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You mean this picture?

Wow! The first on-topic, non-troll goatse.cx post!

How about Child Supermodels which seems to be another creep out site?

Okay, I have to say that I've seen disturbing stuff on the net.

Some of it is just downright vile.

But this Child Supermodels site is just flat-out creepy. I swear to god, you can replace all of the pictures of little girls with clothes with adult(?) women without clothes and you've got yet another porn site.

Look at some of these banners!

And the comments?

"Working with young girls is both a pleasure and a privilege for me." I'll bet it is, ya sick freak!

"Thousends of pictures all exclusive teen models. click and find out why we are the best!" Sounds like a pull quote off of any of a thousand porn sites.

*shudder* I agree with the other poster; I don't care how cute my kids end up being, there is no way in hell that I would ever inflict this kind of life or publicity upon them.

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(You can even vote for your favorite "kid model" site! I swear, this is just some kind of crypto-anarchist pedophile ring site or something... ick ick ick...)

Not to mention the hot grits we'll be pouring down their pants while we're at it. Imagine a Beowulf Cluster of voters...

If I ever meet you, I'll Ctrl-Alt-Delete you.

hahaha! I can see it now. Unsuspecting Florida voters will click on what they think is the link to vote for Gore, and GOATSECX will appear on the screen.

Why does it matter? If you disagree with their distinctions, you don't have to do anything. You would be able to access porn sites just as easily as you would Slashdot.

But if it's been labelled porn when it's really not, then you may not be able to access it because of parental, ISP, or government restrictions.

That being said, I think the distinction should be drawn with the dictionary definition: material designed or presented with the intent to stimulate sexually.

That's a more useful definition than the "intercourse or genitalia" that was proposed earlier. But under the dictionary definition, goatse.cx wouldn't be in ".xxx" since I'm pretty sure it's intended to sicken rather than stimulate sexually.

"Buchanan received 1 percent of the vote in Palm Beach County."

"Palm Beach County, on the other hand, has a whopping 14,551 members of the Independent Party. In fact, it has the highest Independent registration in Florida."

Palm Beach County gave Buchanan no more support proportionally than any other county with high Independent Party registration.

Not that it's hard to rebutt these "facts";the "news" site you linked to is nothing but far-right propaganda, one doesn't need to look hard to see that. Fuck having slashdot sites for the government; Government works just fine when you do your own damn research, question authority, and think for your damn self, rather than choosing your "facts" from the endless continuum of opinionated media.

I believe there is a legitimate concern with the controversy concerning the ballot in Palm Beach County. The ballots there were printed such that out of the three ballot punchholes next to the Democratic ticket section, the topmost represented a vote for Buchanan, and the second represented Gore. In spite of the arrow pointing to the correct hole for Gore, this confused many voters who asked poll workers which hole was the right one. The poll workers could not give a definite answer either way, and did not have any other authority to check with.

As a result, Buchanan had more votes in PBC (3407) than in any other county in Florida. This is strange because Gore carried Palm Beach county easily, 64%-36%. The next highest votes for Buchanan by county is Pinellas (1100), which also had the highest turnout for Nader, and was won by Gore, 52%-48%.

Just wait, I'll start heading toward my point now. Pinellas and Palm Beach represent the highest combined turnout of Nader/Buchanan voters by number, followed by Hillsborough (which neighbors Pinellas), Broward, Dade, Brevard, and Sarasota. These represent the highest population counties in Florida. Dade, Broward, Palm Beach, Pinellas, and Hillsborough had the top 5 voter turnout, respectively. In four of these counties, Buchanan voters represent .1-.25% of total votes, and ~10% of combined Nader/Buchanan voters. However, in PBC Buchanan gets .8% of the total vote, and raked in 38% of the combined, alternative vote.

This sticks out like a sore thumb, and I'm sure someone with a degree in statistics could prove my point. Why would PBC have SO MANY Buchanan voters if it is decidedly liberal? Why would it buck the trend set by counties of similar makeup and population? If one adjusts the Buchanan vote in PBC to correlate with the statewide average and the averages in other counties, One could assume that the total number of Gore votes miscast for Buchanan is ~2500.

