When you call to first activate a card, you may request that the issuing company does not send you any balance transfer checks- it's like a bit they set in your customer profile. You may call the 800 number on the back of all your existing cards and ask them to stop sending you BT checks. If they ask you for a reason, don't tell them that you're sick of their junk mail- tell them that you have an unsecured mailbox and they're threatening your credit record.
You may also call the 3 credit reporting agencies and tell each of them to mark you as unwilling/unable to recieve solicitations for credit. They usually do this for people who have been on the victim end of an extensive identity theft- not someone just stealing your card and making a couple of purchases, I'm talking about applying for additional cards, setting up bank checking and savings accounts, applying for car loans and such. Tell the CRA's (ALL of them) you're afraid of having this happen to you- throw in something about mischevious teenage neighbors with computers and you should be all good.
I know all this because I moved in february, fwd all my snailmail at the post office 2 weeks before the move, and changed my address with all the companies I felt it necessary to continue to communicate with (WellsFargo, American Express, National Geographic, etc). For some reason, DiscoverCard still felt it was necessary to send BT checks IN MY NAME in the US mail to my old address. I got my statement last month, and there were 3 charges I didn't recognize, and when I called to report them the security agent on the other side was like, "Oh, good thing you called, because someone tried to do a $5000 balance transfer to your account yesterday. Do you know anyone named Isiaih?"
So I'm not out anything, but Discover screwed itself for a couple thou by spamming me. I guess the new business they get offsets the risk...
Re:So where does the information come from?
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making typos and then publishing. From the article:
Contrary to what the headlines say, the genome has not yet
been decoded. It might never be, as the genome now does
not appear to be a code at all in the conventional sense. It
turns out that genes are not simple "strings," each one
encoding for one message, but are combinations of
separated segments along the genome. Between them lie
intervening segments which can be cut out by the cell, as it
translates DNA into proteins, and the relevant or coding
parts (called exons, as opposed to the intervening parts,
which are called introns) can be put together in numerous
different ways.
Gene therepy send different messages and
make a variety of proteins as the occasion demands.
(must... fight... it...)
someone send Gene up the bomb?
Go ahead, mod me down for being a retard. Honestly tho, while the 30,000 number was somewhat surprising when it came out, and the implications are far reaching for textbook authors and publishers, I don't think this single fact is as much of an informational cataclysm as the article seems to. It will easily be 50 years before even the brightest mind has any real understanding of the overall picture, and NOBODY can say yet if 30,000 vs. 300,000 makes it easier or harder to get it all nailed down. If it wasn't for irresponsible and sensational journalism like this, people wouldn't expect gene therapy to be something you could buy off the shelf next week. (I think my favorite line from that ABC article is probably in the second paragraph-- "The doctor then gives the man a drug that will prevent that protein from doing any future damage." It should read, "The result from the DNA scan is automatically permanantly saved to the man's NIH federal health profiles database. The man's health insurance rate goes up 80% immediately, without any human intervention." -- but that's a whole new rant entirely).
Come on. If the raw sequence was really worth anything by itself, would the government (or even my lovely state of California) let you download it for free?
it's not hypocritical to disparage a company for bait-and-switch tactics. Who cares who they hired, and what those people might have been associated with in the past, if what they're doing NOW is unethical?
"These people are presumptively innocent," said Godwin, an attorney who writes frequently about law and technology. "Even if they are subjects of a federal investigation, the Secret Service should know better than to swoop in and engage in disruptive searches of people they're not ready to arrest."
Sure, they know. But do they care? If a bunch of guys with guns show up at your house/place of business and invite themselves inside, does anyone really think that you could stop them from taking your computers?
Of course not. They'll take your computers and your silverware and anything else they feel like taking, because they can. Sure, it's against the law, but unless you can afford to buy yourself a Senator the laws aren't meant to protect you, and the courts know it.
What this country needs is a good, healthy, revolutionary war.
Yeah, the patch is out. But how many Joe AOLusers are going to hear about this, download the patch, and install it?
Good thing Windows will automatically search the net for updates, and tell you when you need to upgrade! Isn't MS trying to develop XP so that you don't even need to give it permission to install patches? That's just what the world needs- software that fixes itself without you knowing about it!
