Spam Kings is yet another book I wasn’t able to finish. It’s somewhat well written in that the writer is able to create suspense and keep you turning pages – but eventually you realize that it’s all for naught. The stories themselves are pedestrian an uninteresting, more suited for an article than a whole book. The spammers and anti-spammers are boring people with petty personal problems that seem completely besides the point. And nothing really much happens in the book. After reading half of it I was just too bored and I’m returning it to the library.
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I haven’t seen information about mysterious disease that’s killing displaced Bushmen in Botswana in the mass media. This article comes from Survival International (http://www.survival-international.org/), an organization that works with indigenous peoples all over the world. The mysterious disease comes in the text of the San Bushmen being expelled by the Botswanan government from their ancestral lands at the Central Kalahari Game Reserve. The government claims it’s for their own good and to protect the natural resources at the Game Reserve, but they have awarded diamond mining concessions in the reserve to large diamond companies, including De Beers.
BOTSWANA: Mystery disease killing evicted Bushmen 22 Mar 2006
At least fifteen Bushmen have died suddenly of unknown causes this year in New Xade resettlement camp and three remain in a critical condition. The deaths come as British Baroness Jenny Tonge and other peers insist in the House of Lords that the evictions have benefitted the Bushmen.
Gaseitsiwe Gaorapelwe died very suddenly after spots appeared all over his body. After being tortured by wildlife guards in 2000 for hunting, he said to a Survival researcher,
I just got an e-mail from United at an e-mail address I haven’t used for at least 5 years telling me they’re going to start sending me their spams. I don’t know where they got the e-mail address, though I guess I may have given it to them many, many years ago, but I do know I have never actually subscribed to their bulletins with that or any other address. Note that they’re not asking for permission to start spamming, but just announcing they’ve found this address and they’ll start doing it. What’s specially infurating about it is that they don’t let you unsubscribe easily. The unsubscribe link takes you to a page where you have to enter your milage plus number to do anything. But who knows what milage plus number I had a decade ago when I may have given them that address?
In any case, I was able to get out of the spam list by calling them at 1-800-589-5582 – but that meant I had to find the number and then spend time talking to someone.
As I see it, their spamming practices are yet another reason to avoid United.
March 21,2006 | MONTEREY, Calif. — A man’s pantyhose led to his arrest, authorities said. An unshaven man wearing a black evening gown, fishnet stockings, calf-high boots and a black wig robbed a USA Gas station Monday morning, authorities alleged.
The armed man stuffed $290 in cash into an ensemble-matching black purse.
“I’ve been with the department for 22 years, and this is the first time I’ve heard of this happening anywhere here,” police Lt. Phil Penko said.
About 35 minutes after the robbery, police Officer Chad Ventimiglia spotted a black Saab with fishnet pantyhose hanging from the front driver’s side door, dragging on the ground, investigators said.
The car was pulled over and Michael Leslie Clouse, 26, was arrested and booked for investigation of armed robbery.
A plastic replica handgun allegedly was found inside his purse, Penko said.
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