** I have not looked to make sure I was commenting on the intended story.

I too was thrown by the 1 hour window. How often outside of sleepy time does one's phone remain unlocked for an entire hour?

I hate that XKCD comics don't have an easily-readable date.

6.) Doesn't know how to check browser history.

That's more like it! Thanks.

"The original price was just $50, and Valve is basically giving them away right now." Current price? $49.99. So basically giving them away compared to original price...

"Corel... Now that's a name I've not heard in a long time."

I've been in IT for 21 years. One of the very first things I learned was "FUCK ADOBE". Over the years I've learned similar lessons such as "FUCK APPLE," and "FUCK QUICKBOOKS."

Exactly.

The whole concept of Bitcoin makes my head hurt.

Hmmm, even my *brand new* Chromebooks are too old to run Android apps without "migrating user profile data to Android N's new filesystem." Not sure I have time to engage that particular tar-baby... https://support.google.com/chr...

oh...

Not paradox. Irony. It's hard to find accurate examples of irony these days, but this is surely one. And I never said it was Amazon's mission/goal/intent. I also didn't make a judgement. Just stated a fact. If it wasn't Amazon that killed brick-and-mortar bookstores it would have been something else, and I wouldn't have ascribed evil intent to that something else, either.

The website that killed brick-and-mortar bookstores is branching out... into brick-and-mortar bookstores.

I f'ing hate that thing. Have to disable multitouch on my trackpad or else it pops up every 5 seconds thinking I've summoned it. GRRRRRR...