Ambassador is sworn swearing on a Kindle – The Cult

Fosse here complain of Jabá Amazon.

image above was obviously posted by the U.S. Embassy in London. Show Ambassador Suzi LeVine, who will serve in Switzerland (poor) being inducted. The big news is that the traditional oath with his hand on the Constitution was made using a Kindle Touch …

For the first time in a diplomatic ceremony was shown something that most people have trouble understanding: a. Question is the content, not the format. When you buy a book is paying for the text, the role is less. Why so many people unjustly complains about e-books, think they should have a small price, as if the author’s work was the least valued component.

Take a test: see how many of your friends who download music and movies without a hitch find legitimate steal a pirated DVD peddler. What matters is the physical media. Books idem, even in ceremonies. Recognizing text of the Constitution as the important part, the U.S. State Department took a step to end the dictatorship of Atoms.

Yet is not the first time something like that happens. According to the Washington Post, in February a group of firefighters needed a Bible for a graduation ceremony, not found and used an iPad. Yes, there is an App for that ™. Open ports become … interesting. The iPad becomes a holy book? There are applications of the Talmud, the Koran and the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. Simply view of these texts makes the tablet special?

desecrate an iPad displaying the Quran would be framed as heresy? And if an iPad where there is an app but not being used? Moreover, if you DELETE and app?

The books have changed a lot since the time we came on clay tablets, to modern times where silicon comes in tablets, but now for the first time the word detaches the paper. Just passing this transition period and that people who so joyfully buy their volumes Game of Thrones realize they are not buying paper, but ideas, so as ORTNs, worth more than money!