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ermita2 writes "The South Florida Sun-Sentinel published this weekend a story about how South Florida is home to more spammers than any other place in the world according to Spamhaus. The reason for that seems to be Florida's long history and friendliness with dirty business from real estate speculation to the penny stock scammers. Among the interesting tidbits is anecdotal evidence that the amount of spam worldwide fell for a while after last year's hurricanes in Florida."
and social security would be solvent for another 50 years
Economics problem - spam is profitable as long as 0.01% of the spammed masses buy the pills. As long as there are just a few idiots buying into the crap, we all get spammed.
By the time you've rhymed one line, I've already busted ten; You rap in exponential time and I'm big-O of log(n).
You speak as a man who knows nothing about his subject - no surprise, this is Slashdot.
Mississippi is a MUCH worse place than Florida. People in *Alabama* regularly thank God that they don't live in Mississippi.
Personally, I'd much rather live in Florida than, say... [shudder] New Jersey!
Ce n'est pas un vrai mouvement de robot!
I suspect that part of his motivation for that is the 3 or 4 people a year who have alligators come into their houses during mating season. They shoot the alligators and are subsequently prosecuted for discharging a firearm within city limits. Although this law seems more geared toward human criminals, I suspect that its main application will be for reptile ones.
I'm trying to teach myself to set people on fire with my mind... Is it hot in here?
Spam is as necessary and useful as me standing in your street at night with a bullhorn shouting sales pitches at the sky.
There's a big difference between advertising and unwanted solicitation.
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What the hell do firearms have to do with a "crookland?" Troll. Just because you don't agree with one decision with the governor doesn't mean "Florida is deffinitelly a crookland."
Last time I checked Washington DC leads the nation in violence and firearms are banned out right there.
This guy is way out there