Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for September 07, 2014

Dot com mystery math.

“…paid with Bitcoins. A worthless currency to buy worthless things,”

Bitcoin… Think PayPal/Credit-Card/Bank-Wire-Transfer but without too many Middlemans, Clearinghouses and Transfer-Fees…

…Or buying Casino-Chips/Tokens that allows you to buy Anything/Anywhere without using Money-Changer/Curreny-Converter Booth.

I think he meant the dot com didn’t turn a profit.They’re going to have to SELL a whole lottathingumadoodles at a hefty price to recoup the$10 mill the gave Dweebleigh, and if it keeps on being free, that will never happen. Unless they have a thingumadoodle of their own theycan sell at a hefty price, something absolutelyrequired without which D’s app won’t work.

He’s discovered the secret of appiness.

It’s actually about owning the methods and rights.

Rule $19.99 (Brad ‘Squid’ Shapcott): The Internet isn’t free. It just has an economy that makes no sense to capitalism.

And that is how senility fools you.

I don’t understand anything anymore, but that’s because of the bottomless stupidity I run into every day. I wanted to email this Wiley, but the Captcha visual is too quick and the audio miserably indistinct. Thanks anyway!

It occurs to me that a “retirement community” is defined by age, not work status.

So, now it is hard to ask, what’s new. Maybe hallucinations are what is real.

The Walmart model.

Probably bought his app using bitcoin. When the skateboarder tries to eat, he;ll catch on.

@Superfrog………that’s the best one of the day.@ Delicado: if you click on the small arrow box, the visual comes up & stays for several minutes so you can copy it.

The guy who sold the app and GOT PAID made a profit. The PAYOR did not see a profit.

Supposedly it would be about add revenue, but you have to remember the dotcom bust to realize that sometimes it is just about stupidity, and you want to make sure you are not the last one holding the bag.

Let me lay it out:

1. A big company invents a nifty app and starts selling it online for the usual price.

2. Someone else, usually a small timer, invents an even niftier app out of their basement and starts giving it away for free, which makes the other app appear lame and expensive.

3. The big company buys out the patent rights from the small timer, which is bully for him because that was his goal all along anyway. Small timer retires to his own island.

4.The big company announces a “new” upgraded version of their old app and charges its users for the pleasure. That or they require that space on the app be given away to advertisement or do a tie in where the user must register with their network in order to access its full content (Ex: YouTube.)

5. Big company execs retire to their own islands. You, meanwhile, now have to endure 25 seconds of Turbo Tax commercials in order to watch that video of the cat chasing the rubber mouse.

(repost – accidentally deleted.. DOH)

the secret [shhhhh] to retiring early, this couple at 45: no expensive bad habits, two mediocre (at least) incomes, NO KIDS, an earth friendly modest lifestyle, and save like the dickens all thru the earning years. the earth friendly part is optional. downside: the twilight years may end up lonely ones, esp after the first spouse dies. ps: we all die.

“Check out the top and side banners and pop up ads here and they’re all custom selected by where you’ve been and where you live.”Mebbe so, but they think I like Rascal Flatts? I know my husband doesn’t, either. He’s probably never heard of him, or them, or whatever it is.

It’s not so bad not understanding anything. I find it easier to just nod and smile when anyone says or does anything. I’m not going to tell them they don’t get it either.

All currency is worthless by nature, the worth of the currency comes from the promise behind it.