I can steal and kill to my hearts content and as long as I don't get caught my targets have only themselves to blame for being in the wrong place at the wrong time
I'm not sure how you take "we are responsible for our actions" and translate that into "I can steal and kill to my heart's content" - also not sure about why you're bringing the killing of European Jews into it.
Please show me the steps you've taken to go from my point to yours as I'm so not following you:)
Nice reply - very true and good points. Thanks for the clarifications - I grok it better now:)
As to being shit on - yup - been there too. Gone through some of the forms of "escape" and found that, no matter where you go, there you are. Currently pulling myself out of yet another hole and getting on with it again. Will let you know if it's true about "Third time lucky":)
One of my favourite sayings at the moment is "You've never really tried until you've been bankrupt at least once.":)
A person I know got totally hooked on heroin and wound up getting sent to a clinic (in Mexico, from memory) to straighten out. After returning, their system was cleared of heroin and, further more, had been drugged up to prevent their body from processing opiates. Basically, opiates just go straight on through the body - so long as they keep taking their booster pills, they can't get off on heroin/opiates.
Guess what - it wasn't the heroin that was the root cause of the problem. It was the fact that this person didn't like their life, couldn't handle reality and wanted to escape it all.
Guess what - the booster pills don't block Special K.
Guess what - a few months later, this person is whacked out on Special K all the time, stops taking the boosters and, a few months after that, is back on heroin again.
All the "blocking" in the world doesn't mean shit when the root cause of the problem is how a person handles "reality." When I hear of these things, I think of my friend's story - I wonder what'll happen to the suicide rates if they find some way of totally blocking addicts to everything (heroin, Special K, coke, LSD, speed, E, etc etc etc) - when "reality" is the problem and they can't "escape" temporarily, how many will choose the permanent solution?
The collapse of a democratic nation begins with the abdication of responsibility. All this "Society is to blame" crap is just so much bullshit.
Every single person is responsible for where they are. Yes, shit happens. Yes, bad luck happens. Yes, there's the lure of "escape" (be it drugs, booze, sex, religion, movies, role playing, slashdot, whatever). Next thing you know, it's too hard to get up in the morning. You can't face life without a bong hit. Everything's out to get you. Why vote - it makes no difference. You're calling in the cops to discipline your child. It's never your fault.
But get this straight right now. Society is NEVER to blame. People are to blame. People who take the easy way out and don't take responsibility for where they're at.
Remember - shit doesn't just "happen" - it comes from assholes:)
(rant mode off - sorta:)
Sorry mate - not meaning to dump on you specifically - I just really hate that "Society is to blame" way of avoiding responsibility.
but your country gets precisely the president it deserves
Which explains why Australia has John Howard as Prime Minister - too many Australians can't be stuffed to stop and think...
In the timeline of Ancient Rome, your country is firmly in the Byzantine era of decadence, apathy, and corruption
Which is why the western world is well and truely in the grip of "Bread and Circuses" (relatively cheap eats/drinks and 'Reality TV' shows:)
As Rome had its so called Barbarians (the Goths, etc), the ones who will rise after the empire of the USA falls will probably be the Indians and the Chinese.
Hmmm - lesseenow - "Nightly Business Report" says the Internet's effect on politics is pretty minimal. OK. And Mass Media Network Broadcasting is the winning stragegy, huh?
Now, is "Nightly Business Report" a web page or a show on a Mass Media Network Broadcasting system.
Oh - gee - really? Now, how does *that* flavour/slant the reporting?:)
One thing I've learned to do over time - always check the bias of the reporter and/or owner of the medium (eg: who owns the newspaper and how do they lean, what's the "lean" of the paper in general, etc). It's interesting reading through a copy of The Australian Financial Review and seeing how it paints the two major parties - what kind of reports is it showing - what's the general tone. Seems that at the moment they like the incumbent and not the other guy (well, that's what comes through based on the stories being reported).
Keep that in mind whenever you read/watch/listen to stuff on TV, radio, newspapers, books, the web (especially the web!:)
Thank you for your email indicating that I was targeted for execution which could be prevented by the deposit of US$40k to your bank account. Please be advised that we have traced the account and for the princely sum of US$5k have hired a group of African hitmen who are happy to take out your entire organisation and the officials of the bank you mentioned.
