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My scanner comes with software that allows you to directly scan and OCR. The quality is very good.

I would imagine most scanners now come with that feature. No need for third party software.

Thanks, but what about those of us who might prefer nondestructive scanning? Also consider other factors--for example, the speed and quality of the scans, as well as the price. The Czur appears to be several times faster than a $600 model from Fujitsu that allows nondestructive book scans. If you're scanning lots of books, that won't be a trivial detail. As for quality, the Fujitsu is good but not nirvana. Let's see if the Czur will do better.

Short of an armed revolution, what would you propose we Americans** do to remedy this situation?

http://www.conventionofstates.com/

It constantly floors me the foresight America's founders had. They had a process for amending the Constitution (pass two-thirds of Congress and be ratified by three-fourths of the States), but they asked, "What if the federal government gets to much power? How do you change it then? Surely, Congress won't pass an amendment that restricts its own power."

In response, they put in a second way to amend the Constitution that has never yet been used. Two-thirds of the states can call for a Convention of States, attended by delegates of state legislators. This cuts Congress and the federal government completely out of the loop. They can pass amendments that Congress would never vote for, like term limits. Best of all, whatever comes out of here still needs to be ratified by three-fourths of the states, so they can't go crazy.

See also: The Liberty Amendments

"That is BS."

No it's not... get a clue.

Property laws have always expanded over the last 200 years.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_Term_Extension_Act#/media/File:Copyright_term.svg

Trade is war:

http://www.amazon.com/Trade-War-Yash-Tandon/dp/1939293812

Kim dotcom raid:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pMas0tWc0sg

http://williamblum.org/essays/read/overthrowing-other-peoples-governments-the-master-list

"I helped make Mexico, especially Tampico, safe for American oil intersts in 1914. I helped make Haiti and Cuba a decent place for the National City Bank boys to collect revenues in. I helped in the raping of half a dozen Central American republics for the benefits of Wall Street. The record of racketeering is long. I helped purify Nicaragua for the international banking house of Brown Brothers in 1909-1912. I brought light to the Dominican Republic for American sugar interests in 1916. In China I helped to see to it that Standard Oil went its way unmolested."[p. 10]

"War is a racket. ...It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives." [p. 23]

"The general public shoulders the bill [for war]. This bill renders a horrible accounting. Newly placed gravestones. Mangled bodies. Shattered minds. Broken hearts and homes. Economic instability. Depression and all its attendant miseries. Back-breaking taxation for generations and generations." [p. 24]

General Butler is especially trenchant when he looks at post-war casualties. He writes with great emotion about the thousands of tramautized soldiers, many of who lose their minds and are penned like animals until they die, and he notes that in his time, returning veterans are three times more likely to die prematurely than those who stayed home.

http://www.amazon.com/War-Racket-Antiwar-Americas-Decorated/dp/0922915865/

"That is BS."

No it's not... get a clue.

Property laws have always expanded over the last 200 years.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_Term_Extension_Act#/media/File:Copyright_term.svg

Trade is war:

http://www.amazon.com/Trade-War-Yash-Tandon/dp/1939293812

Kim dotcom raid:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pMas0tWc0sg

http://williamblum.org/essays/read/overthrowing-other-peoples-governments-the-master-list

"I helped make Mexico, especially Tampico, safe for American oil intersts in 1914. I helped make Haiti and Cuba a decent place for the National City Bank boys to collect revenues in. I helped in the raping of half a dozen Central American republics for the benefits of Wall Street. The record of racketeering is long. I helped purify Nicaragua for the international banking house of Brown Brothers in 1909-1912. I brought light to the Dominican Republic for American sugar interests in 1916. In China I helped to see to it that Standard Oil went its way unmolested."[p. 10]

"War is a racket. ...It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives." [p. 23]

"The general public shoulders the bill [for war]. This bill renders a horrible accounting. Newly placed gravestones. Mangled bodies. Shattered minds. Broken hearts and homes. Economic instability. Depression and all its attendant miseries. Back-breaking taxation for generations and generations." [p. 24]

General Butler is especially trenchant when he looks at post-war casualties. He writes with great emotion about the thousands of tramautized soldiers, many of who lose their minds and are penned like animals until they die, and he notes that in his time, returning veterans are three times more likely to die prematurely than those who stayed home.

http://www.amazon.com/War-Racket-Antiwar-Americas-Decorated/dp/0922915865/

http://smile.amazon.com/s/ref=...

