The point was that it must severely chap the ass of the record executives who have to sit there and think "We could be sitting on twice as much profit right now if we only had the foresight to be the ones with a web site to sell music downloads on"... Of course, iTunes distribution is only a part of the iThing ecosystem (which is a big part of what drives sales) so it's not entirely a 1:1 comparison, but it does point out how little the recording industry really has control over any more (and they are very unhappy about that.)
AT&T needs to learn from the insurance companies - the REAL profit is in selling a product you never intend to deliver.
Really? Sounds like someone is forgetting why insurance (and reinsurance) is one of the biggest industries in the world (and rightly so). Insurance, the kind commonly purchased by an individual (as has been beat to death in many a/. thread) is merely the sale of a share in the risk of an event happening, as a way of mitigating the personal loss by pooling resources of everyone who has exposure to that specific kind of risk. There isn't an insurance company in the world that operates solely by taking in money and never paying it out in the form of claims. Instead, they have a constant churn of subscribers, claims, and modifications to their risk assessments to try to better price the products they sell (risk share is a VERY tangible product.) If anything, the nature of insurance as a product makes the industry very competitive and efficient (health "insurance", which is not really insurance in this definition, notwithstanding) so using them as an example of a marketplace as bent as the wireless one is pretty ignorant.
Today: "Yeah, Steve screwed us, but at least he didn't post the video on YouTube."
2050: "The MPAA and RIAA led the fight to make media cheaper and more accessible worldwide."
Come to think of it, the survivors of the Confederate States of America went through the same mental gymnastics.
This is OT but one hilarious example is the town of Enterprise, AL which lauded the efforts of the Boll Weevil for providing the shift away from cotton (a troublesome and often low-value crop) toward more diverse crops including peanuts. Mind you, George Washington Carver is generally credited with the popularization of peanut farming across the south in the early 20th century. Oh, he's black? Nope, he had nothing to do with it, it was the pest that destroyed several years of cotton harvests that did it... Better thank that little bug!
Its really amazing that they actually gave it to him. The RIAA sort of hates him for making their product more reasonably priced. I pay less now for an album ( on amazon, but itunes if you like) than I did 20 years ago, not accounting for inflation.
The Planet Money radio show (also a podcast) has had a lot of content lately about where money comes/goes in the music industry. Did you know, for example, that in 2011 Katy Perry's content (her "Teenage Dream" cd and associated singles) netted the recording studio that holds the contract about $8 million (out of about $45 million in sales) and sales via iTunes netted Apple, Inc about $8 million (from about $25M in sales)... So yes, they love him and they hate him, he won just as much profit from the work, by having a glorified web site to sell it on, as the recording studio did that put the whole thing together. The bottom line is though, that without iTunes in place those downloads could have very well not profited the recording industry *at all*...
What about for games that are downloadable games in the first place... like, I don't know... EVERY SINGLE GAME ON XBOX LIVE ARCADE, WHICH IF YOU READ THE ARTICLE, YOU WOULD KNOW THAT'S EXACTLY WHAT HE WAS TALKING ABOUT.
I'd like an apology from MS for all the updates I didn't get to Live Arcade games because Microsoft wants to charge the developer for the update, in addition to charging the gamer for the game (MS takes 30% off the top) and charging the gamer for the Live subscription (pure MS profit).
Yes the massive data centers, the tens of thousands of servers, and the multitude of very fast internet backhauls were all discovered lying out back of the MS headquarters late one night; ever since then, it's been all profit! sigh. This is just one data point so for all we know, it was one figure quoted to an individual who had no particular bargaining skills and was interested in publishing a patch to a game with an install base of 50 million copies.
You could say that the cost of the update should be baked into the cut that MS takes for distributing, but you can't really say that the expense is, or the cost should ever be, negligible.
Patches are not cheap to deploy, you've got to bother your customers and pay for bandwidth. It makes a whole lot more sense to put the effort into getting the right code onto the disc before it ships.
Epic first post. I was going to suggest that he not think of it as a "Patching Fee", he should instead consider it a "Don't fuck up" fee... It does sound exorbitant, but that's life in the big city.
I notice very annoying "Bloom" around blacklight UV sources (much like he described in his blag) that is only present when I am not wearing glasses; meaning the light registering is almost certainly UV. Does anyone give a shit? No. And this is with stock eyes (something a lot of people probably experience); I can't imagine how annoyingly worthless his "power" is if it is improved beyond that.
