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• I think by far the majority of people posting have no sense of humor and are completely delusional pseudo intellectuals.
  
  NOT ONE OF YOU INCLUDING THE PEOPLE AT CERN can do the simplest thing such as explain gravity. Plus if any of you had any brains you would know that most of the technology discovered will NOT be used to better humanity. Plus NO ONE knows how much matter it takes to create a black hole or how big one needs to be to sustain itself. Any rational self thinking person would instantly realize the benefits do NOT outweigh the risks. In reply to: "Why the Large Hadron Collider must be stopped"

  September 12, 2008

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• maybe a better idea...
  yesterday i had heard about a movie called idiocracy while listening to the twit podcast (free). i watched a few clips on youtube and this solidified my interest and i purchased the dvd last night. the movie retailed at walmart for $20 and i normally would not pay that much for a dvd. but because i was certain i would like the movie, i made the purchase. a similar effect occurred with me and a bunch of my friends concerning a video game called world of warcraft. none of us had any interest in playing a computer video game at the time. however, we came across a clip on youtube about a character name leeroy jenkins. this clip peaked our interest so much we had to try the game. two years later we have $3000 invested in this game between the three of us in subscription fees, upgrades, and buying online gold, all due to one video clip on youtube. i have heard many other player of world of warcraft that have admitted to having the same clip have the same effect on them.
  
  my point?
  
  that there is a tremendous value in these video clips. and yes, maybe from a short sighted view, protecting the "traditional" business paradigm might seem logical and "safe", but the only true logic takes into account what we have learned from experience, not just what makes sense on paper. and experience has very unfailingly shown is that people will share information and media. like the war on drugs, no matter how much money or people or tracking or anything you throw at it, people WILL find a way. so is it smarter to anger all those who have any interest in your product by making it more difficult and frustrating to use. and one of the biggest truths about life is that some things change and some things stay the same. a much wiser approach would be to try and determine which things will change (medium of information we use to make decisions) and which things will not (people are visual, gregarious and like free stuff. youtube provided a community that well addresses all these, and it is obvious they are successful).
  so viacom needs to step up, find a way to use to take advantage of the new situation instead of wasting more money on legal crap than they would have lost in protecting their old scheme of things.

  March 14, 2007

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• maybe a better idea...
  yesterday i had heard about a movie called idiocracy while listening to the twit podcast (free). i watched a few clips on youtube and this solidified my interest and i purchased the dvd last night. the movie retailed at walmart for $20 and i normally would not pay that much for a dvd. but because i was certain i would like the movie, i made the purchase. a similar effect occurred with me and a bunch of my friends concerning a video game called world of warcraft. none of us had any interest in playing a computer video game at the time. however, we came across a clip on youtube about a character name leeroy jenkins. this clip peaked our interest so much we had to try the game. two years later we have $3000 invested in this game between the three of us in subscription fees, upgrades, and buying online gold, all due to one video clip on youtube. i have heard many other player of world of warcraft that have admitted to having the same clip have the same effect on them.
  
  my point?
  
  that there is a tremendous value in these video clips. and yes, maybe from a short sighted view, protecting the "traditional" business paradigm might seem logical and "safe", but the only true logic takes into account what we have learned from experience, not just what makes sense on paper. and experience has very unfailingly shown is that people will share information and media. like the war on drugs, no matter how much money or people or tracking or anything you throw at it, people WILL find a way. so is it smarter to anger all those who have any interest in your product by making it more difficult and frustrating to use. and one of the biggest truths about life is that some things change and some things stay the same. a much wiser approach would be to try and determine which things will change (medium of information we use to make decisions) and which things will not (people are visual, gregarious and like free stuff. youtube provided a community that well addresses all these, and it is obvious they are successful).
  so viacom needs to step up, find a way to use to take advantage of the new situation instead of wasting more money on legal crap than they would have lost in protecting their old scheme of things.

  March 14, 2007

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• not fun after 60?
  i don't agree that there is nothing new to do after level 60. yes, some people fall into into a raid guild and spend the rest of thier days grinding high level instances with little chance of winning those epic items. but there is of course pvp which has improved quiet a bit since the cross realm battlegrounds implimentation. there is a TON of reputations quests. you can work on your tradecraft/business, hel pother guild member to level as a mentor, or organize your own guild.

  September 7, 2006

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• They need help.
  I went to their website to see if I could apply to accept the challenge, and I thought it might help them more if I offered to fix their website first. Pass me offer along :)

  September 27, 2004

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• They need help.
  I went to their website to see if I could apply to accept the challenge, and I thought it might help them more if I offered to fix their website first. Pass me offer along :)

  September 27, 2004

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