the US gives one of the smallest amounts per GDP for any developed country. the EU provides much more.
You wish, fucker. The US may give one of the smallest PERCENTS of GDP, but we also give the MOST in REAL DOLLARS. Which would you rather have, 90% of 10 dollars or 2% of 20,000,000 dollars? Dipshit. Oh, that's 20.000.000 for you fucking wankers in europe.
.. a buddy of mine informed me that there are plastic license covers that block the numbers from being seen by the traffic cams.
Anyone know where to get one of these?
I know where to get something just as good. Plain old petroleum jelly spread in a thin layer over your license plate will prevent cameras from being able to track/record the number. Also, it won't prevent people from seeing your plate, so you don't look suspicious to cops. easy as pie.
lessee: atheist, vegetarian, linux user. have i missed anything?
the stimulation of spiritual questing (notice I didn't say 'spiritual certainty'), the deliciousness of non-vegetables, the fun of windows based video games... Personally I'd say you miss a lot of things. Don't get me wrong, though, you're free to be as silly as you like. That's what free will is all about. You *did* ask, however.
Islam and Christianity aren't all that different, truth be told. You can probably find more differences between Christian denominations than you can between Muslims and Christians.
You're a complete twit, truth be told. That's gotta be at least *close* to the stupidest thing ever said. Congrats!
but it was also surprising how many times I got into arguments with different utilities about whether they had to accept cash as payment
Yeah it's total crap. Lots of places have a 'no-cash' policy...even though it says right one the damn currency that it is 'legal tender for all debts, public and private'. I wonder who decided that 'all' didn't include them?
Name, address and phone and selling history - to law enforcement - is one thing, but financial records and ss#'s are quite something else
I guarantee you that every telemarketer that ever calls you has your name, address, telephone number, and SS# right there in front of them. If someone wants this information, they can get it. If you want to be a tin-hat, don't fucking buy the garage sale shit on ebay.
This could be an easy way for crooks to get the credit info of some of eBay's powersellers, who likely have some excess cash.
yeah, they can send in shitloads of requests...then filter the results to the city they're in..then go there...or perhaps, they would just go to the rich parts of the city, and look for big houses, because owners of big expensive houses are also likely to have some excess cash. Why go through all the trouble when you can just drive to Nob Hill or wherever? I mean, if you're going to be committing crimes on the 'net, it's just so much more profitable to commit fraud or identity theft...not case robberies.
simply because the guy in his house pissed off his ex-wife
Believe me, ex-wives do not need a cop to fuck with you, and they usually don't need one to find your address either. Also, eBay does not allow human body parts to be sold...there were a few famous auctions that tried this early in ebay's history. Finally, this is no different than your local $MEGA_STORE. If some fax comes in from I AM A POLICE OFFICER, do you *really* think some 5.45/hr assistant manager is going to be able to verify it? Hell no. They'll happily sell you out just as quick as eBay will. If you think they won't, you're not going to enjoy waking up in the real world some day.
Am I being paranoid, or are you being naive? When you go into Borders, or into a public library, most people here have every expectation that information about you will be sent to anybody (Law enforcement or no) without any warrant or writ.
It might not happen at all, and we can all be pleasantly surprised. But what are the chances of that?
Ask the legion of politicians and public servants whose video store rental histories have been made public....they thought they had 'privacy' too...but here's a tidbit of news for all of you idealists out there....if you're not on your own private property, if you're in what we call 'public', such as a store, or a park, or a restaurant, you HAVE NO EXPECTATION OF PRIVACY. That's why we differentiate between public and private. Sure, it's crappy for stores to give out your info, but they are sure allowed to do it...remember, having someone else's credit card number *is not* illegal. Only using it is, or providing it to others with the expectation that it will be used, or selling it...whatver. But I'm prefectly free to stand around taking pictures of people's credit cards in a store all damn day...unless and until the store manager/HMFIC tells me to leave.
IOW, "it's a good thing he wasn't breaking the law, or else he would have had to face the consequences of breaking the law".
Well, yeah
Well said. It's like people who were all up in arms over the *illegal* immigrants we deported recently...they came up in a sweep because of their backgrounds, and it turns out they were guilty of visa violations and the like....so we deported them. Then people got all irate...like we were just deporting these people because of their background...well not so. Lots of people were investigated, about a third of them were BREAKING THE LAW. 2/3 did not get deported, only the ones BREAKING THE LAW. No one but me seems to be irate that there would be that many people breaking the IMMIGRATION LAW of the country they were trying to IMMIGRATE to. That seems very ungrateful to me.
If I am comfortable buying something from someone anonymous and untrackable, as I have done many times in my life, that's my prerogative.
