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It's there for me too, in the order of: Facebook, Twitter, Google+, then others. Odd how G+ isn't first.

Depression is mentioned. As I'm sure everyone else here will say: There is no shame in getting help for that.

And yet with a modem and comm software, they could all connect to online services -- The Source, CompuServe, BBSes.

>>>Why should they change? Because there's the example of the iPod. It wasn't the music player to have until Apple employees wore down Steve Jobs so they could let it connect with …

>>>Yeah, Amazon is actually the worst at this because of their e-book DRM. iBookstore, Nookbook store, and Kobo -- the other three big players also have eBook DRM (via Adobe). Kind…

Still Mars. Unknown companies, unknown quality, unknown warranties (as in mostly non-existent). And sending it back to China to exchange a defective unit? Suddenly that $30 isn't.

>>>You can buy smart phones for 30$ in shenzhen electronic malls today. 1) That's in Shenzen. Might as well be Mars for most people. When Shenzen hardware is sourced by global bran…

Anyone interested in books published by former slaves, go search Google Books. 12 Years A Slave is there among others.

In the Kamalaya section, it doesn't seem to scroll down. Using the latest Firefox. Am I missing some sort of control that's too light to see on my bad-contrast screen?

"and operating an unlicensed money transmitting business" http://bnowire.com/inbox/?id=2158 And they reveal the hand they'll use to shut it all down.

Knew a guy in his his forties who wanted to work for an ad agency. Convinced them to use him for free for a while as a test and they wound up hiring him. YMMV.

I had a Canon CAT. The praise for it is overrated. It was never as simple as people claim nor really any joy to use. The hardware itself also tended to die suddenly. When mine died…

>>>Remove the DRM from your ebooks You've missed the point. Something like a Scribd or Oyster subscription use an app and its own eBook format. The books are cached or streamed, no…

"industry" is the key word.

See Kobo's Reading Life: http://www.kobobooks.com/stats

It will breed sequelitis, a specialty of movies. And more grave-robbing of dead authors (see fourth Millennium series book recently announced while Stieg Larsson spins in his grave…

>>>despite the fact that inflation is running at the lowest level in decades. Here is someone who does not do his own food shopping. Food prices have exploded since 2008, when the …

This article ties in with the recent Block change on Twitter. See all that vile material posted? Now imagine having that tweeted to you on a daily basis from multiple fake accounts…

Yes, they exist. I Follow people on Twitter who have made me aware of that issue. There's one prominent columnist in particular whose name I can't recall that seems to have it in f…