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Re: Watch This Video. Do The Complete Opposite of Whatever It Says.

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Post by iamwil » Wed, Jul 29, 2009, 10:17 PM UTC

unalone wrote: post #9

jasonlbaptiste wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's network marketing pyramid scheme of Netvibes. I don't know where these people come from. Do they breed them somewhere? "We did research to see if anyone else did this before. NO ONE HAS. So we filed patents"... Yup no one has done an internet start page before. Sigh.

We have them on Hacker News too. They crawl around the #startups channel. Some people care more about a quick buck than they do about making good things. There's nothing wrong with that, though I'll never quite understand their obsessions.

I'll venture to say there's something wrong with just making the quick buck. Unless you're starving, I don't really see it as a good excuse.

It seems when one's life is in the pursuit for money for its own end and meaning, it's easy chase after things you don't really want in life. In addition, it makes it easier to do careless things to others, stifle innovation, and harm the environment, because you're just optimizing on money.

And in the end, the great businessmen of yesteryear are mostly remembered from how they benefited humanity. Hardly anyone knows or remembers exactly how much Ford and Rockerfeller made off the top of their head.

Re: Watch This Video. Do The Complete Opposite of Whatever It Says.

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Post by rodyancy » Wed, Jul 29, 2009, 10:39 PM UTC

there wrote: post #6

i couldn't stand watching/listening to the guy. what's his message?

If you can't stand that, don't read this http://cameronbsharpe.com/

It is his attempt to redeem himself after making a bunch of money and babies, drinking too much and snorting a bunch of cocaine, and ripping a bunch of people off.

Any product or service that provides real value to customers doesn't need MLM to succeed. That being said, these schemes make their founders a ton of money. SkyBiz was an internet based MLM in 2002. Their revenue was said to be 200 million a year. Although, eventually the FTC filed a civil suit and through a settlement forced them to close down.

Re: Watch This Video. Do The Complete Opposite of Whatever It Says.

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Post by joshu » Wed, Jul 29, 2009, 10:40 PM UTC

I got maybe halfway through before I had to close it.

Re: Watch This Video. Do The Complete Opposite of Whatever It Says.

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Post by jlangenauer » Wed, Jul 29, 2009, 10:47 PM UTC

Wow, that was truly awful. But I did learn something: the word "habitually" should never be used in speech, unless you want to encourage your listeners to think of the word "bitch".

Re: Watch This Video. Do The Complete Opposite of Whatever It Says.

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Post by seekely » Wed, Jul 29, 2009, 10:59 PM UTC

Read the Terms and Conditions (http://www.ijango.biz/Portals/1/IJANGOTermsConditions072809....) to find out what $149 + $19.99 monthly fee can buy you!

I feel angered for all the people that will inevitably be burned by iJango. What are the options to getting something like this shutdown or at least investigated? What is the likelihood this will succeed?

Re: Watch This Video. Do The Complete Opposite of Whatever It Says.

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Post by synnik » Wed, Jul 29, 2009, 11:01 PM UTC

I got two minutes in, and he still hadn't actually said anything. So I stopped listening.

Re: Watch This Video. Do The Complete Opposite of Whatever It Says.

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Post by rokhayakebe » Wed, Jul 29, 2009, 11:15 PM UTC

Frankly I found this guy rather hilarious. I don't even think there is a point in saying he is just trying to screw a few hopeful who think they can make money from doing nothing.

Re: Watch This Video. Do The Complete Opposite of Whatever It Says.

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Post by cliffdickerson » Wed, Jul 29, 2009, 11:24 PM UTC

unalone wrote: post #9

jasonlbaptiste wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's network marketing pyramid scheme of Netvibes. I don't know where these people come from. Do they breed them somewhere? "We did research to see if anyone else did this before. NO ONE HAS. So we filed patents"... Yup no one has done an internet start page before. Sigh.

We have them on Hacker News too. They crawl around the #startups channel. Some people care more about a quick buck than they do about making good things. There's nothing wrong with that, though I'll never quite understand their obsessions.

At this risk of sounding stupid, what is this #startups channel? # like irc?

Re: Watch This Video. Do The Complete Opposite of Whatever It Says.

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Post by auston » Wed, Jul 29, 2009, 11:25 PM UTC

seekely wrote: post #15

Read the Terms and Conditions ( http://www.ijango.biz/Portals/1/IJANGOTermsConditions072809.... ) to find out what $149 + $19.99 monthly fee can buy you! I feel angered for all the people that will inevitably be burned by iJango. What are the options to getting something like this shutdown or at least investigated? What is the likelihood this will succeed?

DDoS from people outside of the U.S.

Re: Watch This Video. Do The Complete Opposite of Whatever It Says.

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Post by unalone » Wed, Jul 29, 2009, 11:26 PM UTC

iamwil wrote: post #11

unalone wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

We have them on Hacker News too. They crawl around the #startups channel. Some people care more about a quick buck than they do about making good things. There's nothing wrong with that, though I'll never quite understand their obsessions.

I'll venture to say there's something wrong with just making the quick buck. Unless you're starving, I don't really see it as a good excuse. It seems when one's life is in the pursuit for money for its own end and meaning, it's easy chase after things you don't really want in life. In addition, it makes it easier to do careless things to others, stifle innovation, and harm the environment, because you're just optimiz…

I have similar sentiments, but I won't call it outright wrong. I just don't spend my time dealing with the money-grabbers. Their lifestyle doesn't appeal to me.