So the girl doesn't go home, or back to the streets where she gained the depth of character that served her so well in later life. She goes off to college, learns about life, meets another guy. Together they have two wonderful children. These children (unlike their mom) have no appreciation what her mother had to do to succeed. Living pampered lives, they later emerge to the world, pretty and proper, but basically useless for any real work. However, because of their "proper" upbringing, they are denied the truths of life outside their homes and are stuck only learning what thier parents tell them.
This goes on for a few generations and eventually you are left with incredibly expensive to maintain and administer grandchildren. They must be put to bed each night, and if they aren't watched carefully, they eventually go crazy and commit suicide. Heavy medication from various third parties is the only way to make them useful. Beautiful to behold, and great at having a good time, they are totally useless when it comes time to get work done, with no idea on how the real world is or functions, they force those that depend on them to eventually believe that all people are unstable, incomprehensible, and expensive.
For those of you that want it from the horse's mouth.. click here.
If this is to be the first test of the GPL (conspiracy theorists get to work) then we have an easy go of it. A vastly popular, mulit-millionaire, with the law on his side vs. Slade "Source code is like handguns". The claims he makes are ridiculous, but it looks like he wants to test them.
If you read the above you'll see the basis of his argument.
I've seen some very good things come out of it, and in the past I have been a strong supporter of the GPL, I still am to a great extent, well the spirit of the GPL at any rate.
which is to say, "not the letter of it."
courts don't like that.
You do have a right to the source code, under the GPL. This is law. However much like the Constitutional American "Right to Bear Arms". I have the right to deny you access for exercising this right.
I think this "right" came with a box of Cheerios.
To download binaries or proceed into this site, you have to give up your rights under the GPL.
his emphasis.
and finally..
For all those who really don't care about this and just want the game so they can play, I apologize for the delay this has caused.
Yea, and "for all those who really care about being able to fix bugs as they happen, instead of waiting for an official release, here's my finger, stick it up your ass."
At least that was my reading.
If anybody wants the binaries without the agreement, email me..... (guess I'll have to get them after the/. rush crushes all servers in its path)
(yes, with paper and stamps, because it's so much more effective than email that our benighted representatives seldom even hear about)
pen and paper are great but a printer and a signature make the same point. Just print an e-mail before you send it, sign it, address it, stamp it, and make a bigger difference. Hmm, now I remember why I liked e-mail so much...
but as with the ignoring of the Windows2000 launch,
You're looking for SlashCash : News for Investors, Money matters. Or maybe ZDNet...
Seriously if you didn't know Win2K was coming out, M$'s billion dollar promotions were totally wasted. I've seen enough about them, I want the new stuff, and 30-hour battery life laptops are stuff that mattes to me. I don't want/. covering stories that I'll get from about 10 commercials when I watch TV at home
The only thing that newspapers have going for them at this point is the portable factor. They require no outside power source, can be taken anywhere, and are great for starting fires.
I don't read newspapers. I used to, when I was in a situation without 'Net access, but now that I'm connected most of the time, I never feel the need. The only content that's useful is the local stuff. I am not nearly as impressed with the writing quality as some other posters seem to be, maybe that only applies to a couple of papers. I also don't appreciate the constant tele-marketing, but I guess that's a personal thing.
As far as local content goes, its easy to see why the 'Net, so far, has failed in this arena. Until most (60+%) of the news-loving folks in your town have broadband, it's not gonna happen. When they do, a/. style news source will become possible, and I honestly believe this is a superior form of news trolling (trolls = funny pages, IYWC)
/. only works as a news source because it has achieved a critical mass of posters. It works because of the huge number of eyeballs and the massive effort that can be aggregated with each person giving their $.02. I think this is a great style of news dissemination, sure some of it's innacurate, but that *always* gets pointed out by someone. You have to use sig/noise filters, but they work automagically after a while. If you can figure out how to make / work for a local news site, you can go ahead and quit your day job.
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Re:pretty, yet incomprehensible
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the buttons are tight. I got this off themes.org I guess just before they axed it. If anyone *really* wants it, email me.
