{"id":1099,"date":"2004-06-29T23:40:00","date_gmt":"2004-06-29T23:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=1099"},"modified":"2018-08-13T14:14:57","modified_gmt":"2018-08-13T19:14:57","slug":"1099","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2004\/06\/29\/1099\/","title":{"rendered":"Do the Math"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.techdirt.com\/articles\/20040629\/1011234_F.shtml\" target=\"_new\">Techdirt<\/a> links to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.azcentral.com\/business\/articles\/0629Spam-ON.html\" target=\"_new\">a story<\/a> that says:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8230;20 percent of U.S. residents admit buying products from spam purveyors. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/techdirt.com\/articles\/20040622\/1139251.shtml\" target=\"_new\">Techdirt<\/a> also links to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theregister.co.uk\/2004\/06\/22\/us_online_penetration\/\" target=\"_new\">a story<\/a> that says:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The US has a hardcore group of people who simply aren&#8217;t interested in using the Internet. Around a third of US adults have rejected the Net, causing researchers to split them into two distinct groups.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>That would seem to indicate that 1\/3 of the people in the United States connected to the Internet buy things from Spam!  Well, it would, except:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>By 20 percent of U.S. residents, undoubtedly they meant respondents to the survey.\n<li>It&#8217;s unclear whether &#8220;spam&#8221; means opt-in e-mails and e-mails from companies with which the users already have an established relationship.<\/ul>\n<p>Other than that, the stories are <blink><i><b>sensational!<\/b><\/i><\/blink><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Techdirt links to a story that says: &#8230;20 percent of U.S. residents admit buying products from spam purveyors. Techdirt also links to a story that says: The US has a hardcore group of people who simply aren&#8217;t interested in using the Internet. Around a third of US adults have rejected the Net, causing researchers to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29,54],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1099","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1099","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1099"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1099\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23137,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1099\/revisions\/23137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}