Category: Useless knowledge

Information you have no need for. Ever. Usually about me, but possibly about other trivial crap in the world.

High class service? Goes down hard

When the headline says High-class hooker service goes down hard, you just have to see what the story is. And when the article ends with

“They didn’t provide us with any hands-on training or even an instruction manual, so at least in the beginning, the blow jobs we dispensed really sucked — in the negative sense of the term,” she complained.

you just have to laugh at the whole story. The real story is a high-cost prostitution service drew too much police attention, got less selective about the call-girls hired, didn’t provide training, and eventually got shut down because of lack of quality service and police pressure. But it’s way funnier to just read the headline, read the last paragraph, and fill in the rest yourself.

[tags]High-class hooker service goes down hard[/tags]

The Geek Hierarchy

While reading something totally unrelated to geekdom, I stumbled on a link to The geek hierarchy chart. Now you can check out what level of geek that dorky guy who sits next to you is. I figure myself to be about a level 4 geek, as I max out on the chart just one level below what is shown in this clip from the chart:

geek-hierarchy.jpg

[tags]The Geek Hierarchy, I’m a level 4 – what are you?[/tags]

Trump calls President Bush worst President in the history of the US

I’m not a fan of President Bush. If you haven’t figured that out by reading my site, you haven’t been paying attention. That said, I do give him credit for doing the right thing when I think he has done so (but I do still have some articles planned in the near future to highlight what I think he has done wrong). I used to believe he was the worst President ever, but I’ve backed off of that. However, it turns out Donald Trump is prepared to make that declaration.

The comments associated with this article are interesting, too. They show a disturbing lack of understanding of politics. They show a disturbing bountiness of unintelligent thought. There are a few good comments, but not many. Bleh. This kind of stuff is why I avoided politics for so long, and why I get more annoyed with the American public as I learn more of the wrongs we are subjected to because of our so-called leaders. (via Digg)

[tags]Trump not a fan of Bush, Bush worst President in history of the US according to Trump[/tags]

Peer to peer distribution not just hurting recording and movie industry

Over on TorrentFreaks, we get the story of Tony, a seller/distributor of counterfeit software in the 1990s.  He’s out of that business now, and he blames online P2P distribution.  Curse you BitTorrent, et al.

Tony started his life of piracy sometime in the 1990’s working markets, car-boot sales and pubs in the UK, selling counterfeit PC applications/games and console discs for a fraction of the retail price. “The profit was amazing back then” he recalls “We were getting £25 ($48) for a couple of PSX games and £15 ($29) for a single CDR with the latest utilities on. We couldn’t make them fast enough.” Things were looking good for his little enterprise and before long he was clearing up to £1000 ($1,942) profit each week.

. . .

“In 2005 we shut down the factory unit” said Tony, “we just couldn’t keep going on that scale, nobody was buying anything in quantity anymore. So we closed up and moved back into a bedroom at home with my wife and her sister operating the burners, something they hadn’t done in years. They weren’t happy.”

. . .

Tony is very clear about why his rags to riches story has gone back to rags again. “File-sharing, P2P – call it what you like. When you asked a customer why he wasn’t buying anything, 9 times out of 10 it was ‘BitTorrent this, LimeWire that’.

Peer to peer doesn’t just hurt the archaic industries running on obsolete business models.  It also hurts the pirates who specialize in physical duplication and distribution.  So the next time you are downloading that cool new song or game, whether it’s a legal or illegal copy you are getting, think of Tony and how you drove him out of his nice house and made him give up his fancy sports car and fine wines.  And remember, Valve’s Steam distribution center doesn’t just suck for gamers.
[tags]P2P hurts pirates as well as industry, The other victim of online distribution[/tags]

Investigating Leeroooooooy Jennnkinnsssssss!

Not too long ago, I posted a link to the video which gave rise originally to the Leroy Jenkins ‘net meme. Today, I find that Westworld has recently done an in-depth article on Leroy and the real person behind the character. The author talks to Ben Schulz, the man who is Leroy Jenkins, and finds out a little about how the character game to be. He even asks if the video was for real, or if the Leroy Jenkins kamikaze assault in the instance was staged for the video.

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