From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Emanuel Berg Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: manual activism Date: Thu, 27 Nov 2014 05:20:52 +0100 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Message-ID: <87wq6hz32z.fsf@debian.uxu> References: <87egt14r51.fsf@reader.local.lan> <87vbmdkytr.fsf_-_@debian.uxu> <87mw7ogqn7.fsf@debian.uxu> <871tp0gmwc.fsf@debian.uxu> <87ppckf1tr.fsf@debian.uxu> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1417062325 14713 80.91.229.3 (27 Nov 2014 04:25:25 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 27 Nov 2014 04:25:25 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Nov 27 05:25:19 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Xtqdr-0005MW-0H for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 27 Nov 2014 05:25:19 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:37203 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xtqdp-0001KV-Td for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 26 Nov 2014 23:25:17 -0500 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!newsfeed.xs4all.nl!newsfeed2a.news.xs4all.nl!xs4all!news.stack.nl!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 36 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: feB02bRejf23rfBm51Mt7Q.user.speranza.aioe.org Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.4 (gnu/linux) X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 Cancel-Lock: sha1:tDxFz5GOnaZAXSoB0eOtI1/ecTw= Mail-Copies-To: never Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:208956 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:101236 Archived-At: Dan Espen writes: > Oops. There are a few books with that title. This > one is about hackers. > > I don't actually see an ebook, but I did find a site > that would let me download a PDF if I registered. > > Not really interested in the subject matter, so I > won't download. > > Still haven't identified a good reason to get in the > car and drive to the library. I can certainly find > huge volumes of information about hacking online. That was just an example when I thought you never read a single book in your life (but that book is great fun). For people who read a lot, like several hours every day, it is *very good* for them to go to the bookstore and public library as often as possible, the more the better. Nothing say you have to do it by car - you can walk or ride a bike or even take the bus or subway or whatever public transportation is in your city. Everything is better than to fiddle with a device at your home 24/7 which would be the result if millions of book-worms were to switch to e-books only (if they indeed would accept that, which they wouldn't). More, they would also loose "touch" with one of typically very few physical objects that remains to their lives: most book-worms aren't exactly forest workers, or boxers in their spare time. You are only "I don't need it" all the time - OK, so you don't need it. But many people do. -- underground experts united