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First Lawsuits Filed under Missouri's No-Spam Law
darksoulz writes "The St. Louis Business Journal is reporting that Jay Nixon, Missouri's attorney general, has filed the first lawsuits under the new no-spam law against two Florida spammers. The law doesn't totally prohibit spam, it just requires that the subject line be tagged to let consumers know that it is an advertisement. One of the lawsuit recipients even managed to spam an address maintained by the attorney general's office."
"A person starts to live when he can live outside himself."
Bend over and take it like a man, motherfucker.
"The Rev. John Johnston, 64, was a pistol-packing padre who had a stash of Nazi memorabilia and gay porn in his Jackson Heights apartment, police said. But perhaps the most evil thing the longtime religion teacher is accused of is breaking the Seventh Commandment by stealing as much as $100,000 from a Long Island church's collection... The Catholic priest's secret life was exposed when cops went to his apartment Tuesday night to bust him for allegedly making 'offensive and nasty' calls to the principal of Bishop Laughlin High School in Brooklyn... Johnston answered the door in a kimono - but what grabbed cops' interest was a huge wad of cash and a revolver sitting on a dresser... 'He had a whole shrine of Nazi memorabilia in his closet, Nazi flags, helmets, daggers, swastikas, German military medals,' the police source said. Before they left, cops also found two other handguns, .38-caliber and .32-caliber, as well as gay pornographic videos and magazines."
"The Catholic Church is telling people in countries stricken by AIDS not to use condoms because they have tiny holes in them through which the HIV virus can pass - potentially exposing thousands of people to risk. The church is making the claims across four continents despite a widespread scientific consensus that condoms are impermeable to the HIV virus. A senior Vatican spokesman backs the claims about permeable condoms, despite assurances by the World Health Organisation that they are untrue... 'These incorrect statements about condoms and HIV are dangerous when we are facing a global pandemic which has already killed more than 20 million people, and currently affects at least 42 million.'"
The attitude with which someone trolls depends in part on motivation. Why is he trolling? An intent to amuse himself, other trolls, and some groupers is indication of a good overall attitude.
Maintenance of this attitude is important to a hit and run style troll. It is more important for engagement trolls. The quality of posts and the emotional state of the troll will both be adversely affected if a troll can't maintain the primary purpose of amusement, most
importantly that some others be amused.
A troll hammering his own agenda, without support from
anyone, or only support from a few troll buddies, most
likely isn't a troll. He's instead probably a mission
poster. Use of troll techniques doesn't make a person
a troll. Its the attitude that makes a person a troll.
Avoiding Obsession
Avoiding obsession requires being introspective. A
troll must frequently self-evaluate. Its also good
to have friends who can be asked to evaluate a troll's
attitude, and who can be relied upon to be candid.
One indication of obsession is a troll making most of
his posts to a single group or on one subject. Lack
of diversity in posting habits usually indicates a
problem.
Approaching or exceeding the limits of ethical behavior
might indicate obsession with winning. Monitoring
this is important. Dedication to the art is admirable.
Obsession to win is not.
Its also possible to be obsessed with trolling in
general. There should be some places where a troll
is more grouper than troll. This doesn't include
being a grouper in a upa group.
Hurt Feelings
One almost certain effect of trolling is that someone
is going to get his feelings hurt. Usually , it is a
grouper.
The most basic is embarrassment, and most groupers are
able to recover from it. Usually, it happens when a
grouper didn't realize a post was a troll and flamed or
responded seriously. This is most likely to happen when
the post contained subtle humor or humor that could be
by intent interpreted by some as being insults. It
can't be said that, in such cases, a good time was had
by all, but usually, a good time was had by most. The
grouper will be more careful in the future, but, it
seems, there's always another un
true.dat bro