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drunk asian neighbor posted:I imagine the logic is like you said, a way to keep people from walking away and making a mess of things, except that the pump will stop itself when the tank is full, so I don't know how people still manage to spill gas, TBH. Probably doesn't warrant lawmakers getting involved, but sometimes the pump doesn't shut off automatically. Happened to me a few months ago. Granted, it was the only time it has happened to me in my 15+ years of driving. Thankfully I was standing right at the handle and I shut it off pretty fast. It still spilled plenty of gas everywhere though.
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bongwizzard posted:Dont you guys just jam your gas cap into the handle to keep the gas pumping? I just pour it all over the ground and eat it like an animal. I am a piece of poo poo.
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ToxicSlurpee posted:I just pour it all over the ground and eat it like an animal. I'm an Oregonian but one time I tried to journey to an uncivilized state that makes you pump your own gas, and spilled gas everywhere when I tried to 'top it off'. Also I didn't leave a tip because it was the middle of the night and the gas attendant was a slot I put my credit card into
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i had a call come in today from an unknown number, and based on the voicemail i think it was a legitimate wrong number! it felt really weird, because i realized i now expect pretty much every unknown caller to be a scam
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Lutha Mahtin posted:i had a call come in today from an unknown number, and based on the voicemail i think it was a legitimate wrong number! it felt really weird, because i realized i now expect pretty much every unknown caller to be a scam Some dumbass in NC keeps giving my number to people so it's refreshing to talk to a real person and calmly explain that I don't have a child at your school, and it does in fact suck that they forgot their lunch today. 
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Lutha Mahtin posted:It's pretty easy to spill gas if you aren't paying close attention. You can put the nozzle into the car wrong; even if you're just a little off this can do it. You can have a car where the door covering the gas cap is on a spring, and you wedge it open at first but then it snaps closed and sends the nozzle flying out onto the ground. Some part of your car can be screwed up so it doesn't trigger the auto-shutoff part of the pump/nozzle. You can even pull the nozzle out of the car with your grip around the trigger, and spray gas as it comes out because you squeezed down on it. Or you can "top off the tank" after the shutoff clicks, which doesn't actually top off the tank but instead starts filling up the line that runs from the tank up to the opening. Cat litter. It was cat litter. The entire environmental consulting/cleanup industry is scummy with pricing things super expensive and ripping off their employees.
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JohnGalt posted:Cat litter. It was cat litter. The entire environmental consulting/cleanup industry is scummy with pricing things super expensive and ripping off their employees. We had a literal barrel of the stuff so thinking back, my guess was that it wasn't cat litter. Looking at some pictures of cat litter online though, I'm not sure any more. Either way it worked pretty well 
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JohnGalt posted:Cat litter. It was cat litter. The entire environmental consulting/cleanup industry is scummy with pricing things super expensive and ripping off their employees. Hey, now, very bad things can happen if you don't use the right type of cat litter.
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Lutha Mahtin posted:We had a literal barrel of the stuff so thinking back, my guess was that it wasn't cat litter. Looking at some pictures of cat litter online though, I'm not sure any more. Either way it worked pretty well I also worked a gas station for a while. It's 100% cat litter. You can use it to get motor oil stains out of driveways, too!
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I heard that Disneyland employee protocol was to put Pixie Dust on a Protein Spill. On topic: Disneyland and/or all children's entertainment is the biggest scam ever amirite?!
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I have really tried to dislike Disney, but my girlfriend is really into it, and after having been to disney world a couple times, it is actually kinda okay. If you're smart about it you can have a decently priced not-bad vacation. I don't really find it all that "magic" but the fat person inside me likes the food.
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JohnGalt posted:Cat litter. It was cat litter. The entire environmental consulting/cleanup industry is scummy with pricing things super expensive and ripping off their employees. Wouldn't surprise me. When I did building work a guy I worked with said "A nut and bolt and sell for $1 as a building item, repackaged as a car part it sells for $2, repackaged as a boat part it sells for $3."
