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08/05/09
07/10/09
I need a cigarette.
07/01/09
Fortunately, I've got plenty of cash lying around, due to my success as an author of fantasy and science fiction short stories.
06/30/09
Would you care to offer a cite for whatever implies that? I don't have the August/September F&SF issue yet to read the original editorial and I don't see anything in the post by Paula R. Stiles that carries that implication.
07/01/09
06/27/09
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06/26/09
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06/26/09
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06/26/09
If you can only afford one of these books, get that one.
06/26/09
It seems that the authors I tend to read never end up here.
No John Ringo, Harry Turteldove, Anne (or Todd) McCaffery, Louis McMaster Bujold.
Thinking about it, most of the Writers that I've started reading over the past few years I got started on by the Baen Free Library (free e-books, usually the first in a series).
Have any Baen Books been mentioned on these "New Books" posts?
06/26/09
06/26/09
Maybe you just need more reviewers with wider taste/preferences? Reviewing books that are Ripping Yarns, but not going to be up for awards?
(Perhaps someone who was already adult and going to cons in the 80's and has been a fan since Star Trek was brand new?)
06/27/09
I could swear you reviewed something from Baen last fall, but I can't remember what.
-Kle.
06/27/09
06/27/09
Which is indefensible -- I kinda feel sorry for the authors sometimes.
06/26/09
Can't wait for The Women of Nell Gwynne's to arrive, though.
06/25/09
06/25/09
06/25/09
I do believe that folks nowadays do a lot of different things weekly and it all starts with surfing the internet for hours at a time when you could be reading that new mag or renting a video , etc.
06/25/09
"...Not to piracy as the big suits at DRM want to make you think."
Again with the delusion. The cognitive dissonance on this issue is astounding. It also leads me to believe people can convince themselves of anything if it is in their own self-interest. Explains a lot of human history.
Look, the music industry alone has declines 10-12% a year since Napster. Continuously. Now, I don't particularly like the RIAA. They fucked up, and their tactics are grotesque. Downloading a $15 CD should be a minor fine, not $80,000. That, however, does not make downloading music illegally right.
We haven't yet crossed the bandwidth threshold to see the same effect in movies, and we probably won't anytime soon with how far American keeps sinking in worldwide bandwidth rates, but you can expect the same there someday. It's definitely already affecting video rentals.
Now, I don't care if anyone does steal shit online. Go for it. It's human nature to want something for less, and we're all hypocrites when it comes to the law. (Read Freakonomics for mathematical proof). Just don't act like a hero for getting free shit. That's what pisses me off. You're not fucking Robin Hood.
"Oh, but CDs are too expensive. That's why I steal. Power to the people!"
I love how when people don't know where the money is going, they assume it's all going into someone's pockets at the top. A $15 CD?
$1.00 is going to the artist
$3.75 is going to the retailer
$3.75 is going to the distributor
$3.00 is going to the label
$0.75 is going to the mechanical royalty
& $2.50 is going to research and development (R&D)
Now, as for R&D - most bands CDs don't make their money back, and this covers their costs. Without this, labels can't afford to cover recording costs for new & unknown bands. Guess what is also the first to be cut when sales fall? Yep. This is part of the reason for the current dirge of music we have now.
Just... do whatever the hell you want to do. I don't care. Just don't pretend that sitting on your ass while your computer downloads the latest CD from some band that hasn't even made the radio yet that you're fighting the good fight. It's sad and pathetic self-delusion.
06/25/09
talk all you want about declines in music/movie revenue - the simple fact is that the RIAA/MPAA etc have not once been able to show the real relationship between a downloaded CD and the loss of a CD sale...the entire entertainment industry is just at the beginning of a fundamental change in the way it delivers/sells it's products...
06/01/09
06/01/09
uh, it's the future. so, robots. DUH.
06/01/09
"Who builds the robots? Who cleans up the puddles of machine oil that they leave behind? Who repairs the robots that repair the robots?"
06/01/09
It's robots all the way down dude.
You don't think we didn't already have that covered?
06/01/09
06/01/09
EMP grenades? Tsk. I'm rolling my CCDs here!
That cliche has been used so much, we sent out purely photonic models to deal with you so-called clever apes. Magnetic fields don't do jack. And if you figure a way out of that, we've got the nanomechanical models waitin' in the wings.
My lounge signin' days are over carbon unit!
Face it, you're all trumped!
06/01/09