Some Modest Proposals To 'Save' Other Industries
from the jonathan-swift-would-be-proud dept
greenbird writes "In light of the RIAA/NAB negotiations to require FM radios in all portable devices Wired's Underwire column has a brilliant idea to "save" the newspaper industry. Require e-reader sellers to give a free parakeet with every e-reader. It goes on to other brilliant plans to save dieing industries such as the Mapmakers and Travel Agents."Given some of the bizarre rationales for saving certain industries, I don't think any of these satirical suggestions are really any more ridiculous...
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New Industries Emerge Old Ones Fade Out
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Also, "loser" is the old way of spelling it, it's now "Lüser." Make note to remember the umlaut, it's important.
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Endangered speicies ACT of 2011 will try to also save, the labels, the hundreds of fronts they use, Bono, Studios, TV stations, News etc.
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NAB, not RIAA
They told the RIAA to support that law, in exchange for the NAB supporting performance royalties for terrestrial radio.
I'm not entirely convinced it wasn't a joke on the NAB's part.
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The children...
I crack me up.
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free parakeets?
That's a novel idea, their songs would easily replace the drivel I hear on the radio nowadays, at least till the cats got to them.
I can tell you, I don't look forward to cleaning that up.
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long live buggy whips
hooray perversion!
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"Require companies to bundle a parakeet with every new tablet or e-reader device.
This will create a groundswell of demand for newsprint with which to line the cages of the federally mandated house pets. I strongly suggest that all the major news consortium start talking to their representatives about making this a reality. This could have saved Cathy, dammit!"
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some cute illustrations of this in a comic
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