"John D" <[email protected]> wrote in message news:[email protected]... > Did anyone watch Shark Tank on TV this week? Captain Ice Cream was > rejected by all of the sharks and sent packing because he wanted to sell a > franchise that wasn't. One of the sharks said to him something along the > lines of, "a franchise offering is a package deal for a product that is a > well-oiled machine... all the kinks worked out". Or was it the Legal > Grind, coffee shop lawyering, franchise that they said that to? Of the > Legal Grind, the sharks said: so you've been doing this for umpteen years > and haven't made any real money and now you want to offer a franchise? > > Why a killing of trees for a manual that changes daily and can be on the > internet? What is the point of TDPL? To make money? I don't see any value > in a set of pages that are a manual for a constantly changing and > unestablished computer programming language. Can't yaz save the trees and > offer it for sale on the web to anyone who wants to pay for it? It's easy > to setup a PayPal website (though I think D is far from that if ever). I > don't see this thing selling in bookstores. A hard copy of an already > obsolete specification? If it's just charitable contribution from long > time afficionados, why not just .org and ask for contributions and not > kill trees? > > "TDPL: we want money"? Msg me when it is "TDPL: the well-oiled machine". > (Note I didn't say "the well-oiled MONEY machine). >
Ordinarily I wouldn't think much of this, but considering some of this guy's most recent postings over in "Google's Go", I'd say it's about time to consider instituting a NG ban system. We were (maybe) able to chase away superdan, but who knows how persistent other such trolls like this one will prove to be.