Well, you can't buy illegal drugs on eBay. Your local streetcorner will continue to be an anonymous marketplace, but at least you can ask to see the 'merchandise' before you hand over the money. Since you're comfortable buying anonymously, please give me a list of everything you need, I'll give you the address of a condemned/abandonded house in my city, you can send the payment there, and I *promise* I'll send you your stuff. There's plenty of reasons for having the *buyer* be able to be anonymous....but not the seller. Don't feed me some bullshit about birth control. Planned Parenthood are *perfectly* happy to sell you birth control without knowing your real name....but you still know *theirs*
The thing about conspiracy theories is, they're NEVER proven true.
Yet another case of inappropriate word choice. Learn to use the language you're writing in. What you just said is that there has "NEVER" been a group of 3 or more people intent on committing a crime (or who successfully committed one) who got caught. You are stupid. Close your ignorant piehole if you aren't going to engage your paltry intellect first. You would have appeared much more intelligent simply by changing your adamant NEVER to a more reasonable SELDOM.
Yes, and then ask them why we have to pay taxes on our estates when we die. It's not like we didn't pay taxes on all of that stuff at least once, and more likely twice...plus, we're dead and can't fight back. It's fucking grave robbing. Fuck all Democrats who claim to care about people while in actuality they care about their own personal power and advancement. For that matter, fuck all Republicans who claim they want smaller government and then back entitlement bills and homeland security and some of the largest spending increases in recent history. Hmm. I guess I could have more concisely just said 'fuck politicians.'
I believe that the parent could be referring to SALES taxes.
Which only apply if the buyer and seller are both in the same state, and the seller is a licenses reseller or has some other business that requires collection of sales tax. Otherwise you shouldn't be collecting sales tax.
it's still more profitable to attack a country and take thier oil
It's obvious you don't contribute anything to the world. Your country probably doesn't either, unless you're a traitor the U.S. and are posting from within its borders. If so, why don't you move to france so you can get buggered by other smelly people that think like you? Also, it's "their" not "thier"
Line the dash with 6" steel spikes and I can bet you'll find the number of accidents drops to next to nothing over night because we all become the world's safest drivers.
How about we just execute anyone who violates even the smallest law? Everything from jaywalking to murder would cease, and there wouldn't be so many people competing for jobs. I think you're on to something here.
If my company pays another company to advertise my product and or services and they use illegal advertising methods, then shouldn't my company be punished also?
If my company pays a reseller for 50 computers, and 30 of them were constructed with stolen parts, shouldn't my company be punished even though I wasn't aware of that fact, and even though the reseller claimed that all the pcs were constructed with new parts?
You idiot. All the spammers have to do is say "we only spam legally" and whoever hires them is covered, unless they had knowledge of illegal practices by the spammer. How many CEOs are super tech savvy?
You're a pseudo-clever mac fag who posted almost this exact same message right under the article? Yeah, we get your lame-ass attempt at sounding intelligent. It just didn't work. Go fuck some more macs. We all know your secret, and it has nothing to do with computers.
You are such a retarded fuck. Biology != computers, you FUCKING IMBECILE. I'm sure if organisms in your "mono culture" had a choice of opening zip files sent by strangers and getting sick, or NOT OPENING ATTACHMENTS THEY AREN'T EXPECTING and not getting sick, they'd take the less FUCKING STUPID choice. You idiot. It isn't the standards that are causing infected computers, it's fucking idiots like you who don't bother to use a little common sense.
Since most spammers advertise and sell a product, spammer can't be anonymous.
Hey there idiot...why don't you name for me the advertising agencies behind your favorite products? I'll tell you why, because even though they "sell a product," they aren't the MANUFACTURERS you fucking retard. Spammers don't PRODUCE the shit they email about. And sure, maybe they can identify the prime vector of a virus, but if it's the programmer's home computer he's a stupid fuck that deserves to be caught. In fact, he'd be only slightly smarter than you are.
Willfully spreading viruses is not something you can get away with.
This is quite possible the dumbest thing anyone has ever said. Ever. In history. Congrats, retard.
This is the dumbest idea from a spammers viewpoint I've ever read.
Ok, like...what part of "this is speculation" did you not understand? Or did you not even read the article? Or did you read it, but find yourself unable to process the many syllables of the word "speculation?" I admit, it's refreshing for a "journalist" to cop to speculating, but that's still a good indication that he needed a pyacheck and couldn't think of anything WORTHWHILE to write about...and of course, if it's useless and speculatory, slashdot is all over it.
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the US gives one of the smallest amounts per GDP for any developed country. the EU provides much more.
You wish, fucker. The US may give one of the smallest PERCENTS of GDP, but we also give the MOST in REAL DOLLARS. Which would you rather have, 90% of 10 dollars or 2% of 20,000,000 dollars? Dipshit. Oh, that's 20.000.000 for you fucking wankers in europe.
