Sticking it to the "man" things you should never pay for !

[Red_sickle]

Software for Your Computer – Stick it to Microsoft! Don’t buy Excel or Word. Invest in*a little “free” and get OpenOffice Calc (like Excel), Writer (like Word), Impress (like PowerPoint), Draw (like Paint), and Base (like Access).

Why pay when you can get it for free? These programs all have a “save as…” feature that let’s you save in Microsoft format so you can send files to your*”payin’ the man”*friends.

Books – There’s a magical place in your hometown that’s renting books for free right now: your local library. Check em out !

A Pet – Search your local animal rescue center for a pet that’s free and in need

Any more ideas ?

[Zealot]

One word: Torrent.

[Workers-Control-Over-Prod]

Stop going to the video store, there is now internet pornography.

[The Douche]

Thread moved to DIY, this does not belong in the learning forum at all.

[Tenka]

People should take for free whatever they can. I'd be wary of torrents though; if you have a lame ISP, a seeder could report your IP address to them and get your internet shut off just like that. It's happened to me before.

edit: (not to suggest there are many other viable ways than torrents... I'd just have someone with a better ISP download for me and send it directly, though it is a sluggish process.)

[Krano]

Liberalism at it's worse, this is just like liberals who say that if you don't buy products made in sweatshops that it somehow makes a difference.

[Le Rouge]

One word: Torrent.

The Pirate Bay

[NewLeft]

The Pirate Bay
*Mediafire
*Soulseek

[Railyon]

Liberalism at it's worse, this is just like liberals who say that if you don't buy products made in sweatshops that it somehow makes a difference.

We are actively breaking the value relation, comrade. Downloading the new world in the shell of the old.

[honest john's firing squad]

Liberalism at it's worse, this is just like liberals who say that if you don't buy products made in sweatshops that it somehow makes a difference.
you're a complete moron. borrowing books from your local library and adopting pets from an animal rescue shelter doesn't make you a liberal. neither does using open source software.

for example, i use libreoffice because i cant afford ms office and i can't be bothered with the 500MB MSO torrent download (internet in australia is holyshitbad).

[Tim Cornelis]

I have a hair trimmer, I never have to pay for the barber shop ever again.

Stick it to The Man, man!

[Krano]

you're a complete moron. borrowing books from your local library and adopting pets from an animal rescue shelter doesn't make you a liberal. neither does using open source software.

for example, i use libreoffice because i cant afford ms office and i can't be bothered with the 500MB MSO torrent download (internet in australia is holyshitbad).
Wooow take it easy there douchebag, i download everything myself as well was just referring to the people who actually think that it will hurt a company that makes millions if some guy doesn't pay for office.

[PC LOAD LETTER]

Software for Your Computer – Stick it to Microsoft! Don’t buy Excel or Word. Invest in*a little “free” and get OpenOffice Calc (like Excel), Writer (like Word), Impress (like PowerPoint), Draw (like Paint), and Base (like Access).

Why pay when you can get it for free? These programs all have a “save as…” feature that let’s you save in Microsoft format so you can send files to your*”payin’ the man”*friends.

Books – There’s a magical place in your hometown that’s renting books for free right now: your local library. Check em out !

A Pet – Search your local animal rescue center for a pet that’s free and in need

Any more ideas ?
OpenOffice is dying. LibreOffice is under active development.

[TheGodlessUtopian]

Wooow take it easy there douchebag, i download everything myself as well was just referring to the people who actually think that it will hurt a company that makes millions if some guy doesn't pay for office.

Lay off the flaming...

[Workers-Control-Over-Prod]

I have a hair trimmer, I never have to pay for the barber shop ever again.

Stick it to The Man, man!

I have never once gotten my hair cut by a barber. The last time i went to one was when i was three, and i ran out before the person could start cutting my hair.

[TheGodlessUtopian]

Project Gutenburg is a good place for free e-books.

