One of the big reasons for vigilantes is the lack of response from authorities.
I'd love to see a little justice done to the big spammers, and to the 419 people. The law won't do anything unless enough money is involved to get the bureaucrats off their butts.
Prior to automation software, we kept a log tape (svhs) on a very slow record - 8 hr tape records 24 hours, which was used to verify if a spot ran with a customer who insisted it hadn't.
This type of recording won't meet the standards the fcc is talking about here due the sheer loss of information from this type of time lapse recording.
What this proposal would mean financially is a disaster for small market stations - $200+/hour for every hour that is aired - a tremendous amount of cash. It won't bother ABC etc in Los Angeles or New York, but how about West Virgina, or Nebraska etc?
And no we don't keep recordings anymore - 90%+ goes through servers and gets dumped afterwards.
Actually I get that 18+ anyway - VERY rarely do I trip the cags - usually its turning on slow streets (25 mph speed limits). I usually am agressive enought to not trip the stupid thing - I haven't gotten the car on a lift to install the bypass yet.
"Why does it "seem" to be really important to know this in the US, and completely irrelevant here in Aus ?"
Fallout from the gas crisis of the 70s - our government has mandated that cars produce certain mpg or they get hit with a "gas guzzler" tax, which tops out around $4000 for the biggest drinkers - Vipers, Lamborghinis, etc.
Also the mpg is on the sticker as a shopping guide for comparison purposes for those who care about such things. Exempt from this are large trucks/suvs, which of course get the worst milage and don't pay a gas guzzler tax.
You'll need to do some leg work. The stuff I had to deal with all came from fax.com - they were trying to create a "non-profit" loophole by sending the spam on behalf of The Center for Missing and Exploited Children. Once I got that part, I contacted both the Center AND thier major sponsors. The spam stopped very quickly after that.
For the vacation and interest rate spam, it will take a bit more. You are going to need a phone line that you can throw away - prepaid cell phone maybe? - and possibly a PO box. The only way I know of to identify these scum is to act like a sucker and get them to contact you - play along and get the necessary info for making payment, etc. and you've got them.
That 2x2 sticker probably cost $50k or more. Marlboro's latest contract w/ Ferrari was 7 years, $700 million. That ought to keep Schumi paid for a bit.
They were using 1.5 liter, 6 cylinder turbocharged engines. In qualifying, they were using as much as 9 bars of boost (ie around 135 pounds) on custom fuels that cost north of $200/liter. Turbo engines cost somewhere around $60k each (1980ish), and you would use at least 3 engines per race weekend.
F1 has been trying to keep the costs somewhat sane, and the turbos were causing problems. The cost of running a F1 team for a weekend will run an indy car team for an entire season.
Exactly. Michael Powell is proof of why nepotism is so wrong and bad for the country. Between him and Asscroft, do you really want 4 more years of Shrub in the White House?
"So you're saying criminals are sub-human and therefore don't deserve descent human dignities."
In some cases yes. Many of these people are a complete and total failure beyond redemption. Thats what life/death sentences are for. Thats why we have 3 strikes laws. Large numbers of vocal people are fed up, and have demanded politicians do something about these types of people, so we get the mess that is our judicial system. Its not perfect, but if you travel the world you will find its still one of the best.
"In prison, a person is usually raped several times. Which do you think would cause a person more pain physically and emotionally? Especially, in prison where the prisoner will probably never see his torturer punished for the act. All because society thinks it's a funny issue."
Its not funny. However the fear of this kind of abuse is probably more of a deterent to crime than the actual sentence itself. Personally I'd love to load up a few weapons and put some of these spammers out of societies misery, but I have no desire to spend any time under care of the state or federal government.
I have absolutely NO sympathy for this spammer, and would be delighted to hear of his untimely demise. More likely, he will end up in surgery getting his rectum sewn back together. Guess he should have thought about that before he stole all those credit acounts.
Actually that would bring the scammer out of the woodwork - remember he NEVER paid for his pppowerbook. Thats the entire point of the escrow service. Either he got what he ordered and the escrow pays the seller, or he returns the incorrect item and gets his money back.
Here he has received the item but didn't pay for it, (nor did he have any intention of paying for it).
So the "artist" can re-claim ownership, and furthermore publiclly expose the scammer.
dunno about web sites, but I recall seeing a VERY expensive couple of pieces sitting on a desk at one garage.
