The Sphere
General Garbage => Tropical Paradise of Hard Shelled Fruits => Topic started by: Bernie AKA on Sep 17, 2004, 11:18:26 AM
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Bounties worked for catching cattle rustlers, so why not try them to catch spammers?
The federal government is proposing money as an incentive to turn in those who send millions of unwanted e-mails.
The Federal Trade Commission says if people got at least $100,000 for their trouble, they might be willing to blow the whistle on co-workers, friends and others flooding computer in-boxes with unsolicited offers for prescription drugs, weight-loss plans and other products.
The proposed bounty -- between $100,000 and $250,000 -- is higher than rewards in most high-profile criminal and terrorism cases. For example the reward for turning in someone on the FBI's top 10 fugitive list is $50,000.
On its Web site, the FTC said there are three hurdles to prosecutions under the "Can Spam" Act that bounties could help with:
Identifying and finding spammers
Proving spammers are legally responsible
Getting a fine from the spammer
The agency says in a report that it doesn't expect tips would come from amateur sleuths tracking down spammers online.
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That sounds awesome but I don't see why they should get more than someone who catches one of the FBI's most wanted.
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All good things good and bad come in threes.
So besides the unwinnable wars against terrorism and drugs, there's now the unwinnable war against spam.
God bless the USA
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BLAME REPUBLICANS!
I am actually all for drugs being legal ^_^ Stop showing terrorist shit on the news, and let hackers go out an attack spammers. Clog spamming comps with worms, and lesse em send out "OMFG!!! MOMS SUCKING OFF SONS WHILE ROVER GETS SOME!!!"
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good lord tom, u are always blaming someone. "blame the republicans!", "blame canada!", etc, etc.
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Blame Faye!
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no, blame Bitch!
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BLAME CANADA!
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BLAME CANADA!
i was waiting for that.
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Canada sucks.
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Yech, drugs don't need to be legal. The people who really want them get them anyway.
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I hate that Legalize Marijuana crap. If it was legalized, the air would be so polluted with the shit I'd have to drag an oxygen tank with me everywhere or something.
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WRONG. If it was legalized, and properly regulated, it'd become expensive because of high demand. Then of course, it would eventually become like ciggaretes, so full of poisoins and shit that anyone who smokes it dies, so we won't have to worry. YAY!
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If Marijuana was legal would you guys try it?
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Shit, if it was legal, it'd be regulated into weak shit. Fuck that.
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I don't see any need to legalize something like that when as I said, the people who really want it manage to get it anyway. And if they get busted by the cops or their job, it becomes a funny story about how the man is keeping them down.
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Shit, if it was legal, it'd be regulated into weak shit. Fuck that.
...that's a bad statement. Look at everything under capitalism! there's triple stuffed Oreos for chriss sakes!
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He's got a point ther-- Triple stuffed? Seriously?
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quite possibly, they put M & Ms in a chocolate bar. IN A CHOCOLATE BAR!
Best fucking candy bars, though.
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Oh man, I was ragging on to Merla about that. That's some f'ed up stuff where the candy is put into a candy and then (in some instances) peanut butter is thusly added. Just like Leno when he said it's gotten really bad for America when "cheesecake" is regulated to an ingredient (in the cheesecake blizzard at DQ).
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ok then. what candy is your favorite drug? Mine is Reese's peanut butter cups.
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Same, though my true love was the short-lived dark chocolate variety.
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Have you the big reese's peanut butter cups and the Reese's cookie cups?
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I haven't wanted to really try those. I had a cookie cup once and it seemed like a little too much. I also like the white cups. I think I've just had enough of milk chocolate.
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Reese's Pieces are bite sized heaven.
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Either one in ice cream. Just plain ice cream, no frills, not too creamy. Yummy.
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Baskin Robbins usta have the Resse's peanut butter in chocolate ice cream. I only had it once about 15 years ago. I havent been able to find it since.
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ok then. what candy is your favorite drug? Mine is Reese's peanut butter cups.
Ahem Brother, anything with Reeses is fucking goldy. Hershey's Fifth Avenue is the shit too.
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Shit, if it was legal, it'd be regulated into weak shit. Fuck that.
It's more like the opposite. It's been legal in my country for years, resulting in Dutch weed by far having the highest THC percentage.
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yeah. anything reeses = jesus.
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I never tried the white chocolate Reeses, white chocolate makes me sick.
Anyone remember the Cookies N' Cream.. uh.. Nestle Crunch?
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If Marijuana was legal would you guys try it?
i already do :-/
my favorite candy: bacci, ferrero rocher(THEY ARE SOO GOOD) and here, rollups! and i used to be a fan of peanut m&m's
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I never cared much for candy, not even as a little kid, sugar is probably the only poison I stay away from
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Me neither. I guess not liking candy indicates you'll grow up to be an alcoholic. B)
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yes, you are a couple of alcoholics and you should be ashamed of yourselves!
:starts reciting the bible:
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Silly Faye, bibles are for burning
*lights bible*
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some people use it as one of those papers to roll weed with :-/
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Yes, I know, I believe that's one of my anekdotes you're quoting now
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I did that too, and I'm a fucking Christian.
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I never liked pot. Speed is another matter entirely. :D
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Even Bernie is a druggie?
