Bet you've never been on a leash. (either end of it)
I have.
If you think that the parent can stop supervising their kid for one second just because they are on the end of a 7 foot leash then you have never seen a 190 something mother with a 40 some odd pound kid.
As a Post office worker, all I have to say is, just fucking wonderful, all the post office needs is a better package delivery system, to bring in more scum, and drag the post office down even more. The post office is for writing letters, and while it's nice to have a way to send packages (like on most letter carriers), it's gotten out of hand, and it's doing nothing but hurting us letter writers.
I've read through it an I think that large parts of it should be made permanent.
The law has fallen behind the times in recent years, and I think we would do well to update law enforcement to be able to function with current technology.
I wrote that sig after first installing linux. My normal keyboard wouldn't work with it, because it was a usb device and that version of linux didn't support my board's USB.
The keyboard that replaced it was really sticky due to a long period of storage in a corner after some syrup had been spilled on it.
It was missing a number of keys; both due to them actually being gone, and due to the actual board being damaged.
The shift keys were missing as well, but a skillful use of the caps lock key got around that.
This was my third time using linux so I had no clue about using any possible remaps, and the missing key made following the directions of a friend to rebuild the kernel or whatever was needed to install USB support impossible.
approach to fighting spam. Your idea will not work. Here is why it won't work. (One or more of the following may apply to your particular idea, and it may have other flaws which used to vary from state to state before a bad federal law was passed.)
( ) Spammers can easily use it to harvest email addresses ( ) Mailing lists and other legitimate email uses would be affected ( ) No one will be able to find the guy or collect the money ( ) It is defenseless against brute force attacks ( ) It will stop spam for two weeks and then we'll be stuck with it ( ) Users of email will not put up with it ( ) Microsoft will not put up with it (x) The police will not put up with it ( ) Requires too much cooperation from spammers ( ) Requires immediate total cooperation from everybody at once ( ) Many email users cannot afford to lose business or alienate potential employers ( ) Spammers don't care about invalid addresses in their lists (x) Anyone could anonymously destroy anyone else's career or business
Specifically, your plan fails to account for
(x) Laws expressly prohibiting it ( ) Lack of centrally controlling authority for email ( ) Open relays in foreign countries ( ) Ease of searching tiny alphanumeric address space of all email addresses ( ) Asshats ( ) Jurisdictional problems ( ) Unpopularity of weird new taxes ( ) Public reluctance to accept weird new forms of money ( ) Huge existing software investment in SMTP ( ) Susceptibility of protocols other than SMTP to attack ( ) Willingness of users to install OS patches received by email ( ) Armies of worm riddled broadband-connected Windows boxes ( ) Eternal arms race involved in all filtering approaches ( ) Extreme profitability of spam (x) Joe jobs and/or identity theft ( ) Technically illiterate politicians ( ) Extreme stupidity on the part of people who do business with spammers (x) Dishonesty on the part of spammers themselves ( ) Bandwidth costs that are unaffected by client filtering ( ) Outlook
and the following philosophical objections may also apply:
(x) Ideas similar to yours are easy to come up with, yet none have ever been shown practical ( ) Any scheme based on opt-out is unacceptable ( ) SMTP headers should not be the subject of legislation ( ) Blacklists suck ( ) Whitelists suck ( ) We should be able to talk about Viagra without being censored ( ) Countermeasures should not involve wire fraud or credit card fraud ( ) Countermeasures should not involve sabotage of public networks ( ) Countermeasures must work if phased in gradually ( ) Sending email should be free ( ) Why should we have to trust you and your servers? ( ) Incompatiblity with open source or open source licenses ( ) Feel-good measures do nothing to solve the problem ( ) Temporary/one-time email addresses are cumbersome ( ) I don't want the government reading my email ( ) Killing them that way is not slow and painful enough
Furthermore, this is what I think about you:
(x) Sorry dude, but I don't think it would work. ( ) This is a stupid idea, and you're a stupid person for suggesting it. ( ) Nice try, assh0le! I'm going to find out where you live and burn your house down!
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I have a 30 year old piano that plays notes at different volumes depending on how long you hold the key.
mmm.... moon cheese *arrrggg*
I hurl my sphere of rm -rf at it.
No more than a dog on a leash.
Unless the kid is really determined to knock people over.
Bet you've never been on a leash. (either end of it)
I have.
If you think that the parent can stop supervising their kid for one second just because they are on the end of a 7 foot leash then you have never seen a 190 something mother with a 40 some odd pound kid.
The kid can drag her around like a saint bernard.
Travel back in time and force your mother to go to one of them.
OMG Run its the guberment!!
Think music notation
Thus c# = c sharp
As a Post office worker, all I have to say is, just fucking wonderful, all the post office needs is a better package delivery system, to bring in more scum, and drag the post office down even more. The post office is for writing letters, and while it's nice to have a way to send packages (like on most letter carriers), it's gotten out of hand, and it's doing nothing but hurting us letter writers.
XML isn't a protocol its a file format.
XML is horrible for anything you want to send files with at any decent speed.
The only thing good for it is that due to the text encoding it can go through most firewalls.
I once found an irc server written in mIRC script.
Worked on version 5.92 I think.
Wait no here it is.
Works on 5.8 not 5.92
5.92 was what I had it running on though.
Note.
