Where is the outcry from all those who are scandalized by Walmart wages/benefits?? I wonder if the difference in reaction has to do with perception in the public eye. After all, Walmart has a conservative family at the helm, and Amazon has a progressive one.

Taxi medallions are one of the classic pay to play schemes. Competition is eliminated, customer satisfaction and service is reduced, and prices are fixed.

This won't stop anyone who was planning on seeing the movie from going. The threatened boycott is a snoozer. I'll be going, and I think his positions are correct. Don't care even a little bit if that displeases anyone. I have the right to disapprove of their activity, just as they have the right to disapprove of mine.

So we call them Dolly-lam-a, Dolly-lam-b

You said "So that means we should spend billions of dollars and not catch him? Good plan." No, we spend a little money, so that we can find him and kill him. That should also serve as a nice deterrent to the jacka$$es lining up to follow his example.

None of them will see a penny from me until there is a settled standard. Someone else can waste their money helping these giants engage in a price war. I'll stick with a real book until there is some actual advantage to the e-readers. If I really want to save a few bucks, I'll browse the bookstore, then borrow the book of interest from the public library. Once in a while I find one worth buying for my own library, but in most cases I have a good read and don't spend a cent.