I'm not saying that this is enough to win FL decisively for Gore, but if the final count and recount gives Bush the state with less than this margin, it will be a hotly contested point for years to come.

Addendum: I heard some republican flak on Crossfire claiming that Buchanan got 3000 votes in PBC in 1996 as well. If this were true, I would concede that the ballot confusion might not be the cause of these results. However, Buchanan wasn't ON the ballot in 1996. According to the FEC, Buchanan was not on the ballot in Florida, and must have got less overall than James Edward Harris's(?) 13 votes for president. According to this calendar from the 1996 election, he never specifically visited Palm Beach county in 1996. (He visited Ft. Lauderdale, Tampa, and Orlando in one trip.)

I've been googling steadily while writing this, and I can't find any further evidence of strong Pat Buchanan support in PBC, in 1996 or 2000. I am continuing statistical analysis on the county data as I type this. I want to look at the dramatic difference between PBC's Buchanan support and the rest of Florida, and see if any other states have counties which have this much of a flip flop.

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Or imagine you're the driver of a van delivering groceries and blankets to the homeless. Do you know how many lives are lost every year owing to exposure, simply because of miscommunication between relief agencies and dispatchers? A continuous link with home would solve that dilemma while providing incidental benefits like letting the homeless check their email or search for jobs on the internet.

However, I think you, Anne Marie have a career writing commercials for wireless web providers. This sounds like exactly the kind of saccharine bullshit they'd use to sell their product.

Radio will get you somewhere, but cbs are subject to a lot of abuse. Recently in NY, disgruntled ambulance drivers were (illegally) jamming the airwaves by blowing on the receiver each time a dispatch went out to a non-union ambulance. Thankfully, no one was (apparently) killed by the practice, but just the same, it's a scary prospect, and it'd be a lot harder to jam a satellite feed.

The sooner we realize real lives are at stake, the sooner we'll embrace this technology, for the greater good of humanity.

Or imagine you're the driver of a van delivering groceries and blankets to the homeless. Do you know how many lives are lost every year owing to exposure, simply because of miscommunication between relief agencies and dispatchers? A continuous link with home would solve that dilemma while providing incidental benefits like letting the homeless check their email or search for jobs on the internet.

However, I think you, Anne Marie have a career writing commercials for wireless web providers. This sounds like exactly the kind of saccharine bullshit they'd use to sell their product.

Radio will get you somewhere, but cbs are subject to a lot of abuse. Recently in NY, disgruntled ambulance drivers were (illegally) jamming the airwaves by blowing on the receiver each time a dispatch went out to a non-union ambulance. Thankfully, no one was (apparently) killed by the practice, but just the same, it's a scary prospect, and it'd be a lot harder to jam a satellite feed.

The sooner we realize real lives are at stake, the sooner we'll embrace this technology, for the greater good of humanity.

For what its worth, check out this Wired News story for some of Bush's blather. A quote:

"This is analog thinking in a digital age, 28K thinking in a broadband era, an eight-track ideology in an MP3 world," Bush added.

You may want to check out Beyond Freedom and Dignity by B.F. Skinner. This is the gentleman who defined and made a study of positive and negative reinforcement, and the gist of this book is that negative reinforcement NEVER works with human beings because it only encourages dishonesty, amongst other things. (Think about the Spartans)

Companies can just throw a few bones to the majority, hardcore techies (high-risk stock options in lieu of payment, assorted hi tech gadgets, nerf toys) and ignore the majority, who actually need substantive benefits.

I found an interesting article here on the concept of USEFUL benefits in the hi-tech industry.

On the topic, I believe that this is just a case of lawyers doing their job. They were told to look for copyright infringement on the web, and they found it, and are pressing charges just as much as they would if it were a game released yesterday and posted on a web site today. We just have to see which game company takes the high road first and sets a policy for allowing abandonware.

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On the topic, I believe that this is just a case of lawyers doing their job. They were told to look for copyright infringement on the web, and they found it, and are pressing charges just as much as they would if it were a game released yesterday and posted on a web site today. We just have to see which game company takes the high road first and sets a policy for allowing abandonware.

