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  • Commented on 21st Century: a complaint
    school shootings The logical fix would be to abolish the "free" public daycare system, which has become a massive drain on already-burdened public budgets. They used to pretend the daycare centers were schools, but they don't even bother to...
  • Commented on It could be worse
    @140: 900k for a box is nothing and not going to impress anyone who matters Wealth is when you can rent a box for $900,000. Power is when your sycophants provide the box at no cost to you....
  • Commented on Chilling Effects
    How I purchase a book: I look along the shelves and find something with a likely-sounding title. Titles are important. Next, I make note of the author. If I've read any of the author's other work it will strongly influence...
  • Commented on Data, books, and bias
    @14: It is an interesting question as to why the gender bias is not operating in the YA/children's market. I'd look at who does the purchasing for school and public libraries to start with, and assigned reading in schools. The...
  • Commented on Where Have All the Women Gone?
    Oh. I thought you had an actual plan. Forgive me if I doubt that publishing an anthology of short stories is going to accomplish much for your cause. And a web site. That'll show them, sure enough. I guess it's...
  • Commented on Where Have All the Women Gone?
    What's your plan to "redress" this? If you want my money, you have to write what I want to read. Seems pretty simple to me. If you're being discriminated against by the established publishing system, you're whipping the wrong horse....
  • Commented on Where Have All the Women Gone?
    There are very few obviously-female names on the spines of the books in my shelves, maybe 5% of the total... and almost all of those are 30+ years old. I don't read many female authors, not because they're female, but...
  • Commented on Upcoming appearances, Amsterdam, Seattle and Spokane
    @125 The USA, having 50 jurisdictions each with it own traffic laws, has widely varying laws about pedestrians, right of way, and bicycles. Some states give pedestrians absolute right of way, then bicycles, then motorized vehicles. Pedestrians can step out...
  • Commented on Random thought for the day
    @39: California been a country, Er, California IS a country. Just like England is a country. California voluntarily agreed to some restrictions when it joined up with the United States, just like England/Britain/UK did when they joined the EU. California...
  • Commented on Ia, Ia, Google Fthagn
    Huxley's soma, in other words. Plain old THC will work well enough for your purposes. And once you've created your drugged-into-compliance underclass, what next? They're already under the jackboots of their masters; they might be a little less rowdy, but,...
  • Commented on Ia, Ia, Google Fthagn
    Eh? All you need is some aluminum foil, cardboard, and scavenged glass and you can build a quite effective solar cooker. Gee, any right-wing survivalist nutcase can make one of those in his sleep! "Co-workers: A convenient source of protein...
  • Commented on Crib Sheet: Equoid
    @339: Computational Fluid Dynamics is a difficult subject, but that's because gas moving over a body doesn't conform with any one of the well established laws of gas dynamics That's because most of the gas laws are taught in such...
  • Commented on Crib Sheet: Equoid
    arenak ...or dagal, or inoson, or "10-point steel", or monomolecular wire, or scrith, or mithril, or... "Oh, for something really rigid to build with!" - Dick Seaton, in "Skylark of Valeron"...
  • Commented on Book Launch
    @58: little agreement with the MMPI Considering the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory is almost useless, that's not necessarily a bad thing. If you ever take the test, it quickly becomes evident that it was clumsily built to funnel responses to...
  • Commented on What's The Best Medium For A Storyteller In 2015 And Beyond?
    1) The cinema as a mainstream experience also survives. Somewhere, but not where I am. Theaters have closed one after the other, until the closest one I'm aware of is ninety miles away. And even before then, the expense...
  • Commented on What's The Best Medium For A Storyteller In 2015 And Beyond?
    The proportion of "creative" people may be small, but the population is large enough that there's no shortage of them. Idea monkeys are a dime a dozen; the shortage is of people who can successfully complete large and complex projects....
  • Commented on CMAP: "Why can't I find audio editions of your books in the UK?"
    That should be handy! I keep running into sites that won't render with anything but the latest IE. My wife's employer's HR web pages, for example... and MS doesn't support newer IE on my antique but legal copy of XP....
  • Commented on CMAP: "Why can't I find audio editions of your books in the UK?"
    apt-get wine and see if the Audible program will run in it. Wine is a lot better than it used to be. If it won't run in wine, apt-get virtualbox and pick up an older copy of Windows from eBay...
  • Commented on CMAP: "Why can't I find audio editions of your books in the UK?"
    American accents Just to rub it in a little deeper, the American audiobook versions of Charlies novels are done in English or Scottish accents....
  • Commented on The Evil Business Plan of Evil (and misery for all)
    Whores and insider trading are fine, but politicians really like cash when accepting bribes. You also have the invisible elephant in the room: the illegal drug industry. On one side, a huge government payroll; on the other, the selfless citizens...
  • Commented on Aftermath
    We know for a fact that the US Postal Service photographs and OCRs the addresses/labels/exterior of every item that travels through their network ...and have since the late 1970s. The USPS was the financial backer of much OCR development....
  • Commented on Who Got Fantasy in My Science Fiction?
    corporate dystopia The megacorps realized it was cheaper to just outsource military operations to national governments......
  • Commented on Who Got Fantasy in My Science Fiction?
    steampunk Mostly, "steam" is just as much magic as psi or dilithium crystals. Steam is established technology, up against the hard limits of old-school Newtonian physics. (as are airships...) I know just a little bit about steam; I've built...
  • Commented on On the Great Filter, existential threats, and griefers
    In the past 3/4 of a century, it has become clear that there are serious inconsistencies at the root of modern physics, There always have been, at least ever since people started gathering experimental data that Newtonian physics couldn't...
  • Commented on The Biggest Little SF Publisher you never heard of pulls on the jackboots
    Jackson, from my reading of history seemed to act as an autocratic racist thug while president. Keep reading; Jackson was the USA's equivalent of Mussolini. The politicking and lawmaking that allowed him to spearhead the Trail of Tears was...
  • Commented on On the Great Filter, existential threats, and griefers
    The lightspeed limit is a problem because our lifespans are so short and we don't pass consciousness across bodies. We're not a type of life that's suited for space travel. A shared consciousness or hive mind would have a huge...
  • Commented on The Biggest Little SF Publisher you never heard of pulls on the jackboots
    Mack Reynolds There's the Wikipedia entry saying he was a member of the "Socialist Labor Party", which I've never heard of, and there's what Reynolds wrote, which I've read a great deal of. Reynolds' SF featured many different types...
  • Commented on An exercise in futility
    I don't see any inherent difference between "bowdlerizing" a private copy of a work, crossing out, highlighting, or underlining words on a paper copy. Under US law, once I purchase a paper book, it's mine to do with as I...
  • Commented on Terry Pratchett
    It's easy to forget how much backstory there is in the Discworld. I got the DVD movies for "The Color of Magic" and "Hogfather" and thought they were excellent; my wife was mostly lost, even after long explanations of which...
  • Commented on Cover Reveal
    I wonder how many of pterry's fans are going to make the pilgimage to his gravesite with a black robe and scythe......
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