Its been spread far and wide for years. The first time I received one of these calls was in the mid-90s claiming to be from the IRS. I was a little slow to realize it back then, but after they started asking me information I decided to call the IRS myself. Of course it wasn't actually the IRS.
Even back then I had heard of these scams.
Now it's not uncommon for me to get a call or text about suspicious activity on my credit card - about once a year. I NEVER call the number back. I call the main number and they already have my account flagged and it goes directly to their security department. So far none of them have been phishing scams.
It's mildly annoying because now I have to wait for a new card, but not alarming. I'm actually thankful that my bank recognizes that I probably didn't spend $700 in Dubai.
A lot of that was covered prior to the allegations by Ford. People just weren't paying attention because legal arguments and Constitutional law just aren't as sexy as stories of attempted rape.
He has some "interesting" ideas about Presidential immunity for example.
"Mayor Koch has stated that hate and rancor should be removed from our hearts. I do not think so. I want to hate these muggers and murderers. They should be forced to suffer... Yes, Mayor Koch, I want to hate these murderers and I always will.... How can our great society tolerate the continued brutalization of its citizens by crazed misfits? Criminals must be told that their CIVIL LIBERTIES END WHEN AN ATTACK ON OUR SAFETY BEGINS!" - Donald Trump
In decades past, they would have just been lynched. Instead they were exonerated in 2002, but did that stop Donald Trump?
As recently as 2 years ago., Trump was still proclaiming their guilt.
Typing programs in from those magazines and books that were just whole collections of source code is how I learned BASIC. At first I just ignorantly typed in what was printed on the pages which was great typing practice.
Quite often the version of BASIC in the program listings was just different enough not to work and of course I made typos as well.
Coincidentally right now the news on my TV is showing Trump going on and on about how it's so scary today because "now you're guilty until proven innocent."
Does anyone remember Trump and The Central Park Five?
Not only did Trump assume they were guilty before being tried, even after they were exonerated through DNA evidence he continued to proclaim their guilt even as recently as 2013, over a decade after their exoneration.
What a scary time for young men in our country indeed. Trump is just noticing this? He wanted them to be executed 30 years ago even before they were found guilty.
I would assume I would be on camera as I approached it, even if I sneaked up behind it.
If vandalism did become widespread they would definitely try to catch the culprits and unless it became widespread a vandalism campaign against them would merely be a thorn in their side.
In fact it's probably a good idea to assume you're on camera in public unless you're in the wilderness somewhere.
I'll accept the occasional speeding ticket rather than be charged with an actual crime. Would it be destruction of government property? Would it be worse if it were a DEA camera instead of just some small town's? I don't want to find out.
Besides, I have never gotten a ticket from a camera - just actual cops who pulled me over.
The bad news is your life insurance premium just went up.
More bad news is that the more it increased, the more likely actuaries and statisticians and people who study this kind of thing think it is that you might die soon.
I have a Mi Band 2, but the data is only for me...lol, I'm not that naive. I just assume Xiaomi is counting the steps I take and the hours I sleep and even my heartbeat. I refused to grant the app access to my contacts and location and got over it.
I probably wouldn't be comfortable sharing it with my insurance company though. I haven't given in to pressure from my auto insurer to transmit data to them either even though I'm sure I almost never do anything that would look bad. Seriously, I'm a slow and lazy driver these days and I almost never have to brake hard. I still don't want them monitoring me.
I'm impressed at the accuracy of my fitness tracker, but I also see that very often it is horribly wrong. The heart rate is often way off and even ignoring the obvious outliers it only gives you a general idea of whether or not your heart is faster or slower than it normally is.
It sometimes thinks I'm sleeping when clearly I am walking around. Perhaps it thinks I'm sleep-walking. I'm very skeptical of whatever science is in their algorithms so that's probably why I'm so impressed with how accurate it actually is despite its faults.
Other fitness trackers are probably even more accurate, but how much more? And what value do they actually give you? I still consider mine an interesting gadget rather than something I should take too seriously.
Basically everyone told them the song was too long to ever get airplay so...
According to producer Roy Thomas Baker, he and the band bypassed this corporate decision by playing the song for Capital Radio DJ Kenny Everett: "we had a reel-to-reel copy but we told him he could only have it if he promised not to play it. 'I won't play it,' he said, winking..."[4] Their plan worked – Everett teased his listeners by playing only parts of the song. Audience demand intensified when Everett played the full song on his show 14 times in two days.[16] Hordes of fans attempted to buy the single the following Monday, only to be told by record stores that it had not yet been released.[4] The same weekend, Paul Drew, who ran the RKO stations in the States, heard the track on Everett's show in London. Drew managed to get a copy of the tape and started to play it in the States, which forced the hand of Queen's US label, Elektra. In an interview with Sound on Sound, Baker reflects that "it was a strange situation where radio on both sides of the Atlantic was breaking a record that the record companies said would never get airplay!"[4]
I still remember when Qadaffi was the bad guy who sponsored terrorism and Reagan was president, bombing Libya and saying we would never negotiate with terrorists.
