I know, I noticed that and also the recent shutdown and transition, but they're still paperbacks on offer. The question remains whether anything actually gets printed and shipped - a run of the mill scam - or whether the orders themselves are a front and nothing gets printed or shipped - money laundering. That depends entirely on the back-end of Amazon's ordering system and linkage with its own on-demand publishing arm that we can't see. Money laundering would depend upon the "seller" being able to keep their shipping activity away from prying eyes, because nothing would be shipped to fulfill "orders".
Those aren't actually e-books: they're paperbacks printed by an on-demand publisher, CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform. Regardless, they do still seem like a scam, and one angry reviewer of several calls them that specifically.
Without openly admitting it, those admissions are also referring to money laundering of some affiliates and how Amazon profits handsomely by taking its cut off the top, no questions asked. Nope, there's nothing at all odd about a seller who prices common health & beauty aids and other common items three orders of magnitude greater than their MSRPs....
Wait, wait, are you sure the two companies cooked and ate each other?
No, I'm quite sure that they didn't eat each other. Cannibalism isn't bidirectional like your USB cable. There Can Be Only One flicking the leftovers out of his beard.
So you jumped ship from one big corporation to an even bigger one, that's gobbled up tens (hundreds?) of smaller companies?
I didn't say that I jumped onto another boat, did I? I jumped into the water and just swam: I no longer store or back them up in the commercial clouds.
I didn't. I jumped ship immediately when I got the announcement. I have no interest in lining new owners' pockets to justify their corporate cannibalism. Aren't corporations supposed to possess personhood? Wasn't cannibalism of other persons supposed to be illegal? I'm confused.
What about bags and boxes of tortilla chips and cereals and the like that suffer damage in shipping and then again from the rough handling of store "placement specialists" who aggressively cram them into shelf spaces after playing football and hockey with them in the aisles? When I find a sixth of the product in unusable fragments at the bottom of package, repeatedly every single time, that is product waste. We're paying for that waste.
I'm not a rodent purist; I use what hotkeys I can remember. I took issue with TFA's moronic implication that you can/should only have keyboards and that mice are evil. I have long wanted one of the rare and expensive keyboards with programmable LCD keycaps; that might finally let me exploit the keyboard more when hotkeys could be made self-documenting (and perhaps even contextual).
Practice doesn't help when the issue is - was - developmental. I did get a high fluid IQ as compensation, but it can't always compensate. That's like telling someone with chronic dysthymia or autistic traits to just suck it up and practice being happy or sociable. There are things that simple force of will can't overcome. You've been reading too many so-called self-help books.
Saw that, but the relationship was already known. In my case it's developmental, and also the reason I developed exceptional fluid IQ: as compensation, in the same way that other senses are heightened when one is lost.
Congratulations, you've discovered the very reason that GUIs exist in the first place: not everyone is capable of memorizing all those necessary keyboard shortcuts. Memorizing things is my kryptonite. I struggled in those days, and I still struggle in instances where a UI designer fails at his job. Don't you DARE try to rewind the clock for the rest of us... I will discover your kryptonite and leave it under your pillow!
P.S. Slashdot really HAS become that awful, courtesy of its more recent owners who only wish to bleed it dry and contribute nothing; its owners now have no investment in the process other than a monetary one. Their willingness to take a cut from allowing Taboola to display misleading deceptive clickbait ads shows how little they respect their userbase... who actually create the "content" AKA discussions that make the site have value. Taboola is the Exoclick of mainstream advertising: no porn, but every bit as sleazy and deceptive.
(I wouldn't even know how bad the advertising is were it not for Thunderbird recently also adopting WebExtensions and in the process breaking everything I had in place to rework RSS feeds like Slashdot's.)
My point was that Pi-Hole is a passive band-aid that does nothing at all to help "take back the Web". Simply blocking advertising/malware/porn domains wholesale does nothing to lessen the control of "content creators" over how others are able to view the content they disseminate.
Are you new here? That solves nothing at all! What alternative browser shall you use? Mozilla? Mozilla is still in bed with corporate sugar daddies and quietly does their bidding in large part (because to not do so means no more shugga from daddy), and the W3C is still dominated by a corporate oligarchy and corporate motives, and the HTML and other specs are still designed to serve THEM and not us.
Say hello to your Web overlords. They control your Web browsing regardless what browser you use.
You don't seem to grasp how much flexible Proxomitron and Privoxy are than something as simplistic as Pi-Hole. They don't just block advertising: they can REWORK PAGES to display information in a fashion that is effective for you, and NOT display page elements that distract from your goal, regardless whether those elements are advertising, site self-promotion, sidebars you don't need, and far more.
