Amazon.com has done something incredible, unbelievably stupid, unethical, in violation of the spirit of human privacy, freedom and the right to freely access information, and has shown itself to be about as boorishly unctuous not to mention fascistically dangerous as a company can be.
That’s saying a lot in the age of Halliburton and Enron. We live in a time of glorified thievery, a time of high decadence and lack of spiritual integrity to rival our worst nightmares of the middle-ages, which we know little about but of which we have frightful imaginings like thugs roaming the streets with clubs, kinda like the American army roaming the streets of Iraq.
Amazon has an electronic ebook reader called Kindle. You can use it to download and carry books around in digital format, which means you can carry a library in your pocket. Pretty cool. Amazon brags that, “Kindle’s screen is as sharp and natural as reading ink on paper”, which is of course nonsense, but it makes for good reading.
The other amazing thing Amazon says about Kindle is that it is made for “lefties” as well as “righties”, meaning you can hold the device in either your left or your [...]
Amazon.com: George Orwell’s 1984 is Here, or Did Someone Steal it?
Amazon.com has done something incredible, unbelievably stupid, unethical, in violation of the spirit of human privacy, freedom and the right to freely access information, and has shown itself to be about as boorishly unctuous not to mention fascistically dangerous as a company can be.
That’s saying a lot in the age of Halliburton and Enron. We live in a time of glorified thievery, a time of high decadence and lack of spiritual integrity to rival our worst nightmares of the middle-ages, which we know little about but of which we have frightful imaginings like thugs roaming the streets with clubs, kinda like the American army roaming the streets of Iraq.
Amazon has an electronic ebook reader called Kindle. You can use it to download and carry books around in digital format, which means you can carry a library in your pocket. Pretty cool. Amazon brags that, “Kindle’s screen is as sharp and natural as reading ink on paper”, which is of course nonsense, but it makes for good reading.
The other amazing thing Amazon says about Kindle is that it is made for “lefties” as well as “righties”, meaning you can hold the device in either your left or your [...]