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The 3rd Annual Nigerian EMail Conference
Jacek Fedorynski writes "I present to you an urgent and confidential request: I request your attendance at The 3rd Annual Nigerian EMail Conference. This is an excellent opportunity to meet your distinguished colleagues, learn new marketing techniques, and spend your hard-earned money. Attending this conference demands the highest trust, security and confidentiality between us."
when spam gets submitted to slashdot as a story.
Of course it runs NetBSD. BTC: 1NT7QvbetmANwaMzhpVL6
"The hotel was very, very upscale. The running water was a nice touch! - Dr, Collins Mdadiwe
is the comma after "Dr"
if the spammers said that they were white people from great britain or the united states, we'd hate the spammers too. it's nothing about being racist.
What's racist? If it were as commonly done by Danes as it is by Nigerians, we'd be lampooning the Danes. What proportion of the 419-style spam do you get that is from non-African sources (checking headers, phones, etc. and tracing follow-up email sources too). I have had exactly THREE that had no African links ... one claiming to be Cuban, via mexico, one Romanian coming from various European IP addresses, and one claiming to be Iraqui, but sending through a server in Ireland.
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Capitalism != (innovation|democracy|freedom)
You should change it to
Capitalism != Innovation != Democracy != Freedom
The way it is written implies it is against all those things instead of just an independent aspect of a society. I too get pissy when people say "democracy" but mean "everything we have." Democracy is just a good guard against change, which is why the first act of many democracies is to elect a dictator (think Africa) - a dictator is exactly what they had before.
.sig Karma out the wazoo, better to spend points elsewhere if this is above 2 or below 0
We don't call it "racism" anymore.
We call it "REALLY HUGE FUCKING OVERGENERALIZATION ABOUT A COUNTRY'S PEOPLE WE KNOW ABSOLUTELY NOTHING ABOUT EXCEPT FOR WHAT SOMEBODY'S MOTHER'S UNCLE'S FATHER'S BROTHER'S SON'S NIECE SAW ON TV ONCE."
Want proof? Good, I know you did!
Hey! I didn't know all Nigerians were e-mail spammers and scammers! At least they're not like all those terrorist Arabs in the Middle East.
Oh, and I suppose all blacks in the USA eat only fried chicken, chitterlings, pigs feet, collard greens, and watermelon.
Right. Because I'm sure all Nigerians don't know what running water is or how to use a bathroom like us God-fearing, flag-waving Uhmerikins do.
I could go on. Sure, the entire thrust of the webpage is a satire on the Nigerian e-mail scam. However, many points exist in the page that continue to propagate racist notions about Nigerians. Sure, it may be unintentional, but most racist remarks are unintentional. I'm not saying it should be taken down and destroyed forever because it's racist. I'm emploring everybody to carefully think about what they are reading and what racist stereotypes they are perpetrating.
Nigeria has bigger problems than e-mail scam artists
"Flyin' in just a sweet place,
Never been known to fail..."
Of course, any reasonable person would spot this web site for what it is -- hateful -- and respond with well-deserved scorn. However, since I am typical Slashdot reader, I am so intellegent and above-the-fold that these lowly issues do not touch me. I am beyond the hard black and white of issues, able to see through to the underlying grey as Neo sees through to the underlying truth of the Matrix. And though I am an unparalleled genius, I'd rather not waste a nanosecond of my valuable time to think about what I am reading. No! Such consideratioins flit through my massive brain without impression, inconsequential as gnats swarming an elephant. After all, the site is Just. A. Joke. And as all enlightening minds know, the guise of humor makes any topic acceptable.
Even racism.
Ha Ha Haaaaa!