For a sign, I don't get it. For anything else? It looks atrocious! If you're trying to convey a point to me with writing, and you cannot follow standard grammatical rules for doing so, it just makes you look like a dolt. You know the rules exist, yet chose not to follow them. So, now, how can I be fully sure that your point, even if still clear, is valid or that your argument is sound? You didn't pay attention to the EASY part, that is, writing your ideas down, how do I know you got the hard part - creating said ideas - right?
It was the same kid for both. 22 year old Bradley Manning, only 2 steps above a fucking no-insignia private, who they thought it OK to give a Top Secret clearance to.
The locksmith, who keyed all the apartments in your building, changed your keycode and called you to tell you that keeping the default of "1-2-3-4" was not a good idea.
When I was young, a carder conned me in to being a mule for a single shipment.
He had me find an empty house near myself, and post a note on the door. "UPS, I've moved, but I'm still in town. I forgot to update my address with $computer_company and accidentally had my order shipped here. Please put it on the back deck. -$victim."
I grabbed a box of about a dozen Lite-ON CD-RW drives and reshipped 11 to random addresses. Never heard from that guy again.
Thank god I was like 13. Looking back, out flew a few grand into the depths of the criminal underground.
Now, if I were that carder, I've used this 12 year old to grab a few physical cards along with online banking info. I just use others in my preteen army to accept a few tens of grand in charges that I made on my "returned" high-limit credit card, and fence 'em.
If anyone ever gets caught, it's a kid that can't be prosecuted and doesn't make a great witness in court. And, as the carder, I'm in Ukraine anyway, come find me! The kingpin is/never/ the one the goods/card/drugs/whatever gets shipped to.
*Not vulnerable to phone based extensions of the above attack where users are called and socially engineered out of their authentication keys.
Most cards say "Property of the bank, must be returned on demand" yadda yadda on the back. That given:
Dear Bank User,
As per the Terms of Services* in effect on your account on the date you signed up, we must request your bankcard be returned to the following address for security purposes.
Please fill out the attached form, including PIN numbers and mail it to the address on the form.
We apologize for any inconvenience,
Senior VP, Customer Satisfaction Management Shitbank, Anytown, USA
and the mail it out a billion times. You're gonna catch some fish.
Surprisingly, productivity over time is much greater when workers aren't constantly stressed. During our breaks we are generally allowed to browse web sites for fun or even to play games.
Hell, at my work, I can stroll to the back of the clubhouse (leasing office with toys), cook up a burger and sit down and watch the big-screen whenever I want.
There's one employee here who never takes breaks or slacks. I get a bunch more done than the on-the-clock-no-relaxing coworker.
LOL I'd like to mod you down, but this is DNRTFA syndrome real bad here, go click the damn link, dude, and take one look at the pictures. You dont even have to RTFA!
Ha! I live in Altoona! I wonder what happened, because it's no longer the "House of Chang", it's called Yamato.
Note, Non-RTFCAers,that he lost his case because the deal on the napkin really didn't make any sense.
Also note, that no, not that much happens here. Police smash beer bottles over eachother's heads in disputes at parties at judges houses, and then beat 59 year old men so bad they end up in the ICU at local bars.
Carlin's exactly fuckin' right. I love going home and watching my family methodically wash and scrub their hands before every meal, every trip to the bathroom, etc. You know, got the hand sanitizer EVERYWHERE. I don't wash my hands before I eat, why the hell would I wash my hands in the bathroom if I didn't, well, shit all over myself? When I clean my apartment, I use soap and water, no ultra-bleach-sanitization, unless it's the stank-ass trashcan or I left the dishes go WAY too long.
I haven't barely had a sniffle in over half a decade. SOMEONE at home is always sick. Hell, for every 10 times my girlfriend is down and out with a cold, I get maybe one two-day stuffy nose and scratchy throat. And I smoke!!
Does anyone EVER check that signature panel? Mine has my signature on it, but I usually draw a smiley face when asked to sign on a digitizer. Only ONCE did anyone ask to see it.
When I was a student at PSU, you could buy student season football tickets and sell ONE TICKET to a big game and pay back the whole season plus a healthy profit. You needed to show student ID to get in, but that wouldn't stop some rich alumna. Senior year they switched to some dumb system where you had to wait in line with whatever student you wanted to give the ticket to, only on Tuesday and Thursday, and only from like 10-3 minus a lunch break.
