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Saturday, Nov 7, 2009
A Big Old Geek
Published Letters: 317 Editor's Choice: 12
So AOL will charge people who want to spam - I'm sorry, "advertise to" - their customers a premium fee and otherwise...?
Otherwise the messages from bulk e-mailers go right through the same spam filters they always have. That's important to note. The messages will go through the SAME Spam prevention filters they always have. If I was a spammer who wanted to send you important messages about penis enlargement, mortgage rates, and incredible short-term stock opportunities, I just have to randomize my message and use botnets to send the spam so AOL has trouble stopping it with its spam filters, the same as any successful spammer does now.
This isn't a spam prevention measure, this is a Premium Marketing campaign! Far from stopping the flow of spam, this scheme ensures its delivery, if the sender has paid protection money to AOL.
Movies made by directors in their 60's:
Kagemusha, Ran (Akira Kurosawa)
Psycho, The Birds, Marnie (Alfred Hitchcock)
Bullets over Broadway, Mighty Aphrodite, Sweet and Lowdown (Woody Allen)
Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean, The Man Who Would Be King, Under the Volcano, Prizzi's Honor, The Dead (John Huston)
Mister Roberts, The Searchers, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (John Ford)
Fanny and Alexander (Ingmar Bergman)
The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie, That Obscure Object of Desire (Luis Bunuel).
Sure, for every Mighty Aphrodite, there's a AMll Time Crooks, but that's kind of the way the business works. Even earlier in the great directors careers for every Manhattan, there's a September (to continue to pick on Woody Allen).
Perhaps instead of Mr. Gilliam hanging it up, Mr. O'Hehir, you should go take a time out until you are old enough and wise enough to know better than to trash a master of his craft because of his age.
You say Dean didn't win this election but Rahm did?
Sorry, Rahm wanted to contest 25 races nationally. We won 29. Like Karl Rove, your math doesn't add up.
No champion. No playoffs. No coaches' polls, no sportswriters' polls, no computer rankings.
Let's go back to the old ways where people argue about who really had the best team last year. This is college ball, not professional ball (or at least it should be).
Why do we need a national champion? We don't. We get one because of the money available for advertising on the "championship" game. And even with the advent of the BCS we still don't get a clean clear champion.
That's for the best. Half the fun of being a sports fan is arguing with other sports fans. Let's get rid of this ridiculous system and go back to the old bowl system based on conference matchups and long standing rivalries.
I'm not saying Rex Grossman is Terry Bradshaw, but let's remember how bad Bradshaw was in his first seasons with the Steelers. Bradshaw started playing in 1970 and didn't have more TD's than interceptions until 1975. All he did eventually was win four Superbowls.
Let Rex play and develop. The Bears have always been too quick to pull the developing QB's and too slow to pull the declining ones. If you let Grossman get confidence and figure out what he's doing wrong (which is mostly judgement and not talent-based), we might be looking at a very tough Bears team for the next five years or longer.
And that's only because they lose a lot. When you win, you make enemies. Dallas didn't accomplish anything with the "America's Team" nonsense but make a lot of enemies.
I can remember when, as a Chicago kid growing up, I went from classifying the perfect Sunday as one when the Bears won and the Packers lost to one when the Bears won and the Packers AND Cowboys lost.
Don't be so quick to take on the mantle of "America's Team", New Orleans. You'll regret it.
Well, I think wisely would certainly change. Spending the last couple days of existence shagging everything in sight might be considered "wise" in that situation.
Carefully considering 401K investment funds - not so much.
"I'm not asking for his approval of my past actions, just understanding and forgiveness. "
Why on Earth would he need to forgive you for something you did before you met him and which violated no trust you had with anyone? This is controlling nonsense and you should put it to him that if he loves you, he loves you for how you are now, and that past three-fer is part of what made you who you are now.
It's none of his business and if he can't see that, he should see his way ou the door.
maquimike, the Bears aren't goign anywhere if they run into Seattle? They already ran OVER Seattle in October 37-6.
I see people saying things like this and saying the Jets can't POSSIBLY win in New England (though they did win earlier in the year) and I have to wonder if no one's paying attention during the regular season.
The Bears are a very vulnerable team for a #1 seed, but to say a team they crushed once is a roadblock they can't possibly get past is just silly.
I grew up in Chicago and have always hated ANYTHING associated with New York, especially sports teams. While it's pretty clear that the best team won on Sunday night, I found myself rooting for Burris, Manning, Barber, Shockey, and the Giants.
For every other accomplishment these players had through the year, that might have been the most unlikely.
Much of the initial coverage about Fort Hood turned out to be wrong. Is there anything wrong with that?
The accountability imposed by another country for the CIA's kidnapping and torture reveals much about our own.
Fox News' morning show plays to type, talking about whether Muslims in the Army should face "special debriefings"
The Maine fight was supposed to be the dress rehearsal for repealing California's Prop. 8 -- but gay marriage lost
Once one obtains Seriousness credentials in the Washington media, they are irrevocable no matter one's conduct.
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