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Get a better phone. 
Mine blocks all calls from withheld numbers, and callers from unknown numbers have to announce themselves and press the "#" key before the phone rings and asks me if I want to accept the call.
I haven't had a single tech support scam call, double glazing sales call, or "we're just conducting a survey, so we can ignore the TPS" call since I got it.
Or, to be more precise: I have had those calls, but none of them have made it through the system to disturb me. 
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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I wish I could - our telephone supplier gives "no number blocking" for free - but the local Doctors surgery always calls in on an withheld number (understandable) and if Herself needs to speak to them about her drugs she is liable to forget how to turn it off.
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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It does have the option to turn off the withheld number blocking, in which case they have to jump through the same hoops as an unknown number.
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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That and winding them up is surprisingly easy, and good fun! 
If only they would call when I had half an hour to play the idiot on the phone...
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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OriginalGriff wrote:
Oh, well, maybe (s)he'll call back...
Shirley not!
Haven't had one in a while, they are so much fun!
New version: WinHeist Version 2.2.2 Beta I told my psychiatrist that I was hearing voices in my head. He said you don't have a psychiatrist!
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OriginalGriff wrote: and the phone goes.
Wait.
1. You answer the phone for unrecognized numbers?
Wait.
If you're going to say
OriginalGriff It's a land line!
Wait.
2. You still have a landline?
Wait.
3. Are you saying you don't have caller ID on a landline? In 2016?
4. Are you saying you still have a landline with no caller ID, in 2016?
Wait.
Wait.
5. And, you still answer the phone?
What!?!
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raddevus wrote: You answer the phone for unrecognized numbers?
Yes - sometimes it's needed (Doctors and so forth, plus my mother's emergency button system called me on withheld numbers so it got to be a habit.
raddevus wrote: You still have a landline?
Yes - for broadband. Plus it's cheaper than mobile calls - at the moment all my calls to mobile or UK numbers are free for the first hour regardless of the time of day.
raddevus wrote: Are you saying you don't have caller ID on a landline? In 2016?
Oh, yes I do!
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Here in the US any unrecognized number is 100% of the time a scammer or pollster -- but I am being redundant.
And 100% of US Americans have cell phones. They are given to us by our gov't.
Radiant heat from wires is the #1 leading cause of global warming so we have outlawed them here.
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Because smart people are always busy and hope nobody bugs them.
My late Dad used to call me during the 1st quarter of MNF because he knew I'd be around then. Not that I'm smart or anything....
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Tell him you can't continue to speak with him until you have his credit card number.
If it's not broken, fix it until it is.
Everything makes sense in someone's mind.
Ya can't fix stupid.
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@LabVIEWstufff - you won yesterday, so you should have posted this morning: The Lounge[^]
But now, it's afternoon - so you will have to be up tomorrow instead. OK?
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Odd odds?
New version: WinHeist Version 2.2.2 Beta I told my psychiatrist that I was hearing voices in my head. He said you don't have a psychiatrist!
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Giving away 43 millions is a glitch by definition.
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.
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- The slot machine was not set up to pay out that amount. According to the article, the maximum payout was $6,500.
- Even if the machine records a "session" (i.e. a series of bets) with a single player before paying out, it would require more than 6,000 jackpots in order to reach such a payout!
I would say that the presence of a glitch is proven.
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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next time I'll read the article 
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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Bookman says the money would have meant a lot to her family
Most redundant statement, ever.
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Since most people end up wasting all their money and then some when having big winnings like this, perhaps she is better off not having won. 
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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Fully agree, she was going to 'help her son buy a shop' and 'help out the community,'
1. How much money has she fed these machines that instead could have gone to a savings account?
2. How much time sitting on her backside in front of these machines could have been spent helping the community for real - yes money is a good, lots of money even better, but there's a hell of a lot of stuff that communities need done that money cant do - talking to people going through bad times, simple stuff like meals on wheels (yes they will cover your gas) all they need is you to use your your car and mostly your time to help, cleaning up old folks houses/gardens, and so much more.
It's the bullshit that really annoys me, "if I had X I would help" - if they are not already helping without X (in same/other ways) then sure as sh*t if they ever get X they will find another excuse to hold back.
Sin tack ear lol
Pressing the "Any" key may be continuate
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With a $6.5k max payout I'm assuming it was just a penny slot or something similarly low end that the cost of an evenings play would be in the same ballpark as other more mundane forms of entertainment. If you get more fun out of plonking $20 down to watch a bunch of spinning symbols for a few hours than going to see a movie, or from $100 of the same vs attending a sportsball game; whatever.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Watch out today.
Because normals no nothing about how digital circuits and the software works, they assume the greater population does not as well and substitutes the annoying word glitch for everything bad including premeditated treacherous dealings gone wrong as for "why" it happened. And the victim gets a consolation prize.
A glitch was originally, a discontinuity in spliced audio. Now it's why you didn't get what you deserve. The Mainstream media is quick to dole out this term as it keeps their investigators from having to debug code that's not theirs just for starters.
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So the casino takes a gamble on whether or not their machines will rob their customers blind function normally, and, in this case, they lost.
They should pay the amount in full.
It's pretty clear that they didn't give her the $6,500 because that would have paid for a lawyer.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Casinos do not gamble - the house always has an edge
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I'm an optoholic - my glass is always half full of vodka.
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