Return Of Bloom County. Sorta

Slartibartfast writes "According to mycomicspage.com, the entirety of Bloom County will be re-published on their site, starting St. Paddy's day, and at a "highly accelerated" rate of one week every two days, until the entire strip is up. In addition -- an extra-special bonus for us Berke Breathed fans -- his college predecessor, Academic Waltz, will also be run. One caveat: it's subscription-based. However, for $10, I'd call it a huge bargain. I'm signing up."

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Taco's scheme to get more subscriptions

[DeadSea]

"If we get users comfortable with shelling out cash for web content, maybe more of them will buy slashdot subscriptions. Let's run some articles about compelling web content for sale. After people are used to buying the good stuff, maybe they'll subscribe to /."

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Re:How is this a bargain?

[elmegil]

Ever heard of the save option in your browser?

Ever heard of a licensing agreement?

I am probably your intellectual superior.

Ah, right. Look in the mirror, monkey, that ain't no philosopher there.

Suppose you are at a friend's house and want to show him a Bloom County?

Ah yes, this happens to me all the time. Suddenly the Bloom County Spirit takes me over, and I must show my friend that strip right now. Lucky for me, this supernatural event also enables me to redraw the strip perfectly from memory.

If it's not funny enough to share with friends, then why do you want to read it at all?

I shared it with my friends at the time, thanks. I can loan a book to a friend too, instead of asking them to pay $10 themselves or violate the likely license agreement. If you've read anything Breathed has said about the topic, and have any respect for him and his opinion, you know it's not going to be as free as you claim to share strips.

As for kitchen/restroom reading....it's a damn shame someone so intellectually superior can't understand the idea of an "example" wherein you list one or two items that fit a general class (in this case, the class of all places that aren't in front of a CRT tube; I spose you probably don't spend enough time elsewhere to really understand that idea though).

Next time don't assume that because I point out that there are lots of places I would want access to this that aren't in front of a tube, and therefore I don't consider the idea to be a bargain, that I'm claiming that everyone who does want it on their tube is an idiot--I meant just you were being an idiot, because you talk as if by stating one thing I'm denying all other things.