It's The Stupid Questions That

Every Time I Go Past A Cinema And See A Queue Out The Door, I Think, Look At Those Fools, Every Penny They Spend Is Turned Into Profits That Are Used To Pass Laws Imprisoning Their Own Children. Can't They See?

It's The Stupid Questions That Have Some Of The Most Surprising And Interesting Answers. Most People Never Think To Ask The Stupid Questions.

There Are People Already Sharing Ebooks Out There, .. And They Do It Simply Because They Love Books. You Don't Buy A Second Copy Of A Book, Cut The Spine Off, Lay Each Page On A Scanner, Run That .tif Through An Ocr (optical Character Reader), Hand Edit The Resulting Output For Errors And Then Post It Online If You Don't Love The Book. It Can Up To 80 Hours To Turn A Printed Novel Into An Ebook. I Figure If Someone Out There Is Willing To Put In 80 Hours Of Work Promoting My Book, Then I'd Prefer They Do It In A Way That Gives A Better Return To Me.

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.

It's Part Of A Cycle Of Stories I'm Writing Where I Deconstruct Classic Science Fiction.