Perhaps you mean:

http://www.aiim.org/Infonomics/ArticleView.aspx?id=30580

This may seem counter intuitive, but it's a horrible idea. This will provide artificial priority for the histrionic personality type.

http://www.reddit.com/r/gaming/comments/f2i7t/ive_written_for_tv_shows_like_csi_and_numbers/

here's a list of great cringeworthy scenes (top comment)
http://www.reddit.com/r/gaming/comments/g041n/ncis_technical_writers_hard_at_work_trolling_pc/

terrible. hate it. way too much whitespace between information.

inconsistent and unfriendly spacing of things. even on this comment page as I write 5 or 8 pixels above the "get more" button, 10 to 12 below want to get to the buttons below an actual comment? those are 25 to 35 pixels of whitespace away...

And the icons? What the hell is with that? Did you rip a bunch of sprites out of a NintendoDS cartridge? What's with cartoon-bill-gates-borg?
Honestly, this is shit. Quite obviously a case of design-by-programmers.

Go hire a designer for fuck's sake you've got an Alexa rank of #1200 globally, you can afford to spend a few thousand on an artist.

To be honest, I think I'd probably become a super villain for a while. Then grow tired of it and start trying to help people.

Look at Bill Gates. "World's Richest Man" (super power of economic amazing-ness)

At first (and as part of Microsoft) he did all sorts of horrible things (according to the general Slashdot population... all sorts of we hate Bill Gates sentiment on here. Even a photoshopped photo of him as a Borg). Compare to today, the Bill and Melinda Gates foundation has taken on the task of completely eliminating malaria from the world & improving american education.

Bill has teamed up with Warren Buffet and other Bajillionaires to "Pledge to give away the vast majority of their fortunes"

Of course it remains to be seen if their hopes for the follow through is as solid as the words behind it... but the hope is there.

Villian to Superhero.

What about Mark Zuckerberg? $100 Million to Education. Sure, there's a douchebag past ... but signs of hero in the making?

I think the idea of a "100 year" bill is on the right track ($7500).

But in the back of my head, it doesn't sound like it's enough.

Fire Department Budget / Number of Fires per year = Cost per fire.
Looking here: http://www.ci.bloomington.mn.us/cityhall/dept/fire/budget/budget.htm

They've got about 1200 fires a year and a $3M budget

Which actually works out to $2500 per fire.

So actually, a charge of $2500 to put out the fire and a $5000 penalty does sound about "right" (maybe just $5000)

Maybe they can put a process in place whereby "next time" something like this comes up, they can offer the "you didn't have insurance" rate to someone. Allowing three dogs and a cat to die for $2500 doesn't site right with me. In fact it feels downright evil.

Hopefully hindsight will fix this for the future.

Compared to the actual cost of the fire, the actual numbers paid out by the insurance company, and the actual losses, even $10K would be a deal.
(what's the price of life?)

Maybe.

If I were a betting man though... I'd put my money down on the side that said he didn't.

Most of the people I know who rattle on about bittorrent and such don't actually buy copies of the things they download. They just watch 'em and delete 'em.

He could very well be the person who cancelled his cable and then buys or rents DVD box sets. My experience tells me that the vast majority of the time, that is not the case.

There is some "conventional business wisdom" out there that says first mover advantage is a myth whereas "Fast Follower" is a really good place to be.

http://steveblank.com/2010/10/04/why-pioneers-are-the-ones-with-the-arrows-in-their-backs/

Goes into detail but the short version is, find something successful and copy it, means you don't have to spend a bundle on market research to find out what doesn't work. (Or something like that)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffalo_buffalo_Buffalo_buffalo_buffalo_buffalo_Buffalo_buffalo

I didn't know what you were on about ... but being slashdot I assumed there was something going on.
Apparently:

and boobies before that...

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