The primary use of ads is rounding up surveys that pay 24c,or 67c so you can request a five-dollar-increments-only tango card.

nursemorph wrote: I am always amazed at how low the listed payouts are given the number of users....$22 million for 7 million users over nearly 10 years! It really isn't all that much...maybe it points to how many of the users are inactive, rarely active, just click ads etc as another GPT site like this I belong to which is a year younger passed the $100 million payout threshold last year. Of course, Clixsense for a long time was purely PTC whereas the other site was GPT from the beginning so that explains some of it but CS pay more than the other site for tasks, offers etc. Just find it strange that the numbers aren't higher

Anyway, congrats CS on reaching that number and it will be 10 Million users before long

One started life as a merchandise retailer for celebrities and is funded by vulture capitalists. The other is a family business.

It occurred to me the other week - and I mentioned it in another thread here - that if Arthur, the once and future King, really is going to return to save us when we need him the most, he's going to be here any minute.

So, I started watching Merlin. I enjoyed it the first time round, and it's still okay...but it's really Saturday evening TV, not boxset TV. I stopped watching it as a boxset, but kept it in Kodi's EasyList.

I made one of those once too. Years ago, I was homeless and selling The Big Issue for a bit, and one of my regulars was a drama student who wanted to make a sitcom, and I was in it - as writer, and actor. He played a waiter in a cafe permanently off his head on acid, hallucinating all the time, and I played a cynical, miserable git of a customer - similar to Jack Dee.

We did send it in to that BBC 3 talent thing they used to do, but we weren't one of the winners, so it never aired.

To be fair, there has been a steady decrease in ads since May. Last month, I had two thirds as many ads as May, which is quite a decrease.

That probably hurts if you're not using the site properly. Clixsense isn't a paid-to-click site anymore, it's a reward site. If you want to make money, do the tasks, surveys and offers. You've never been able to make any real money with PTC anyway.

True that. They opened one near me the other week, and I went there on the opening night...riding into the car park, I was delighted to find proper cycle parking, but I wasn't sure it was really open. Massive car park, just me in it.

I tried to crowd fund doing that twice now. It didn't work, but I'll damn well get there.

So everything you ever buy, along with the location, and time you buy it is all logged forever, and because it's internet based, stored by your government indefinitely, during this time of right wing populists gaining power across the western world, in exchange for saving a few seconds - and it is a few seconds, because for all but the smallest shops, you're still going to have to stop to bag up your shopping from your basket/trolley - at the checkout.

What could possibly go wrong.

larryonly wrote: Anybody watch 'The Walking Dead ' ? on AMC , wild..

It would have been okay if you hadn't known from halfway through the last season, communities were going to team up together to defeat Negan, and instead of killing him, lock him in a cell.

They've hammered it down your throat so forcefully, we could have skipped straight to season eight.

I will be quite surprised if the whole "We've done exactly the same thing he has, but we're loads better" thing turns out to be just bad writing rather than a plot device, but it won't be the good kind of surprise. Maybe they do kill him, but either way, they screwed up.

Looks that way.

It's going nowhere though. It's on my dev server, so it's hosted for free. I admit, it wasn't the best sales pitch, but since it's such a recurring feature request in various forms, I expected at least half a dozen takers.

It's distributed though (like email, you don't need an account on the same site), so once I finally get this sixteen-months-late game finished, there might be some people to talk to.

Blackadder box set.

The first one is awful. It's essentially Mr Bean in the past. God knows how it had a second series, it should have been prosecuted for crimes against comedy.

The second more than makes up for it though.

Sadly, it quickly hits it's peak. The third is still good, but it's already lost it's edge.

Blackadder Goes Forth almost becomes a parody of itself at times. It's too self-aware, and too self-referential. You can't say you don't like it because of the last thirty seconds of the final episode, but it's really not that good at all.

Blackadder Back and Forth wasn't worth the very, very long wait, but it wasn't as bad as people said it was.

The Cavalier Years was ruined by Stephen Fry with some very weird acting that might have made sense, but wasn't explored because it was a mini-episode, and there wasn't time to cover it.

I missed on in the run order to save the best for last. Blackadder's Christmas Carol is still as good as it always was. It's the best Blackadder. It's the best Christmas special of any series, and it's also the best take on A Christmas Carol.

I think at this point we can call it a failed experiment.

It costs nothing to keep it there until domain renewal time, but I think this particular snake is somewhat dead.

tasman1 wrote:

CatMonster wrote: But why is it that there seems to be a hidden war against tobaco from all sides making it more expensive and harder to obtain while alcohol is available everywhere and cheap. Why is that ?
Shouldn't booze bottles also have pictures on them showing for example damaged livers similar like cigarette packages showing damaged lungs ?

Why ? Govt see more money in future selling drugs and more people will die from drugs , in short more money for govt

smokers are dying slowly , huge cost for govt
dying from strong drugs is fast , huge saving for govt

There have been plenty of studies showing smokers pay more and cost less than non-smokers for state funded medical care.

You need the ?7555294 bit, you don't need a &something bit.

Wow, you'd be welcome as an equal in my Grumpy Old Git's club any time, Rajukurup.

(I can't decide if that apostrophe is right or not. I can't decide if it's possessive or plural).

I wrote a chatbot in AIML nearly two decades ago that could easily replace your job of posting the same topic again and again and again.

seaeagle wrote:
The woodpecker can be explained a lot more simply by evolution than it can by design.

One could argue natural selection is design. Sure, a blind, crude, design by trial and error, but design nevertheless.

When folk say "couldn't possibly have evolved", they generally mean "couldn't have come into existence by chance alone", which is blindingly, crashingly obvious to anyone. Somehow, the randomness of mutation has taken all the limelight, and the decidedly non-randomness of natural selection has escaped the public consciousness.

Helen Blau fixed that last year...albeit, not outside the test tube.

I dunno, I wouldn't want to live forever - not unless you can cure ageing. (And if you can cure ageing, be sure to let me know, I'll definitely sign up, and in fact, already donate to experimental biogerontolgy charities, though without any serious hope).

My body was old before I was thirty. Burning the candle at both ends is why I've got more stories than most folk, but they all start "About x years ago..." and very rarely start "Last week..."

I'm in constant pain now, but it's okay, because most of it is mild, and despite all the aches and pains, I'm still very, very fit. I can't lift anything heavy because my back and shoulders are completely screwed up, but I can still ride a bike further and faster than most people ever will, for example.

As I start getting older and the fitness wears off, and the pain gets worse...if I lived even to the average life span in this country, I think it'd be unbearable.

I think by the time it comes, I'll be ready - unless it comes by accident or disease. It's not sad, I might be gone, but my kid will still be here, and she's my crowning achievement, and that's all that matters.

Sure, she'll die one day too, but by then she'll have her own kids, and she won't mind either, because they'll still be here, and they'll be her crowning achievement, and that'll be all that matters, and so on.

It's only sad if you die before your time.

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--Charlie Chaplin