Just find a bunch of nude pics of a girl, and start sending them with some story about how it was so great to meet you at the bar and the night in the hotel was great and all that... Make it a slow build up, then ask for the address so you can send him a special video..........that's how I got caught.
The problem with your idea is that quite a few people who think they are geeks are not. They inflate their own ego because they are in charge of people that actually do the real work. Actually admitting that they don't know the technical details of the work that they are overseeing would blow their little minds. So, they insist that they are ubergeek, and if you were in a call center you might believe them.....then miss all the noobie mistakes......just to waste an hour and a half, and when finally exhausting every possible 'advanced troubleshooting' avenue (and explaining the reasoning behind such), this esteemed customer finally (and with a hurrumph!) allows you to start at the beginning (ie about 1 1/2 hours ago), and finds out that they forgot to check to see if the fucking modem was on standby....or that they actually had the port correct for email....or a million other stupid little things that anyone can get wrong, but people with a huge ego automatically assume they didn't. Of course, when Braniac customer actually follows your suggested troubleshooting steps and finds out what the problem actually was, what do you think occurs? Thank you? Great Job? Should have listened to you in the first place?
No fucking way...it's a dead drop of the phone onto the base...that's what you get for your troubles...and your handle time is fucked for the day.
Now, want to ask me again why I insist on checking the stuff that you THOUGHT (assumed) you checked already...even though it only takes a couple of seconds.
Is it so hard to believe that someone, who may have had a promising career in geekdom (ie..lots of slashcred), receives an opportunity that given a cost/benefit analysis will not only get him/her laid, but might possibly lead to megabucks and/or be a guest spot on The Simpsons, decides to leave writing grant proposals forever?
Pretty sure that anyone who knows how to make a recovery disk either won't get suckered in, or will purchase it just so they don't have to do it themselves.
You're thinking of this place all wrong. As if I had the money back in a safe. The money's not here. Your money's in Joe's imaginary house...right next to yours. And in the imaginary Kennedy house, and Mrs. Macklin's imaginary house, and a hundred other imaginary houses. Why, you're lending them the money to build, and then, they're going to pay it back to you as best they can. Now what are you going to do? Foreclose on them?...Now wait...now listen...now listen to me. I beg of you not to do this thing. If Potter gets hold of this Virtual Building and Loan there'll never be another decent imaginary house built in this imaginary town. He's already got charge of the imaginary bank. He's got the imaginary bus line. He's got the imaginary department stores. And now he's after us. Why? Well, it's very simple. Because we're cutting in on his business, that's why. And because he wants to keep you living in his imaginary slums and paying the kind of rent he decides. Joe, you lived in one of his imaginary houses, didn't you? Well, have you forgotten? Have you forgotten what he charged you for that imaginary broken-down shack? Here, Ed. You know, you remember last year when things weren't going so well, and you couldn't make your payments. You didn't lose your imaginary house, did you? Do you think Potter would have let you keep it? Can't you understand what's happening here? Don't you see what's happening? Potter isn't selling. Potter's buying! And why? Because we're panicky and he's not. That's why. He's picking up some bargains. Now, we can get through this thing all right. We've got to stick together, though. We've got to have faith in each other.
"The Web is built on open standards and we at Microsoft believe that we have to enable those open standards,".....and then twist them into a New York hot pretzel, with a dash of moebius strip, then 'reintroduce'.
Engineers are working on the problem that stopped the countdown. SpaceX has time available to troubleshoot the issue and try the launch again -- so the flight has not been scrubbed for today."
2355 GMT (7:55 p.m. EDT)
The problem appears to be related to the Range and telemetry. The team needs another 10 minutes to examine the situation.
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I can now see that it will be inevitable that several new songs will come out that sample PI.
I'm confused. Can I still compare Mitch McConnell to a turtle?
This is going to be a real hit with the birds.
Just find a bunch of nude pics of a girl, and start sending them with some story about how it was so great to meet you at the bar and the night in the hotel was great and all that... ....that's how I got caught.
Make it a slow build up, then ask for the address so you can send him a special video......
The problem with your idea is that quite a few people who think they are geeks are not. They inflate their own ego because they are in charge of people that actually do the real work. Actually admitting that they don't know the technical details of the work that they are overseeing would blow their little minds. So, they insist that they are ubergeek, and if you were in a call center you might believe them.....then miss all the noobie mistakes......just to waste an hour and a half, and when finally exhausting every possible 'advanced troubleshooting' avenue (and explaining the reasoning behind such), this esteemed customer finally (and with a hurrumph!) allows you to start at the beginning (ie about 1 1/2 hours ago), and finds out that they forgot to check to see if the fucking modem was on standby....or that they actually had the port correct for email....or a million other stupid little things that anyone can get wrong, but people with a huge ego automatically assume they didn't. Of course, when Braniac customer actually follows your suggested troubleshooting steps and finds out what the problem actually was, what do you think occurs? Thank you? Great Job? Should have listened to you in the first place?