Properly made cables and chargers. They sell 2.4 A chargers for cellphones and cables that are well made.

In case the link gets all screwed up, it is a link to an Amazon search for Anker.

I actually work like this all the time.

My wife does too. She has a back injury, and cannot work while sitting. She uses this arm, inverted to hang a 27" monitor from a rack above her bed. It costs way, way, less than $6000.

Uh, have you heard of smart pointers?

Yes, and the pre-C++11 std::auto_ptr was a confusing piece of crap.

Or RAII?

Isn't that the trade group that sues music fans? Oh wait, that's RIAA. But yes, I understand the advantages of automatic finalization.

Have you used C++ in the last 5-10 years

Last 4 years would be more honest, as C++11 added the smart pointers and other things that make modern C++ feel like modern C++.

The GPS Watch: The Garmin Forerunner 10. It's waterproof and fairly minimal in terms of features. It does exactly what a runner's GPS watch should do and nothing more. https://buy.garmin.com/en-US/U...

The iPod: The current generation of iPod Nano has built in Bluetooth. Sweat being a problem - don't wear it on the arm. Get a clip to stick it on the waistband. The HHiCase (or roocase) works pretty well. http://www.apple.com/ipod-nano... http://www.amazon.com/iPod-Nan...

The Headphones: YurBuds makes an excellent product (Liberty Wireless) that wraps over the ear, resists sweat and water, and allows ambient noise to reach the wearer for safety. http://www.yurbuds.com/en/wire...

I used all three of these in my first Marathon last year. Nothing failed.

http://www.amazon.com/KiiToys%...

Please find me such a device or materials to make such a device at homedepot.com or amazon.com

Here you go.

... no one ever looks at corporations and the rich. Someone should do a study on them because they are the ones who cause violence in the world.

From war is a racket:

"I helped make Mexico, especially Tampico, safe for American oil intersts in 1914. I helped make Haiti and Cuba a decent place for the National City Bank boys to collect revenues in. I helped in the raping of half a dozen Central American republics for the benefits of Wall Street. The record of racketeering is long. I helped purify Nicaragua for the international banking house of Brown Brothers in 1909-1912. I brought light to the Dominican Republic for American sugar interests in 1916. In China I helped to see to it that Standard Oil went its way unmolested."[p. 10]

"War is a racket. ...It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives." [p. 23]
"The general public shoulders the bill [for war]. This bill renders a horrible accounting. Newly placed gravestones. Mangled bodies. Shattered minds. Broken hearts and homes. Economic instability. Depression and all its attendant miseries. Back-breaking taxation for generations and generations." [p. 24]

General Butler is especially trenchant when he looks at post-war casualties. He writes with great emotion about the thousands of tramautized soldiers, many of who lose their minds and are penned like animals until they die, and he notes that in his time, returning veterans are three times more likely to die prematurely than those who stayed home.

http://www.amazon.com/War-Racket-Antiwar-Americas-Decorated/dp/0922915865/

US distribution of wealth

https://imgur.com/a/FShfb

http://www2.ucsc.edu/whorulesamerica/power/wealth.html

The Centre for Investigative Journalism

http://www.tcij.org/

Some history on US imperialism by us corporations.

https://kurukshetra1.wordpress.com/2015/09/27/a-brief-history-of-imperialism-and-state-violence-in-colombia/

Not completely true, Amazon is taking their services Amazon prime and limiting it to just Amazon approved devices. Android ... haven't made the cut

That has not been true for a while now. You just need to download the app directly from amazon.

http://www.amazon.com/b?node=9...

"who finds the constant buyouts and mergers disturbing?"

You should get up to speed on what has always been the case.

Science on reasoning:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYmi0DLzBdQ

WIKILEAKS: U.S. Fought To Lower Minimum Wage In Haiti So Hanes And Levis Would Stay Cheap

http://www.businessinsider.com/wikileaks-haiti-minimum-wage-the-nation-2011-6

Protectionism for the rich and big business by state intervention, radical market interference.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WHj2GaPuEhY#t=349

The real news:

http://therealnews.com/t2/

http://www.amazon.com/Democracy-Incorporated-Managed-Inverted-Totalitarianism/dp/069114589X

The Citibank memo

http://politicalgates.blogspot.ca/2011/12/citigroup-plutonomy-memos-two-bombshell.html

US distribution of wealth

https://imgur.com/a/FShfb

http://www2.ucsc.edu/whorulesamerica/power/wealth.html

To add to your list, I've been using Amazon Cloud Drive for my offsite backups, and so far, so good. $60/year for unlimited storage; just hope they don't follow Microsoft and get rid of that. I currently have about 1.7 TB backed up there.

