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Time-travel Spammer Strikes Back
HopToit writes "Robby Todino is apparently upset about being outed a couple months ago as the source of all those wacked messages about 'Dimenstional Warp Generator Needed.' According to Wired, someone has pulled a major joe-job spam attack (forged 'From:' lines) on three popular sites in retaliation for making fun of Todino's goofy search for alien technology. Robby, if you're out there, you have ceased to be amusing."
Like all good bond adversaries, this one won't die.
- Sherman
Someone needs to get that guy on Coast to Coast AM, with Art Bell/George Noory stat.
Knowing that show, there's someone else in the audience that actually does have all that equipment he's searching for. =)
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The very fact that we received spam proves that time travel is impossible: If it was possible, someone would invent it, travel back in time and beat up all the spammers so that they would never have sent any in the first place.
we need to send Van Damme after this guy.
Manipulate the moderator system! Mod someone as "overrated" today.
Why doesn't he travel back in time and kill all of their grandfathers? They would cease to exist.
Wait. Then he wouldn't need to kill their grandfathers. And then he would.
And...
And...
Excuse me.
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I can fly!
It's the slashdot equivalent of a blow job only it's called a "Joe job" because it's gay.
Todino's father, Robert Todino Sr., previously told Wired News that his son has psychological problems and earnestly believes in the possibility of time travel.
Are spammers going to start pleading "insanity" when they get arrested? "The aliens made me do it!"
When life hands you lemons, grab the salt and pass the tequilla...
What we clearly need to do is identify the idiots who respond to this shit. I suggest mailing everyone once a year with a stupid offer, and then killing each and every person who responds in a horrible, blood curdling manner. On television. That ought to put a stop to it.
a hundred million years or so and will continue only for a few hundred million more - quite a small window in the history
Statements like this are why I never lend money to anybody in Astronomy or Geology.
Eve Fairbanks says I drive a hybrid!LOL
I dunno about yours, but my TV has a power switch. Besides, who needs TV when you've got BitTorrent? :)
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There is only one logical solution to this puzzle...
Get a lawyer and sue both these time travelers for patent infringement. With all the money, you won't have to worry about which crappy future you end up with.
I mean that, stop and think for just a moment at what kind of a world we would have to live in for that to happen.
Physically torturing someone for sending spam?
You sir, are a fucking idiot with no idea of what it is like to watch someone get shock therapy.
Really? What's it like? Did they fight and plead with you not to hit the button? Did you give them a mouth guard? Did their muscle contractions pop any loose restraints off? Did they wet themselves afterward? After watching it, did you say "Golly, that was unpleasant! I guess I like to receive spam after all."
Anyway, I will do as you suggest and stop and think for a moment about what kind of world we would have to live in to physically torture someone for sending spam. Mmmm... ok, I got it: A world that has improved the order of its priorities.
We currently live in a world that allows for killing and torture so that lucrative reconstruction contracts can be created and awarded to U.S. companies. We currently live in a world that keeps men prisoners on death row for ten years and then executes them while refusing to perform DNA tests that might exonerate them. We give severe punishments to those whose crimes affect few, and we ignore those whose crimes affect millions. That seems backward to me. Seriously. In comparison to the total misery created by a crime and the likelihood of any one person being affected by the criminal, spammers should serve much longer sentences than murderers. So should retirement fund plunderers and corrupt politicians.
You need to pick up some WSBurroughs or something; might improve your dark humor detection a little.