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The Real MIT Blackjack Mastermind
Wade Roush writes "21, the top movie at the box office last weekend, has everyone talking about the real identities of the MIT blackjack team members fictionalized in the movie and in the 2002 book, Bringing Down the House, on which the film is based. Last week a number of stories pointed to former MIT student and Las Vegas resident John Chang as the model for the Micky Rosa character, the club mastermind played in the movie by Kevin Spacey. But Boston-area Internet entrepreneur and real estate developer Bill Kaplan is saying that if anyone is the basis for Micky Rosa, it's him. Turns out Kaplan now battles the "e-mail churn" problem as CEO of Newton, MA, startup FreshAddress, which helps companies correct the outdated e-mail addresses in their customer databases."
"To complicate matters further, most active Internet users have at least three separate e-mail addresses, which they give out for work purposes, for personal matters, and for newsletters and commercial offers. Somebody needs to sort it all out"
Somebody needs to sort it all out? Someone not me? No the fuck they don't. I divide my email addresses so ms granny-chain-a-lot spams one account and important shit goes elsewhere. I don't want companies to have an easier time finding me. Especially when 99.9% of them do *not* have my interests in mind as priority.
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God doesn't want us to have cholesterol problems. Isn't that obvious? Pork-fat rules! /BAM!
By and large, language is a tool for concealing the truth. -- George Carlin
So, the Catholic church was allowed to make that decision once, and anyone who wishes to claim to be a follower of Jesus has to listen to what they decided in about 300 AD?
(For the record, I was raised Catholic, left that church, and joined another which recognized only the four Gospels & Act as canon, the rest were relegated to the same status the Gnostic texts hold for Catholics.)
Have you been touched by his noodly appendage?