Posts by Michael Z. Williamson

Kentucky judge OKs 141-site net casino land grab

The Angry Voice of Reason

As far as the anonymous cowards talking quaintly about "USAians" in the dark ages, I could point out all the stupid, evil and corrupt legal decisions in Canuckistan, the United Condom* and other third world hellholes, but I don't see the point. The majority of the posters here are Americans, equally outraged.

Fortunately, our adversarial justice system ensures that a judge above this twit will shoot it down. Also fortunately, since we live in a nation of laws, the judge will not be slowly tortured to death for his stupidity, though there's no crime in imagining it. Consider the Code Napoleon, Sharia or even the Ever Changing Meaning Of The British Constitution in comparison.

*I was born a Brit, raised in Canada and now live in the states. I've served in various countries including parts of the Middle East. Frankly, you couldn't pay me enough to visit, much less live in either nation, certainly not in anywhere even less civilized, which would be everywhere.

Colonel: Bowman army comms 'astonishingly bad'

SINCGARS

The US DoD could likely be persuaded to share our very functional, multi-frequency, long battery life, lightweight radios...

DVD smut malware blights US forces in Iraq

Nice double standard....

@heystoopid

Wait, Bush in the Guard was a "Draft dodger," but troops in the Guard before and since are not?

I also wasn't aware that learning to fly a high performance fighter was done by "favoritism."

When exactly did you serve, by the way?

Paris, for the logical disconnect.

Great War diary reveals original Captain Blackadder

DRM, The Anchor On Progress

My first novel, which sold out a PB print run in 21 days, now in its fourth printing, is available as a free download in a variety of formats. Help yourself. Donate if you wish. The time and labor it would take to either "protect" it, or stop someone else from posting it as .txt isn't worth it. I just chalk it up to free advertising. So do most other authors with Baen Books.

You can also buy any of my Baen titles electronically for $5.

Ten quid, or $22 US, is not only steep for a work like this, it's outrageous. What's more outrageous is I doubt Mr Stewart is getting more than 10% of that. He also probably isn't familiar enough with the publishing industry to know he's being fleeced.

You are free to email me to discuss the concepts of e-Publishing, or send hate mail to my filter, through my site www.MichaelZWilliamson.com

There are also lengthy discussions of it on the publisher's site baen.com