Now we're supposed to lament his death because of the current state of Libya?
I'm not disagreeing with your analysis, but slavery in the US is recent enough that some Americans know their ancestors were slaves, whether it's their great-great grandparents or even a few generations further back and they know their names and family stories. Some even still live on the same land where their ancestors were slaves.
I can't trace my family tree back far enough to find out when they were slaves. I assume some were at some point in history..
I can confidently say that at least most of my ancestors who immigrated here came of their own accord and none were condemned to generations of slavery followed by decades of racism.
You just reminded me of a comment I saw years ago at a beef producer. There was a record for every carcass that included the kill date.
After declaring the variable kdate someone had commented
/* date cow was murdered */
It's a completely unnecessary comment since kdate was the standard variable name for that in all their code, but someone found it amusing. Either that or they were staging a very quiet protest against the slaughter of animals for food.
That company also sometimes euphemistically referred to itself as a "protein producer" although I think that was more of a running joke than to hide the fact that they "murder" tens of thousands of animals every day.
PECULIAR INSTITUTION was a euphemistic term that white southerners used for slavery. John C. Calhoun defended the "peculiar labor" of the South in 1828 and the "peculiar domestick institution" in 1830. The term came into general use in the 1830s when the abolitionist followers of William Lloyd Garrison began to attack slavery. Its implicit message was that slavery in the U.S. South was different from the very harsh slave systems existing in other countries and that southern slavery had no impact on those living in northern states.
OTOH, just from reading the summary this makes sense for Apple - as if they didn't already have a team dealing with law enforcement. They're just streamlining the process of handling law enforcement requests from what I can tell. So when Barney Fife calls them up and asks to unlock an iPhone they can direct him to a website where they can tell him they can't unlock that iPhone.
I don't think Apple has just decided to roll over and give law enforcement anything they want.
Just to be on the safe side, I have a gmail account. Google would never sell me out/s
I'm guessing you haven't. I too respected Sheriff Joe before I moved there. I admired his tough-on-crime stance and thought he was a good guy like you do, but Sheriff Joke and "integrity" are two polar opposites..
When I moved to the PHX area I found out the national news about him was just his publicity machine and he wasn't what I thought.
My main concern at first wasn't even that he's racist. He was corrupt as hell and much of what he did was publicity stunts. He cost us (taxpayers) millions in lawsuits for violating people's rights. You can whine about lawsuits all you want, but this is the United States. Don't violate people's rights and there may be fewer lawsuits.
His publicity machine was epic. What other Sheriff in the US is or was nationally known? That black guy from Milwaukee? Yeah, I can remember him, but not his name.
And he's mostly known for being a black guy who supports Trump....and having a few people die in the jails he presides over.
Yeah, David Clarke. 3 inmates and one newborn baby all dead in his jail and yet most people if they even know who he is don't know that.
And to preempt you from saying anything about me coddling criminals, the vast majority of people in jail have not yet been convicted.
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My own personal conspiracy theory: Sheriff Joke kept getting re-elected because of Snowbirds from other states who probably voted in both AZ and their home state. Immigrants are a problem in AZ, but it's not the ones coming from the south. (it's all those people from California and Texas and Michigan and all those other states! Yeah, I think I just included myself as part of the problem.)
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Its been spread far and wide for years. The first time I received one of these calls was in the mid-90s claiming to be from the IRS. I was a little slow to realize it back then, but after they started asking me information I decided to call the IRS myself. Of course it wasn't actually the IRS.
Even back then I had heard of these scams.
Now it's not uncommon for me to get a call or text about suspicious activity on my credit card - about once a year. I NEVER call the number back. I call the main number and they already have my account flagged and it goes directly to their security department. So far none of them have been phishing scams.
It's mildly annoying because now I have to wait for a new card, but not alarming. I'm actually thankful that my bank recognizes that I probably didn't spend $700 in Dubai.
A lot of that was covered prior to the allegations by Ford. People just weren't paying attention because legal arguments and Constitutional law just aren't as sexy as stories of attempted rape.
He has some "interesting" ideas about Presidential immunity for example.
I guarantee you, the Senate will NOT even give fluffernutter a hearing, let alone confirm him to the Supreme Court.
