21 Replies Latest reply: May 11, 2007 10:55 AM by Newsgroup_User RSS

    OT: Disgusting

    BruceCSI2 Community Member
      I'd like to know if anyone else here thinks that what the people in this article are doing is disgusting.

      http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070510/ap_on_hi_te/virginia_tech_domain_names
        • 1. Re: Disgusting
          Newsgroup_User Community Member
          > http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070510/ap_on_hi_te/virginia_tech_domain_names

          Free market capitalism can be disgusting. ;0)

          -Darrel


          • 2. Re: Disgusting
            Newsgroup_User Community Member
            No more disgusting than when the NY Times, CNN, and other media sources
            immediately bid up Google Adwords so they'd get more hits when people
            searched for information.

            http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/LAC.20070420.RGOOGLE20/TPStory/Business



            BruceCSI2 wrote:
            > I'd like to know if anyone else here thinks that what the people in
            > this article are doing is disgusting.
            >
            > http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070510/ap_on_hi_te/virginia_tech_domain_names


            • 3. Re: OT: Disgusting
              BruceCSI2 Community Member
              It would be nice if you posted a link to an article I didn't have to pay for :-).

              I'm sorry though, I do have to disagree, as the media sources are paying for every hit generated by AdWords, so it's actually Google that is profiting from that strategy. Have the news media profited from tragedies throughout history? Of course, but that's part of their job, to report on tragedies. If there was no one to bring us the news, we wouldn't get the information (most bloggers hardly count as legitimate sources).

              By the way, newspapers are losing money now, so it's not like they're turning a huge profit. Also, what the media does in buying ad words to generate traffic to their sites is nowhere near as disgusting as someone who buys a domain with a victim's name, then holds it hostage and makes the victim's family buy it from them. That's sick.
              • 4. Re: OT: Disgusting
                Newsgroup_User Community Member
                BruceCSI2 wrote:
                > It would be nice if you posted a link to an article I didn't have to
                > pay for :-).

                Funny, I don't pay a penny to see that story. Maybe you want to try one of
                these versions of the AP story. If none of them work for you let me know and
                I'll find about a hundred other sources of it:

                http://www.boston.com/business/technology/articles/2007/04/18/media_mine_web_searches_for_ readers/

                http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2007/04/18/financial/f111642D30.DTL

                http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/312208_vatechkeywords19.html

                http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/070418/virginia_tech_web_keywords.html?.v=1

                I'm not going to get into a discussion of which is worse. It's not
                important. They're all making money off tragedy in their own ways.

                MD



                • 5. Re: OT: Disgusting
                  Newsgroup_User Community Member
                  > to their sites is nowhere near as disgusting as someone who buys a domain
                  > with
                  > a victim's name, then holds it hostage and makes the victim's family buy
                  > it
                  > from them. That's sick.

                  That's business.

                  -Darrel


                  • 6. Re: OT: Disgusting
                    Newsgroup_User Community Member
                    nowhere near as disgusting as someone who buys a domain with
                    > a victim's name, then holds it hostage and makes the victim's family buy
                    > it
                    > from them. That's sick.

                    It'll be ongoing business for every tragedy from now until the world ends.

                    "Nine-eleven they did it, Katrina they did it, the tsunami in southeast Asia
                    they did it."

                    There are still ways to circumvent this though.

                    Instead of buying thepersonsname.com from a profiteer, the family could
                    register a-version-of-the-loved-one's-name.com.

                    Profiteers cannot possibly register every possible variation.

                    --
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                    John Waller


                    • 7. Re: OT: Disgusting
                      Community Member
                      Sadly, but it is what is called... corporate greed. Those two terms are, indeed, very ugly words in today's modern, civilized world. <sighs>

                      Brian

                      quote:

                      Originally posted by: Newsgroup User
                      > to their sites is nowhere near as disgusting as someone who buys a domain
                      > with
                      > a victim's name, then holds it hostage and makes the victim's family buy
                      > it
                      > from them. That's sick.

                      That's business.

                      -Darrel





                      • 8. Re: Disgusting
                        Newsgroup_User Community Member
                        Oh that ain't nuttin! If you want to see real disgusting,
                        look at what government officials are doing while people
                        are suffering from a disaster, all in the name of politics!
                        http://www.katablog.com/display_blog.cfm?bid=789EA3A5-E8A0-2A34-98C595D307690A95


                        • 9. Re: OT: Disgusting
                          Newsgroup_User Community Member
                          I think it's disgusting that all his domain names end in .com. If he was
                          smart, he'd purchase a few .org's, too.

                          On another note, I read somewhere that the Virginia Tech murderer was a
                          big fan of some super violent computer game made by Microsoft. I don't
                          play computer games, so I'm not up on those things.
                          • 10. Re: OT: Disgusting
                            Newsgroup_User Community Member
                            John Waller wrote:
                            > nowhere near as disgusting as someone who buys a domain with
                            >> a victim's name, then holds it hostage and makes the victim's family buy
                            >> it
                            >> from them. That's sick.
                            >
                            > It'll be ongoing business for every tragedy from now until the world ends.
                            >
                            > "Nine-eleven they did it, Katrina they did it, the tsunami in southeast Asia
                            > they did it."

                            That's true; 9/11 was the best thing that ever happened to the
                            Republican Party (and Democrats, too, actually), and they're still
                            profiting from it. If you can't beat'em, join'em. :)

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                            • 11. Re: Disgusting
                              Newsgroup_User Community Member
                              Katsuey wrote:
                              > Oh that ain't nuttin! If you want to see real disgusting,
                              > look at what government officials are doing while people
                              > are suffering from a disaster, all in the name of politics!
                              > http://www.katablog.com/display_blog.cfm?bid=789EA3A5-E8A0-2A34-98C595D307690A95
                              >
                              >

                              Really, can you blame Democrats for trying to profit from a tornado
                              after watching Republicans get rich off 9/11 and Hurricane Katrina?

