What If I Got Hit By Lightning

The United States Of America Was A Pirate Nation For The First One Hundred Years Of Its Existence, Ripping Off The Patents And Trademarks Of The Imperial European Powers It Had Liberated Itself From By Blood. By Keeping Their Gdp At Home, The U.s. Revolutionaries Were Able To Bootstrap Their Nation Into An Industrial Powerhouse. Now, It Seems, Their Descendants Are Bent On Ensuring That No Other Country Can Pull The Same Trick Off.

Conversation Is King. Content Is Just Something To Talk About.

Terrorism Is About Magnifying One Mediagenic Act Of Violence Into One Hundred Billion Acts Of Terrorized Authoritarian Idiocy.

Digital Distribution And The Whip Hand: Don't Get Itunesed With Your Ebooks

Most Of The Books, Music And Movies Ever Released Are Not Available For Sale, Anywhere In The World. In The Brief Time That P2p Nets Have Flourished, The Ad-hoc Masses Of The Internet Have Managed To Put Just About *everything* Online. What's More, They've Done It Far Cheaper Than Any Other Archiving/revival Effort Ever.