"This item is available for shipping only"

Not that I'm in the market for a new OS, but I thought I'd check out Windows 7 anyway, just to see what the fuss is all about. And to be honest, I don't care how fancy schmancy it looks, an IT company that is not yet, in this day and age, able to deliver it's new operating system as a download on demand, but insists on shipping it to you in a big box with 2 DVD's, wasting it's own and my money, not to mention my valuable time and the environment, isn't worth it.

Luckily there's alway Ubuntu, that takes me an hour to download and install, without having to wait for days for the DVD's to arrive, and without any annoying registration processes. Oh yeah, and it's for free. Sure, it doesn't have transparent windows and features and functions you'll never use, but it's got something Windows has never had: Security.


"This item is available for shipping only" my ass. This is 2009, Microsoft!!!

How to keep a steady growth rate

Do you feel your business is a bit slow these days? You don't feel like exploring new business models or giving your customers what they really want? And as a consequence of these old business models, do you see your YTY growth rate go down from 30% to a mere 2%?

No worries, do what the entertainment mafia did: Create laws that give you police authority, spread terror and force the consumers back:

Förra året kom trendbrottet i den till synes ständigt rusande dvd-­försäljningen. Enligt branschen var det fildelningen som slog igenom på allvar – trots detta handlar det, efter 10 års oavbruten ökning, om hela 35,6 miljoner dvd-filmer som trycktes ut på den svenska marknaden. Försäljningen fortsatte att öka, men bara med 2 procent, inte med de omkring 30 procent som ökningen legat på tidigare år.

Men efter Ipredlagens införande i april i år är ordningen återställd. Stora videodistributören Bonver, som har 1.500 videouthyrare och 1.200 dvd-försäljare som kunder, redovisar kraftiga ökningar för månaderna maj–juli.

Uthyrningen ökar med 27–34 procent jämfört med 2008, och dvd-försäljningen i juni och juli låg på 70 procent plus.

Ordningen är återställd. Of course, any business should be able to uphold such an incredible growth rate. Any dip is unnatural and should be remedied not by new and future-oriented business models but by threats and terror. If the consumers don't want to buy your old, outdated products, force them to do it. That's the Hollywood way. That's the ugliest face of capitalism.

– Det här är något fantastiskt som vi ser, man respekterar verkligen Ipredlagen. Det har blivit tydligt för svenska folket att det är olagligt att ladda ner och så har man slutat att göra det, säger Gerard Versteegh, vd på Bonver.

"We're experiencing something truly amazing. People with a loaded gun pointed at their forehead are actually doing what we tell them to do! Faced with massive threats they're being obedient customers!" says Gerard Versteegh, CEO at Bonver. Any dictator will tell you that oppression and threats will make the people do what you want in the short term, you compete ass.

Please stop supporting this insanity. Stop feeding the monster. Stop buying those damn DVD's.