OK, build web page with fake "U N33D Windoze Update. Download now?" popup dialog, check. AOL users everywhere download my latest malware, check. Installed malware redirects automatic WinXP update query to my 3l337 h4X0R 53Rv3R, which TAKES OVER WINDOWS and then, uhh, does, uhh, whatever it is you, uhh, do with someone's windows box j00 just 0wn3d. Like install BeOS.
there's an interesting article in this month's Scientific American, (sorry, they don't have the whole article available online) about how people who are extreme narcissists not only have unduly inflated self-esteem, but are more likely than the average Jane to lash out, physically and emotionally, at others when someone points out one of their flaws.
The authors almost go so far as to suggest that one of their test subjects is a psycopath.
What's even more ironic is that these people who claim to be against the murder of unborn children (who are still living, breathing people,
BTW) somehow think it's okay, nay justified, to kill full grown adults. What a sick twisted society we live in.
hate to be a nitpicker, but they're not breathing yet, at least not in the normal sense of using their lungs to remove oxygen from the air that surrounds them. And they're certainly not people! I don't like bread dough, because it's not finished yet. Why should I like fetusues/children?
This is actually a great post. It completely illustrates the reason for a constitutionally constructed society.
The attitude is clear:
I want X. I'm going to get X. I'm ENTITLED to X. If your Y needs get in the way, you'd better watch out. If you stand in my way with your
Y, I'll take away your Z and anything else I have to, including your W. I'm going to get X.
maybe when you get into the 11th grade, you can move up to geometry!
seriously tho, your post doesn't make any sense. The attitude of the people who put up the "Nuremburg" site is "I want X" where X = to stop doctors from performing abortions by Z, where Z = killing the doctor. An additional feature of the site is that it can Y, where Y= help someone else find a doctor, so Y may then X.
It also provides a convenient meeting place for Y to get together and talk about X and Z as though they were behaviors acceptable to general society instead of psycopathic acts, and keep track of which doctors have already been X'd out so they can focus their Z efforts on other doctors.
To make an analogy to something in your realm of experience, this is kind of like a crack house, which provides a convenient place for people who want to smoke crack can go hang out.
What you are saying in your post is, in effect (i'm using SUBSTITUTION here) I'm ENTITLED to stop doctors from performing abortions by killing them, and if your free speech needs get in the way, you'd better watch out [!]
The reason for laws and a constitution is to prevent this type of attitude from prevailing.
You must not have taken civics class yet, either. The reason for laws is to punish people who mess up society in an intolerable way. People like killers. The reason for the US constitution is to keep the federal government from assuming too much power. As demonstrated by the presidential usurpation, it has clearly failed. What this country really needs is a good healthy revolutionary war.
There is a large contingent of people who think that what the people on this list are doing is completely and totaly abhorent and wrong. These
people don't have the right to speak out against the people on this list? They don't have the right to seek them out and try to convince them that
what they're doing is wrong?
sure, all that is fine and dandy.
They don't have the right to call them murderers?
No, they don't, and neither does anyone else. Publishing lies about someone with the intent to cause harm is libel , which isn't protected by any amendments to the constitution, last time I checked. The fact is that abortion is legal in the US at this time, and until such a time as the Chimp and his dad succeed in buying the overturn of Roe v. Wade, abortion IS NOT murder.
Your opinion doesn't matter- we're talking about laws here. When your opinion, or that of any other confused anti-abortion activist, clashes with the law of the land, guess which one is right? OK, you get 2 guesses.
Jeez, get some guts. You must have posted AC because your subconscious realized what a fool you are, and you don't want people trying to track you down and kill you to improve the gene pool for the rest of us.
What really matters is that the MPAA scrambled the content on their DVDs and this code circumvents that [encoding]. Just because you bought the disc, don't expect to use [the content] in some way in which its owners don't approve.
Yeah, that's all fine and dandy, except I BOUGHT the DVD, so now I AM THE OWNER. The way fair use is interpreted in the current body of copyright law, that means I can do whatever I want with it, short of making lots of copies and selling them on the street, or charging admission to view the unaltered work. By "it," I mean both the physical disk itself, and the content on that disk which I now own a license to view at my discretion.
yeah. And true to form, Ta(0 has managed to fail the grammar segment of the test again. It's "On the HEELS" rather than "heals." I would suggest that he stop using MS spellcheck to edit his posts...
Yeah. And right at the beginning, Bah-bwah said something like "Let me be the first to congratulate you on your inauguration as the new President." W says "Yes, congratulations."
##awkward pause where Barbra fights the urge to roll her eyes and groan...
Are you one of them? Or were you just napping for the last 3 months?
2.