Republicans love science as long as it's something they can monetize and doesn't conflict with their social agenda.
Democrats love science as long as it's something they can socialize and control.
(Hey, it's just as much bullshit as your comment.)
Given that the hottest, fastest growing company is Facebook (a tool for socialism) it would seem like Americans by and large like things that are socialized...
I bought an ipad 1 right when it came out, because it was exactly what I had been waiting for, a large screen web surfing/media consumption device. The question is, how is apple going to get me to upgrade it? Sure the ipad 3 will load web pages faster, but I doubt itll be 500$ faster. It may run some applications better, but I just want to consume media. By designing a device that (at least for me) is just about media consumption, the only way I can be driven to upgrade is by some form of media coming out that my ipad cant handle.
If it doesn't have a complete piece of shit for a camera, you might persuade me that it has value (this is coming from an iPad 2 owner.) To hold a fast, capable device with such a nice big screen, and then to say "wait no I don't want to use this to take a picture, let me get my phone out instead" is just a fucking joke. It's interesting (albeit not surprising at all) to see the Apple marketing machine reverse course on the notion that people holding tablets don't want to take halfway usable pictures, and yet none of the Apple followers even blinked.
This was my thought, but further to that, actually record the entire exam of all the students. Then, if there is any question about cheating you can actually go back and verify after the fact.
Or, as the proctor, spend your time trolling the "do my homework for me" sites looking for test questions, and supplying hilariously wrong answers. Then, see how many make it through to the end, and be sure to issue especially humiliating referrals to the dean in their expulsion packet.
But seriously, the problem of students finding the answers "too easily" by asking or some similar means is only the first layer. After that, you have to prevent them from collaborating with *each other* (something that you could easily do covertly on Wikipedia) which is probably a good bit harder to stop, unless you employ a very complicated web proxy.
It sounds like you live in a small market. You will likely have to move to a larger city/metro area for this.
Back when most of my domain knowledge was FOSS this was the exact conclusion I came to. You either need to live in an uber-trendy region (I.E. parts of NYC, LA, SF, or a niche region like Raleigh/Durham) in order to really do well as a FOSS guy. Otherwise, get used to 6 month contracts and the constant worry of where the next job will be. If you are good at networking (the social kind) you can make out ok with this model in just about any 1M+ city, but if you are the type that likes to stay in his comfort zone (judging by this ask/. you probably are) then you better pack your bags and move.
You're a douche. In an economy where many people have been unemployed for so long that they're just dropping out of the workforce altogether, you're fretting over "FUD" because your company did a normal thing and switched products? Get over it. Do you realize how insane you have to be to take platform wars so seriously that you actually quit your job and avoid any other jobs that have anything to do with Microsoft products? For god's sake, get some perspective.
You make a good troll, but the point is right on. Is MS stuff really so hard to wrap your head around that you had to pull the ripcord? If you are right that MS products in general are harder to maintain, then guess what THAT IS THE BUSINESS TO BE IN. Think about this, Mr. I'm So Fucking Smart, if you are right that FOSS products are a dream come true and they work as soon as the key is turned, you are going to have a pretty damn hard time convincing someone to bother keeping you on the payroll. Get an in-demand skill (some of them are in FOSS, most are not) and stick with it. If you are set on being a sysadmin type person, you either need to know old school unix (for those companies still kicking their legacy systems down the road) or you need to know MS (for any modern company of decent size.) That's just the way the world is spinning right now.
I would definitely let Newegg know about this. This is potentially a very serious issue for their customers.
Newegg doesn't refurbish broken drives. I would hope (but don't quote me on this) that they don't even stoop to the level of doing their own "refurbishing" that consists of basic function testing on returns so that they can immediately resell the product if it was "broken" only to the user. So, they likely had no way to know or intervene in the process at all. Now they might be able to more effectively complain to their supplier, but getting them to even care about it is really the challenge. Chances are the drive that you bought refurbished via newegg was not even sold/returned through newegg in the first place (there is a vast, fluid market for refurbished goods.)
Format the drive. Store data on it. Move on with your life. It's a non-issue. Quit being a drama queen.
This. If you really want some juicy data, go hunting for used drives on Ebay. People almost never bother to wipe them before selling, and you can be confident they were used in more extensive settings (i.e. have more sensitive data on it). If you don't want to see other people's data, format drives you get from non-new channels before mounting them. If you don't want people to be so silly as to ship off a drive that has sensitive data on it (or werent encrypting it in the first place), or if you want big companies to actually give two shits about data they might come into possession of, well good luck with that.
