Yes, but can you explain why books I buy at Borders bookstores have UPCs on stickers that they put over the UPCs that come preprinted on the book? Are they hip to this whole number of the beast thing and looking out for my immortal soul or what?:)
Are the differences substantive? Are they the result of government interference? FWIW, I am not an apologist for the current "administration". Quite the opposite. But the day a relatively mild book like this is censored in the U.S. as a result of direct government intervention will be an interesting day indeed.
And yet the interface on those forums is downright horrible and they have a central point of failure (i.e. the web server they are hosted on).
Usenet is well archived by Google (and probably others). For text groups, how hard would it really be to set up your own local news feed that archived your favorite groups as long as you wanted to keep them around? Both systems have their roles to play.
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Yes, but can you explain why books I buy at Borders bookstores have UPCs on stickers that they put over the UPCs that come preprinted on the book? Are they hip to this whole number of the beast thing and looking out for my immortal soul or what? :)
Are the differences substantive? Are they the result of government interference? FWIW, I am not an apologist for the current "administration". Quite the opposite. But the day a relatively mild book like this is censored in the U.S. as a result of direct government intervention will be an interesting day indeed.
And yet the interface on those forums is downright horrible and they have a central point of failure (i.e. the web server they are hosted on).
Usenet is well archived by Google (and probably others). For text groups, how hard would it really be to set up your own local news feed that archived your favorite groups as long as you wanted to keep them around? Both systems have their roles to play.
I don't think it's available in the US
Obviously false statement. Duh.