I was just quoting the parent message. I agree the term is somewhat derogatory and I don't like using it but it is generally used to classify nations economically.
Argh, why don't they just cut off Nigeria (and any neighboring states that join in) from the internet!? They could complain all they want but they'd be cut off until they stopped the scams.
On the other hand they would be free of endless spams pouring out of the US.
He probably can't face the truth because it would destroy his ego. He tells himself this story to protect himself psychologically. Notice in the article though they mention that he occasionally hints that he knows he was scammed.
I'd like to talk to the folks who kept lending him money. The people who gave him an extra mortgage even though he had accumulated (according to the article) 16 credit cards, all of them maxed out. If he got the mortgage first then the credit card companies didn't care about their chances of getting paid back either.
Seems like the lending rules in the US have gotten WAY too loose.
So he had 73 years of life experience for him to know better.
"He and his partially disabled wife needed the money"
He had no problem burying his wife and himself in debt and putting everything they had in hock for the sake of a scheme that would have made Ralph Kramden (The Honeymooners) blush.
"He comes from a simpler time, a different era"
Bah, I hate that "Golden Age" bullshit. Life wasn't simpler and people act exactly the same as they always have. Some people are liars and cheats, some are greedy fools; time hasn't changed this. People even had fewer people watching out for them (bank insurance, auto insurance, consumer fraud protection, etc) than they do today.
He grew up with Stalin, McCarthy, Hitler, the Depression, countless scams and scandals, and on and on. He wasn't from some innocent time.
A tiny amount of research could've saved him from this mess (he obviously had internet access). Instead he let his greed lead him to a point where he not only has jeopardized his wife's future but he is too scared to admit he was scammed. His mental health demands that he pretend the scammers are the good guys and were victims of their big bad government.
Why do you assume they are "dirt poor third worlders"? They could be, for all you know, the local gangsters who exploit the locals and corrupt the government. They could be far wealthier than their target.
Don't sterotype all American's as "rich" (this guy sounded like your average retiree) or all third worlders as innocent poor lambs.
In the classic PC game Dark Forces there is a scream used when you take a big fall. It is a kind of bellowing "Uuuurrrgh!". I've heard it in many films and on TV since then but don't ask me to remember them. It sounds like another Wilhelm.
I've found this info though: http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr= lang_en&i e=UTF-8&safe=active&threadm=32ACAD09.4345%40saul.u.washington.edu&rnum=1&prev=/groups%3Fq%3D%2B%2522 dark%2Bforces%2522%2Bscream%26hl%3Den%26lr%3Dlang_ en%26ie%3DUTF-8%26safe%3Dactive%26as_qdr%3Dall%26s elm%3D32ACAD09.4345%2540saul.u.washington.edu%26rn um%3D1
I want to see them keep using the same actors. I want to see Hermione dealing with menopause ("Alanda heat flashus!"), Ron in rehab, and Harry struggling with 2 failed marriages and a soul crushing job as head school custodian.
"If Clinton hadn't been in office, it wouldn't have happened and you would still have a job. A good job at that."
Really? So it wasn't the demands of corporations that pushed for it? I have a feeling that no matter who had been in office the same thing would have happened.
If you want to play the blame game go walk down to your nearest board room.
Join the club, and maybe actually visit Boston before commenting on it. I've lived very comfortably in Boston for a while without a car. The T goes to pretty much anywhere in the city you need to go. The only time you need one is to take road trips, something you'd need a car for in NYC also.
Remember, NYC is physically larger than Boston because it swallowed up many of the boroughs around it. If you want to talk about "We have X more of this than you" you'd have to include Boston's neighbors (Cambridge, Brookline, Newton, etc) to make a fair comparison.
You'd end up with 2000 Marines busy churning through hundreds of penis enlargement, bigger boobs, refinancing, debt-free, horny teens, etc ads. I expect they'd resent the penis enlargement ads the most.
Sure they wouldn't attack Nigeria though? After all, they'd want to collect on those millions they were promised by Mr Sebeko, cousin of the ex-Finance Minister.
Sounds like there is a need for a limitations rule whereby someone who doesn't enforce their patent for a certain period of time (preferably a short one) causes that patent to fall into the public domain. There has been too much abuse of just what AaronStJ mentioned. A court may need to decide if it was reasonable for the patent owner to have known about the defendent's actions so some guy in his basement can't cause the inventor to lose their patent rights, in this case though it was well known.
If someone had known that they were infringing in the first place they would have contested the patent, set up licensing, or not have used it. The current system seems to encourage sitting on it until others become dependant on it then they unleash their lawyers to basically perform legal extortion.
Not being accepted has a certain allure to some people actually. They enjoy being the outsiders and feel a certain sense of pride and superiority from it, just like what some people feel from being a closely associated with a group (i.e. team, military, political party, etc).
I would like to see some Attorney General demand proof that people opted-in for the spam in question and if they don't check out with the people on the list they should be held criminally liable. I constantly get spams saying "You are receiving this because you chose to receive offers from blah blah blah..." Really? I did? Must have been one of those wild, drunken email nights I keep having.
If they don't forward your message on to all of their friends they will suffer terrible bad luck, never win the lottery, and never get a great rate on a refinanced mortgage.
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I was just quoting the parent message. I agree the term is somewhat derogatory and I don't like using it but it is generally used to classify nations economically.