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King of Foolians posted:This isn't really a scam as much as it is letting people take advantage of you I guess, but when I was in high school I had signed up to get a couple magazine subscriptions. For one of them (Men's Fitness, I think) I would get calls every couple of months telling me that for being such a good customer I had won 2 free issues of some other magazine. When I would say "ok" they would really quickly mumble out the fine print which was "now that you have agreed to your 2 free issues, we are going to charge you for the remaining 10 issues for the rest of the year. I remember getting a call from someone who sounded local telling me i had won a water purifier. Now, I had in fact entered a competition not a week ago so my reaction was "hell yeah gimmie dat sweet n clean" (not in those words). The guy explains to me that all I have to do is buy the filter and he will send it express post because it comes sans filter. How much is the filter? 200 bucks. I tell him thats way too steep and you better give it to the next person. As long as i live ill never forget his puppy dog "but its a really good filter" response before I got off the phone I dont reckon I was a day over 15 years old when that happened so gently caress knows who falls for that poo poo
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Lutha Mahtin posted:We had a literal barrel of the stuff so thinking back, my guess was that it wasn't cat litter. Looking at some pictures of cat litter online though, I'm not sure any more. Either way it worked pretty well Oh I am sure the packaging looked official and had some HAZCOM on there, but its repackaged catlitter at huge markup. The best ones are repackaged sawdust or ground up peat. Because going to home depot andhitting up the lawn section isnt professional enough. Absurd Alhazred posted:Hey, now, very bad things can happen if you don't use the right type of cat litter. Holy poo poo. Josef K. Sourdust posted:Wouldn't surprise me. When I did building work a guy I worked with said "A nut and bolt and sell for $1 as a building item, repackaged as a car part it sells for $2, repackaged as a boat part it sells for $3." Environmental supply companies also sell the service package with their product. For eco solvents and surfactants you normally have to buy concentrate and then get charged a consulting fee to be told what mixture ratio and volumes to use. Also, if youre not dealing direct with the manufacturer, youre being charged by another consultant to relay this info to you. Its fun all around.
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Josef K. Sourdust posted:Wouldn't surprise me. When I did building work a guy I worked with said "A nut and bolt and sell for $1 as a building item, repackaged as a car part it sells for $2, repackaged as a boat part it sells for $3." Repackaged as a plane part, it sells for $10 (if you're lucky!)
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Actually, in that case it's the other way around. Marine parts have to be produced to stand up to being in and around water constantly without rusting away, so they're generally made with more zinc. But it's a difference of, like, a few cents either way, so if you produce a billion marine nuts and bolts and can only sell a few million, you just repackage them as normal ones, sell them at the market rate for a normal nut and bolt, and take in a slightly smaller profit. Aircraft parts are a whole different monkey because they're built as lightweight as possible, with lots of aluminum.
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Captain Bravo posted:Actually, in that case it's the other way around. Marine parts have to be produced to stand up to being in and around water constantly without rusting away, so they're generally made with more zinc. But it's a difference of, like, a few cents either way, so if you produce a billion marine nuts and bolts and can only sell a few million, you just repackage them as normal ones, sell them at the market rate for a normal nut and bolt, and take in a slightly smaller profit. Aircraft parts are a whole different monkey because they're built as lightweight as possible, with lots of aluminum. And there's the parts tracking, and liability considerations. It's not really a scam, it's just surprising that so small and seemingly simple a thing can become so expensive.
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What's the thing where you're browsing online and your screen locks up and tells you you're under arrest or some poo poo and that the FBI has taken over your computer? Usually happens when you're looking at porn. Or so I'm told. Does anyone ever stupidly call this number and, if so, what happens? I assume they ask for money to unfreeze it or something but I admit to being a little impressed at how they can actually lock up my entire...um..."browsing" session. And while I'm on the subject, loving MacKeeper. Whatever that is. (Legend has it) this thing is a stubborn pop up on pornographic websites and does this weird backwards thing where if you click "cancel" it accepts your intent as "ok. install that" or refuses to leave the page. From what I've heard, MacKeeper is basically a terrible form of malware designed to gently caress up your mac somehow, but what does it DO? and what's their upside? It scares me sometimes to think how easy it is for online marketers and skeevy creeps to genuinely gently caress up your pc or laptop, especially knowing how much people use them for banking and finance and poo poo. And porn too. I hear some people look at porn on the internet.
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When I was a kid, probably like 19 years old, a dude walked up in a 7-11, and was like "Man, you've got a great look. I'm a talent scout for a modeling agency, and you should come in." and gave me his card. So I showed up at the place, waited like 3 hours. They gave me a stack of papers to sign, which I actually read. I assume their business model relies on people not doing that. Essentially my signature would have obligated me to pay $400+ for "headshots" which would be sent out to magazines and catalogs and poo poo. If they hire the model, the model got like 10% of the fee. Apparently that's just how the Macy's catalog level modeling world works, but it's a huge vanity scam. (And I'm not nearly vain enough to think I'd have ever recovered that $400.)
