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Lots of mind-killing in this thread...
Isn't that what candles and flashlights are for? Then again, I come from a third world country and currently live in a hurricane-prone section of the first world, so I have many experiences with blackouts and dealing with them is second nature by now. Last edited by Jaime_Astorga; 01-31-2011 at 04:37 PM. |
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Yup. Even if I weren't a reader, I wouldn't be sitting in the dark. Duh.
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Booklights have been around for decades, longer than e-readers. They originally sold them so you could read print books. No reason a person can't use a book light even without an e-device.
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I suppose the key thing here is that this argument crops up time and again and misses the point. If the battery runs out on your eReader you reach for a paper book. It's not an either/or question. The BBC site seemed to run "will eBooks kill paper books" articles regularly, with a smug response "ho, ho, not any time soon", missing the far more interesting story that it's another way to read, not a replacement way to read.
Hopefully we're moving out of that era now, with moves like the Booker Prize judges being supplied with eReaders to use if they want to. Graham |
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Apparently grammar is dead for Fox News writers too, as the extra apostrophe and missing comma in the attached screenshot of just the last two paragraphs of the article seem to show.
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You liberals are so sanctimonious and holier than thou it makes me sick. I love how you all think you know what's good for me and think the government should interfere in every aspect of my life. Liberals must be the idiots because they need Michelle Obama and the city of San Francisco to tell them what to feed their kids, the Department of Education to ensure their children can read, the government to provide them with health care and tell them what medical treatments they deserve, and pretty much want a cradle to grave governmental nanny wiping their butts their entire life. Guess what? My family and I get along just fine without you.
I suppose you all think MSNBC, CNN and the NY Times are impartial and reliable sources of news. I recently finished Grey Lady Down and it was a sad and pathetic tale. Bernard Goldberg's Bias was another good read from several years ago. I see all the posts here and always keep my mouth shut, but this just broke the dam. I guess I'm a scary person with a lack of sanity. I've read all the books mentioned and more. I don't always agree with them, especially Ann Coulter, but I have to admit she's a great writer who will always make me laugh. I will end with a selection of my favorite Jefferson quotes, which I'm sure the liberals will all deride. For people who think they are the intelligentsia they don't actually read a lot of history. To take from one because it is thought that his own industry and that of his father’s has acquired too much, in order to spare to others, who, or whose fathers, have not exercised equal industry and skill, is to violate arbitrarily the first principle of association—the guarantee to every one of a free exercise of his industry and the fruits acquired by it. When the people fear their government, there is tyranny; when the government fears the people, there is liberty. Were we directed from Washington when to sow and when to reap, we should soon want bread. The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not. The policy of the American government is to leave their citizens free, neither restraining nor aiding them in their pursuits. -Marcy |
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