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Web Profits in the Gutter

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the storm-drains-clogged-with-spam dept.

The New York Times has an article about the web's one true growth industry: spam, fraud and porn. Societal meltdown or flourishing ecosystem? The talking heads debate.

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  1. Libertarians by anthony_dipierro · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    The company sold pills via the Web that promised to increase penis length, bust size and body height. Enough people had spent $60 an order -- mostly for the "Longitude" treatments, with ingredients that included pumpkin seed, sarsaparilla and "oyster meat" -- that the state was able to seize more than $30 million in luxury real estate and a herd of Mercedes-Benzes, Rolls Royces and a Lamborghini.

    Of course the libertarians want to abolish the FDA and make these scams legal, as long as the companies don't guarantee success.

  2. Re:They shut it down? by Pig+Hogger · · Score: 1, Offtopic
    Now I will have to send away for that tiger penis balm that is guaranteed to make me hung like a stallion and sexually attractive to women.
    Jeeeesus. Like if penis size was an indication of virility. Orientals have teeny-weeenies, yet they are the most numerous race on earth.

    A slut I know tells me that, even though oriental men have mini-weenies, they are super-hard, and they can sustain terrific erections guaranteed to make scream the most frigid or loose broad.

    She also had plenty of blacks. Huge weenies, as one can expect. Except that they are quite soft (but not so soft as to preclude penetration - fortunately).

  3. New /. Math(s) by WIAKywbfatw · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    The New York Times has an article about the web's one true growth industry: spam, fraud and porn. Societal meltdown or flourishing ecosystem? The talking heads debate.

    Spam, fraud and porn. One true growth industry.

    1 + 1 + 1 = 1

    And there was me thinking that should be three.

    It looks as if the old /. karma system ("50 + 1 - 1 = 49", etc) has a worthy sucessor...

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    "Accept that some days you are the pigeon, and some days you are the statue." - David Brent, Wernham Hogg
  4. Of those 3... by Jade+E.+2 · · Score: 1, Offtopic
    OK, so the only profitable web outfits are spam, fraud, or porn. So which category does slashdot fall under?

    Oh, wait, I forgot. They're not profitable :)

    (Yes, I love the smell of karma burning in the morning.)

  5. Re:Fraud and Spam? by stinky+wizzleteats · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    hmm... another Christian bashing troll, which doesn't even have a good analogy, rewarded by a meteoric application of + moderation.

    Are there really *that* many moderators running around who harbor childhood religious repression to the point of pathology?