl4

Ender's Game is $6 for Kindle, cheap right? Same price as hard copy from Amazon and one seller has it new for $3. http://www.amazon.com/Enders-Game-ebook/dp/B003G4W49C/ref=sr_1_9?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1331299621&sr=1-9

IMO there's NO excuse for paper books being the same or higher than eBooks. The idiot publishers seem to think that having an eBook somehow imparts greater "value" and thus should cost more. Never mind that it cannot be lent like a real book and that it cannot be resold . Really the situation is pretty crazy and if the publishers want to try and pretend there's competition here then I'm popping some corn and snuggling in to watch the court case, it should be a real laugh riot!

I'll admit, I've not looked in awhile. Frankly I was so pissed at the outright price gouging that I swore off looking. The last book I tried to buy was about 8 years old and cost as much as the hardcover copy of the same book, this was about a year ago. To say I was angry was an understatement, paying $14 for a book that old was crazy and thus no sale was made. It was a niche enough book that it couldn't be found elsewhere too.

Well, that didn't take long -> http://www.amazon.com/Devils-Gate-ebook/dp/B0052RDHM4/ref=sr_1_1?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1331299138&sr=1-1

Here's another, it's cheaper than the hardcover but still $15! http://www.amazon.com/The-Storm-ebook/dp/B0074VPJLS/ref=pd_sim_kstore_3?ie=UTF8&m=AG56TWVU5XWC2

Another $15 eBook -> http://www.amazon.com/Locked-On-ebook/dp/B005P4YED0/ref=sr_1_1?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1331299311&sr=1-1 One of the hardcover sellers is selling the hardcover for $10 less!

The new Steve Jobs bio, $15 but $12.90 in hardcover by one seller and a bit higher by Amazon.

Another Clancy book at $9 with paperbacks at $5... http://www.amazon.com/Teeth-Tiger-Jack-Ryan-ebook/dp/B001QEAQOY/ref=pd_rhf_se_shvl4

Ender's Game is $6 for Kindle, cheap right? Same price as hard copy from Amazon and one seller has it new for $3. http://www.amazon.com/Enders-Game-ebook/dp/B003G4W49C/ref=sr_1_9?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1331299621&sr=1-9

IMO there's NO excuse for paper books being the same or higher than eBooks. The idiot publishers seem to think that having an eBook somehow imparts greater "value" and thus should cost more. Never mind that it cannot be lent like a real book and that it cannot be resold . Really the situation is pretty crazy and if the publishers want to try and pretend there's competition here then I'm popping some corn and snuggling in to watch the court case, it should be a real laugh riot!

I'll admit, I've not looked in awhile. Frankly I was so pissed at the outright price gouging that I swore off looking. The last book I tried to buy was about 8 years old and cost as much as the hardcover copy of the same book, this was about a year ago. To say I was angry was an understatement, paying $14 for a book that old was crazy and thus no sale was made. It was a niche enough book that it couldn't be found elsewhere too.

Well, that didn't take long -> http://www.amazon.com/Devils-Gate-ebook/dp/B0052RDHM4/ref=sr_1_1?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1331299138&sr=1-1

Here's another, it's cheaper than the hardcover but still $15! http://www.amazon.com/The-Storm-ebook/dp/B0074VPJLS/ref=pd_sim_kstore_3?ie=UTF8&m=AG56TWVU5XWC2

Another $15 eBook -> http://www.amazon.com/Locked-On-ebook/dp/B005P4YED0/ref=sr_1_1?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1331299311&sr=1-1 One of the hardcover sellers is selling the hardcover for $10 less!

The new Steve Jobs bio, $15 but $12.90 in hardcover by one seller and a bit higher by Amazon.

Another Clancy book at $9 with paperbacks at $5... http://www.amazon.com/Teeth-Tiger-Jack-Ryan-ebook/dp/B001QEAQOY/ref=pd_rhf_se_shvl4

Ender's Game is $6 for Kindle, cheap right? Same price as hard copy from Amazon and one seller has it new for $3. http://www.amazon.com/Enders-Game-ebook/dp/B003G4W49C/ref=sr_1_9?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1331299621&sr=1-9

IMO there's NO excuse for paper books being the same or higher than eBooks. The idiot publishers seem to think that having an eBook somehow imparts greater "value" and thus should cost more. Never mind that it cannot be lent like a real book and that it cannot be resold . Really the situation is pretty crazy and if the publishers want to try and pretend there's competition here then I'm popping some corn and snuggling in to watch the court case, it should be a real laugh riot!

