I've said it before and I'll say it again: the solution to SPAM is micropayments. If micropayments were universally accepted and standardized then it would be a trivial matter to confiure email clients to only accept email which came with an attached payment. The client could also trivially be configured to return that payment, but with a "Keep Payment" button which the recipient could push if the email were SPAM.
Here is a technical artical on how to stop SPAM.
Trust me *boys*....the older you get the more conservative you will become, and all of the nonsense the higher educational system imparts on you will quickly fade.
Speak for yourself. Just because you are already a narrow-minded crotchety old fart does not mean that we will all become that way. There are a lot of liberals among our senior citizens, people who haven't rationalized away their idealism the way you have.
What did you promise your co-workers? If you promised them you would not quit no matter what then you have to balance that commitment to the commitment you have to yourself and your family. By the way, are your co-workers so ignorant of the situation that they cannot predict that people, including yourself, will be quitting? They are probably already floating their own resumes.
Bottom line is: you don't want to hurt people, but you want to take care of yourself. If you do decide to move on, try to think of ways that you might help the people whose lives will be disrupted.
>I wish to god that there was someway I could >stuff a brick in a return envelope to every >SPAMMER out there
When digital cash becomes common place then
you will be able to require a payment from
anyone sending you an email. If you decide that
the email is spam you keep the payment, otherwise you return it. The process can be easily automated by your mail tool.
If you came up with a treatment regimen that would reverse or halt aging you would be worshipped and showered with gifts for the rest of your life regardless of IP law.
Several people have asked you to speculate on when the grand unified theory of everything will be discovered. Could you please give a brief explanation of what that means? Thank you.
In my experience the students who are the most diligent note takers are also the ones with the poorest grasp of the material: if I just write down everything that appears on the blackboard, and if I can memorize it and regurgitate enough of it on the exam, maybe just maybe I can get a B! Oh please let me get a B!
You don't send a bill. You just don't accept any email which does come with the proper "postage" applied (think digital cash). Email clients could be configured to do this automatically and also to return the payment for those emails which are accepted.
Here is how it will work: You will require that any email which is sent to you be accompanied by a small payment. If the email is not spam (as defined by you) then you send the payment back, otherwise you keep it.
Sorry about the formatting of previous post. If I recall correctly, in "Harrison Bergeron" the government handicapped healthy people in order to make everybody equal. Well, I've never felt handicapped by
brail on the elevator buttons
beeping pedestrian crossing signals
ramps in front of buildings
One more point: this is both an ethical and a practical matter. There will always be compromises in terms of how far we as a society will be willing to go in order to accomodate the handicapped. However, only the very mean spirited would say that we should do nothing at all.
If I recall correctly, in "Harrison Bergeron" the government handicapped healthy people in order to make everybody equal. Well, I've never felt handicapped by brail on the elevator buttons beeping pedestrian crossing signals ramps in front of buildings One more point: this is both an ethical and a practical matter. There will always be compromises in terms of how far we as a society will be willing to go in order to accomodate the handicapped. However, only the very mean spirited would say that we should do nothing at all.
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I've said it before and I'll say it again: the solution to SPAM is micropayments. If micropayments were universally accepted and standardized then it would be a trivial matter to confiure email clients to only accept email which came with an attached payment. The client could also trivially be configured to return that payment, but with a "Keep Payment" button which the recipient could push if the email were SPAM. Here is a technical artical on how to stop SPAM.
The US has already said it is sorry, it just has not apologized which would mean accepting responsibility.
By the way, the biggest threat to world safety right now is Russia, not China.
I think the general viewer is much more influenced by advertising than you are. Why else would they spend so much money on it?
Speak for yourself. Just because you are already a narrow-minded crotchety old fart does not mean that we will all become that way. There are a lot of liberals among our senior citizens, people who haven't rationalized away their idealism the way you have.
Let us examine your handwriting: YOU HAVE NO RIGHT TO COMPLAIN ABOUT SOMETHING YOU GET FOR FREE!
Ah! An AOL user, that explains it.
Funny!
>Unless some of us decide to get, um, aggressive about pursuing such a solution.
Not funny.
What did you promise your co-workers? If you promised them you would not quit no matter what then you have to balance that commitment to the commitment you have to yourself and your family. By the way, are your co-workers so ignorant of the situation that they cannot predict that people, including yourself, will be quitting? They are probably already floating their own resumes. Bottom line is: you don't want to hurt people, but you want to take care of yourself. If you do decide to move on, try to think of ways that you might help the people whose lives will be disrupted.
>I wish to god that there was someway I could >stuff a brick in a return envelope to every >SPAMMER out there When digital cash becomes common place then you will be able to require a payment from anyone sending you an email. If you decide that the email is spam you keep the payment, otherwise you return it. The process can be easily automated by your mail tool.
>are you pissed yet? you should be living on the
>moon by now, not in some crappy condo in
>cambridge
Actually I do live on the moon, I wish I lived in cambridge.
If you came up with a treatment regimen that would reverse or halt aging you would be worshipped and showered with gifts for the rest of your life regardless of IP law.
Several people have asked you to speculate on
when the grand unified theory of everything will
be discovered. Could you please give a brief
explanation of what that means? Thank you.
In my experience the students who are the most diligent note takers are also the ones with the poorest grasp of the material: if I just write down everything that appears on the blackboard, and if I can memorize it and regurgitate enough of it on the exam, maybe just maybe I can get a B! Oh please let me get a B!
You don't send a bill. You just don't accept any email which does come with the proper "postage" applied (think digital cash). Email clients could be configured to do this automatically and also to return the payment for those emails which are accepted.
Here is how it will work: You will require that any email which is sent to you be accompanied by a small payment. If the email is not spam (as defined by you) then you send the payment back, otherwise you keep it.
- brail on the elevator buttons
- beeping pedestrian crossing signals
- ramps in front of buildings
One more point: this is both an ethical and a practical matter. There will always be compromises in terms of how far we as a society will be willing to go in order to accomodate the handicapped. However, only the very mean spirited would say that we should do nothing at all.If I recall correctly, in "Harrison Bergeron" the government handicapped healthy people in order to make everybody equal. Well, I've never felt handicapped by brail on the elevator buttons beeping pedestrian crossing signals ramps in front of buildings One more point: this is both an ethical and a practical matter. There will always be compromises in terms of how far we as a society will be willing to go in order to accomodate the handicapped. However, only the very mean spirited would say that we should do nothing at all.