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Is papyrophobic!
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E-Books increase Global Warming, researchers say (satire)
![]() "Particularly using the Adobe scheme, we found that to download a 2 megabyte e-book required a user actively participating in various logins, registrations, and downloads for an average of 12 hours, resulting in an average of 173.2 megabytes of data transfer," explained Arther, "Boiling all that down to kilowatt hours of energy shows that e-books consume approximately 18 times the fossil fuel of an equivalent published work." This is not an April joke it seems (edit: well perhaps I should give that a second thought, *shame*). 173.2 MB to download an e-book?? Could someone explain? Perhaps I am missing something in that story... |
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Nameless Being
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Look more carefully
The site's tagline is "Clean, family-friendly news satire and parody"
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Is papyrophobic!
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OK I admit I didn't see that. But why ruin the fun of having this pseudo-intellectual discussion?
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Recovering Gadget Addict
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Not a total loss... I've got a new parody site now
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It is funny, you have to give them that
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