Don't you get sick of having a widescreen monitor yet so many Web pages are imprisoned by their designer in a narrow column that only benefits that designer's "vision"? Don't you ever find yourself wanting to overrule the stupid or selfish decisions that Web designers make? You could do that are more with Proxomitron, because it was designed specifically to be more generalized than just an ad-blocker. Before Proxomitron's sole author died and the software lapsed into obsolescence, I used it for all of the above, and my Web experience was dramatically improved, because it was MY OWN.
Instead of promoting Pi-Hole, you should be promoting a revived open-source community edition of Proxomitron.
What goes around, comes around? Why does this not surprise me? Perhaps it's because the W3C has had fingers in corporate pockets and pants legs for as long as it's existed, and serves the corporate presences on the Web and not the "useless eaters" who consume it? The HTML spec has long been saddled with additions that benefit that corporate control of the Web. Why should it surprise anyone that one of the biggest corporate presences wants to take further control through use of its own browser?
So the Resistance is now back to using HTTP filtering proxies like the dead Proxomitron and Privoxy to try to take back the Web from corporate control. Good luck with that. Nobody really gives a shit any more. Instead of more such independent proxies and more refinements to them to make them truly user-friendly, we got the horrifically bad idea of BROWSER EXTENSIONS... and those extension developers got pwned even by Mozilla after the trap was sprung.
I'd like to be able to keep my KeePass database handy when it's needed without having to stop and waste half a minute regaining access to it, but Android insists on randomly killing the app in the background when it's doing nothing but occasionally verifying database sync. There's nothing explicit, I get no notification, it just quietly gets terminated. The author has acknowledged the problem from a usability standpoint, but apparently can do nothing to prevent it.
There should - MUST - be a way for me to designate mission-critical processes that should never die, not have the OS killing them at its whim.
Any executive from Epic games trying to convince gamers or other developers that such an unrepentantly selfish corporation has "shared values" in common with them is a fool who doesn't recognize his own irony even as he creates it.
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I know, I noticed that and also the recent shutdown and transition, but they're still paperbacks on offer. The question remains whether anything actually gets printed and shipped - a run of the mill scam - or whether the orders themselves are a front and nothing gets printed or shipped - money laundering. That depends entirely on the back-end of Amazon's ordering system and linkage with its own on-demand publishing arm that we can't see. Money laundering would depend upon the "seller" being able to keep their shipping activity away from prying eyes, because nothing would be shipped to fulfill "orders".
Those aren't actually e-books: they're paperbacks printed by an on-demand publisher, CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform. Regardless, they do still seem like a scam, and one angry reviewer of several calls them that specifically.
Without openly admitting it, those admissions are also referring to money laundering of some affiliates and how Amazon profits handsomely by taking its cut off the top, no questions asked. Nope, there's nothing at all odd about a seller who prices common health & beauty aids and other common items three orders of magnitude greater than their MSRPs....
You do realize that the same post had two sentences in it, and that I was responding exclusively and directly to the latter of the two?
"I doubt many people will switch to the paid version."
"I didn't."
No, I'm quite sure that they didn't eat each other. Cannibalism isn't bidirectional like your USB cable. There Can Be Only One flicking the leftovers out of his beard.
I didn't say that I jumped onto another boat, did I? I jumped into the water and just swam: I no longer store or back them up in the commercial clouds.
I didn't. I jumped ship immediately when I got the announcement. I have no interest in lining new owners' pockets to justify their corporate cannibalism. Aren't corporations supposed to possess personhood? Wasn't cannibalism of other persons supposed to be illegal? I'm confused.
What about bags and boxes of tortilla chips and cereals and the like that suffer damage in shipping and then again from the rough handling of store "placement specialists" who aggressively cram them into shelf spaces after playing football and hockey with them in the aisles? When I find a sixth of the product in unusable fragments at the bottom of package, repeatedly every single time, that is product waste. We're paying for that waste.
Nice "history" lesson! Glad I could inspire it.
I read TFS. I was just having fun with the title.
It's still populated by 141 million people and it's been a while since the last gigantic eruption, so it ain't dead at all.
I'm not a rodent purist; I use what hotkeys I can remember. I took issue with TFA's moronic implication that you can/should only have keyboards and that mice are evil. I have long wanted one of the rare and expensive keyboards with programmable LCD keycaps; that might finally let me exploit the keyboard more when hotkeys could be made self-documenting (and perhaps even contextual).
