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I'm afraid I cannot say I have had a positive experience of WorldofBooks. Even if they do return your money easily, the fact their descriptions of the condition of their books were, in my experience, (and there's really no other way of putting this) outright lies put me off ordering from them...

So in these trying times MPs have voted for an extra £31m to protect vulnerable… MPs. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-68429902 Does the thought ever occur to them that maybe, just maybe, the reason they increasingly require such protection from harm is because they increasingly behave...

It'll happen eventually whether people like it or not. When in human history has the human cost of people's livelihoods ever been valued over cost cutting with technology? RIP to translators, but you're only going the way of those displaced by the power loom, the industrial robot, the automated...

Removed off topic discussion turns into an on-topic thread about anime and manga licensing That’s gotta be a first.

Congrats @Vashdaman I’m pretty bad at being sincere about such things due to my horrendous cynicism which has only plummeted since the first page of this thread 12 years ago, but if there’s anyone who deserves some happiness in this sphere after all the heartache of the past, you do. And I do...

It’s this. I bought the tin that came complete with all the volumes back in the day and they don’t have slipcases.

That’s it, isn’t it, that one word? The final nail in the Tory coffin. And what an incredible portmanteau it is.

If that’s the case then that’s definitely bad and there’s no way people should be having to pay these charges, but I can’t help but think that any customs regime that charges €22 to import something declared at a value of 1p is even worse. I remember when certain retailers who shall remain...

Baffling. I can’t claim to know all the ins and outs of UK export law (especially not since Brexit or as it applies to corporate entities) but I suspect the reason it was declared with a value of 1p is that it’s likely not possible to declare something as having zero value. Even if it’s being...

Wat. Why is something marked as being worth a penny incurring any import charges at all? Surely that’s well below the import tax threshold (isn’t it around €150 in most eurozone countries?) and I presume Belgium’s VAT rate isn’t 2239%. Even the dreaded handling fee in the UK only applies to...

Damn Grav, save some mail order brides for the rest of us.

Late to the party, but this would be my suggestion as well. I know if I've ever had a problem with delivery (RM once sent a parcel without tracking back to Japan because I didn't collect it, I didn't collect it because the postman never left a card to say they had attempted to deliver it) I have...

I mean, at least AL are capable of treating their delay issues with good humour.

Nice job Amazon, now I have to go through the hassle of sending it back and I imagine any replacement will likely arrive in similar condition anyway. So very done with Bezos' sweatshop, it's not even cheap for books any more. When a Waterstones card works out at 10% off over time, I'd rather...

Miss Kobayashi's Dragon Maid, Season 1 I have been ill to the point of not even being able to play games effectively, so I have done the unthinkable and actually watched some anime I haven't seen before. I enjoyed it well enough. At its heart this is as much about loner Kobayashi learning to...

What absolute b*llocks are these generals talking about the need for conscription in a hypothetical war with Russia? It’s slightly concerning that people of high rank within the military seem to be completely overlooking the fact that in any hypothetical war with Russia, the UK gets wiped out by...

That is actually incredibly useful, since I've noticed Amazon seem to have completely removed the option to filter by both genre and format at the same time. Want to browse anime? Here's all the anime DVDs and BDs. Want to browse BDs? Here's all of them of every genre. Want to browse anime BDs...

Yeah, a 6 hour transatlantic flight is a lot more manageable than a bus ride to the outskirts of town. I’ll hop on over and check it out when I have a spare couple of grand. Unintentionally hilarious spam is my favourite spam.

I wholeheartedly agree with you @Vashdaman with one exception: I can believe it. If I had a shred of faith left in “democracy” beforehand this would have killed it but, well.

Ultimately, I think the fact is that Pandora’s Box has been opened with regards to AI now and there’s no shutting it back inside without an eventual Terminator/Matrix/Battlestar Galactica style war against the machines which I’m confident humanity would lose anyway. If people have an easier...