Re: Area 51 - The Dreamland Conference 2009 in Las Vegas

On Jan 14, 10:18�pm, "Lumpy" <lu...@digitalcartography.com> wrote:

m...@sushi.com wrote:

While I snicker at peddling crap on the net regarding Area 51, I made
two T-shirts for Cafe Press. I set them up for no profit, so I don't
know if any ever sold other than what I bought. Anyway, here is the
Tikaboo Peak T-shirt using the above graphics:

http://www.cafepress.com/lazygranch2.7052789#


I bought one. I've also bought stuff from DLR.

There's no shame in profit.

Shame comes only from dishonesty.

Lumpy
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The open range T-shirt was drafted from a photo as well, though if you
compare the font on the sign versus my font, they are slightly
different. My favorite Groom Lake T-shirt is Glenn's with the patch.

What is bad about peddling stuff on the net are lines like "sales of
these items support the website." Web hosting costs have dropped
dramatically over the years. In fact, there are companies whose
business model is based on hosting costs falling year to year, like
Youtube and it's imitators. Mine pulled the bandwidth limit years ago.
Even worse is asking for donations. Yeah, I suppose the sales pay for
your visits to the range, but then again, if you claim to be a
resident, you are already there, right?

On par with peddling junk are those damn embedded adverts and pop up/
unders. Much like TV news, sensationalism is more likely to get your
site traffic and thus more ad revenue. ATS clearly is the worst
offender in such peddling, especially when they let those "I worked at
the base" threads go on for page after page. What cracks me up is the
so-called base workers are often those I put in the "broken shift key"
crowd, obviously teens that grew up texting. I know few adults that
don't use capitalization and punctuation. [Both are women with Macs,
those I don't know if that constitutes a pattern.]