With Windows 8, your argument may lack credibility as it's very obviously designed for the tablet user in mind. Too bad everyone uses a mouse and keyboard. Gotta run the mouse in a "3 snaps in a Z formation" to load the browser or some other ridiculous pseudo-swipe.

I don't go to a "Brick and Mortar" store to get a digital download. Digital Downloads are also subject to draconian DRM and if the company that you get it from folds, that content is no longer available to you; unlike a physical item you take from a "Brick and Mortar" store. I pay taxes and "franchise fees" to my local ISP to enforce their monopoly and paid taxes on my PC/Phone/Tablet/Console that the download runs on. This is just classic double-dipping. On the other hand, I can understand applying a tax to online stores that sell physical items, even though I firmly believe that sales tax should be eliminated.

Please describe exactly how it's "flimsy". From my experience, it's pretty solid physically.

I bought one for myself. I have, admittedly, never owned one of the previous Kindles. I have had it a week now, and I am rather happy with it. There are, however, a few things that I wish were different, but it's not a deal breaker.

Pros: I can read on it (the main reason I bought it) with white text on a black background (E-Ink isn't... that particular contrast.). It runs the apps in Amazon's store reasonably well. Video looks pretty good streaming. Even the PC Magazine I read on it looked pretty good.

Cons: It can be "touchy" sometimes and doesn't register button presses. I can't put custom wallpaper on the lock screen. I would like the ability to delete apps I have no intention of using again from "The Cloud", but cannot seem to accomplish this.

Yet you fail to consider that so far, the Cataclysm expansion is only 11 months old.

Vanilla - Released 11/04
2 years and 3 months later: Burning Crusade - Released 01/07
1 year and 10 months later: Lich King - Released 11/08
2 years and 1 month later: Cataclysm - Released 12/10

So, you could either argue that they are fast tracking expansion content now, or they have almost another year to make up for "content updates" (i.e. raid bosses). I use quotes loosely because not everyone appreciates only raid content.

Same for me. I believe it was 7th grade, though. I actually could bang out almost 80 wpm on those manual typewriters, but the teacher failed me because I never used my pinkies. I can use the left one now, but I still only use 2 fingers and a thumb on my right hand and can still tap out 80 wpm with arthritis touch typing on the pc..

Oh, for the record, I chopped my pinkies off when I was 2 and had them reattached and never really gained much use of them except the left one in the last 15 years or so. The teacher didn't seem to give a squat about that. Wench.

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Only then, possessing or offering said plugin will be a Class A Felony punishable by 20 years in prison.

Same here and I am still struggling not to burst into tears and have my family wondering wtf I am bawling about. :/

For only a paltry 25 bucks, I'll just get the ad-free one. At that price reduction, it's not worth having to deal with the advertising.

You would be instantly denied the loan of course.

Thank goodness for Adblock Plus. Facebook can tell the world I'm a lesbian, but I will not see their ads to share it with advertisers.

It's not illegal if the government does it. Right?