It's a real computer, in an overgrown pocket calculator.
When I want a laptop, I'll grab my laptop. When I want my accessories I'll grap my laptop. When I want a PDA, I'll grab my palm.
If you want to buy a laptop in pieces, go for it. When not being able to show 30 second movies on a 2-inch screen 'causes me problems, I'll look at WinCE.
And I'd check you battery life sources again. The 6-8 hrs. I see in reviews are a far cry from the 20-30 my palm gets at home.
And of course, that's the real reason.
If a company's past actions don't affect your purchasing decisions, that's your dime. Personally, after a company treats me like shit, I do the same.(or does WinCE have a toll-free support number unlike every other Windows product, wait a sec, it's not even WinCE anymore, you are Windows Powered!)
if you want a great organizer go with the Palm Vx. If you want a great organizer with Multimedia and awesome color and don't quite need a laptop go with a Casio E-100/105.
true, just the vast majority and anything that has gone past version 2.0. (Why will they buy the new one? More features!!!)
(by which I assume you mean the marketing-termed "embrace and extend" idea) often comes from higher-ups deciding that certain products need this or that.
Then maybe someone "higher up" can clear up the Active Directory / DNS flak I keep hearing about. If M$ can control what kind of DNS server you must query (i.e. Win2K), thats some, whats the word, uncompetitive business practices. Embrace and extend to the T.
And who is it that decides on and codes the changes that make my Office95 / Office97 / Office2K files incompatible?
battery life, weight/size, ease of use. These are the things I need from a PDA. I don't want MP3 (not enough memory to make it worthwhile), I don't want movies (the point would be...?), and for damn sure I don't want Windows. That could be from 10 years of using their products, but mostly it's because when I was testing out PDAs, and picked up a the beautiful Cass and tried to lauch outlook, it crashed. I'd've called it a blue screen, but the color wasn't right. That was enough right there to scare me away. As a user have you EVER seen any apps crash? Maybe I just touched it in the wrong way.
With all the crap that M$ likes to add to their program (UID on every document, embedded tracking in their browser, etc) I just don't think they get the smaller is better philosophy. Whatever, PDAs are another tool, my Palm does great and exactly what I want, not what a marketing team has decided I want.
Seems to me that Palm went from the bottom up (from nothing : what do we need it to do) and M$ came from the top down (from the PC : what functionality can we clone, how many features can we add). Cramming a laptop into a palmtop didn't seem to make the market real excited. And what is the "just in case" scenario on a palmtop that requires multitasking and 65,000 colors?
Supply and Demand. You have basically an infinite supply (dgital media reproduced), you need to create an infinite demand. Fans who "love" what they watch, and can never get enough, i.e. infinite demand. This is done by creating and nurturing devoted fans. Not by sueing devoted fans.
Open access to media only makes it more valuable, not value based on scarcity, but value based on brand equity. Comanies in general, and media companies specifically, should be moving more towards a beneficial one to one relationship with their customers. Rather than the turnip squeezing we have today.
Of course, all of this only makes sense if you really grok what the Internet is and can do. If you want to control media like it was done from the 1st to the 20th centuries, good luck, it's not gonna work.
What I wonder is what's the problem with, say, Fox, posting each weeks X-Files episode in MPG format. To get access to the file you have to trade your demographic info and enter your Fox password. Now they get some (closer to) concrete number about who is watching (at least this version) and they get more people hanging out on thier site. It's not about getting one or two ad impressions, it's about creating devoted fans for life.
I've known too many preacher's sons/daughters to think that repression is the key. Empirical evidence points the other way.
Perhaps it is because of the sexual repression in this country that it is used so prevalently (and obviously effectively) in American media in general and advertising specifically. Deny someone something they need (unless you think sexual desire is an acquired trait) and later you can use it to sell them stuff, or they lose control and become rapists, sluts/whores (like all their favorite screen vixens), stalkers (for their favorite screen vixens), incurably self-conscious, over-stimulated, or some other sexually disfigured (and therefore socially dangerous) being.
