(0810) Morning all … sunny out there, through the Gates billowing cloud. (0839)
13. Good number for this item
Need to preface this with some comments about things like Life of Brian … as people, the Pythons were certainly non-Christian but the points made about anomalies in organised religion were well made I thought, plus it did not step into what most would call outright blasphemy … it was having a go at Churchism, Synodism, rather than at the faith itself … it was having a go at Schism, false prophets, not following one’s precepts one’s paid lip service to … and so do these below:
12. Three quickies
11. Points about punditry
Just thought I’d drop this one in from this early morning:
Anything vital in there? The spam count really … this is fairly typical for this time of day, it will build again later … not sure why they bother.
Not totally sure what their feasibility is … it’s the Geelong, Oz regional rag … maybe half a million people, so not nothing for sure but … well … why exactly would you pay $7 per week or whatever for a local rag? Ads? Hatch, match and dispatch notices? Or you think the the Wokeleft politics is worth it? Puzzled.
Plus … who can afford subs to maybe half a dozen publications, inc. nationals? Given the economic situation?
Now to one of their headlines today:
So, it’s not just Britain and European nations, is it? This thing is global in scope, a cunning plan.
11. Over the last few weeks more and more online publications are insisting on acceptance of all cookies or payment. Not just nationals or manor regionals but also specialist or niche sites. They won’t shut down the internet, just price us out.
When you say ‘I don’t know why they bother?’ the answer is simple.
They posted ion your site by their search engine searching for comment blocks. The system does it completely automatically and free of charge. I would guess one out of every 10000 buys something or clicks on the links, many accidentally. So you manually at cost of your time add it to the spam list, many sites don’t. Their systems doesn’t know or care as keeping track of which link generates the data is more effort for them than simply doing nothing and posting to dead ends. Some of these dead ends may even open up again.
So until we can execute them there is nothing we can do at all. Just keep adding them to spam with as few keyclicks as you can.
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JH: Yes.