[Rafiq]

So you think capitalism's problems can be alleviated *within* the very system which gave birth to them?

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[homegrown terror]

Project Gutenburg is a good place for free e-books.

forgottenbooks is great as well.

[Railyon]

So you think capitalism's problems can be alleviated *within* the very system which gave birth to them?

What exactly do you mean by that? Are you referring to the OP?

[Rafiq]

What exactly do you mean by that? Are you referring to the OP?

Yes.

[roy]

^i think this thread is more about "hey there's cool shit for free out there, let's share knowledge" than it is about fighting capitalism by not paying for things. i could be misunderstanding the op's intention i guess

[homegrown terror]

can't afford photoshop? http://pixlr.com/editor/ it's not got all the features that APS has, but for a free java program, it's pretty awesome.

[Robespierres Neck]

Torrenters of the world, unite!

[Regicollis]

Don't buy bread. Baking you own is much cheaper, tastier and healthier.

[bad ideas actualised by alcohol]

Don't buy bread. Baking you own is much cheaper, tastier and healthier.

And takes a shitload of time.

[The Garbage Disposal Unit]

And takes a shitload of time.

*Shrug* Let's say a loaf of nice, homemade-quality bread runs you about 6 dollars. A batch is likely to make three loaves, so that's 18 bucks - close to two hours of work at minimum wage where I live. A batch of bread definitely doesn't take two hours of labour. All told, sure, baking it takes longer, but unlike at work, you can do other things while the bread bakes - read, fuck, send email . . . Further, if you're organized collectively and effectively in your daily life, you can make a lot more bread for a lot cheaper, and share it around, meaning that, on the whole, your whole community needs less money, needs to work less, and, consequently has increased time and capacity to organize. Is baking your own bread the revolution? No, of course not, but who said it was? On the other hand, is it strategic? Absolutely!

[bad ideas actualised by alcohol]

*Shrug* Let's say a loaf of nice, homemade-quality bread runs you about 6 dollars. A batch is likely to make three loaves, so that's 18 bucks - close to two hours of work at minimum wage where I live. A batch of bread definitely doesn't take two hours of labour. All told, sure, baking it takes longer, but unlike at work, you can do other things while the bread bakes - read, fuck, send email . . . Further, if you're organized collectively and effectively in your daily life, you can make a lot more bread for a lot cheaper, and share it around, meaning that, on the whole, your whole community needs less money, needs to work less, and, consequently has increased time and capacity to organize. Is baking your own bread the revolution? No, of course not, but who said it was? On the other hand, is it strategic? Absolutely!

I don't know where you live, but where I live you definitely don't pay 18 bucks for three loaves of bread. Maybe about €6 for three loaves. I'd rather pay that than make bread in the limited time I (and most people) have.

[The Garbage Disposal Unit]

I don't know where you live, but where I live you definitely don't pay 18 bucks for three loaves of bread. Maybe about €6 for three loaves. I'd rather pay that than make bread in the limited time I (and most people) have.

I live in Quebec - and I could maybe get three loaves for six bucks, but they'd be utter shit with more preservatives than flour. To get bread anything like the quality of something one would bake at home is fuckin' pricey.
Don't get me wrong, I still eat shit wonder bread sometimes, because I'm not rolling in money, but, in any case, point being, producing collectively saves time on the whole, even if an individual task seems to take longer.
Anecdotally, I've been able to live rather well on under $12,000 a year - to some degree this has to do with the relative freedom afforded white people in imperialist countries, but it also has to do with collective production and self-organization. In turn, not having to work more than 15 hours a week has meant tremendous amounts of time and energy to devote to political projects, travel, etc.

[honest john's firing squad]

can't afford photoshop? http://pixlr.com/editor/ it's not got all the features that APS has, but for a free java program, it's pretty awesome.
What about the GIMP? Not everyone has 24/7 net access. Also, pixlr is a flash application, not a java one.