Huh, what?
Repression doesn't work. Pressure only builds in active, closed environments. Nobody wants explosions, they hurt.
Moderation in all things, especially sex, and this post, both of which are fun with the right people.
I'd love to see a/. distro. I don't think even a whole lot of Linux people see the possibilities of tons and tons of different flavors. How about a distro that automagically set's up the slash code, Apache, and mod_perl? Enter a few labels, drop in some pngs, and boom, you've got a $12million dollar site (without the content of course.) I don't think we've even begun to scratch the surface. Why not include a full distrubution with games (already happening), apps, or anything else. Hell, go with the AOL carpet bombing approach, and try to get people to sign up for your "support".
I guess it doesn't bother me about the fragmentation (not that my opinion really matters anyway since none of the code is mine) and I see it as a natural offshoot of the GPL. I'm still waiting for the official "Gaming" distro, or even better a pre-configured box with your games of choice (prices rolled into the system price), your PPP/DSL/cable settings, 3d card, sound card, etc..
Fragments will happen, and it will piss off/annoy some people and they won't come back. OTOH, customizable distros might be the best way to reach niche computing markets (i.e. with ABIT mo'boards). Either way, more Linux users = more Linux apps, and thats a good thing.
why not use a website as a type of "fireside chat". Gore (or any politician) could participate in board type situation, if only for a couple hours a week. The Net allows for one to many type conversation easily.
The web gives them the ability to put out as much information as possible. Some of us want all of it. The web pages should be a whole lot more than just campaign tools and money catchers, they can be a connection with the public for a full term and beyond.
yes, it's been around for a while. Something that I found a quick love for, though, was tab-complete (which I never found in DOS, although I didn't look). My insides got all soft and squishy, VIVA LA CLI!
What I'm praying now is for Micro$oft to release DirectX source under the GPL...
The chances of that are about the same as God on High coming down and coding it for you Himself. So I guess praying is the appropriate action to take...
Everybody in my office knows about it. Same with my family and friends (via e-mail updates with links and in person). I'm wearing my civil disobedience wear out tonight. We are on a full-scale public clue-giving campaign. Once the issues are on the table very few people question which side is "right".
It's getting a lot bigger than that. I haven't found it on the web yet, but if you have a dead tree USAToday look at the front page and you'll see that the MPAA, RIAA, CBS, NBS, Disney/ABC, NFL, NBA, NCAA, NHL, and all their business partners have formed the Copyright Assembly, whose first major action was to assure everyone they would sue for each and every copyright infringement they found.
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Re:Introversion vs. Social Anxiety Disorder
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Hmm, guess I must have sounded offended.
I think it was the "bullshit." reply that gave me that.:-)
We are working with the school to get him into accelerated studies, but the district we're in doesn't have anything until 3rd grade.
That was the same thing for me. I got involved in team sports at a young age and I think that was good too, burns energy and helps with the social skills.
"Where much is given, much is required." Or something to that effect. Good luck.
Opt-outs in email spam result in litterally a flood of new spam most of the time.
this is my fear. I see a nice "opt-out" link, but I know that the spammers (the truly despicable ones) often use that only as a way of confirming e-mail addresses,i.e. if I reply they *know* it's a good address and will sell it as such.
I've been careful with my real email addresses, but it only takes one company to need the extra cash to open the floodgates, or one mistake by me in checking a box (or not unchecking one) and the game is over. I guess this is something the FBI could work on, since they're getting all sorts of "fear" funding from Congress.
...it's good to see this. As a Coloradan who does e-mail marketing (opt-in only), it's good to see this. Anything that helps to clean out the crap gives the stuff people want more exposure.
I dunno how easy it is to sue off-shore spammers, but I'm sure somebody will try...
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So the girl doesn't go home, or back to the streets where she gained the depth of character that served her so well in later life. She goes off to college, learns about life, meets another guy. Together they have two wonderful children. These children (unlike their mom) have no appreciation what her mother had to do to succeed. Living pampered lives, they later emerge to the world, pretty and proper, but basically useless for any real work. However, because of their "proper" upbringing, they are denied the truths of life outside their homes and are stuck only learning what thier parents tell them.
