Morgon, if my sites are getting that kind of traffic, then I'm probably selling a shitload of my books in the process. I'll just write off the hosting bills on my tax return, since the sites exist to promote me and my work. (Whether they're effective is another story.)

This AC might be a woman, but I doubt she's a lady.

My day job involves doing to your girlfriend what you aren't man enough to do yourself, AC.

Then you should get your eyes checked. I pay for my own crappy websites out of my own pocket. I don't burden others by imposing third-party ads on them. I have this magical thing called a "day job", because I realize that nobody on the net owes me a single goddamn thing.

I already paid to get on the internet. Comcast gets sixty bucks a month. In addition, I pay to host my own websites out of my own pocket. You aren't entitled to a revenue stream from your website. If the only way you can make money on the web is by pushing malware (which is what all third-party ads are) then you don't belong on the web and should GTFO.

If you're an advertiser, you should consider seppuku. Be an hero!

In addition using they/their in a singular fashion is considered to be improper use by many in grammar.

I've heard the same said about passive voice, and starting a novel by describing the weather. I'm not in the habit of following rules off cliffs. Until the prescriptivists who insist that singular they/their as a gender-neutral pronoun come up with a better alternative, they're welcome to kiss my fat New Yorker ass.

I'll post any way I please, SharpFang, but I haven't posted as AC in this thread. Try to pay attention.

AC, I don't agree with MikeRT, either, but he's entitled to his opinion. You really aren't helping.

Because their logic is that if you use any gender specific pronouns you are, by default, misogynistic?

I thought their logic was that using the male pronoun for persons of unknown gender or in contexts where gender ought to be irrelevant is both unnecessary and sexist - even if it used to be standard usage. How hard is it to use they/their instead of he/his? I manage it easily enough.

I'm not quite hardcore enough for Xmonad, mainly because I don't feel like dealing with Haskell at the moment. However, I'm looking into AwesomeWM now that I finally took the plunge and switched from debian-based distros to Arch Linux, and I configured Openbox to maximize (within the margin) all non-dialogue windows and strip off the decor, which makes Openbox act enough like a tiler to work on a laptop screen.

Dude, you have no business being a snob. You're still using a stacking window manager. Come back when you've learned to use a tiling WM like Awesome, i3, Xmonad, etc.

Personally, I think Google is backing Medium as a way to get all of the "creative/literary nonfiction" writers off of Google+ so they can appeal to the Fecebook/Shitter demographic.

I'd rather hire Duke Togo. :)

Notice what I said about political will? The US government hasn't had the balls to enforce existing antitrust statutes since they went after Microsoft in the late 1990s. IMHO, any corporation that's "too big to fail" should be an antitrust target. Also, Comcast, because fuck those clowns. :)