Regressing?
"It's a very scary time for young men in this country." - Donald Trump
I know, just ask the Central Park Five.
Accusations by Donald Trump
"Mayor Koch has stated that hate and rancor should be removed from our hearts. I do not think so. I want to hate these muggers and murderers. They should be forced to suffer ... Yes, Mayor Koch, I want to hate these murderers and I always will. ... How can our great society tolerate the continued brutalization of its citizens by crazed misfits? Criminals must be told that their CIVIL LIBERTIES END WHEN AN ATTACK ON OUR SAFETY BEGINS!" - Donald Trump
In decades past, they would have just been lynched. Instead they were exonerated in 2002, but did that stop Donald Trump?
As recently as 2 years ago., Trump was still proclaiming their guilt.
Typing programs in from those magazines and books that were just whole collections of source code is how I learned BASIC. At first I just ignorantly typed in what was printed on the pages which was great typing practice.
Quite often the version of BASIC in the program listings was just different enough not to work and of course I made typos as well.
That made it even more educational.
I fully expect my bill to go up because of this.
You could say the same about the character of Feinstein, Booker and Ford as well.
I strongly oppose any of them being confirmed to the Supreme Court as well.
Coincidentally right now the news on my TV is showing Trump going on and on about how it's so scary today because "now you're guilty until proven innocent."
Does anyone remember Trump and The Central Park Five?
Not only did Trump assume they were guilty before being tried, even after they were exonerated through DNA evidence he continued to proclaim their guilt even as recently as 2013, over a decade after their exoneration.
What a scary time for young men in our country indeed. Trump is just noticing this? He wanted them to be executed 30 years ago even before they were found guilty.
It looks like that was added in 8.1
Android 8.1 feature spotlight: Emergency alerts get a history list and reorganized settings
And I just finally got updated to 8.0.0.
I would assume I would be on camera as I approached it, even if I sneaked up behind it.
If vandalism did become widespread they would definitely try to catch the culprits and unless it became widespread a vandalism campaign against them would merely be a thorn in their side.
In fact it's probably a good idea to assume you're on camera in public unless you're in the wilderness somewhere.
I'll accept the occasional speeding ticket rather than be charged with an actual crime. Would it be destruction of government property? Would it be worse if it were a DEA camera instead of just some small town's? I don't want to find out.
Besides, I have never gotten a ticket from a camera - just actual cops who pulled me over.
Harrison Bergeron by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
Harrison Bergeron
https://archive.org/stream/Har...
The bad news is your life insurance premium just went up.
More bad news is that the more it increased, the more likely actuaries and statisticians and people who study this kind of thing think it is that you might die soon.
I have a Mi Band 2, but the data is only for me...lol, I'm not that naive. I just assume Xiaomi is counting the steps I take and the hours I sleep and even my heartbeat. I refused to grant the app access to my contacts and location and got over it.
I probably wouldn't be comfortable sharing it with my insurance company though. I haven't given in to pressure from my auto insurer to transmit data to them either even though I'm sure I almost never do anything that would look bad. Seriously, I'm a slow and lazy driver these days and I almost never have to brake hard. I still don't want them monitoring me.
I'm impressed at the accuracy of my fitness tracker, but I also see that very often it is horribly wrong. The heart rate is often way off and even ignoring the obvious outliers it only gives you a general idea of whether or not your heart is faster or slower than it normally is.
It sometimes thinks I'm sleeping when clearly I am walking around. Perhaps it thinks I'm sleep-walking. I'm very skeptical of whatever science is in their algorithms so that's probably why I'm so impressed with how accurate it actually is despite its faults.
Other fitness trackers are probably even more accurate, but how much more? And what value do they actually give you? I still consider mine an interesting gadget rather than something I should take too seriously.
Phones are excluded along with golf clubs and plastic napkins for some reason.
What are plastic napkins?
Xmas ornaments (what about other holiday ornaments? Mardi Gras beads for example!)
Sunglasses
Bras
more...
What Would Evade $250 Billion In Trump China Tariffs? Golf Clubs, Plastic Napkins, Cell Phones, More
Here's what is covered:
https://ustr.gov/sites/default...
I wanted to listen to that one song from the SuperTramp album over and over and over and over!
Are you feeling so logical?
D-d-digital...
I was wondering too and I suspect it might be this:
Release
Basically everyone told them the song was too long to ever get airplay so...
