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INFLATABLE CONCRETE BUILDINGS. (via GeekPress. )
This is the service of a company called Weedshare—as in, growing like a week, sharing weed—you get the picture.
Here’s how this works. You download any song they’ve got and you can play it all the way through, three times, for free. After that you can buy the song. You have to use their software to play the songs—their digital rights management prevents the song from playing otherwise.
Then anytime someone who gets the song from you buys it—you get paid.
As the track is passed along, people up the sharing chain continue to make money. For example, Bubba buys a Weed file and shares it with JoJo. JoJo buys the file and Bubba earns 20 percent. JoJo shares the file with Betty Lou. Betty Lou buys it and JoJo gets 20 percent and Bubba gets 10 percent. Betty Lou shares the file with Goober. Goober buys it and Betty Lou earns 20 percent, JoJo earns 10 percent, and the original sharer, Bubba, gets 5 percent. Yet for all transactions, the artist continues to earn 50 percent of the full purchase price.
Sound like multi-level marketing? That’s exactly what it is. The difference between this and so-called pyramid schemes is that potential buyers have three chances to sample the product and there’s no buy-in cost. The advantage it shares with other multi-level marketing schemes is that it provides monetary motivation for users to spread the material around. Best of all, the artist is fairly compensated.
You know what: why not? This could work.
The software is currently Wintel-only; a Mac version is expected in a few weeks.
Iraq the Model cites news reports on counter-terror demonstrations in Iraq:
As expected, angry and sad Iraqis have started protests against the sickening behavior of the family and tribe of the Jordanian terrorist who committed the bloody massacre of Hilla a few weeks ago.
...The rapidly growing anger in the streets here promises more protests in the coming few days which I expect to be bigger than today’s protest.
Those who claimed, with great certainty, that Arabs are an exception to the human tendency toward freedom, that they live in a stunted and distorted culture that makes them love their chains—and that the notion the United States could help trigger a democratic revolution by militarily deposing their oppressors was a fantasy—have been proved wrong.
‘Nuff said.