No fucking way...it's a dead drop of the phone onto the base...that's what you get for your troubles...and your handle time is fucked for the day.
Now, want to ask me again why I insist on checking the stuff that you THOUGHT (assumed) you checked already...even though it only takes a couple of seconds.
Bill, The Galactic Hero......I can only wonder what would have occurred if this was required reading in America 40 years ago.
Hmmm....
I have come up with a new sport come April
Tax-Sex
You sit in the middle of the Kitchen and agonize over deductions for 10 minutes, then do it doggy style on them thar reciepts.
The term Big Brother comes to mind for some reason.
....and is requesting that you start on the IBM 5100 (the flux capacitor broke).
Yikes! If you are going to throw around stuff like that, please get the name of the person you are invoking correctly.
Unless Finland put a guy up recently?
Is it so hard to believe that someone, who may have had a promising career in geekdom (ie..lots of slashcred), receives an opportunity that given a cost/benefit analysis will not only get him/her laid, but might possibly lead to megabucks and/or be a guest spot on The Simpsons, decides to leave writing grant proposals forever?
Unpossible!
Free copy of Duke Nukem Forever with every sale.
Pretty sure that anyone who knows how to make a recovery disk either won't get suckered in, or will purchase it just so they don't have to do it themselves.
The real retail rape is extended warranty.
You have it correct. Actually, it serves two purposes...First, they get rid of the bandwidth abusers and secondly, offload them to a competitor.
The customer is always right does not apply on the Internet.
You're thinking of this place all wrong. As if I had the money back in a safe. The money's not here. Your money's in Joe's imaginary house...right next to yours. And in the imaginary Kennedy house, and Mrs. Macklin's imaginary house, and a hundred other imaginary houses. Why, you're lending them the money to build, and then, they're going to pay it back to you as best they can. Now what are you going to do? Foreclose on them?...Now wait...now listen...now listen to me. I beg of you not to do this thing. If Potter gets hold of this Virtual Building and Loan there'll never be another decent imaginary house built in this imaginary town. He's already got charge of the imaginary bank. He's got the imaginary bus line. He's got the imaginary department stores. And now he's after us. Why? Well, it's very simple. Because we're cutting in on his business, that's why. And because he wants to keep you living in his imaginary slums and paying the kind of rent he decides. Joe, you lived in one of his imaginary houses, didn't you? Well, have you forgotten? Have you forgotten what he charged you for that imaginary broken-down shack? Here, Ed. You know, you remember last year when things weren't going so well, and you couldn't make your payments. You didn't lose your imaginary house, did you? Do you think Potter would have let you keep it? Can't you understand what's happening here? Don't you see what's happening? Potter isn't selling. Potter's buying! And why? Because we're panicky and he's not. That's why. He's picking up some bargains. Now, we can get through this thing all right. We've got to stick together, though. We've got to have faith in each other.
Hopefully, Solar Cell efficiency will keep ahead of smog cover in major cities.
So, approximately the same chance that Duke Nuke 'em Forever will be released.
(I'm assuming that a developer is working on it, and not an actual monkey...which, for all probabilities would be faster).
"have Fonality print a retraction to the blog article (and the subsequent press release)."
:)
Nortel wants some other company to do a restatement?
That's rich.
psst......you got the placebo.
All kidding aside, I thought patients weren't supposed to be notified if they were the control or not.
Well, I'm off to Sosaria and make me some coin!
(and maybe kill some guards)
Bah! Call me when they have bottled Lightning.
(and John McCain as well)
"The Web is built on open standards and we at Microsoft believe that we have to enable those open standards," .....and then twist them into a New York hot pretzel, with a dash of moebius strip, then 'reintroduce'.
"2350 GMT (7:50 p.m. EDT)
Engineers are working on the problem that stopped the countdown. SpaceX has time available to troubleshoot the issue and try the launch again -- so the flight has not been scrubbed for today."
2355 GMT (7:55 p.m. EDT)
The problem appears to be related to the Range and telemetry. The team needs another 10 minutes to examine the situation.
This will all be for naught when Terrorist MacGyver is on the plane.
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