OMG!!!
I almost forgot- we're all a bunch of altruists here in the ether.
Grovel, grovel, etc.
Yahoo just made it more difficult again to log in.
Being as this was just barely worth the effort anyway...
No point responding unless you're into mental masturbation.
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--- In Homebrew_PCBs@yahoogroups.com, "Tony Smith" <ajsmith1968@...> wrote:
>
> Oh, for fucks sake.
>
> Massmind.org is run by James Newton, who's also member of this list. He can
> chime in to tell you exactly how much money he makes from that site.
>
> Here's a hint:
>
> C2013 These pages are served without commercial sponsorship. (No popup ads,
> etc...).Bandwidth abuse increases hosting cost forcing sponsorship or
> shutdown. This server aggressively defends against automated copying for any
> reason including offline viewing, duplication, etc...
>
> That's on the bottom of every friggin' page.
>
> It's essentially a site where he dumps crap he finds interesting, and
> welcomes others to dump their interesting crap there as well.
>
> He also runs piclist.com as well, same idea.
>
> Tony
>
>
>
> > Well, you're sort of pissing right now. My comments are not a reflection
> on
> > Volkan, but probably on Massmind. Massmind is not in the technology
> > business as the casual observer might assume, but in the advertising
> > business. Web advertisers need traffic. To get traffic they need content.
> One
> > of the ways they get it is to operate discussion groups like this one.
> Another
> > way is to steal content from people who create actual value, such as
> Volkan.
> > But because advertisers often know nothing about the content they hype,
> > they don't know if an article is finished or complete, valuable or
> hogwash. So
> > you end up with crap like we saw at the end of that link. Google makes
> > $billions stealing copyrighted text from printed books, but if you copy a
> DVD
> > you risk the FBI or (get this, better yet...) Homeland Security (WTF?!?)
> busting
> > down your door and fining you up to $250K or tossing your keester in jail.
> > Read the warnings. But maybe you're right. If only I spent more time
> playing
> > video games, watching cable TV and texting on my phone, then I might be
> > truly happy. Yes, everything is just swell. Now where's that KoolAid?
> > --
> > Phil M.
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Tony Smith" <ajsmith1968@...>
> > To: <Homebrew_PCBs@yahoogroups.com>
> > Sent: Thursday, July 18, 2013 3:59 PM
> > Subject: RE: [Homebrew_PCBs] Driving EPSON printeahd drectly- volkan
> > sahib's email ?
> >
> >
> > >> reason any of us should care. It can serve no purpose but to attract
> > >> web traffic, or maybe add weight to a resume'.
> > >
> > >
> > > Christ, who pissed in your cornflakes this morning?
> > >
> > > Massmind isn't Volkan's website; there's no links back to his website
> > > or resume or Facebook page; and the article is incomplete because,
> > > like most people, he got tired of writing about some obscure protocol
> > > exactly one other person in the world cares about.
> > >
> > > But yeah, it's all a conspiracy. Blame Obama or Bush or Nixon or
> > > whomever was Prez when he wrote that.
> > >
> > > Tony
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
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