[black magick hustla]

*Shrug* Let's say a loaf of nice, homemade-quality bread runs you about 6 dollars. A batch is likely to make three loaves, so that's 18 bucks - close to two hours of work at minimum wage where I live. A batch of bread definitely doesn't take two hours of labour. All told, sure, baking it takes longer, but unlike at work, you can do other things while the bread bakes - read, fuck, send email . . . Further, if you're organized collectively and effectively in your daily life, you can make a lot more bread for a lot cheaper, and share it around, meaning that, on the whole, your whole community needs less money, needs to work less, and, consequently has increased time and capacity to organize. Is baking your own bread the revolution? No, of course not, but who said it was? On the other hand, is it strategic? Absolutely!

god, shut up hippie.

[Railyon]

god, shut up hippie.

God is not a hippie.

[bad ideas actualised by alcohol]

I live in Quebec - and I could maybe get three loaves for six bucks, but they'd be utter shit with more preservatives than flour. To get bread anything like the quality of something one would bake at home is fuckin' pricey.
Don't get me wrong, I still eat shit wonder bread sometimes, because I'm not rolling in money, but, in any case, point being, producing collectively saves time on the whole, even if an individual task seems to take longer.
Anecdotally, I've been able to live rather well on under $12,000 a year - to some degree this has to do with the relative freedom afforded white people in imperialist countries, but it also has to do with collective production and self-organization. In turn, not having to work more than 15 hours a week has meant tremendous amounts of time and energy to devote to political projects, travel, etc.

The bread I buy is pretty good quality, it's way better than what I could make.

[PC LOAD LETTER]

What about the GIMP? Not everyone has 24/7 net access. Also, pixlr is a flash application, not a java one.
This - GIMP is amazing

Also, it has a ton of awesome plugins ...

And it can actually be used for some serious stuff. I've done a bit of web design with it and some photo post-processing (UFRaw hooks into it)

[Workers-Control-Over-Prod]

Liberalism at it's worse, this is just like liberals who say that if you don't buy products made in sweatshops that it somehow makes a difference.

No Comrade, we are taking the train of history and rolling over the private property relations of the bourgeoisie.

[ckaihatsu]

This - GIMP is amazing

Also, it has a ton of awesome plugins ...

And it can actually be used for some serious stuff. I've done a bit of web design with it and some photo post-processing (UFRaw hooks into it)


Don't get me started on graphics...!

I've switched my entire graphics pipeline over from the Mac to Linux *because* of the amount, ease, and quality of free software resources available for it.

A good complement to GIMP is the G'MIC plug-in, providing all of the filters you're used to using with Photoshop:

http://gmic.sourceforge.net/


All of my creations come from using these three pieces of software, mostly:

http://www.artofillusion.org/

http://www.blender.org/

http://sunflow.sourceforge.net/


tinyurl.com/ckaihatsu-diagrams-revleft

[X5N]

LibreOffice is better than OpenOffice.org.

While not free, AK Press is worker-run and has a great selection of books. Buying from them instead of Barnes & Noble or Amazon (though yes, Barnes & Noble and Amazon have a much wider selection) would be just as much "sticking it to the man," probably.

VO.DO has lots of free to share (and of course, free to download) films and shows and such.

And of course, there's The Pirate Bay.

[Zav]

god, shut up hippie.
Not sure if flaming. How is it that baking one's own bread has anything to do with the hippie subculture? This type of post makes you look like a right-wing asshat.

[Agent Ducky]

Regarding Office:
Google Docs.
It's useful because you can access your documents on any computer and it has all of the basic "Office" features.

[PC LOAD LETTER]

Regarding Office:
Google Docs.
It's useful because you can access your documents on any computer and it has all of the basic "Office" features.
Just don't use it for anything personally identifiable or otherwise sensitive ...

The Google Monster (tm) knows no bounds when it comes to privacy invasion and pretty much lays claim to anything you put on their servers

[Firebrand]

It's all a matter of strategy. If I go to my local supermarket at the right time I can get bread as they're marking it down. That means i'm getting my bread for about 10p most of the time. Don't know if they do this in America, but over here when the stuffs about to hit its sell-by date they mark the price right down.

