Ryan Martinsen

It’s too sad to laugh at, but it’s hilarious.

Posted by Ryan  November 26, 2007

There’s some hilarious commentary going on over on my post about ad blocking.

It’s sad how many people really don’t understand the difference between a right and a privilege. And how much they contradict themselves.

So they complain that their bandwidth is wasted. Really? Do these people go around thinking “okay this site right here is going to take approximately 10 KB of my monthly bandwidth. *click* 20KB!? What?!” Yeah right. If that were the case they’d be complaining about a lot more than advertisements. They would disable all images, css, and javascript, or just browse the internet with lynx.

The claim that advertisements waste their hard drive space is even more ridiculous. Hard drive space is super cheap and they control how much cache their browser uses.

I don’t know how these people expect to be taken seriously.

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I learned nothing today

Posted by Ryan  November 21, 2007

I discovered something interesting today while looking for a quote from C.S. Lewis’ book The Screwtape Letters. The quote is about “Nothing.” What I discovered is that it’s really hard to find a quote when all you can remember is the name of the book and the word “nothing.” Or perhaps nothing has been put up on all these intertubes about that quote. Perhaps I’ll type it out myself when I have the book with me.

The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
- Socrates

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Net Neutrality

Posted by Ryan  November 22, 2006

Here’s an idea: leave the internet alone. De-regulate as much as possible.

More regulations != more freedom.

The internet is fine. Leave it alone.

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