Anyone who didn't sleep through high school government will realize that the judicial branch is separate from the legislative branch, so just
because Bush doesn't like it doesn't necessarily mean it will be stopped.
I imagine Chimp wasn't happy about the recount. Seems that was stopped pretty effectively, doesn't it?
Your point seems to kind of gloss over the FACT that the US Supreme Court actively interfered in the post-election shenanigans to ensure that Bush would take office, whether or not he actually won the vote. Wanna place bets on when the Judicial branch will be calling in that particular favor, or whether they'll be asking it of W. directly or GHWB's CIA buddies instead?
Maybe you should remember that the Executive appoints the Judicial, and if the Chimp's cabinet appointees are any indication, we could be in for a heap of trouble. Chief Justice Jeb, anyone? Or maybe Chief Justice George, Sr?
Even those of us who slept through high-school government classes realize that we have witnessed an unprecedented theft of a presidential election, and that no one seems to have any clear idea what to do about it except bend over and grease up. If you paid attention in high school, you should know that this is not how it's supposed to work, and so you should be ashamed of yourself for writing anything that could even possibly be misconstrued as tolerant of what Rhenquist has done.
OK, so the USPS throws away the bricks/sheet metal/rancid cat feces that everyone really really wants to send back to the junk mailer. But EVEN IF this stuff went thru, it wouldn't get to the smarmy bastards (and bastardettes) who made the executive decision to start the mail campaign in the first place. All that mailing animal parts does is piss on the postal service people and the poor sod who has to open/read the mail at the return address.
I have a better idea. Careful, I might patent it.
Stuff those envelopes with PRoN! Come on, who wouldn't be happy to open an envelope and see unexpected pink? Think of the TV coverage :
Dan Rather: And on the lighter side, it seems that there is a grass-roots rebellion underway. The target is not multinational corporations, or republican vote-stealers, but instead direct-marketing corporations. With a story on, uh, pirate's treasure (heh) here's Connie Chung.
Connie Chung: Inside this simple white envelope, you might expect to find a credit card application or a sweepstakes entry. Instead, it's a hi-res 8 X 10 glossy of 16-year old Natalie Porman's nekkid ass! (slow camera zoom...)
yeah, but Berkeley is kinda communist, and they STILL hate the french. I would definitely take umbrage at someone calling me a frenchman, after the way those sneaky cheese-eating bastards stole the last World Cup. But I would be pretty peeved if someone called me a "floppy beef curtain," too.
for a patent on Beefy Interstellar Globelike Orbiting Nonplanetary Entities(BIGONEs). These consist of a method for producing an orbiting mass with >13 x the mass of Jupiter, and the BIGONE thus produced.
can't wait for the royalties to start rolling in...
the "wired" article says this l33t h4X0r hit his ex-isp first. Any word as to why he might have been disgruntled? And does Romaina extradite crackers, or have they not yet bowed down to the jack-booted thugs of George the Younger?
READ: do we get to watch this kid get raked over the coals on local TV, or will he get away with it?
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When you call to first activate a card, you may request that the issuing company does not send you any balance transfer checks- it's like a bit they set in your customer profile. You may call the 800 number on the back of all your existing cards and ask them to stop sending you BT checks. If they ask you for a reason, don't tell them that you're sick of their junk mail- tell them that you have an unsecured mailbox and they're threatening your credit record.
You may also call the 3 credit reporting agencies and tell each of them to mark you as unwilling/unable to recieve solicitations for credit. They usually do this for people who have been on the victim end of an extensive identity theft- not someone just stealing your card and making a couple of purchases, I'm talking about applying for additional cards, setting up bank checking and savings accounts, applying for car loans and such. Tell the CRA's (ALL of them) you're afraid of having this happen to you- throw in something about mischevious teenage neighbors with computers and you should be all good.
I know all this because I moved in february, fwd all my snailmail at the post office 2 weeks before the move, and changed my address with all the companies I felt it necessary to continue to communicate with (WellsFargo, American Express, National Geographic, etc). For some reason, DiscoverCard still felt it was necessary to send BT checks IN MY NAME in the US mail to my old address. I got my statement last month, and there were 3 charges I didn't recognize, and when I called to report them the security agent on the other side was like, "Oh, good thing you called, because someone tried to do a $5000 balance transfer to your account yesterday. Do you know anyone named Isiaih?"
So I'm not out anything, but Discover screwed itself for a couple thou by spamming me. I guess the new business they get offsets the risk...
mu!
