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Sousveillance in Seattle - Watching the Watchers
Eh-Wire writes "At the recent ACM Conference on Computers, Freedom and Privacy, Steve Mann - cyborg numero uno - led a troop of conference attendees on a surveillance camera hunt and digital capture. Their antics confounded rent-a-cops in a downtown Seattle shopping mall who had difficulty with the concept of having their surveillance cameras surveilled."
Rather than playing into the recipients insecurities, why not cause their partners to realize how dissatisfied they are?
You get a breast enlargement spam. You start thinking, "Man, it *would* be nice if she had bigger boobs. Maybe I'll get her this cream."
Meanwhile, she's checking her e-mails and thinking, "Hmm, needledick could use some help. Maybe if I get pills from this one place, and a vacuum pump from this other one..."
Not that they really intended that, but it's another valid way to market. ED pill commercials often show how much happier the women are.
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How could you mark this "Troll" when it's obviously "Offtopic"!
If you don't know where you are going, you will wind up somewhere else.
Since we're on the theme of rent-a-cops, and since this article is about one of the most useless activities that has taken place in a while, I thought I might entertain you with the lyrics from Ben Folds's "Rent-a-Cop":
I'm 'trolling food court for girls
Yeah, it's the best job in the world
They know they're safe with me
They love my little mustache
They love a man in uniform
Oh
With my sunglass they can't
See what I'm really looking at
And as they're walking by
I whisper through my doughnut
Hey baby, baby light that ass on fire
How long must this day go on?
I got to stand here two more hours till I
Punch the clock
How long must this day go on?
No kid, they don't give me a gun
I don't get paid enough to run
So you can call me what you want
I'll be hanging at the check out
Checking out your girlfriend
Figure out how she's going to fit all of that
Butt into that underwear - yeah
Yeah
Hey girl if you can't recall
Where you parked your daddy's car
Then I could help you out
All alone in this
great big mall
Oh
How long must this day go on?
I got to stand here two more hours
Till it's Miller Time
How long must this day go on?
Whoa oh oh, oh oh
I'm 'trolling food court for girls
I whisper through my doughnut
I whisper through my doughnut
I whisper through my doughnut
Hey baby baby, hey baby baby baby
Light that
Light that ass on fire
Alright, that's good
Ironically, the word ironically is often used incorrectly.
... the Simpsons espiode when Homer discovers his Hippie roots and drives around town with the jester hat on "freaking out" the squares?
As a matter of fact, I never did this.
I am 24 now and have enjoyed drinking these past three years. Before then, I followed the rules.
Please don't make such absolute statements.
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