It's worth nothing that they also offer unlimited photo backup/storage free to Prime members. But of course this means you have to upload your photos unencrypted so they can verify that the files are actually photos; all of my backups are encrypted before they leave my machine.

https://aws.amazon.com/glacier...

Amazon Glacier comes out pretty cheap for backups too.

I'm running 600GB+ for $4.50 a month.

Irrelevant. For $2499.90 you could have 80TB of space on just 10 drives plus 2TB of cloud storage.

but in terms of raw storage, a stack of 38 9.5mm tall 2.5" 2TB drives would only be 361mm

You think Microsoft is using "2.5" notebook hard drives" in its storage cloud?

Even if they used 1TB drives

Well, that WAS the size he specifically mentioned.

Are you a midget?

Pretty obvious to everyone but you that he'd have been referring to standard 3.5" drives.

You know... something like...

http://www.amazon.com/Seagate-...

the second Klan was active between WWI and WWII (and was more concerned about Catholics, Jews, and immigrants moreso than black people)

Citation? HIstory suggests the opposite for this time period.

The second Klan, unlike the first and third, was a more urban movement with a centralized leadership structure, and were based in the West and Midwest with a smaller base in the South (specifically Alabama). While it's true that Birth of a Nation helped galvanize the second Klan in the South and gave us much of the visual imagery that we associate today with the Klan, the organization was riding the wave of anti-immigrant sentiment at the time. Don't get me wrong, they were still a completely racist and anti-black organization, but that wasn't their core focus at the time; black people were kept "in their place" in the South, and the second Klan was more concerned with external threats. Mostly Protestants, they have great distrust towards the Catholic Church and the American Jew (the Anti-Defamation League was formed as a response to the second Klan's anti-Jewish activities). They also strongly endorsed, and this was one of their greatest popular selling points, Prohibition. They burned saloons in the South and attacked bootleggers. They didn't get much foothold in the northeast due to the stronger Catholic influence there.

They were (late in the organization) strongly anti-Communist, but I'm guessing that the stated goals of the second Klan being so close to the stated goals of the Nazi Party helped kill off the second clan. Being a group that thrived on social tension, the Great Depression and World War II killed off that organization for good. They had more of a centralized organization, but they were also very secretive, so when membership lists were leaked and published, people left the Klan in droves. The Klan was already in great decline by the 1930s after some of the leaders were convicted for murder

The third Klan arose in the late 40s and 1950s as a response to the Civil Rights Movement and upward mobility in Black Americans, and as such was far more concerned with the rights (or lack thereof) of black folks. That's the group we think of as the Klan today.

Interesting reads include Kelly Baker's Gospel According to the Klan and while Wikipedia may be iffy at times, it's worthwhile to follow the references it cites.

This is likely managed storage, but in terms of raw storage, a stack of 38 9.5mm tall 2.5" 2TB drives would only be 361mm, or barely over a foot. Even if they used 1TB drives that'd be 722mm, or about 2 feet 5 inches.
Are you a midget?

Google programmers should read this book.
They can do much better at avoiding bugs than they are now.

To be fair, there's not much incredibly unique about solar weather like this that wouldn't apply to a general electrical catastrophe from an intentional EMP. There's a chance of getting some notice notice, but the practical effects of that will be slim other than telling anyone with a Faraday Cage to close and everyone else to attempt to power everything down first.

Whether it's a rogue state exploding a few nukes in space over the US (no targetting needed, just fire it up from a shipping container at set it to explode about 100mi high), or the Sun taking it out, the end is the same... pretty complete collapse of infrastructure everywhere at once. Think Katrina, but simultaneously across the county. What infrastructure remains working probably won't stay functioning for long with all of the other issues going on...

The logistics of rebuilding will be immense and measured in years, and that's assuming we have enough working equipment after that to "reboot civilization", as it were, and some other -- better equipped -- country with a few working jets doesn't decide to take advantage of things. The military will have properly shielded equipment in many cases, but it's an open question how long and in what way a chain of command can survive when disconnection is universal and recovery is years away.

