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ROTs and FOLs
Nov. 18th, 2008 02:10 pmFOL: There ain't no free lunch.
ROT #1: Think before hitting the send button.
ROT #2: Google.
Dear web kids,
No one except close friends, the love of your life and your family will give you anything for free, i.e. without expecting/asking for anything in return.
You may get a pen here and a bag there, but even the cost for those are calculated into product prices.
Ergo, there are very few legal ways to make big money with little effort. Hell, even most illegal ways involve work, effort and risk.
No african ex-dictator will share their loot with you just for using your bank account to wash their bloody money.
And forwarding 11 years old chain letters will not get you hundreds of dollers per fwd address. Neither will it bring you love, luck or good karma. Only maybe some annoyed friends and some bad karma in the shape of spam and viruses.
And no, I don't think it's funny to forward personal email addresses containing real names to total strangers or having my email address on a stranger's potentially virus infested computer.
< /rant>
ROT #1: Think before hitting the send button.
ROT #2: Google.
Dear web kids,
No one except close friends, the love of your life and your family will give you anything for free, i.e. without expecting/asking for anything in return.
You may get a pen here and a bag there, but even the cost for those are calculated into product prices.
Ergo, there are very few legal ways to make big money with little effort. Hell, even most illegal ways involve work, effort and risk.
No african ex-dictator will share their loot with you just for using your bank account to wash their bloody money.
And forwarding 11 years old chain letters will not get you hundreds of dollers per fwd address. Neither will it bring you love, luck or good karma. Only maybe some annoyed friends and some bad karma in the shape of spam and viruses.
And no, I don't think it's funny to forward personal email addresses containing real names to total strangers or having my email address on a stranger's potentially virus infested computer.
< /rant>