erm, Netflix?

Ok, I admit it. I have NO IDEA what the heck that's supposed to mean!

I think there's more difference in these devices than you're taking into account here.
While my iPad3 has a much prettier display than my Paperwhite, the backlight at the lowest setting is still blazing bright on the iPad.
The iPad is waaay too big to be comfortable reading in bed and it's too heavy to hold up for an extended period of time.
I get tired of turning Do Not Disturb mode on and off but if I don't toggle it I get notified every damm time CNN thinks something noteworthy comes up or I get an email.
Even with all this I wouldn't have gotten a dedicated reader except for the power issue. If that iPad isn't plugged in when I go to bed I'll be in dire straits the next day. Even if tablet power improves tremendously, it'll have a tough time matching my Paperwhite's battery life of 2-3 weeks heavy reading with the backlight on.

If you're just looking at readers in the store a backlit screen looks superior in all ways. In practice where you really just care about reading the text of a book, well, YMMV.

While my paperwhite has many shortcomings, being readable in the dark is not one of them.

I have a large(ish) collection of .mod, .s3m and .xm files. They were mostly made in the late 80s - 90s on Amiga and Ataris I think. Packed in there with them is a copy of "ModPlug Player" which somehow fires right up on my current Win8 machine. Assuming your reader program is packaged with your media you'll have a pretty good shot at keeping your data alive.

A few years ago, it was decided that putting the USA in the center of the map was showing a preference to, well, us Americans. Following the PC logic that anything pushing us up is pushing everyone else in the world down, we commenced making maps where we no longer appear to be the center of the world. This may not be universal, it was a national public school decision if I remember correctly.

Simple:
1. Create 3D map image.
2. ...
3. Prophet!

RDS field engaging...
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Wow! That's so awesome I think I'll take two of them!

If you set the volume just right, and were really fast with the play/record controls you could make it save your code to a regular tape drive. Just don't get your counter values messed up!
I always wanted one of those drives to auto start / stop but somehow Dad never found that to be a priority.
Sheesh, back in those days gosub / return was hot stuff. Good times.

You're right, and I apologize if I got a bit carried away and offended. I had just gotten done with fighting "collections" (read folders) on my Paperwhite. They go one deep, no nesting, so you have a choice of grouping by author or series name. Heaven forbid you want to put an HHGTTG folder under Douglas Adams!

You're right. If we never nested folders more than one deep, we'd never need to look for things in subfolders! They would just be right there in the one enormously long list. Then if we don't want to go through scroll hell, we can just do a search to find what we're looking for. So much more efficient!

You know guys, I think it's very likely that there are both really good and bad cops out there. The difference here is that the cops are supposed to be on the side of the upright citizen. They are civic enforcers given enormous powers by the state to be the "good guys". With these powers should come a responsibility to commit to a higher ideal of behavior. When officers fail in this endeavor they become state empowered (and often state protected) thugs. Wearing body armor. And a gun. And pepper spray. And a taser... It's great that there are good cops out there, but it's also a travesty that we have plenty of bad ones as well. Just because some do what they should does not excuse the actions of those who do not.

Really??? The gist of the video is "Don't talk to cops even if you're completely innocent of EVERYTHING". You should watch it again and pay attention this time.
Speaking as someone who has had a car stolen (2x), broken into / entirely cleaned of anything valuable (1x), and damaged while someone attempted to break in (2x), the only difference between talking to the police and not talking to them is that their complete indifference to the situation and lack of any results made me more angry than I would have been otherwise.
I sincerely believe there are good / helpful officers out there and maybe I just haven't been lucky, but there's probably a reason for all the anti-police sentiment out there. Just as I need to believe there are useful police out there in spite of my personal experiences, you would do well to consider other's viewpoints as well. To do otherwise would be foolish.

In reading the response, my takeaway was
1) The Obama Administration agrees with the ideas in the petition.
and
2) This is the fault of the Librarian of Congress who can legally make this call.

This is followed by some vague talk of how they "support a range of approaches to addressing this issue" and how other agencies (FCC, Congress, mobile providers) should consider doing something about it.
Oh yeah, I'm just holding my breath to see the action commence!