A Mathematician Writes
One of the first things that children learn in maths is to do a quick check of their answers. Not quite sure if your calculation of 6.9574635 times 4.085647 is correct? Well, 7 times 4 is 28, so your answer really ought to be pretty close to that.
Common sense, right?
Wrong: Amazon says it's a brilliantly-novel idea that no one has ever had before in the history of the universe - and they have a patent to prove it. Words - and numbers - fail me. (Via Techdirt.)
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Amazon has got to be kidding, right? Then again, they probably aren't. It's amazing how they are using complicated bureaucratese to explain a simple, unoriginal concept. I assume that they are using obfuscative language to cover that up, and make it look otherwise.
Yet again I shake my head in wonder at the stupidity of it all.
I know, it's utterly extraordinary. If I weren't addicted to buying things from Amazon, I'd boycott them....
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