Argh, why don't they just cut off Nigeria (and any neighboring states that join in) from the internet!? They could complain all they want but they'd be cut off until they stopped the scams.
On the other hand they would be free of endless spams pouring out of the US.
Yah, yah, I know, it wouldn't work...
He probably can't face the truth because it would destroy his ego. He tells himself this story to protect himself psychologically. Notice in the article though they mention that he occasionally hints that he knows he was scammed.
I'd like to talk to the folks who kept lending him money. The people who gave him an extra mortgage even though he had accumulated (according to the article) 16 credit cards, all of them maxed out. If he got the mortgage first then the credit card companies didn't care about their chances of getting paid back either.
Seems like the lending rules in the US have gotten WAY too loose.
"He is 73"
So he had 73 years of life experience for him to know better.
"He and his partially disabled wife needed the money"
He had no problem burying his wife and himself in debt and putting everything they had in hock for the sake of a scheme that would have made Ralph Kramden (The Honeymooners) blush.
"He comes from a simpler time, a different era"
Bah, I hate that "Golden Age" bullshit. Life wasn't simpler and people act exactly the same as they always have. Some people are liars and cheats, some are greedy fools; time hasn't changed this. People even had fewer people watching out for them (bank insurance, auto insurance, consumer fraud protection, etc) than they do today.
He grew up with Stalin, McCarthy, Hitler, the Depression, countless scams and scandals, and on and on. He wasn't from some innocent time.
A tiny amount of research could've saved him from this mess (he obviously had internet access). Instead he let his greed lead him to a point where he not only has jeopardized his wife's future but he is too scared to admit he was scammed. His mental health demands that he pretend the scammers are the good guys and were victims of their big bad government.
Why do you assume they are "dirt poor third worlders"? They could be, for all you know, the local gangsters who exploit the locals and corrupt the government. They could be far wealthier than their target.
Don't sterotype all American's as "rich" (this guy sounded like your average retiree) or all third worlders as innocent poor lambs.
Sorry it wasn't in HTML. Cut n' paste!
In the classic PC game Dark Forces there is a scream used when you take a big fall. It is a kind of bellowing "Uuuurrrgh!". I've heard it in many films and on TV since then but don't ask me to remember them. It sounds like another Wilhelm.
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I've found this info though:
http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr
http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=lang_e
I can see it now, "The Asstrix - How deep does the butthole go?". Starring Ron Jeremy as Morpheus.
I want to see them keep using the same actors. I want to see Hermione dealing with menopause ("Alanda heat flashus!"), Ron in rehab, and Harry struggling with 2 failed marriages and a soul crushing job as head school custodian.
"If Clinton hadn't been in office, it wouldn't have happened and you would still have a job. A good job at that."
Really? So it wasn't the demands of corporations that pushed for it? I have a feeling that no matter who had been in office the same thing would have happened.
If you want to play the blame game go walk down to your nearest board room.
"Yes, but in NYC, you don't need a car."
Join the club, and maybe actually visit Boston before commenting on it. I've lived very comfortably in Boston for a while without a car. The T goes to pretty much anywhere in the city you need to go. The only time you need one is to take road trips, something you'd need a car for in NYC also.
Remember, NYC is physically larger than Boston because it swallowed up many of the boroughs around it. If you want to talk about "We have X more of this than you" you'd have to include Boston's neighbors (Cambridge, Brookline, Newton, etc) to make a fair comparison.
You'd end up with 2000 Marines busy churning through hundreds of penis enlargement, bigger boobs, refinancing, debt-free, horny teens, etc ads. I expect they'd resent the penis enlargement ads the most.
Sure they wouldn't attack Nigeria though? After all, they'd want to collect on those millions they were promised by Mr Sebeko, cousin of the ex-Finance Minister.
Judging from my mailbox (aka spambox) at home I'd say that the email infrastructure has already been disabled.
Sounds like there is a need for a limitations rule whereby someone who doesn't enforce their patent for a certain period of time (preferably a short one) causes that patent to fall into the public domain. There has been too much abuse of just what AaronStJ mentioned. A court may need to decide if it was reasonable for the patent owner to have known about the defendent's actions so some guy in his basement can't cause the inventor to lose their patent rights, in this case though it was well known.
If someone had known that they were infringing in the first place they would have contested the patent, set up licensing, or not have used it. The current system seems to encourage sitting on it until others become dependant on it then they unleash their lawyers to basically perform legal extortion.
I'd hate to see what they would show on the billboard if they see a lot of Howard Stern listeners driving by.
You know those crazy guys who like to wear tin foil on their heads and say that they are being monitored all of the time? I think they may be right.
Not being accepted has a certain allure to some people actually. They enjoy being the outsiders and feel a certain sense of pride and superiority from it, just like what some people feel from being a closely associated with a group (i.e. team, military, political party, etc).
I wouldn't be surprised if the article left out that this only applies to commercial emails. If it doesn't then it should.
I hope they sent out an email to all UK citizens informing them of this.
I would like to see some Attorney General demand proof that people opted-in for the spam in question and if they don't check out with the people on the list they should be held criminally liable. I constantly get spams saying "You are receiving this because you chose to receive offers from blah blah blah..." Really? I did? Must have been one of those wild, drunken email nights I keep having.
If they don't forward your message on to all of their friends they will suffer terrible bad luck, never win the lottery, and never get a great rate on a refinanced mortgage.
Obviously there is no patent on poorly written laws.