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Mainly, that technology, low barriers to entry, and, er, passion can allow "the amateurs [to] take over a sizeable portion of the market," writes Glenn Reynolds, at the tattoo-chick site Suicide Girls.
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Luca Brasi|6.26.03 @ 3:17AM|#
HA! My scenester friends love that site.
My Name Is Luka|6.26.03 @ 3:26AM|#
Yeah, I masturbate at that site all day long! Er, well, and here of course :D
My Name Is Luka|6.26.03 @ 3:33AM|#
Yeah, I masturbate at that site all day long! Er, well, and here, too, of course :D
My Name Is Luka|6.26.03 @ 3:34AM|#
Yeah, I masturbate at that site all day long! Er, well, and here, too, of course :D
(Sorry. Slow connection)
|6.26.03 @ 3:35AM|#
Slow wit, too.
|6.26.03 @ 3:36AM|#
I must say that I was quite appalled to be sent to such a site by the Reason staff. In the future, please provide warnings if you are going to link to such salacious, immoral material.
ps - I will be forwarding my dry cleaning bill.
My Name Is Luka|6.26.03 @ 3:44AM|#
Um, I didn't post "and here, too" or "slow connection". It's really lame to post as someone else without putting "not the real" or some other qualifier before the name.
Journalist?|6.26.03 @ 3:44AM|#
Where is Nick Gillespie? Did he leave? Is ANYONE in control here?
|6.26.03 @ 3:47AM|#
They don't call it "Hit and Run" for nothing!
(haha! I was the first to make that joke!)
twistedmerkin|6.26.03 @ 3:53AM|#
Plutarck, I thought "Hit and Run" was a drug reference.
|6.26.03 @ 3:55AM|#
Wow, this site is named after both porn AND drugs? I guess libertarians really do have more fun ;)
Hostess|6.26.03 @ 3:55AM|#
Anonymous, every house has its bathroom.
If you came here to take a leak, then please excuse the graffiti. Don't worry, it gets wiped off every week.
But if you made a wrong turn, then please go back and be our guest in the rest of the house. You'll be pleasantly surprised.
You will especially like our veranda. Go on! Step outside. There are some great guests sitting out there on that porch. Come join us, breathe the fresh air and take in some elucidating conversations.
(PS. We have a washer and dryer next to the kitchen. Our host will gladly handle it for you.)
And welcome to the Liberty Mansion!
|6.26.03 @ 4:21AM|#
ObFark: "I'd hit it"
|6.26.03 @ 4:33AM|#
ObFusque: "I'd Run"
fyodor|6.26.03 @ 5:32AM|#
A serious word?
Make that, _low cost_ technology!
|6.26.03 @ 6:01AM|#
All technology eventually becomes "low cost."
Look what happened to the pen.
|6.26.03 @ 6:35AM|#
Seems to be a lot of one-handed computer operation at this link.
"Look what happened to the pen?" Are you talking about goose quills?
fyodor|6.26.03 @ 6:46AM|#
anon @ 6:01 PM,
True to a point (haha). But often once one technology becomes cheap, some other more expensive technology might come along that's superior.
|6.26.03 @ 6:53AM|#
"Seems to be a lot of one-handed computer operation at this link."
What, are you holding your mouse with both hands or something? (Weird.)
|6.26.03 @ 6:56AM|#
"Often once one technology becomes cheap, some other more expensive technology might come along that's superior."
Blame NASA bureaucracy. They overprice everything. Rocket power should've been much cheaper by now, including anything else we might want to build out there.
But no! Gotta keep those civil "servants" employed, you know.
|6.26.03 @ 7:01AM|#
Doug, goose quills, yes indeed. They used to be very expensive to get. Because not just _any_ feather would do; only specially shaped ones. Ask TJ and Ben.
|6.26.03 @ 10:32AM|#
man, i been known suicide girls was cool since anticon.com said so
|6.27.03 @ 1:00AM|#
Anticon is weird! What, do ants commit suicide by drowning themselves, too?
|6.27.03 @ 1:40AM|#
Goose quills were only expensive because those colonial Englishmen preferred the taste of red meat to poultry.
Supply & demand, that ain't technological, it's elemental.
Gates|6.27.03 @ 7:46AM|#
Apple computers were only expensive because those F#%@&^ nerds preferred PC's over Mac's.
Supply & Demand -- that is elementary, my dear Watson.
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