The rural areas will be survivable; the coastal cities and anywhere where survival depends on electricity and food transportation logistics will not be.

The book One Second After is a decent look at what it might be like, although I have faith that there will be more HAMs than he seems to think who might be able to help with long distance communication in the aftermath. Or you could just watch reruns of Revolution and ignore the mystical nanite techno-babble and focus on the sociology of the collapse.

Then pick a book that isn't English. "Whan that Aprill, with his shoures soote The droghte of March hath perced to the roote" or one that wouldn't be there if they did a Gutenberg match. When it's an all books ever written (like a translation of an Agatha Christie into Spanish I have laying around, or a variety of text books that weren't popular), then it'd be nearly impossible for someone to match it.

Or the words on a Magic The Gathering card.

The entropy is much higher than you'd think. They'd have to know specifically what you used to have a chance, and at that point, they'd essentially have your key anyway. It might be harder to find the edition. But then, http://www.amazon.com/Fundamen... so you can get the e-book whenever wherever you want. Bought, but not on your laptop, read online only, and that's a book with versions, so when they get into searching every textbook every printed, in all editions (including teacher editions), the entropy increases greatly.

Get creative. Get weird. Because they'll not know exactly how you got your key, the keyspace is effectively infinite, even if the keyspace is only 34 bit, if they have your generation algorithm.

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You could use one of these...

While it likely will end up in court sooner or later, at the end of the day, that is probably a waste of time and money.

Why? Because it is clear that the government has the right to regulate the national airspace system. Both Congress and the FAA have the right to control access to the NAS.

As such, while there may be some give and take on the specifics, you're not going to win in the long run by saying, "I get to keep doing what I've been doing for years, just because I've been doing it".

They may come up with a specific rule in the regs that says "you may fly line-of-sight RC aircraft up to 200ft AGL in congested areas and up to 400ft AGL in uncongested areas without prior ATC approval, or something like that.

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Frankly I fully expect a FAA requirement for a "drone pilot certificate" at some point, for anything over a given size or ability, regardless of where you fly it.

Note that this likely won't have anything to do with the little microhelicopters that you buy on eBay or at the local mall, but it would apply to this:

http://www.amazon.com/gp/produ...

Don't expect to be able to continue to fly such things without specific regulations in a few years.

How about mine? My largest quadcopter is the Hubsan X4 (and, honestly, my favorite one to fly) and has no BVR or GPS capability; hardly a drone by anyone's definition. My hexacopter is equipped with the Naza-V2 flight controller; the only autonomous capability it has is RTB. The question was if there was a better way to distinguish RC toys from more advanced drones. I suggested that anything with BVR or autopilot (including RTB) would qualify as a drone. This isn't a hill I'm willing to die on; I fully understand that anything other than fixed-wing aircraft and helicopters are "drones" in popular media, but since we're talking about regulating anything that doesn't stay on the ground, it might be useful to have a set of working definitions.

I sold my Revo 3 x2 (which is exactly what you describe) about 3 years ago for $500ish, which I think I bought for $700ish. You can get 1TB drives for cheap now -- $329 http://www.amazon.com/Crucial-...

Larson: $279
http://www.amazon.com/Elementa...

Poole: $274
http://www.amazon.com/Linear-A...

Williams: $206
http://www.amazon.com/Algebra-...

By contrast:

Strang: $66
(Intro to Linear Algebra, 4e, 2009)
http://www.amazon.com/Introduc...

But also:

Strang: $322
(Linear Algebra and its Applications, 4e, 2005)
http://www.amazon.com/Linear-A...

Of course what makes this racket even worse, there's been nothing new in the field of Linear Algebra for over 100 years. A textbook written in 1915 would be just as usable as one written today.

Larson: $279
http://www.amazon.com/Elementa...

Poole: $274
http://www.amazon.com/Linear-A...

Williams: $206
http://www.amazon.com/Algebra-...

By contrast:

Strang: $66
(Intro to Linear Algebra, 4e, 2009)
http://www.amazon.com/Introduc...

But also:

Strang: $322
(Linear Algebra and its Applications, 4e, 2005)
http://www.amazon.com/Linear-A...

Of course what makes this racket even worse, there's been nothing new in the field of Linear Algebra for over 100 years. A textbook written in 1915 would be just as usable as one written today.