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On the topic, I believe that this is just a case of lawyers doing their job. They were told to look for copyright infringement on the web, and they found it, and are pressing charges just as much as they would if it were a game released yesterday and posted on a web site today. We just have to see which game company takes the high road first and sets a policy for allowing abandonware.

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No, I think Micros~1 products are just so much easier to crack.

It is written in the Bible that Pi equals 3.147. Anyone who claims otherwise is under the influence of Satan. This is from Laws 2:22.3

And lo saith the LORD, the ratio of the breadth of the circle to its circumference is inversely three leagues and one hundred two score and seven inches. And the people of Israel were well pleased by this.

There is my proof. See that you obey the commands of the LORD.

Sincerely,
Bob Jones III

How can you tell the sexual orientation of a computer? Have you tried inserting one in your anus?

I'm a victim of random moderation!!

Is a troll post too? At least last time, I didn't mention this.

However, the REAL reason was because Lloyd Blankenship, the author of the book, was running a bbs to discuss cracking, and they assumed that it would have incriminating evidence on it against SOMEONE (the best they came up with was a stolen bit of code from the 911 dialing system that is available for $0.75).

So SJ Games sued, won, got a bunch of money and got most of their computers and some of their equipment back but of course lost all their data. This is also interesting because it was an early EFF case.

So now we just have to figure out the REAL reason why this guy got busted...

Interesting opinions, considering that you're well known as a troll.

I'd disagree with some points though, I think that the trolls keep this shithole open.

Without trolls, this place would be as bland as kuro5hin. K5 has good discussion, but no character, no soul.

Deleting posts is censorship - something Taco has promised never to stoop to (and much respect to him for that). Also, bad moderation could then remove valuable posts forever. Will you claim that all Slashdot moderation is good?

One useful change could be to remove the 'Insightful' moderation option, as it is rarely used correctly. A simple point up or point down should suffice, especially considering that some posts are eg. both funny and informative.

I don't think you're being sensitive to just how pervasive the "mass propaganda" stereotype of anime is. To call someone a troll just because the "mass propaganda" is their only exposure to something isn't a fair way to judge them.

It's all the fault of the "mall otakus" (the male ones, at least) who watch too much Drag-on-ball Z, Ninja Scroll, Akira, and Urotsukidoji. They've played every fighting game there is, and all they want is to see people beat each other up, a picture splattered with blood, and women getting raped.

It's time we spread the word that Japanese animation is about more than just blood and sex, it's also about

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The NASA space flight site has on its space station page a picture of the space station with the Z1 truss attached.

I have a problem seeing Slashdot turn into some kind of national US media coverage. As you probably gather from the decrepit (I'm not sure if this link is nexessary. It's pathetic anyway, so in contrary to established Web principles, please don't follow it) state of my English, I'm not from the US, instead I'm from Vee-haf-vayz-of-makink-yoo-talk -land; so, frankly, all this Slashdot coverage is of absolutely no use or interest to me, and neither is it for the 6.8 billion people on Earth who happen to be non-US citizens. Please stop it. Thank you. Cover stories like colonizing Mars instead.

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Alfred Nobel was born in 1833 in Stockholm, Sweden to a family of engineers. His family was descended from Olof Rudbeck, the best-known technical genius of Sweden's 17th century era as a great power in northern Europe. At age 9, he moved with his family to Russia where he and his brothers were given first class education in the humanities and natural sciences by private teachers.

Nobel invented dynamite in 1866 and later built up companies and laboratories in more than 20 countries all over the world. A holder of more than 350 patents, he also wrote poetry and drama and even seriously considered becoming a writer.

The idea of giving away his fortune was no passing fancy for Nobel. Efforts to promote peace were close to his heart and he derived intellectual pleasure from literature, while science built the foundation for his own activities as a technological researcher and inventor.

On November 27, 1895, Nobel signed his final will and testament at the Swedish-Norwegian Club in Paris. He died of a heart attack in his home in San Remo, Italy on December 10, 1896.

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We read about this, didn't we kids?

"1. Every good work of software starts by scratching a developer's personal itch." Far fetched? Hear me out.

