No. I bill my time at $200 per hour. Someone wants me to spend half an hour fixing their logistics error, for free? And involuntarily?

There appears to be a rainbow on the faint outer ring (top, just right of center) when viewed at full resolution. Is that for real?

Comments aren't supposed to (redundantly) tell you what the code does. They're to tell you why the code had to be written, or the reason one coding choice was made over another, or known issues and todos.

How about this one: every time you get a robocall, call your phone company, the FTC, and your senator to complain.

(How about this one: do whatever it is you're doing to block these calls from cellphones. I haven't got one on my cell in a couple of years.

How about this one: tell your phone company they need to block them or you'll switch. (Then do it.)

How about this one: "Can you call me back on my other phone?" Give them an FBI number.)

We need a standard for swappable batteries, so you can pull up to a fueling station, have your exhausted batteries replaced in under a minute, and drive on.

OK, yeah there are potential issues of fraud with getting served with an undercharged battery. There would have to be some mostly-trusted monitoring tech to record actual energy extracted, and we'd have to eat whatever fraud slips by. But electric cars will never become mainstream until the long-distance travel issue is addressed, by (1) swappable batteries, (2) batteries rechargeable in a couple of minutes, or (3) gas prices so high that people will put up with waiting a long time for recharges at waystations.

We need to get the phrase "evidence-based lawmaking" into the public mind, as we've started to do with "evidence-based medicine".

Nonsense. If their stunt loses them 99% of customers and let's them rip off 1% in a big way, then yes, they'll try it again.

Yeah, and other dubious operations like speaking freely or engaging in outside-social-norm behavior.

By itself, allowing more people to create books quickly isn't going to make a difference

Lots of good books already get published that aren't used for education, because textbook selection isn't based on quality or price, it's based on politics, and on complex, draconian, ever-changing standards --- which are so difficult to keep up with that perhaps $150 isn't surprising.

Retailers gripe about people using their shop for browsing, then buying on Amazon --- but nobody mentions the people (I'm one) who use Amazon for reading reviews, while they're shopping and buying in the retail store.

As far as the tax goes --- I don't buy it. Local taxes help pay for local services. The fireman will come if there's a fire in their shop. Amazon already pays taxes in the location where they do business, and the fireman will come if there's a fire in their warehouse. And UPS and other shippers pay taxes where they operate, too.

Will nobody point out that all the posters saying "I lived through my childhood" are a self-selecting group?

If they really cared about speeding, they would prevent it with throttles and/or audible warnings. (Yes, there are issues to be worked out there, but not insurmountable.) But no. They really care about collecting lots of fines, and being able to pull people over if they don't like the look of them.

You mean, you don't *think* it does. Ask yourself, how many opportunities are there for your ISP to inject some form of evilware onto your system? That said, yeah, it probably doesn't.

The FAQ says, confusingly,

We will establish a secure connection from the cloud to the site owner on your behalf for page requests of sites using SSL (e.g. https://siteaddress.com./

Amazon Silk will facilitate a direct connection between your device and that site. Any security provided by these particular sites to their users would still exist.

Which is it?