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Mr. Eric Praline posted:When I was a kid, probably like 19 years old, a dude walked up in a 7-11, and was like "Man, you've got a great look. I'm a talent scout for a modeling agency, and you should come in." and gave me his card. So I showed up at the place, waited like 3 hours. They gave me a stack of papers to sign, which I actually read. I assume their business model relies on people not doing that. but apparently vain enough to think you were being scouted at a 7-11, show up and wait 3 hours 
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peanut posted:On topic: Disneyland and/or all children's entertainment is are the biggest scam ever amirite?!
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drunk asian neighbor posted:but apparently vain enough to think you were being scouted at a 7-11, show up and wait 3 hours
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Mr. Eric Praline posted:Ha. Guy talked a good game in that Sev. Realizing I had to pay them was where it sunk in that I'm maybe not so pretty. all joking aside though, I too have heard that low-level modelling carries a significant monetary entry barrier, so dude may have actually been somewhat legit. In my experience the music industry works pretty similarly; it's not uncommon for local bands to either meet a sold-tickets quota or pay-to-play at first.
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BiggerBoat posted:What's the thing where you're browsing online and your screen locks up and tells you you're under arrest or some poo poo and that the FBI has taken over your computer? Ransomware. Some just lock up your browser, others can make using your computer near impossible, and the worst kind can encrypt your hard-drive and if you don't pony up it'll delete it. Even if you did pay them off theres no guarantee they'll unlock your poo poo. My friend is a pretty basic computer user but likes to torrent and she got one of these things on her laptop. She was freaking out because the cam turned on and it was 'recording' her as evidence. If she wanted to settle her case now and avoid prosecution she was, as is common, instructed to buy a prepaid card from 7-11 and enter the info. I laughed pretty hard about her being scared of it (the FBI needs iTunes cards badly apparently!), restarted her laptop in safe mode (it wouldnt let you close down the window to access anything else) and just ran some malware and antivirus stuff and it cleaned it right off. Whenever I visit her I like to do virus/malware scans on her laptop because I like seeing how many are festering in there. Its fun for me. Blackchamber fucked around with this message at 19:09 on Jul 19, 2016 |
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Blackchamber posted:Ransomware. Some just lock up your browser, others can make using your computer near impossible, and the worst kind can encrypt your hard-drive and if you don't pony up it'll delete it. Even if you did pay them off theres no guarantee they'll unlock your poo poo. I hear they generally will unlock it, since that's how they get paid. If they torched it after getting their money, big-ticket targets like hospitals and cities would stop giving in to their demands.
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many johnnys posted:I hear they generally will unlock it, since that's how they get paid. If they torched it after getting their money, big-ticket targets like hospitals and cities would stop giving in to their demands. Kind of a different side of it. The people who do that to hospitals and such are actively targeting them specifically and yes it'd kill the golden goose to torch them. But the kind most people end up with that browser hijacks and so on are kind of a wide net shotgun approach are more fire and forget and they don't care after they get paid because they have another fish on the hook.
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Lutha Mahtin posted:It's pretty easy to spill gas if you aren't paying close attention. You can put the nozzle into the car wrong; even if you're just a little off this can do it. You can have a car where the door covering the gas cap is on a spring, and you wedge it open at first but then it snaps closed and sends the nozzle flying out onto the ground. Some part of your car can be screwed up so it doesn't trigger the auto-shutoff part of the pump/nozzle. You can even pull the nozzle out of the car with your grip around the trigger, and spray gas as it comes out because you squeezed down on it. Or you can "top off the tank" after the shutoff clicks, which doesn't actually top off the tank but instead starts filling up the line that runs from the tank up to the opening. We use something like that stuff in the hospital. We basically pour it into the suction container when we are done with it before it goes into the biohazard bin. Although the stuff we use looks nothing like kitty litter.
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PT6A posted:Repackaged as a plane part, it sells for $10 (if you're lucky!) Unless its for the government. Then it sells for $100.
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MightyJoe36 posted:Unless its for the government. Then it Corrected for government-speak.
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Absurd Alhazred posted:Corrected for government-speak. 
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Blackchamber posted:Kind of a different side of it. The people who do that to hospitals and such are actively targeting them specifically and yes it'd kill the golden goose to torch them. But the kind most people end up with that browser hijacks and so on are kind of a wide net shotgun approach are more fire and forget and they don't care after they get paid because they have another fish on the hook. Planet Money at NPR had a fascinating story about these companies and how they operate. Lockout malware software is actually big business and the organizations behind them are actually run like legit companies with dozens of employees handling customer support. When you are connected to a live person whose job it is to convince you to hand over money or walk you through getting bitcoins; it probably is a white collar worker somewhere in an ex-soviet country who is basically the equivalent of a call center operator. They had another very interesting story in the series about online pharmacies. I always assumed they were mostly scams, but their success rate in getting legit prescription drugs was close to 100%, and these sites also have huge organizations behind them that are run very similarly to your average company. Chuu fucked around with this message at 01:40 on Jul 20, 2016 |
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So, wait, are you indeed telling me that I can get Big Dixx Pills for pleasuring all the women in my life sexey gratification fourth of july sale show her some real fireworks? All in a safe, legitimate manner?
