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RC Car Craze: The Spam Connection
Rick Zeman writes "The Washington Post is reporting that the latest toy craze, miniature radio-controlled cars, is actually fueled by spam, and that spammers are actually helping brick and mortar retailers.
Dunno about you guys, but I get a couple of those a day...and I've resisted the 'temptation.'" The Washington Post wants to know your age, ZIP code and sex, and even provides you with hints on the first two.
...or read
the same story on MSNBC.
I'm delighted I could have the honor of posting the first comment to this important headline. If anyone deserves this distinction, I'm glad it was me. I earned it through hours of hard work and dedication. Perhaps you're wondering why I'm writing so much. I'm doing this simply to piss you off, and to parade around the fact that I could write out this whole saga faster than you could write a pathetic little "first post"! Hah hah hah, losers!
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Why does Slashdot keep dying and disallowing logins or comments? Please stop sucking, I pay 10 dollars a month for this service and it often doesn't work.
SPAM SUCKS!
I got first post! Yay for me!
I want to jump in here and complain just so a few people hear me. It's nothing REALLY important, but you're getting it anyway.
I've been 272lbs since I was about 18, and always been heavy (I'm 5'10") which I assumed to be a product of eating more pizza than any human should be allowed to while a teenager.
Anyway, I'm 27 now and have been trying to lose weight. I started with the logical suggestion - eat a little better and exercise more, and ended up walking about an hour each night for more than 6 months, while also cutting down on the overly fatty parts of my diet. No more fries/fast food, crisps and choc bars, and I'm a lot more into making my own stirfries. Despite all this after those 6 months, I was still fucking 272lbs. I went to weight watchers and stuck to their plan religiously (admittedly it wasn't too different to how I was eating in the 6 months previous) and still, no loss. I've since tried Slimfast, which promises a metabolism speedup and weightloss. Nope. 272lbs. I went on the atkins style high protein/no carb diet. No change
This is the fucking stupid thing. I stopped eating. 5 weeks and I've had nothing but 3 slices of toast. The first couple of days were hell, but the hunger soon left - and I'm walking for an hour morning and night before work. I don't feel all that different, just the occasional hunger pang from time to time, especially when my wife is eating her own meals. BUT WHY AM I THE SAME GODDAMNED FUCKING WEIGHT. 271lbs now. One pound gone. No slimmer. No change in my beltline, and rolls hanging off me like the michelin man. Christ if I were to get lost in the wilderness somewhere I think I could live forever. I'd come out at the end of it filthy, crazy, clothes torn to shreds and still a fatarse.
. Thank you for reading this far, I just wanted to whine.