Apple provided the "superior" customer-satisfying product while AT&T provided the product that scores the lowest in terms of customer satisfaction... Is it any wonder that carriers are desperate for any handset (i.e. Android) that offers them the ability to mitigate the risk of a power-hungry monolith like Apple? Apple successfully blamed away every last issue with the iPhone and somehow stuck it in peoples heads that it was all AT&Ts fault. Just because you are the best at playing the blame game, doesn't make your product automatically superior.
No, it's powered by zero point energy. Until now, there has been no practical application for the technology, but manipulating gravity for the purposes of propelling objects at high rates of speed at your enemies sounds like a winner. Hence, we will need Gordon since he is the only one crazy enough to put one in his hand for testing purposes.
Typically compulsory licensing requirements include that the price must be fair.
You're obviously a legal genius compared to me, because I'm not even aware that such things exist. I'm sure you'll enlighten us all with numerous examples.
But "fair" is a rather subjective term (when it comes to rents landlords and tenants often have subtly different ideas) so whose definition do we use?
Honeywell would find themselves out of business pretty quickly if they demanded $1b+ per thermostat.
Not if they continue to sell their own for $50.
It would be trivial (although I am not a lawyer so trivial may not mean a lot here) to demonstrate that Honeywell is comfortable "licensing to themselves" for a certain (relatively low) amount, given that these are consumer goods. Certainly it would be well less than the MSRP for any given unit that happens to use said "novel innovation", and it would bring the numbers back down to reality. Similar schemes are used for regulated industries (like DSL service) wherein the vendor cannot charge a reseller more than they feasibly net from the service themselves (so you can't charge $50 per sub to a reseller while you charge $29.95 for the same service direct, including your overhead).
Is it the right thing to do? Who knows. Would it be better than the current patent bullshit that stifles more innovation than it fosters? Probably.
I saw this a few weeks ago on an episode of Rocket City Rednecks. Not that I have anything against Iranians, but building a RC plane and fitting it with a camera and transmitter is something not challenging for a teenager, not to mention you can buy them on the internet (unencumbered by any military hardware restrictions) if you aren't even a hobbyist. What is the real story here? That those darn Iranians are "at it again"?
The glass is a mere three atoms thick — the minimum thickness of silica glass—which makes it two-dimensional.
It's not two dimensional if it has a measurable thickness, which you stated in that same sentence. Unless you have a different definition of "two dimensional" than the rest of us.
The space it occupies is certainly 3 dimensional but that doesn't stop it from having properties that only exist in 2 dimensions, such as: if you take this bit off the "top" it is also missing from the "bottom"... To a scientist/researcher, this is an important distinction when the applications all come from combining layers of certain materials. Would you say the visible surface of a piece of paper is a 3 dimensional one? You could answer yes, and you would be pedantically correct, but for any practical purpose the surface is referred to as 2 dimensional.
...labor unions allowed workers to band together to turn the screws on the companies that employ them -- thus detracting from the company's massive profits and gaining more benefits and pay for the workers? Why would the CEOs and lawyers that feed off those profits pay into politicians that support the labor unions that could have them shrinking those profits?
Spot on. This part made no sense to me either (from TFS):
Tea Party conservatives. Most of them had never given a second thought to intellectual property enforcement, but many had drawn support from conservative bloggers and they began to ask why they should risk the ire of their internet supporters to rescue an industry that was happily advertising how much it hated them.
If you are a true libertarian you stand by capitalism, and it only works if producers are compensated for their work according to a fair market and not according to how easy/hard the work is to duplicate. They finish the thought with some boogeyman who "happily advertised how much it hated them". Who is "them", and who is the "industry" doing this advertising?
Nothing about this article really makes any sense, except for apparently the desire by some pro-tea party writer to look at an event (stopping/slowing SOPA) and throwing a whole bunch of hyperbole and hearsay at the notion that the tea party was behind it... Just like the Tea Party was behind all those other great things, like getting taxes lowered, shrinking government, and stopping the "abominable" health care law... Guess they couldn't write about those things with a straight face so this is what was on tap for the week.
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The point was that it must severely chap the ass of the record executives who have to sit there and think "We could be sitting on twice as much profit right now if we only had the foresight to be the ones with a web site to sell music downloads on"... Of course, iTunes distribution is only a part of the iThing ecosystem (which is a big part of what drives sales) so it's not entirely a 1:1 comparison, but it does point out how little the recording industry really has control over any more (and they are very unhappy about that.)