Larson: $279
http://www.amazon.com/Elementa...

Poole: $274
http://www.amazon.com/Linear-A...

Williams: $206
http://www.amazon.com/Algebra-...

By contrast:

Strang: $66
(Intro to Linear Algebra, 4e, 2009)
http://www.amazon.com/Introduc...

But also:

Strang: $322
(Linear Algebra and its Applications, 4e, 2005)
http://www.amazon.com/Linear-A...

Of course what makes this racket even worse, there's been nothing new in the field of Linear Algebra for over 100 years. A textbook written in 1915 would be just as usable as one written today.

Larson: $279
http://www.amazon.com/Elementa...

Poole: $274
http://www.amazon.com/Linear-A...

Williams: $206
http://www.amazon.com/Algebra-...

By contrast:

Strang: $66
(Intro to Linear Algebra, 4e, 2009)
http://www.amazon.com/Introduc...

But also:

Strang: $322
(Linear Algebra and its Applications, 4e, 2005)
http://www.amazon.com/Linear-A...

Of course what makes this racket even worse, there's been nothing new in the field of Linear Algebra for over 100 years. A textbook written in 1915 would be just as usable as one written today.

Larson: $279
http://www.amazon.com/Elementa...

Poole: $274
http://www.amazon.com/Linear-A...

Williams: $206
http://www.amazon.com/Algebra-...

By contrast:

Strang: $66
(Intro to Linear Algebra, 4e, 2009)
http://www.amazon.com/Introduc...

But also:

Strang: $322
(Linear Algebra and its Applications, 4e, 2005)
http://www.amazon.com/Linear-A...

Of course what makes this racket even worse, there's been nothing new in the field of Linear Algebra for over 100 years. A textbook written in 1915 would be just as usable as one written today.

Javascript has horrible scoping rules that result in really weird behaviour if you forget to var something (particularly a problem for loop indexes) -- I wouldn't put a beginner anywhere near it.

Scoping in JS isn't hard to learn, you just have to be mindful of it. But you're right, beginners should start with something with fewer pitfalls.

You cannot teach functional programming in JS

I beg to differ - JS has first-class functions, which is enough to get started with the concept of FP.

Amazon is also interested in cloudy big data: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/a...

Perhaps the assistance from The Weather Company is not completely unrelated to today's announcement.

Duct tape. No one's abducting ducks

I beg to differ. I think there is a full length Shaun the Sheep documentary of just such an event. https://www.amazon.com/Duck-Bi...

The scourge of abducktion is quite tragic.

It's not about removing sugar from your diet. It's about removing refined/processed sugar in the amounts we currently have. Compare an apple to a hostess cupcake. They both have about the same amount of sugar. But the apple has fiber, vitamins, and is digested/absorbed more slowly than the cupcake. The cupcake has, sugar, flour, and some other chemicals. It's also immediately absorbed into your system, getting that insulin flowing in an effort to store the excess sugar. And what do you think excess sugar is stored as? Not sugar, that's for sure. Unfortunately, sugar is added to almost everything, so getting rid of it is incredibly difficult.

However, it's something I've managed to do. The first 3 weeks I cut sugar/processed grains from my diet (nothing else changed), I lost 25lbs. (For the record, at the time, I started, I was 34 years old, 6'5" tall and weighed in at almost 390lbs. Sticking to this, and slowly adding in exercise (started as walking, then walking fast, then to jogging/running) it's a year later, I'm just under 300lbs, I have more energy than I did in high school, I'm happier (forgot to mention I had struggled with depression) and I just feel good.

If you're interested in reading more, read "Why we get fat and what we can do about it" by Gary Taubes http://www.amazon.com/Why-We-G... . This book changed and possibly saved my life.

Like one of these?

"The TPP isn't even approved by Congress yet. Crap like this happening will be a cakewalk in comparison to what things will be like if and when Congress approves it. Call and/or write your congressperson now, tell them to vote against it!"

Sorry to tell you...

Democracy Inc

First, our brains are much worse at reality and thinking than thought. Science on reasoning:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYmi0DLzBdQ

Protectionism for the rich and big business by state intervention, radical market interference.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WHj2GaPuEhY#t=349

Why you can't have capitalist democracy

Capitalism vs Democracy

I'm not sure about other eink devices, but the Kindle has support for "Active Content". One of those that I have installed is "Notepad":
http://www.amazon.com/Notepad/...

