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You were lucky enough to have parents who pushed through and made sacrifices. Not everyone is so lucky. That is exactly the point the article is making. You're blaming the children for having inadequate parents.
I feel Amazon really supports authors more than any publisher. I'm actually working on a project that will help authors on Amazon find an audience.
That's what a publisher does.
I was in a bad place until I discovered bank robbery. My life has been one big party ever since.
There's just a small matter that the law hasn't caught up to reality yet.
The purpose of a headline is to attract the reader's attention so yours is not better. But you already proved that yourself by clicking on on title and reading the article.
No one ever said it was a "solid island of plastic" except some uninformed members of the public. You're taking an urban legend to criticize a valid concern. That is like saying hackers can be stopped by banning ski masks because everyone knows a hacker is someone in a ski mask.
You can reload Apache without a restart (apache2/httpd graceful/reload depending on your distro).