Amazon Is Just Like Walmart

Undercut prices at first, and then jack prices up when the competition is gone. Worse still is the whole idea of "eBooks," which is nothing more than downloading for rent rather than owning a hard copy. People flocked to that thing for the convenience not realizing the convenience is an inferior experience, not to mention you don't own one goddamned thing you download.

John Grisham was right when he said that the aim of Bezos was to destroy publishing houses, and you know what this ultimately means. It ultimately means controlling ideas. Scary shit.

Krugman has it right about what the monopolizing Bezos is doing.

It's like we never learn a goddamned thing about monopolies. Unfortunately, our federal government is so totally worthless--by design--that any chance of controlling outfits like Amazon is nil.

Miscellaneous

Amazon has decided not to carry a Japanese PC game which depicts gang rape of women.

What in the HELL is the matter with Japanese businesses that they think something like this is okay?
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A man who, with his wife, started a TV network to show Muslims in a positive light decided to do a Daniel Pearl on his wife.

It took place in Buffalo, New York, which doesn't need any more negative publicity:

Police identified the victim as Aasiya Z. Hassan, 37. Detectives have charged her husband, Muzzammil Hassan, 44, with second-degree murder.

"He came to the police station at 6:20 p.m. [Thursday] and told us that she was dead," Orchard Park Police Chief Andrew Benz said late this morning.

Muzzammil Hassan told police that his wife was at his business, Bridges TV, on Thorn Avenue in the village. Officers went to that location and discovered her body.