Stupid owner of a Ferrari 512bb kept driving even though there was no gear oil in the rear differential - drove it to the shop with the rear end screaming. Cost him about $15k and gave the mechanics a good story...
not really - I just sent it back to its source. If pink contracts become more trouble than they are worth, maybe they'll stop getting written.
complaining to abuse@uu.net doesn't work. complaining to sales@uu.net and info@uu.net does work - the sales staff need the leads and inquiries generated, therefore they have to look through their inbox instead of just dumping it all.
I was getting deluged by uu.net originated spam, and of course abuse@uu.net is ignored.
Finally I resorted to bouncing all uu.net originated spam to sales@uu.net and info@uu.net
make the sales scum suffer the same problem they inflict on everyone else by selling their pink contracts.
Some of the indignant replies from the sales staff were quite amusing. I guess they told their spammers to delete me from thier spam runs, as the volume quickly dropped and then finally stopped completely.
No, the mdx we bought has both the navi, and a rear entertainment system - ie dvd player and screen for rear seat passengers. On a long drive this is a huge help for entertaining wife and baby, and will be more help as kid grows up.
As a service to humanity though, i can state for certain that it wil NEVER be used to dupe a Barney dvd, not that i would allow that to be bought in the first place.
I bought it for use with the RES in my wife's mdx. better to put a copy of a dvd in the vehicle just in case it gets scratched/warped/damaged. so a giant f.u. to the hollywood mafia and their lawyers.
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Just leaving a quick reply so I can find this thread again. I'll check and see if I can find info for you.
One of the big reasons for vigilantes is the lack of response from authorities.
I'd love to see a little justice done to the big spammers, and to the 419 people. The law won't do anything unless enough money is involved to get the bureaucrats off their butts.
Prior to automation software, we kept a log tape (svhs) on a very slow record - 8 hr tape records 24 hours, which was used to verify if a spot ran with a customer who insisted it hadn't.
This type of recording won't meet the standards the fcc is talking about here due the sheer loss of information from this type of time lapse recording.
What this proposal would mean financially is a disaster for small market stations - $200+/hour for every hour that is aired - a tremendous amount of cash. It won't bother ABC etc in Los Angeles or New York, but how about West Virgina, or Nebraska etc?
And no we don't keep recordings anymore - 90%+ goes through servers and gets dumped afterwards.
Its time to just abolish the FCC.
Well, if you want to spend another $12k, you can have it made into a hardtop convertible.
Tons of info over at www.corvetteforum.com on all things vette related
Actually I get that 18+ anyway - VERY rarely do I trip the cags - usually its turning on slow streets (25 mph speed limits). I usually am agressive enought to not trip the stupid thing - I haven't gotten the car on a lift to install the bypass yet.
Actually it is up for sale - info on zr1.net
My 90 ZR-1 was stickered at 16/25. I got 18 city, and from 27 (80mph) to 33 (65mph). Not too shabby for 375 hp.
:)
Its replacement, a 2004 Z06, is stickered at 19/28 and I'm seeing 18.5/33-35 quite respectable and 405 hp to boot.
I love it when some econo-box criticizes my sports car as a gas guzzler and finds out I get better milage than they are
"Why does it "seem" to be really important to know this in the US, and completely irrelevant here in Aus ?"
Fallout from the gas crisis of the 70s - our government has mandated that cars produce certain mpg or they get hit with a "gas guzzler" tax, which tops out around $4000 for the biggest drinkers - Vipers, Lamborghinis, etc.
Also the mpg is on the sticker as a shopping guide for comparison purposes for those who care about such things. Exempt from this are large trucks/suvs, which of course get the worst milage and don't pay a gas guzzler tax.
You'll need to do some leg work. The stuff I had to deal with all came from fax.com - they were trying to create a "non-profit" loophole by sending the spam on behalf of The Center for Missing and Exploited Children. Once I got that part, I contacted both the Center AND thier major sponsors. The spam stopped very quickly after that.
For the vacation and interest rate spam, it will take a bit more. You are going to need a phone line that you can throw away - prepaid cell phone maybe? - and possibly a PO box. The only way I know of to identify these scum is to act like a sucker and get them to contact you - play along and get the necessary info for making payment, etc. and you've got them.
Good luck.
That 2x2 sticker probably cost $50k or more. Marlboro's latest contract w/ Ferrari was 7 years, $700 million. That ought to keep Schumi paid for a bit.
You ought to price those sponsorship decals. Marlboro's last deal with Ferrari was 7 years/$700 million. Thats some very expensive advertising.