...for trying to use the product they bought.
AT&T needs to learn from the insurance companies - the REAL profit is in selling a product you never intend to deliver.
Really? Sounds like someone is forgetting why insurance (and reinsurance) is one of the biggest industries in the world (and rightly so). Insurance, the kind commonly purchased by an individual (as has been beat to death in many a /. thread) is merely the sale of a share in the risk of an event happening, as a way of mitigating the personal loss by pooling resources of everyone who has exposure to that specific kind of risk. There isn't an insurance company in the world that operates solely by taking in money and never paying it out in the form of claims. Instead, they have a constant churn of subscribers, claims, and modifications to their risk assessments to try to better price the products they sell (risk share is a VERY tangible product.) If anything, the nature of insurance as a product makes the industry very competitive and efficient (health "insurance", which is not really insurance in this definition, notwithstanding) so using them as an example of a marketplace as bent as the wireless one is pretty ignorant.
Today: "Yeah, Steve screwed us, but at least he didn't post the video on YouTube."
2050: "The MPAA and RIAA led the fight to make media cheaper and more accessible worldwide."
Come to think of it, the survivors of the Confederate States of America went through the same mental gymnastics.
This is OT but one hilarious example is the town of Enterprise, AL which lauded the efforts of the Boll Weevil for providing the shift away from cotton (a troublesome and often low-value crop) toward more diverse crops including peanuts. Mind you, George Washington Carver is generally credited with the popularization of peanut farming across the south in the early 20th century. Oh, he's black? Nope, he had nothing to do with it, it was the pest that destroyed several years of cotton harvests that did it... Better thank that little bug!
Its really amazing that they actually gave it to him. The RIAA sort of hates him for making their product more reasonably priced. I pay less now for an album ( on amazon, but itunes if you like) than I did 20 years ago, not accounting for inflation.
The Planet Money radio show (also a podcast) has had a lot of content lately about where money comes/goes in the music industry. Did you know, for example, that in 2011 Katy Perry's content (her "Teenage Dream" cd and associated singles) netted the recording studio that holds the contract about $8 million (out of about $45 million in sales) and sales via iTunes netted Apple, Inc about $8 million (from about $25M in sales)... So yes, they love him and they hate him, he won just as much profit from the work, by having a glorified web site to sell it on, as the recording studio did that put the whole thing together. The bottom line is though, that without iTunes in place those downloads could have very well not profited the recording industry *at all*...
What about for games that are downloadable games in the first place... like, I don't know... EVERY SINGLE GAME ON XBOX LIVE ARCADE, WHICH IF YOU READ THE ARTICLE, YOU WOULD KNOW THAT'S EXACTLY WHAT HE WAS TALKING ABOUT.
I'd like an apology from MS for all the updates I didn't get to Live Arcade games because Microsoft wants to charge the developer for the update, in addition to charging the gamer for the game (MS takes 30% off the top) and charging the gamer for the Live subscription (pure MS profit).
Yes the massive data centers, the tens of thousands of servers, and the multitude of very fast internet backhauls were all discovered lying out back of the MS headquarters late one night; ever since then, it's been all profit! sigh. This is just one data point so for all we know, it was one figure quoted to an individual who had no particular bargaining skills and was interested in publishing a patch to a game with an install base of 50 million copies.
You could say that the cost of the update should be baked into the cut that MS takes for distributing, but you can't really say that the expense is, or the cost should ever be, negligible.
Patches are not cheap to deploy, you've got to bother your customers and pay for bandwidth. It makes a whole lot more sense to put the effort into getting the right code onto the disc before it ships.
Epic first post. I was going to suggest that he not think of it as a "Patching Fee", he should instead consider it a "Don't fuck up" fee... It does sound exorbitant, but that's life in the big city.
Let me keep this short: your amazingly long story is purely about IR emissions which are *very* far from UV on the spectrum.
I notice very annoying "Bloom" around blacklight UV sources (much like he described in his blag) that is only present when I am not wearing glasses; meaning the light registering is almost certainly UV. Does anyone give a shit? No. And this is with stock eyes (something a lot of people probably experience); I can't imagine how annoyingly worthless his "power" is if it is improved beyond that.
Republicans love science as long as it's something they can monetize and doesn't conflict with their social agenda.
Democrats love science as long as it's something they can socialize and control.
(Hey, it's just as much bullshit as your comment.)
