Back in '08, maybe '09 (can't remember for sure) Cain dumped a zip file of some pretty enlightening books (or "unlightening", depending on your point of view).
I read the vast majority of them, many of which would have been damn near impossible to find otherwise. I was hoping that we could have a new one with different titles and similar themes, pretty please with whisky on top?
*shakes Magic 8 ball*
Outlook hazy, try again later.
If I can be given a good place to upload (no signup, easy to use), I could put something together. But not before next week.
Next week, next month, next year, I don't care. i'm just glad the possibility exists!
I might do it as a torrent. Not a public one, so I'd still need a filesharing site to upload said torrent file to.
Dropbox?
Could work, sure.
While we're at it, it would be nice to have a step by step guide to "knowing the things that Cain knows".
I thought that was what these were?
Anyway, putting it together now. Prepare for an eclectic mix of economic theory, parapolitics, history, sword-fighting manuals and psychology.
Quote from: Cain on April 01, 2014, 10:40:52 PM
I thought that was what these were?
Fantastic!
Quote from: Cain on April 01, 2014, 10:40:52 PM
Anyway, putting it together now. Prepare for an eclectic mix of economic theory, parapolitics, history, sword-fighting manuals and psychology.
*gibbering with anticipation*
Awesome. Appreciated here as well.
Of course, I have no idea if making this into a torrent will work or not.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/2w61u9zp5ksk36e/Rogue%20Discordian%20Ultimate%20Collection.torrent
Note: inclusion is not necessarily endorsement. There are a few books in here which are potentially quite dangerous in the wrong hands, not least the KUBARK counterintelligence manual, Unrestricted Warfare and the Book of Five Rings.
If anyone wants to use a book from this collection for a book club style thing, please feel free. I'd happily take part, assuming time commitments.
Book club based around this sounds like an excellent idea. I'm in if anyone's interested?
Tentative yes.
File is 2.83 gigs, subdivided into folders based loosely on theme.
Seems fine, coming down now.
Thanks!
I will try to parcipitate in a bookclub thingy.
I would totally be keen for a book club.
Cool. Just so you guys know, I can only of course seed when I am online. However, my work schedule is such that I should be online at the right time for most people at least twice a week.
Fortunately my computer is just on all the time. .5% so far!
If it makes you feel better, I've uploaded precisely 596 MB since seeding on...whatever fucking day it was. Wednesday, probably.
I'll try and leave this work machine running constantly to help out too.
The IT guy here is clearly on crack. Facebook - Blocked. Download random programs and run them? No problem.
I may have to take a magnet to this machine if/when I leave.
6%, speeding along.
Ok, I'm attempting to download....
This is gonna take a while, yes indeed.
I would like to be in the book club please
Download and seed.
What do you use to manage your ebooks, Cain?
I'm going through mine at the moment, with Calibre, but the 'edit metadata' screen takes a good few seconds to change between books and twenty or so to fetch metadata from Amazon once I've told it what the book is named. I've got 7000 to name and tag :eek:
Anyone still seeding this?
Quote from: 3n1g on April 06, 2014, 06:52:53 AM
Anyone still seeding this?
Yes, calm down. I just worked an overnight, 12 hour shift. I'm not keen on leaving my electricals on for that length of time while I'm out of the house.
Quote from: Pæs on April 06, 2014, 05:33:43 AM
What do you use to manage your ebooks, Cain?
I'm going through mine at the moment, with Calibre, but the 'edit metadata' screen takes a good few seconds to change between books and twenty or so to fetch metadata from Amazon once I've told it what the book is named. I've got 7000 to name and tag :eek:
Calibre, manual editing, luck.
I really just sort them into folders with thematic similarities (similar to the ones for this torrent, in fact) and I edit the filenames so the book title and author name are present.
Since I mostly use my books for research, I normally have a good idea of the ones I need. I just scroll down and find them and go.
Quote from: Cain on April 06, 2014, 07:56:18 AM
Quote from: 3n1g on April 06, 2014, 06:52:53 AM
Anyone still seeding this?
Yes, calm down. I just worked an overnight, 12 hour shift. I'm not keen on leaving my electricals on for that length of time while I'm out of the house.
I've got it on 24/7, if people want the 20% I have so far.
Quote from: Cain on April 06, 2014, 07:56:18 AM
Quote from: Pæs on April 06, 2014, 05:33:43 AM
What do you use to manage your ebooks, Cain?
I'm going through mine at the moment, with Calibre, but the 'edit metadata' screen takes a good few seconds to change between books and twenty or so to fetch metadata from Amazon once I've told it what the book is named. I've got 7000 to name and tag :eek:
Calibre, manual editing, luck.
I really just sort them into folders with thematic similarities (similar to the ones for this torrent, in fact) and I edit the filenames so the book title and author name are present.
Since I mostly use my books for research, I normally have a good idea of the ones I need. I just scroll down and find them and go.
Yeah, think I've just got a book sorting project for a while. May name them as I add them to reader, split the work over the next 9000 years.
Organisation is for pansies anyway. REAL MEN spend hours rooting around a folder looking for the right file.
Cain,
REAL MAN
I had about 26% as of this morning. I'll leave the thing on for a few days.
