Wes’s Comments

• Apr 29th, 2011 @ 12:57am

  They do realize... (as wes)

  on Royal Family Bans Satirical Coverage Of The Big Wedding
  ...that we don't have to do what they say, right? I mean it's going to happen. Telling people not to do it simply guarantees that it will happen MORE. If they then attempt to remove the satire videos, they will only succeed in driving even more traffic to them.
• Apr 27th, 2011 @ 9:59pm

  Indeed...

  on Is It Rude To Link To Someone Without First Asking Permission?
  The only circumstance I can think of where one may want to ask permission before linking is if your linking will obviously drive more traffic to a website than they can handle. Flooding a someone's webpage with more traffic than it normally gets can cause all sorts of problems, see the old /. effect for examples.
  
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slashdot_effect
• Jan 22nd, 2007 @ 2:27pm

  (untitled comment)

  on Sorry, But You Don't Compete With Free By Being Lame
  Seems likely to me that they may be raising money through the investors to fund something they know will fail, so that all the unspent money can quietly disappear and the investors are out a bit of cash.