Spam doesn't sell products. Spam is itself the product. Spammers sell the spam service to people who think that spam works. "If only 1/10th of 1% buy, then you meet your ROI!" but that's just a lie to get the cash.
The emails themselves are the product that is being purchased. The items being hawked are irrelevant.
My favorite local gaming store won't stock HeroScape because Wal-Mart sells it for less than he can buy it for. People would buy it from him when Wal-Mart was out-of-stock, then play his copy, buy a copy from Wal-Mart and return the Wal-Mart copy to him on the 30th day after purchase.
If you buy a billion units you get the item a lot cheaper than if you buy 10. That's true of everything.
Even though your 90+% is a tad exaggerated... How about writing hate mail or sending envelopes with an unknown white powder inside? Something isn't right just because "everyone is doing it"...
Hey, I run a mail-order bakery and I was sending samples of baking powder to every household in America. Didn't you hear of the "Killer Ingredients at Drop-Dead prices" campaign?
In retrospect, it wasn't the best marketing campaign, and I'm up for parole soon, but excuse ME for thinking that we were ALLOWED to be ENTREPRENEURS in AMERICA.
Your military cannot be used against its own population. Life isn't like GTA when you call in the army when the situation gets out of control. The military is to defend the state against actions of an outside state; it is there to protect sovereignty.
The army isn't going to attack US civilians. That's the FBI's job.
That's the problem. When the scrap dealers will accept parking meters and in one case, the pendulum from a hundred-year-old clock, then the problem isn't the meth-head looking for a fix. A reputable place will require ID and call the place. Some of the places here provide coffee, a tent, and insulation strippers.
No really, parking meters. They started stealing the parking meters.
Here it doesn't seem to be a problem. Now, my expertise is in electronics so I rely on oceanographers to tell me about the ocean. I've talked to chief health officers, oceanographers, politicians, divers, doctors, etc. None of them (including one who won the Japanese Oceanographer's Award) think that we have to treat our sewage beyond the primary stage. (We do treat it by screen to 6mm, upgrading to 2mm filters) The rest is taken care of by a huge opportunistic biomass that lives near the outfalls. Outside of a 100m radius, the levels drop below that magic 50 number. We use source control to pull out our heavy metals, chemicals, and other toxins. Almost all of what goes into the strait is humanure and water.
Interestingly, the mussels that grow there are LESS toxic than normal because they grow very quickly and so the toxins have less time to leach into their shells. There's more kelp, which attracts smaller fish like kelp greenlings; the big fish eat the little ones; then you get seals, orcas, and all manner of sea critters. Like I said, I dive there. There isn't an epidemic of Hepatitis amongst the local divers here and there would be if it was at all dangerous.
The costs for building this treatment plant are going to be over a billion dollars. The operating costs are going to run about $500 a year per person added onto property taxes. All this for something where there is no scientific evidence that it will do anything at all. I imagine that the biomass will start to die off and we'll have to start fertilizing it.
You put a guy in the box, hook him up to IV nutrients, and have a quantum device activate a second IV with the lethal injection stuff sometime in the first five days in the box.
Then you open the box later, find him dead, and you won't know when so you can't run the martyr ceremony at the right time. (40 days after death)
My kids will turn on the taps, wait, and then turn the taps off just to avoid washing their hands. I was asking why the towel wasn't damp and they started rinsing their hands. Pests.
I stopped caring about germs. I bike to work, I exercise at the Y (26 minutes ago, excellent!), I have one kid in school and one in daycare, I SCUBA dive in the ocean (we discharge screened sewage here), and I eat at a pub about once a week on average. (the chefs there don't exactly use antibacterial soaps...) I've had someone puke in my mouth. (My daughter; she was very young and the game was very high.) Normal germs don't stand a chance in my body.
I licked my keyboard while I was posting this. I'm not afraid of germs.
"Ladies and Gentlemen, I'm afraid that you've misunderstood.
"We are the United States of America. We are the most powerful country that has ever existed in the history of this planet. We spend more on the opening weekend of a movie than most countries have as the entire GDP. We provide trade or aid to every country on the planet, be it friend or foe.
And for that, we have been attacked. Thousands of American citizens -- not soldiers, just people going to work -- were killed by murderers who seek only to sow chaos and have us go to their countries and destroy it from without. We could."
*pause for a sip of coffee*
"With no more effort than a drink of coffee, I could destroy any country and make it unlivable for man or bug forever. But I won't because you don't hurt children that don't know any better. What we are going to do is find you, the men responsible for this, and bring you to trial for murder. If you are found guilty you will be put to death in a sterile, clean, and merciful fashion. You will not be martyred. We are offering a bounty of $100 million dollars plus US citizen status for information leading to arrest. That is enough money to literally buy Muslim paradise for the rest of your life.
