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Woman who can't seem to settle down to a real job commits to doing 100 jobs for $100 each. That's $10,000, folks -- still poverty level.

I don't even know what to say...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5mi01qvxxWQ



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She could be a professional electronic sports player and earn much more, like Fatal1ty. He won a lot of consistent prizes which were well over 10,000 bucks each.
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Woman who can't seem to settle down to a real job commits to doing 100 jobs for $100 each. That's $10,000, folks -- still poverty level.

I don't even know what to say...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5mi01qvxxWQ

Definitely must-see-TV. No idea what to say either... (IMG:smilys0b23ax56/default/wtf.gif)
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Woman who can't seem to settle down to a real job commits to doing 100 jobs for $100 each. That's $10,000, folks -- still poverty level.

I don't even know what to say...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5mi01qvxxWQ

Definitely must-see-TV. No idea what to say either... (IMG:smilys0b23ax56/default/wtf.gif)

That's astonishing! I don't know what to say either-er!

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That's right! I met you going down the stairs, and there was this young man who kept taking photos of us, and I asked the guy "who are you?" - Joe Francis - and you laughed, and that's how we started talking.

I can't make out what he says right after that, at 3:26 or so, right before the girls gone wild cover - anyone? Help?

I recommend everyone watch this video, with the caveat that after about 30sec of listening to her, I started smelling burnt popcorn. Did Jimbo understand his conversation was going direct to Youtube? Why is he hiring someone to do what he's built his empire on getting for free?

I'm not sure, but I think this might be awesome.
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She could be a professional electronic sports player and earn much more, like Fatal1ty. He won a lot of consistent prizes which were well over 10,000 bucks each.


For every successful pro gamer, there's bunch of nerds who try and fail. It's just like how not every kid who plays football gets to be as rich as Beckham.
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For every successful pro gamer, there's bunch of nerds who try and fail. It's just like how not every kid who plays football gets to be as rich as Beckham.


And Jimbo is in fact a professional gamer in the middle of thousands of nerds. He's the only one playing the free encyclopedia game without much effort, and is getting almost all the money, with 10% going to his primary mates on the board.

Stop using his product and it will die. Now convince all the people out there to do the same, but they don't care!
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QUOTE(Subtle Bee @ Thu 26th August 2010, 6:23am) *

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QUOTE(thekohser @ Wed 25th August 2010, 7:51pm) *

Woman who can't seem to settle down to a real job commits to doing 100 jobs for $100 each. That's $10,000, folks -- still poverty level.

I don't even know what to say...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5mi01qvxxWQ

Definitely must-see-TV. No idea what to say either... (IMG:smilys0b23ax56/default/wtf.gif)

That's astonishing! I don't know what to say either-er!

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That's right! I met you going down the stairs, and there was this young man who kept taking photos of us, and I asked the guy "who are you?" - Joe Francis - and you laughed, and that's how we started talking.

I can't make out what he says right after that, at 3:26 or so, right before the girls gone wild cover - anyone? Help?

I recommend everyone watch this video, with the caveat that after about 30sec of listening to her, I started smelling burnt popcorn. Did Jimbo understand his conversation was going direct to Youtube? Why is he hiring someone to do what he's built his empire on getting for free?

I'm not sure, but I think this might be awesome.

He started talking because she was an attractive young lady, not the usual Wiki-nerd.

$100, less making the video of the call including editing, less international call charges, less cost of Blackberry and computer equipment. In labour and overheads she has already blown the $100, she is working for free.
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QUOTE(Subtle Bee @ Thu 26th August 2010, 1:23am) *

I can't make out what he says right after that, at 3:26 or so, right before the girls gone wild cover - anyone? Help?


Jimbo Wales: "Exactly. Yeah, I hate to disappoint, but I'm not Joe Francis, and he is." <self-laugh> <self-laugh>
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And, if anyone is wondering, this silly woman met Jimbo in Montreal, at the same time that Tara Hunt (we discussed her here) was in that city. And, lo and behold, this silly Aimee Davison and Tara Hunt appear to be local karaoke pals.

I can't take it.
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She seems nice. I think she's just networking. Probably will get bored with this and go to grad school soon.

