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   The garbage cycle

   

   Anonymous Coward, Aug 15th, 2003 @ 2:46am

   
   

   During most of the 20th century, there was a very serious problem with littering, in which people feared that by the year 2000, we would be buried under a sea of garbage. Indeed, near every town there once were mountains of untreated garbage, spawning vast clouds of seagulls, volcanoes of methane fireballs shooting out of the ground, and random outbreaks of cholera. Downtown pavements were once buried under flyers, paper cups, and banana peels, while forests once grew various species of rusty cars and refrigerators. People once burned trash in their back yard, while kids once carved their initials on trees the way they carve designs on their skin today.
   
   Today, after decades of anti-littering activism, we see very little of the above. I have a feeling our virtual world will undergo a similar transformation, away from the galaxies of spam and stale web links.
   

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   the only good thing

   

   data64, Aug 15th, 2003 @ 8:21am

   
   

   The only good thing that came out of the power outage on the NA east coast was that east-coast spammers could not send out spam.

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   pity the poor scum

   

   aNonMooseCowherd, Aug 15th, 2003 @ 9:11am

   
   

   This is like saying: Pity the poor dope dealers, just trying to eke out a living while constantly barraged with bad publicity, threatened by the authorities, harassed by neighbors, and so on. Their excuse is that they're not forcing anyone to buy the stuff, and if all the pressure doesn't ease, their kids are gonna end up in the poorhouse.

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   Re: pity the poor scum

   

   Mike (profile), Aug 15th, 2003 @ 9:13am

   
   

   Uh. Yup. I guess the sarcasm in the original post wasn't clear? It was a joke... Spammers deserve no pity...

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   Internet?

   

   LittleW0lf, Aug 15th, 2003 @ 10:02am

   
   

   "if you don't want to receive spam, don't connect to the internet."
   
   That's funny, because all along I thought that suffering denial of service attacks and having to switch servers regularly was part of being connected to the internet too.
   
   I think Mike and I can both attest to this one. I cannot count the number of times I've been "sold" off by one ISP to another, and Mike is proof that there are just some folks in the world unlucky enough that them joining a broadband provider is a death warrant for that provider.
   
   I hear the sound of a microscopic violin playing, and I am afraid it is small enough I might actually step on it. Oops, too late.

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