Having worked for an entreporneur, I can tell you what the point would be. It's all well and good to get access to free email accounts, but, as has been said, that's more or less pointless.
What is useful, however, is signing up for free webspace. That's the holy grail of porn sites, an unlimited supply of website all pointing back to your main page. Good for search engine rank, dontcha know?
When I did some programming for a gentleman who served up porn sites, it was my task to give him a script that would go to Geocities, create an account, and then FTP up a small site with tons of links back to his main site. It would track the account name and password (randomly generated) and parse the URL of the site into a list, which he then used for...something.
Shortly thereafter (read: Next Day) Geocities put up a captcha for the signup. Related? Perhaps, perhaps not, but I do know that over multiple T1 connections, he created over 5,000 sites overnight on the 8 hours of running the script.
What you are proposing is the idea of "Equality of Outcome" as opposed to our current value of "Equal Opportunity", and this, I'm afraid to say, is the same thing that caused the Soviet Union to collapse.
The simple fact is, once people begin to realize that no matter how hard they work for something, they're never going to get anything more than their drunken neighor, the disillusionment sets in pretty quickly, and all of a sudden, nobody is doing any more work then the aforementioned drunken neighbor. Not the way to run an economy, just ask Gorbachev.
Aside from that, though, the idea of surfing for pr0n from work, though tempting due to fast connections, isn't the best idea in the world. We (my boss and I) canned two people for doing just that, and you've really got to ask yourself if your libido is more important to you than eating. When you're at work, you don't always have to do work, but stay off the pr0n. Read slashdot, use the time to learn things that you can't learn on a pr0nsite.
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What is useful, however, is signing up for free webspace. That's the holy grail of porn sites, an unlimited supply of website all pointing back to your main page. Good for search engine rank, dontcha know?
When I did some programming for a gentleman who served up porn sites, it was my task to give him a script that would go to Geocities, create an account, and then FTP up a small site with tons of links back to his main site. It would track the account name and password (randomly generated) and parse the URL of the site into a list, which he then used for...something.
Shortly thereafter (read: Next Day) Geocities put up a captcha for the signup. Related? Perhaps, perhaps not, but I do know that over multiple T1 connections, he created over 5,000 sites overnight on the 8 hours of running the script.
Something to think about.
What you are proposing is the idea of "Equality of Outcome" as opposed to our current value of "Equal Opportunity", and this, I'm afraid to say, is the same thing that caused the Soviet Union to collapse.
The simple fact is, once people begin to realize that no matter how hard they work for something, they're never going to get anything more than their drunken neighor, the disillusionment sets in pretty quickly, and all of a sudden, nobody is doing any more work then the aforementioned drunken neighbor. Not the way to run an economy, just ask Gorbachev.
Aside from that, though, the idea of surfing for pr0n from work, though tempting due to fast connections, isn't the best idea in the world. We (my boss and I) canned two people for doing just that, and you've really got to ask yourself if your libido is more important to you than eating. When you're at work, you don't always have to do work, but stay off the pr0n. Read slashdot, use the time to learn things that you can't learn on a pr0nsite.
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