"What else we will do is rebuild these towers and the pentagon, and do so by the end of this year. Your master stroke will be erased and you will have nothing to show for it. The best you can do, and we will erase it and move on. We will not seek revenge on those near you; just on you. In a year, who will even believe you?
Ladies and Gentlemen, we have work to do."
-- speech given in another universe; September 12, 2001.
I always said they should be building schools and hospitals over in Afghanistan. 20 years from now they couldn't muster enough explosives to blow their nose.
"Crazy grandpa's talking about the US being the devil again. I'm off to school with my sister!"
"Okay honey, I'll take him into the hospital and get his meds refilled."
Bring in gun registration. "No, it's totally fine to have a rocket launcher. You just have to register it first. Well, yes, if something gets blown up with a rocket we're going to come ask you where you were. Assault rifle? No problem, get an eye exam, take the gun safety course, and fill out form Q-48A and you're golden. You can pick up a rifle case at Wal-Mart."
These guys have no long-term strategy.
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Really?
I have no stress in my job at all. I'm an Electrical Engineer. I work on billion-dollar pieces of life-critical equipment with tight deadlines, zero tolerance for error, and 20-30 year reliability requirements.
I just don't stress about it, I don't come in on overtime unless I'm paid for it, and I enjoy my work. Some people think that you have to be stressed out ("it's part of the field") but that's just a way to move into a small below-ground apartment ahead of schedule.
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By the time this comes out your existing computer will be obsolete.
"The Pirate Bay has been accused of hosting child pornography."
Spam doesn't sell products. Spam is itself the product. Spammers sell the spam service to people who think that spam works. "If only 1/10th of 1% buy, then you meet your ROI!" but that's just a lie to get the cash.
The emails themselves are the product that is being purchased. The items being hawked are irrelevant.
My favorite local gaming store won't stock HeroScape because Wal-Mart sells it for less than he can buy it for. People would buy it from him when Wal-Mart was out-of-stock, then play his copy, buy a copy from Wal-Mart and return the Wal-Mart copy to him on the 30th day after purchase.
If you buy a billion units you get the item a lot cheaper than if you buy 10. That's true of everything.
You cannot legally buy music in Canada unless you go through iTunes.
So why should I go to jail or be bankrupted for boycotting a store?
How do you propose to keep 90% of the population in prison? Robots?
Mortgages.
You get to pick and decorate your own cell.
Even though your 90+% is a tad exaggerated... How about writing hate mail or sending envelopes with an unknown white powder inside? ...
Something isn't right just because "everyone is doing it"
Hey, I run a mail-order bakery and I was sending samples of baking powder to every household in America. Didn't you hear of the "Killer Ingredients at Drop-Dead prices" campaign?
In retrospect, it wasn't the best marketing campaign, and I'm up for parole soon, but excuse ME for thinking that we were ALLOWED to be ENTREPRENEURS in AMERICA.
Your military cannot be used against its own population. Life isn't like GTA when you call in the army when the situation gets out of control. The military is to defend the state against actions of an outside state; it is there to protect sovereignty.
The army isn't going to attack US civilians. That's the FBI's job.
She was a teenager and couldn't enter into a legal contract anyway. That would have been the crux of my defence if it was me.
IANAL but my L is.
Yes, put that in and make it and unskippable on every CD. Then it'll be just like the DVD release.
Oh, they should also put in ads for other songs. I love that.
Yes, that's exactly what the tent is for. No A/C, but it provides shade / rain cover / windscreen / cat repellent, depending on the weather.
That's the problem. When the scrap dealers will accept parking meters and in one case, the pendulum from a hundred-year-old clock, then the problem isn't the meth-head looking for a fix. A reputable place will require ID and call the place. Some of the places here provide coffee, a tent, and insulation strippers.
No really, parking meters. They started stealing the parking meters.
Here it doesn't seem to be a problem. Now, my expertise is in electronics so I rely on oceanographers to tell me about the ocean. I've talked to chief health officers, oceanographers, politicians, divers, doctors, etc. None of them (including one who won the Japanese Oceanographer's Award) think that we have to treat our sewage beyond the primary stage. (We do treat it by screen to 6mm, upgrading to 2mm filters) The rest is taken care of by a huge opportunistic biomass that lives near the outfalls. Outside of a 100m radius, the levels drop below that magic 50 number. We use source control to pull out our heavy metals, chemicals, and other toxins. Almost all of what goes into the strait is humanure and water.
Interestingly, the mussels that grow there are LESS toxic than normal because they grow very quickly and so the toxins have less time to leach into their shells. There's more kelp, which attracts smaller fish like kelp greenlings; the big fish eat the little ones; then you get seals, orcas, and all manner of sea critters. Like I said, I dive there. There isn't an epidemic of Hepatitis amongst the local divers here and there would be if it was at all dangerous.