This goes on for a few generations and eventually you are left with incredibly expensive to maintain and administer grandchildren. They must be put to bed each night, and if they aren't watched carefully, they eventually go crazy and commit suicide. Heavy medication from various third parties is the only way to make them useful. Beautiful to behold, and great at having a good time, they are totally useless when it comes time to get work done, with no idea on how the real world is or functions, they force those that depend on them to eventually believe that all people are unstable, incomprehensible, and expensive.
-The End-
(don't ya just love silly analogies?)
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...for this guys mail server.
.... (guess I'll have to get them after the /. rush crushes all servers in its path)
For those of you that want it from the horse's mouth.. click here.
If this is to be the first test of the GPL (conspiracy theorists get to work) then we have an easy go of it. A vastly popular, mulit-millionaire, with the law on his side vs. Slade "Source code is like handguns". The claims he makes are ridiculous, but it looks like he wants to test them.
If you read the above you'll see the basis of his argument.
I've seen some very good things come out of it, and in the past I have been a strong supporter of the GPL, I still am to a great extent, well the spirit of the GPL at any rate.
which is to say, "not the letter of it."
courts don't like that.
You do have a right to the source code, under the GPL. This is law. However much like the Constitutional American "Right to Bear Arms". I have the right to deny you access for exercising this right.
I think this "right" came with a box of Cheerios.
To download binaries or proceed into this site, you have to give up your rights under the GPL.
his emphasis.
and finally..
For all those who really don't care about this and just want the game so they can play, I apologize for the delay this has caused.
Yea, and "for all those who really care about being able to fix bugs as they happen, instead of waiting for an official release, here's my finger, stick it up your ass."
At least that was my reading.
If anybody wants the binaries without the agreement, email me.
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or ever a 4 terabyte one! ;-)
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Cause stupid horny guys give you stuff.
why should MUDs be any different than the real world.
"Who wants to marry a millionaire?" a.k.a. "The highest paid whore since Demi."
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(yes, with paper and stamps, because it's so much more effective than email that our benighted representatives seldom even hear about)
pen and paper are great but a printer and a signature make the same point. Just print an e-mail before you send it, sign it, address it, stamp it, and make a bigger difference. Hmm, now I remember why I liked e-mail so much...
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but as with the ignoring of the Windows2000 launch,
/. covering stories that I'll get from about 10 commercials when I watch TV at home
You're looking for SlashCash : News for Investors, Money matters. Or maybe ZDNet...
Seriously if you didn't know Win2K was coming out, M$'s billion dollar promotions were totally wasted. I've seen enough about them, I want the new stuff, and 30-hour battery life laptops are stuff that mattes to me. I don't want
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The only thing that newspapers have going for them at this point is the portable factor. They require no outside power source, can be taken anywhere, and are great for starting fires.
/. style news source will become possible, and I honestly believe this is a superior form of news trolling (trolls = funny pages, IYWC)
I don't read newspapers. I used to, when I was in a situation without 'Net access, but now that I'm connected most of the time, I never feel the need. The only content that's useful is the local stuff. I am not nearly as impressed with the writing quality as some other posters seem to be, maybe that only applies to a couple of papers. I also don't appreciate the constant tele-marketing, but I guess that's a personal thing.
As far as local content goes, its easy to see why the 'Net, so far, has failed in this arena. Until most (60+%) of the news-loving folks in your town have broadband, it's not gonna happen. When they do, a
/. only works as a news source because it has achieved a critical mass of posters. It works because of the huge number of eyeballs and the massive effort that can be aggregated with each person giving their $.02. I think this is a great style of news dissemination, sure some of it's innacurate, but that *always* gets pointed out by someone. You have to use sig/noise filters, but they work automagically after a while. If you can figure out how to make / work for a local news site, you can go ahead and quit your day job.
