The attempt has been made, and wrongly, to make a class of the bourgeoisie. The bourgeoisie is simply the contented portion of the people. The bourgeois is the man who now has time to sit down. A chair is not a caste.
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So the question you're all asking: are you making any money off of this? After about ten sites, yes, we are. Would I recommend this as a hobby business for others? No, I would not. It's a freaking lot of work, to begin with, if you are really looking to provide useful and quality information.
It's also getting to be a highly-competitive business. Companies are using advanced algorithms to determine exactly which subject areas have the most lifetime value for advertising and creating lots of material around them. It really has the feel of the stock market when computers got in and changed everything. Yes, you can still have a very profitable niche. Heck, I have several ideas about moving up to the next level. But these guys play hardball over pennies-per-day. Any newcomers should know that before getting in.
Having said that, we're probably going to keep it up. Every week we get emails from people we have helped with our sites, and that's really neat. There's something about having recurring income that makes you go "Wow!"
It's a good feeling.
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I’m not affiliated with either party. But I am curious.
How strong is the correlation between the margins of victory for Democratic candidates and the current level of unemployment?
Current Levels of unemployment
Visually there seems to be some correlation. New York seems to be an exception. Maybe Alaska too. So it might not perfectly correlate.
I’m curious if the strength of public sector employee unions matters. Does a Democratic state allow strong public sector employee unions to grow? (yes). And if so what is the long term prognosis for those government entities (state and local)? I think the answer is obvious. The coming collapse of the Municipal Bond market might give some indication of the level of crisis in the spend more than you tax states.
Again just wondering what voting for “Big Government” does to a state in the long run. Obviously California is the poster child for socialist welfare state disaster. But how does New York fare? Our relatively poor state of South Dakota has very low unemployment. If you discarded the data from the Native American Reservations our unemployment would be significantly lower (employment on the reservation is always low).
Disclaimer: I’m a social and economic libertarian.
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I installed another 2 1.5TB Western Digital Caviar Green drives.
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http://mpc-hc.sourceforge.net/ Grab the 64 bit edition
http://shark007.net/ Install the 32 bit Window’s 7 codecs first. Then install the x64 components.
End result:
Processor utilization went from 80-90% to 10-20% during 1080p h.264 mkv playback.
Tested using the “Watchmen” (who watches the watchmen, I guess I do). No hesitation or choppiness at all. 1080p is beautiful on my Dell 24” monitor. I can’t imagine how it would look on a 50” plasma.
You will need a modern video card for this to work. ATI HD series should work. I’m not sure about the exact nvidia models.
This htpc gigabyte motherboard has everything you need for less than $100.
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