(must... fight... it...)
someone send Gene up the bomb?
Go ahead, mod me down for being a retard. Honestly tho, while the 30,000 number was somewhat surprising when it came out, and the implications are far reaching for textbook authors and publishers, I don't think this single fact is as much of an informational cataclysm as the article seems to. It will easily be 50 years before even the brightest mind has any real understanding of the overall picture, and NOBODY can say yet if 30,000 vs. 300,000 makes it easier or harder to get it all nailed down. If it wasn't for irresponsible and sensational journalism like this, people wouldn't expect gene therapy to be something you could buy off the shelf next week. (I think my favorite line from that ABC article is probably in the second paragraph-- "The doctor then gives the man a drug that will prevent that protein from doing any future damage." It should read, "The result from the DNA scan is automatically permanantly saved to the man's NIH federal health profiles database. The man's health insurance rate goes up 80% immediately, without any human intervention." -- but that's a whole new rant entirely).
Come on. If the raw sequence was really worth anything by itself, would the government (or even my lovely state of California) let you download it for free?
This page has an awesome pic of that remote control roach made in Japan in, what, 1998? I guess that doesn't count as a cyborg...
Good thing they're cloning pigs- when we all have the munchies after that last story, I'm sure as hell gonna need a buncha pork rinds.
Yeah. now take it another step- you could build an OS that actively attacks rival OS's! I can see the ads now-
"New in RedHat 8.0- crash any Windows box on the network with the click of a button!"
it's not hypocritical to disparage a company for bait-and-switch tactics. Who cares who they hired, and what those people might have been associated with in the past, if what they're doing NOW is unethical?
Sure, they know. But do they care? If a bunch of guys with guns show up at your house/place of business and invite themselves inside, does anyone really think that you could stop them from taking your computers?
Of course not. They'll take your computers and your silverware and anything else they feel like taking, because they can. Sure, it's against the law, but unless you can afford to buy yourself a Senator the laws aren't meant to protect you, and the courts know it.
What this country needs is a good, healthy, revolutionary war.
Yeah, the patch is out. But how many Joe AOLusers are going to hear about this, download the patch, and install it?
Good thing Windows will automatically search the net for updates, and tell you when you need to upgrade! Isn't MS trying to develop XP so that you don't even need to give it permission to install patches? That's just what the world needs- software that fixes itself without you knowing about it!
OK, build web page with fake "U N33D Windoze Update. Download now?" popup dialog, check. AOL users everywhere download my latest malware, check. Installed malware redirects automatic WinXP update query to my 3l337 h4X0R 53Rv3R, which TAKES OVER WINDOWS and then, uhh, does, uhh, whatever it is you, uhh, do with someone's windows box j00 just 0wn3d. Like install BeOS.
there's an interesting article in this month's Scientific American, (sorry, they don't have the whole article available online) about how people who are extreme narcissists not only have unduly inflated self-esteem, but are more likely than the average Jane to lash out, physically and emotionally, at others when someone points out one of their flaws.
The authors almost go so far as to suggest that one of their test subjects is a psycopath.
Participated in any research studies lately?
or try
Pro-life = Anti-choice
Pro-choice = let me think for myself, asshole
maybe when you get into the 11th grade, you can move up to geometry!
seriously tho, your post doesn't make any sense. The attitude of the people who put up the "Nuremburg" site is "I want X" where X = to stop doctors from performing abortions by Z, where Z = killing the doctor. An additional feature of the site is that it can Y, where Y= help someone else find a doctor, so Y may then X.
It also provides a convenient meeting place for Y to get together and talk about X and Z as though they were behaviors acceptable to general society instead of psycopathic acts, and keep track of which doctors have already been X'd out so they can focus their Z efforts on other doctors.
To make an analogy to something in your realm of experience, this is kind of like a crack house, which provides a convenient place for people who want to smoke crack can go hang out.
What you are saying in your post is, in effect (i'm using SUBSTITUTION here) I'm ENTITLED to stop doctors from performing abortions by killing them, and if your free speech needs get in the way, you'd better watch out [!]
You must not have taken civics class yet, either. The reason for laws is to punish people who mess up society in an intolerable way. People like killers. The reason for the US constitution is to keep the federal government from assuming too much power. As demonstrated by the presidential usurpation, it has clearly failed. What this country really needs is a good healthy revolutionary war.
Your opinion doesn't matter- we're talking about laws here. When your opinion, or that of any other confused anti-abortion activist, clashes with the law of the land, guess which one is right? OK, you get 2 guesses.