I've uploaded just under 4 gig. So, between all of you, someone has a complete set.
Work machine got turned off over weekend, it should be on for the next 5 days or so straight. Will seed as much as possible, will set better up speeds for non-work hours too. (The internet connection is terrible here so anything above a 50k/s during work hours means that no-one can do anything. I'll bump it up accordingly as and when this place pisses me off)
I'm at 100% and will be seeding 24/7 for a while.
I'm at 100% on a couple of machines, at least one of which should be seeding for the forseeable future.
Seeing as at least a few of us have complete copies, it seems sensible enough to start nominating selections for the book club.
I got a couple of paragraphs into "The Problem of Punishment" by David Boonin and I would suspect that others would also enjoy it.
I'm 100%, left my computer on, Vuze running.
I'll take a stab at whatever. I'm a much slower reader these days, unfortunately. It's difficult to get consecutive hours in line to really get a good head of steam going.
The problem of punishment certainly looks interesting
Is everyone done downloading? I'm gonna close the application soon.
I'll be seeding for another week at least, but I think most people have downloaded what they wanted.
I've got 100% and will be seeding for a while longer.
Anyone got any other suggestions or are we running with "Problem of Punishment" for the first one?
Also, new thread or keep it in here?
Quote from: Junkenstein on April 15, 2014, 10:03:10 AM
Anyone got any other suggestions or are we running with "Problem of Punishment" for the first one?
Also, new thread or keep it in here?
Problem of Punishment has my vote.
Same thread but change the title?
Finished downloading today. Problem of Punishment is fine with me.
OK. Once I finish the Divergent Trilogy, I'll start reading it.
Yeah, I said Divergent. What?
Never heard of it until now.
Charles Stross has an idea why YA Apocalyptic Fiction is so popular, which you all may find interesting:
QuoteThere has been a boom market in dystopian young adult fiction over the past decade. There is a reason for this. Play and recreation is an important training mechanism in young mammals by which they practice or rehearse activities that will fit them for later adult life experiences. (It's also fun, but bear with me while I discuss the more ploddingly puritan angle for a moment.) Could it be that the popularity of YA dystopias reflects the fact that our youngest generation of readers expect to live out their lives in dystopia? (The alternative explanations hold that (a) high school in the age of helicopter parenting, fingerprint readers in the library, and CCTV in the corridors is an authoritarian dystopia anyway, and YA dys-fic helps kids understand their environment; and (b) that worse, their parents (who influence their reading) think this.)
On a global scale, things are improving. The absolute number of people living in poverty has remained static or actually declined over two decades during which our population rose dramatically. Wars affect fewer people than ever before. Huge swathes of the developing world are actually developing, and are now within sight of catching up with our declining developed world standard of living. But that's scant consolation to those of us who are trapped in the middle. And the way things are looking now, I expect the 30 year old Brits of 2030, people whose grandparents were buying houses and starting families on a single breadwinner's wages in the 1960s, will be envying the living standards of the average Malaysian citizen.
This decline has not of course gone unnoticed by the elite. There's a reason for the increasing militarization of police and security organizations in the United States and the UK: widespread civil disorder escalating to revolution along the lines of the Arab Spring is no longer unimaginable by 2030 if current trends continue. The oligarchs can hold the lid down by force for quite a considerable time, but the longer this continues the worse the eventual explosion will be, as witness the upheavals in Egypt or Ukraine.
I wont have much time to contribute to The Problem of Punishment, as it was one I skim-read a while ago and, while it is interesting, its not a book I know off by heart and I have other reading I need to get on with.
Anyone still seeding?
Quote from: Net on April 18, 2014, 12:09:50 AM
Anyone still seeding?
I should be. I haven't checked in a while.
Yeah I seem to still be seeding. 6.3GB uploaded so far.
Quote from: Pæs on April 18, 2014, 12:23:34 AM
Yeah I seem to still be seeding. 6.3GB uploaded so far.
Thanks. I'm plugging along with the download now.
I'll fire back up.
I'm continuing to seed as well, will be for the forseeable future.
I'll see as well--get it while it's hot
Got it downloaded and am now seeding for stragglers, thanks guys.
Ok, done with the trilogy. Gonna load The Problem of Punishment into my kindle tonight.
Last time, we all waited a bit before diving into the discussion (we should start a new thread for that), but this time I think we should be aimed at momentum. You see something that strikes a note, say it. The rest of us can comment or wait until we get there, or skip ahead, or whaterver. The important thing is to keep the energy up.
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on April 29, 2014, 07:13:14 PM
Ok, done with the trilogy. Gonna load The Problem of Punishment into my kindle tonight.
Last time, we all waited a bit before diving into the discussion (we should start a new thread for that), but this time I think we should be aimed at momentum. You see something that strikes a note, say it. The rest of us can comment or wait until we get there, or skip ahead, or whaterver. The important thing is to keep the energy up.
Cool.
The first one with substantial comments on The Problem of Punishment ought to post a new thread.
"Warning: this topic has not been posted in for at least 120 days."
LAAAAAAAAAAATE :(
May I have espresso, just, no seeds, I don't like beens in my coffee (: