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Mon, 21 Jul 2003 13:19:13 GMT

[NYT] Amazon Plan Would Allow Searching Texts of Many Books. “Executives at Amazon.com are negotiating with several of the largest book publishers about an ambitious and expensive plan to assemble a searchable online archive with the texts of tens of thousands of books of nonfiction, according to several publishing executives involved.

Amazon plans to limit how much of any given book a user can read, and it is telling publishers that the plan will help sell more books while better serving its own online customers.”

It's all about the search engine. [Web Voice]

It is all about the search engine, deep content searching for conceptual relationships though is one of the things that I work on when i get the chance, and I think they can do this and i should probably work on my system some more.

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Mon, 21 Jul 2003 13:09:36 GMT

i love the smell of moonbats in the morning. Someone thinks I am an admirer of fascism just because I think John Gilmore was an idiot for wearing his “Suspected Terrorist” button on an airplane. fasácism n. often Fascism 1. A system of government marked by centralization of authority… [A Small Victory]

Fascism is a bit more complex than this. I suggest reading Felix Guattari's essay “everybody wants to be a fascist”. or perhaps Adorno and Horkheimer's Dialectic of enlightenment or Hannah Arendt's On Totalitarianism.

in short, the definition provided above is not made, like so many definitions, to help you understand the topic, but to provide a start toward understanding the topic.

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