brad3378
- brad3378
I blew the dust off this account to give you an upboat. Several of the top stories were on reddit's front page yesterday and no one even bothered to change the titles here. This place is sad.Comment is buried, click here to see the rest.
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Assuming that you're not being sarcastic, I respectfully disagree.
According to BusinessWeek, Facebook is currently worth $82.9 Billion [1]. By using Facebook's own numbers, there are 500 Million facebook users [2] though it is unclear how many of these are active users or children without disposable income.
Crunching these optimistic numbers makes facebook worth $165.80 each.
For Facebook to be worth $1 Trillion, users would need to be worth $2000.00 each. Call me an uninformed skeptic, but I just don't think apps like Farmville add much value.
[1] http://www.businessweek.com/news/2011-01-28/facebook-s-value-tops-amazon-com-trails-only-google-on-web.html
[2] http://www.facebook.com/press/info.php?statistics
Oh. My God.
THEY BROKE IN TO GOOGLE'S SERVERS TO CHANGE SOME LINKS AROUND. THIS IS THE SIGN WE HAVE BEEN WAITING FOR, BROTHERS!
RED CELL SIX, ENGAGE LIZARDMEN AT THEIR PLACES OF WORSHIP, YOU KNOW, AT THEM SIN-A-GOGS. TAKE THEIR LIZARD GOLD, THEY WONT BE NEEDING IT... IN HELL.
GREEN CELL AQUA, START BUYING UP ALL THE GOLD YOU CAN FIND, NO MATTER THE PRICE. WE WONT BE WASTING OUR TIME WITH THAT U.N. NWO MONEY ANYMORE, WE'RE GOING TO CARRY THE HEAVIEST NATURAL METAL WE CAN FIND IN OUR POCKETS FOR NOW OWN.
PLACKWATCH PLAID TEAM LEADER, ITS TIME. YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN. PLEASE OPEN THE ENVELOPE "ATTACK PLAN R"... THAT IS "R" AS IN "ROBERT".
FREEDOM FIGHTERS, GRAB ALL THE AMMO YOU CAN CARRY, WHICH ISNT MUCH BECAUSE YOU ARE ALL OLD AND/OR FAT, AND MEET ME DOWN AT THE FEED STORE. I WILL BE GOD DAMNED IF I LET THE BILDERBERG LEFTISTS TAKE WHAT'S RIGHTFULLY OURS!!!
BUBBA, YOU BURN DOWN ALL THE KFC'S YOU CAN FIND, THEIR MIND CONTROLLING CHEMICALS CAN'T HURT US NO MORE.
DEBBIE-SUE, YOU ROUND UP YOUR SISTERS AND START RE-FLOURIDATING THE DRINKING WATER, BUT DON'T TELL ANYONE ON THE OTHER SIDE OF TOWN... I JUST DONT TRUST THEM FOR SOME REASON.
RONNIE, YOU TAKE SKEETER AND THE BOYS DOWN TO WALMART AND RUSTLE UP SOME BEERS, SOME 12G SHELLS, A HAMMOCK, AND A LIZARD SKINNING KNIFE... LIZARD KEBABS FOR ALL!!
YEEE-HAAAH!!!

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This is why I always argue that innovation is over-rated.
What's the point in spending $Billions of dollars (Tax dollars no less) to innovate when our competition will just blatantly take our ideas while ignoring our patents?
Just look at Microsoft. They didn't get to the top by innovating. They got to the top by copying the ideas of others so they didn't have to spend $billions in research dollars.
The system is obviously broken, but unfortunately I don't have a solution to offer.

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LOL - I misread the headline as "Hubble Peers 13.2 Billion dollars back in time"
Fortunately, it only cost about $10 Billion. http://www.livescience.com/space/090510-hubble-telescope-poll.html
brad3378Jul 2, 2011
Here's a link that says that the wars since 9/11 are costing $4.4 Trillion.
http://www.defensenews.com/story.php?i=6984659
(Note that it is a Defense industry website, so if anything they have an incentive to report smaller numbers to avoid looking bad)