Obnoxious Mods

Wired has a great article about the downfall of the economy — and society in general.  The article, Free! Why $0.00 Is the Future of Business, is a great piece about computers, and the no cost products they have unleashed upon the world.

I didn’t read the entire article (6 f’n pages long!), but I know what it says.  The internet has brought with it all the political ideologies of those barefoot, smelly, patchouli-wearing hippies, out in Silicon Valley.  They continue to give away products and services — for free — to destabilize the economy. They claim it is the business model of new media, but we’re onto them, and have had enough.

From the article:

… A typical online site follows the 1 Percent Rule — 1 percent of users support all the rest. In the freemium model, that means for every user who pays for the premium version of the site, 99 others get the basic free version. The reason this works is that the cost of serving the 99 percent is close enough to zero to call it nothing.

Bastards.  Obnoxious Mods has decided that, in order to thwart this socialist onslaught, we need to take drastic measures.  We will begin charging to read this blog.  We figure $0.10/word ought to be about right for the wisdom we dispense daily.

That is $0.09/word more than we pay our good friends over in Mumbai to write it.  I love the internet.

Unfortunately we don’t have the means to setup a subscription service so we will be going on the honor system.  Just keep track of how many words you read and send us a check.  You can make the check out to Cash and send it to the following address.

PO Box 7775 #62266
San Francisco, CA  94120-7775

Remember, we’re all up in your cookies, watching your every move.

… from Wired