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What do Words mean?
Author: velveeta jones
Date: 07/19/2009 13:44:18
Good morning dear readers of blog! What a beautiful day it is here in the interwebs. Nice and cool on a partly cloudy day. So I don’t want to bog down the blog with blah news like US Soldier captured by Taliban, or someone killed at the Tour de France. (That one I had to read, because how does a spectator get killed? Short answer: doing something stupid).
This story really, really made me angry and not just because I HATE AMAZON, but because as a lover of books I detest the forces out there that want to make changes to them just because the writing was “outdated” or “ugly” or whatever the reasons. Recently I learned that schools around here took “The Catcher in the Rye” off the reading list because it’s…….. (wait for it)……… out-dated. Students can’t relate to it? Goodness, I wonder what happened to Shakespeare? Others have wanted to edit books that contain certain words like “the ‘n’ word” (another phrase I hate. It’s not the word that hurts people, it’s how certain people use the word) in classics like “To Kill a Mockingbird” and books by Mark Twain.
But Amazon has gone too far. Here is basically what happened:
Oh, really? It was a bad idea to change someone else’s work? You’d think a company that big could catch that little mistake. And all this new-fangled stuff – electronic books- just makes me cringe. Call me old fashioned, but I like my books made out of trees the way God intended.
Now in other news, seems our Prez is putting on the cool shades and going out to kick some ass to get things moving! He’s gonna kick some of those soft dem’s into shape, many of whom used his name when they were campaigning for their states, but now distance themselves because their ‘red to blue’ state status is fragile and they want to get re-elected.
This kick ass campaign got me to thinking. Remember Newtie’s “Contract with America”? How’d that contract do? Not so well methinks. And in fact, thanks to that colossal waste of time and along with the Reagan Revolution, started the mess that made it easier for W to fuck up our country even more. That’s why I was shocked to hear that many want to go back to a NEW Contract with America. (Oh, because the original worked sooo well). If you want a very brief read of the NEW and IMPROVED Contract, here it is. I guess they have some more work ahead of them. But don’t let Michael Steele get his input because, ya know, he’s black. And seeing as “white men built this country” we wouldn’t want any minorities involved in this shiny new contract.
This story really, really made me angry and not just because I HATE AMAZON, but because as a lover of books I detest the forces out there that want to make changes to them just because the writing was “outdated” or “ugly” or whatever the reasons. Recently I learned that schools around here took “The Catcher in the Rye” off the reading list because it’s…….. (wait for it)……… out-dated. Students can’t relate to it? Goodness, I wonder what happened to Shakespeare? Others have wanted to edit books that contain certain words like “the ‘n’ word” (another phrase I hate. It’s not the word that hurts people, it’s how certain people use the word) in classics like “To Kill a Mockingbird” and books by Mark Twain.
But Amazon has gone too far. Here is basically what happened:
In George Orwell’s “1984,” government censors erase all traces of news articles embarrassing to Big Brother by sending them down an incineration chute called the “memory hole.”
On Friday, it was “1984” and another Orwell book, “Animal Farm,” that were dropped down the memory hole — by Amazon.com.
In a move that angered customers and generated waves of online pique, Amazon remotely deleted some digital editions of the books from the Kindle devices of readers who had bought them.
An Amazon spokesman, Drew Herdener, said in an e-mail message that the books were added to the Kindle store by a company that did not have rights to them, using a self-service function. “When we were notified of this by the rights holder, we removed the illegal copies from our systems and from customers’ devices, and refunded customers,” he said.
Amazon effectively acknowledged that the deletions were a bad idea. “We are changing our systems so that in the future we will not remove books from customers’ devices in these circumstances,” Mr. Herdener said.
Oh, really? It was a bad idea to change someone else’s work? You’d think a company that big could catch that little mistake. And all this new-fangled stuff – electronic books- just makes me cringe. Call me old fashioned, but I like my books made out of trees the way God intended.
Now in other news, seems our Prez is putting on the cool shades and going out to kick some ass to get things moving! He’s gonna kick some of those soft dem’s into shape, many of whom used his name when they were campaigning for their states, but now distance themselves because their ‘red to blue’ state status is fragile and they want to get re-elected.
This kick ass campaign got me to thinking. Remember Newtie’s “Contract with America”? How’d that contract do? Not so well methinks. And in fact, thanks to that colossal waste of time and along with the Reagan Revolution, started the mess that made it easier for W to fuck up our country even more. That’s why I was shocked to hear that many want to go back to a NEW Contract with America. (Oh, because the original worked sooo well). If you want a very brief read of the NEW and IMPROVED Contract, here it is. I guess they have some more work ahead of them. But don’t let Michael Steele get his input because, ya know, he’s black. And seeing as “white men built this country” we wouldn’t want any minorities involved in this shiny new contract.
