Amazoff

[trysail]

Be kind to your local businesses, just say NO to JeffCo. Buy elsewhere. Anywhere else.


I have yet to find anything at JeffCo that I haven't been able to find at some other store or site for a similar price or lower. I have no problem paying a bit more rather than giving it to Jeff.

I have nothing against JeffCo, per se, but I don't think it's a good idea to get in the habit of buying everything on-line. There's no denying that JeffCo can occasionally be useful and convenient.

I'm not a big consumer but, if at all possible, I want to have the option of putting my hands on stuff before buying. I also like to occasionally browse.

Above all, I want to be damn sure there are local bookstores which— if I choose to do so— I can visit and discover books that I might not otherwise have known existed.


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[Comshaw]

I have nothing against JeffCo, per se, but I don't think it's a good idea to get in the habit of buying everything on-line. There's no denying that JeffCo can occasionally be useful and convenient.

I'm not a big consumer but, if at all possible, I want to have the option of putting my hands on stuff before buying. I also like to occasionally browse.

Above all, I want to be damn sure there are local bookstores which— if I choose to do so— I can visit and discover books that I might not otherwise have known existed.


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Powell's City of Books
West Burnside, Portland Oregon

https://i.pinimg.com/originals/98/25/26/982526e17d2c33263fb77d93152988f5.jpg

Not really local to me, but close enough to get to once or twice a year. It takes up the entire block. I usually spend the whole day there. I must to get to more then a couple of the rooms. I once found a TM (Technical Manual) for an Honest John rocket on one of the shelves. You never know what you will find.

Here's a link to another more detailed map of the building (to big to post here). Anybody who likes books would love Powell's .

http://www.powells.com/portals/0/images/burnside-map-2015.jpg


Comshaw

 

[about_average]

Also, how many of those bikers from last week were wearing clothes made in some other country, yet they were claiming they wouldn't buy Harley's because they wouldn't be made here?

Just shows how stupid they are. How many were planning on going to another country to order a Harley only to ship it back to the US.
Only bikes destined for overseas markets would be made overseas, and likely only ones destined for countries where Trump has raised tariffs.
Harley is not closing their factory here.

I wonder if you can buy a Harley from Amazon.

 

[trysail]

Powell's City of Books
West Burnside, Portland Oregon

https://i.pinimg.com/originals/98/25/26/982526e17d2c33263fb77d93152988f5.jpg

Not really local to me, but close enough to get to once or twice a year. It takes up the entire block. I usually spend the whole day there. I must to get to more then a couple of the rooms. I once found a TM (Technical Manual) for an Honest John rocket on one of the shelves. You never know what you will find.

Here's a link to another more detailed map of the building (to big to post here). Anybody who likes books would love Powell's .

http://www.powells.com/portals/0/images/burnside-map-2015.jpg


Comshaw

That's a nice post.

Powell's is widely known amongst bookpeople. It is something of a temple.




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[SpeareChucker]

Bookstores?

lol...​

Dinosaurs do still roam the earth!

 

[phrodeau]

I always shop for clothes, home furnishings, appliances and auto parts at a bookstore. Doesn’t everybody?

 

[jaF0]

^^ That's exactly what Amazoff WAS and it's still a major portion of their business.

 

[jaF0]

APNewsbreak: FBI: Amazon drivers part of major theft ring
CenlaNow - WNTZ | Thu Aug 01, 2019 20:24 UTC

SEATTLE (AP) — A theft ring in Washington state sold millions of dollars' worth of stolen goods on Amazon.com in the past six years, and a pair of Amazon delivery drivers was involved, recently unsealed federal court documents show.

Avoid this company.

 

[jaF0]

Capital One said that about 100 million U.S. consumers were impacted by the breach. The stolen data, stored on servers rented from Amazon Web Services, was personal information found on card applications, such as names, addresses and dates of birth, and some financial information, including self-reported income and credit scores.

On Monday, authorities arrested and charged Paige A. Thompson, a 33-year-old former Amazon Web Services employee, with computer fraud and abuse. In a complaint filed in Seattle, prosecutors said that Thompson exploited an improperly configured firewall and accessed the data at various times between March 12 and July 17.

https://www.insurancejournal.com/news/national/2019/08/01/534388.htm

Fargin' Amazoff again.

 

[Kantarii]

Avoid this company.

You should stick to hugging trees. There’s no way your one man campaign is going to convince people to give up on the convenience of shopping on Amazon.

 

[bodysong]

My issue with Amazon, is that despite obscene profits, the company
cannot be bothered to change the way it treats the people that work
for them.

I look at the hacker, as someone that fell through the cracks,
and lost their way.

(Paige Thompson was arrested Monday in Seattle)

"Former Amazon Worker Allegedly Behind Bank Hack"

The Stranger
Jul 30, 2019
Katie Herzog

It seems highly unusual for a hacker to go through so little effort
to hide their tracks. Seems like if you can steal that much data,
you could at least take basic precautions not to get caught.
I'm also curious about what would motivate someone to expose
the personal information of 106 million people in the first place.
Was it ideological or just for fun? Capital One is a bank, and
banks are run by bankers, and bankers are capitalists, and
capitalists are bad, but the 106 million people Thompson
served up to potential identity thefts don't run the banks.
Besides, how many anti-capitalists work for Amazon?
Or maybe it was more simple than that.
Maybe she just saw an opening and took it.

Whatever the motivation, this demonstrates, once again,
that all it takes to disrupt industries and financial systems
is a hacker with some free time.

The story gets even stranger: When the FBI raided Thompson's
home in Beacon Hill on Monday, along with evidence of the hack,
they recovered a cache of guns that apparently belonged Thompson's
66-year-old housemate Park Quan, who is prohibited from possessing
firearms do to prior convictions. Quan, who also had illegal bump stocks,
was also arrested and is now facing 10 years in prison.

https://www.thestranger.com/slog/201...hind-bank-hack

Bail hearing is on Thursday. She faces a $250,000 fine and up to 5 years in prison.

https://www.latimes.com/world-nation...suspect-threat

Paige Thompson is in federal custody pending an Aug. 15 detention hearing.

 

[BotanyBoy]

My issue with Amazon, is that despite obscene profits, the company
cannot be bothered to change the way it treats the people that work
for them.

Why would they change that?

It's obviously very effective.

 

[slipnsider]

Break them up like Bell.

 

[BotanyBoy]

Break them up like Bell.

Amazon isn't a monopoly, what are you going to break them up for?

 

[Biggs_Darklighter]

Break them up like Bell.

Huh? What the hell sense does that make?