Slashdot, Vanguard (according to Katz, anyway) of the Geek Culture, is a victim of it's own success. I started here not long after Linux hit the mainstream, just as I got curious about the "new OS in town". Seemed like a nice spot. I think a search engine link brought me here. My first post was some drivel about how Linux zealots were being hipocrytes - they wanted users, but only the smart ones, and that wasn't how to complete the "World Domination" they craved. My little diatribe seemed well recieved, and caused a good discussion to happen - so I created my account and have stuck around. (Actually, IIRC, my response was to a someone slagging Kats when he was trying to install Linux on his laptop - and Taco helped him with it. Ironic, eh?) It seems I've watched /. go downhill ever since. Why? Simple - the human need for acceptance. This, faithful Slashdot Readers, Friends, Moderators, Karma Whores and Trolls, is the itch that /. scratches.

The one thing that always strikes one full in the face about the "geek culture" is that it's real currency is Intellect, and the display thereof. CmdrTaco, in his infinite wisdom, put a real, monetary value to the intellegence displayed by we people who post - Karma points - instead of measuring them by the quality of the thread created. Now, intead of soliciting replies in order to get lively debate, discussion and possibly New Clues, we solicit Karma. Karma, so we don't look like idiots to our peers. Or, if we figure that we don't rate, and haven't got the chance to, we troll or pop in as an AC - to hopefully deflect some of the moderators away from putting other people's "Inellect" ahead of our own. Signal 11 is right - it's now a contest to see who can win the title of "Most Intellegent Geek", not "News for Nerds. Stuff that Matters" - we all seem to want scratch our itch to be viewed as "Intelligent" to our peers.

No Slashdot account with a cool nic? You're just not in the game anymore, man. Don't run Linux? Further damage to your credibility. Only 3 Karma points? HAHAHHAH, you're either a moron or a Micr$oft shill, dude!

Personally, it's getting to the point that I don't give a flying fuck about my Karma anymore. +1 Bonus? Who cares. It'll just be drowned out in the rush to be first with some sort of incredibly pendantic navel gazing that we've all heard before. "Preaching to the Chior" indeed.

At least I don't have to sort through C/Net, ZDNet,Kiro5hin or the BBC to get to the importatnt stuff anymore - just the repeat stories here. VA - you've been HAD.

"Thank you for your post. That'll be 5.95 in Karma, buddy"

As a karma whore turned troll, let me chime in.

Why is Slashdot a circus of karma whores and trolls at the moment? Slashdot moderation is failing because of exactly the Delphi effect that Signal 11 tries to promote: the more you spread the ability to vote, the more rating the comment becomes a popularity contest.

Trolls know this well, and so do karma whores, to an extent: it's a simple matter of politics. Democracy was cracked by power-hungry lobbyists pretty much the same way Slashdot was cracked by the trolls. If you want enlightened comments and worthwhile discussions, then placing the debate in the hands of the silent majority is just going to create a mess.

Take Big Brother as an example: are you surprised the pretty face with the missing leg won? This shows you how pathetic it was to let the whole Internet vote. If you compare with Survivor, where the people involved in the action did the voting, there's a modicum of sense that arises. The winner was not the prettiest or the most popular, but the one who worked the hardest and made the most sense.

In Slashdot terms, the problem comes from the fact that those who moderate are necessarely uninvolved in the debate at hand. This allows trolls and karma whores to manipulate the popular opinion, while ACs sink karma faster than an omniscient Battleship player.

What you want is closer to peer review that you find in scientific papers. You want moderators who know what the hell is going on, and have proved they are unbiased.

Democracy works when everyone votes. But it doesn't work insofar as empowering everyone with the ability to run the show. Slashdot needs to realize that if they ever hope to run a decent discussion site.

I'd like to see either Signal 11 or myself get moderated up in a story we don't know shit about, when the moderators are authorities on the subject.

And by the way, if you moderated this down because of the goatsex link, you're probably part of the problem I just described.

As a karma whore turned troll, let me chime in.

Why is Slashdot a circus of karma whores and trolls at the moment? Slashdot moderation is failing because of exactly the Delphi effect that Signal 11 tries to promote: the more you spread the ability to vote, the more rating the comment becomes a popularity contest.

