Any summary of the year in Robots should include fiction and fact stories about robots. I mean, there's at least one book and several articles on how you may end up marrying a robot, and I find this type of speculation as fascinating as the actual robots themselves. Isaac Asimov may not be writing any new stories of late, but a lot of other authors and stories are trying to fill the gap. I'm just hoping to live long enough to see the Science Fiction become the Science Fact.

I'm laughing so hard right now at anyone who continued to buy ebooks from amazon after the 1984 incident.

So you've been laughing at people for the last 26 years? Haven't you gotten sore by now from so much mirth?

This is hardly Amazon's first sin.

In April 2009 pretty much all of their GLBT titles disappeared. After a loud outcry Amazon restored them, claiming that it was all the result of some unspecificed, but very specific, glitch.

Later that year purchased titles were deleted from Kindles because of a copyright cock-up.

A few months ago suggestive bookcovers suddenly disappeared from the most commonly used All Departments search. While the books remained available and could be found with specific drill-down searching techniques, most people would never know to try that.

Now the removal of fictional adult topies. And just like the other censorship episodes, Amazon remains completely mum about what they are doing, why they are doing it, or what can be done to work with whatever undisclosed guidlines they are now operating under.

It's all enough to make one cheer Google Books arrival on the scene as an equal sized competitor.

This alone is enough to keep Dilbert complaining until Scott Adams finally decides to retire.

Hey, don't diss the 80s. Those effects were state of the art for their time and deserve better than being said that with 10000X more computer power that we can do better now.

But can they perform sex? You won't have financially viable android production until they can properly perform that most profitable of human activities. And once you invent a better sex-bot then you'll have all the money you need to develop the technology to serve in other areas as well.

Just another reason to block all ads possible - as if we needed one.

If I talk face-to-face with someone else, do they now own that too?

There is no other word for it. If they want to own "Facebook" and no one else is using it already, fine I can live with that. But to claim "face" (and no doubt "book") goes beyond what should have ever been allowed.

If the lawyers admitted that they knew that their client was lying and continued the case after that point how can you not have a finding that they aided and abetted in the fraud?

They further found it was not an abuse of process to sue to 'stop the publication of negative information and opinion.'

Congratulations for living in one of the stupidest states possible. Of course, this is also the state that elected Al Franken to the US Senate.

I hope that you have a higher appeal that you are able to pursue. Suppression of speech by SLAPP suits should be outlawed at the federal level and severely punished when attempted.

Yeah, but...can it display Kindle books?

Interesting how so much is being read into a program that is free from most vendors. This is not exactly adding to the bottom line in any direct fashion for any of these companies.