You know, as my eyes rolled at the appearance of another gasbag entry from Sir Haselton the Long-Winded this morning, I knew that I should be thankful. That in the past there were more annoying personalities in the past. I just couldn't remember any of them.

Thank you, A.C. Thank you for reminding me of that clown.

Blind Melon

Perhaps as an end user there would be little benefit, but if the Zipcar franchise had a downtown holding pen, I'm sure they'd appreciate the ability to store almost twice as many cars on the same space.

"So is this effort really charitable, or a cynical attempt to break into new markets?"

Are the Salvation Army's thrift stores really charitable, or a cynical attempt to fund proselytizing of their particular version of Christianity?

It seems that now that this has been observed, outcomes are bound to change.

Fuck your "business". I remember a different web. I remember a web that actually HAD content. It might not have been as polished. It might not have been as social. But there was untold original content. I remember a web where if someone put up a list of things, they just put up a list. On one page. They didn't string it out over several pages for ad impressions. I remember being curious about something simple, querying %searchengine%, and being able to glean the answer from the results. I didn't have to click through for the benefit of someone's metrics. Your "business" has enabled nothing great that I have ever seen. Your "business" makes the web uglier, noisier, and less helpful. Your "business" introduces lame presentation formats and (thanks to insecure hosting) opens my less knowledgeable friends and family to malware infections that they probably wouldn't encounter on their own.

You say your business pays for the web? Guess what. If the entire advertising industry were to dry up tonight, there would still be people putting things on the web tomorrow. Next week. Next month. Next year. Because people want to express themselves. The bar might be set a little higher. Content producers might have to pony up a bit to be heard. But content will still be produced.

If every bit of O.C. disappeared overnight, how long do you think people would stay online looking at your ads?

Business.

Less content?

I feel like there was MUCH more content on the web 10 years ago. Now everything is crosslinked or reposted.

Less content. If ad blocking can stop the existence of link aggregators like oddee and their ilk the practice will have done the web a great service.

Oh, that's not an issue restricted to Pioneers. FM radio sucks regardless of the manufacturer.

How is this scored 0?

I wish my car had a toilet in the driver seat so I could crap freely while driving around.

Did you "learn computers" by watching Hackers?

That way even when I'm not at home I can have The Pixies thrown in with every kind of music that exists.

I swear it feels like that damned thing says, "Oh, you like having a sound in your ear? Have some Pixies!"

Come to the Old East in the coming weeks, whargoul. I'd guess 4 out of 5 yards with signs in them will be repping D, going by previous elections.

Well according the helpful lads at 4chan, that folder is usually just filled with malware. They recommend deleting that folder. Seems like a pretty good idea.

Brilliantly executed, sir.