Wednesday, August 25, 2010

The end is nigh, see it on Youtube

I have the most horrible feeling that the only possible conclusion to the problem of Muslim extremism - and I'm looking 30 or more years down the line here - is mass deportation and an all-new cold war between Mecca and Rome.
I am also fearful that unless we stop thinking of ways to prevent global warming, and start to address the problems it will cause when it gets here, our children are going to finish their daus in an overcrowded, superheated vision of hell. Where they can't even get a cold drink, because all the corner shopkeepers have been made to go and live in pakistan.
Unless, of course, America goes bust in the meantime... which it will. It is a mathematical certainty, unless Barrack Obama announces, today, a tax hike for both individuals and companies of 69 per cent or he cuts federal spending to zero.
Not just for a month or two. but for ever.

At present, everyone is obsessed with the internet. Every large media company in the world is investing millions in their websites and not one, so far as I can tell, has been even the remotest idea of how it can possibly generate any money.
A prime example is iTunes. It doesn't. Apparently, Apple doesn't make a penny from the music you download to your computer. But if you want to put that onto a portable device you have to buy an iPod, and they make lots of dosh from that.

The upshot is that films, television shows, magazines, newspapers, songs, anything published or recorded, can be put on the internet. And the person who published it or recorded it doesn't get any money. so what's the point of publishing or recording anything?
So if i was to write a book, and for someone it would be jolly funny to buy the first copy and put it all online, so I will end up with a royalty cheque of $50. But it's not so funny for me because what would have been the point of even publishing the book if I could have just posted it online in the first place?
One day the world will wake up and realize its unemployed and that we have all been terminated by machines. and please don't try to argue that men will always triumph over machinery because we can always turn it off. Because that's the thing with the internet...You Can't.

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