A New Year resolution, Ace

1. stop being envious
2. ?
3. ?
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:)

Well, I'll just nip off and drown myself in the toilet....

What are they teaching them in school these days?

How many pixels does 'aoshq' take up? Do it, Ace. You known you want to. You'll get Atrios type traffic, even for your open topic threads.

That's the most retarded thinhg I've seen in a while. A lot of people obviously throwing their money away. Most of the crap isn't even readable by my "old" eyes.

You know how much china and antiques and clocks I have to pack and ship to make that kind of money?

Me neither.

Fucking kids.

Ace,

LOL.

what's funny is, he has to pay taxes on that. and...I wonder if he bothered to register as a business? you see, he's gonna be clearing a LOT of money, and you can't just take in money in the UK. not in the US either, but they got business licenses you have to get and whatnot.

oh, and the ads? spammers. now, you'll have to realize, these ads are for 5 years. so, your $5000 investment is like buying a $1.60 weekly blog ad.

sure, a million dollars. over 5 years. minus taxes, penalties, and legal fees. all for spammers.

yeah, I'm REAL envious. say, Ace, where's your Golden Palace banner at?

So? Steal the idea!
Can you imagine the copyright battle?

This reminds me of an old scam that sold you a square inch of land for $.25 or something. There are 6,272,640 square inches in an acre.

Oh, God. I just did a search to find details on that, and I find you can still do it! ownapieceofamerica dot com. I didn't feel like going through the process to find the price. The FAQ says it's free to "claim", but $3.95 for a hard-copy "non-recordable" deed.

And USA Today reports a square inch of land was purchased for back taxes of $1,752! In INDIANA! WTF?

(sorry for the tinyurl, the software rejected the usatoday url)

Okay, I found what I was looking for. My memory was off.

It wasn't really a scam.

The "Klondike Big Inch" was a promotional campaign by Quaker Harvest Oats in the 1950's. The deeds, for one square inch of Yukon land, were included in cereal boxes. Although it was a very successful marketing enterprise, the deeds were strictly promotional and never entitled holders to any actual land.

Ride it out. Just like "intellectual property" he will be gutted.

In the next few years? Lars Ulrich will be GUTTED if he believes that whenever Metallica sells a CD, they are selling "intellectual property" because, eventually people will say " HEY! my friggen CD is scratched! I PAYED $18!! for intellectual property, replace my CD, and compensate me for the shipment cost, and time, while I am losing that access to the intellectual property of all of your shitty music!!!!"

One day, frugal people will be able to afford the same lawyers that guilty murderers, and stupid religionists, and even more stupid seperationists, and those people like me, who have tens of thousands of dollars invested in music, can sue for every scratch in every song of every CD that I can't arbitrarily replace, in the same way that the arrogant, money grubbing millionaire can demand everytime I replace that said same song. . . . . . . .

In Essence? ALL of the above were intellectual property. I bought "Master of Puppets" a friend of mine scratched it, and I can't listen to it anymore. Will Metallica pay for a new CD? After all, according to Lars idiot, I purchased "intellectual property" distributed on laser razed (raised? whats the term?) compact disks?

Hey Lars, Hey ACLU, HEY! money mongers. . . .are you selling MEDIA, or IP? If you are selling AP, You owe ME a LOT more than I owe you.

anyone agree?

Not to mention? How many of you have found a copy of "Clancy Lowered the Boom" at your local record store? How about "Teach me Tiger?"

and I would like anyone who opposes file sharing, to REACT with a RATIONAL responce, rather than lawsuits.

Lars? Fuck you, buff your gold pool alone.

Okay. I don't get it. Why would anyone pay to have a logo on this kid's web page...? He'll get a little traffic at first I guess, due to Reuters' free advertising. But what does he offer to the people who view his "website"? Why would they ever return? Do the logo's sponsors own the pixels in perpetuity? Is the kid expected to have 100% up time? Forever? What's to stop you from doing the same thing?

A fool and his money, I guess.

Don't be jealous of this guy. I helped a guy make over $15 million dollars for a pair of websites. He wasn't yet 21 when he made the money, so we had to go to the store and get him a bottle of de-alcoholized champagne while we toasted with real bubbly.

Roughly the reaction I anticipated....

Why are you so angry? Who cares? You must not have a lot to write about.

Once again, we have a hypocritical right-wing so-called Christian. It's very Christian-like of you to pray to Satan and then hope that this 21 year old kid gets raped by a puma. I'm sure that will get you into heaven. Since Jesus is always watching us, I'm sure He'd be very proud of you. You obviously have some severe emotional problems that started as a young child. You need some serious counseling to get that worked out...

You obviously have some severe emotional problems that started as a young child.

Yeah, it all started when he was raped by a puma...

Once again, we have a hypocritical right-wing so-called Christian.

Did Ace ever say he was a Christian? I always thought he was agnostic or atheist.

Silly geoff. All wingers are hypocritical mouth-breathing Bible humpers. Didn't you watch the Frontline special?

Every once in a while, a very tiny plot of land with a title attached will come up for sale in the UK. Buy a square yard of Old Blighty for £15K and you get to be Lordy Blahdeblah.

I'm very proud of you ace

My reaction was that this guy must be one heck of a talker to get people to buy into this.

And thanks to the blogosphere, he's just gotten a ton of free advertising for the site as well.

So? Just do a "2 Million Dollar Webpage". Or 5. Or 10.
Or do the Dr. Evil thing and have a "One. Billion.Dollar. Webpage".

Or do an all Ebay link pixel page. Sell space exclusively to ebay-ers.

Think, man!