Fascinating. (As Mr. Spock would say.) What could possibly be overrated about that post I wrote? In fact, it had never even been rated to be regarded as overrated.
Talk about your broken moderation system.
And even at risk of being regarded as "overrated", I'm still sorry to hear about about Scotty. Actually, I'm pretty sure I had one of his autographed pictures from the days of TOS, though it disappeared at my parents place...
I sincerely doubt anyone will miss you. I certainly won't. Fortunately, on/. there are only a few posters of your stripe. Or maybe I only notice them in the 419-game and the overclocking threads.
No, I didn't answer because you're an obvious fool who cannot be reasoned with. Any substantive comments I make are for the benefit of non-fools. By now, there is only a small likelihood of normal people seeing this old thread. Do you understand how/. works?
However, you have served an accidental purpose of making the language come alive. I was going to say I have nothing but contempt for you. It's not just that you're dumber than average--about half the people are--, but that you're a pompous and noisy idiot. However, I now realize that you are beneath contempt. I had encountered that expression a number of times, but didn't really understand what it meant until you so thoroughly illustrated it. As near as I can tell, your chief purpose in life is to give meaning to the phrase "beneath contempt".
(This post is just spleen venting because I find such aggressive stupidity annoying. No real substance here. However, your particular brand of idiocy is actually relatively harmless, in stark contrast to the Bushevik and Rushevik flavors of stupidity.)
However, I've been hoping Scotty would beam me up to someplace where there is some intelligent life.
In case you've been living in a cave somewhere, I'm referring to the bumper sticker "Beam me up, Scotty. There's no intelligent life down here."
A really good guy, and we never have enough like him. I haven't read all the comments, but I have read quite a bit about his life story. I think the single thing that most impressed me was the engineering school where almost everyone had been inspired by Scotty in wanting to become engineers.
Truly hilarious. But still garbage. Telling me I need to read more? My primary database of books that I've read has around 2,500 entries now. For my own shopping convenience (to avoid buying books I've already read) it's online and searchable at my Tripod website. Before I stopped keeping track, I filled up an entire notebook with stuff like the titles of magazine articles and references to financial reports, but the Web finally dissuaded me from worrying about tracking the small stuff. And you "think" I should read more? Hilarious.
If I was interested in arguing with fools, I would thank you for the additional evidence of your crazed stupidity. As it stands I'm just laughing at you, and I actually have to thank you for being such an amusing joke.
Let me guess. Every two minutes you stand up from the keyboard and wave a rubber chicken around the room. That's the only way you could be any funnier.
Thanks for making my point about what crazy idiots you are. Who do you think you're talking to? Old news now.
One comment worth adding, but only because I think so slowly. I was sure there was something crazy about y'all. Sometimes hard to recognize those Class 0 lies of self-contradiction, especially when they're twisted up like a pretzel. On the one hand, you insist the 419 scammers are stupid, but on the other hand, you say it's safe as long as you take all sorts of precautions. On the third hand, you're supposed to be brave vigilantes, but back on the fourth hand, you have no concern about encouraging suckers to play the dangerous game which you've already said isn't dangerous. Then you boast about your pseudo-bravery and imply that anyone who screws up on one of the precautions or gets too close to the line and falls over is no fault of yours. On the next hand... We're going to wind up with more hands than Shiva here.
You have convinced me your're crazy. Unfortunately, though it explains your behavior perfectly, it has no predictive power.
I have looked at the site, though not recently. It's a great recruiting tool for suckers. I actually wonder if it is maintained by front men for the 419 scammers themeselves.
However, you make my point for me. As you note, the site has lots of precautions you are supposed to take. How did they collect those precautions? By screwing up--though not too seriously, since they got to add the precautions.
The fundamental problem is that it is not a game, and the higher level scammers are going to start by looking at such lists of "precautions" as the next step in the scam. They are not playing by rules. They are looking for ways to con people, and teasing "brave" fools is a great scam. Many of the best scams involve putting the suckers into positions where they don't want to complain to the police afterwards.
Yes, it's nice to know that some of the scammers do get nailed, though the morons on that Web site give themselves way too much credit. However, that's exactly what the patsies are for. Going behind the patsies to get the higher ups is much more difficult.
