We came home from dinner with rfunk's family to a cool house. It seems we have run out of fuel oil. Couldn't it have lasted just a few more weeks
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Re: Specific possibilitiesduriyahApril 13 2009, 16:15:04 UTC
Interesting. Not that I really understood all of that. But it makes much more sense as some sort of an outside attack than a conscious decision on Amazon's part.
I have been sitting on an exercise ball (minus the chair frame) for the past couple of weeks and love it. I think they are about $75 on eBay. I got one for $65 that was a new chair, but the packaging had taken a beating. Hopefully the chair inside is fine!
According to this article, and much of the hubbub I've been following on the web, the troll had nothing to do with it. Apparently, some folks attempted the code he said he used and it didn't work. It was apparently a huge cataloging mistake on Amazon's part, which some lonely "hacker" used to get some attention.
Rob told me something similar last night. I guess I'm glad it was "user error" rather than a hack. I'm glad they are correcting it. What a nightmare for Amazon.
This is the first I've heard about the amazonfail thing. It all seems very senseless and dramatic to me. People need to find more constructive passtimes.
Er, when whole categories of books disappear from the largest bookstore in the world, that's rather important. When it turns out to be related to a policy of hiding from everyone (including adults looking for them) books marked as "adult", that's rather disturbing.
I suppose I see your point...but my point is: it doesn't appear that this was a part of any intentional attack against GLBT or adult content on Amazon's part. It was an error. Errors happen all the time
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No, it doesn't appear to have been an intentional attack by Amazon. It was still a problem that needed to be fixed. (And I'm not convinced yet that it's really being fixed properly, but from what I've heard about Amazon's systems it's a nightmare to change anything there.)
On the one hand you "think it's silly to get bent out of shape about it," but on the other hand you "see the benefit of spreading this around the internet like wildfire," and mention multiple choices involving not overlooking it.
So I don't see what your problem is. People spread it, people complained to the company, and people refused to do business with them until it was fixed/changed. As far as I can tell you're saying those are all reasonable things.
Yes, some people went to extremes in their reactions ("OMG Amazon is evil I'm cancelling my account and never buying there again!"), but I'd appreciate it if you wouldn't tar all of us who spoke up about the situation with the same brush.
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Glad you found your chair :)
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On the one hand you "think it's silly to get bent out of shape about it," but on the other hand you "see the benefit of spreading this around the internet like wildfire," and mention multiple choices involving not overlooking it.
So I don't see what your problem is. People spread it, people complained to the company, and people refused to do business with them until it was fixed/changed. As far as I can tell you're saying those are all reasonable things.
Yes, some people went to extremes in their reactions ("OMG Amazon is evil I'm cancelling my account and never buying there again!"), but I'd appreciate it if you wouldn't tar all of us who spoke up about the situation with the same brush.
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Apparently they have/are fixing the problem, so I can go back to ordering from Amazon without guilt.
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