they left no descendants and we don't know quite what their closest relative was.
That's never stopped the "Bank of Nigeria" from sending me email about lost fortunes from unknown relatives before. Either that or the wife or daughter of the late President Pterosaur will be contacting me shortly.
"I insisted it was impossible. I was wrong. I myself went to Google late on the night after the Spanish announcement, typed K40506A into Google, and let out a gasp."
They're looking for and finding faint objects on the end of the solar system, and a little web crawling and db indexing was a shock to him. Hmm.
That's so that you can dump your Blackberry and keep a mouse in your pocket. (Perhaps the phrase "Is that a mouse in your pocket and you've just got mail, or are you just really happy to see me?" needs a bit of work.)
Change that to "Some scientists in a bar told me..." and you're there!
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I remember reading that the flux of neutrinos is enough to kill a human out past the range of Jupiter's orbit. (And heavy lead jammies aren't going to help.)
It'd be nice if they'd do something about a newsgroup spammer now via Verizon who's currently running a BI of 2200 in the 45 day window. (Even UUNET has whack-a-moled this guy a few times, ye gods!)
Having a rally among SA members for aid money isn't a bad thing by any means! Keeping track of who gave what to encourage peer-pressure and competition, and to toss in perks for contributors is an excllent idea. Just poor execution. ("Hey, I have an old Paypal account...")
Because of past scams taking avantage of charitable feelings, especially in times of disaster when a lot of people need help in a hurry, the money path always needs to be closely controlled and audited. Here's an idea (if it hasn't already been done): Have a tracking number for donations to the Red Cross through PayPal (or whomever) that can entered on a web site and the status displayed. That way people can give the money directly to the aid agency and tell SA the tracking number. Then SA can check and update their own stats/scores and do what they want with it. That gets the money in the aid agency's hands ASAP and lets them buy supplies and pay upfront costs.
During the tsunami. Freezing the account until someone can check out that it's okay, is better than some other bastard walking away with money scammed from blood before they can catch him.
Some people might complain that this is delaying aid money, but if immediate aid was the issue, WTF aren't they giving directly to the Red Cross or other agencies rather than collecting freebee points on SA?
I'm sure that PayPal does have disaster donation checks designed to be paranoid, and for good reason. Lowtax has many good qualities, but slow, careful, unemotional, unlikely to P.O. mundanes in suits are not high on that list.:)
Keep in mind that during the tsunami aftermath, scammers popped up claiming to be established organizations (MercyCorps) and tried to scam people into contributing money via PayPal accounts. The FBI busted a guy, who told agents "he thought it would be OK to keep the money to fix his car and pay bills, if he gave some of it to charity".
So bet your ass that this time around, they're watching accounts for aid money for anything slightly dodgy and freezing them. SA has vast supplies of slightly dodgy, and I'd take any report of what went down from them and run through a heavy duty reality distortion field compensator.
God of the Gaps? Does he rule the space between the platform and subway cars? That's a pretty specific god-function, but those "Mind the gap" signs make more sense now. (Although I want to add a comma after mind.)
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'cause no one will bug you or interrupt you if they think you're insane.
So we find the right butterfly and hold a gun to its head!
Nah, he's a character from B.C.
They found some hieroglyphics on the side of the mug: "First pissed evar!"
Don't forget the initial Slashdot story where most posters took the Eeevil FBI position.
That's never stopped the "Bank of Nigeria" from sending me email about lost fortunes from unknown relatives before. Either that or the wife or daughter of the late President Pterosaur will be contacting me shortly.
What a shame that this Xena is a distant frigid body.
I say it was the Flying Spaghetti Monster and my religious faith is just as valid as yours!
Maybe it's a big Instant Alien Invasion, just add water? (On the other hand, perhaps the data will show chocolate molecules -- Got Milk?)
That's so that you can dump your Blackberry and keep a mouse in your pocket. (Perhaps the phrase "Is that a mouse in your pocket and you've just got mail, or are you just really happy to see me?" needs a bit of work.)
Change that to "Some scientists in a bar told me..." and you're there!
I remember reading that the flux of neutrinos is enough to kill a human out past the range of Jupiter's orbit. (And heavy lead jammies aren't going to help.)
But that only happens when the Flying Spaghetti Monster has been hitting the sauce a little heavy.
Now .. would you be interested in taking this Turtlology Personality Test? Possibly buying this Turtlenetics book?
It'd be nice if they'd do something about a newsgroup spammer now via Verizon who's currently running a BI of 2200 in the 45 day window. (Even UUNET has whack-a-moled this guy a few times, ye gods!)
Because of past scams taking avantage of charitable feelings, especially in times of disaster when a lot of people need help in a hurry, the money path always needs to be closely controlled and audited. Here's an idea (if it hasn't already been done): Have a tracking number for donations to the Red Cross through PayPal (or whomever) that can entered on a web site and the status displayed. That way people can give the money directly to the aid agency and tell SA the tracking number. Then SA can check and update their own stats/scores and do what they want with it. That gets the money in the aid agency's hands ASAP and lets them buy supplies and pay upfront costs.
Will that tell them very much? With dynamic IP addresses and IP proxy pooling (AOL and others), it's not always going to zero in on people.
During the tsunami. Freezing the account until someone can check out that it's okay, is better than some other bastard walking away with money scammed from blood before they can catch him.
Some people might complain that this is delaying aid money, but if immediate aid was the issue, WTF aren't they giving directly to the Red Cross or other agencies rather than collecting freebee points on SA?
I'm sure that PayPal does have disaster donation checks designed to be paranoid, and for good reason. Lowtax has many good qualities, but slow, careful, unemotional, unlikely to P.O. mundanes in suits are not high on that list. :)
Keep in mind that during the tsunami aftermath, scammers popped up claiming to be established organizations (MercyCorps) and tried to scam people into contributing money via PayPal accounts. The FBI busted a guy, who told agents "he thought it would be OK to keep the money to fix his car and pay bills, if he gave some of it to charity".
So bet your ass that this time around, they're watching accounts for aid money for anything slightly dodgy and freezing them. SA has vast supplies of slightly dodgy, and I'd take any report of what went down from them and run through a heavy duty reality distortion field compensator.
And the gaps get smaller over time as we figure why the big red thing comes up each morning, or why someone's kids look like the mailman.
Oh sure, like anyone is going to bet on the vegetarian winning over the animal herder!
God of the Gaps? Does he rule the space between the platform and subway cars? That's a pretty specific god-function, but those "Mind the gap" signs make more sense now. (Although I want to add a comma after mind.)
No no, he explains it all. Besides, as a master of Matter Energy Space-Time, he could teach all those classes.