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10-06-2011

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I've shied away from Facebook due to the nonstop privacy problem outcries. That they don't even have the ability to delete anything is worrying and absurd. Their silent watching of their users via persistent cookies that are never deleted, even on logout, is another minus. And there's far too many stupid logic puzzles in setting up the privacy settings -- they didn't have to make it that hard. I can't help but suspect it's intentional, to extract maximum information from users who don't know better by design.

I don't like the idea of social networking sites. You seem to need to vigilantly watch these things. It becomes just another 'job' my information space requires me to perform when computers are supposed to be working for me. They also seem filled with so much useless frippery (farmville, et al) it's hard to take any of it seriously -- except in the ways they threaten you, of course.

If I ever find a use for social networking sites I might try google+. Until then I don't see any pressing reason to use any of them.

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HTML2MARKDOWN(1)						   User Commands						  HTML2MARKDOWN(1)

NAME

       html2markdown - converts a page of HTML into markdown.

SYNOPSIS

       html2markdown [options...] [(filename|url) [encoding]]

DESCRIPTION

       html2markdown downloads the specified HTML page, and converts it to text marked up with markdown.  The source HTML page may be a local file
       or remote URL.  If not specified, it will be read from standard input.  The output is printed to standard output.

       If an encoding is specified, it will override any encoding information provided by the HTTP Server.  When not specified,  python-feedparser
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OPTIONS

       --ignore-emphasis
	      Don't include any formatting for emphasis.

       --ignore-links
	      Don't include any formatting for links.

       --ignore-images
	      Don't include any formatting for images.

       -g, --google-doc
	      Convert an html-exported Google Document.

       -d, --dash-unordered-list
	      Use a dash rather than a star for unordered list items.

       -b BODY_WIDTH, --body-width=BODY_WIDTH
	      Number of characters per output line, 0 for no wrap.

       -i LIST_INDENT, --google-list-indent=LIST_INDENT
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       -s, --hide-strikethrough
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       -h, --help
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AUTHOR

       This manpage was written for Debian, by Stefano Rivera <stefanor@debian.org>.

html2markdown 3.200.1						   January 2012 						  HTML2MARKDOWN(1)