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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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I love the smell of Fork Pork in the evening!
for all my dead homies who couldnt make it today
I soooo wanted to be first for the first time... stupid system...
fp wh0res. and, so im not some fp wh0re, why is this a surprise. the web is a medium to move data, that's it. just like television was when it first came out, the internet is matureing. once people realize that it's not a goose that lays golden eggs, and start using it for what it should be used for, we'll all be better off.
and what _should_ it be used for? disseminating information.
that is all.
-teknopurge
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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.
How exactly can I moderate you up??
I clicked on "porn" in the summary, and it just took me to the damned "Register" page on nytimes.com!
a thread where even the dumbest of posts by a coward can get modded up.
why are we complaining about PORN on the net? I mean it provides a way of getting it without feeling emberrased when we go into JackOff's vidoe rental...
ps, spam sucks.
way to get MODDED DOWN, by TRYING TO BE NICE. faggot. roffles.
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).
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.
/. karma system ("50 + 1 - 1 = 49", etc) has a worthy sucessor...
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
"Accept that some days you are the pigeon, and some days you are the statue." - David Brent, Wernham Hogg
Oh, wait, I forgot. They're not profitable :)
(Yes, I love the smell of karma burning in the morning.)
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?