You want to guarantee the scammers aren't reading/. looking for new ideas? I didn't think so. You might like helping them out, but not me. I will give you one hint, however. You seem to fantasize Google is going to bend over backwards to cover your behind (even though fake account details violate their ToS). Can you imagine that the scammers might know ways to make you look like a co-conspirator and that Google should therefore cooperate with an investigation?
Naw, you don't have that much imagination. Anyway, they wouldn't invest actual resources in setting you up unless you were a really juicy target.
Of course nitpicking on details doesn't matter--the pros are in it for the long term, and if one strategy doesn't work, then they have plenty of time to try another. If you want to play games, you're going to give them a link of some kind. They have plenty of other suckers to process while they wait for you to slip up. Even if you, personally, are just a nuisance and don't have enough money to be worth their trouble, your prattling here shows you'll eagerly help the scammers find some other suckers. They don't mind paying some patsy a few peanuts to keep you potential suckers on the string while they wait.
The fundamental problem here is that you're not very bright. If you go up against professionals, you might get lucky the first time. Ever heard of "beginners' luck". Usually it only happens because the beginner doesn't even have a clue as to how difficult it really is--and which fairly often results in nasty accidents. But in this situation, it's more likely to be the pool shark who loses the first "friendly game" before raising the stakes.
You're obviously an American, by the way. The kind that makes me feel humiliated to be compared to.
Congratulations. I pronounce you a very experienced fool--and lucky, too. Now what about all the lesser fools who follow your example? Are you going to compensate the ones that aren't so brilliant as yourself?
Hey, that's a great idea for a business plan! Sell insurance for amateurs who want to play games with professional criminals!
Not congratulations, but is your life really so empty that playing with criminals is your best form of entertainment? Even worse, you're stupid enough to encourage other people to play along? (I'll retract the "Even worse" clause if you accept full personal and full financial responsibility for any mistakes made by other suckers who follow your advice.)
You need to get out more. Identity theft is one of the hottest scams going these days.
Then again, considering your foolishness, probably better if you don't.
Actually, there is an obvious reason why they would get upset with the playful fools. That would be to encourage more fools like you to play. If they actually are upset with you fools, why should they give you the satisfaction of showing it? Obviously because you create such amusing Web sites on how much fun it is--and one of the later fools might make a useful slip. (Yes, sometimes they probably do get sincerely upset, but that's reserved for the cases when they actually do run out of angles on a promising sucker.)
No, I'm not arguing with a fool. If I were, I can think of half a dozen ways off the top of my head. Is that your real goal? To get some ideas for new research strategies? If so, you must be projecting your idiocy.
The only reason to post is to warn other people that this cowardly troll is quite probably working for the Nigerian scammers. His or her goal is apparently to encourage you to play the "game".
An anonymous coward telling someone else to be brave? Very amusing. Almost as funny as your calling some Nigerian stupid.
In actuality, just because someone doesn't speak very good English as a second language, it tells you very little about that person's real intelligence. Ignoring the ethical considerations, I actually have some respect for someone who figures out a way to put their poor English to use--by convincing fools like you how "harmless" the criminals are. Have to give them more respect than I have for anonymous cowards.
By the way, I might well have become a policeman after I finished my hitch in the service. Not sure if it's still true, but in those days they required uncorrected 20/20 vision. More amusingly, I later got the surgery so that my vision is 20/20--but that disqualified me from going back into the reserves. (Just as well. I probably would have wound up in Iraq.)
So where's the line? For example, they tease you along, they try the contest sting, another source feeds you the abandoned money sting, at some point you slip up and provide them a bit of personal information, or they correlate it somehow. Next thing you know, maybe they've scamming your identity and used your fine American credit rating to max out half a dozen credit cards you never heard of, and you spend the next couple of years trying to get the records cleaned up.
And there you are telling other suckers how safe it is to play games. They appreciate your free advertising, too. Sucker.
Wrong. They are quite organized. The veneer of stupidity is part of the organization. The smart crooks are not working on the front lines, but lurk behind the scenes, collecting the information and looking for likely candidates. For them, the playful fools are just a kind of free advertising to lure new suckers into the scam. They don't mind if they can only sting 1 in a hundred as long as the sting covers their costs.
