Sayata Crossword Puzzle 9
Crossword Puzzle 9
Author: chuck
Front Page 1-22-2020
Ubuntu Linux 20.04 Ditches A Feature That’s Been Annoying You For Years –
Ubuntu is removing the Amazon Icon
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when Canonical’s upcoming Ubuntu 20.04 LTS (Long-Term Support) release lands this April, that Amazon icon will be no more. “It was just a low-impact way for people to passively donate to Ubuntu without actually having to do anything but shop at Amazon,” Pope says.
Well, it hasn’t been annoying me for years. On the computer where I have Ubuntu, I have not updated in forever. The update became broken and so I just stopped updating. And so I never had that on Ubuntu. But I am getting ready to update, maybe, perhaps, I am thinking about it.
But what Ubuntu is doing got me to thinking about what I am doing here on sayata.net. Would people rather me go to a paid subscription system or a paid tip system rather than what I have been doing with the amazon advertisement / affiliate link tip system and trying to get people to buy my eBooks. Do the ads do more to piss people off than to get them to contribute to support my content?
Most of my links do not have pixels and so I don’t really share that much data with amazon, even accidentally. But of course people don’t know or understand that. I think with Ubuntu people had the idea that Ubuntu was sharing data with amazon.
I don’t really have that high of a registration / return rate. So my traffic level is part of my problem.
I don’t know. Is Unbuntu on to something that I don’t understand.???
Music: The Brains – Misery
Front Page 1-7-2020
Twitter: I am back adding content to twitter. I am not going to stick to the 4 tweet rule. I was going to end up getting marked as a spammer is about all I was going to accomplish from what I was doing, even though I was limiting myself to 4 tweets.
Topics: Neil Peart, the drummer and lyricist of progressive rock band Rush, has died, US Economy Adds 145,000 jobs in December. Why I don’t think it is a good number. – What do I think about state governments going after big tech. – Trivia/Facts: How many fire stations are there in the USA? – How markets are reacting to Iran Missile Launches against bases in Iraq. – Twitter to experiment with limiting replies in effort to combat online abuse – This, that, humor.
Tweeted 3 of 4, 1 remains.
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Tweeted 2 of 4, 2 remain.
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Syrian Girl: 2020 Is 2003 All Over Again
I don’t really fully agree with this, but there are some points. It is a different perspective. I am not going to do an analysis on this because I could be wrong on some things and it in itself covers different perspectives.
Syrian Girl joins The Alex Jones Show
There is also an interesting caller that really throws some major information out.
Front Page 1/3/2020
Front Page
Day 1/3/2020
| I have put “Erotic Western: Saving The Town” back into Kindle Select / Kindle Unlimited. |
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| A Free Day Is Scheduled for 1/5/2020 | Total Giveaways = 2Update 5:00 to 6:00 PM EST Still, Total Giveaways = 2Update 8:02 PM Total Giveaways = 4 Update 10:15 PM Next Update: 1/6/2020 Total Giveaway = 5 |
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| After January 5, 2020 I will see how the give away goes before I decide on whether I will put any more of my eBooks back into Kindle Select / Unlimited. It will also determine whether I will publish any more eBooks on KDP. | Because “Erotic Western: Saving The Town” did generate some sales at one time I figured it was a good eBook to act as a canary in the coal mine. As some of you may know I have not had any eBook sales since April of 2019. |
| I am continuing the say unit tip system. If I can schedule the time I plan to start back doing youtube videos. For right now the Hearthville Serial will continue as part of the goals for the say units. |
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| If you follow on me on twitter… That statement is almost a joke because I don’t think anyone really does. Regardless, I am pretty much finished there.All I am going do is link to my website up to 4x’s a day there and that is it. I am not contributing any more content there. I am finished.And to be honest, part of the content I have been putting there has not been good. Like for example I was going to do a joke if Democrats were to become the D word because being called a Democrat is quickly becoming an insult. Well, obviously, if you happen to be a Democrat that is not very funny. And that kind of stuff does not help me. In my defense though, if you are sitting there reading ultra liberal Democrat crazy shit on twitter trending topics, it is enough to cause one’s head to explode. I am not doing that any more either. |
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| What am I politically? I believe in the social safety net. I believe there is a role for government but limited. I believe there is a role for large corporations but limited. I tend to support indie movements and small business. I am a strong supporter of free speech. I am tend to be basically libertarian but not to the extreme. I am an Independent.
I have nothing against world travelers who respect the indigenous/local people and do not try to steal from them or push them out. But I dislike Carpetbaggers and Globalists who act as invaders and attempt to make the locals their bitches. I believe strongly in the free enterprise system. I think Capitalism, Socialism, and Communism are all bullshit terms to confuse the masses and to try to help the “Feudal Lords” to stop their indebted slaves from rebelling. I think all three terms are used by lying politicians to fool the masses. History shows all three terms mean very little to the actual policies the political leaders have executed against their populations. For example, lying Democrats today are attempting to use the promise of free stuff under the auspices of socialism to execute the biggest government theft from the private sector, rich and poor alike, in the history of the universe … all to the benefit of the oligarchs/feudal lords who in truth just pass the government thefts they are forced to pay on to their customers while the oligarchs/feudal lords benefit from the government contracts and massive spending and the pacification of their indebted slaves. |
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For KDP Amazon to have passed the test 8 to 12 eBooks would have needed to have been given away. They failed. I love Amazon. I will continue to promote Amazon. I will continue to shop at Amazon. But I will NOT publish any more eBooks with KDP Amazon unless they begin to generate paid sales. I can’t even give eBooks away through them. For right now I am not going to unpublish my eBooks with them but obviously I am not going to put any more eBooks into Kindle Unlimited unless there is some change. I will leave it at that.
There may be some outdated text you will see on some posts that indicates something contrary to that because I temporarily lost my brain and I was planning to publish more with KDP and doing Kindle Unlimited with more eBooks but no. That is not happening.
To be clear, to the people who downloaded my eBook from Amazon, thank you. I appreciate it more than you know.
My stories will continue here.
Crossword Puzzle 8
Sayata Crossword Puzzle 8
Music – Gary Numan – My Name Is Ruin
Music – Gary Numan – My Name Is Ruin
This was released as the lead single from Gary Numan’s 21st studio album, Savage (Songs From A Broken World). The song is about a man living in a post-apocalyptic world, whose daughter gets taken away from him. His whole life from then on becomes the need to get her back.
Merry Christmas
Merry Christmas to Everyone.
And Happy New Year.
Chuck
Online bulletin board inventor Randy Suess dies at 74
Randy Suess, the creator of the software for first online public bulletin board, died on December 10th at the age of 74. He and Ward Christensen built the Computer Bulletin Board System (CBBS) in 1978 to give users a central place to float ideas, post notices and otherwise coordinate without meeting in person.
Back in the old days I operated a BBS called Rough Writers. I used TriBBS and Wildcat on a computer running OS/2. The main features of Rough Writers were file downloads, a forum for discussion, and online games. Some of the BBS’s at the time began connecting to usenet and I did not have the resources for that. But yeah, those were cool days and contrary to what you might read, some of the software was very sophisticated and very often free or shareware. TriBBS was shareware and Wildcat was commercial.
You take the original AOL. It basically was a BBS on a lot grander scale that could connect people to the internet. Before I used AOL I used the GEnie Information Service that was owned by General Electric. It was more telnet concentric and less graphic than AOL.
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Anyways. RIP Randy Suess. You brought entertainment to a lot of us.
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