[Novalug] The pen is mightier then the sword ...

greg pryzby greg@pryzby.org
Sun Jul 19 08:54:03 EDT 2009


Data is delivered wireless from Amazon. I have wireless turned off

JRR wrote:
> Didn't they have to plugin the Kindle for it to disappear ??  Tech - 
> explanation for non-K readers
> please !!
> 
> I have detected the removal of a story sourced from the San Francisco 
> Examiner;
> from Youtube, the Internet in general, and the SF Chronicle webpages. It 
> was last
> October  and it was about a new ship. I had the Youtube video bookmarked 
> and the
> online PC's bookmark disappeared from Firefox .........
> 
> greg pryzby wrote:
>> I need to read this article. It could be enough for me to get rid of 
>> the kindle.
>>
>> that said, you can get lots of free books that amazon can't control. 
>> which is what I do.
>>
>> http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks01/0100011.txt
>>
>>
>> Varol Okan wrote:
>>> You probably heard about the George Orwell disaster on the Kindle ( 
>>> http://yro.slashdot.org/story/09/07/17/2138213/Amazon-Pulls-Purchased-E-Book-Copies-of-1984-and-Animal-Farm 
>>> )
>>> .. and may I add 1984 off all books ...
>>>
>>> So this sets off an immediately allergic reaction to my German 
>>> history classes. The Nazis organized several "Buecherverbrennungen" 
>>> under the title "Aktion wider den undeutschen Geist" ( action against 
>>> the un-German spirit ).
>>> /
>>> /This was done for a very good ( read evil ) reason as the Nazis were 
>>> trying to control what Germans were allowed to read. The rest is 
>>> history so to say.
>>>
>>> The kindle allows to get the exact same result without the fire. A 
>>> mass extinction of knowledge and suppression of opposing ( political 
>>> or otherwise ) opinions. What ever happened to the first amendment ?
>>>
>>> So the question is; isn't that the same as if a "Barns and Noble" 
>>> employee comes into your house and removes some books off your shelfs 
>>> and giving you a refund simply because the one side of the deal ( 
>>> buying a book ) wants to get out of it ?
>>>
>>> What would you say/do in this situation ?
>>> /
>>>
>>> Varol Okan
>>> Ps. //"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it"
>>> /
>>>
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