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Old 04-05-2018, 12:49 PM   #1 (permalink)
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It actually works on my iPhone. I just downloaded a free book and started reading just now.
It's not the only book piracy site I know but it's definitely the premier one by a 100 miles. If it can be put on the internet there is an entire web of thievery sites dedicated to it.
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There is only one bright spot and that is the growing habit of disgruntled men of dynamiting factories and power-stations; I hope that, encouraged now as ‘patriotism’, may remain a habit! But it won’t do any good, if it is not universal.
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It really chaps my ass when you look something up and they’ll only give you the abstract.

I’m like really. I’m pretty sure that I’m the only one on earth who just wants to read this. Not for a grade. Not because I’m on the dissertation team. I’m just ****ing interested but you’re going to keep it hidden up your ass instead. **** them.
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Old 04-05-2018, 01:43 PM   #3 (permalink)
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It really chaps my ass when you look something up and they’ll only give you the abstract.

I’m like really. I’m pretty sure that I’m the only one on earth who just wants to read this. Not for a grade. Not because I’m on the dissertation team. I’m just ****ing interested but you’re going to keep it hidden up your ass instead. **** them.
This. All caps and shouted at passersby in front of Walmart.
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Old 04-05-2018, 02:29 PM   #4 (permalink)
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It is. Another problem we have is time and setting. Just saying poverty leaves the door open to every civilization that ever had a monetary system. Then inside that we have billions of individuals.

I have a feeling you’re thinking like you did when I took apart your time travel vs space travel question. You’re thinking ffs you know what I mean just work with me here. But I’m thinking feudalism, slavery, victims of famine, failed revolutions, unfair banking practices, capitalism vs communism, IMF debt, IMF bailouts, American slums, modern day India, credit card debt, student loans, expensive health problems, and on and on.

You poopooed the first thing I said as a persnickety point over semantics but I was opening the conversation with a point about how the haves dictate the language we use to justify the exploitation of the poor.

Anyway, if you’re looking for universal patterns, where there’s money you’re very likely to find people who are able to hoard it and others who suffer from being on the other side. It’s also very likely that money is power and power means more money but the degree to which the cards are stacked against the poor vary from situation to situation. A dude in Ireland might have a bad hand but a kid in Ethiopia was probably never even allowed to know there’s such a thing as a hand.
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What if you sell the poor timeshares?
The poor can't afford timeshares.
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Old 04-05-2018, 02:35 PM   #5 (permalink)
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Jesus Christ, that's weird!
I went to that site, and what was in the search bar? "Forgotten Ancestors". Were you searching for that, Hawk? Cos I wasn't: didn't even know about it. And if so, how come it came up on my browser? Are you hacking me?

Edit: got "Billions and Billions" anyway. Score!
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Jesus Christ, that's weird!
I went to that site, and what was in the search bar? "Forgotten Ancestors". Were you searching for that, Hawk? Cos I wasn't: didn't even know about it. And if so, how come it came up on my browser? Are you hacking me?

Edit: got "Billions and Billions" anyway. Score!
That’s probably because Bat made sure it was there before linking.

Ancestors is considerably better, imo. Ancestors is the one I was recommending. I mentioned Billions because I’m just finishing with it.
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It really chaps my ass when you look something up and they’ll only give you the abstract.

I’m like really. I’m pretty sure that I’m the only one on earth who just wants to read this. Not for a grade. Not because I’m on the dissertation team. I’m just ****ing interested but you’re going to keep it hidden up your ass instead. **** them.
I don't think it was a Ted Talk but it was a video of some guy talking about Libgen and about how the entire point was that information and education should be free and easily accessible to everyone and how Libgen was an attempt to give that to the world. Wish I could find it.

But **** yes. I understand the idea of academics being compensated for their time and effort, but Jesus ****ing Christ if it reduces knowledge to a commodity that is only accessible to those who can pay for it then **** everything that you're about. Enlightenment shouldn't be for the rich. It should be for the benefit of all society because otherwise what on earth is the point? It just becomes a way for the upper class to further the divide between the rich and the poor.
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if I feed the poor they call me a saint

if I ask why the poor have no food they call me a communist
What if you sell the poor timeshares?
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What if you sell the poor timeshares?
That was actually also the first thing that came to my mind when I saw that quote.
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Can we talk about famine specifically for a while since that’s about a harsh as it gets?
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