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Comment Define r-e-t-r-o virus (Score 1) 263

the fate of all diseases and all parasites is equilibrium with its hosts. it does no good to kill off your host so quickly there's no retransmission. so after an initial sickle swinging period of mass slaughter, the strains of any disease that dominate will be those who tend to be more mild, simply because by killing less faster, they spread wider and therefore survive longer

so most likely its not the stand or 28 days later we're talking here

Au, contraire. By definition, HIV, as a retrovirus, says you are wrong about that; lemme guess, you can't get pregnant the first time, either?

Comment Anyone, Anytime, Anywhere... (Score 1) 562

...remember when we could, without delay, without an account, a
background check, or an extra 20 dollars or so every month for service...

listen to popular music of the day...

...view a program in video with sound, without a network logo
and ticker feed blocking "certain" portions of it...

Computers are not very good radios, and
they are even crappier televisions.

Internet technology hasn't been much help, either; It
looks to me like a pack of youngbloods have their horse pushing the cart.

Comment Pay-Per-Spam, anyone? (Score 1) 251

(Let us assume, for example, the sender uses software or a mass-email account with a company:)

Suppose an email Recipient receives ve$0.02 credit for every message reported as spam, debited against the Sender's account and payable to the Recipient's email account, in increments of ve$10;

Further suppose, the otherwise legitimate source of said software or mass-email account must by regulatory restrictions through CAN-SPAM register for the purposes suggested herein; and

(among other things,) pay the Recipient, as the Service is commercially benefiting, and/or restrict the Sender'(s) account - bear in mind, no one wants to set up or install commercial email routines every 100 messages while racking up $50 expenses, but it takes money to make money, and customer satisfaction...

Although the following is very much the clear and present reality, Heaven forbid even one person, objecting to spam, should receive the following notification-

"You have received a collect spam from [nobody]; do you accept the charge(s)?

Painfully, this indeed is what is currently going on, but to put it in those precise words, well, you get the idea.




What ever happened to the thing about, "...it takes money to make money..." anyhow? The internet gives only spam the right to negate that? Yeah, right... get a life, you lawbot.

And why, for goodness' sake, hasn't it been the case, all along.


Anything else is simply a case of WHOIS harrassment through a third party.



A no brainer, out-of-place, casts a lot of pennies the wrong direction, and were talkin' a lot of pennies, here.

Comment Re:pay-per-spam (Score 1) 522

Making people pay for posts. Making people pay for email. That will stop spam dead in its tracks.

Now, I didn't say you'd LIKE what 's next...

RS

...being that it has long been the case that, it takes money to make money, the idea is not only good practice, but sound business.

Comment Re:Idea... and a good one! (Score 1) 267

I second the motion. Now, if naked people and their babies could decide, in a timely manner,which one of two ways to express themselves (verbally - oral/written, or non-verbally) the discrepancies between what they 'said' and what they 'meant' would no longer be an issue or tie up the courts. Oops. I'm a man and I said something... does that make me wrong?

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