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many johnnys posted:I hear they generally will unlock it, since that's how they get paid. If they torched it after getting their money, big-ticket targets like hospitals and cities would stop giving in to their demands. A lot of recent reports are they're killing the machines anyway, for individuals at least.
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The first major ransomware, CryptoLocker, actually did release your files for the ransom, but that's stopped operating and all that's left are clones coasting on their reputation.
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quote:Cat litter. It was cat litter. The entire environmental consulting/cleanup industry is scummy with pricing things super expensive and ripping off their employees. Nothing beats the healthcare industry when it comes to ripoffs like this. Source: The 1% silver nitrate solution I just refilled our stainer with costs this lab $9 per milliliter.
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Mr. Eric Praline posted:Apparently that's just how the Macy's catalog level modeling world works, but it's a huge vanity scam. (And I'm not nearly vain enough to think I'd have ever recovered that $400.) So you rock up and go through it all and it all seems fun, they give you a ton of attention and really play up the "you're a mini-star" thing completely gunning for the ego and they use proper film cameras to really push it. When you come back to claim the photos, lo and behold you have to actually pay to receive the photos. And thus starts the hard sell where you realise to your horror the bank details you handed over have already been used to pre-charge you a small amount for the photos and you must pay the for the rest. On top of that are stories of dodgy contracts where people got roped into paying $2000 or so to become a member of Studio 2000 where they were promised commissions and earnings if their mug got used in a promotional advert. A similar thing will happen with low-rate casting agencies who prey on people's desires to be in the movies and will start off with the whole "headshot services" to get you in the door but pester the crap out of you to attend and pay for training days where they "coach" about auditions and so forth. At best most of their clients will only end up in some catalogue or as an extra which is then promoted to hell on their facebook pages as "one of our stars". And the pay for that barely makes up the cost in hiring them.
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Chuu posted:Planet Money at NPR had a fascinating story about these companies and how they operate. Lockout malware software is actually big business and the organizations behind them are actually run like legit companies with dozens of employees handling customer support. When you are connected to a live person whose job it is to convince you to hand over money or walk you through getting bitcoins; it probably is a white collar worker somewhere in an ex-soviet country who is basically the equivalent of a call center operator. http://blog.trendmicro.com/trendlab...ligence+Blog%29 It's almost bizarre how once people started realizing you could make money on mainstream viruses instead of just breaking poo poo, the underground world started behaving more "professionally". You can apparently just download some ransomware template to customize and launch out, and the maker takes a cut of payments as commission. This is actually kind of scary, and it probably won't be too long until you have a risk of infection just by seeing a bad banner ad on a legit site.
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SomeJazzyRat posted:So, wait, are you indeed telling me that I can get Big Dixx Pills for pleasuring all the women in my life sexey gratification fourth of july sale show her some real fireworks? All in a safe, legitimate manner? No, I'm not talking about the "herbal viagra" type sites. What I'm saying is that those online sites that claim to sell you actual prescription drugs without a prescription actually do send you what you order. Things ranging from basics like Clindamycin for people who can't afford to see a doctor or who have a doctor that won't prescribe broad-spectrum antibiotics for your cold, Adderall for your upcoming eSpots star or finals week college student, to Viagra for those people who are too embarrassed to talk about ED with their doctor. From leaked records*, a surprising number of people are using these companies for really basic problems like Hypertension, High Cholesterol, and Diabetes. Something is really screwed up with our medical system when you need to rely on them for basic medical issues. (*The reason they got interested in the story was apparently that there were two giant online pharmacies who were the backend for the majority of fly-by-night sites out there. One of them decided to hack the other and release all their internal reports including sales numbers, client lists, marketing plans, HR (i.e. spammer recruitment) information, etc. In response, the victim hacked the other firm and did a similar release. This let economics basically piece together how the industry works via primary source documents, something that can be hard to come by for grey-market and black-market industries) Chuu fucked around with this message at 10:13 on Jul 20, 2016 |
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Chuu posted:What I'm saying is that those online sites that claim to sell you actual prescription drugs without a prescription actually do send you what you order. I can confirm this. A friend of mine used to order pills from shady online pharmacies on the regular and always received legit, brand name medication. Usually benzos like Xanax and Valium or on occasion Adderall.
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