.. a buddy of mine informed me that there are plastic license covers that block the numbers from being seen by the traffic cams.
Anyone know where to get one of these?
I know where to get something just as good. Plain old petroleum jelly spread in a thin layer over your license plate will prevent cameras from being able to track/record the number. Also, it won't prevent people from seeing your plate, so you don't look suspicious to cops. easy as pie.
lessee: atheist, vegetarian, linux user. have i missed anything?
the stimulation of spiritual questing (notice I didn't say 'spiritual certainty'), the deliciousness of non-vegetables, the fun of windows based video games...
Personally I'd say you miss a lot of things. Don't get me wrong, though, you're free to be as silly as you like. That's what free will is all about. You *did* ask, however.
Islam and Christianity aren't all that different, truth be told. You can probably find more differences between Christian denominations than you can between Muslims and Christians.
You're a complete twit, truth be told.
That's gotta be at least *close* to the stupidest thing ever said. Congrats!
but it was also surprising how many times I got into arguments with different utilities about whether they had to accept cash as payment
Yeah it's total crap. Lots of places have a 'no-cash' policy...even though it says right one the damn currency that it is 'legal tender for all debts, public and private'. I wonder who decided that 'all' didn't include them?
Name, address and phone and selling history - to law enforcement - is one thing, but financial records and ss#'s are quite something else
I guarantee you that every telemarketer that ever calls you has your name, address, telephone number, and SS# right there in front of them. If someone wants this information, they can get it. If you want to be a tin-hat, don't fucking buy the garage sale shit on ebay.
uhh..yeah no one has any ethical or moral codes of their own....*boggle*
This could be an easy way for crooks to get the credit info of some of eBay's powersellers, who likely have some excess cash.
yeah, they can send in shitloads of requests...then filter the results to the city they're in..then go there...or perhaps, they would just go to the rich parts of the city, and look for big houses, because owners of big expensive houses are also likely to have some excess cash. Why go through all the trouble when you can just drive to Nob Hill or wherever?
I mean, if you're going to be committing crimes on the 'net, it's just so much more profitable to commit fraud or identity theft...not case robberies.
whew...please give me a line on what you're consuming. I don't want any, myself, I just want to know what to avoid.
simply because the guy in his house pissed off his ex-wife
Believe me, ex-wives do not need a cop to fuck with you, and they usually don't need one to find your address either. Also, eBay does not allow human body parts to be sold...there were a few famous auctions that tried this early in ebay's history.
Finally, this is no different than your local $MEGA_STORE. If some fax comes in from I AM A POLICE OFFICER, do you *really* think some 5.45/hr assistant manager is going to be able to verify it? Hell no. They'll happily sell you out just as quick as eBay will. If you think they won't, you're not going to enjoy waking up in the real world some day.
Am I being paranoid, or are you being naive? When you go into Borders, or into a public library, most people here have every expectation that information about you will be sent to anybody (Law enforcement or no) without any warrant or writ.
It might not happen at all, and we can all be pleasantly surprised. But what are the chances of that?
Ask the legion of politicians and public servants whose video store rental histories have been made public....they thought they had 'privacy' too...but here's a tidbit of news for all of you idealists out there....if you're not on your own private property, if you're in what we call 'public', such as a store, or a park, or a restaurant, you HAVE NO EXPECTATION OF PRIVACY. That's why we differentiate between public and private. Sure, it's crappy for stores to give out your info, but they are sure allowed to do it...remember, having someone else's credit card number *is not* illegal. Only using it is, or providing it to others with the expectation that it will be used, or selling it...whatver. But I'm prefectly free to stand around taking pictures of people's credit cards in a store all damn day...unless and until the store manager/HMFIC tells me to leave.
IOW, "it's a good thing he wasn't breaking the law, or else he would have had to face the consequences of breaking the law".
Well, yeah
Well said. It's like people who were all up in arms over the *illegal* immigrants we deported recently...they came up in a sweep because of their backgrounds, and it turns out they were guilty of visa violations and the like....so we deported them. Then people got all irate...like we were just deporting these people because of their background...well not so. Lots of people were investigated, about a third of them were BREAKING THE LAW. 2/3 did not get deported, only the ones BREAKING THE LAW. No one but me seems to be irate that there would be that many people breaking the IMMIGRATION LAW of the country they were trying to IMMIGRATE to. That seems very ungrateful to me.
If I am comfortable buying something from someone anonymous and untrackable, as I have done many times in my life, that's my prerogative.
