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Z-library founders arrested in Argentina

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Re: Z-library founders arrested in Argentina

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Post by agumonkey »

theandrewbailey wrote: post #333
lc9er wrote: post #170

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I have family that works for DOL's Wage & Hour division. The amount of wage theft is _staggering_. They are chronically understaffed and overworked. Plus, every time a Republican administration comes into power, their enforcement power gets severely limited, except in the most egregious cases.

When people get paid more, the government gets more tax revenue. Smart government would double this division's resources, but governments are anything but smart.

non naive suggestion: new nation scale govt structure should be discussed and tried.

hybrid patterns, seasonal structures, whatever

There are lots of low hanging fruits, which is good because it means space for progress but govt are extremely good at diluting any improvement efforts. Yet most people want higher efficiency / sanity governments.

Re: Z-library founders arrested in Argentina

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Post by agumonkey »

gibspaulding wrote: post #291
attilaberczik wrote: post #212

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Use Library Genesis. It's also free and there is no download limit, and you have access to approximately the same books. https://libgen.is/

LibGen is an invaluable resource, but is there reason to expect that Library Genesis will remain accessible for long if similar sites are under attack?

people were proactively mirroring it, someone also tried this for zlib here http://pilimi.org/zlib.html

Re: Z-library founders arrested in Argentina

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Post by bombcar »

harshreality wrote: post #348
josh_fyi wrote: post #331

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I signed away rights to the President and Fellows of Harvard College (the legal name in this context for Harvard). That was not a problem as it was clear to me that this would not be a money-maker for anyone. The business-side was handled by Eisenbrauns, a small publisher. When the owner retired, the business sold to Penn State. Later, the Harvard Semitic Museum (the part of Harvard in charge of the series) sold the…

Is that contract valid? What did you receive of value in exchange for signing away your copyright?

I assume getting it into print was the "item of value" Joshua received.

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Post by rglover »

35amxn35 wrote: post #336

Yeah extradition treaties and bowing down to the US or the Interpol are how the One World Government begins. Mix that with cheap massive surveillance tech imported from China and every country going cashless and we're in FOR A RIDE.

You might even say it's Biblical.

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Post by kneebonian »

jamiek88 wrote: post #341
Vt71fcAqt7 wrote: post #303

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Thanks for that link. It also shows medicare as increased to $1.5 T

Yeah but we paid into a social fund for Medicare and social security. It’s not tax revenue it’s our savings.

It wasnt't supposed to be tax revenue. Doesn't mean they didn't treat it that way anyway.

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Post by [deleted] »

PartiallyTyped wrote: post #244
thestevesie wrote: post #231

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Its large compared to other similar countries. So why doesn't the US just spend that money so we can be more like X trendy country I heard about on Y blog/podcast that is a fraction of the size of the US and does "EVERYTHING" better? Well, the case is that they have more money to spend because the US is subsidizing their military. So many of these countries are able to get away with tiny military budgets because of t…

the US does not subsidise other countries, not to the degree that you think anyways. It’s also not a matter of spending more money. The US spends a lot more per capita on healthcare than everyone else, so money is not the issue.

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Re: Z-library founders arrested in Argentina

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Post by SergeAx »

deafpolygon wrote: post #91
reisse wrote: post #29

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> but e-books can be purchased pretty much anywhere in the world. I'm in Sweden Sorry, but by "pretty much anywhere in the world" you clearly mean "first world". If you live outside of US/Canada and EU it is much harder to obtain books legally. Publishing agreements usually cover specific countries, and no-one cares about, for example, selling books in English in Central Asia. So even if you have means to pay for the…

> allowed Steam to overtake piracy Let's not forget the pricing, as well. Older games are actually priced lower than most books and movies, which are still being artificially inflated by their respective distributors.

Let's also not forget Steam pricing policies for different regions. Until recently same games in Turkey were priced 5 times lower than in Switzerland.

Re: Z-library founders arrested in Argentina

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Post by kneebonian »

PartiallyTyped wrote: post #244
thestevesie wrote: post #231

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Its large compared to other similar countries. So why doesn't the US just spend that money so we can be more like X trendy country I heard about on Y blog/podcast that is a fraction of the size of the US and does "EVERYTHING" better? Well, the case is that they have more money to spend because the US is subsidizing their military. So many of these countries are able to get away with tiny military budgets because of t…

the US does not subsidise other countries, not to the degree that you think anyways. It’s also not a matter of spending more money. The US spends a lot more per capita on healthcare than everyone else, so money is not the issue.

It may not be direct subsidiaries but I'd be willing to wager a pretty penny that there are a lot of European countries that feel comfortable with spending little on defense and aren't worrying about Russia because they know the US has their back.

Not to mention keeping Taiwan from being brought under the CCP umbrella, the efforts the US Navy puts into preventing and reducing piracy. In fact most of the world that doesn't worry about imminent invasion from it's neighbors doesn't worry mostly because the US has provided almost global security by virtue of having the largest most capable military on the planet.

I won't pretend it is perfect or that we have global peace but like during Pax Romana although they were still squabbling with the Sassinids, the average person's risk of dying as a result of military conflict is very small when compared historically, especially since almost every military action in the past half century has been not between modern nation states but between guerrilla and partisan forces which results in considerably less damage in life and property than a full scale conflict between two capable actors as the Iran Iraq war proves.

Re: Z-library founders arrested in Argentina

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Post by akira2501 »

woodruffw wrote: post #350
theandrewbailey wrote: post #333

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When people get paid more, the government gets more tax revenue. Smart government would double this division's resources, but governments are anything but smart.

This would run counter to the "starve the beast"[1] strategy that's formed the core of conservative governance in the US for the last 50 years. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starve_the_beast

If you believe in small government then you're going to enact policies that accomplish this. Re-branding this as "starve the beast" seems nothing more than a propaganda exercise.

Further.. almost every business employing people in a State must be setup with that State's authorities. Is there some reason States can't handle wage theft? Is this naturally a federal problem, or even best solved at that level?

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