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Send the American spammers to a .gov site, the Chinese spammers to a .gov.cn site, etc. At least the government sites will be doing something useful!
(Acting as sinks for the spam)
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
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Daniel Pfeffer wrote: Send ... the Chinese spammers to a .gov.cn site
I suspect that spamming the government gets you the same treatment as mentioning "Tiananmen Square" in the same sentence as the words "protest" or "massacre" 
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Exactly! :evil grin:
(Or do you believe that some penalties are too severe even for spammers?)
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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I hope you touched wood, when you said that.
Or silicon, considering where we are.
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I was reading an excerpt from Guy Kawasaki's* recently released book, Amazon.com: Wise Guy: Lessons from a Life eBook: Guy Kawasaki: Kindle Store[^], and I stumbled onto another much older book of his.
The book was originally written back in 1994 but it has a really interesting point about the fear of automation (ala AI and Robots Are Taking Over Everything!!!)
"...consider what happened to the companies in the ice-harvesting business.
From the 1830s to the 1890s ice harvesting (cutting up frozen ponds and selling the ice) was a huge industry in New England. In 1886, the biggest ice harvest that ever occurred amounted to 25 million tons.
By the 1920s, almost all the ice-harvesting companies were out of business. Ice harvesting had been made obsolete by ice-making plants that could operate in any part of the country during every season.
Later, these ice-making plants were themselves made obsolete with the advent of refrigerators in people's homes."
Suppose you could go back in time and ask the owners of the ice-harvesting companies what their reactions were to ice-making machines. What do you think they would tell you?
*Guy Kawasaki was the "Product Evangelist" (worked closely with Steve Jobs) whose job was to convince companies to build software for the original Mac (even though it was a slow machine with too little RAM).
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hmmm, there's people out there ripping up huge swaths of land for a few specs of gold,
now I've got hope: waiting for the day my fridge can replace that process too.
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I always find milk delivery an interesting one:
We've gone from milk being delivered in reusable packaging by horse powered vehicles to milk being delivered in reusable packaging by electric vehicles to milk being delivered in plastic packaging by petrol driven vehicles.
Progress is never quite as linear as we like to think.
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. - Mark Twain
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That is an interesting one. 
I am against milk delivery because I am lactose intolerant. 
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And now there is no such thing as milk deliveries (except to the supermarket/local store). My first job out of school was as a milko's offsider, paid $40 a week.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity -
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I'm old. I know stuff - JSOP
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Oh, yeah, John Henry is a great example. Forgot about that one.
That's the beginning of the fight against automation.
John Henry won! But, alas...
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Anything that can be done without much use of the brain can be automated.
Social Media - A platform that makes it easier for the crazies to find each other.
Everyone is born right handed. Only the strongest overcome it.
Fight for left-handed rights and hand equality.
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ZurdoDev wrote: Anything that can be done without much use of the brain can be automated.
Like my posts. 
These are all typed by my automated helper AI. 
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ZurdoDev wrote: Anything that can be done without much use of the brain can be automated.
I dunno about that.
The least intellectual human function is sexual reproduction.
And, depending on what you're wearing, of course, peeing doesn't require a lot of brainpower.
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Mark_Wallace wrote: peeing
That can be automated.
Social Media - A platform that makes it easier for the crazies to find each other.
Everyone is born right handed. Only the strongest overcome it.
Fight for left-handed rights and hand equality.
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Quote: What do you think they would tell you?
Thank god I can do something more interesting with my life???
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Artificial intelligence is the only remedy for natural stupidity. - CDP1802
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Marc Clifton wrote: I can do something more interesting with my life???
That's a lie propagated by the Holders of Civilization to keep you locked into thinking that the work you are doing is somehow better than the manual labor that everyone loved.
People were out in nature, working with natural elements (h2o) more healthy, none of the nasty pollution.
Who needs civilization? Just you brainwashed IT workers, that's all.
Oh, I'm one too.
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And in 100 years when the historians look back and see the work you've done, they'll pause and say, "This guy typed all that code that no one uses any more. He actually wrote code himself!?! Crazy uneducated simpletons!"
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Kawasaki is a former jewelry salesman from Hawaii who functioned as a sideshow barker for the marketing freak-show in the Steve Jobs circus.
He's done nothing of note since, but promote his own image, and pose as a digital guru.
p.s. I live in a country where ice-plants are doing a rip=roaring business.
«Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?» T. S. Elliot
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Was doing my normal surfing and noticed that things were getting REAL slow, my memory widget showed memory maxed so brought up task manager and Firefox was gobbling 14GB of my 16GB memory. WTF?
I'm currently unsupervised, I know it freaks me out too!
JaxCoder.com
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Well, browsers like to compete over who's the fastest. So I guess it's natural for them to sacrifice memory in favour of performance.
You probably have half the internet cached on your machine
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You were probably surfing on pages you shouldn't have been surfing on. Does your wife know? 
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
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Johnny J. wrote: Does your wife know?
You will need to first ask if his wife is his or not
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Not married living in sin with my GF!
I'm currently unsupervised, I know it freaks me out too!
JaxCoder.com
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Try switching to Chrome. I'm sure you'll be able to eat up the whole 16GB in half the time. 
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Oh goodie; Nothing for a nickel twice as much for a dime!
I'm currently unsupervised, I know it freaks me out too!
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