Dear Sir:
I have been requested by the Nigerian National Petroleum Company to contact you to assistance you in your enevour. The Nigerian National Petroleum Company has recently concluded a large number of contracts for oil exploration in the sub-Sahara region. The contracts have immediately produced moneys equalling US$40,000,000. The Nigerian National Petroleum Company is desirous to use this money to help you with your brilliant software inventions. However, because of certain regulations of the Nigerian Government, it is unable to move these funds to another region.
Please sending me your account information for the banking establishment you are being using. We will wire money into this account at our earliest availability.
Bingma Amita,
Official Nigerian Petroleum Official/Venture Capatist
Talk about your ideas. Talk about them with your friends. Talk about them with business associates. Takj about them with strangers. These people find you, not the other way around.
The more you talk, the more likely someone will be willing to listen. If it is something you are passionate about, it will strike a chord with someone else. And, if no one picks up on your idea, you have to face one of two possiblities: You have a good idea, and no one realized it. Or you have a crappy idea, and it should just die.
Either way, you have to get people excited to get them to invest their talents and money.
Brilliant. Much like evolutionary theory, business exists to fill a need. Whether you like it or not, SOMEONE wants the business that DoubleClick offeres. Kill it off, and you have created a vaccuum that will be filled by another company. And we will be a little bit poorer!
1) A $4,000 PC? You spent way too much!
2) Caught 3 virii? Has nothing to do with the PC.
3) 1 Hour a day cleaning up? Perhaps you oughtn't be visiting BubbasHouseOfCheapWomen.COM Or, if you do, get a spyware catcher, or don't agree to download his plugins.
4) No control over the OS?
My suspicion is that you just like to type to see yourself talk...
*SIGH* This really wasn't meant to be funny. Or at least it was only meant as a funny way to make a serious point.
I am a skeptical personal. But sometimes, you just have to take something at face value. Accepting apologies allows reconciliation. Not accepting apologies means we will always be at war with each other... see 99% of the world.
Nintendo did something stupid. They apologized and made an attempt at correction and reconciliation. I have a lot of respect for that. Yet, it seems like it is human nature to be vindictive. And it also seems to be in the nature of Slashdot to be vindictive even when folks here were not personally involved in the original wrong.
Sounds like Nintendo did the right thing after messing up. Time to forgive and forget.
Oh wait.. this is Slashdot:)
Civil liberties and GNP
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Good Bad Attitude
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· Score: 3, Insightful
The author argues that the amunt of civil liberties afforded to the population is proportional to GNP. He may be right. However, it can also be argues that the amount of protection of the individual's right to personal property (intellectual and physical) is also proportional.
While the article was well written, we need to keep both halves of the equation balanced. If either of the two sides gets out of whack, they both come tumbling down.
Slashdot Mirror
The brilliance of this post: Any misspellings due to my illiteracy can be attributed to the 419 scam writer's lack of knowledge of the language...
Dear Sir: I have been requested by the Nigerian National Petroleum Company to contact you to assistance you in your enevour. The Nigerian National Petroleum Company has recently concluded a large number of contracts for oil exploration in the sub-Sahara region. The contracts have immediately produced moneys equalling US$40,000,000. The Nigerian National Petroleum Company is desirous to use this money to help you with your brilliant software inventions. However, because of certain regulations of the Nigerian Government, it is unable to move these funds to another region. Please sending me your account information for the banking establishment you are being using. We will wire money into this account at our earliest availability. Bingma Amita, Official Nigerian Petroleum Official/Venture Capatist
Talk about your ideas. Talk about them with your friends. Talk about them with business associates. Takj about them with strangers. These people find you, not the other way around.
The more you talk, the more likely someone will be willing to listen. If it is something you are passionate about, it will strike a chord with someone else. And, if no one picks up on your idea, you have to face one of two possiblities: You have a good idea, and no one realized it. Or you have a crappy idea, and it should just die.
Either way, you have to get people excited to get them to invest their talents and money.
Good Luck!
What a stupid insight. I doubt I would fit in a lightbulb... much less my wife AND me.
Brilliant. Much like evolutionary theory, business exists to fill a need. Whether you like it or not, SOMEONE wants the business that DoubleClick offeres. Kill it off, and you have created a vaccuum that will be filled by another company. And we will be a little bit poorer!
1) A $4,000 PC? You spent way too much! 2) Caught 3 virii? Has nothing to do with the PC. 3) 1 Hour a day cleaning up? Perhaps you oughtn't be visiting BubbasHouseOfCheapWomen.COM Or, if you do, get a spyware catcher, or don't agree to download his plugins. 4) No control over the OS? My suspicion is that you just like to type to see yourself talk...
*SIGH* This really wasn't meant to be funny. Or at least it was only meant as a funny way to make a serious point. I am a skeptical personal. But sometimes, you just have to take something at face value. Accepting apologies allows reconciliation. Not accepting apologies means we will always be at war with each other... see 99% of the world. Nintendo did something stupid. They apologized and made an attempt at correction and reconciliation. I have a lot of respect for that. Yet, it seems like it is human nature to be vindictive. And it also seems to be in the nature of Slashdot to be vindictive even when folks here were not personally involved in the original wrong.
Sounds like Nintendo did the right thing after messing up. Time to forgive and forget.
:)
Oh wait.. this is Slashdot
The author argues that the amunt of civil liberties afforded to the population is proportional to GNP. He may be right. However, it can also be argues that the amount of protection of the individual's right to personal property (intellectual and physical) is also proportional. While the article was well written, we need to keep both halves of the equation balanced. If either of the two sides gets out of whack, they both come tumbling down.