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How the Spam Industry is Sustained
mOoZik writes "The BBC has an interesting article about spam and why it's still around. According to a survey, nearly 1/3 of users have clicked on spam messages and 1/10 have bought products advertised therein. "If no-one responded to junk e-mail and didn't buy products sold in this way, then spam would be as extinct as the dinosaurs.""
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Wasn't this brought up about a year ago? Is /. that slow on catching on or is it the BBC?
Any man who afflicts the human race with ideas must be prepared to see them misunderstood. -- H. L. Mencken
Anal sex rocks. I love it when my hot man-lover really gives it to me up the bum.
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I sure do love my anus. It allows me to shit. Are you one of those misanalists?
This thing is too frickin big to mount on a shark's head, so what good is it?
1) "John Kerry. In his 20 years in the Senate, he's been a standard-issue Massachusetts liberal, with a lifetime rating from Americans for Democratic Action of 93 on their 0-100 scale. By contrast, the other Senator from the Bay State, Teddy Kennedy, has a lifetime rating of 88. "That makes Kennedy the conservative of the two," chortled Republican National Chairman Ed Gillespie as he visited New Hampshire last week on an anti-Democratic strafing run." -- James Pinkerton, 1/26/04
2) "Speaking on a live local broadcast at a campaign stop in Toledo, Ohio in front of 300 people, Kerry blasted Bush for being an illegitimately elected president in 2000 when he was "selected" by the U.S. Supreme Court. When an elderly Democratic voter in the audience accused Vice President Dick Cheney of murdering women and children in Iraq for the sake of oil profits, Kerry responded by saying, "I know exactly where you're coming from." Kerry added, "I know where that anger comes from, I know where the frustration comes from." -- John Kerry, May 2004
3) John Kerry's official blog links to the Democratic Underground, a left-wing website with very popular forums that is often quoted from by conservative bloggers and radio hosts because it's such a cesspool of lunacy. If you're looking for people who think Americans are just as bad as Al-Qaeda, the US Gov't had Nick Berg killed, or just a little America trashing, there's no better place on the internet to go than the Democratic Underground.
4) Do you want to allow the United Nations to control where American troops are sent? John Kerry said he did...
"I'm an internationalist. I'd like to see our troops dispersed through the world only at the directive of the United Nations." -- John Kerry, 1970
5) Thanks to George Bush, we've backed away from the economy crushing Kyoto Protocol, the ABM Treaty which would have prevented us from building a missile defense, and the International Criminal Court which could have put our military & government officials under threat of frivolous prosecution.
6) George Bush is a strong supporter of a Federal Marriage Amendment which is the only way to stop liberal judges from imposing gay marriage on the states against the wishes of the voters and State Legislatures.
7) If you believe it's important to increase funding for education, "President Bush's overall Fiscal Year (FY) 2005 budget represents a 49% increase for elementary and secondary education since FY 2001".
8) George Bush is a staunch supporter of the pro-life movement and signed the Partial Birth Abortion Ban into effect.
9) A rudimentary nuclear missile defense system will for the first time go online later this year thanks to George Bush.
10) George Bush's five-year, $15 billion Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief is the most significant strike against the spread of AIDS/HIV in the history of mankind.
You can call me a grammer Nazi until Al Gore finally figures he will never be president but the fact remains you criticized Republicans for being stupid and then made a stupid mistake.
As the kids say, joo |053
You want to know who isn't running Firefox 2.x? They spell it "definately" and "rediculous".
Where else but on /. could a spam discussion elicit Bush-bashing.
Maybe you would do well to be apprehended by the punctuation Nazis.
Note: I have no affiliation with Nazis and/or Republicans.
The toad can't burp - and for some reason can't fart either, so it swells up and eventually explodes. --Anonymous Coward
I'm not a Republican and I have never voted for a Republican.
You want to know who isn't running Firefox 2.x? They spell it "definately" and "rediculous".