All the best to you. However, I'm not going to deface the paper version of the book, especially a hard cover, just to get a free or cheaper e-book. I'm a reader who likes his books pristine, I don't highlight and I don't take notes in the margins. If I want to take notes that's what note cards or my phone is for. Scrawling in the book is anathema to me. Based on the reviews I saw in the Apple app store, I'm not alone in this. And like one of the other reviews I saw, I also have a largish paper book library. Take that for what you will.

This is a very sad day for the United States and for freedom of expression. It's so disappointing that we've allowed terrorist fear and propaganda to suppress our culture and art.

Strikes me they should angry at either the city of L.A. or the state of California for not investing in better road infrastructure. Waze is a symptom of overburdened roads, lack of proper infrastructure is the cause.

I'd also be curious to know how many of these folks may have voted against tax increases to fund road infrastructure.

I live in Washington. From what I have read it's pretty hard to convict indecent exposure. It requires several tests that must all pass. For one, someone must actually be affronted and complain, the police can't just arrest you for being nude without someone claiming actual alarm. It also has to be proven that the nude person intended to affront or alarm someone. Being naked in public is not enough to prove this. Reasonable people see nudity commonly enough. So just seeing someone nude is not reasonable alarm. The law is intended to target things like flashers, not general nudity.

For anyone reading this "Insightful" comment. Please follow the abc link and read the article. While I'm generally not a fan of contempt of court charges, the individual in this particular case seems to have gotten what he deserves.

This is as bad as the % category and number ranking Microsoft used to explicitly do. It encourages good people to work in dysfunctional groups so they won't be part of the bottom 5%. It also punishes high performing groups that actually drive the bottom line. Needing Senior VP approval to not cut folks because you have a high performing group is beyond ridiculous.

Those ratios are terrible. No wonder I had to snatch up someone soon after they moved in from out of town. If we have sons, they're sure be getting the stick and twist living here.

Doing what is most economically efficient is not always what's best for society as a whole. The bankers and deregulators that helped create the Great Recession were just doing what was most economically efficient at the time. Tunnel vision like that often leads to very huge negative unintended consequences. Doing what is most economically efficient readily contributes to the destruction of the commons, whereby all of us suffer in small and large ways.

Most strawberry farms won't be replaced with a Disneyland, they'll be replaced with just another shopping mall. As a counter thought, consider what would happen if you decided to sell off Central Park in Manhattan. It's prime real estate and a lot of folks could do some very economically efficient things with that land. However, it would absolutely gut the character of Manhattan and a huge portion of the appeal of living there.

Building a city worth living in and being a part of cannot be viewed in strictly economic terms. And what's best for the economy is not always best for the people inhabiting a society. Some level of balance should be struck.

Doing what is most economically efficient is not always what's best for society as a whole. The bankers and deregulators that helped create the Great Recession were just doing what was most economically efficient at the time. Tunnel vision like that often leads to very huge negative unintended consequences. Doing what is most economically efficient readily contributes to the destruction of the commons, whereby all of us suffer in small and large ways.

Most strawberry farms won't be replaced with Disney, they'll be replaced with just another shopping mall. As a counter thought, consider what would happen if you decided to sell off Central Park in Manhattan. It's prime real estate and a lot of folks could do some very economically efficient things with that land. However, it would absolutely gut the character of Manhattan and a huge portion of the appeal of living there.

Building a city worth living in and being a part of cannot be viewed in strictly economic terms. And what's best for the economy is not always best for the people inhabiting a society. Some level of balance should be struck.

You're responding to a thread in which the person already stated they're on a disability budget. So kudos to you for calling a disabled person lazy!

This is actually one of the main things that keeps me on Macs. They're the only ones who's product line for laptops is primarily 16:10 for the displays. I abhor the general conversion to 16:9. That additional vertical resolution is important to me.

This! After Enigma was cracked in WWII, the allies went to great length to make sure it remained cracked. They would fly fake recon flights near the locations of subs they knew about. This would make it appear as though the subs where found through conventional means.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultra#Safeguarding_of_sources

While I didn't have an entire curriculum dedicated to anti-piracy, I did have to take CompSci as a graduation requirement from my high school. One of our assignments consisted of writing a children's book on the evils of hacking and piracy. Naturally, I took the opportunity to make a complete mockery of the assignment. Mr Peepers and the MegaVirus was the result. Highlights included an over the top evil mastermind wearing an adamantium mask, a virus causing a computer to get so hot it exploded, and impalation on a mounted unicorn head. Oh good times.

Actually, Valve uses the word "own" as well. Just go check out anyone's steam profile. When they buy a game there's a message: "Bob owns BioShock Infinite." So Valve themselves are using the same misleading ownership language.