OK, I'll agree with that sentiment. That's just plain annoying, and trust me, I deal with it on a daily basis - that one kid that thinks your just supercalifragilisticexpialidocious cool 'cuz you took his rent check AND told him he had a package at the same time when you really didn't - they drive me nuts.
But I think it's OK to recognize the "strangers" in your life and be nice to them. That lady at the convenience store that has my coffee and cigs ready for me every morning? I have no clue what her name is. I know she has kids my age, and she drives a Neon the same color as my girlfriend's. She knows I drive a Jetta just because I bring it there every morning, and that I'm gonna buy $35 in Premium gas once a week. She has no clue what my name is, either. But hell, we're both happy to see each other in the morning and shoot the shit for that thirty seconds it takes for the transaction.
And you're right, it's antisocial. I'll get a tour group of like 20+ people coming up from freshman orientation, and there's always one mom or dad that needs to sit and chat about their little beloved kiddie going off to the not-so-real world. Then, I have 15 people standing in the model apartment rolling their eyes at me. All I want to do is stop for a second, wave to the others, and say, "Thanks for stopping by, see ya in August!" and that ONE antisocial mommy who thinks her kid is the king of the world just can't shut the fuck up for ten seconds. So I feeel ya
On the plus side, it has frequent pauses in action of just the right length to insert commercials, so it televises well.
Actually, it doesn't. The first time I saw a football game in real life, I couldn't understand why they would take so long between plays every once in a while. "What the hell?" I thought. "They ain't got no time-outs left, and my beer's getting warm at the tailgate. Get on with it!"
I'd be out doing the same thing instead of watching television IF my car hobby would become as affordable as $60 a month and a grand or so every 10 years when a TV releases the magic smoke. Until then, boob toob it is.
Wait, say what? That's just some people's nature, dude. I was a social services major, and resident director of the apartment complex I lived at. I just like to talk. It brightens both of our days, and oh, she's got my coffee and cigarettes waiting for me in the morning. I have no intentions of being friends with the woman, but shit, I have to see her every day, might as well be friendly.
You think the third dimension would be a bad thing?? I remember my first "wreck"... I was about 17, and my choices were whitetail deer, guard rail, or school bus with Catholic schoolchildren. I chose tasty, tasty venison, and it was my most expensive deer ever at $2,600. I would have LOVED the "jump the deer" option and saved that $2,600 for a few extra rounds for the REAL deer season.
I mean, be obnoxious all, I was too when I had a WinMo phone - I could replace my radio with a random noise generator if I pleased!
But, I just upgraded to iOS 4 on my iPhone 3G, and the second the phone booted, it was jailbroken (thanks, Sn0wbreeze!), and about 5 minutes later, I had the mysterious "Apple Kill Switch" turned off.
My phone runs whatever code I want it to, and yes, the process was just as easy as rooting your Android phone.
(Plus, my car adapter is definitely better than yours:P)
Lol dude, you're not the only one. I'm 23, and I live in an apt complex that's a little cramped for a big dog (little dogs are just furry footballs, screw that), so I got a cat. Anyone who says that cats are completely independent and don't love their owners hasn't ever had a cool cat. I had a kitten that I knew had FLV and was going to die for 11 months and it was the coolest thing ever. He'd play fetch, come running to the door when I came home from school just like a dog, followed me everywhere like a puppy. Plus, instead of jumping on the bed and pushing you off as soon as you're asleep like a dog, he'd curl up on my pillow and purr.
And he didn't do the whole "run away and die" thing either, when the mass he had in his chest cavity finally got to his lungs and his time had come, he climbed up on the couch and laid on my lap, and let me know it was time to go to the vet. I don't think I've ever been so upset about losing a pet.
I went to the Humane Society a few months later and picked up a "freebie" cat that had been there too long without a home and was going to be put down. Needless to say, he's the happiest cat in the world. Pets are what you make of them, I think. This guys just as playful as my last cat, and never leaves my side. Then again, my apt is covered in cat toys, stuff to climb on, and I've got two lasers to drive him nuts with.
Still love dogs, but cats are equal... and I think they're a bit smarter and self-aware.
Well, I remember the damn thing always being broken when I could talk my parents into taking me to the arcade... Just read those Wiki articles, and it turns out I wasn't the only one: Holosseum was a conversion for the cabinet cuz their LD players sucked:P
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For a sign, I don't get it. For anything else? It looks atrocious! If you're trying to convey a point to me with writing, and you cannot follow standard grammatical rules for doing so, it just makes you look like a dolt. You know the rules exist, yet chose not to follow them. So, now, how can I be fully sure that your point, even if still clear, is valid or that your argument is sound? You didn't pay attention to the EASY part, that is, writing your ideas down, how do I know you got the hard part - creating said ideas - right?
