I'm paying way more than $10 a month for it though.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuel_tax#United_States

Fuel taxes in the United States vary by state. The United States federal excise tax on gasoline, as of February 2011, is 18.4 cents per gallon and 24.4 cents per gallon for diesel fuel. In January 2011, motor gasoline taxes averaged 48.1 cents per gallon and diesel fuel taxes averaged 53.1 cents per gallon.[7] For the first quarter of 2009, the mean state gasoline tax is 27.2 cents per US gallon, plus 18.4 cents per US gallon federal tax making the total 45.6 cents per US gallon (12.0 /L). For diesel, the mean state tax is 26.6 cents per US gallon plus an additional 24.4 cents per US gallon federal tax making the total 50.8 cents US per gallon (13.4 /L).[8] There are also a few states that charge sales tax on top of the excise taxes and the retail price.

Then you can go here http://ninite.com/ to batch install the useful stuff you do want.

I have purchased several machines from Dell, Toshiba and HP at various price levels. The uninstallers work perfectly fine. Even for things you ought not remove if you want OSD and hot buttons and the like to continue working.

On behalf of those of us who know better, I'd like to offer your 'fuck you' right back to you.

"Man in the Mobile"

Smartphone variant already set to harvest OTP.

Discover also does this.

Infamous, Prototype and Bioshock2 all got progressively less fun to play as they wore on...

Or does the patent only apply to demos?

Until all of this crap blows over and the industry pulls its collective head out of its collective ass I'll continue to do it the way I have for years now...

Buy the dead tree version so the author gets paid and then download the ebook from a torrent site.

Sorry, near me in the US, the paperbacks usually go for $7.

That makes the $10 nearly 50% more.

That's my point exactly.

If the physical paperback is $7, why is the ebook $10?

Yeah, it's only a couple of bucks, but if the ebooks actually cost $3 more apiece to produce, I'll eat my hat.

I got a Sony PR-505 last year and have yet to purchase a single ebook.

The DRM bothers me, but there are enough python scripts running around that will strip it out of the epub/pdf formats that it's not that much of a concern.

Price is why I don't buy them. While there are a handful of public domain books worth reading (opinion) the real content is only for sale.

I just flat-out refuse to pay 50% more for the same content in basically the same format that the publisher already has filed away somewhere. When do you think the last time that a major popular author wrote out a manuscript on a typewriter was? Or longhand? You know it's already in an electronic document format somewhere.

No printing, no binding, no shipping, no stocking, no returns. No fuel, no toxic waste from the paper making process, no toxins from the inks.

Yet I get to pay 50% more?

Calling Farmville a game is like calling Mattel (Hot-Wheels) a car company. :)

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_XP

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