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Yah, I must've used the generic APOD link instead of the permalink.
#SupportHeForShe
Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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A Complete List of All the Stuff You Can Anonymously Ship Your Enemies | Observer[^]
Poop anyone?
#SupportHeForShe
Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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This is gold. +5
/ravi
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I'm surprised them missed out Live Bees[^] 
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- The site says that all orders in April/May must be collected.
- Might be a bit of a problem with international deliveries.
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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I'm sure you can find a similar service locally!
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The prank candle is nice.. Like Amazon selling seeds of made-up plant varieties (after the seeds grow, return interval has passed)
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Back in the early 90s, I had a bunch of people mail a potatoe to my boss. She got over 60 at last count, spread over a period of about a month.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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I've got a friend who loves pranks (at other peoples expense), and I contemplated sending him a bag of dicks or an envelope of mayo, but then I discovered that I couldn't be bothered spending that much money on that twat!
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
Anonymous
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
Winston Churchill, 1944
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I'd just like a chance to prove that money can't make me happy.
Me, all the time
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The trouble is that they're, by definition, unoriginal.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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And I mean that most sincerely.
Got a text this morning about possible fraudulent purchases, called the bank, and there was some $2000 of purchases made this morning on my CC (which I have in hand, wasn't lost.)
Of the list of items, my favorite was "gout cream from UK"
Marc
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That's what you're telling the missus, is it?
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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One night I sat down to pay the bills. Noticed my CC limit was -200. Somehow, someone got a hold of the # and went on a shopping spree: air line tickets, their gas bill, paid of an installment loan. I figure it would not be hard to track them down....
Charlie Gilley
<italic>Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape...
"Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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charlieg wrote: , their gas bill,
Pardon me for asking, but isn't that like a really stupid thing for a crook to do if they don't want to get caught (at least in the USA).
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lol, you would think right? Then again, the banks went on the biggest robbery spree a few years back when they go bailed out, so stupid has no limits.
Charlie Gilley
<italic>Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape...
"Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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charlieg wrote: he banks went on the biggest robbery spree a few years back when they go bailed out, so stupid has no limits.
Yeah - but the real thieves who got away with it:
The local mortgage bankers (main st, not wall st) who made predatory loansThe halting (by the the current administration) of the regulation that would not allow these loans*The banks/investment people got their piece in by packaging these as high quality paper when they were bound to default with the first economic hiccup where loan rates change. Again, the regulators were kept at bay.The bailouts - reminds me of the same type of crap that went on in the 80's, bailing out farmers that overspent on fancy equipment at ridiculous loan rates.
The real culprit is greed. Regardless of one's economic-system-of-choice, if you don't keep a sharp eye out, someone will cheat. By the time they're caught (as in above), the whole may be so deep that a bridge must be built by the rest of us lest we get washed in like a mountainside home during a monsoon.
The real culprit, never mind political rhetoric, is a result enforcing regulations. If either the second or third item, above, had been regulated then the collapse would have been significantly mitigated if not averted. The whole thing, except for it's scale, is nearly exactly what happened with the FSLIC collapse, again, real-estate investment, and again regulators called back, and as usual, the bill is picked up by the taxpayers.
*True that there was a law passed to make loans more available - but nothing in that law said to make loans that couldn't be service by the consumer - they were illegal but unchecked.
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It's always easier when you are spending other peoples' money. You neglected to mention the direct intervention by Congress (Chris Dodd and Barney Frank) blocking any meaningful reform. If you want to be nice to people, do it with your own money.
Charlie Gilley
<italic>Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape...
"Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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charlieg wrote: blocking any meaningful reform
Because I wasn't talking about reform. I was talking about illegal predatory loans that could never be serviced by the borrower should interest rates go up (they did) and these loans packaged and mislabeled (by the financial institutions). Loans made not by Wall Street, where the fraudulent packaging and reselling took place, but my Main Street, where the local mortgage broker talked people into these loans. So far as I've heard, none of these brokers got so much as a slap on the fingertip for the profits they pocketed.
But who was minding the store? Checking and approving/not approving these loans. Well, it was a replay of the Reagan FSLIC era: the Federal enforcement was called off as it was inhibiting commerce. Or, had it been in the 'recognized crime' world, influence peddling and racketeering.
But - as I did mention - the money finally spent was from the Middle Class's pockets. At least for the auto industry, the loans have been (or are being) paid back with interest. The laws, meant to stop this, never made it through congress (dominated by which party - duh).
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Marc Clifton wrote: gout cream from UK
Hell, that could be any number of members here at the Codeproject!
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Yep, their security is so tight that you and I only pay 3% on every credit card transaction.
Wout
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wout de zeeuw wrote: Yep, their security is so tight that you and I only pay 3% on every credit card transaction.
Yup. People who do this sort of stuff are a waste of the oxygen they breath.
Marc
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Let me guess, you just got back from DEFCON in Vegas and you forgot to leave your credit cards at home. 
if (Object.DividedByZero == true) { Universe.Implode(); }
Meus ratio ex fortis machina. Simplicitatis de formae ac munus. -Foothill, 2016
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(More) AI (quietly) at work.
/ravi
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Couple of years ago I got a phone call from my bank saying "we've spotted some fraudulent activity" and they got quite snotty when I asked them to prove they were my bank instead of answering the security questions to prove I was me...
Eventually I went into the branch and ... someone was trying to buy £4000's worth of costume jewelry from Hong Kong. 
All the money was returned to my account the same day (including £20 worth of phone top ups I hadn't noticed) and my card changed the same week. Good service I thought - apart from the verification part!
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OriginalGriff wrote: Couple of years ago I got a phone call from my bank saying "we've spotted some fraudulent activity" and they got quite snotty when I asked them to prove they were my bank instead of answering the security questions to prove I was me...
I had that some problem once with BofA. In my case, the legitimacy was improved by a text message, a callback #, and the fact that my CC was now declining all transactions.
And lastly, they actually didn't ask any questions that would have been a full breach. No "full SSN", etc.
Marc
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