I have no feeling about it.
Practice doesn't help when the issue is - was - developmental. I did get a high fluid IQ as compensation, but it can't always compensate. That's like telling someone with chronic dysthymia or autistic traits to just suck it up and practice being happy or sociable. There are things that simple force of will can't overcome. You've been reading too many so-called self-help books.
Saw that, but the relationship was already known. In my case it's developmental, and also the reason I developed exceptional fluid IQ: as compensation, in the same way that other senses are heightened when one is lost.
Congratulations, you've discovered the very reason that GUIs exist in the first place: not everyone is capable of memorizing all those necessary keyboard shortcuts. Memorizing things is my kryptonite. I struggled in those days, and I still struggle in instances where a UI designer fails at his job. Don't you DARE try to rewind the clock for the rest of us... I will discover your kryptonite and leave it under your pillow!
P.S. Slashdot really HAS become that awful, courtesy of its more recent owners who only wish to bleed it dry and contribute nothing; its owners now have no investment in the process other than a monetary one. Their willingness to take a cut from allowing Taboola to display misleading deceptive clickbait ads shows how little they respect their userbase... who actually create the "content" AKA discussions that make the site have value. Taboola is the Exoclick of mainstream advertising: no porn, but every bit as sleazy and deceptive.
(I wouldn't even know how bad the advertising is were it not for Thunderbird recently also adopting WebExtensions and in the process breaking everything I had in place to rework RSS feeds like Slashdot's.)
My point was that Pi-Hole is a passive band-aid that does nothing at all to help "take back the Web". Simply blocking advertising/malware/porn domains wholesale does nothing to lessen the control of "content creators" over how others are able to view the content they disseminate.
The goal for us is to cripple the cripplers. Having a browser-independent updated HTTPS-ready version of Proxomitron would really help.
Are you new here? That solves nothing at all! What alternative browser shall you use? Mozilla? Mozilla is still in bed with corporate sugar daddies and quietly does their bidding in large part (because to not do so means no more shugga from daddy), and the W3C is still dominated by a corporate oligarchy and corporate motives, and the HTML and other specs are still designed to serve THEM and not us.
Say hello to your Web overlords. They control your Web browsing regardless what browser you use.
You don't seem to grasp how much flexible Proxomitron and Privoxy are than something as simplistic as Pi-Hole. They don't just block advertising: they can REWORK PAGES to display information in a fashion that is effective for you, and NOT display page elements that distract from your goal, regardless whether those elements are advertising, site self-promotion, sidebars you don't need, and far more.
Don't you get sick of having a widescreen monitor yet so many Web pages are imprisoned by their designer in a narrow column that only benefits that designer's "vision"? Don't you ever find yourself wanting to overrule the stupid or selfish decisions that Web designers make? You could do that are more with Proxomitron, because it was designed specifically to be more generalized than just an ad-blocker. Before Proxomitron's sole author died and the software lapsed into obsolescence, I used it for all of the above, and my Web experience was dramatically improved, because it was MY OWN.
Instead of promoting Pi-Hole, you should be promoting a revived open-source community edition of Proxomitron.
What goes around, comes around? Why does this not surprise me? Perhaps it's because the W3C has had fingers in corporate pockets and pants legs for as long as it's existed, and serves the corporate presences on the Web and not the "useless eaters" who consume it? The HTML spec has long been saddled with additions that benefit that corporate control of the Web. Why should it surprise anyone that one of the biggest corporate presences wants to take further control through use of its own browser?
So the Resistance is now back to using HTTP filtering proxies like the dead Proxomitron and Privoxy to try to take back the Web from corporate control. Good luck with that. Nobody really gives a shit any more. Instead of more such independent proxies and more refinements to them to make them truly user-friendly, we got the horrifically bad idea of BROWSER EXTENSIONS... and those extension developers got pwned even by Mozilla after the trap was sprung.
I'd like to be able to keep my KeePass database handy when it's needed without having to stop and waste half a minute regaining access to it, but Android insists on randomly killing the app in the background when it's doing nothing but occasionally verifying database sync. There's nothing explicit, I get no notification, it just quietly gets terminated. The author has acknowledged the problem from a usability standpoint, but apparently can do nothing to prevent it.
There should - MUST - be a way for me to designate mission-critical processes that should never die, not have the OS killing them at its whim.
Any executive from Epic games trying to convince gamers or other developers that such an unrepentantly selfish corporation has "shared values" in common with them is a fool who doesn't recognize his own irony even as he creates it.
Indeed. This amusement park ride has too much momentum.