Well, you can't buy illegal drugs on eBay. Your local streetcorner will continue to be an anonymous marketplace, but at least you can ask to see the 'merchandise' before you hand over the money. Since you're comfortable buying anonymously, please give me a list of everything you need, I'll give you the address of a condemned/abandonded house in my city, you can send the payment there, and I *promise* I'll send you your stuff. There's plenty of reasons for having the *buyer* be able to be anonymous....but not the seller. Don't feed me some bullshit about birth control. Planned Parenthood are *perfectly* happy to sell you birth control without knowing your real name....but you still know *theirs*
The thing about conspiracy theories is, they're NEVER proven true.
Yet another case of inappropriate word choice.
Learn to use the language you're writing in. What you just said is that there has "NEVER" been a group of 3 or more people intent on committing a crime (or who successfully committed one) who got caught. You are stupid. Close your ignorant piehole if you aren't going to engage your paltry intellect first.
You would have appeared much more intelligent simply by changing your adamant NEVER to a more reasonable SELDOM.
Good question... Go ask the Democrats. :)
Yes, and then ask them why we have to pay taxes on our estates when we die. It's not like we didn't pay taxes on all of that stuff at least once, and more likely twice...plus, we're dead and can't fight back. It's fucking grave robbing.
Fuck all Democrats who claim to care about people while in actuality they care about their own personal power and advancement. For that matter, fuck all Republicans who claim they want smaller government and then back entitlement bills and homeland security and some of the largest spending increases in recent history. Hmm. I guess I could have more concisely just said 'fuck politicians.'
I believe that the parent could be referring to SALES taxes.
Which only apply if the buyer and seller are both in the same state, and the seller is a licenses reseller or has some other business that requires collection of sales tax. Otherwise you shouldn't be collecting sales tax.
it's still more profitable to attack a country and take thier oil
It's obvious you don't contribute anything to the world. Your country probably doesn't either, unless you're a traitor the U.S. and are posting from within its borders. If so, why don't you move to france so you can get buggered by other smelly people that think like you? Also, it's "their" not "thier"
i'm glad you posted a "useful" and "on-topic" post. and as AC, no less. good form, sir troll.
Line the dash with 6" steel spikes and I can bet you'll find the number of accidents drops to next to nothing over night because we all become the world's safest drivers.
How about we just execute anyone who violates even the smallest law? Everything from jaywalking to murder would cease, and there wouldn't be so many people competing for jobs. I think you're on to something here.
If my company pays another company to advertise my product and or services and they use illegal advertising methods, then shouldn't my company be punished also?
If my company pays a reseller for 50 computers, and 30 of them were constructed with stolen parts, shouldn't my company be punished even though I wasn't aware of that fact, and even though the reseller claimed that all the pcs were constructed with new parts?
You idiot. All the spammers have to do is say "we only spam legally" and whoever hires them is covered, unless they had knowledge of illegal practices by the spammer. How many CEOs are super tech savvy?
What's my secret? And it's more than just luck.
You're a pseudo-clever mac fag who posted almost this exact same message right under the article?
Yeah, we get your lame-ass attempt at sounding intelligent. It just didn't work. Go fuck some more macs. We all know your secret, and it has nothing to do with computers.
You are such a retarded fuck. Biology != computers, you FUCKING IMBECILE. I'm sure if organisms in your "mono culture" had a choice of opening zip files sent by strangers and getting sick, or NOT OPENING ATTACHMENTS THEY AREN'T EXPECTING and not getting sick, they'd take the less FUCKING STUPID choice. You idiot. It isn't the standards that are causing infected computers, it's fucking idiots like you who don't bother to use a little common sense.
This article really doesn't seem too well researched I'm afraid.
Gee, ya think? What gave it away, the moronic conclusions the author came to, or the phrase "this is just speculation" close to the beginning?
Since most spammers advertise and sell a product, spammer can't be anonymous.
Hey there idiot...why don't you name for me the advertising agencies behind your favorite products? I'll tell you why, because even though they "sell a product," they aren't the MANUFACTURERS you fucking retard. Spammers don't PRODUCE the shit they email about. And sure, maybe they can identify the prime vector of a virus, but if it's the programmer's home computer he's a stupid fuck that deserves to be caught. In fact, he'd be only slightly smarter than you are.
Willfully spreading viruses is not something you can get away with.
This is quite possible the dumbest thing anyone has ever said. Ever. In history. Congrats, retard.
This is the dumbest idea from a spammers viewpoint I've ever read.
Ok, like...what part of "this is speculation" did you not understand? Or did you not even read the article? Or did you read it, but find yourself unable to process the many syllables of the word "speculation?"
I admit, it's refreshing for a "journalist" to cop to speculating, but that's still a good indication that he needed a pyacheck and couldn't think of anything WORTHWHILE to write about...and of course, if it's useless and speculatory, slashdot is all over it.