Today’s Unshelved on Ringworld and Halo! Great stuff. I could so see Microsoft’s lawyers rolling their eyes when someone suggested this.
Mental Note: Avoid all stores until Monday. The last time I attempted to go shopping during such a weekend, it was worse than Christmas Eve. Stores were in such a sorry state of disarray. Stuff was thrown everywhere. The store floors looked like they had not been cleaned in days. The employees appeared as though…
Several magazine companies have used North Shore to attempt to scare me into renewing their product. This method of strong arming customers gave me a bad taste for the company. Now I definitely am relieved.
An Unfair opt-out policy makes strike 2 for Yahoo. Actually, I would like to count removing the free POP email access as 3 strikes. If they had asked would I be willing to pay for POPping my email, then they would have learned that am I not. No one I have discussed this with seems…
I don’t get it…Â If you were the advertiser developing a program where people purchase 2 months free trial issues to magazines, then you probably would have a cover for each magazine to which people can subscribe. That seems pretty obvious. My problem is that the advertisement picture clearly shows Fortune magazine in the picture and…
I especially like the last paragraph. Are we really certain that the mechanism of society, like the mechanism of the heavenly bodies or the mechanism of the human body, is subject to general laws? Are we really certain that it is a harmoniously organized whole? Or is it not true that what is most notable…
Americans are so caught up in the idea of materialism through capitalism that they think that a pure capitalist system benefits everyone. The premise of capitalism is that everyone will do what advantages them or they die. Maybe not dead in a coffin and grave, but they would be homeless and incapable of competing in…