Venus = Closer to the sun. Therefore Hotter.
Mars = Farther from the Sun. Therefore colder.
It isn't that difficult to figure out.
The Patriot Act expires in October.
I've read through it an I think that large parts of it should be made permanent.
The law has fallen behind the times in recent years, and I think we would do well to update law enforcement to be able to function with current technology.
Give me a lever long enough, eh?
Just remember when asking WWJD that the answer is sometimes "Flip out and knock over tables."
And by checking here you can find thousand of instances of Kerry lying.
Obviously they are all true because there are so many of them. Also they are posted on the INTERWEB!!! OMG!
[/sarcasm]
Google just reports what people write on their websites. It doesn't decide what is true or not.
Pointing to a google search as a backing point for an argument?
That isn't any use.
Google results are easilly fakeable.
There is a fair and balanced report for you.
So how many boxes are we talking here?
With the price of their software I think M$ would actually sponsor the event if everyone had to buy and bring their own.
Old news you insensitive clod.
Maybe if you applied some large part of 7.36 x 10e22 kilograms of thrust to it.
The moon is massive.
You could compare the effect to that of you blowing on your monitor in hopes of moving it.
At the risk of being modded offtopic...
I wrote that sig after first installing linux.
My normal keyboard wouldn't work with it, because it was a usb device and that version of linux didn't support my board's USB.
The keyboard that replaced it was really sticky due to a long period of storage in a corner after some syrup had been spilled on it.
It was missing a number of keys; both due to them actually being gone, and due to the actual board being damaged.
The shift keys were missing as well, but a skillful use of the caps lock key got around that.
This was my third time using linux so I had no clue about using any possible remaps, and the missing key made following the directions of a friend to rebuild the kernel or whatever was needed to install USB support impossible.
Short answer... No.
While in Morrowind with the alchemy system the way it is you can easily munchkin yourself.
Ash Yam + Bloat = Increase Intelligence Potion
Increase Intelligence Potion + Ash Yam + Bloat = More Effective Increase Intelligence Potion
More Effective Increase Intelligence Potion + Ash Yam + Bloat = OMG I R TEH GENUIS Potion
Once you get int over lets say 2000 any potion you make is twinked.
Restore Health 324 points for 1399 seconds. Value 43523
Fortify Strength 577 points for 2424 seconds. Value 23999
Hmmm... might as well... it is endorsed by the editor.
Your post advocates a
( ) technical ( ) legislative ( ) market-based (x) vigilante
approach to fighting spam. Your idea will not work. Here is why it won't work. (One or more of the following may apply to your particular idea, and it may have other flaws which used to vary from state to state before a bad federal law was passed.)
( ) Spammers can easily use it to harvest email addresses
( ) Mailing lists and other legitimate email uses would be affected
( ) No one will be able to find the guy or collect the money
( ) It is defenseless against brute force attacks
( ) It will stop spam for two weeks and then we'll be stuck with it
( ) Users of email will not put up with it
( ) Microsoft will not put up with it
(x) The police will not put up with it
( ) Requires too much cooperation from spammers
( ) Requires immediate total cooperation from everybody at once
( ) Many email users cannot afford to lose business or alienate potential employers
( ) Spammers don't care about invalid addresses in their lists
(x) Anyone could anonymously destroy anyone else's career or business
Specifically, your plan fails to account for
(x) Laws expressly prohibiting it
( ) Lack of centrally controlling authority for email
( ) Open relays in foreign countries
( ) Ease of searching tiny alphanumeric address space of all email addresses
( ) Asshats
( ) Jurisdictional problems
( ) Unpopularity of weird new taxes
( ) Public reluctance to accept weird new forms of money
( ) Huge existing software investment in SMTP
( ) Susceptibility of protocols other than SMTP to attack
( ) Willingness of users to install OS patches received by email
( ) Armies of worm riddled broadband-connected Windows boxes
( ) Eternal arms race involved in all filtering approaches
( ) Extreme profitability of spam
(x) Joe jobs and/or identity theft
( ) Technically illiterate politicians
( ) Extreme stupidity on the part of people who do business with spammers
(x) Dishonesty on the part of spammers themselves
( ) Bandwidth costs that are unaffected by client filtering
( ) Outlook
and the following philosophical objections may also apply:
(x) Ideas similar to yours are easy to come up with, yet none have ever
been shown practical
( ) Any scheme based on opt-out is unacceptable
( ) SMTP headers should not be the subject of legislation
( ) Blacklists suck
( ) Whitelists suck
( ) We should be able to talk about Viagra without being censored
( ) Countermeasures should not involve wire fraud or credit card fraud
( ) Countermeasures should not involve sabotage of public networks
( ) Countermeasures must work if phased in gradually
( ) Sending email should be free
( ) Why should we have to trust you and your servers?
( ) Incompatiblity with open source or open source licenses
( ) Feel-good measures do nothing to solve the problem
( ) Temporary/one-time email addresses are cumbersome
( ) I don't want the government reading my email
( ) Killing them that way is not slow and painful enough
Furthermore, this is what I think about you:
(x) Sorry dude, but I don't think it would work.
( ) This is a stupid idea, and you're a stupid person for suggesting it.
( ) Nice try, assh0le! I'm going to find out where you live and burn your
house down!
He used it to make a plaster cast of his head.
The straw was for breathing through.