"This strikes me as a total non-story, or worse, an invented story either to defame the Colbert Report show (possible) or a promotional stunt on behalf of the show."
Don't you get it? It is a satire of an invented Internet story, intended to defame those who have a view that "Colbert" is not a satire (along with those who think that "Colbert" is real and "O'Reilly" is a satire of "The Colbert Report"). At which point, the entire enterprise twists itself into a Mobius-strip of self-referential irony and avant-gard humour and then bursts into flame.
No one is censoring him. Colbert is perfectly free to start his own online encyclopedia with its own rules the way he wants it. Save the censor term for real censorship (i.e. when the inevitable evil mod MODS ME DOWN!)
Text ads? I notice those even less than the banner ads. I had to double check Google after a search to make sure I had seen them before. I've gotten so good at tuning them out that I just think of them as part of the white space at the edges.
Yes, the UN was involved there. UN troops presided over the famous massacre at Srbenica. Also, UN troops funneled their UN wages into the coffers of Serbs who ran some of the rape camps as brothels to service these troops.
"I'm already helping bands sell their music at shows straight-to-iPod."
Do you really mean iPod? Or to MP3? Will these bands have to have listeners buy iPods just to hear them? Is this $100 device just an iPod Shuffle? That is what it sounds like you are describing.
Even though one has peaked and the other two have started to decline, the statement "The competition crushed" is still getting way ahead of yourself. "Crushed" is past tense. Right now, the CD and the DVD far outsell their competition: something that would not be the case if they were "crushed" already. I do not know the stats for newspapers.
"Remember that little blue Compaq that looked kind of like an SGI O2? It had an LCD panel in the front that could show you the time or if you had emails"
It took months. The 70 minute wait for the technician who would let me try to quit was discouraging to begin with (well, maybe not to begin with: before I got to the wait for the technician, I had to navigate a terrible phone-menu maze).
Slashdot Mirror
On the plus side, that's 699GB of spams nobody will have to worry about now.
" don't want to purchase a license for Vista until at least a year after the bugs are worked out, which might be early 2008"
Just like all the XP bugs were gone by 2002.
You leave Cletus' love life out of it!
I don't think I saw your message either.....
"Do you think this expensive wrapping paper will make Wilma like the gift bowling ball I'm going to get her for our anniversary?"
"No one would be censoring you. You are perfectly free to start your own discussion website [slashcode.com] and run it the way you'd like it."
Wow! I never realized this before!!!!!
"But did anybody check for vandalism of pages about bears?"
If Colbert sh*ts on an Catholic elephant in the woods, does a bear vandalize the Pope's Wikipedia entry?
"This strikes me as a total non-story, or worse, an invented story either to defame the Colbert Report show (possible) or a promotional stunt on behalf of the show."
Don't you get it? It is a satire of an invented Internet story, intended to defame those who have a view that "Colbert" is not a satire (along with those who think that "Colbert" is real and "O'Reilly" is a satire of "The Colbert Report"). At which point, the entire enterprise twists itself into a Mobius-strip of self-referential irony and avant-gard humour and then bursts into flame.
No one is censoring him. Colbert is perfectly free to start his own online encyclopedia with its own rules the way he wants it. Save the censor term for real censorship (i.e. when the inevitable evil mod MODS ME DOWN!)
Text ads? I notice those even less than the banner ads. I had to double check Google after a search to make sure I had seen them before. I've gotten so good at tuning them out that I just think of them as part of the white space at the edges.
Click fraud? What's clicking? I can't recall the last time I saw a banner ad worth clicking on.
"I can't put my finger on it, but that sentence seems to have a lot of redundancy built into it."
Not only that, but there might possibly be some duplication in the meanings of the words. In the sentence, no less.
Yes, the UN was involved there. UN troops presided over the famous massacre at Srbenica. Also, UN troops funneled their UN wages into the coffers of Serbs who ran some of the rape camps as brothels to service these troops.
Stocking up on rubber gloves.
I went back and looked at his message. I really could not tell what he was trying to say. Do you have anything as large as a clue grapefruit to toss?
"I'm already helping bands sell their music at shows straight-to-iPod."
Do you really mean iPod? Or to MP3? Will these bands have to have listeners buy iPods just to hear them? Is this $100 device just an iPod Shuffle? That is what it sounds like you are describing.
Even though one has peaked and the other two have started to decline, the statement "The competition crushed" is still getting way ahead of yourself. "Crushed" is past tense. Right now, the CD and the DVD far outsell their competition: something that would not be the case if they were "crushed" already. I do not know the stats for newspapers.
"Competition crushed the CD, the DVD and the newspaper"
The DVD is in its prime right now. For that matter, CD sales are still brisk (even now) and there's a lot of dead trees turning into newspapers.
You mean the future will be a badly-animated cartoon?
Earth imagines life after "The New York Times" and its annoying pointless login.
The century's been on for 5 and a half years, really. Not that this makes it much more significant.
"Remember that little blue Compaq that looked kind of like an SGI O2? It had an LCD panel in the front that could show you the time or if you had emails"
I LOVED the spamlight feature!
Appendix D: Profit!!!
Appendix E: Priceless.
It took months. The 70 minute wait for the technician who would let me try to quit was discouraging to begin with (well, maybe not to begin with: before I got to the wait for the technician, I had to navigate a terrible phone-menu maze).
"Unless you know of a company who is making really attractive Ubuntu boxes"
It really does not take much thought to imagine what the Ubuntu box for the Warty Warthog release would look like.