According to producer Roy Thomas Baker, he and the band bypassed this corporate decision by playing the song for Capital Radio DJ Kenny Everett: "we had a reel-to-reel copy but we told him he could only have it if he promised not to play it. 'I won't play it,' he said, winking..."[4] Their plan worked – Everett teased his listeners by playing only parts of the song. Audience demand intensified when Everett played the full song on his show 14 times in two days.[16] Hordes of fans attempted to buy the single the following Monday, only to be told by record stores that it had not yet been released.[4] The same weekend, Paul Drew, who ran the RKO stations in the States, heard the track on Everett's show in London. Drew managed to get a copy of the tape and started to play it in the States, which forced the hand of Queen's US label, Elektra. In an interview with Sound on Sound, Baker reflects that "it was a strange situation where radio on both sides of the Atlantic was breaking a record that the record companies said would never get airplay!"[4]
I still remember when Qadaffi was the bad guy who sponsored terrorism and Reagan was president, bombing Libya and saying we would never negotiate with terrorists.
Now we're supposed to lament his death because of the current state of Libya?
I'm not disagreeing with your analysis, but slavery in the US is recent enough that some Americans know their ancestors were slaves, whether it's their great-great grandparents or even a few generations further back and they know their names and family stories. Some even still live on the same land where their ancestors were slaves.
I can't trace my family tree back far enough to find out when they were slaves. I assume some were at some point in history..
I can confidently say that at least most of my ancestors who immigrated here came of their own accord and none were condemned to generations of slavery followed by decades of racism.
What's wrong with being sexy?
You just reminded me of a comment I saw years ago at a beef producer. There was a record for every carcass that included the kill date.
After declaring the variable kdate someone had commented
It's a completely unnecessary comment since kdate was the standard variable name for that in all their code, but someone found it amusing. Either that or they were staging a very quiet protest against the slaughter of animals for food.
That company also sometimes euphemistically referred to itself as a "protein producer" although I think that was more of a running joke than to hide the fact that they "murder" tens of thousands of animals every day.
PECULIAR INSTITUTION was a euphemistic term that white southerners used for slavery. John C. Calhoun defended the "peculiar labor" of the South in 1828 and the "peculiar domestick institution" in 1830. The term came into general use in the 1830s when the abolitionist followers of William Lloyd Garrison began to attack slavery. Its implicit message was that slavery in the U.S. South was different from the very harsh slave systems existing in other countries and that southern slavery had no impact on those living in northern states.
Peculiar Institution
Even back then, "political correctness" existed.
My knee-jerk response is: Obviously not.
OTOH, just from reading the summary this makes sense for Apple - as if they didn't already have a team dealing with law enforcement. They're just streamlining the process of handling law enforcement requests from what I can tell. So when Barney Fife calls them up and asks to unlock an iPhone they can direct him to a website where they can tell him they can't unlock that iPhone.
I don't think Apple has just decided to roll over and give law enforcement anything they want.
Just to be on the safe side, I have a gmail account. Google would never sell me out /s
Have you lived in Maricopa County?
I'm guessing you haven't. I too respected Sheriff Joe before I moved there. I admired his tough-on-crime stance and thought he was a good guy like you do, but Sheriff Joke and "integrity" are two polar opposites..
When I moved to the PHX area I found out the national news about him was just his publicity machine and he wasn't what I thought.
My main concern at first wasn't even that he's racist. He was corrupt as hell and much of what he did was publicity stunts. He cost us (taxpayers) millions in lawsuits for violating people's rights. You can whine about lawsuits all you want, but this is the United States. Don't violate people's rights and there may be fewer lawsuits.
His publicity machine was epic. What other Sheriff in the US is or was nationally known? That black guy from Milwaukee? Yeah, I can remember him, but not his name.
And he's mostly known for being a black guy who supports Trump....and having a few people die in the jails he presides over.
Yeah, David Clarke. 3 inmates and one newborn baby all dead in his jail and yet most people if they even know who he is don't know that.
And to preempt you from saying anything about me coddling criminals, the vast majority of people in jail have not yet been convicted.
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My own personal conspiracy theory: Sheriff Joke kept getting re-elected because of Snowbirds from other states who probably voted in both AZ and their home state. Immigrants are a problem in AZ, but it's not the ones coming from the south. (it's all those people from California and Texas and Michigan and all those other states! Yeah, I think I just included myself as part of the problem.)
This is assuming a trustworthy poll and participants not just clicking at random or intentionally skewing results.
https://www.cnet.com/news/flat...
From a different article regarding the poll:
Could it be that at least some of these young people are tempted by these inducements and don't actually take the surveys seriously?
Also, only 84% of all Americans have "always believed" it was round. We're not much better than the millennials.
The poll results also showed that Flat Earthers were also more likely to consider themselves "very religious" (52%).