Jeez, get some guts. You must have posted AC because your subconscious realized what a fool you are, and you don't want people trying to track you down and kill you to improve the gene pool for the rest of us.
Yeah, that's a great idea. I'm going to go tape some cats to my head right now!
CATS: I SCRATCH YOU IN EYE YOU HAVE NO CHANCE TO SURVIVE MAKE YOUR TIME
Yeah, that's all fine and dandy, except I BOUGHT the DVD, so now I AM THE OWNER. The way fair use is interpreted in the current body of copyright law, that means I can do whatever I want with it, short of making lots of copies and selling them on the street, or charging admission to view the unaltered work. By "it," I mean both the physical disk itself, and the content on that disk which I now own a license to view at my discretion.
blah blah blah this has all been said before...
yeah. And true to form, Ta(0 has managed to fail the grammar segment of the test again. It's "On the HEELS" rather than "heals." I would suggest that he stop using MS spellcheck to edit his posts...
[Translation: shouldn't you stick to making sneakers for Nike, instead of worrying about this newfangled math stuff?]
You can't apply Machiavellian principles to a group with 16 people in it.
- The Prince
is about city-states, not a bunch of boy scout wanna-be's. Yeah, yeah, -1 (offtopic).Yeah. And right at the beginning, Bah-bwah said something like "Let me be the first to congratulate you on your inauguration as the new President." W says "Yes, congratulations."
##awkward pause where Barbra fights the urge to roll her eyes and groan...
interview continues...
This guy says more dumb stuff than Quayle(e) did.
I imagine Chimp wasn't happy about the recount. Seems that was stopped pretty effectively, doesn't it?
Your point seems to kind of gloss over the FACT that the US Supreme Court actively interfered in the post-election shenanigans to ensure that Bush would take office, whether or not he actually won the vote. Wanna place bets on when the Judicial branch will be calling in that particular favor, or whether they'll be asking it of W. directly or GHWB's CIA buddies instead?
Maybe you should remember that the Executive appoints the Judicial, and if the Chimp's cabinet appointees are any indication, we could be in for a heap of trouble. Chief Justice Jeb, anyone? Or maybe Chief Justice George, Sr?
Even those of us who slept through high-school government classes realize that we have witnessed an unprecedented theft of a presidential election, and that no one seems to have any clear idea what to do about it except bend over and grease up. If you paid attention in high school, you should know that this is not how it's supposed to work, and so you should be ashamed of yourself for writing anything that could even possibly be misconstrued as tolerant of what Rhenquist has done.
OK, so the USPS throws away the bricks/sheet metal/rancid cat feces that everyone really really wants to send back to the junk mailer. But EVEN IF this stuff went thru, it wouldn't get to the smarmy bastards (and bastardettes) who made the executive decision to start the mail campaign in the first place. All that mailing animal parts does is piss on the postal service people and the poor sod who has to open/read the mail at the return address.
I have a better idea. Careful, I might patent it.
Stuff those envelopes with PRoN! Come on, who wouldn't be happy to open an envelope and see unexpected pink? Think of the TV coverage :
Dan Rather: And on the lighter side, it seems that there is a grass-roots rebellion underway. The target is not multinational corporations, or republican vote-stealers, but instead direct-marketing corporations. With a story on, uh, pirate's treasure (heh) here's Connie Chung.
Connie Chung: Inside this simple white envelope, you might expect to find a credit card application or a sweepstakes entry. Instead, it's a hi-res 8 X 10 glossy of 16-year old Natalie Porman's nekkid ass! (slow camera zoom...)
yeah, but Berkeley is kinda communist, and they STILL hate the french. I would definitely take umbrage at someone calling me a frenchman, after the way those sneaky cheese-eating bastards stole the last World Cup. But I would be pretty peeved if someone called me a "floppy beef curtain," too.
for a patent on Beefy Interstellar Globelike Orbiting Nonplanetary Entities(BIGONEs). These consist of a method for producing an orbiting mass with >13 x the mass of Jupiter, and the BIGONE thus produced.
can't wait for the royalties to start rolling in...
the "wired" article says this l33t h4X0r hit his ex-isp first. Any word as to why he might have been disgruntled? And does Romaina extradite crackers, or have they not yet bowed down to the jack-booted thugs of George the Younger?
READ: do we get to watch this kid get raked over the coals on local TV, or will he get away with it?