I don't know the current figures, but at one point the 419 scam was reported to be the third largest source of foreign money coming into Nigeria. However, they have been cracking down on it, and the scammers have also been moving into other countries.
My theory is that the people who say how funny scambaiting is are really working the scam, encouraging stupid amateurs to play the game. That's probably why the AC post, right?
Say, if you aren't a fake, why don't you test out your clever theory on a professional boxer?
They are NOT stupid. (Though they use some stupid front men to hold the bags and take the raps. If the bag man is smart enough to work the scams, he moves up and you don't see him any more.)
It is obvious to them if you are trying to bait them or play games.
They have lots of experience.
They also have lots of resources, including things you will never be aware of until too late.
If they are playing along with your game, it is ONLY because they are hoping to scam you.
If you make a mistake in your little game, they will screw you over royally.
If you, as an amateur, want to play serious games with professional criminals, then you are a fool. And make sure your life insurance is paid up. They are NOT playing games, and you are an idiot if you think they are.
Oh, I thought it was inadvertent anti-intellectualism, but according to your interpretation, it was apparently deliberate. Fortunately, my suteZen Buddhist development has advanced to the stage where I can be relatively indifferent to the approaching end of a once-great nation. Reality is not going anywhere.
Actually, the correct form for that context should be "pedantry".
What is this "Family Guy" thing? Context suggest some sort of American television program. If so, that explains a lot. To paraphrase a famous Republican politician (at the national level, no less): "We really do have the worst educated American people in the world."
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Talk about your broken moderation system.
And even at risk of being regarded as "overrated", I'm still sorry to hear about about Scotty. Actually, I'm pretty sure I had one of his autographed pictures from the days of TOS, though it disappeared at my parents place...
I sincerely doubt anyone will miss you. I certainly won't. Fortunately, on /. there are only a few posters of your stripe. Or maybe I only notice them in the 419-game and the overclocking threads.
However, you have served an accidental purpose of making the language come alive. I was going to say I have nothing but contempt for you. It's not just that you're dumber than average--about half the people are--, but that you're a pompous and noisy idiot. However, I now realize that you are beneath contempt. I had encountered that expression a number of times, but didn't really understand what it meant until you so thoroughly illustrated it. As near as I can tell, your chief purpose in life is to give meaning to the phrase "beneath contempt".
(This post is just spleen venting because I find such aggressive stupidity annoying. No real substance here. However, your particular brand of idiocy is actually relatively harmless, in stark contrast to the Bushevik and Rushevik flavors of stupidity.)
In case you've been living in a cave somewhere, I'm referring to the bumper sticker "Beam me up, Scotty. There's no intelligent life down here."
A really good guy, and we never have enough like him. I haven't read all the comments, but I have read quite a bit about his life story. I think the single thing that most impressed me was the engineering school where almost everyone had been inspired by Scotty in wanting to become engineers.
My, my. So defensive. Easy to answer. I know better than to argue with fools.
If I was interested in arguing with fools, I would thank you for the additional evidence of your crazed stupidity. As it stands I'm just laughing at you, and I actually have to thank you for being such an amusing joke.
Let me guess. Every two minutes you stand up from the keyboard and wave a rubber chicken around the room. That's the only way you could be any funnier.
Do you think anyone is paying attention to you? If so, congratuations on your rich fantasy life.
Or maybe you fantacise you're the practical sort? Are you planning to apply for Rove's job when they are finally forced to dump the turd blossom?
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One comment worth adding, but only because I think so slowly. I was sure there was something crazy about y'all. Sometimes hard to recognize those Class 0 lies of self-contradiction, especially when they're twisted up like a pretzel. On the one hand, you insist the 419 scammers are stupid, but on the other hand, you say it's safe as long as you take all sorts of precautions. On the third hand, you're supposed to be brave vigilantes, but back on the fourth hand, you have no concern about encouraging suckers to play the dangerous game which you've already said isn't dangerous. Then you boast about your pseudo-bravery and imply that anyone who screws up on one of the precautions or gets too close to the line and falls over is no fault of yours. On the next hand... We're going to wind up with more hands than Shiva here.
You have convinced me your're crazy. Unfortunately, though it explains your behavior perfectly, it has no predictive power.
