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Incentive or Punishment?

Wednesday, July 1st, 2009

….or better yet, is this a super clever marketing campaign by Firefox?

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This entry was posted on Wednesday, July 1st, 2009 at 12:00 pm by Radley Balko and is filed under Uncategorized. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

17 Responses to “Incentive or Punishment?”

  1. #1 |  Tokin42 |  July 1st, 2009 at 12:10 pm

    I see what you did there, and I lol’d.

  2. #2 |  Donnie |  July 1st, 2009 at 12:12 pm

    clearly punishment….to me. i think the music would have to be considered good in order for it to be offered as an incentive.

  3. #3 |  Edwin Sheldon |  July 1st, 2009 at 12:16 pm

    So what if our JavaScript interpreter is 7x slower than Firefox’s? Here. Have some shitty music.

  4. #4 |  MDGuy |  July 1st, 2009 at 12:21 pm

    I classify Nickleback, along with Staind and a host of other shitty bands as “Butt-rock.” Definitely punishment.

  5. #5 |  MattH |  July 1st, 2009 at 12:57 pm

    Shit partnered with shit… seems appropriate.

  6. #6 |  Max D. |  July 1st, 2009 at 1:01 pm

    Hinder. *gack* The very epitome of sappy crap-pop rock.

  7. #7 |  Michael Chaney |  July 1st, 2009 at 1:02 pm

    Guess I’m not the only Mac/Linux user in the crowd?

  8. #8 |  omar |  July 1st, 2009 at 3:56 pm

    lol at “buttrock”. new vocabulary term added to my mental word-bank.

  9. #9 |  ClubMedSux |  July 1st, 2009 at 3:56 pm

    I used to at least give Nickelback a little credit for having covered Pavement’s “Spit on a Stranger”… then I found out that was actually Nickel Creek. Now the only credit I can give to Nickelback is that they picked a name that sounds like the name of a band that’s cool enough to cover a Pavement song.

  10. #10 |  Greg N. |  July 1st, 2009 at 4:08 pm

    Buddyhead gets it right re: Nickelback:

    http://www.buddyhead.com/buddyhead-newsgossip-%E2%80%93-06222009/

  11. #11 |  Windypundit |  July 1st, 2009 at 4:43 pm

    Nickelback returns? I didn’t even notice they’d gone away.

  12. #12 |  The Johnny Appleseed Of Crack |  July 1st, 2009 at 6:01 pm

    Technically, Nickelback’s music is classified as “Strip Club Rock”

  13. #13 |  The_Chef |  July 1st, 2009 at 8:38 pm

    Clearly this is not just punishment, but it’s cruel and hilarious punishment.

    Now if they included an exclusive Opeth release? …. Nah I’d still just wait for it to leak.

  14. #14 |  David |  July 2nd, 2009 at 12:50 am

    I give Nickelback credit for doing a very good cover of “Sharp Dressed Man.” And then promptly take it back for everything else they’ve ever done since “The State,” but hey, it’s something.

  15. #15 |  Lucy |  July 2nd, 2009 at 3:28 am

    Radley, just when I think you can’t get any cooler, you make fun of Nickelback.

    And man, I switched to Firefox last year JUST for this purpose.

  16. #16 |  Ben |  July 2nd, 2009 at 7:52 am

    Opera is the only way to go.

  17. #17 |  Ian |  July 2nd, 2009 at 3:44 pm

    HA HA. Balko, you kill me.

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