It was the same kid for both. 22 year old Bradley Manning, only 2 steps above a fucking no-insignia private, who they thought it OK to give a Top Secret clearance to.
Didnt a jury find him guilty??
Analogy fail.
The locksmith, who keyed all the apartments in your building, changed your keycode and called you to tell you that keeping the default of "1-2-3-4" was not a good idea.
Late reply, I know.
When I was young, a carder conned me in to being a mule for a single shipment.
He had me find an empty house near myself, and post a note on the door. "UPS, I've moved, but I'm still in town. I forgot to update my address with $computer_company and accidentally had my order shipped here. Please put it on the back deck. -$victim."
I grabbed a box of about a dozen Lite-ON CD-RW drives and reshipped 11 to random addresses. Never heard from that guy again.
Thank god I was like 13. Looking back, out flew a few grand into the depths of the criminal underground.
Now, if I were that carder, I've used this 12 year old to grab a few physical cards along with online banking info. I just use others in my preteen army to accept a few tens of grand in charges that I made on my "returned" high-limit credit card, and fence 'em.
If anyone ever gets caught, it's a kid that can't be prosecuted and doesn't make a great witness in court. And, as the carder, I'm in Ukraine anyway, come find me! The kingpin is /never/ the one the goods/card/drugs/whatever gets shipped to.
Most cards say "Property of the bank, must be returned on demand" yadda yadda on the back. That given:
Dear Bank User,
As per the Terms of Services* in effect on your account on the date you signed up, we must request your bankcard be returned to the following address for security purposes.
Please fill out the attached form, including PIN numbers and mail it to the address on the form.
We apologize for any inconvenience,
Senior VP, Customer Satisfaction Management
Shitbank, Anytown, USA
and the mail it out a billion times. You're gonna catch some fish.
Yeah, repeated exposure to the sun is pretty good at causing cancer.
Hell, at my work, I can stroll to the back of the clubhouse (leasing office with toys), cook up a burger and sit down and watch the big-screen whenever I want.
There's one employee here who never takes breaks or slacks. I get a bunch more done than the on-the-clock-no-relaxing coworker.
You've never seen a turtle?!? Where do you live??
I guess I'm on the opposite end of the scale from you, I've CRASHED A CAR because of a fucking snapping turtle!
LOL I'd like to mod you down, but this is DNRTFA syndrome real bad here, go click the damn link, dude, and take one look at the pictures. You dont even have to RTFA!
A LED perhaps, but a infrared laser certainly not! Your eye has no blink reflex for an infrared source, not that it much matters at 1W!
Ha! I live in Altoona! I wonder what happened, because it's no longer the "House of Chang", it's called Yamato.
Note, Non-RTFCAers,that he lost his case because the deal on the napkin really didn't make any sense.
Also note, that no, not that much happens here. Police smash beer bottles over eachother's heads in disputes at parties at judges houses, and then beat 59 year old men so bad they end up in the ICU at local bars.
Carlin's exactly fuckin' right. I love going home and watching my family methodically wash and scrub their hands before every meal, every trip to the bathroom, etc. You know, got the hand sanitizer EVERYWHERE. I don't wash my hands before I eat, why the hell would I wash my hands in the bathroom if I didn't, well, shit all over myself? When I clean my apartment, I use soap and water, no ultra-bleach-sanitization, unless it's the stank-ass trashcan or I left the dishes go WAY too long.
I haven't barely had a sniffle in over half a decade. SOMEONE at home is always sick. Hell, for every 10 times my girlfriend is down and out with a cold, I get maybe one two-day stuffy nose and scratchy throat. And I smoke!!
Put down the Lysol, people.
Does anyone EVER check that signature panel? Mine has my signature on it, but I usually draw a smiley face when asked to sign on a digitizer. Only ONCE did anyone ask to see it.
Why didn't they do what they do when you prank-voice-call 911? You know, send a cop to chastise you?
Seriously.
When I was a student at PSU, you could buy student season football tickets and sell ONE TICKET to a big game and pay back the whole season plus a healthy profit. You needed to show student ID to get in, but that wouldn't stop some rich alumna. Senior year they switched to some dumb system where you had to wait in line with whatever student you wanted to give the ticket to, only on Tuesday and Thursday, and only from like 10-3 minus a lunch break.
Assholes.
