Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for July 16, 2009

cain’t train your puppy on it,though.

Who would put a netbook into a birdcage?

You guys will just have to import British newspapers, which are still going strong AFAIK. The Guardian runs Doonesbury I believe.

civilized societies eat their fish raw, with wasabe.

And puppies should be trained to go outside, where their “business” is converted by the SEP field.

Orgelspieler-would those be the same “cicilized societies” that eat their food with sticks? Now THAT’S civilized! <:-)

When my eyesight went and I couldn’t read the tiny comics in the newspapers, I started reading online, where I could enlarge them. The newspapers have no idea how many readers they lost that way.

The only time comics have been truly free-without-charge was when Mayor LaGuardia read them over the radio on Sunday mornings.

Actually that was an early stage of pirating media content. LaGuardia was a proto-hacker.

Maybe Garry should hold out for an airport named after him instead of mere money. Money goes, but infamy can last forever.

On the other hand, even small animals have standards about what’s not even worth urinating on.

Pricing is about supply & demand. The internet creates a supply of content that is rising exponentially towards infinity. Whereas, the demand is near constant. Pricing is also related to cost to produce and distribute. These costs approach zero on the internet. The way things are going, Garry Trudeau will have to pay us to get us to read his opinions.

Fredbuhl – there’s already one with his name on it in Montreal!

Actually, the statement “Information wants to be free” is being misinterpreted. It doesn’t mean information should come without cost. It just means that information travels without restriction.

And here I am 14 years later, reading this comic on a paying platform.