The costs for building this treatment plant are going to be over a billion dollars. The operating costs are going to run about $500 a year per person added onto property taxes. All this for something where there is no scientific evidence that it will do anything at all. I imagine that the biomass will start to die off and we'll have to start fertilizing it.
Actually, that would work.
You put a guy in the box, hook him up to IV nutrients, and have a quantum device activate a second IV with the lethal injection stuff sometime in the first five days in the box.
Then you open the box later, find him dead, and you won't know when so you can't run the martyr ceremony at the right time. (40 days after death)
Perfect.
(we discharge screened sewage here)
What do you think fish do in the ocean?
They also fuck in it.
The federal government wants to spend a Billion dollars treating our sewage to fix a 100m radius problem that's treated by a 100-year-old bio-reactor.
Here's how to get all men to clean their hands every time:
Get a box.
Put boobs in it.
Put the box in the men's room.
Any time the boobs are touched, spray the inside of the box with hand cleaner.
Done. Any other problems you want solved today?
Well thanks for the lick!
That's the most mouth-based attention anyone's paid any of my appendages for about ten years.
We're descended from people who lived through the Dark Ages.
We lived for 250,000 years without Purell.
We lived for all this time without antibacterial everythings.
You can play with the kids. You'll be fine.
After all, you're touching a keyboard and mouse, and those are dirtier than a toilet in the mens room at a bar.
My kids will turn on the taps, wait, and then turn the taps off just to avoid washing their hands. I was asking why the towel wasn't damp and they started rinsing their hands. Pests.
I stopped caring about germs. I bike to work, I exercise at the Y (26 minutes ago, excellent!), I have one kid in school and one in daycare, I SCUBA dive in the ocean (we discharge screened sewage here), and I eat at a pub about once a week on average. (the chefs there don't exactly use antibacterial soaps...) I've had someone puke in my mouth. (My daughter; she was very young and the game was very high.) Normal germs don't stand a chance in my body.
I licked my keyboard while I was posting this. I'm not afraid of germs.
"Ladies and Gentlemen, I'm afraid that you've misunderstood.
"We are the United States of America. We are the most powerful country that has ever existed in the history of this planet. We spend more on the opening weekend of a movie than most countries have as the entire GDP. We provide trade or aid to every country on the planet, be it friend or foe.
And for that, we have been attacked. Thousands of American citizens -- not soldiers, just people going to work -- were killed by murderers who seek only to sow chaos and have us go to their countries and destroy it from without. We could."
*pause for a sip of coffee*
"With no more effort than a drink of coffee, I could destroy any country and make it unlivable for man or bug forever. But I won't because you don't hurt children that don't know any better. What we are going to do is find you, the men responsible for this, and bring you to trial for murder. If you are found guilty you will be put to death in a sterile, clean, and merciful fashion. You will not be martyred. We are offering a bounty of $100 million dollars plus US citizen status for information leading to arrest. That is enough money to literally buy Muslim paradise for the rest of your life.
"What else we will do is rebuild these towers and the pentagon, and do so by the end of this year. Your master stroke will be erased and you will have nothing to show for it. The best you can do, and we will erase it and move on. We will not seek revenge on those near you; just on you. In a year, who will even believe you?
Ladies and Gentlemen, we have work to do."
-- speech given in another universe; September 12, 2001.
I always said they should be building schools and hospitals over in Afghanistan. 20 years from now they couldn't muster enough explosives to blow their nose.
"Crazy grandpa's talking about the US being the devil again. I'm off to school with my sister!"
"Okay honey, I'll take him into the hospital and get his meds refilled."
Bring in gun registration. "No, it's totally fine to have a rocket launcher. You just have to register it first. Well, yes, if something gets blown up with a rocket we're going to come ask you where you were. Assault rifle? No problem, get an eye exam, take the gun safety course, and fill out form Q-48A and you're golden. You can pick up a rifle case at Wal-Mart."
These guys have no long-term strategy.
Really?
I have no stress in my job at all. I'm an Electrical Engineer. I work on billion-dollar pieces of life-critical equipment with tight deadlines, zero tolerance for error, and 20-30 year reliability requirements.
I just don't stress about it, I don't come in on overtime unless I'm paid for it, and I enjoy my work. Some people think that you have to be stressed out ("it's part of the field") but that's just a way to move into a small below-ground apartment ahead of schedule.
Yes, yes, yes!
And free... gravy!
Apparently I'm a Libertarian then. I assume fiscal responsibility is part of the package as well, right?
Meh, I use IE7 at work and FF at home, so I didn't read into it.
If it was some quirk of the test then I guess I owe MS an apology letter.