Given that the hottest, fastest growing company is Facebook (a tool for socialism) it would seem like Americans by and large like things that are socialized...
(this bullshit pile isn't quite tall enough yet.)
I bought an ipad 1 right when it came out, because it was exactly what I had been waiting for, a large screen web surfing/media consumption device. The question is, how is apple going to get me to upgrade it? Sure the ipad 3 will load web pages faster, but I doubt itll be 500$ faster. It may run some applications better, but I just want to consume media. By designing a device that (at least for me) is just about media consumption, the only way I can be driven to upgrade is by some form of media coming out that my ipad cant handle.
If it doesn't have a complete piece of shit for a camera, you might persuade me that it has value (this is coming from an iPad 2 owner.) To hold a fast, capable device with such a nice big screen, and then to say "wait no I don't want to use this to take a picture, let me get my phone out instead" is just a fucking joke. It's interesting (albeit not surprising at all) to see the Apple marketing machine reverse course on the notion that people holding tablets don't want to take halfway usable pictures, and yet none of the Apple followers even blinked.
This was my thought, but further to that, actually record the entire exam of all the students. Then, if there is any question about cheating you can actually go back and verify after the fact.
Or, as the proctor, spend your time trolling the "do my homework for me" sites looking for test questions, and supplying hilariously wrong answers. Then, see how many make it through to the end, and be sure to issue especially humiliating referrals to the dean in their expulsion packet.
But seriously, the problem of students finding the answers "too easily" by asking or some similar means is only the first layer. After that, you have to prevent them from collaborating with *each other* (something that you could easily do covertly on Wikipedia) which is probably a good bit harder to stop, unless you employ a very complicated web proxy.
Panspectral? Not merely multispectral?
Will the students be issued flashlights, or will the tests be administered in braile?
NO loose energy particles
AT ALL!
Shenanigans, if you were hiring for SUSE you would have asked "Sind Sie gut, und sprechen Sie Deutsch?"
It sounds like you live in a small market. You will likely have to move to a larger city/metro area for this.
Back when most of my domain knowledge was FOSS this was the exact conclusion I came to. You either need to live in an uber-trendy region (I.E. parts of NYC, LA, SF, or a niche region like Raleigh/Durham) in order to really do well as a FOSS guy. Otherwise, get used to 6 month contracts and the constant worry of where the next job will be. If you are good at networking (the social kind) you can make out ok with this model in just about any 1M+ city, but if you are the type that likes to stay in his comfort zone (judging by this ask /. you probably are) then you better pack your bags and move.
You're a douche. In an economy where many people have been unemployed for so long that they're just dropping out of the workforce altogether, you're fretting over "FUD" because your company did a normal thing and switched products? Get over it. Do you realize how insane you have to be to take platform wars so seriously that you actually quit your job and avoid any other jobs that have anything to do with Microsoft products? For god's sake, get some perspective.
You make a good troll, but the point is right on. Is MS stuff really so hard to wrap your head around that you had to pull the ripcord? If you are right that MS products in general are harder to maintain, then guess what THAT IS THE BUSINESS TO BE IN. Think about this, Mr. I'm So Fucking Smart, if you are right that FOSS products are a dream come true and they work as soon as the key is turned, you are going to have a pretty damn hard time convincing someone to bother keeping you on the payroll. Get an in-demand skill (some of them are in FOSS, most are not) and stick with it. If you are set on being a sysadmin type person, you either need to know old school unix (for those companies still kicking their legacy systems down the road) or you need to know MS (for any modern company of decent size.) That's just the way the world is spinning right now.
I would definitely let Newegg know about this. This is potentially a very serious issue for their customers.
Newegg doesn't refurbish broken drives. I would hope (but don't quote me on this) that they don't even stoop to the level of doing their own "refurbishing" that consists of basic function testing on returns so that they can immediately resell the product if it was "broken" only to the user. So, they likely had no way to know or intervene in the process at all. Now they might be able to more effectively complain to their supplier, but getting them to even care about it is really the challenge. Chances are the drive that you bought refurbished via newegg was not even sold/returned through newegg in the first place (there is a vast, fluid market for refurbished goods.)
Why do I have to be the first to say it?
Format the drive. Store data on it. Move on with your life. It's a non-issue. Quit being a drama queen.
