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Jail 'Greedy' Scam Victims, Says Nigerian Diplomat
AcidAUS writes with this nearly unbelievable snippet from today's Sydney Morning Herald: "The Nigerian high commissioner in Australia says people who are ripped off by so-called Nigerian scams are just as guilty as the fraudsters and should be jailed. Responding to a story in yesterday's Herald, which revealed Australians lose at least $36 million a year to the online scams, Sunday Olu Agbi said Australians had failed to heed repeated warnings not to deal with shady characters on the internet."
Yay!!
A Nigerian diplomat emailed me a few days ago with the opurtunity of a life time. I wont go into the details but all I had to do was send him my personal information and he is going to transfer a few million dollars into my bank account. I can wait to spend all that free money this complete stranger is going to transfer into the account that I gave him access to.
Ironically (and sadly), the bogans here do tend to be the ones complaining about 'foreigners' and how there's 'too many of them'.
The problem is that those same people tend to have reallyfuckingpoor work ethics, a sense of entitlement, and terribly bad taste.. imagine a half dozen sprawling suburbs full of guys (and girls) with 50 word vocabularies, who still think that tigerskin seat covers are the height of culture. I only wish this was just a stereotype.
Amazing how you can spell a Latin phrase but fail to correctly spell your own nationality. Considering the poor use of grammar and punctuation, I'll take it that the Latin phrase was a fluke.
Don't worry, I blame the US public education system, not you. It's not your fault you're an ignorant blowhard with a temper.
Cheers
- I don't need to go outside, my CRT tan'll do me just fine.
Apparently you spend too much time in your mommas basement playing fragging games, to notice that the former USA has been pretty much a proto fascist state for some time now.
I didn't happen to have a flag that I could hang upside down to show the distress my country is in.
Therefore, my "incorrect" spelling.
I'll bet you feel real superior insulting people for their speling mistakes, what a "man" you must be!
You don't have a clue about the US educational system, idiot troll.
And YES!, racist bastards piss me off!
How come you tolerate them?
Perhaps you are one of them, eh?
If it don't GO... chrome it. ~ Frank Banks
I don't see what it has to do with being poor. Some of our richest and most well known public figures are unashamed bogans.
Examples: Shane Warne (cricketer), Lleyton Hewitt (tennis player), etc, etc.
note: Steve Irwin. Bushman. Not a bogan. Crikey.
http://www.xkcd.com/354/
You're both emotional as hell. Couldn't you tell the original post was just intended to disrupt conversation?
As far as the poster you're replying to here, whether he's a troll or not, the rape statistic is correct. White on black rapes are often in the single digits, per year.
http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/pub/pdf/cvus0502.pdf
Table #40 and #42 in the above document.
Blacks comitted 48% of the rape, half of the robberies, and two thirds of the robberies involving injury. Crimes like simple assault were closer to the proportion that they should be (considering each group's percentage of the total population), but were still biased towards black offenders.
While the black poverty rate is higher than that of whites and hispanics, there are still twice as many whites below the poverty line in the US as there are blacks. Income isn't even the primary factor, much less a dominating one.
http://www.statehealthfacts.org/profileind.jsp?rgn=1&cat=1&ind=14
If it's about revenge for past social injustices, then why are black-on-black statistics so high?
Wishing that a problem didn't exist doesn't make it go away.
Hiding information about it just makes the problem harder to fix.
Sorry, mate.. I happen to live here. Note the use of the word 'our' in my previous post. Turns out that there's this process of euphemism and dysphemism.
Btw: it's hard to tell in this thread, but i'm not trying to antagonize. Australia's cultural position is really interesting. Our 'culture' issues are, in some ways, on the same level as our 'race' issues, with the caveat that it's sometimes unclear which cultural group an individual identifies with.
While the term Bogan may have once been used in the way you describe, it's certainly not accurate now. It refers far more strongly to a set of beliefs and behaviors than a distinct social group.
http://www.xkcd.com/354/
I apologize for being so strident when I'm "hot".
So how about being a good sport and "adjusting" the wiki to reflect that, so's us ignorant americans can understand better?
If it don't GO... chrome it. ~ Frank Banks
Please, do tell me what I'm trying to hide. I wonder if it's as serious as widespread murder, robbery, and rape.
You've built quite a strawman. For one, I didn't say blacks were bad. Secondly, I'm not misusing statistics, like your counter-example is.
If whites in your town commit 90% of the rapes, and they're 90% of the population, it's to be expected. If whites in your town commit 90% of the rapes and they're less than half of the population, it's a sign that something is seriously fucked up. I'd say that the whites in this hypothetical town need to figure out why their youth has such a tendency towards rape.
It's a difficult set of characteristics to cleanly define, unfortunately.. I'll do what i can when i have the time to do it properly, since i expect that it'll be debated at least as much as it has been here.
http://www.xkcd.com/354/
As I am multiracial, I guess being a racist would also require that I be self-loathing.
For the record, I don't tolerate them; however, until Slashdot sees fit to actually do something about the all-too-common and overt racist, sexist, homophobic, fascist, and religiously dogmatic comments present in every batch of comments, I see no reason to give them a greater audience by engaging them.
The one thing you don't do with a troll is tell them they're wrong. It only encourages them to be more wrong.
- I don't need to go outside, my CRT tan'll do me just fine.
If I might intercede in this flamefest to say that (I'm Australian), I think the wikipedia article is wrong - it may have started out that way but Bogan these days refers to a lifestyle rather than to a economic class.
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If rapes followed that curve, there were still be a lot more than TEN of them per year.
Nope, see above. And if it did, it would only be one point out of several. The points dealing with other crimes, and with rape in general, would still stand.
The black crime rate is definitely higher. The real debate should be about why, but that can't happen until enough people admit the former. The few who do admit it generally want to blame it on the income gap or a revenge motive (which I shot down in my first post). Others try to avoid talking about whenever they can because "it helps the racists"
It's past 2 AM where I am. If you want to continue tomorrow through email or some IM system, let me know.
They hung out on web discussion forums and said, "Don't feed the trolls?"
Seriously?
You think that replying to Slashdot trolls is being proactive in this world with regard to racism?
Seriously?
We're in worse shape than I thought.
- I don't need to go outside, my CRT tan'll do me just fine.
I didn't happen to have a flag that I could hang upside down to show the distress my country is in.
Would that work with the Stars and Stripes? It works with the Union Jack because the St Patrick's Cross segments are offset a little, so flying it upside down makes only a subtle change, sending a covert distress message. I think either the American flag or Australian flag would be too obvious if flown upside down.
Agreed.
When I think Bogan, I'm thinking packet of Winnie blue up the sleeve of a too tight black t-shit. Obligatory moccies, stonewash blue jeans, mullet, dream car is the SLR5000 Torana (or later day Ford Falcon V8 ute), hails from Narre Warren/Cranbourne, all the "Special" subjects at high school and knows the lyrics to all the AC/DC songs ever written, but probably not the National Anthem. And for what they will be condemned to the 9th level of hell for all eternity: Collingwood supporter.
Q:I was listening to a CD in Grip and it sounded horrible! What's up? A:Perhaps you are listening to country music
this is like, the longest offtopic, flamebaiting thread ever.
Oh, and [generic comment about racism].