This whole think makes me wonder if criminals are using these places to launder money?
Ahhh yes, I'm betting that there are hundreds of genius crooks out there who are converting loads of real-world money for digital crap.
Seriously, I doubt that anyone intelligent enough to steal and not get caught is too stupid to use other, more effective forms of cash laundering.
Initially projected to generate $3-6 million in revenues for Utah, it has instead produced total revenues of less than $200,000.
Wait a minute, they want to "protect" kid's email addresses by compiling them into a registry and uploading them to a centralized location, where any "Mr. Spam", "Mr. Sex Offender", or "Mr. Homicidal Maniac" can view them (please note the sarcasm)? So they claim that they want to "protect" children, yet their ulterior motive is to generate $3-6 million dollars! This is NOT a "government service", it's cleverly-disguised profiteering!
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No, you don't even need a blank.
That's what happens when you play with string...
Sounds like a great way to amortize school costs.
Get a disgruntled employee to shove it and shove it hard. ^_^
I do not perceive this as happening anytime soon. Fortunately, the Orwellian future isn't here...yet.
So the schoolchildren are getting free World of Warcraft subscriptions? Damn, they should do something like that in my district.
In Soviet Russia, YOU harass the police.
If the guy lied and said he didn't have his license, the police could charge him for perjury.
I would think this to be amazingly funny if not for the fact that it actually happened.
I can just see the U.S. government attacking Google as a "terrorist training ground".
Everyone knows that if it teaches you to fly an airplane, it's an Islam extremist hotbed.
Initially projected to generate $3-6 million in revenues for Utah, it has instead produced total revenues of less than $200,000.
Wait a minute, they want to "protect" kid's email addresses by compiling them into a registry and uploading them to a centralized location, where any "Mr. Spam", "Mr. Sex Offender", or "Mr. Homicidal Maniac" can view them (please note the sarcasm)? So they claim that they want to "protect" children, yet their ulterior motive is to generate $3-6 million dollars! This is NOT a "government service", it's cleverly-disguised profiteering!