So you are a fan of the Merchant Princes ?
>Hmm, "Halting State" and "Rule 34" - thanks for the heads-up on a couple of Stross titles I didn't know about.
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>>Plays a big role in the always entertaining Charles Stross's
Rule 34>>
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rule_34_%28novel%29>>
>>>I wonder if 3D printing is about to tip. I just finished reading "Makers" by Cory Doctorow, looks like he was about 3 years ahead of his time:
http://www.amazon.com/Makers-Cory-Doctorow/dp/B004IK9ECI/ref=la_B001I9RSKC_1_5?ie=UTF8&qid=1343760243&sr=1-5>>>
Charles Hankey
Though a good deal is too strange to be believed, nothing is too strange to have happened.
- Thomas Hardy
Half the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm-- but the harm does not interest them. Or they do not see it, or they justify it because they are absorbed in the endless struggle to think well of themselves.
-- T. S. Eliot
Democracy is two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for lunch.
Liberty is a well-armed sheep contesting the vote.
- Ben Franklin
Pardon him, Theodotus. He is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature.
