Were you doing them any good, though?
Yeah, that's my attitude. I mean, I'm gonna miss the free access to articles, and no doubt I'm going to bitch about it, but realistically, giving stuff away for free when what you want is for people to pay... well, it can't go on forever.
About the second -- am I to believe that reporters swallowed government pronouncements without doubting them much?
And do you really believe they are going to suddenly become more circumspect about the information coming from the WH? Me doubts it.
I suspect this means
The Boston Globe
is next, because the NYT owns it. Damn.
Shares of Blockbuster fell nearly 10 percent Friday to a 52-week low of $4.60 amid reports that customers are shying away from traditional DVD rentals and are gravitating to online services like NetFlix or are preferring to buy DVDs at retail chains like Wal-Mart and Best Buy, which sometimes offer DVDs for sale at "loss-leader" prices.
Couldn't happen to a nicer group of people. Late fees from hell, zero inventory, and the most annoying undertrained staff of a video store.
Scarecrow has been doing quite well with the video rental thing as Blockbuster bleeds.
Blockbuster management has also been criticized by some investors for its policy of effectively doing away with late charges.
Except they didn't -- it's something like "if you don't return it in time, you buy it, but we'll give you most of the money back if you return it." And that's hurt them. Meanwhile, Netflix is killing them with the "keep it as long as you want, return for a new movie" policy that makes them a nice chunk of cash, all while Costco is selling $11 DVDs and people build their video libraries.
Blockbuster is facing extinction, and soon.
This pic makes it look like her swayback is even worse.
Apparently one of my co-workers started a conversation with her mouth entirely full of food and during talking spat a bunch of it onto her audience's arm. Apparently she wiped it off and kept on going.
Now, I'm not sure what she should have done otherwise, but that seems entirely inadequate. Died of humilation? Cried? Quit? Prostrated herself? Something.
4Frontiers wants to open a small human settlement on Mars within 20 years.
And I'd like to be king of all Londinum and wear a shiny hat.
She has swayback? That picture is not flattering at all. Is there a cure for swayback?
This pic makes it look like her swayback is even worse.
Pregnancy does that too, both in appearance, and in reality. I don't love her dress, but she looks lovely, pregnant.
Apparently one of my co-workers started a conversation with her mouth entirely full of food and during talking spat a bunch of it onto her audience's arm. Apparently she wiped it off and kept on going.
Now, I'm not sure what she should have done otherwise, but that seems entirely inadequate. Died of humilation? Cried? Quit? Prostrated herself? Something.
1) Prostrated
2) Cried
3) Died
In that order. Quitting is redundant after dying.
and admitted in print that they'd swallowed the republican party line like a big, stupid flounder.
Heh.
Netflix is killing them with the "keep it as long as you want, return for a new movie" policy
I use Blockbuster's version of this (I like the free in-store rentals. That I have used exactly once. So apparently I like knowing that I have them more than actually using them.) but as soon as they crank up my fee, Ima go to NetFlix.
