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Fighting Spam With A 17th Century Law
A reader writes "Here is an interesting article which describes how a law from the year 1610 could make Spam illegal in Australia. The same story in german can be found here." Actually, since the law stems from King James I (the VI, if you are Scottish), as such, could be held British Commonwealth wide.
Or alternatively, "Hail to the King, Baby!"
I had to say that. I just had to.
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Errr... no. A cubit is about 18 inches. Still, in the spirit of two months ago, 9 inches would leave the maids a'milking.
"You're never ready, just less unprepared."
Sounds funny, but too damned dangerous.
.1% of international trade (this is based on US. I suspect higher in some countries). His advisor strongly urged him not to. We all assumed because it was too much of a PITA. Our prof assured us no. His prof wouldn't have a problem with that. No, his prof didn't want him to dig too deeply into the underbelly of international trade.
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Had an econ prof who loved international stuff. Now, if you look at the books that the gov't keeps on money/goods/services going into and out of the country, we are talking billions and billions of dollars. But there is a small amount (.1%) that is unaccounted. And there is all sorts of esoteric stuff. How many feather pillows were imported.
Now, my econ prof wanted to do his doctoral thesis on this
Turns out that a few people have looked into this, and the results are that 90% of the miscellaneous stuff is due to trade by guys from a little island near Italy. Who are particularly private about certain things.
You start a war with the Cosa Nostra if you want. As for me, I'm keeping my guns ready to defend my rights.
(Although I guess comments like that can get you modded out of existence on
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