@Skulltrail: How about if you're the ex girlfriend of a jealous cop, or you just act way too different for the area, or you're the only black guy for 10 miles around...cops come up with crazy, absurd reasons to dislike people and harass them. Not all cops, of course, but there are numerous records of abuse of power.…

@HFCS: So what if you have a slip cover for your car, reasonable?

@ginazninja: Superior if the Kinect responds well with it, from everything I've heard I'm wary that with a game like that I'll be pissed off the majority of the time b/c of lag

@Post-Nuked: Government run ISP is basically what just recently happened in my hometown.

@Thorkel: The issue with that would be that this "new company" would also have to get contracts with all of the businesses and services to be able to offer anything other than the public internet on a non-tiered system. And to do so the businesses will want to get paid more like they are in the Googlezon system,…

@skivAman: @Queenjulie: I have no idea why it would occur, but take a few inches off his dick would seem to probably be equivalent. He can still have children and have a life, but yeah, not cool

@Chris Braak: I'd think that doing so would actually be a plus for people, just b/c it would mean that you could start it and already have something to read and people like things easy.

@Anekanta - Destroyer of Worlds!!!: I don't believe print books will ever become extinct. Much like the article states, I think that they will be much more of a novelty/luxury item and the e-reader will instead just become the default medium used in everyday life for reading.

@ShinGetterPoPo: e-ink readers have been out for over a decade though

@NaramSuen: Thousands of years of human habit?

@pfc.joker: so when the world ends, books survive?

@PersonalPan: hahah, at which point we can all convert back to regular books, and bartering and all sorts of things that won't be able to be done without power

@dkl415: Actually the majority of the people I know that have purchased an e-reader are all in their 50's or 60's. One of the reasons is simply because its easier to read. One of the most common functions is the ability to change the size of the font with barely any effort. My parents and their friends have all…

@djscruffy: And now, with the new DMCA changes you can legally remove that DRM. You just do it under the auspice of allowing full text-to-speech support and bam, no more remote removals

@queensowntalia: This is how I felt, until I actually got to use one and read thru a book. I have a huge book collection and have had to fight tooth and nail to keep as many as I do while my gf wants more space.

@ukimalefu: And those paper books were luxury items that he cherished, exactly as this article describes. For everyday work they used tablets and such.

@hypochondriac: Very small amounts of searching online will find you over a million freely accessible e-books

@Chris Braak: The addition of the 5 bestseller new releases is unnecessary and kind unrealistic as well. With the readily accessible enormous collection of free e-books out there, doing something like this would be impractical. Why not pre-load it with 50 of the best classics, which would be free and really not an…

@Anekanta - Destroyer of Worlds!!!: You have to look at the destructibility on the other side as well. If you keep a backup of your books, which some of the e-readers do already (the Kindle backs up purchased books on Amazon's servers) then let's say there is some type of fire or flood. The odds are pretty much all…

@PersonalPan: "the" database? If you're talking about their being some kind of repository for e-books, its called the internet. So a power surge isn't going to block it. If you're talking about the "database" of your own books in your e-reader, well I know mine will last about a week on a single charge so I think…