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12/09/11--11:59: Comment on About This Book by freemarketanticapitalist (chan 1763884)

Sensible? My mom would never have believed it. Thanks, David!


12/18/11--11:35: Comment on New Book in the Works by EMM (chan 1763884)

I don't know if this will be anything you address in your book, but the other day I thought about the possibility of watchdog environmentalism, where people monitor pollution and habitat health with tools and protocols of their own (Surfrider Foundation comes to mind). Its more monitoring than "regulating," but could lead to the latter. Also, in regards to land management of property set aside for habitat conservation. Rather than having a state entity like DFG, the local community could 'police'/regulate properties with patrols on perimeter trails, and wildlife cameras (which are set up monitor wildlife, and nab poachers). Lastly, many operations like construction and manufacturing, for example, have certain specs or best practices for quality 'control.' "Inspectors" are usually employed to assure they are met. With proper documentation of the process via paper records and video, the need for inspections could be reduced, but I suppose the ultimate question is "who decides what specs and quality control are the standard by which certain things are to be built?" It doesn't have to be the State, as many industries come up with their own or surpass the minimum set by the State. Looking forward to your book.


12/18/11--12:29: Comment on New Book in the Works by freemarketanticapitalist (chan 1763884)

Thanks, EMM. That's exactly the kind of stuff I want to use in Dekstop!


01/25/12--09:30: Comment on Buy The Homebrew Industrial Revolution by Dan (chan 1763884)

Kevin, am I mistaken or did you used to offer a kindle version of HBIR? I went to purchase it to read on a kindle I received for Christmas and could no longer find a version in that format. Will you be offering one in the future?


01/25/12--10:10: Comment on Buy The Homebrew Industrial Revolution by freemarketanticapitalist (chan 1763884)

I tried it a couple of times, but Kindle unilaterally took it off the market in response to reader complaints about formatting errors, and after that I just gave up. I apologize for the inconvenience. I hear Kindle works with pdf files, though, if you want to download the facsimile from this site.


01/26/12--18:11: Comment on Buy The Homebrew Industrial Revolution by Dan (chan 1763884)

It's no inconvenience on your part. Would you be interested in letting readers convert your books into other formats like Cory Doctorow does? Quoted from <a href="http://craphound.com/makers/download/" rel="nofollow">Makers download</a> page<blockquote>It's kind of a tradition around here that my readers convert my ebooks to their favorite formats and send them to me here, and it's one that I love! If you've converted these files to another format, send them to me and I'll host them, but before you do, make sure you read the following</blockquote>


01/26/12--20:50: Comment on Buy The Homebrew Industrial Revolution by freemarketanticapitalist (chan 1763884)

That would be fine, Dan. Everything I write is freely available for reproduction and distribution, and that includes reformatting it for e-readers.


02/06/12--12:18: Comment on About by Ian (chan 1763884)

Kevin, I was wondering if you've heard of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3D printing" rel="nofollow">3D printing</a>, and thought about some of the implications it might have for mutualist political economy.


02/06/12--14:15: Comment on About by freemarketanticapitalist (chan 1763884)

Sure thing, Ian. As a matter of fact, there's a lot about it in Chapter Five.


02/10/12--18:22: Comment on Buy The Homebrew Industrial Revolution by “The question of whether the state should engage in violence, or whether state violence should be evaluated in terms of the same standards of reasonableness as violence by nonstate actors, never crosses the threshold of visibility.” | People v (chan 1763884)

[...] That is the first and greatest truth of anarchism, articulated here by Kevin Carson at the Center for a Stateless Society. (I’ve got to finally get around to reading Kevin’s The Homebrew Industrial Revolution: A Low-Overhead Manifesto, which is freely available online here.) [...]