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This is a hilarious piece. You yankees are good 20 years behind the real pirate libraries trend, started with lib.ru and well continued with the genesis lib and

This is a hilarious piece. You yankees are good 20 years behind the real pirate libraries trend, started with lib.ru and well continued with the genesis lib and uneraseable flibista.is. Ah, I forgot to mention nehudlit.ru, which is specialized on textbooks.

eggy 11y ago
Good references. On the side, seeing as most of what is the internet started here (packet switching and ARPANET), and there were hacker BBSs and pirated material before Pirate Bay, I'd say we were not behind in any of these trends. And go further back to the invention of the transistor in NJ, USA, mate ;)
- ommunist 11y ago
  Steam engine was invented well before Christ in Alexandria. However, its real life applications were really developed much later in England. Same with the Internet. What the US is holding firmly is production and sales of space-ready elements for high orbit satellites, sorry, sputniks.
  - eggy 11y ago
    I really don't like national, or jingoistic-based comparisons of contribution by country, since personally I am an individualist. I am hoping for the day we have no borders or tribes or nations (does that make me an anarchist too?). But, if lines are to be drawn, I believe you're short-changing history here a bit. The U.S. doesn't just 'holding firmly in production and sales of space-ready elements for high orbit satellites' - it innovates and funds them, and many other areas of tech. The U.S. is number one in most advanced country in space technologies. France is number three, Germany number five. The UK didn't make the top eight. Maybe the ESA would be competitive, but that is a 72-member group, not a single country. The High-Tech sector, Google, Apple, and many others is dominated by the U.S., however, that doesn't account for sheer size. In technology, R&D, tech personnel, education and patents, and accounting for per capita, it is countries like South Korea, Japan, Switzerland, Israel, Germany and others. The UK is ten on that list, the US one. There is a sub-culture in China of farmers building flying tricycles, deep-sea manned submarines to collect seafood, and lots of other cool (and dangerous?) stuff. Unfortunately, they are bound by an information-filtering, state government, but oddly have freedom in the countryside to do just such crazy tinkering. Check YouTube for those items. Amazing. I have lived in SE Asia for over 7 years, and I can tell you that I sometimes feel more free to do things here than where I grew up in Brooklyn, but to a point. I would be stopped once I became 'visible'. 'Tallest blade of grass' and all that jazz!
    - ommunist 11y ago
      Thank you for sharing that. The US innovates for itself. Gamma rays protected electronics is for more than a year subject to sanctions, so Russia cannot build new satellites for a while (about 30% of electronics used to be imported). I am not patriot of the modern Russia, I am necropatriot of the dead country - The USSR, that makes me sick freak, right ?:> I believe the UK has the best research culture, but the US has the best research funding, except in some areas, where the EU prevails. But we shall see, China will win the Moon and the martian race.
AlbertoGP 11y ago
Thanks for the links! I didn't know all of them. I suppose that by flibista.is you actually mean http://flibusta.is/ http://flibusta.is/ Cheers!
- ommunist 11y ago
  Thank you. http://cyberleninka.ru http://cyberleninka.ru is on the rise too. I download research papers from there.

eggy 11y ago

Good references. On the side, seeing as most of what is the internet started here (packet switching and ARPANET), and there were hacker BBSs and pirated material before Pirate Bay, I'd say we were not behind in any of these trends. And go further back to the invention of the transistor in NJ, USA, mate ;)

ommunist 11y ago
Steam engine was invented well before Christ in Alexandria. However, its real life applications were really developed much later in England. Same with the Internet. What the US is holding firmly is production and sales of space-ready elements for high orbit satellites, sorry, sputniks.
- eggy 11y ago
  I really don't like national, or jingoistic-based comparisons of contribution by country, since personally I am an individualist. I am hoping for the day we have no borders or tribes or nations (does that make me an anarchist too?). But, if lines are to be drawn, I believe you're short-changing history here a bit. The U.S. doesn't just 'holding firmly in production and sales of space-ready elements for high orbit satellites' - it innovates and funds them, and many other areas of tech. The U.S. is number one in most advanced country in space technologies. France is number three, Germany number five. The UK didn't make the top eight. Maybe the ESA would be competitive, but that is a 72-member group, not a single country. The High-Tech sector, Google, Apple, and many others is dominated by the U.S., however, that doesn't account for sheer size. In technology, R&D, tech personnel, education and patents, and accounting for per capita, it is countries like South Korea, Japan, Switzerland, Israel, Germany and others. The UK is ten on that list, the US one. There is a sub-culture in China of farmers building flying tricycles, deep-sea manned submarines to collect seafood, and lots of other cool (and dangerous?) stuff. Unfortunately, they are bound by an information-filtering, state government, but oddly have freedom in the countryside to do just such crazy tinkering. Check YouTube for those items. Amazing. I have lived in SE Asia for over 7 years, and I can tell you that I sometimes feel more free to do things here than where I grew up in Brooklyn, but to a point. I would be stopped once I became 'visible'. 'Tallest blade of grass' and all that jazz!
  - ommunist 11y ago
    Thank you for sharing that. The US innovates for itself. Gamma rays protected electronics is for more than a year subject to sanctions, so Russia cannot build new satellites for a while (about 30% of electronics used to be imported). I am not patriot of the modern Russia, I am necropatriot of the dead country - The USSR, that makes me sick freak, right ?:> I believe the UK has the best research culture, but the US has the best research funding, except in some areas, where the EU prevails. But we shall see, China will win the Moon and the martian race.

AlbertoGP 11y ago

Thanks for the links! I didn't know all of them. I suppose that by flibista.is you actually mean http://flibusta.is/ http://flibusta.is/ Cheers!

ommunist 11y ago
Thank you. http://cyberleninka.ru http://cyberleninka.ru is on the rise too. I download research papers from there.