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I just read that “The best things in life are free”. What does that even mean?

Apply that to open source for a second. Imagine someone justifying open source by saying, “the best things in life are free”. Well that’s not true! How much time and effort have people put into making that open source application work? I would say that it cost them quite a lot.

Or Google. We use that for free. I must search for things a hundred times a day, its my first port of call, and everything in the whole world that draws breath loves it. Even cats, and fleas, and paramecia, and viruses. Every organism in the biosphere loves Google, and that is good and just, and so may it continue until the end of days. I am so much of a rabid, frothing-at-the-mouth fan of Gmail, I have had to stop myself, on a number of occasions, from writing to the people who had that whole lawsuit over the name to tell them what horrible little insects they are.

If you’re reading, people who set up the original Gmail, you are horrible little insects. Nasty! Dirty! Check it out, I made a picture of you:

Anyway, my point is that even Google, with its incalculably massive contribution to humanity, isn’t free. We pay for it in adverts every time we search, or read our Gmail, or visit a website that uses AdSense.

Nothing in life worth having can be “free”, by definition. That’s illogical nonsense and we must discredit the idea wherever we find it! Also, we must discredit the horrible little insects who sued Google. The end.

This has to be the easiest quiz ever. You just type in your name and away you go.

But none of them are number one in Google! Ha ha ha ha ha!

The HTML they gave me was disgusting, by the way, so I took a screenshot instead.

You know, for a web-based quiz, it’s actually reasonably accurate. Except for that bit about Kid Rock. He won’t miss me one tiny little bit. Teh bastard!

What will your obituary say?

Print them out and swap them among your friends for the ones you don’t have! Or just print them out! Or just don’t!

Glyn
Special Powers:	Stares, Welsh-speaker
Fun facts:	Glyn doesn’t actually have any nipples. The ones you see on television are actually stick-ons that he buys down the market.
Other lies I made up about him:	Glyn is a huge fan of Christina Aguilera and whispers her name every night before he goes to sleep. It’s also the first thing he says in the morning. He claims to have met her in a dream, where they chased sheep for four hours before getting into a swimming pool full of honey. According to Glyn, the honey later turned into arrogance. “I don’t know,” he says, “it made sense at the time.”

I found this advert on a website a while ago.

I don’t have an opinion about it, but posting this makes me political.