There's lots of alternatives too, and a bunch of other "apps" (ex. there's an official Scrabble app for the kindle). Unfortunately, I haven't found a good way to find them. If you go to the above link though, there's the "Customers who bought this item also bought" section that contains others, and I'm sure there's some way to find more on their site. Some other examples:
AccuWeather: http://www.amazon.com/AccuWeat...
Calculator: http://www.amazon.com/Calculat...
TakeNote: http://www.amazon.com/TakeNote...
Calendar: http://www.amazon.com/Calendar...
Notepad Plus: http://www.amazon.com/Notepad-...

I did find one way to find more just now... go to amazon, change department to Kindle eBooks, then search in that department for "active content".

I'm not sure about other eink devices, but the Kindle has support for "Active Content". One of those that I have installed is "Notepad":
http://www.amazon.com/Notepad/...

There's lots of alternatives too, and a bunch of other "apps" (ex. there's an official Scrabble app for the kindle). Unfortunately, I haven't found a good way to find them. If you go to the above link though, there's the "Customers who bought this item also bought" section that contains others, and I'm sure there's some way to find more on their site. Some other examples:
AccuWeather: http://www.amazon.com/AccuWeat...
Calculator: http://www.amazon.com/Calculat...
TakeNote: http://www.amazon.com/TakeNote...
Calendar: http://www.amazon.com/Calendar...
Notepad Plus: http://www.amazon.com/Notepad-...

I did find one way to find more just now... go to amazon, change department to Kindle eBooks, then search in that department for "active content".

I'm not sure about other eink devices, but the Kindle has support for "Active Content". One of those that I have installed is "Notepad":
http://www.amazon.com/Notepad/...

There's lots of alternatives too, and a bunch of other "apps" (ex. there's an official Scrabble app for the kindle). Unfortunately, I haven't found a good way to find them. If you go to the above link though, there's the "Customers who bought this item also bought" section that contains others, and I'm sure there's some way to find more on their site. Some other examples:
AccuWeather: http://www.amazon.com/AccuWeat...
Calculator: http://www.amazon.com/Calculat...
TakeNote: http://www.amazon.com/TakeNote...
Calendar: http://www.amazon.com/Calendar...
Notepad Plus: http://www.amazon.com/Notepad-...

I did find one way to find more just now... go to amazon, change department to Kindle eBooks, then search in that department for "active content".

I'm not sure about other eink devices, but the Kindle has support for "Active Content". One of those that I have installed is "Notepad":
http://www.amazon.com/Notepad/...

There's lots of alternatives too, and a bunch of other "apps" (ex. there's an official Scrabble app for the kindle). Unfortunately, I haven't found a good way to find them. If you go to the above link though, there's the "Customers who bought this item also bought" section that contains others, and I'm sure there's some way to find more on their site. Some other examples:
AccuWeather: http://www.amazon.com/AccuWeat...
Calculator: http://www.amazon.com/Calculat...
TakeNote: http://www.amazon.com/TakeNote...
Calendar: http://www.amazon.com/Calendar...
Notepad Plus: http://www.amazon.com/Notepad-...

I did find one way to find more just now... go to amazon, change department to Kindle eBooks, then search in that department for "active content".

I'm not sure about other eink devices, but the Kindle has support for "Active Content". One of those that I have installed is "Notepad":
http://www.amazon.com/Notepad/...

There's lots of alternatives too, and a bunch of other "apps" (ex. there's an official Scrabble app for the kindle). Unfortunately, I haven't found a good way to find them. If you go to the above link though, there's the "Customers who bought this item also bought" section that contains others, and I'm sure there's some way to find more on their site. Some other examples:
AccuWeather: http://www.amazon.com/AccuWeat...
Calculator: http://www.amazon.com/Calculat...
TakeNote: http://www.amazon.com/TakeNote...
Calendar: http://www.amazon.com/Calendar...
Notepad Plus: http://www.amazon.com/Notepad-...

I did find one way to find more just now... go to amazon, change department to Kindle eBooks, then search in that department for "active content".

I'm not sure about other eink devices, but the Kindle has support for "Active Content". One of those that I have installed is "Notepad":
http://www.amazon.com/Notepad/...