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the buttons are tight. I got this off themes.org I guess just before they axed it. If anyone *really* wants it, email me.
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It's a real computer, in an overgrown pocket calculator.
When I want a laptop, I'll grab my laptop. When I want my accessories I'll grap my laptop. When I want a PDA, I'll grab my palm.
If you want to buy a laptop in pieces, go for it. When not being able to show 30 second movies on a 2-inch screen 'causes me problems, I'll look at WinCE.
And I'd check you battery life sources again. The 6-8 hrs. I see in reviews are a far cry from the 20-30 my palm gets at home.
And of course, that's the real reason.
If a company's past actions don't affect your purchasing decisions, that's your dime. Personally, after a company treats me like shit, I do the same.(or does WinCE have a toll-free support number unlike every other Windows product, wait a sec, it's not even WinCE anymore, you are Windows Powered!)
if you want a great organizer go with the Palm Vx. If you want a great organizer with Multimedia and awesome color and don't quite need a laptop go with a Casio E-100/105.
from here
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Not all Microsoft products are "bloatware"
true, just the vast majority and anything that has gone past version 2.0. (Why will they buy the new one? More features!!!)
(by which I assume you mean the marketing-termed "embrace and extend" idea) often comes from higher-ups deciding that certain products need this or that.
Then maybe someone "higher up" can clear up the Active Directory / DNS flak I keep hearing about. If M$ can control what kind of DNS server you must query (i.e. Win2K), thats some, whats the word, uncompetitive business practices. Embrace and extend to the T.
And who is it that decides on and codes the changes that make my Office95 / Office97 / Office2K files incompatible?
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battery life, weight/size, ease of use. These are the things I need from a PDA. I don't want MP3 (not enough memory to make it worthwhile), I don't want movies (the point would be...?), and for damn sure I don't want Windows. That could be from 10 years of using their products, but mostly it's because when I was testing out PDAs, and picked up a the beautiful Cass and tried to lauch outlook, it crashed. I'd've called it a blue screen, but the color wasn't right. That was enough right there to scare me away. As a user have you EVER seen any apps crash? Maybe I just touched it in the wrong way.
With all the crap that M$ likes to add to their program (UID on every document, embedded tracking in their browser, etc) I just don't think they get the smaller is better philosophy. Whatever, PDAs are another tool, my Palm does great and exactly what I want, not what a marketing team has decided I want.
Seems to me that Palm went from the bottom up (from nothing : what do we need it to do) and M$ came from the top down (from the PC : what functionality can we clone, how many features can we add). Cramming a laptop into a palmtop didn't seem to make the market real excited. And what is the "just in case" scenario on a palmtop that requires multitasking and 65,000 colors?
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Supply and Demand. You have basically an infinite supply (dgital media reproduced), you need to create an infinite demand. Fans who "love" what they watch, and can never get enough, i.e. infinite demand. This is done by creating and nurturing devoted fans. Not by sueing devoted fans.
Open access to media only makes it more valuable, not value based on scarcity, but value based on brand equity. Comanies in general, and media companies specifically, should be moving more towards a beneficial one to one relationship with their customers. Rather than the turnip squeezing we have today.
Of course, all of this only makes sense if you really grok what the Internet is and can do. If you want to control media like it was done from the 1st to the 20th centuries, good luck, it's not gonna work.
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What I wonder is what's the problem with, say, Fox, posting each weeks X-Files episode in MPG format. To get access to the file you have to trade your demographic info and enter your Fox password. Now they get some (closer to) concrete number about who is watching (at least this version) and they get more people hanging out on thier site. It's not about getting one or two ad impressions, it's about creating devoted fans for life.
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I've known too many preacher's sons/daughters to think that repression is the key. Empirical evidence points the other way.
Perhaps it is because of the sexual repression in this country that it is used so prevalently (and obviously effectively) in American media in general and advertising specifically. Deny someone something they need (unless you think sexual desire is an acquired trait) and later you can use it to sell them stuff, or they lose control and become rapists, sluts/whores (like all their favorite screen vixens), stalkers (for their favorite screen vixens), incurably self-conscious, over-stimulated, or some other sexually disfigured (and therefore socially dangerous) being.
