I worked for RemarQ before the CP acquisition. They didn't have a clue back then, either, so it's unlikely the acquisition by CPTH would've helped much. RemarQ was always a huge money-sucking, marketing-driven, bug-ridden, politics-infested turd. Supernews before RemarQ (there is a misconception that RemarQ bought Supernews; it was merely a name change) was *gasp* profitable. Then the idiotic idea of putting news on the Web came to be, the VC came in, and reason went out. Hey, anyone remember when RemarQ started hyperlinking common words to vendors' websites? Now deja.com is doing it. Stupidity never dies, it just gets recycled by your competitors.
As for the yo-yos who think they can just start another RemarQ, i laugh in their faces. There are better and more enjoyable ways (and probably more profitable) to inflict pain upon yourself.
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Is that what your dating pool is limited to? You live an interesting... well, i hesitate to call it "life".
I worked for RemarQ before the CP acquisition. They didn't have a clue back then, either, so it's unlikely the acquisition by CPTH would've helped much. RemarQ was always a huge money-sucking, marketing-driven, bug-ridden, politics-infested turd. Supernews before RemarQ (there is a misconception that RemarQ bought Supernews; it was merely a name change) was *gasp* profitable. Then the idiotic idea of putting news on the Web came to be, the VC came in, and reason went out. Hey, anyone remember when RemarQ started hyperlinking common words to vendors' websites? Now deja.com is doing it. Stupidity never dies, it just gets recycled by your competitors.
As for the yo-yos who think they can just start another RemarQ, i laugh in their faces. There are better and more enjoyable ways (and probably more profitable) to inflict pain upon yourself.
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