My faith of humanity has been ruined. ;_;
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Yes, I know, I believe that's one of my anekdotes you're quoting now
no it isnt! one of my friends did that too
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Bah they all took the idea from me. My family has been smoking bibles before your whole continent was even discovered.
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yeah but my family wasnt in the continent....my family was probably smoking with your family
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You wish.
We never let outsiders smoke our bibles
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Even Bernie is a druggie?
Not since around 1990, and that was mostly at work. I couldn't afford to do coke like management, just speed.
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I smoke whomever's Bibles I damn-well please.
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You wish.
We never let outsiders smoke our bibles
awww :(
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I did that too, and I'm a fucking Christian.
What the fuck are you ding at thsi board, man? Seriously.
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A fucking christian. Isn't that a contradiction in terms?
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shooting the shit just like everyone else.
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I'm here cuz I damn well feel like it. I do use Christian loosely, as I could easily be aetheist tommorrow, but something's holding me on to my precious deity.
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Take that crucifix out of your arse then
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But that's where I like it!
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*calls ambulance for Fiero*
*adds #15 to rectal objects list* :P
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.. I'll shoot your shit.
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kinky ;)
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Interracial section. Yaw haw yeah.
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:unsure:
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I bought some Reese's from a vending machine because this thread got me all hyped for Reese's and man, milk chocolate and I still don't agree. I had to throw the other one away. Yuck.
lol @ Bitch. I know how you feel. When I got a job at DQ years back, everyone but me smoked weed. At LJS, I'm certain it's probably almost the same way. Some people even come to work high. Joy.
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I have to be one of the only people here on this entire board that's never touched drugs.
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Someone give you a prize...
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I've never touched drugs too!
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They've touched you. In your sleep. Inappropriately.
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That's how they get ya!
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Fucking nerds.
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You're one to talk, with OWA lyrics in your sig!
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Why does not wanting to do something illegal make me a nerd?
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Because obeying laws, rules and regulations is boring
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i illegal download movies and shit. I'm a rebel!
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Because obeying laws, rules and regulations is boring
Then that should make me boring, not nerdy.
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I didn't do any recreational drugs. They were all career-overachiever substances. :(
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Then that should make me boring, not nerdy.
If nerds weren't boring they'd be cool, and thus cease to be nerds
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Oooh, you have a point there.
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Cool is just a state of mind. In reality, cool people are just as hated as nerds. In High School it was always:
"Timmmy is such a dick... I hate him..."
*Timmy appears*
"WHAT IS UP TIM-MAN!"
*Tim leaves*
"God damn what a douche, you know he gets erect in the locker room?"
Dorks just like dumb shit, and don't fight back.
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I like the idea of obeying the law and being trusted and not contributing further to societal degredation than I already have. It's like petting a fuzzy bunny.
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Cool is just a state of mind. In reality, cool people are just as hated as nerds. In High School it was always:
"Timmmy is such a dick... I hate him..."
*Timmy appears*
"WHAT IS UP TIM-MAN!"
*Tim leaves*
"God damn what a douche, you know he gets erect in the locker room?"
Dorks just like dumb shit, and don't fight back.
You make me wanna beat you up sometimes. :huh:
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No time like the present.
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Cool is just a state of mind. In reality, cool people are just as hated as nerds. In High School it was always:
"Timmmy is such a dick... I hate him..."
*Timmy appears*
"WHAT IS UP TIM-MAN!"
*Tim leaves*
"God damn what a douche, you know he gets erect in the locker room?"
Dorks just like dumb shit, and don't fight back.
You make me wanna beat you up sometimes. :huh:
Are you Tim?
*blinks*
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You make me wanna beat you up sometimes. :huh:
Yeah he used to give me the same feeling too, but don't worry. after a while your mind just blocks out his posts automatically to protect itself from the idiocy.
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o.o
Why must you be so mean? I mean, I loved you, and how did you repay me? You sit there in your foriegn country, and act all mean for what? Because it makes you feel good, because you enjoy making me cry. Well I am crying right now, and these tears are because of you. Now I can never function as a human being, and all because of your need to feel superior. Do you feel happy, are you a man now? Does it make your inadequecies diapear into nothing?
>.<
Or I can just say fuck you. Your choice ^_^
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Did someone say something?
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Liar. If you had ignored it, you wouldn't know to post. :P
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I hate all of you, burnt by the sun . . .
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I hate you too.
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Damnit all too hell!! THey voted of jennifer on The Apprentice. She was hot too! DAMN THEM!!
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You make me wanna beat you up sometimes. :huh:
Yeah he used to give me the same feeling too, but don't worry. after a while your mind just blocks out his posts automatically to protect itself from the idiocy.
i tried to do that once but it didnt work...hes just waayy too annoying :-/
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Damnit all too hell!! THey voted of jennifer on The Apprentice. She was hot too! DAMN THEM!!
*doesn't watch reality shows, save the wonderful American Chopper*
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Not even America's Next Top Model? It has Tyra Banks!
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no like America's Next Top Model but mesa love American Chopper!!
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You would! I know you just want to go out and put breasteses on it.
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Oh, I'm sorry. When I said "beat you up", what I meant to say was "orally rape you" :angry:
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Don't use a condom. That'll totally make him mad.
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o.o; Drip drip drip goes the gonnarhea*