Owning the disk til the day you die doesn't mean it will still be readable. Do remember that no medium will hold its data forever.

Ignorance is bliss? People constantly act in ignorance without suspiscion of what might be, because for those that are what they immediately seem, it would be rather a large insult. I for one do not appreciate being forced to prove I am what I say. That said, one who revealed the deception deserves a full interview, if only to give them a greater throwing out on their ass afterwards, if it is in fact deserved.

I hate to say it, but a passing mention of other homosexuals isn't an apology to them. The actual apology reads like it's addressed to Turing, and Turing alone.

Your analogy would stand better if they'd burnt out his kindle, however all they did was negate the existance of the book. Of course, given he had a license for life, whether they returned the price of the book or not, it amounts to theft. In a case like this, if the copyright holder of the book in question wants it removed like this, it should be up to amazon to agree terms with those that have a copy, as (certainly in this case) just giving them the price back is not really very helpful. Of course, the ideal situation (and how I'd love to see it set up legally) would be the company that produced the ebook being forced to purchase the rights to the book, and amazon forced to pay compensation for their negligence, so they are each in themselves the ones to lose out, rather than all the customers, who've done nothing wrong.

Why was the copy of 1984 deleted? Any reason given at all? Also, this hardly needs to come to a law suit if amazon just gives him another copy (and say, credit to his account for books or whatever). Of course, that way there would be no fat paycheck in it for the guy. I am assuming that the notes can be reattached to a new copy of a book quickly and easy; but even if they can't surely it can be done by one of their tech guys?

I find it interesting that so many people like american tv so much, I can never see the attraction of bad actors and poor plots even when the show does have an un usefully large budget. Of course, being british, I am going to claim that Doctor Who is the best tv series ever, even when the originals had wobbly cardboard sets and being alien mostly meant wearing funny clothes. Good times.

I often wonder why they build them with a single-stem trunk? Surely a triple- or quadruple-stem trunk could give added stability with a lower materials cost, and greater ease of transportation, if greater assembly time. For that matter, why not have two (or, of course, more) propellar sets one above the other? Harness not too much less than double the amount of power without needing larger individual propellar blades. I'm sure there are fundamental reasons why these wouldn't work, but I'm not an engineer.