Interesting Links for 25-1-2011

[andrewducker]

• Coalition, Government and the Lords
  (tags: government uk)
• Bullied by Gays- A catalog of pupils driven to suicide by gay bullies
  (tags: lgbt suicide satire)
• Five Emotions Invented By The Internet. I have experienced all five of these.
  (tags: internet psychology emotions funny)
• The downward spiral of ownership and value (It's happened to music, it's happening to books.)
  (tags: books copyright ebooks)
• Wolfenstein 1-D: The Game That Changed Everything, Converted to a 1-Pixel Line
  (tags: videogames wolfenstein funny)
• The economics of Net Neutrality
  (tags: internet economics markets)
• Why the Cornish hotel ruling should worry conservative Christians - digs into the details of the actual ruling.
  (tags: christianity homosexuality law religion sex society)
• Genetically modified crops are the key to human survival, says UK's chief scientist
  (tags: environment gm food)
• BBC to cut online budget by 25% - close 180 websites.
  (tags: bbc online)
• Why Africa needs an agricultural revolution
  (tags: africa agriculture technology poverty government)
• Government scraps Labour plans to scrap the Common Travel Area between UK, Ireland and Isle of Man.
  (tags: government uk travel)

Comments

[andrewducker]

Agreed. People will just download stuff at random when it's free. You can't assume that more than 1% would ever have paid real money.

[hirez.livejournal.com]

Back when I paid attention to the war3z types, the mentality was all about quantity, rather than actually using whichever 0-day copy of Delphi/Potatoshop. Similarly, one could go poking about other people's computers on the Napster/Soulseek and see piles of stuff that no rational person would want to listen to. It wasn't that whatever pop group were any good, it was all in the having. Like a mob of toddlers with bandwidth.

I think. Maybe.