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He couldn't resist.   Comstar, killed by an exploding phone. Or a drone strike, it's not quite clear.
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froward posted:Hey just posting to say I haven't kept up with the thread at all, but if there's anything you guys want me to edit into the op let me know via pm or irc. Even posting in the thread you meant to seems to be somewhat beyond your capabilities.
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A lot of android apps require blanket permission to access just about everything on your phone or they simply won't install. You can relinquish control over all your private information, or not install anything. Your choice.
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If you have a mailing address for your cable provider, write them a cancellation letter and send it certified. It doesn't have to be fancy, but cancellation by phone is a crapshoot with, and only with for some reason, cable companies. The few bucks you pay for the certified mail more than justifies not having to deal with those assholes over the phone, or paying for the extra months of service while they slowly decide to finally cancel your service.
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Aug 12, 2017 07:44
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Oh I know where they're at. Send me some iTunes gift cards so I can post their bail.
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Chef Bourgeoisie posted:Caught up on the thread and actually had something to contribute! Looks pretty legit. I too get messages from the pentagon every time I overdraft my checking account.
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I got an email from a woman I collaborated with last year, on a project that is long complete. We had not kept in touch. She asked to speak in confidence. I was very puzzled as to what this could be about but I said sure. Next email I get is this story about how she’s stuck in a foreign country and forgot her purse in a taxi so she has no phone, cards etc... and is there a western union near me. I smiled, deleted the email and went about my day. I’m sure the scammers who hijacked her email account have contacted others, who are much closer to her and were able to warn her about the issue. I hope she gets her account back.
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Common scam: passing correlation off as causation.
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Proteus Jones posted:Van Meat is such a weird thing to me. I had literally never heard of it before this thread. All I've ever had offered to me were Van "Speakers*".
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What’s the scam, though? How does anyone benefit from circulating a canard like this one? It’s not like unattended children crying on the sidewalk with address papers in their hands are all that common in the first place. Nor would it be a particularly bad idea to take them to the nearest police station if you found one, assuming they’re white and you are as well.
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A good post. Only thing I’d add is if you like an artist or band and want to support them, go see them perform live and buy their merchandise at the show. They get to keep a lot more of the proceeds from that.
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What’s this one about? Taking the fall for trying to avoid tariffs, or something more sinister like drug trafficking?
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ToxicSlurpee posted:Yes. The short of it is that they want to obscure the actual origins of the package. The reasons can vary but that's the short of it. As for scamming the scammers, like another poster mentioned, I would recommend against it. It seems pretty hard to prove to the law that you’re not in cahoots with the scammers even if you didn’t know about the scam beforehand and thought it was a legit work opportunity. I can’t imagine “no you see I set up this fake identity and address to get back at the thieves, officer” coming across too well.
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Today I saw people trying to sell goods and food out of a warehouse with Walmart written on the front. I didn’t give them any money because I’m not stupid but I’m curious. What’s the scam? I mean, it seems like a lot of trouble to stock the whole warehouse with goods and electronic registers near the exits just to get a few bucks out of dummies. They even had a dude in a security uniform and some little shopping carts outside.
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May 22, 2018 15:54
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Bangor Daily News posted:Theft by unauthorized taking 
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It’s not just mechanics that try to rip people off. Any profession with a large information asymmetry is susceptible to this phenomenon of “experts” trying to pressure regular people into expensive services they don’t need. My girl went to a dentist to have a piercing wisdom tooth that was causing her a lot of pain looked at. He told her it was badly infected and she needed surgery to remove the tooth to the tune of several thousand dollars. A round of amoxicillin later she’s doing just fine. The scam artist even charged her insurance $240 just for looking into her mouth. Didn’t touch poo poo, didn’t treat her.
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Don’t feel bad, if he’s legit and working door to door he better toughen up fast. He’s gonna get a lot more abuse than “no thanks.”
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Mar 30, 2019 10:47
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The only lottery that’s not a scam is the mega million type, where the grand prize is several tens or hundreds of millions. The chances of winning are astronomically low but for the people playing it’s a more likely option for getting ahead in life than everything else at their disposal. When you don’t have access to education, family fortune, or investment banking and working harder will only get you more work, dumb luck is pretty much your only shot at ever owning a house. I mean, it’s either that or armed robbery, and those tend to not end well.
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They’re not interfering with the operation of the machine, so I don’t think what they’re doing qualifies as a scam, in spite of the journalist using that word several times. I recall a trio of “entrepreneurs” hitting the roulette tables at French casinos a few years back. They used lasers to measure and predict the trajectory of the ball, and placed their bets in a group of most likely numbers. They were caught but prosecution failed because their method was not changing the outcome of the game, only predicting it. I don’t have the link and may be misremembering some details. In the same vein, card counting at blackjack isn’t illegal, but it can definitely get you banned from a casino if you’re part of the tiny minority that actually does it properly.
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Sep 15, 2019 16:28
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It’s not a bunch, it’s two people. One to play the minimum bet constantly while keeping the count, and signaling an accomplice who only comes to table when the count is good to bet the max allowed.
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rujasu posted:Yeah, this - telling people to rescind organ donor status seems like harmful advice to me, can we not do that?
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Oct 14, 2019 05:49
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When was funeral director not another way of saying casket salesman?
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It might be legal to raise the price at the register, but it’s a dangerous idea to propagate, for the business. Once you’ve convinced your customers that the sticker isn’t the Law and written by God himself, be ready to spend your days haggling with customers who decided that the laundry detergent you marked $6.99 should really cost $3, and so on.
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Oct 18, 2019 05:54
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That’s not optimal. The way every store does it is to just have one of those items in stock for the entire store and let the customers be each other’s alligator.
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It’s not so simple. When companies game the system, they screw over the workers. When the workers game the system, they screw over other workers.
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The hexadecimal file name as you say is probably because the movie was taken by a phone camera. Phones suck at naming movies and pictures. If you open it please let us know, now the curiosity is killing me too.
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Thank you 1stGear for posting the video. I had not heard anything about this story at all (non-US goon and I basically never go to McD) and I found it a riveting watch. Pro click!
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Fruits of the sea posted:Huh, I guess I hadn't considered folks think we don't speak english. For the record, the percentage of Danes who speak english is somewhere north of 85%. Those who don't are mostly pensioners.
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