[¿Que?]

My local public library actually has shit for books. It's the uni libraries that have all the good stuff. However, you can go to the public library and get a special membership that let's you check out books from the uni. Saved money that way while at community college. :cool:

Oh yeah, and I love gimp.

And even though I managed to get a hold of a virus free copy of FL studio, I still would love to know about some open source home studio software. As far as I know, none exist (at least not at the level of FL Studio, or Garageband, Acid pro, etc. )

[ckaihatsu]

I still would love to know about some open source [...] software.


http://www.linuxalt.com/

[ellipsis]

hard to believe that nobody has mentioned freeganism or dumpster diving so far, or craiglist free section or freecycle. lots of areas have really really free markets which are like big free good and services exchanges.

[homegrown terror]

hard to believe that nobody has mentioned freeganism or dumpster diving so far, or craiglist free section or freecycle. lots of areas have really really free markets which are like big free good and services exchanges.

because this thread is mostly about reliable sources for specific things, whereas DDing is very unpredictable.

[ckaihatsu]

...A thorough understanding of what it is we're fighting for...! (grin)

And with that obviously leading, partisan assertion I give you -- strictly on an f.y.i. basis -- the latest creation....


Multi-Tiered System of Productive and Consumptive Zones for a Post-Capitalist Political Economy

http://tinyurl.com/mtspczpcpe

[Yuppie Grinder]

Liberalism at it's worse, this is just like liberals who say that if you don't buy products made in sweatshops that it somehow makes a difference.
I'm not a liberal because I don't like paying for shit. What young person in their right mind pays for shit when they don't have to and they're not fucking over anyone?

[Dennis the 'Bloody Peasant']

Other people's opinions, if only to re-enforce your own conviction that you are right.

See also advice (no need for self-help books and tapes, ask enough people and hopefully something semi-useful might emerge...or you'll lose all faith in humanity)

[KingoftheSwing]

free mp3's: •••••••••••••• (completely legal, but you have to delete them after 24hours;))
(semi)free food: grow your own vegetables, fruits, spices, potatoes, chicken (eggs), goats (milk),...
People that don't have space for gardening (eg live in the city) should buy a piece of land together with other people and grow some food.
The sea, lakes, rivers, creeks, are still not privatized and free to swim.
Couch surfing is a free, fun and social way to travel. You should google it.
Hitchhiking is a free way to get from one place to another. Riding a bike and walking off course too.
Collecting rain and ground water is a free water supply.

I'll be back with more...

[ellipsis]

because this thread is mostly about reliable sources for specific things, whereas DDing is very unpredictable.

Unless you are looking for say, FOOD, which is pretty dependable DDing.

[Qavvik]

Never buy bottled water if it can be avoided. That being said, I should mention that the area I live in has a huge amount of the world's fresh (and potable) water. I would only buy bottled water if the surrounding water was too contaminated to otherwise deal with.

That, and I'd never buy pre-maid baking/cooking mixes (freezer bags, cakes in a box). Just make it yourself, it turns out better and is usually cheaper.

[campesino]

If you run Windows, Microsoft Security Essentials, is a free, good anti-virus.

if you want to watch episodes of a show for free, just google "(insert name of show) free episodes" and some ad-heavy probably virusy websites will pop up and you can see free episodes. I know it seems basic, but I used to think torrents were the only option.

[Firebrand]

Never buy bottled water if it can be avoided. That being said, I should mention that the area I live in has a huge amount of the world's fresh (and potable) water. I would only buy bottled water if the surrounding water was too contaminated to otherwise deal with.

If you're ever in england its handy to bear in mind that the law entitles you to free tap water in any resteraunt, cafe or other business premises with running water. I always get a kick out of walking into starbucks and places like that and asking for free tap water (yes I know its childish, I don't care).