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Originally Posted by wyndslash
awww...! well, someone in another forum made a comment about third world countries and how basically whatever problems we have is because of our fault. yes, that is partially the truth, but it's different when you were born and raised here, and you experience things that that person could possibly never experience. what annoys me the most is that a person from a developed country is telling me that whatever is happening to my country isn't partially their fault. oh, let's forget about the decades of slavery, spying, and generally ruining my country and installing politicians to work for THEIR benefit and not the people's benefit. let us forget about the other government's schemes to siphon off OUR natural resources and just generally *&^%*@ us up before we even had the chance to start building our own society. then of course, our politicians took over and just essentially perpetuated the status quo. lovely. sometimes i don't know if i hate or love my country, if i want this island to sink or what.
sorry. that was a purely emotional rant x.x;
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I totally understand you. It takes centuries to shake these influences off if ever. Truth is, as it has always been, that the stronger (almost) always achieve their goals, just nowadays armies are mostly replaced by diplomacy and subtle... reminders. Anyway, so much in this topic.
My vent (which is also going to be very emotional):
There are days, when I just blindly hate the publishers in my country. People on MR complain about having restrictions on number of ebooks in libraries, DRM, high e-book prices, bad formatting, etc. Well, you should actually be a bit thankful, because
YOU actually HAVE ebooks in your NATIVE LANGUAGE!!!
I don't. Not officially that is. It is almost a year since the publishers jumped against a site with free self made ebooks which "robbed them from millions of $ income" for the last month. Actually, the figures they gave were bigger than the
turnover from
all publishers for a
year.
Still, no (big) publisher wants to sell ebooks, apparently, because they will be "pirated".
Well, I'm obviously dumb, because all that is absolutely 100% sure at the moment is, that they won't make a damn penny out of ebooks, because they
don't sell them. On the other hand, a lot of ebooks are posted on the mentioned site for free. Which means, that if they would offer o
ne of the books for 50c, and
ONE person bought this book, they would be 50c ahead.
But, NO, we won't offer ebooks, they are evil!!!
There was an exploding emoticon somewhere....
/rant