Google Work-At-Home Kit? Make Money Posting Links From Home? Get Paid For Doing Absolutely Nothing?
www.ScamScanner.com
In my Internet Complaint Box post, I briefly touched on the barrel-bottom forum over at Google, where any and all forms of complaint and discussion seem to rise, as if bubbling from the soupy runoff of a newbie processing plant. By far, the most common discussion is the “Internet scam”.
A certain degree of triage is performed by myself and several other “power-user” contributors. Unfortunately, most of these episodes are too far along to offer any satisfactory resolve – credit cards have been handed over, repeat charges are appearing on bank statements, and representative phone numbers aren’t working.
Once again, these scams have absolutely nothing to do with Google. But since “Google” is synonymous with “Internet”, people seem to think Google should know that they’ve been scammed on “their” Internet. It really is a serious problem, and I truly feel remorse for most of these unfortunate victims.
And then there are the smarter folks.
Rupert Murdoch to Internet: “Get Off My Lawn”
Show of hands: Who doesn't understand Google?
To get everyone up to speed, Rupert Murdoch is the News Corporation CEO and owner of such fine news media outlets as Fox News, the Sun, and the Times. (By the way, the Internet needs a universally agreed upon “sarcasm” formatting.)
In recent weeks, Murdoch has begun to lay out plans to remove much of his News Corp content from the eyes of popular search engines. Claiming that sites like Google “steal” his material, Murdoch plans to implement a giant “paywall” around his news empire, forcing users to pay a subscription fee in order to view his content.
After announcing this, every tech blog and social media site went berserk with laughter, with Twitter founder Biz Stone predicting Murdoch’s plan to “fail fast”.
I, for one, cannot wait to see this grumpy old man fight the Internet. To me, Rupert Murdoch is the 12:00-flashing VCR of the 21st century.
BREAKING NEWS: The Internet Causes Autism!
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As the above graph clearly shows, the number of reported autism cases in the United States directly correlates with the size of the Internet.
Holy crap! The Internet is causing autism!
How can those rich brainiacs at Google and Microsoft sleep at night, knowing their technology is somehow polluting our children’s bodies with dangerous toxins? At this rate, by 2068 every single person in America will have autism! This is an outrage!
Why haven’t the major news networks caught on to this? Obviously they are in bed with the big pharmaceutical companies who want this information suppressed from the public eye!
Email your relatives and spread the word! Don’t use the Internet!
Save $600 By Drinking The Crappy Water That Comes Out Of Your Sink Faucet
"How dumb do I think the Americans are?" - Jim Gaffigan
The other night I accidentally watched a TV commercial.
I know, I know. But I was fumbling for the remote and the DVR and I let one sneak by.
The spokesman (“Jim” from The Office I think) was trying to sell me a PUR Water Filtration System, one of those pitchers you fill with tap water, leave in the fridge, and forget to refill. I tuned out most of it, as my attention was fixed to the couch cushion and the thrilling, impending conclusion of “I Shouldn’t Be Alive”, but a single sentence at the end of the ad actually caught my attention: “Save up to $600 a year when you switch from bottled water.”
$600? I want $600! But the observant and cautious consumer in me was skeptical of such claims.
Chinese Baby Puzzle
"Where the ladies at?"
Alright kids, here’s a puzzle to keep your brain active over the weekend.
China has a population problem. Not only are there too many people, there are too many men! This biased ratio is mainly due to cultural traditions regarding male heirs and the unfortunate abortion of female babies. Very sad, and a very real issue.
To help alleviate the problem, the Chinese government imposes some strict rules on couples. You are only allowed to have one child. If your child is male, you may not have anymore children. However in lieu of the abortion problem, if your first child is female, you have the option of having exactly one more child.
With this system in place, (and assuming this eliminates the abortion problem) what will be the ratio of men to women? How many couples must take advantage of this “bonus” child rule for it to help the sex-ratio problem?
First correct answers get a million “Sprocket Points”.
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