No Triganic Pu? For shame /.

They just didn't want to deal in fiddling small change.

I've got some Flanian Pobble Beads here. If you also happen to have some Flanian Pobble Beads, we could probably work something out.

Given the current state of internet-focused writing, with the brutal drive to churn out as much clickbait 'content' as possible as fast as possible, with a side of SEO fuckery, I suspect that adding analytics capabilities to books will... perhaps not... be the most helpful development in literature.

ONE CLEVER TRICK TO SHOW HOW SHALL I LOVE THEE, NEW PARADIGM; LET ME COUNT THE 5 WAYS

1. I can think of no way in which this could possibly compromise the quality of the TITS literary experience.
2. Let us not forget that we are at the forefront BREASTS of a new publishing paradigm.
3. Electronic distribution promises to free BOOBS authors from the shackles of the traditional publishing industry.
4. It's an agile and disruptive way of making JUGS money through the process of creative destruction.

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5. The end.

It's not paranoia when they really are out to get you.

The distance between paranoia and reality has narrowed considerably.

Where's +1 Sad when you need it?

Trust the Computer. Happiness is mandatory. You are happy, aren't you, Citizen?

The wonderful thing about shows like CSI is that it convinces criminals to implement absurd technical defences when their crimes will almost certainly be dealt with by old-fashioned police work.

The kind of intellect that uses a bomb threat to get out of an exam doesn't strike me as the kind that pleads the fifth to get out of a stretch in pokey.

Did it occur to you that the Apple "tax" is why their products don't have all that bad stuff? That it costs money to get a laptop CNCed out of an aluminium block and fitted with an IPS display, rather than a plastic slab with a TN one?

Half right, it's the laptop side of the connector that is yank-resistant; it doesn't go anywhere, regardless of how much the cable is pulled.

This seems pedantic, even for me...

They could cut down the number of leads by a factor of six if they used some sort of heavy-duty twisted-pair conductor. Then you'd have a Cat-5 of Nine Tails.

Indeed. Like I say, unions are a very good mirror of the approaches of the corporations they're standing against, good and malevolent.

Hopefully the source article won't be quietly edited after-the-fact so that I look like a raging moron, as happened with my last submission. :/

My point - if there is one - that unions exist as a natural mirror to a corporation's own collective bargaining power. I've actually seen people (including honest-to-God well-paid politicians) really upset at how "unfair" collective bargaining is, arguing that it should be outlawed.

Of course, this was meant as a dismissal of the AC OP's fatuous argument, not a stance on the issue.

Ouch. That certainly puts it in perspective.

Now, I'd have phrased it with the last word being "Amazon"...

That's the joke I was trying to make, yes. Apparently I did not do a good job of it.