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                              • 12. Re: Disgusting
                                Newsgroup_User Community Member
                                > Really, can you blame Democrats for trying to profit from a tornado after
                                > watching Republicans get rich off 9/11 and Hurricane Katrina?


                                Oh please do elaborate. Was it the Republicans that produced
                                Farenheit 11 a basically false film that made big bucks? Was it
                                the Republicans who got literally billons of dollars to rebuild a
                                disaster waiting to happen again? Oh, how is the levee building
                                going in NO? Ah, billions spent and it ain't happening! One
                                thing you can say about the KS victims, they helped each other
                                rather than standing their screaming and crying and expecting the
                                government to show up over night. The KS victims got 20 minutes
                                warning; Katrinia victims got DAYS of warning. KS victims didn't
                                have a mayor who refused evacuation by train and left school buses
                                in the low lands.

                                I also find it amazing that anyone from any party would in any
                                way justify a Governor of a state, holding back assistance for
                                disaster victims based on politics - regardless of any perceived
                                wrongs by anyone else. Don't you see there is NO excuse? How
                                pathetic.


                                • 13. Re: OT: Disgusting
                                  Newsgroup_User Community Member
                                  > On another note, I read somewhere that the Virginia Tech murderer was a
                                  > big fan of some super violent computer game made by Microsoft.

                                  Powerpoint isn't violent, but if you have to use it, it turns you violent.

                                  -Darrel


                                  • 14. Re: OT: Disgusting
                                    joeq Community Member
                                    "Was it the Republicans that produced Farenheit 11 a basically false film that made big bucks?"

                                    even if 15% of F 9/11 was true (and i think it's actually up in the 90's), bush and his cronies should be jailed.
                                    • 15. Re: Disgusting
                                      Newsgroup_User Community Member
                                      > How
                                      > pathetic.

                                      Yea, this thread really doesn't belong in here.

                                      -Darrel


                                      • 16. Re: Disgusting
                                        Newsgroup_User Community Member
                                        Please don't propagate this thread.

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                                        "Katsuey" <katsuey@NOICEkatsuey.com> wrote in message
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                                        >> Really, can you blame Democrats for trying to profit from a tornado after
                                        >> watching Republicans get rich off 9/11 and Hurricane Katrina?
                                        >
                                        >
                                        > Oh please do elaborate. Was it the Republicans that produced
                                        > Farenheit 11 a basically false film that made big bucks? Was it
                                        > the Republicans who got literally billons of dollars to rebuild a
                                        > disaster waiting to happen again? Oh, how is the levee building
                                        > going in NO? Ah, billions spent and it ain't happening! One
                                        > thing you can say about the KS victims, they helped each other
                                        > rather than standing their screaming and crying and expecting the
                                        > government to show up over night. The KS victims got 20 minutes
                                        > warning; Katrinia victims got DAYS of warning. KS victims didn't
                                        > have a mayor who refused evacuation by train and left school buses
                                        > in the low lands.
                                        >
                                        > I also find it amazing that anyone from any party would in any
                                        > way justify a Governor of a state, holding back assistance for
                                        > disaster victims based on politics - regardless of any perceived
                                        > wrongs by anyone else. Don't you see there is NO excuse? How
                                        > pathetic.
                                        >


                                        • 17. Re: Disgusting
                                          Newsgroup_User Community Member
                                          Katsuey wrote:
                                          >> Really, can you blame Democrats for trying to profit from a tornado after
                                          >> watching Republicans get rich off 9/11 and Hurricane Katrina?
                                          >
                                          >
                                          > Oh please do elaborate. Was it the Republicans that produced
                                          > Farenheit 11 a basically false film that made big bucks?

                                          Frankly, I thought the movie was boring because it did little more than
                                          repeat facts that were well known to all but the biggest dummies in the
                                          land.

                                          > One
                                          > thing you can say about the KS victims, they helped each other
                                          > rather than standing their screaming and crying and expecting the
                                          > government to show up over night.

                                          Ah, blame the victims. You've obviously never lived in a big city...or
                                          been poor and lived in a big city.

                                          The KS victims got 20 minutes
                                          > warning; Katrinia victims got DAYS of warning. KS victims didn't
                                          > have a mayor who refused evacuation by train and left school buses
                                          > in the low lands.

                                          You mean the Kansas victims were evacuated by train and school buses???
                                          Where were they taken? I'll bet they were hosted by Barbara Bush in Houston!

                                          >
                                          > Don't you see there is NO excuse? How
                                          > pathetic.

                                          I'm not even sure yet if all the facets of your story are verifiable.
                                          Sounds a bit contrived to me. How pathetic indeed.

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                                          • 18. Re: OT: Disgusting
                                            BruceCSI2 Community Member
                                            I must apologise. I did not mean for this to become a political discussion about things that have nothing to do with the original topic.
                                            • 19. Re: OT: Disgusting
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                                              Please don't propagate the thread.

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                                              • 20. Re: OT: Disgusting
                                                joeq Community Member
                                                why? it starts with the obligatory "ot". if people care to debate an issue, how is it any skin of your nose?

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                                                • 21. Re: Disgusting
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                                                  > You mean the Kansas victims were evacuated by train and school buses???

                                                  Maybe that's the impetus for our country to finally get bullet trains...so
                                                  we can evacuate people in the path of an oncoming tornado!

                                                  I've only been in one real tornado. I was in gradeschool. The teachers came
                                                  in and said "there's a tornado coming. Run home as fast as you can."

                                                  In hindsight, methinks that wasn't the best prepared school.

                                                  -Darrel