It would be really interesting to know how many domains were transferred yesterday. I moved 6 of my 9. On the other 3, I turned off auto-renewal so they'll just expire.
GoDaddy is scrambling to do damage control
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#12(copied from my response at http://dorkitude.com/post/14691558851/the-godaddy-victory-is... ) The GoDaddy victory is a red herring. That GoDaddy reversed its SOPA stance (or at least its PR stance) about SOPA in the wake of our boycott is good news, but it's also distracting news. While it does demonstrate that we, the citizens of the righteous internet, can have P&L impact as consumers in the B2B world, the real and…
I've moved from att to sprint, not really that much of a change, but it's not att. I've moved from godaddy to networksolutions, and I'm on sonic.net for my home dsl, and I've not had regular cable service since 2002.
I'm also working at a fringe game company and I dont use photoshop or any other adobe anythings and I try to use Modo or blender for 3d whenever possible. Maya and max are hard to get away from...
I wish i could say we used ubuntu, but that's just on my personal laptop... :-\
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#13So, who's next? It's going to be immensely tougher to demonstrate power against the media moguls as directly.
I've been considering for some weeks whether I can simply go "cold turkey" on paid, mainstream media for a period of time. When I consider this, I have enough backlog of reading and (legitimately free, e.g. SICP and the like) online videos in my mental queue to do so. I might -- really -- be better off for doing so. I haven't formulated a well-worded proposal and scenario/approach to share, but I would suggest workin…
For music it is easy. There is so much free stuff around, netlabels, jamendo, etc.
For reading there is so much out-of-copyright on archive.org and Gutenberg.
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#14I'm not sure if I'm alone in this, but I had to actually look up the name of SOPA's founder (Lamar Smith). He should be facing heavy criticism right now, at least to the extent that SOPA-supporting companies are. It's as if his career isn't in any jeopardy at all over this.
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#15So, who's next? It's going to be immensely tougher to demonstrate power against the media moguls as directly.
I've been considering for some weeks whether I can simply go "cold turkey" on paid, mainstream media for a period of time. When I consider this, I have enough backlog of reading and (legitimately free, e.g. SICP and the like) online videos in my mental queue to do so. I might -- really -- be better off for doing so. I haven't formulated a well-worded proposal and scenario/approach to share, but I would suggest workin…
I've been considering for some weeks whether I can simply go "cold turkey" on paid, mainstream media for a period of time.
I don't see why not. I haven't owned a TV in 18 months. I haven't bought a magazine in over five years. I probably haven't been to a movie theater in over five years either. A TV was useful when I was so sick that I needed passive mental stimulation to keep from going completely batshit insane while I laid around trying to rest and get myself well.
What purpose does most mainstream media really serve for you? I don't ask that pejoratively. It's a serious question to help you analyze what needs you are looking to meet and what alternatives you can seek out. I would be happy to help you try to answer such questions. I think my life is far better without spending so much time having my mind filled with what is usually crap.
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#16I would pay $100 to anyone that made a one-click (or close) auto transfer of domains from GoDaddy.
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#17Stop being opportunist flip floppers bent on the bottom line Go Daddy (worse name you could ever come up with for a company). Go Daddy deserves to go extinct their time has come. You have shown your true face (forget the damage control). You've only gotten by up until now because of people not willing to their research and mass marketing, and now it's plainly obvious you are a shill of a company, money can't buy everything. Go form yourselves a new company under a different name. No knowledgeable person on Hacker News would ever choose Go Daddy for anything so go do your online marketing somewhere else.
http://blog.operationreality.org/2011/12/24/sopa-nope-a/
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#18GoDaddy needs to become a very loud opponent of SOPA if they want to retain any customers that have a clue.
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#19Too little, too late. I'm still moving my ~20 domains away. Their initial stance, plus their ridiculous initial response ("We heard some people were mad, but we're not changing our tune until we start losing money") indicates that they don't actually care about dropping SOPA support.
I wouldn't be surprised in the least if behind this "we're so sorry" facade, Bob Parsons and Lamar Smith are having dinner and a laugh.
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#20Earlier quoted context omitted.
I've been considering for some weeks whether I can simply go "cold turkey" on paid, mainstream media for a period of time. When I consider this, I have enough backlog of reading and (legitimately free, e.g. SICP and the like) online videos in my mental queue to do so. I might -- really -- be better off for doing so. I haven't formulated a well-worded proposal and scenario/approach to share, but I would suggest workin…
I've been considering for some weeks whether I can simply go "cold turkey" on paid, mainstream media for a period of time. I don't see why not. I haven't owned a TV in 18 months. I haven't bought a magazine in over five years. I probably haven't been to a movie theater in over five years either. A TV was useful when I was so sick that I needed passive mental stimulation to keep from going completely batshit insane wh…
Going to family at Christmas, it's gruelling to be in the same room as a TV pumping out commercials and other nonsense.