Huh, what?
Repression doesn't work. Pressure only builds in active, closed environments. Nobody wants explosions, they hurt.
Moderation in all things, especially sex, and this post, both of which are fun with the right people.
--
I'd love to see a /. distro. I don't think even a whole lot of Linux people see the possibilities of tons and tons of different flavors. How about a distro that automagically set's up the slash code, Apache, and mod_perl? Enter a few labels, drop in some pngs, and boom, you've got a $12million dollar site (without the content of course.) I don't think we've even begun to scratch the surface. Why not include a full distrubution with games (already happening), apps, or anything else. Hell, go with the AOL carpet bombing approach, and try to get people to sign up for your "support".
I guess it doesn't bother me about the fragmentation (not that my opinion really matters anyway since none of the code is mine) and I see it as a natural offshoot of the GPL. I'm still waiting for the official "Gaming" distro, or even better a pre-configured box with your games of choice (prices rolled into the system price), your PPP/DSL/cable settings, 3d card, sound card, etc..
Fragments will happen, and it will piss off/annoy some people and they won't come back. OTOH, customizable distros might be the best way to reach niche computing markets (i.e. with ABIT mo'boards). Either way, more Linux users = more Linux apps, and thats a good thing.
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why not use a website as a type of "fireside chat". Gore (or any politician) could participate in board type situation, if only for a couple hours a week. The Net allows for one to many type conversation easily.
The web gives them the ability to put out as much information as possible. Some of us want all of it. The web pages should be a whole lot more than just campaign tools and money catchers, they can be a connection with the public for a full term and beyond.
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yes, it's been around for a while. Something that I found a quick love for, though, was tab-complete (which I never found in DOS, although I didn't look). My insides got all soft and squishy, VIVA LA CLI!
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thanks I spent about two minutes looking at USAtoday.com and ran away screaming. Nice nick, BTW.
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What I'm praying now is for Micro$oft to release DirectX source under the GPL...
The chances of that are about the same as God on High coming down and coding it for you Himself. So I guess praying is the appropriate action to take...
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Everybody in my office knows about it. Same with my family and friends (via e-mail updates with links and in person). I'm wearing my civil disobedience wear out tonight. We are on a full-scale public clue-giving campaign. Once the issues are on the table very few people question which side is "right".
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It's getting a lot bigger than that. I haven't found it on the web yet, but if you have a dead tree USAToday look at the front page and you'll see that the MPAA, RIAA, CBS, NBS, Disney/ABC, NFL, NBA, NCAA, NHL, and all their business partners have formed the Copyright Assembly, whose first major action was to assure everyone they would sue for each and every copyright infringement they found.
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Hmm, guess I must have sounded offended.
:-)
I think it was the "bullshit." reply that gave me that.
We are working with the school to get him into accelerated studies, but the district we're in doesn't have anything until 3rd grade.
That was the same thing for me. I got involved in team sports at a young age and I think that was good too, burns energy and helps with the social skills.
"Where much is given, much is required." Or something to that effect. Good luck.
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Opt-outs in email spam result in litterally a flood of new spam most of the time.
this is my fear. I see a nice "opt-out" link, but I know that the spammers (the truly despicable ones) often use that only as a way of confirming e-mail addresses,i.e. if I reply they *know* it's a good address and will sell it as such.
I've been careful with my real email addresses, but it only takes one company to need the extra cash to open the floodgates, or one mistake by me in checking a box (or not unchecking one) and the game is over. I guess this is something the FBI could work on, since they're getting all sorts of "fear" funding from Congress.
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why do you think lawyers make so many laws. :0
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...it's good to see this. As a Coloradan who does e-mail marketing (opt-in only), it's good to see this. Anything that helps to clean out the crap gives the stuff people want more exposure.
I dunno how easy it is to sue off-shore spammers, but I'm sure somebody will try...
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