However, you make my point for me. As you note, the site has lots of precautions you are supposed to take. How did they collect those precautions? By screwing up--though not too seriously, since they got to add the precautions.
The fundamental problem is that it is not a game, and the higher level scammers are going to start by looking at such lists of "precautions" as the next step in the scam. They are not playing by rules. They are looking for ways to con people, and teasing "brave" fools is a great scam. Many of the best scams involve putting the suckers into positions where they don't want to complain to the police afterwards.
Yes, it's nice to know that some of the scammers do get nailed, though the morons on that Web site give themselves way too much credit. However, that's exactly what the patsies are for. Going behind the patsies to get the higher ups is much more difficult.
Naw, you don't have that much imagination. Anyway, they wouldn't invest actual resources in setting you up unless you were a really juicy target.
Of course nitpicking on details doesn't matter--the pros are in it for the long term, and if one strategy doesn't work, then they have plenty of time to try another. If you want to play games, you're going to give them a link of some kind. They have plenty of other suckers to process while they wait for you to slip up. Even if you, personally, are just a nuisance and don't have enough money to be worth their trouble, your prattling here shows you'll eagerly help the scammers find some other suckers. They don't mind paying some patsy a few peanuts to keep you potential suckers on the string while they wait.
The fundamental problem here is that you're not very bright. If you go up against professionals, you might get lucky the first time. Ever heard of "beginners' luck". Usually it only happens because the beginner doesn't even have a clue as to how difficult it really is--and which fairly often results in nasty accidents. But in this situation, it's more likely to be the pool shark who loses the first "friendly game" before raising the stakes.
You're obviously an American, by the way. The kind that makes me feel humiliated to be compared to.
Hey, that's a great idea for a business plan! Sell insurance for amateurs who want to play games with professional criminals!
Not congratulations, but is your life really so empty that playing with criminals is your best form of entertainment? Even worse, you're stupid enough to encourage other people to play along? (I'll retract the "Even worse" clause if you accept full personal and full financial responsibility for any mistakes made by other suckers who follow your advice.)
Then again, considering your foolishness, probably better if you don't.
Actually, there is an obvious reason why they would get upset with the playful fools. That would be to encourage more fools like you to play. If they actually are upset with you fools, why should they give you the satisfaction of showing it? Obviously because you create such amusing Web sites on how much fun it is--and one of the later fools might make a useful slip. (Yes, sometimes they probably do get sincerely upset, but that's reserved for the cases when they actually do run out of angles on a promising sucker.)
The only reason to post is to warn other people that this cowardly troll is quite probably working for the Nigerian scammers. His or her goal is apparently to encourage you to play the "game".
In actuality, just because someone doesn't speak very good English as a second language, it tells you very little about that person's real intelligence. Ignoring the ethical considerations, I actually have some respect for someone who figures out a way to put their poor English to use--by convincing fools like you how "harmless" the criminals are. Have to give them more respect than I have for anonymous cowards.
By the way, I might well have become a policeman after I finished my hitch in the service. Not sure if it's still true, but in those days they required uncorrected 20/20 vision. More amusingly, I later got the surgery so that my vision is 20/20--but that disqualified me from going back into the reserves. (Just as well. I probably would have wound up in Iraq.)
And there you are telling other suckers how safe it is to play games. They appreciate your free advertising, too. Sucker.
I don't know the current figures, but at one point the 419 scam was reported to be the third largest source of foreign money coming into Nigeria. However, they have been cracking down on it, and the scammers have also been moving into other countries.
Say, if you aren't a fake, why don't you test out your clever theory on a professional boxer?
Oh, I thought it was inadvertent anti-intellectualism, but according to your interpretation, it was apparently deliberate. Fortunately, my suteZen Buddhist development has advanced to the stage where I can be relatively indifferent to the approaching end of a once-great nation. Reality is not going anywhere.
What is this "Family Guy" thing? Context suggest some sort of American television program. If so, that explains a lot. To paraphrase a famous Republican politician (at the national level, no less): "We really do have the worst educated American people in the world."
No substance there, and I don't argue with fools.
You obviously know nothing about science. If you want to find a religious nut, it sounds like you can just look for the nearest mirror.
Help, help, it's the auto-troll!!