Trolls know this well, and so do karma whores, to an extent: it's a simple matter of politics. Democracy was cracked by power-hungry lobbyists pretty much the same way Slashdot was cracked by the trolls. If you want enlightened comments and worthwhile discussions, then placing the debate in the hands of the silent majority is just going to create a mess.

Take Big Brother as an example: are you surprised the pretty face with the missing leg won? This shows you how pathetic it was to let the whole Internet vote. If you compare with Survivor, where the people involved in the action did the voting, there's a modicum of sense that arises. The winner was not the prettiest or the most popular, but the one who worked the hardest and made the most sense.

In Slashdot terms, the problem comes from the fact that those who moderate are necessarely uninvolved in the debate at hand. This allows trolls and karma whores to manipulate the popular opinion, while ACs sink karma faster than an omniscient Battleship player.

What you want is closer to peer review that you find in scientific papers. You want moderators who know what the hell is going on, and have proved they are unbiased.

Democracy works when everyone votes. But it doesn't work insofar as empowering everyone with the ability to run the show. Slashdot needs to realize that if they ever hope to run a decent discussion site.

I'd like to see either Signal 11 or myself get moderated up in a story we don't know shit about, when the moderators are authorities on the subject.

And by the way, if you moderated this down because of the goatsex link, you're probably part of the problem I just described.

Why is Slashdot a circus of karma whores and trolls at the moment? Slashdot moderation is failing because of exactly the Delphi effect that Signal 11 tries to promote: the more you spread the ability to vote, the more rating the comment becomes a popularity contest.

Trolls know this well, and so do karma whores, to an extent: it's a simple matter of politics. Democracy was cracked by power-hungry lobbyists pretty much the same way Slashdot was cracked by the trolls. If you want enlightened comments and worthwhile discussions, then placing the debate in the hands of the silent majority is just going to create a mess.

Take Big Brother as an example: are you surprised the pretty face with the missing leg won? This shows you how pathetic it was to let the whole Internet vote. If you compare with Survivor, where the people involved in the action did the voting, there's a modicum of sense that arises. The winner was not the prettiest or the most popular, but the one who worked the hardest and made the most sense.

In Slashdot terms, the problem comes from the fact that those who moderate are necessarely uninvolved in the debate at hand. This allows trolls and karma whores to manipulate the popular opinion, while ACs sink karma faster than an omniscient Battleship player.

What you want is closer to peer review that you find in scientific papers. You want moderators who know what the hell is going on, and have proved they are unbiased.

Democracy works when everyone votes. But it doesn't work insofar as empowering everyone with the ability to run the show. Slashdot needs to realize that if they ever hope to run a decent discussion site.

I'd like to see either Signal 11 or myself get moderated up in a story we don't know shit about, when the moderators are authorities on the subject.

I for one am glad to hear that Microsoft has taken my advice in only releasing wholesome Christian games for the "x" box. I will be buying an x box for Bob IV this Christmas, along with the hit games "Bible Blaster" "The Road to Jericho" "Spot the Homosexual" and "Chapter and Verse". Finally there is an electronic game console that we can be proud to accept into our family. Thank you, Microsoft.

Sincerely,
Bob Jones III

The feature I'd like to see most is a killfile.
I can block out story authors that annoy me, I wish I could do the same to posters that annoy me.

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MODERATORS: Flamebait or Troll. None of this Offtopic, Redundant, or Overrated crap.
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You may have heard that Slashdot was recently "hacked". The preliminary stages of this hacking were made possible with nanoprobe-like technology.

I, Bob Jones III, was part of the elite "hacking" team. I added a module to the "lameness filter" that prevents the following kinds of posting errors:

• Blasphemy
• Homosexuality
• Witchcraft
• One-World Government
• Catholicism
• Moral Relativism
• Secular Humanism
• Darwinism
• BSD
• Rap music
• Abortion

Mr. Taco: It is hopeless to try to correct this error. I have added this code block to the firmware of your RAID arrays, so if you erase the module, it will be instantly rewritten. I am doing this to save the souls of all Slashdot readers and lead them toward CHRIST.

