Path: cdrom.com!barrnet.net!sgiblab!swrinde!cs.utexas.edu!math.ohio-state.edu!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!ucsnews!ucssun1!espe From: espe@ucssun1.sdsu.edu (Ben Espe) Newsgroups: alt.cd-rom Subject: Re: Adult rip offs Date: 26 Mar 1994 05:05:50 GMT Organization: San Diego State University Computing Services Lines: 21 Distribution: alt Message-ID: <2n0fre$jvh@gondor.sdsu.edu> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: 130.191.1.100 X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL0] Scott A. May (smay01@BIGCAT.MISSOURI.EDU) wrote: : On Fri, 25 Mar 1994, Joker wrote: : > Why is it that a CD-ROm encyclopedia, which took lots of time of : > lots of people to create (enter data, create hypertext links, : > index, write a decent search engine, scan adn prepare pictures, : > ditto for video and sound, etc etc etc), goes for as little as : > $40, while a collection of pictures of naked people having sex, : > which took one person simply the time to download the GIFs and : > master them, goes for $60? : Because the gonads are a much more powerful organ than the brain. It's : the driving force behind TV, movies, music and the Republican Party. ..and the president... :) -- ____________________________________________________________________ Ben Espe San Diego State University espe@ucssun1.sdsu.edu benespe@ucsvax.sdsu.edu