I just checked. What he said is ABSOLUTELY CORRECT. Usenet is completely dead. Full of spam. Entirely worthless. Nothing to see here, people, so just move along... I wouldn't even bother checking it out for yourself as there's just nothing there worth looking for.

Opera's new Foaming Action Bubbles will clear away all that sticky residue from inside your intertubes that builds up after years of looking at pron.

No, we shouldn't... But the tax on DVDs is bogus as well. The DVDs are to blame for making people fat? The food I might be able to understand. You can't go without eating food, and if you're poor and don't have a good choice of food at your local mega-mart (of which over 50% is most likely packaged crap) then a tax on junk food may make healthier foods seem a better buy. But DVDs and video games... let's call them a lifestyle choice. You don't need either to surivive, so if you're doing nothing but watching tv or playing games, you've chosen to do so. Should we also put a tax on internet service too since people sit on their butts all day reading /. and the like? How about raising income taxes for office workers who sit at their desks all day or schools teacher because they make kids sit in their desks...

I guess you've missed the KFC commercials in which the mother teaches her children that KFC makes better sense because to get the raw ingredients at the supermarket costs more. That commercial made me feel quite ill... I highly doubt that anyone is substituting an entire meal for 3 or 4 bags of chips. The concern is more that because they are working long hours and are poor, it's easier to just not cook and buy KFC every night, or cook something out of a box, such as a TV dinner, or 'instant' meals. Even the healthier of those are usually high in sodium and full of filler. A sedentary lifestyle is fine... if you don't eat too much. If you're sitting on your ass all day and not exercising much, you probably don't need 2,000 calories of chicken fat, high fructose corn syrup, and all the hydrogenated oils your heart can stand. I agree with you that the carrots would be the _better_ route to take, but the box of mac and cheese with gooey velveeta plasti-cheese is oh so much easier/better.

Exactly. If I work in any finance-related industry, my company most likely pays for the Wall Street Journal or I could easily expense such a subscription. Are they likely to do the same for the New York Post? I highly doubt it... Also, if I remember correctly, the WSJ is written at college reading level, the NYT at 12th grade level, and most other papers barely make it to junior high. That means the readership of the WSJ is more likely to be making a bigger salary and thus have the money to spend on a subscription. You'd have to be silly to think that the WSJ strategy will play out in "lesser" papers.

what about the work print copies out there? of course higher quality scans or original working copies are going to be more popular, just as high quality dvd rips are going to be more popular than shaky handi-cam copies of movies. the point is - taking these PDFs out of _legitimate_ distribution only hurts the _legitimate_ users of that product. There will be pirate copies of it up no matter what they do or who they sue. And let's just say that this does help with piracy for supplements and future published books... what about the books that are already being shared? They can't just change the version to make them obsolete... they're already there and they will be shared, there's no going back now. This is just a reactionary attempt to stop people from sharing the files, but as others have said, they're just shooting themselves in the foot with it. And you suggest they come out with a DRM laden copy? Yeah, let's see those sell... Even if i did buy a copy I'd do it just to not feel guilty about going straight to a torrent to get a copy without DRM. Sorry, but this is not the right move at all...

We must petition Washington immediately to reroute our troops coming home from Iraq and send them to occupy Norway. This is obviously a ploy to destroy our internet access, therefore putting our economy in even more peril. Dozens of cable companies have already shown us the evidence that P2P networks will destroy the internet. Obviously the Pirate Bay trial didn't come soon enough, Norway's public broadcasting has now become infected by these insidious thieves trying to cripple the broadcasting industry and the internet in one go!

This experiment is about the teleportation of qubits, not to be confused with the 1982 experiment involving the teleportation of Q*bert, wherein, after falling off the bottom of his pyramidal cubes, the protaganist would teleport back to the top of said pyramid.

Methinks you've never read the works of Stanley Milgram or Phillip Zimbardo... Or you're being too much of an idealist about the realities of the human mind.