DISQUS

I am glad to hear that somebody (bodies) are having a good TigerDirect experience... As a IT pro I am having trouble with TD.us getting even simple orders filled. (e.g. more than a week to get one CPU fan)

20% of the people volunteer, 80% say they should.
20% of the volunteers do 80% of the work.
100% of the people benefit from the 5% who contribute.

hoppy bird day two ewes
hoppy bird day two ewes
hoppy bird day dear Doug
hoppy bird day two ewes

Just how many angels can dance on the head of your pin? From you of all people I expected a sense of intellectual fair play, not semantic jousting. You are little better than the power-elite that would derail an honest man and his efforts.

Have a 'nice' day.

heck fire, folks hereabouts in Kin-tuck don' even enjoy them privileges neither... :)

Only yesterday I was reflecting, with a heavy heart, that we only have one book store in this entire town. Very sad!

Color me confused!!! I can legally buy one copy of MS Office and install it on three computers???

Ol' Southern Wisdom: Ya'll lay down with BIG dawgs ya'll git big fleas... When ya'll let loose at them BIG dawgs with a double-barrel load of rock salt all ya'll end up with is BIG angry dawgs.

Good luck...

You need to get out more.

see the movie 'August Rush' - I am not sure if the kids really plays but it is a good movie with great music...

Contrary to popular belief Marketing is the world's oldest profession... after all, you have to show your <strike>under</strike>wares before you consummate the transaction.

Smooth move dude! Now you've done it. Gone and ruined humanity for the rest of us. Sheeeeesh!

Brought tears to my eyes. Thanks

First of all - thanks for the props.

The WinExtra Community, while fewer in numbers, far exceeds the value of the FaceB community in my book. Real people gathering together to share real lives. That is what community is about.

I guess I am not surprised. I have little enough time to scan RSS feeds let alone visit individual blog sites. (Blame the whole matter on me!) To make matters worse, if a blogger doesn't offer a full feed I generally can't afford to read the blurb and _then_ have to go to the site to finish the offering. (Sorry, blame me again, it is all my fault.)

Hey Doug:

I gotta say it is a little unnerving that you are watching over my shoulder...just how is it that you knew I had deleted 3+ drafts that just weren't 'tunable'? Huh?

Good one!

- Papa

[Tongue-in-cheek] Yes Robert there is a Santa Claus ...and... Edwards wants money. But it wasn't money that he was/is after in courting your voice. I think Edwards was/is just reading the writing on the ... blog! The money, or real value, that you offer is FREE name exposure. Every time you mention his candidacy or any part of the process Edwards gets his name in front of all those "eye balls".

Doug:

Please don't hate Blogspot because it is beautiful... You gotta love it's save-your-work-on-the-fly functionality...

Or, you could compose your posts in Google Docs which also has an auto-save functionality.

Doug:

I had hoped that others would have joined the fray here... but alas... I have prepared a response of some length and have posted same at In Response to Doug Karr...

Regards,

- Papa

"I’m a firm believer that most people will only steal when they have to."

I sooooo want to believe you. I so much so want to believe that the loaves of bread that are stolen only go the feed the hungry family of the thief. I so much so want that to be true...

But, in this day and age I believe that software, anybody's software, is seen through the smoked-glass spectacles of the early years of Microsoft's Windows 3.something... NOT that copying it was right(!!!) but rather that Microsoft didn't "seem to mind" the copying. (Wholly not true but that was the perception.)

I don't believe that Joe Average is capable of clearly distinguishing between the hard work of select programmers, trying to eek out a living, and the mega-business-monoliths that are just trying to exact a fair price for their product. As such there is little concern on Joe's part which software he or she "uses" in what ever legal or illegal fashion.

This is a matter of perception and a flawed one at that. We should pay for every program we use. I just don't believe that Joe Average maintains the same perception.

sorry...just my $0.02

God sues Apple over the use of "I" -- sorry, couldn't resist.

I think this dove-tails well with the assertion you are putting forth... http://www.telco2.net/blog/2006/09/profiting_fr...