OK, I'll agree with that sentiment. That's just plain annoying, and trust me, I deal with it on a daily basis - that one kid that thinks your just supercalifragilisticexpialidocious cool 'cuz you took his rent check AND told him he had a package at the same time when you really didn't - they drive me nuts.
But I think it's OK to recognize the "strangers" in your life and be nice to them. That lady at the convenience store that has my coffee and cigs ready for me every morning? I have no clue what her name is. I know she has kids my age, and she drives a Neon the same color as my girlfriend's. She knows I drive a Jetta just because I bring it there every morning, and that I'm gonna buy $35 in Premium gas once a week. She has no clue what my name is, either. But hell, we're both happy to see each other in the morning and shoot the shit for that thirty seconds it takes for the transaction.
And you're right, it's antisocial. I'll get a tour group of like 20+ people coming up from freshman orientation, and there's always one mom or dad that needs to sit and chat about their little beloved kiddie going off to the not-so-real world. Then, I have 15 people standing in the model apartment rolling their eyes at me. All I want to do is stop for a second, wave to the others, and say, "Thanks for stopping by, see ya in August!" and that ONE antisocial mommy who thinks her kid is the king of the world just can't shut the fuck up for ten seconds. So I feeel ya
On the plus side, it has frequent pauses in action of just the right length to insert commercials, so it televises well.
Actually, it doesn't. The first time I saw a football game in real life, I couldn't understand why they would take so long between plays every once in a while. "What the hell?" I thought. "They ain't got no time-outs left, and my beer's getting warm at the tailgate. Get on with it!"
TV Timeout, they say. Well fuck you, commercials!
Awesome car.
I'd be out doing the same thing instead of watching television IF my car hobby would become as affordable as $60 a month and a grand or so every 10 years when a TV releases the magic smoke. Until then, boob toob it is.
Wait, say what? That's just some people's nature, dude. I was a social services major, and resident director of the apartment complex I lived at. I just like to talk. It brightens both of our days, and oh, she's got my coffee and cigarettes waiting for me in the morning. I have no intentions of being friends with the woman, but shit, I have to see her every day, might as well be friendly.
You think the third dimension would be a bad thing?? I remember my first "wreck"... I was about 17, and my choices were whitetail deer, guard rail, or school bus with Catholic schoolchildren. I chose tasty, tasty venison, and it was my most expensive deer ever at $2,600. I would have LOVED the "jump the deer" option and saved that $2,600 for a few extra rounds for the REAL deer season.
I mean, be obnoxious all, I was too when I had a WinMo phone - I could replace my radio with a random noise generator if I pleased!
But, I just upgraded to iOS 4 on my iPhone 3G, and the second the phone booted, it was jailbroken (thanks, Sn0wbreeze!), and about 5 minutes later, I had the mysterious "Apple Kill Switch" turned off.
My phone runs whatever code I want it to, and yes, the process was just as easy as rooting your Android phone.
(Plus, my car adapter is definitely better than yours :P)
Lol dude, you're not the only one. I'm 23, and I live in an apt complex that's a little cramped for a big dog (little dogs are just furry footballs, screw that), so I got a cat. Anyone who says that cats are completely independent and don't love their owners hasn't ever had a cool cat. I had a kitten that I knew had FLV and was going to die for 11 months and it was the coolest thing ever. He'd play fetch, come running to the door when I came home from school just like a dog, followed me everywhere like a puppy. Plus, instead of jumping on the bed and pushing you off as soon as you're asleep like a dog, he'd curl up on my pillow and purr.
And he didn't do the whole "run away and die" thing either, when the mass he had in his chest cavity finally got to his lungs and his time had come, he climbed up on the couch and laid on my lap, and let me know it was time to go to the vet. I don't think I've ever been so upset about losing a pet.
I went to the Humane Society a few months later and picked up a "freebie" cat that had been there too long without a home and was going to be put down. Needless to say, he's the happiest cat in the world. Pets are what you make of them, I think. This guys just as playful as my last cat, and never leaves my side. Then again, my apt is covered in cat toys, stuff to climb on, and I've got two lasers to drive him nuts with.
Still love dogs, but cats are equal... and I think they're a bit smarter and self-aware.
I remember Time Traveler!
Well, I remember the damn thing always being broken when I could talk my parents into taking me to the arcade... Just read those Wiki articles, and it turns out I wasn't the only one: Holosseum was a conversion for the cabinet cuz their LD players sucked :P
[offtopic] Your username made me laugh :P [/offtopic]