I have read like 1000 posts on/. about spam. All of you so far, at least the comments I've read, seem to think that spam pays. Why? I mean, it will all be very simple if the guy that sells the spam is the one that sells the goods. But is this really the case?
I mean, to me, it seems that only really dumb people will answer to spam. And by realy dumb, I mean, complete retards. Most of the spam I get here is in Russian, and I don't even know the letters. I am thinking that, maybe the guys doing the spam are really getting paid by the guys selling the product. I mean, you go to some business, and say: "hey you want some cheap advertising? It may be illegal!". The other guy pays and it's all over. The spammer can eventually fake some clicks, it's not like his business is legal to start with!
Well, if anybody has some insight I will be happy to find out more, for my intellectual pleasure!
People seem to think that, in the communist regimes every guy, that speaks up is shot in the public square. I am from Romania, and some people say that we were the ones doing the disinformation campaign for the Eastern Block. I was pretty little when it all ended, but thinking about it everybody was pretty much frighting themselves. There where no people with guns at the corner of the street. The army was formed pretty much of conscripts, you know, young people that didn't necessarily love Communism, that could get hold of a gun. Even when the "Revolution" started there wasn't any turmoil or repressive actions in my town. Just people frightened as hell, looking for terrorists although it was the first time they've heard the term. As I remember the army focused on defending the national points of interest, meaning the local refinery, against the perceived threat. The communist didn't start with bloodshed and famine, it only ended that way. It's your job to make sure your capitalism doesn't end in the same way.
I've found your game very interesting although I see it more like an intellectual challenge and an occasion to experiment with things that are otherwise beyond my reach, than fun. All in one I think Democracy is a good example of an educational game that can captivate. I also bet it was cheaper to make than the game the article is talking about. So maybe the academic types will just provide the theory and let someone who can really make games do the rest. I'm just saying, because, I, for one, don't know that many fun people in the academia.
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I have read like 1000 posts on /. about spam. All of you so far, at least the comments I've read, seem to think that spam pays. Why? I mean, it will all be very simple if the guy that sells the spam is the one that sells the goods. But is this really the case?
I mean, to me, it seems that only really dumb people will answer to spam. And by realy dumb, I mean, complete retards. Most of the spam I get here is in Russian, and I don't even know the letters. I am thinking that, maybe the guys doing the spam are really getting paid by the guys selling the product. I mean, you go to some business, and say: "hey you want some cheap advertising? It may be illegal!". The other guy pays and it's all over. The spammer can eventually fake some clicks, it's not like his business is legal to start with!
Well, if anybody has some insight I will be happy to find out more, for my intellectual pleasure!
So again mice can have sex without a condom without fear. A great day for mousehood.
People seem to think that, in the communist regimes every guy, that speaks up is shot in the public square.
I am from Romania, and some people say that we were the ones doing the disinformation campaign for the Eastern Block. I was pretty little when it all ended, but thinking about it everybody was pretty much frighting themselves. There where no people with guns at the corner of the street.
The army was formed pretty much of conscripts, you know, young people that didn't necessarily love Communism, that could get hold of a gun. Even when the "Revolution" started there wasn't any turmoil or repressive actions in my town. Just people frightened as hell, looking for terrorists although it was the first time they've heard the term. As I remember the army focused on defending the national points of interest, meaning the local refinery, against the perceived threat.
The communist didn't start with bloodshed and famine, it only ended that way. It's your job to make sure your capitalism doesn't end in the same way.
I've found your game very interesting although I see it more like an intellectual challenge and an occasion to experiment with things that are otherwise beyond my reach, than fun. All in one I think Democracy is a good example of an educational game that can captivate. I also bet it was cheaper to make than the game the article is talking about. So maybe the academic types will just provide the theory and let someone who can really make games do the rest. I'm just saying, because, I, for one, don't know that many fun people in the academia.