Unintended Consequences - John Ross

[danprkr]

That said: history shows that violent solutions to replace governments that don't acquiesce to the demands of the people are inevetible. Imagining that the government of the United States is immune is wishful thinking and may very well be one reason why its demise is not onlyinevitable just like all the other great nations of history but will come sooner than later.

I too have never understood why people think that America is immune from the lessons of history. From health care (Yeah lost in court) to taxes, and monetary policy we are making many of the same mistakes that led to many nation's downfall, and expecting different results. I guess we're all insane by Einstein's definition. Except those of us who point it out, in which case we're crackpot idiots.

I have just never gotten that.

 

[Travis McGee]

Sleazyrider: can you tell me about Demonoid? I'm the author of three novels, with a 4th almost finished. I just put my first novel onto Kindle. I like the royalty structure, but I worry about being ripped off by hackers who might convert my Kindle versions into free versions available to anybody on the internet.

UC is out of print, and I don't think John Ross is depending on royalties for his living, so he might not mind folks reading UC for free. But I do mind, A LOT. Can you search for "Enemies Foreign And Domestic" on demonoid, and tell me what you find?

Thanks,
Matt Bracken aka Travis McGee

 

[Guillermo]

it got us into being the only modern country in the world with gun control as lax as ours

interesting that you consider "lax" 10s of thousands of laws when none are legal

 

[Hanzerik]

I still have UC in PDF format, but haven't read it in a while.

Local library had it and I read it in regular book format but that was years ago.

 

[SleazyRider]

Sleazyrider: can you tell me about Demonoid? I'm the author of three novels, with a 4th almost finished. I just put my first novel onto Kindle. I like the royalty structure, but I worry about being ripped off by hackers who might convert my Kindle versions into free versions available to anybody on the internet.

UC is out of print, and I don't think John Ross is depending on royalties for his living, so he might not mind folks reading UC for free. But I do mind, A LOT. Can you search for "Enemies Foreign And Domestic" on demonoid, and tell me what you find?

Thanks,
Matt Bracken aka Travis McGee

You'll be relieved to know that "Enemies Foreign And Domestic" is not available on Demonoid, Matt, nor is there anything under Matt Bracken.

 

[Travis McGee]

Thanks, SR. As far as you can tell, did somebody scan every page of UC, and put it into some online format? How do you think UC was converted into bit torrents, or whatever they're called? (I'm just trying to keep ahead of the tech.)

 

[SleazyRider]

Danged if I know. I'm technically inept, but my kids turned me on to Demonoid for movies and books. The amount of firearms manuals and firearms training videos is incredible, I might add. I've seen scanned books, but I'm thinking the vast majority of books are now available for Kindles and perhaps get magically converted.

I still don't understand the motivation of contributors, or how the site generates income, or the myriad legal issues involved.

 

[Travis McGee]

That's my worry about Kindle, that it has been hacked and the work downloaded and made available for free. I've seen youtube videos of hacked Ipads, where the shells are cracked and a USB cable attached. I'm sure it's being done with Kindle too. This is why I'm not putting all of my books onto Kindle for now. I want to test it for a few months.

 

[Jorg Nysgerrig]

This has strayed far the realm of GGD.