>>> The fact that you think there is not means that you're just a poser pretending to be in the know. Ah, yes, name calling, that will do it. >>> but to prete

>>> The fact that you think there is not means that you're just a poser pretending to be in the know. Ah, yes, name calling, that will do it. >>> but to pretend they're just a bunch of clowns that would be swayed by a jerk move like this is simply stupid What, who, me? I'm pretending they would? >>> by announcing publicly that you are 'in talks' before receiving your first answer Wha...huh...business news...oh nevermind. >>> Then you can tell me how well it worked. Hurray! Some rhetorical flair! Now we're talking. >>> Conde Nast has behaved like a rather reluctant parent. It reminds me very much of the winamp takeover by AOL. Interest contrast between your expectations and sympathy for behavior of big business versus a little guy with a popgun (in the populist mind, that is). I'm sure you don't really feel the way implied or rather left out here, which is my point. >>> What's brilliant about it? A. publicity (do I really need to say that?) B. maybe he'll luck out and they'll actually sell (I doubt it but who knows) C. signaling. intentionality to purchase large web assets (perhaps something new for him, I'm not sure, I haven't followed the Cheezeburger business in the past couple years) Takeovers and acquisitions is a signaling game. >>> It wastes bandwidth Populist uprising doesn't necessarily rule out participation of business leaders. In fact, it often needs their help. Didn't waste my bandwidth, quite enjoyable really, too bad it wasted yours. (Edit, wait a sec, waste bandwidth? You're on a roll with lot of value judgments dude so this one slipped by me, quite off really. Popular though, gotta say that for ya, but then again the Tea Party is pretty popular too so doesn't mean that much.) >>> The redditors (the subject of the sale here) must be wondering right now if it would be possible to find an even worse buyer than CN The must huh? >>> That's what I said. So you don't stand by your words after all. Just imagine your boss would read your writings, you might want to delete them, right? There's no point arguing with this one, you'd like to think your experience and assumptions fit my situation, but sorry, nope. The rest, fine, but you should be ashamed of yourself for this part. Edit: I'm tempted to go back and count all the explicit and implied value judgments, logical fallacies, positions clearly based on your economic conditions or ideals. And it would be quite fun to ride through a deconstruction of your own condition compared with that of your ideals and opinions...but why oh why,