I'll admit, I've not looked in awhile. Frankly I was so pissed at the outright price gouging that I swore off looking. The last book I tried to buy was about 8 years old and cost as much as the hardcover copy of the same book, this was about a year ago. To say I was angry was an understatement, paying $14 for a book that old was crazy and thus no sale was made. It was a niche enough book that it couldn't be found elsewhere too.

Well, that didn't take long -> http://www.amazon.com/Devils-Gate-ebook/dp/B0052RDHM4/ref=sr_1_1?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1331299138&sr=1-1

Here's another, it's cheaper than the hardcover but still $15! http://www.amazon.com/The-Storm-ebook/dp/B0074VPJLS/ref=pd_sim_kstore_3?ie=UTF8&m=AG56TWVU5XWC2

Another $15 eBook -> http://www.amazon.com/Locked-On-ebook/dp/B005P4YED0/ref=sr_1_1?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1331299311&sr=1-1 One of the hardcover sellers is selling the hardcover for $10 less!

The new Steve Jobs bio, $15 but $12.90 in hardcover by one seller and a bit higher by Amazon.

Another Clancy book at $9 with paperbacks at $5... http://www.amazon.com/Teeth-Tiger-Jack-Ryan-ebook/dp/B001QEAQOY/ref=pd_rhf_se_shvl4

Ender's Game is $6 for Kindle, cheap right? Same price as hard copy from Amazon and one seller has it new for $3. http://www.amazon.com/Enders-Game-ebook/dp/B003G4W49C/ref=sr_1_9?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1331299621&sr=1-9

IMO there's NO excuse for paper books being the same or higher than eBooks. The idiot publishers seem to think that having an eBook somehow imparts greater "value" and thus should cost more. Never mind that it cannot be lent like a real book and that it cannot be resold . Really the situation is pretty crazy and if the publishers want to try and pretend there's competition here then I'm popping some corn and snuggling in to watch the court case, it should be a real laugh riot!

Well - we already even have a business plan.

Could he have ever imagined the repercussions of his attack?

He did. Read "bin Laden: The Man Who Declared War on America". This was written before 9/11, and includes many of bin Laden's own comments. He recognized that America was too strong to take down, and had to be weakened internally first. His plan was to destroy America's moral authority in the world. He wanted a more oppressive and heavy-handed America, to help build hate and opposition in the rest of the world. That was the objective of his terrorism.

He succeeded.

It's hard to remember now, but just before 9/11, the US didn't have any serious enemies. The big players, Russia, China, Japan, and the European Union, were on good terms with the US. The Middle East was intimidated, but reassured by the fact that, once the US was finished liberating Kuwait, all the US troops packed up and went home.

If the US had simply focused on cleaning up the mess and finding bin Laden, we would have been far better off.

If there was ever someone who deserved the Nobel Prize, it was Teller. He succeeded to building a weapon too horrible to use. To date, this has been true. In addition, if it were not for the stark realization that we could actually destroy ourselves, I do not think we would have ever taken environmental threats to our survival seriously.
His autobiography is a fascinating read, http://www.amazon.com/Memoirs-Twentieth-Century-Journey-Science-Politics/dp/0738207780

They must have used the wrong cable, causing the light to go faster than C and mess with their readings.

It was obviously a Denon AKDL1 Dedicated Link Cable

From OP : "You shouldn't be sending confidential things through Gmail in the first place"

  Why ? Why shouldn't I ? what should I do to send those ? use real mail ? Gmail is an email service, it's not supposed to search through you correspondance, and it shouldn't be allowed to.

  I'm sick and tired of assholes trying to defend privacy invading policies with illconceived arguments. Gmail is a service, a service that you PAY FOR through advertising, and there is ABSOLUTELY NO REASON why google should take the right to search through your mail, the same way there is no reason for USPS to search through your mails...

  And I'm not an anti-google troll, I have an Android Phone, and I use Gmail and even G+, and they are good products, but all the more reason for us to protect the quality of these services by preventing Google from abusing its position of power regarding its users and invading their privacy.

Ummm... have you ever noticed the targeted advertising right next to your e-mail, you know, ads for what the e-mail is talking about? And, how are they going to do that without searching your mail? Gmail has always done this, even in the early days, it's part of the bargain, like ads on broadcast TV & radio - they target you by the channel you tune to and when you listen. Your bargain for the "free" Gmail service is that they get to sift through the content of your correspondence to serve up their ads - and of course they're going to keep a personal history of what they've seen in your e-mail, so they can serve you better.