Could have had a lot of fun with that :-)

Oh, if you experiment, do change your password afterwards...

Would have been nicer if it was a little shorter...

If you read the linked letter, you will see that those supplements will definitely work. They had generic Viagra and Cialis in them. They might also kill you if you have a bad drug interaction. OTOH, this should make Amazon execs take a deep breath. Not only are they exposed to criminal prosecution for selling illegal drugs, but now that they have been made publicly aware of the problem, they can get sued by anybody who has an adverse reaction.

Somebody needs to get their priorities straight :-)

BTW, I think there are some states where that would be legally binding. You would still probably be obliged to pay income tax on the full value, though.

I remember a few of us talking about this with one of the EE professors at Cornell and he said, "The problem isn't building a fusion reactor, the problem is converting the energy it produces." When we looked confused, he looked up and after a few seconds we realized what he meant. Hint: We were outside and his area of research was converting light to electrical current [they didn't have solar cells back then].

So, yes Virginia, we already have an effectively functioning fusion reactor. The only real reason to make another would be for [very] deep space travel. It should be ready in time...

IMO, this sounds more like a scam to hide some sort of disastrous flaw than to make a little more money. If it was just money, they could just raise the buyout price in the contracts.

I wonder how useful it would be to use the domain in the unsubscribe link to filter spam?

It already legal for them to send it. There is required boilerplate at the end of the e-mail, but as long as that is there, they can send it. Same with telemarketing calls and now telemarketing text messages.

You are correct in that it's free.

The registration also comes with a whole bunch of rules about where the money comes from and what you can do with it. If you didn't raise much money, you could probably fly under the wire, but you do have to report ALL the income and there are a whole slew of reporters and political organizations taking apart everything in that FEC database.

They aren't trying to win votes. They are trying to raise money. Don't believe me? Have you ever seen one the doesn't have a send money link?

The issues they promote in the e-mails have nothing to do with what they will do or what they believe. They are all about getting your money.

Same with my house.

Maybe after the giant Oak tree dies...

Do they have shade in Australia? :-)

It's also the only way we can safely get rid of the nuclear waste we have sitting around that remains unsafe from between 200,000 to 1,000,000 years (depending on whether the number comes from a pro-nuclear fanatic or an anti-nuclear fanatic). Whichever number you pick is at least two orders of magnitude longer than any human endeavor could safely store it while it decays.

Was that I-95 in RI last Sunday? I saw him, too.

Mac OS doesn't have any problem doing that.

Mac OS also doesn't scamble your windows like fruit salad if you have dual monitors and the OS sleeps.

When I was in college, I was given the assignment of writing a LISP interpreter in SNOBOL. I decided to go them one better and turned it in with an English grammar parser written in LISP to run on it. [How to make a TA cringe...]