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Inept posted:You can only contribute to an IRA if you have declared earned income, better file your taxes kid I have my children registered as passthrough entities. You know, because that's a natural part of parenthood.
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boar guy posted:wasteful and obsolete, imho, but to each their own I too wish for books to be gatekept by $200 electronic products that require a power supply, phone home about your activities, include DRM and enforce artificial limits to library copies that cause them to stop functioning after 10 uses
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Snuffman posted:Reminds me of when I worked at a bookstore, and we'd rip up the old mass market paperbacks and rip off the cover. Throw the torn up book in the recycling bin, send the cover back to the publisher. We might think the book is worthless, but we should also prevent anyone from reading it! Yeah, and the book store I worked for would toss the books into the compactor rather than recycle them. If you worked fast food you’ll find yourself dumping larges amount of food into the trash also.
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this is why mass market paperbacks have that line in the front of notifying the publisher if you got the book without a cover!
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Like I'm fine with the idea, if the ebook readers could be made as cheap as like, a single hardcover book, and there wasn't a bunch of absurd artificial scarcity enforced on libraries, and it didn't require you to log in to an account so it could store all your reading information in the ~cloud~, but this is the world we're stuck with 
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ate all the Oreos posted:I too wish for books to be gatekept by $200 electronic products that require a power supply, phone home about your activities, include DRM and enforce artificial limits to library copies that cause them to stop functioning after 10 uses broseph a kindle fire is $35, free if you have a phone, and there are millions of free books available for the reading but by all means lets keep printing $300 textbooks with a paragraph in chapter 8 changed and make students re-buy them every year
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boar guy posted:broseph a kindle fire is $35, free if you have a phone, and there are millions of free books available for the reading The conversation wasn't about textbook bloat, dingus In fact, my initial complaint was actually about publishers forcing increasing expenses for worse products. Also lol if you think that textbook won't still be $300 but now you can't even sell it back once
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boar guy posted:broseph a kindle fire is $35, free if you have a phone, and there are millions of free books available for the reading The free books are either the ones in the public domain already (so outdated by at least 70 years) or free*. You could go to a library to get free books but oh wait the library's ebooks can't be loaned out to more than one person at a time despite being digital, and they delete themselves after 10 to 15 uses now, so they can't afford as many. *with prime subscription boar guy posted:but by all means lets keep printing $300 textbooks with a paragraph in chapter 8 changed and make students re-buy them every year The $300 cost of textbooks is not due to the materials  And like yeah textbooks are a great scam, that's one case that would benefit a lot from transferring to ebooks (at the very least reducing the waste produced even if the cost doesn't come down) but that's one relatively small niche.
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look all im saying is that it wouldnt bother me if no more physical books were ever printed because it just seems dumb when everyone already carries a device capable of parsing the information in them
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To be clear I own a kindle (one of the epaper ones) and I buy ebooks and like them and prefer them to physical books for a lot of things, but I'm a comfortable white dude with a steady income. The implementation of ebooks is really poo poo right now and unless that's fixed paper books will be superior in a lot (I'd even say most) situations.
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boar guy posted:look all im saying is that it wouldnt bother me if no more physical books were ever printed because it just seems dumb when everyone already carries a device capable of parsing the information in them Yea and that's a silly dumb thing to think Paper books rule, while my Kindle paperwhite has been 80% decent and 20% headache Kazak has issued a correction as of 17:34 on Aug 9, 2018 |
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if i were in college right now i would definitely bootleg every single textbook via .pdf. that scam needs to be over
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I was in college before digital textbooks were a thing, but I remember many times when I'd be in the library with two or more books open in front of me at the same time, or using one book but going back and forth from one chapter to another to reference a chart or appendix or something. An e-reader would be loving terrible for that.
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Wow its almost like two different versions of the same product have different appeal to them, and certain people with different tastes might prefer one over the other. Holy loving poo poo, my mind is blown.
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Outrail posted:All capitalism aside, investing a few grand for your kid at birth is probably one of the nicest things you can do for its future. Quit living in this fantasy land
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I remember when this thread had pictures good times
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boar guy posted:if i were in college right now i would definitely bootleg every single textbook via .pdf. that scam needs to be over Then you'd soon learn that part of what you buy with a new textbook in almost any non-humanities course is a login to the online testing/homework site and you literally can't do anything in the course without it.
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Outrail posted:All capitalism aside, investing a few grand for your kid at birth is probably one of the nicest things you can do for its future. Guillotining a few rich would also be super nice for them
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madmatt112 posted:I remember when this thread had pictures Be the change you wanna see bicth
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The Bloop posted:Then you'd soon learn that part of what you buy with a new textbook in almost any non-humanities course is a login to the online testing/homework site and you literally can't do anything in the course without it. Yeah this, the digital stuff is still a scam. 200 bucks for a PDF and all of the homework is turned in via a propriety online app. If you want to save money then you can spend 70 bucks to rent the book and have access to the app.
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madmatt112 posted:I remember when this thread had pictures Be the change you want to see Edit: beaten https://www.ft.com/content/cda0499e-9ba1-11e8-9702-5946bae86e6d
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I saw the collected list at the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum and my jaw almost hit the floor. Yeah, we're lucky. Very lucky.
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cross-posting from UKMT:goddamnedtwisto posted:Good news everyone!
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A vise-like death grip on a few crumpled singles is a pretty accurate description of my financial circumstances right now.
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ate all the Oreos posted:Does anyone still have that zenpencils comic with this edited into it, I can't find it 
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For those complaining about DRM on digital books:
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Fried Watermelon posted:For those complaining about DRM on digital books: Hush now yon freebooter! please tell me where to look
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More than half the time you can just google the title of the book + .epub and download it.
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I don’t this will go over the way they think it will lol
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lol holy poo poo
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CEOs earn nothing, and steal everything.
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Man, they were right, production at the guillotine factory is way up!
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did they accidentally leave out "at building guillotines" before the ? edit: ^^^ f,b
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Fried Watermelon posted:For those complaining about DRM on digital books:
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g0lbez posted:Nobody answered whether that leaving shoes in front of poor kids thing was a joke so I looked it up and of course it's real. Of course It's no wonder these threads are full of depressed sad sacks. If you can't even process simple criminality as having negative consequences, then how do you expect to understand the far more nuanced versions of altruism, and the positive experiences that entails?
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Yeah people are depressed because they fundamentally don't understand right and wrong not because the photo with the parrot banging its head into the fake jungle scene painted on the wall.
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It's wrong to put birds in front of bird lovers. They can't resist the urge to take it.
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Split Pea Superman posted:It's wrong to put birds in front of bird lovers. They can't resist the urge to take it. Just like you have no empathy and can't help making bad posts.
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