Ridiculous news

I was reading some news on Monday and came across a couple interesting articles.

The first article talks about some (let's be nice here) unthinking fool who decided to wait in line overnight for the PS3 launch to buy one or two to sell for profit. This profit was to be used to buy an engagement ring for his girlfriend. He bought one (~$700CAD!) at the store and another ($1800CAD!!!) from a scalper AT the store. He wanted to wait a couple months until the big 'Christmas rush' to sell, but by that time, demand for the PS3 had all but disappeared.

Ok, there are a couple things he did wrong here. First, he waited too long to sell them. More shipments were made and all the idiot-adopters (can't call them early-adopters in this case) had gotten what they wanted. Second, and this is the big one, he assumed that people actually wanted the PS3. If you can't tell, I have no sympathies for this guy, as he brought this upon himself. I won't get into what I think about all the people that spent waaaaay too much money to buy the PS3 in the store first thing (and didn't sell it), or the people that spent waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay too much money buying it from people who bought it from the store (some upwards of $5000USD). You can probably guess fairly accurately, though.

The second article states that four in ten kids have seen, accidentally or otherwise, some kind of porn online. Bear (bare! hoho) in mind that their definition of 'porn' is pretty broad and includes simple nudity.

This raises one question, though: So few? I mean, seriously. I'm guessing a lot of these kids are just too embarrassed/ashamed to admit to it. But this reminds me of a couple things. First is the Internet is for Porn video. Second is a clip from Scrubs in which Dr. Cox is delivering one of his famous rants, Perry's Perspective. (This one is, in fact, one of my favourite rants.) Now, before you label me as a porn freak, let me say that I don't necessarily believe that the Internet is purely for porn; just mostly. Besides, it's funnier this way. Speaking of porn, remember this when I next write about my search keyword hits.

That is all.