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UK Makes Spamming a Fineable Offense
woodhouse writes "The BBC has an article about the new UK anti-spamming law which comes into force later this year. Under the new law, spammers can be fined up to 5000 pounds in a magistrates court, or an unlimited amount in the crown court. Sadly, prison terms won't be used to enforce of the new law."
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its a shame this wont compile.
you forgot to escape your angular brackets (< and >) and so your include line is bare and the << operator is missing. HAHAH SUX0R!
When in doubt, parenthesize. At the very least it will let some poor schmuck bounce on the % key in vi. (Larry Wall)
North Carolina is being torn apart and the hurricane damages will be in the billions and you people are talking about some canned spam in the UK!? Unbelievable! HAVE SOME PRIORITIES PEOPLE!!
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Everyone will remember me as the 'First Post Man' of Thursday 18 September 2003
Dear Goatse.cx guy,
Thank you for your valuable input. Unfortunately your writing isn't up to the calibre that the highly focused slashdot readers demand.
Please go back to stretching open your bottom.
Thank you.
Trolling is a art,
Yeah, their the evil ones, right.....
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The English have no business in Eire. What about the last 800 years of occupation? for what? who invited them here? get out and give us back our island.
I'm at that point guys, the lowest of the low, been working on my project for three years, no money and I'm just beat, I'm mentally tired.
.. yeah that was me! Can you see a trend? I try my damndest because I want to succeed and people just ignore us, we cant get a story on slashdot, journalists are busy, marketing people want $$$ before they even talk. I look at my mother who's worked all her life for pennies, who works 9-5 AND THEN spends more hours there after changing into her cleaning clothes and cleans the office. :o/ I sit here, I just want in my heart to once say yeah mam, yeah its working this time things will be good! But years tick by, she was 50 yesterday and I had a whopping 6 to really lavish on her. What happens when they are gone and I'm still here, how far do you take these things and if you stop, what happens to the wasted years? Want to know another funny thing? I appied for a job putting stuffing on pizza's last week and got rejected. Isn't that just one for the books!
I own 60% of this: http://www.convea.com
Does anyone out there want to invest and help us grow? Does anyone want to my buy share a get controlling interest of a nice little dot.com with tons of potential?
email me, please, do something, anything. alan.carter@convea.com
I know, I know, it's spam, it ruins your reading pleasure but for God's sake, for once will anybody listen? You know I've personally really tried, *really* tried, I have given it everything but it just feels that nobody wants to give anyone a break these days unless you're connected or have the right family/education. What does it take to get a voice in this so called global village (POP: BILLIONS)?! Why, please, why is it so hard to talk to people with money? I *know* I could do anything with the net, and it's not just me, my partner who I wrote this with has sacrificed as much as I have, we went through hell getting this done, months and months spent sleeping on the floor waking up and hitting the computers and that was just the last stint and this has gone on for years and years. His marriage was a wreck, he never saw his kids, our families fell apart all because of this passion to see something work for once. We looked at the competition and thought yeah surely this time someone will see what we've done, just us two from the little none-existant north-east english village. Did they heck, nobody looks, nobody bats an eyelid at how we could trouce all of the big boys together and they CALL THEMSELVES VISIONARIES!!! What a bunch of jokers.
And no, you know what I'm going to lay it on the line here, we're all adults, we're all professionals, maybe one of you could even just give some good old fashioned advice. I cant know it all, I cant do *everything*, what happened to people helping each other out? I feel you know, I feel the same as other people, when people have a pop at my work I feel it personally- so what it requires IE to run, I mean, that's not that bad is it really? It's just a browser. Given time we would support every browser- I dont have a team of developers, technical authors, artists, UI specialists, marketing gurus or anything else just me. You see that website at Convea? I did that, the boards? I put those up. Convea itself? Yep, me and my friend wrote that, just the two of us. The documentation,
How does it all work guys? I just dont know anymore, they say keep on trying and one day you'll succeed but I can safely say that in 17 years I have not even had the faintest glimmer that anything I do will work. Even was I a "games programmer", just as I got my break Commodore went under and so did sales of Amiga games. Oh how I laughed.
But lets get to the meat of this: money, the almighty dollar. Why is it that some companies get funding easy as pie, hey! Just ask! But us, heheh, us! We get zip, a big no thanks, no buster, not today come back when you have already made it into the bigtime THEN we'll back you. We