There's lots of alternatives too, and a bunch of other "apps" (ex. there's an official Scrabble app for the kindle). Unfortunately, I haven't found a good way to find them. If you go to the above link though, there's the "Customers who bought this item also bought" section that contains others, and I'm sure there's some way to find more on their site. Some other examples:
AccuWeather: http://www.amazon.com/AccuWeat...
Calculator: http://www.amazon.com/Calculat...
TakeNote: http://www.amazon.com/TakeNote...
Calendar: http://www.amazon.com/Calendar...
Notepad Plus: http://www.amazon.com/Notepad-...

I did find one way to find more just now... go to amazon, change department to Kindle eBooks, then search in that department for "active content".

This device looks vastly superior but this sort of Windows/Intel form factor has been around for a while. I bought a WinTel device last april for around $100 - about the same shape as an Apple TV. The device from this story is vastly superior as it has a legit x64 CPU that supports 64-bit OS (the WinTel seems locked to 32-bit OS via the UEFI). It looks like the next iteration up of the Atom SoC. Also, the WinTel has an invalid Windows 8 key burned into the firmware. And I can't seem to install 32-bit Windows 7 on it (yes, I've tried every method on the web). Really wish I had waited for this device instead of getting the stupid WinTel.

http://www.amazon.com/Command-...

A fun history of one particularly disturbing incident where a single dropped tool almost caused a huge explosion and also some other fun anecdotes as well. When you think about how true the phrase "to err is human" is, you have wonder why they ever thought building these WMDs was ever a good idea in the first place. Scary stuff.

The "point" of having separate states in the U.S. was not remotely to provide different choices for where people could live. The "point" was that the various state leaders were simply going to refuse to join any union that didn't mostly keep their existing little fiefdoms -- most notably in the case of the slave-owning states. For an excellent read on how the sausage was made, consider Robertson's "The Original Compromise: What the Constitution's Framers Were Really Thinking".

http://www.amazon.com/Original-Compromise-Constitutions-Framers-Thinking/dp/0199796297/

The ability of lower-class people to move between states is relatively very limited, and fraught with risk (like leaving behind existing family and community support structures).

I majored in math and don't even get the point of most math books Even the upper level undergrad classes, we mostly used teacher self published (photocopied) notes or dover books.

"This is yet another example of idiot governments rolling over and giving corporations everything they want, and utterly failing to serve the people who voted for them."

You're under the dangerous idea that they ever worked for you.

First, our brains are much worse at reality and thinking than thought. Science on reasoning:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYmi0DLzBdQ

Protectionism for the rich and big business by state intervention, radical market interference.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WHj2GaPuEhY#t=349

Why you can't have capitalist democracy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8mxp_wgFWQo&feature=youtu.be&list=PLKR2GeygdHomOZeVKx3P0fqH58T3VghOj&t=724

From war is a racket:

"I helped make Mexico, especially Tampico, safe for American oil intersts in 1914. I helped make Haiti and Cuba a decent place for the National City Bank boys to collect revenues in. I helped in the raping of half a dozen Central American republics for the benefits of Wall Street. The record of racketeering is long. I helped purify Nicaragua for the international banking house of Brown Brothers in 1909-1912. I brought light to the Dominican Republic for American sugar interests in 1916. In China I helped to see to it that Standard Oil went its way unmolested."[p. 10]

"War is a racket. ...It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives." [p. 23]
"The general public shoulders the bill [for war]. This bill renders a horrible accounting. Newly placed gravestones. Mangled bodies. Shattered minds. Broken hearts and homes. Economic instability. Depression and all its attendant miseries. Back-breaking taxation for generations and generations." [p. 24]

General Butler is especially trenchant when he looks at post-war casualties. He writes with great emotion about the thousands of tramautized soldiers, many of who lose their minds and are penned like animals until they die, and he notes that in his time, returning veterans are three times more likely to die prematurely than those who stayed home.

http://www.amazon.com/War-Racket-Antiwar-Americas-Decorated/dp/0922915865/

Some history on US imperialism by us corporations.

https://kurukshetra1.wordpress.com/2015/09/27/a-brief-history-of-imperialism-and-state-violence-in-colombia/

What happens when government tries to help its people - greece

http://williamblum.org/

US distribution of wealth

https://imgur.com/a/FShfb/

http://www2.ucsc.edu/whorulesamerica/power/wealth.html