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Submission + - How Blockbuster Could Have Owned Netflix

Submitted by schnell on Wednesday November 13, 2013 @01:42AM

schnell writes: Your age probably determines whether you think of Blockbuster Video as a fond memory or a dinosaur predestined for extinction. While the last Blockbuster rental at the last remaining Blockbuster video store took place last week, Variety retells a now-classic story of how Blockbuster could have bought Netflix for a song, but didn't because it failed to take the new DVD-by-mail and video streaming markets seriously. Who is next to join Blockbuster, Polaroid, Borders and Best Buy on the ash heap of superseded retail business models?

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Submission + - Researches use computer generated 10 year old girl to catch online predators 1

Submitted by mrspoonsi on Tuesday November 05, 2013 @01:47PM

mrspoonsi writes: Dutch researchers conducted a 10 week sting, using a life like computer generated 10 year old Filipino girl named sweetie. During this time 20000 men contacted her, 1000 of these men offered money to remove clothing, 254 were from the US, 110 from the UK and 103 from India. Terre des Hommes launched a global campaign to stop "webcam sex tourism".

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Comment Re:So we are going to bicker over 3 billion? (Score 2, Insightful) 245

by QuoteMstr on Sunday September 06, 2009 @06:53PM (#29335007) Attached to: Can the Ares Program Be Salvaged?

Look at all the fine automobiles turned out by the USSR, for example.

The USSR was a command economy with no competition, internal or external, or even market feedback. It's a completely invalid comparison. Libertarian fuckwads like you have the infuriating habit of comparing everything but Laissez-faire capitalism to authoritarian command economies. Either you're being deliberately dishonest or you're simply incapable of comprehending that societal organization is more subtle than a binary choice: capitalism OR authoritarianism. Either way, the comparison engenders more heat than light.

And if I'm going to start up a new company to make widgets, why on earth would I start it somewhere with laws like that?

Because places with laws like that are wonderful places to live, and you live there too. Companies are founded every day in the EU.

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