Yes, what happened to the old slashdot where you could moderate someone with a +1 for "Like the time I caught the ferry to Shelbyville. I needed a new heel for m'shoe. So I decided to go to Morganville, which is what they called Shelbyville in those days. So I tied an onion to my belt. Which was the style at the time. Now, to take the ferry cost a nickel, and in those days, nickels had pictures of bumblebees on 'em. Gimme five bees for a quarter, you'd say. Now where was I... oh yeah. The important thing was that I had an onion tied to my belt, which was the style at the time. You couldn't get white onions, because of the war. The only thing you could get was those big yellow ones... "

Good luck trying to get an answer out of Google. That's their weekpoint, MS! Any kind of customer service at all would destroy google from the outside in! If it's not answered on their site, you're screwed. Even if MS had a number that just went to a recording of Bill Gates saying "Fuck off" it'd be a thousand times better than trying to get a response out of google. If linux was big enough, Torvald saying "penguin" would be as useful as Google's customer service.

Matt Groening isn't the best. The Simpsons was really helped by Sam Simon (who was fired or quit) and James L. Brooks. If it wasn't for Brooks and Simon, it wouldn't have even made it to teevee.

ebay owns 25% of craigslist and so far they've stayed away from messing with the CL business model. I don't think they could if they wanted to. CL rarely charges for ads and if they wanted to make more money, they could do something simple like start running google ads. But they make enough money doing what they go. It is not a profit driven company at all. eBay started off good and very quickly turned evil. For CL to turn evil, Craig himself will have to die. I wouldn't put that past eBay though, so Craig watch your back!