I think everything is stupid

I think the web 2.0 business model is hilarious. Start a company, gain traffic, sell to some idiot for a ludicrous amount of cash.

Despite this recession I keep hearing about, Global Gaming Factory X seems to have no trouble coming up with 7+ million to buy a site that’s going to instantly lose 99% of it’s traffic. Good for them. This is clearly a group that should have consulted with, I don’t know, anyone who has ever downloaded music illegally. The Pirate Bay is massive not because it offers some unique experience, but because it has a huge collection of torrents, which can be used to download movies, music, and software. One of the first moves of GGFX will be to stop hosting these torrents.

Not surprising at all, The Register is reporting on a large number of account deletion requests on the massive torrent site. Pirates are a fickle bunch.

Oh well. Pirate Bay, at least you’re in good company. You’ll soon be joined by Twitter and Facebook, and YouTube’s been at the party since 6PM… lame.

This was news a few weeks ago, but if you’re using this site to keep up on current events you deserve a post here, because you’re fucking stupid.

Anyway, here’s a little summary from the article. I’d like to point out that I was torn between focusing on twittering and the actual girl, Maria Barbu. Since I’m a philanthropist, I chose twittering. Maybe we’ll save some lives when people google “is twittering in the tub stupid?” Part of me thinks maybe I should just allow Darwinism to take it’s course instead…

A teenage girl was electrocuted after dropping her laptop into the bath as she twittered in the tub.

Police said they believed Maria Barbu, 17, had tried to plug in her laptop with wet hands after the battery died during a long session on social networking site Twitter as she took a soak at her home in Brasov, central Romania.

She was found dead by her parents with the laptop lying next to her.

Original article here.