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that sounds lovely
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Not blocked for me. I don't see a current reason for blocking it, unless you block butt-ugly uninteresting sites made in one day back in May 2014 and not updated since. I'd have called it a student Proof-of-Concept for website class, and given a bad mark for the absence of pictures.
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Of course, you don't know what used to be there. And "my big movie break" sure sounds like porn.
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I must say, I'm a bit upset that Mark decided to remove the name from the mail. I was really excited, ready to reply and have the millions roll in. Mark must be trying to keep the fortunes to himself.
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Right now, I'm just an amourphous comment, but I could turn into something big. Like "big" big. As in "BIG" big. With only $5MM, which could easily turn into $5Bn if I am right. If not, we may lose everything... that is true. But if my compass is "on" as in "not off" then we can score big.
As an example of my skills: I tried to buy nike as in Nike Inc. for $100MM. Would've been worth $100Gn (gazillion). Ok, when I made my offer over $100MM they where already worth more than that. As in "a lot more".... But this proves that I have the gift of seeing things ahead of the curve...
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I suspect that there was at least one other person involved at the time the pitch was written. I do this based on the proofreading: whoever did it seems to have quit upon encountering the word "nanotechnologist".
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This comes as an anecdote: How do you make a small fortune?
Easy! Start with a large fortune.
Enough said.
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Where can I send my bank details.
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I love a LinkedIn account that lists himself as "President" of 6 self-started businesses and failed production companies and his next big idea is, wait for it, a reality TV show!
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Also, he did this scam: http://www.bizjournals.com/southflorida/stories/2000/08/28/daily52.html?page=all. Note that TheBigChance.com is not listed at LinkedIn.
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AKA "Stages of male pattern baldness".
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His movie, however, is listed on IMDB. With predictable rating.
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$1 multimedia
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+1...because a 'like' just isn't enough.
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From LinkedIn: [The mogul] is the proud father of a son attending [a university in another state], and a younger daughter living full time in [the same city than the mogul himself].
How is "not having pissed off one's kindergarten / school / high school aged daughter to leave her home (town?) yet" an achievement?
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Maybe it should be read as "I've been broke x number of times and Child protective services still hasn't taken away my children. I beat The man!".
That, or he simply wanted to prove that it's too late anyway to discourage him from procreation.
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I hope his daughter is younger than him. Also, it's good to hear she's "living full time". Only being alive part of the time is so inconvenient. CF, any vampire.
On a somewhat related note, after making the mistake of registering a domain using GoDaddy (I fell victim to their "it's only $0.99 the first year bullshit), I've been receiving spam left and right. Originally, I thought it might be from having my email nakedly parsable on my own site, but every spam message has contained the new domain's address specifically, showing that GoDaddy just reprehensibly passes your info along to spammers of the worst calibre.
Anyhow, the relevance of all that is that each spam message is roughly the inverse scam from "Hey, why don't you build me the next Facebook!": every new bit of crap I get promises to make my domain as popular as FB if not more. They're all also almost exclusively from India. Having worked with (good) web designers and developers from India, I can certainly say that GoDaddy is selling out to the shittiest available.
Clearly IATRWTF for even considering using GoDaddy. Normally I use Dreamhost, and what typically takes about 10 minutes for them took GoDaddy nearly two weeks. I almost transferred the domain to Dreamhost just so it'd work.
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Yes, 'nuff said.
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When I owned a domain, I "accidentally" put in slightly wrong address, phone number, and email information in whois after I started getting physical spam.
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Filed under: Spamity spaaam!
EDIT: Why won't my image show up @discoursebot ?
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On the up side: you can also physically react by slamming the door in their face
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Last day without Discourse Bugs: null <t3584p70>
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If you have a cat or a dog, consider it a contribution to their feeding bill…
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Yup: cards and letters for domain-related "services."
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After your edit, I noticed a small light-blue box, about 5x5 pixels. I can mouse over it to get the image to view floating. Discourse must treat pictures of spam as spam, or a suggestion @codinghorror is Doing It WrongTM and hide it.
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Most likely it is because my picture had "Spam" in the the URL.
What's next, is Discourge going to check for the "evil bit" :interrobang:
Filed under: From the Discourge feature page: Comprehensive spam blocking heuristics
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http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/37/Spam_2.jpg
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/37/Spam_2.jpg
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Weird.
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See?
They don't want to let us post pictures of spam, it's a conspiracy!
Though I'm glad it's not just me.
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No, mine posted. Except for the one where I inverted the link syntax, and I didn't really expect it to post the image there. But the first one is the same raw markup that you used.
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I don't hate my dogs...
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Fucking canned meat hipsters. Is NOTHING safe from hipsters?
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Quite funny, if you really knew me.
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...wat? I just read the RFC for this. I do not think it clearly defines the use cases for the spec. WTF were they trying to accomplish? I mean, is this supposed to allow one to, say, conduct controlled penetration testing or something like that? It seems seriously WTFy.
[EDIT] AND now I feel like someone who posted an Onion article. I wasn't aware one could submit satiric RFCs. This opens up a world of possibility...
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Check the RFC date: 1 April 2003
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/April_Fools'_Day_Request_for_Comments