This. If you really want some juicy data, go hunting for used drives on Ebay. People almost never bother to wipe them before selling, and you can be confident they were used in more extensive settings (i.e. have more sensitive data on it). If you don't want to see other people's data, format drives you get from non-new channels before mounting them. If you don't want people to be so silly as to ship off a drive that has sensitive data on it (or werent encrypting it in the first place), or if you want big companies to actually give two shits about data they might come into possession of, well good luck with that.
It sounds pretty benign as long as you have David Attenborough's voice doing the narration...
Apple provided the "superior" customer-satisfying product while AT&T provided the product that scores the lowest in terms of customer satisfaction... Is it any wonder that carriers are desperate for any handset (i.e. Android) that offers them the ability to mitigate the risk of a power-hungry monolith like Apple? Apple successfully blamed away every last issue with the iPhone and somehow stuck it in peoples heads that it was all AT&Ts fault. Just because you are the best at playing the blame game, doesn't make your product automatically superior.
No, it's powered by zero point energy. Until now, there has been no practical application for the technology, but manipulating gravity for the purposes of propelling objects at high rates of speed at your enemies sounds like a winner. Hence, we will need Gordon since he is the only one crazy enough to put one in his hand for testing purposes.
You're obviously a legal genius compared to me, because I'm not even aware that such things exist. I'm sure you'll enlighten us all with numerous examples.
But "fair" is a rather subjective term (when it comes to rents landlords and tenants often have subtly different ideas) so whose definition do we use?
Not if they continue to sell their own for $50.
It would be trivial (although I am not a lawyer so trivial may not mean a lot here) to demonstrate that Honeywell is comfortable "licensing to themselves" for a certain (relatively low) amount, given that these are consumer goods. Certainly it would be well less than the MSRP for any given unit that happens to use said "novel innovation", and it would bring the numbers back down to reality. Similar schemes are used for regulated industries (like DSL service) wherein the vendor cannot charge a reseller more than they feasibly net from the service themselves (so you can't charge $50 per sub to a reseller while you charge $29.95 for the same service direct, including your overhead).
Is it the right thing to do? Who knows. Would it be better than the current patent bullshit that stifles more innovation than it fosters? Probably.
I saw this a few weeks ago on an episode of Rocket City Rednecks. Not that I have anything against Iranians, but building a RC plane and fitting it with a camera and transmitter is something not challenging for a teenager, not to mention you can buy them on the internet (unencumbered by any military hardware restrictions) if you aren't even a hobbyist. What is the real story here? That those darn Iranians are "at it again"?
Does anybody else use an iPhone as their primary work device?
Did you mean "primary device for work" or
"primary device at work"?
What? Playing Tiny Tower is *like* work... Is that close enough?
The glass is a mere three atoms thick — the minimum thickness of silica glass—which makes it two-dimensional.
It's not two dimensional if it has a measurable thickness, which you stated in that same sentence. Unless you have a different definition of "two dimensional" than the rest of us.
The space it occupies is certainly 3 dimensional but that doesn't stop it from having properties that only exist in 2 dimensions, such as: if you take this bit off the "top" it is also missing from the "bottom"... To a scientist/researcher, this is an important distinction when the applications all come from combining layers of certain materials. Would you say the visible surface of a piece of paper is a 3 dimensional one? You could answer yes, and you would be pedantically correct, but for any practical purpose the surface is referred to as 2 dimensional.
...labor unions allowed workers to band together to turn the screws on the companies that employ them -- thus detracting from the company's massive profits and gaining more benefits and pay for the workers? Why would the CEOs and lawyers that feed off those profits pay into politicians that support the labor unions that could have them shrinking those profits?
Spot on. This part made no sense to me either (from TFS):
Tea Party conservatives. Most of them had never given a second thought to intellectual property enforcement, but many had drawn support from conservative bloggers and they began to ask why they should risk the ire of their internet supporters to rescue an industry that was happily advertising how much it hated them.
If you are a true libertarian you stand by capitalism, and it only works if producers are compensated for their work according to a fair market and not according to how easy/hard the work is to duplicate. They finish the thought with some boogeyman who "happily advertised how much it hated them". Who is "them", and who is the "industry" doing this advertising?
Nothing about this article really makes any sense, except for apparently the desire by some pro-tea party writer to look at an event (stopping/slowing SOPA) and throwing a whole bunch of hyperbole and hearsay at the notion that the tea party was behind it... Just like the Tea Party was behind all those other great things, like getting taxes lowered, shrinking government, and stopping the "abominable" health care law... Guess they couldn't write about those things with a straight face so this is what was on tap for the week.