They were using 1.5 liter, 6 cylinder turbocharged engines. In qualifying, they were using as much as 9 bars of boost (ie around 135 pounds) on custom fuels that cost north of $200/liter. Turbo engines cost somewhere around $60k each (1980ish), and you would use at least 3 engines per race weekend.
F1 has been trying to keep the costs somewhat sane, and the turbos were causing problems. The cost of running a F1 team for a weekend will run an indy car team for an entire season.
Two words:
Election Year
Exactly. Michael Powell is proof of why nepotism is so wrong and bad for the country. Between him and Asscroft, do you really want 4 more years of Shrub in the White House?
Gee, can't tell I'm biased, can you?
"So you're saying criminals are sub-human and therefore don't deserve descent human dignities."
In some cases yes. Many of these people are a complete and total failure beyond redemption. Thats what life/death sentences are for. Thats why we have 3 strikes laws. Large numbers of vocal people are fed up, and have demanded politicians do something about these types of people, so we get the mess that is our judicial system. Its not perfect, but if you travel the world you will find its still one of the best.
"In prison, a person is usually raped several times. Which do you think would cause a person more pain physically and emotionally? Especially, in prison where the prisoner will probably never see his torturer punished for the act. All because society thinks it's a funny issue."
Its not funny. However the fear of this kind of abuse is probably more of a deterent to crime than the actual sentence itself. Personally I'd love to load up a few weapons and put some of these spammers out of societies misery, but I have no desire to spend any time under care of the state or federal government.
I have absolutely NO sympathy for this spammer, and would be delighted to hear of his untimely demise. More likely, he will end up in surgery getting his rectum sewn back together. Guess he should have thought about that before he stole all those credit acounts.
Actually that would bring the scammer out of the woodwork - remember he NEVER paid for his pppowerbook. Thats the entire point of the escrow service. Either he got what he ordered and the escrow pays the seller, or he returns the incorrect item and gets his money back.
Here he has received the item but didn't pay for it, (nor did he have any intention of paying for it).
So the "artist" can re-claim ownership, and furthermore publiclly expose the scammer.
If they were, he'd be a corpse already. Enough money to hire a professional assassin and end of story.
You just need a person that:
1. is mad enough at him to make the hire
2. is willing to risk a death penalty trial if something goes wrong.
I would expect to see some dead spammers long before someone goes after Mcbride.
dunno about web sites, but I recall seeing a VERY expensive couple of pieces sitting on a desk at one garage.
Stupid owner of a Ferrari 512bb kept driving even though there was no gear oil in the rear differential - drove it to the shop with the rear end screaming. Cost him about $15k and gave the mechanics a good story...
It was a measure of last resort. Nothing else worked.
And I only bounced uu.net sourced material - when it stopped so did I
And it stopped fast - 3/4 of it within a week, the rest within a month. So someone knew something.
not really - I just sent it back to its source. If pink contracts become more trouble than they are worth, maybe they'll stop getting written.
complaining to abuse@uu.net doesn't work. complaining to sales@uu.net and info@uu.net does work - the sales staff need the leads and inquiries generated, therefore they have to look through their inbox instead of just dumping it all.
I was getting deluged by uu.net originated spam, and of course abuse@uu.net is ignored.
Finally I resorted to bouncing all uu.net originated spam to sales@uu.net and info@uu.net
make the sales scum suffer the same problem they inflict on everyone else by selling their pink contracts.
Some of the indignant replies from the sales staff were quite amusing. I guess they told their spammers to delete me from thier spam runs, as the volume quickly dropped and then finally stopped completely.
Don't crash the box, root it.
Then use it to either send email or host a web page critical of the chinese government or praising the the Fulan Gong (sp?)
Then wait for the news report of the chinese government executing these criminals for computer crimes.
Is there a more cheerful thought than dead spammers?
No, the mdx we bought has both the navi, and a rear entertainment system - ie dvd player and screen for rear seat passengers. On a long drive this is a huge help for entertaining wife and baby, and will be more help as kid grows up.
As a service to humanity though, i can state for certain that it wil NEVER be used to dupe a Barney dvd, not that i would allow that to be bought in the first place.
I bought it for use with the RES in my wife's mdx. better to put a copy of a dvd in the vehicle just in case it gets scratched/warped/damaged. so a giant f.u. to the hollywood mafia and their lawyers.
Of course it was staged.
Has ANY guy here EVER managed to remove a bra/breast covering that easily????