Re: [Marxism] New title in the HM Book Series: Witnesses to Permanent Revolution: The Documentary Record

[David Picón Álvarez <david@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

From: "John Thornton" <jthorn65@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Many of us like to hold an actual book in our hands.

Sounds like luddism to me. Like people complaining about books versus 
scrolls.

> I wonder what percentage of bittorrent material is virus laden?

Exactly zero books.

> A few years back when I was looking for some graphic and CAD software
> the number of programs carrying a virus was shockingly high.

It happens. Reputation or trust metrics can help. But in the end, if you're 
going to run arbitrary code, you're taking that risk.

> A friend told me movies have an even higher infection rate but I have no
> firsthand experience with that.

That'd be pretty difficult it being that audio and video files are not 
arbitrary code, and except for egregious codec bugs which I've seen maybe a 
couple times in my life, cannot be an infection vector.

> If bittorrent is the new model of socialism you can keep it.

It's a fairly functioning one, yes. I suppose when socialism comes there 
will be reactionaries clamouring for their old things too.

--David.


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