Sincerely,
Bob Jones III

I am glad to hear that 3Com has wisely chosen to integrate a hardware-based pornography blocking mechanism to the new pad. This will steer many Americans away fromn the devil and toward our LORD Jesus Christ .

Sincerely,
Bob Jones III

If you want to do something that is actually worthwhile (and c'mon, a contest run by geeks for geeks is not it), take some of the examples, as well as some completely legitimate sites that were not meant to trip any filters, and list about 25 of them on a flyer. Then find 25 sites that are completely innappropriate for anyone* to view, and are *NOT* blocked, and list those.

Okay, everyone go pick one brand of filtering S/W and do this. Print a paragraph explaining that this instituition uses brand-X filter, include a breif synopsis of what to expect on a few of the sites, and either tape it up next to the computers or hand it out outside the library. This is something those of you doing the goatsex redirects would absolutely love, find a URL for it that hasn't been blocked and encourage people to leave their terminal on that when they leave (Okay, maybe that won't help the cause, but make sure they understand what hello.jpg is and that it's only a click or two away.)

Write another paragraph encouraging people to ask their librarian who to complain to about getting said censorware removed, and provide email addresses to the customer service contacts for the censorware companies.

*That* would be worthwhile. In fact, Rob, since you enjoy the embarassment and ridicule of censorware companies, why not host a project that has printable postscript of such files? It seems like a much more effective way to get word out to the people than having cphack.exe source code posted all over your stories like a couple of months ago. Or if someone wants to start a sourceforge page for such a project, please submit it as a story.

*Hey I said it was innapropriate, noone to blame but yourself if you click without reading...

Fist Prost

"We're talking about a planet of helpdesks."

If you actually read the article instead of launching into your infantile display of pseudoagressive censorship (i.e. moderation), you'd know that a masked link to goatse.cx is relevent, on topic, and insightful. Instead of taking out your subconcious anger at your mother for weaning you too early or at your father for not recusing himself from your mother's bed so that you may fulfill your oedipal desires, you should read the moderation faq and visit sid=moderation to learn about the important role and power you've abused.

I guess, in light of how unworkable either of my above examples are, we would just have to shut down this whole web thing and appologize. I'm sure that would go through pretty quickly without any snags or complaints </sarcasm>

I guess, in light of how unworkable either of my above examples are, we would just have to shut down this whole web thing and appologize. I'm sure that would go through pretty quickly without any snags or complaints </sarcasm>

Dude,
check out JabberCentral, and, of course, Jabber.com Inc. ICQ and AOL combined.

Well now that Sonique is on Linux, We can look forward to RMS screaming about how their source license violates the GPL. I'm tired of his communist antics. That bastard.

Note, I am not a very good troll, for better ones, see the troll homepage.

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I've been on Slashdot for quite some time now. I've posted, moderated, and meta-moderated more than my share.

IMHO, moderating down "First Posts" is really a waste of points. It is also not in keeping with the spirit of moderation (concentrate on marking up good posts rather than slamming bad ones).

The truth is that 99.99% of all FPs are made anonymously. This means they start at 0. The moderation system is designed so that people can bump their thresholds up to 1 and filter out all the FPs and AC goatse.cx links. Now, as a moderator, you should be browsing at -1, so you are exposed to this vileness. At the same time, you should remember that most serious slashdotters aren't seeing it.

Slapping a -1 on a First Post uses a moderation point that could have been used bumping a worthy AC post up to +1. Then, those of us who usually browse at +1 could see it.

I've been on Slashdot long enough to expect the "First Post" at 0. I set my threshold accordingly. By moderating the FP down to -1, you don't really spare me anything. At the same time, there's probably a post at 0 somewhere in this thread that is worth my attention. It's a pity I'll never see it.

CmdrTaco has worked hard designing this system. It really works if we just let it.

Another black hole article? You really want to see goatse.cx links florish!

Our LORD will be forced to "moderate" you to HELL for ALL ETERNITY unless you accept the infinite love of Jesus Christ as your personal SAVIOR! REPENT!

I'm at work. I could be monitored any time.

Links like that are diabolical.