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Attack of the Clones to Cost Economy $300m
Audent writes: "Attack of the Clones may make you sick but according to this story, it will cost the US economy $300 million in lost productivity what with all the nerds calling in with a bad case of midiclorianitis. ...
Nerds and geeks and propellorheads are singled out as being most at risk. Take your medication now! dammit." A nameless reader also points to a review (looks like two, but only one is up at the time of this writing) up at http://www.pstwo.net/.
I'm sorry but if I'm not waiting in line for this movie, I'd just be playing solitairre at work. So really the economy is being spurred by me going out and spending money, no?
Enough to fund a small nation would be my guess.
yes i run a goth/punk/emo porn site.
the Republic, not just screw up the Economy?
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Imagine how much lost nerd & geek productivity does Slashdot produce. It's scary to even try to imagine the number in $$....
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The Searchers... staring Jar Jar Binks. The last scene, with his ears flopping in the wind standing in the doorway!
"She be comanch-a--wwooobbeeedo---!"
Someone you trust is one of us.
All I have to say is, that's a lot of money, and this is a very, very stupid estimate. I've gotta start making up stupid crap like this to get into the news.
it should be Episode II : The Emperors New Clones
"Slashteam": can we please moderate stories, already? This thing has T R O L L all over it with the tag...I mean, "propellorheads?"
Well, it was posted by Timothy, what do you expect?
Why is it that there are always studies like this of the "geeks", but there's nothing representative of the other masses? Shouldn't someone do a study of stuff like this when a Hugh Grant or Julia Roberts film hits the theaters and millions of housewives, secretaries and others flock to see it?
What about take-your-daughter/son-to-work day? I wonder how much that costs us?
How about what it costs us ever time Clinton stopped to get a h$mmer.... If that's not a massive waste of cash, what is?
Isn't this just more geek bashing?
Maybe I will in fact continue my boycott of RIAA/MPAA.
...when half of us are out of work anyway?
Ryosen
One man's "Troll, +1" is another man's "Insightful, +1".
The thing is, if I go and see Episode II, and it's anywhere near as horrible as Episode I, I won't be faking it when I call in sick.
I can just hear someone saying "Shut up, wesley!"
And the Canadian billion is the American $1.49!
Already arraigned.
See, my boss will wait until I've broken a rule before he presses charges.
Works for me, even when I am in the office.
testing out my trending skills
in a related story, a $300 million economic boost was seen in the tech sector when /.'s servers went down for a day.
My experience is that the high tech industry is pretty laid off.
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Won't Star Wars make that money back? A lot of it will go right back into the economy (minus a hefty sum George Lucas will pocket). As shitty as Phantom Menace was it still made $925,600,000 worldwide. I think that more than compensates. Now there could be argument made that the world will become dummer from ditching classes to go to Star Wars (that's what I am doing).
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Empoyment experts also estimate that sex costs the US economy over 1.4 trillion dollars in lost production.
Dallas-based recruitment firm Gray, Limp, and Lifeless Corp. projects that over 40 million man-hours per day are lost because
of fatigue and injury due to the previous night's sexual activities, and because of lost work caused
by thinking about sex in the forthcoming night. According to CEO Dick Lifeless, "Tens of thousands of sick days result from painful contusions and spained backs alone, caused by these slacker's propensity for wild, excessive sex".
Mr. Lifeless told Reuters that only technology firms were likely to be immune to the economic losses, because of the high proportion of geeks among staff, who were likely to be spending the night alone, eating pizza, reading slashdot, and web-surfing for pornography.
I (when I had a job) always thought that sick days should be treated like holidays. I mean you get a maximim allowance per year of them, so why not use them?
You should be able to book them in advance too:
"Erm, Jack's taking that week off with 'flu, could you take the week after that ? Actually, if you wait until two weeks on Friday, I can let you have ten days off with prostate trouble. OK? I'll pencil you in..."
graspee
And to back up my beliefs, I have two different non-SE widescreen versions of all three movies (notice I didn't say four) on glorious laserdisc.
So all those of you who still haven't seen Episode 1, come out of the closet and admit to the world: I am Jar-Jar free!
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All those geeks refreshing every 5 seconds to get first post...
In my mind, Jar-Jar's overpoweringly annoying presence is justified so long as Anakin kills him during his fall to the dark side. Imagine the look on all the kiddies' faces!
$ make work
make: *** No rule to make target `work'. Stop.