Jimbo is the man, walking around with $10K checks he can hand out whenever he feels like it.
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She seems nice. I think she's just networking. Probably will get bored with this and go to grad school soon.

Jimbo is the man, walking around with $10K checks he can hand out whenever he feels like it.


Ermm... in this particular case, it's a $100 check he's handing out.
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QUOTE(thekohser @ Thu 26th August 2010, 11:35am) *

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She seems nice. I think she's just networking. Probably will get bored with this and go to grad school soon.

Jimbo is the man, walking around with $10K checks he can hand out whenever he feels like it.


Ermm... in this particular case, it's a $100 check he's handing out.


My bad. Poor reading comprehension. I was thinking $100 per article x 100 articles.
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Just prior to working for Wikia, Inc., Aimee was driven by bus for about 2 hours to a remote house in Sutton, Quebec, where she could play "construction worker" on a house. Lots of "upshorts" video shots, for all the guys in the audience.

Best quote: "What can you say about this big tool you have in your hand?"
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Middle aged encyclopedia salesman takes charming young D-list model, young enough to be daughter, to dinner and pays her $100 for the pleasure.
Middle aged encyclopedia salesman gives young model his personal phone number and hires her for a job in 2012!?!
Middle aged encyclopedia salesman encourages young model to call and calls her often to discuss "the job".

Did this $100 come out of his own pocket or is it accounted for to and by Wikia?

Middle aged encyclopedia salesman uses the unpaid labor of NPO workers to promote his own for profit corporation and having his fancy tickled if he can, a girl in every convention town ...

Does the young woman know what scrutiny is likely to happen to her if she succumbs?

It is probably a 'first' for an encyclopedia salesman/founder even to have groupie action. he has probably only got a couple of more years of it left before he has to pay for it outright (or was that Moscow?) and so good luck to him if he can.




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Meanwhile his company, Wikia, is funneling visitors to Wikileaks.org where they can read illegally obtained classified documents, and he's not very interested and taking no responsibility.

I wonder if she knows that by working for Wikia, she is indirectly putting Canadian soldiers in Afghanistan at risk.

As we've discussed elsewhere, Wikia owns www.wikileaks.com, www.wikileaks.net, and www.wikileaks.us, all of which show the content of Wikileaks.org.
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I don't even know what to say...
Ok, I´ll say something!
Am I the only person who think this lady looks as if she is on drugs? Or is it normal for young women in North America to act this...."silly"? (IMG:smilys0b23ax56/default/unsure.gif)
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Am I the only person who think this lady looks as if she is on drugs? Or is it normal for young women in North America to act this...."silly"? (IMG:smilys0b23ax56/default/unsure.gif)

Quite normal - we call it "social assimilation training," though most people just call it "high school."

Meanwhile, I was on Yahoo!Answers the other day and noticed that someone had posted a link to a new "Health Care Wikia." I'd been under the impression that although the Wikia staff don't actually check to see what people are doing with their website, at least the small army of Wikiland Forest Creatures™ checked sites like Y!A on a regular basis, would have seen the link, and would have notified the right person(s) at Wikia that this was going on. Inexplicably, they either haven't done so, or the Wikia people think this material is perfectly appropriate - I would have assumed they'd delete it almost instantaneously.

Instead, this has been up for at least three days, and who knows what else is buried in their bewildering number of (mostly moribund) subdomains. Maybe they should pay this woman $100 to help them figure shit like this out.
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I don't even know what to say...
Ok, I´ll say something!
Am I the only person who think this lady looks as if she is on drugs? Or is it normal for young women in North America to act this...."silly"? (IMG:smilys0b23ax56/default/unsure.gif)

No, you're not alone, and I'm from there. The video lasts exactly 4:20, and not a second too soon!
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Ok, I´ll say something!
Am I the only person who think this lady looks as if she is on drugs? Or is it normal for young women in North America to act this...."silly"? (IMG:smilys0b23ax56/default/unsure.gif)

I think it is a young person in front of a camera thing - nothing particularly American or female about it, it is universally depressing to see the "Look at me I'm so gingerblonde, duh!" routine acted out.
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I admire her spirit. I maintain my admiration even if this project turns out to have been unproductive: variety is the spice of life.
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