Exactly. I've actually talked in-depth to one of those "condom = abortion" types, and have come to a realization about them: To them, any sex which doesn't result in a child is abortion.
Looking more on the cynical side, I can see their point of view: they need more money trees to grow.
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 ( ) 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 ( ) Anyone could anonymously destroy anyone else's career or business
Specifically, your plan fails to account for
( ) 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 ( ) Joe jobs and/or identity theft ( ) Technically illiterate politicians ( ) Extreme stupidity on the part of people who do business with spammers ( ) Dishonesty on the part of spammers themselves ( ) Bandwidth costs that are unaffected by client filtering ( ) Outlook
and the following philosophical objections may also apply:
( ) 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:
( ) 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!
OpenDNS is good in theory, but it's not standards-compliant -- it doesn't return NXDOMAIN on nonexistent domains. The internet is more than just http traffic in a web browser.
GP never made any insinuation toward "industr[ies]" that are "industrious because they [are] running at a loss". There's a vast difference between being able to "attempt profit, and if you do, good for you", and "guaranteed profit, regardless of any situation"
If I'm understanding this correctly, petrol's £1/liter in the UK, yes? If so, that'd be about $8 US/gallon if I'm doing my math right (approx. $2=£1, approx 4 liters to the gallon)
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Exactly. I've actually talked in-depth to one of those "condom = abortion" types, and have come to a realization about them: To them, any sex which doesn't result in a child is abortion.
Looking more on the cynical side, I can see their point of view: they need more money trees to grow.
There are people in this area (Cape Giradeau, MO) that consider even the use of a condom to be abortion.
I think you're thinking of CDDB, which is why FreeDB was spun off.
Send Tyler after those RIAA goons. Give him a bit more meat on his bones though.
And it would stop a lot of legitimate persons from selling their copper too.
A Nazi would insist on perfect spelling and grammar, as much as one would insist on perfectly-shined jackboots.
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Yes, there is a channel about it.
Gold in most MMOs simply reflects the contents of a variable. No actual objects.
.223 Remington/5.56 NATO.
Her Pinkness disagrees. May She drive Her horn through your mouse hand.
Here it is. Not even filled out either.
Considering the piss-poor state of modern newspapers, I'd consider some guy's blog more credible than a major newspaper.
OpenDNS is good in theory, but it's not standards-compliant -- it doesn't return NXDOMAIN on nonexistent domains. The internet is more than just http traffic in a web browser.
Man, inflation's even affecting the Islamic paradise economy! Last I checked it was 72 virgins.
Which, in some caes, could be as young as 10, or as old as 50!
GP never made any insinuation toward "industr[ies]" that are "industrious because they [are] running at a loss". There's a vast difference between being able to "attempt profit, and if you do, good for you", and "guaranteed profit, regardless of any situation"
You're not the one that needs fscked. The government really needs a fsck.
This seems to me to be in the spirit of RFC 2549, "IP over Avian Carriers with Quality of Service". I should suggest this as an idea for the AF09 RFC.
I wonder how the speed compares to 2549-compliant methods of delivery?
This happens when my phone rings with the vibrator turned on. What about yours?
And *in fact*, Mozilla-based /mail clients/ render this kind of _substitute formatting_
Wouldn't the weight figure refer to the amount of dynamite equivalency? For example a 1KT nuke would have the same explosive power as 1KT of dynamite?
If I'm understanding this correctly, petrol's £1/liter in the UK, yes? If so, that'd be about $8 US/gallon if I'm doing my math right (approx. $2=£1, approx 4 liters to the gallon)
Or they could use a high-end 35mm camera. those are still sold. Hell, there's one in VERY good shape for sale for $40 in my local pawn shop!
Tomorrow, though, we'll always have been pro-IBM.