Category: Moronic

The 16-year-old teen who pleaded guilty to burning a cross on a black pastor’s front lawn says: “I didn’t think it would draw that much attention, but the following day, we were watching television and it was on every channel, including a Spanish station.” Idiot. Full Story via Obscure.

The man who volunteered to have 20 firework rockets shot at him from about 15 feet away while wearing no protective gear other than a helmet. A mighty scary video. As the site says, Mom would be proud.

I certainly hope the thing works better than their idiot support guys in India do.

Quoting this BoingBoing story:

Brad Templeton — the long-time moderator of rec.humor.funny and host of the rhf archives — has received a cease-and-desist notice from AmEx’s lawyers over a 13 year old joke called “American Expressway.” Brad, being fully aware of the Constitutionally protected right to parody and how that trumps trademark, has posted a link to the joke, the C&D, and his response, which pokes vicious fun at AmEx’s lawyers at the firm of Dewey, Cheatham and Howe.

Read Brad’s hilarious replies here. There’s also a good bit of fun comments on SlashDot.

Basic cable in most areas provides about 50 channels or so — 30 of which are crap or unwanted. Cable companies don’t really care and and actually defend the practice.

Because bastards like this guy keep buying stuff from them. He’ll sometimes spend hundreds of dollars a week on stuff from spammers, and is disappointed because he only gets about 17 spam a day. I wish I had his e-mail — I’d make sure he got the 500+ I get a day forwarded to him.

This one comes care of Microsoft. The solution to spam? Start charging to send an e-mail. Even at a penny per e-mail, it’d be around 75-cents per day for me, which means I’d pay around $22.50 for e-mail per month.

I can see this hurting the spammers, but what about us common folk? What about legitimate e-mail newsletters that send out e-mails to 100,000+ folks? Those folks wanted to be on that list, so why should folks like Lockergnome have to pay a fee? They’re already having to deal with fart-knockers like AOL who block their legitimate e-mail anyway. And what about this site’s daily newsletter? It’s only going to 64 people, so do I have to pay for them, too? Micropayments ain’t ever going to work.

So Microsoft’s other solution?

Instead of paying a penny, the sender would “buy” postage by devoting maybe 10 seconds of computing time to solving a math puzzle. The exercise would merely serve as proof of the sender’s good faith.

I quit taking math classes years ago, and I certainly don’t need to waste 10 seconds doing a math problem so I can send a frickin’ e-mail.

Needless to say, none of these solutions will be implemented any time soon. SpamBayes (on the client end) and Spam Assassin (server-based tagging) keep my spam at bay. I would love if it weren’t even making it across the ‘net to begin with, but there’s nothing I can do to stop that.

Woman tries to pass a $1 million bill at Wal-Mart. The rumor has it that she tried to pass one of these novelty bills and had two more in her pocket. Thanks Barney for the tip.

All you need is a copy machine and a $5 bill, and you can get thrown in jail. Apparently, all the $5 bills the guy tried to pass all were copied from the same bill, as they all had the same serial number. Moron.