Perhaps you can consider the folly of charging First World Rates when perfectly competant professionals are available at Third World rates. These professionals can not only do the same work as you at a lower rate, they can also ensure that you and your organisation are removed from future bidding. In Western cultures it's usually referred to as "Outsourcing" and if it can work for IT, it can work for assassinations too.
We look forward to doing business with you in future lives...
If one was particularly clever, they could build the device as an attachment to a device like an ipaq or an ipod, allowing it to be used inconspicuously.
Hmmmm - interesting - iPaq and iPod = inconspicuous at a bar/club, huh?
More like "Hey, lookit da dork!"
Perhaps if it was in a "smart phone" then you'd attract less attention ("Oh, they're just sending messages...":)
Yeah, I'm a Kiwi and I found it rather amusing that while bouncing around the place (some years ago) I could go to the USA for 90 days or France for 30 days without a tourist visa. All the while, my poor Aussie friends had to have their visas all sorted out in advance, got hassled at various points, etc.
And to think, Australia was always bent over with cheeks spread for their mates the yanks while the Kiwi's said "No Nuke Ships" and (in true Mouse that Roared fashion) gave the bird to the USA.
I kept telling the Aussie guys that their country just had to learn how to stand up to the USA and they too could travel without hassles:)
Maybe it's my browser but I got kinda disappointed with the first quiz - it keeps saying "Wrong, no selection made." on each of the checkbox responses - no matter which ones I check.
I couldn't imagine JPL putting up a web quiz that didn't work - I mean, that'd be like having different modules in a probe using different units of measurement.... oh, yeah, oops...:)
I was DJ'ing at two different parties here on New Year's Day (from about 3am to 6am and around 10am to 1pm at the next). In both cases they were showing hardcore porn continuously on the various video screens around the place.
Could just be an indication of the types of parties I spin at, but it sure seemed to help people get into the swing of things....:)
Check out the bags from Crumpler - they're from Australia but they have stores all around the world. Simply the best bags you can get.
They started off doing bags for bicycle couriers and developed from there. Very strong, very well designed, pockets for everything and no dirty great "Hey, I've got a laptop in here so steal me!" logos and designs.
I have been using their "Crisp Suit" bag (look in the computer bags section) for over a year, including four weeks using it to carry two (yes, TWO) laptops around Asia while working in Korea, Thailand and Japan. The bag goes with me whenever I carry my laptop (read: almost every day) and I'm still in love with it.
Definitely worth finding the nearest Crumpler store / distributor and picking one up.
Watch for the abuse and you find the spammers' IPs
Yup - a machine I've recently become admin for started to receive a significant increase of incoming traffic (without a massive increase in outgoing traffic). It was also starting to slow down, misbehave, etc.
I was able to monitor it during one such session and found that DNS was being raped by three machines from an ISP in the US. They were using our DNS to obtain the MX records for shitloads of domains, not just ones this machine hosts. I gathered a bit of evidence and emailed abuse@ the ISP in question.
With the help of our colo hosting providers, I had the offending IPs blocked. I then changed our DNS config to limit the number of connections it'd try to process and to refuse lookups for any domain not hosted on that machine. Go find someone else's baby to rape, you bastards!:)
The best bit was when the ISP responded to my email and advised that I had tipped them off to a spammer that was using open proxies to send spam. They had no idea the bastards were there because they don't monitor what people do with their links. So, due to violation of the ISP's AUP, the spammer had their link terminated immediately, without refund of their "paid in advance" account.
Small moment of satisfaction but I doubt it stopped the spammer (unless the money they lost due to termination of their "paid in advance" account wiped out any money they might make from spamming:)
Actually, a thingy that synch's my inner-ear to the motions I'm experiencing in VR-world would be ACE. I get full on motion sickness after playing VR flight simulator for more than 30 minutes or so. Very annoying as it's the best I ever fly on a computer.
I remember a NASA tech saying that the whole puking thing went like this:
1. Wwwwaaayyyy back on the savannas, if your eyes said you were rolling around but your inner said you were straight up, odds were that you'd eaten something nasty - brain sends signal to stomach to void, thus increasing your odds of surviving the poisoning.
2. Cue to now - either via VR games or through a weightless environment, your inner ear says "Nope, you're static" but your eyes/ears say "You're moving" - guess what - back to the good ol' days and puke-a-rama.
He had an interesting side note - when the shuttle first started taking scientists, they were hurling. They practically couldn't work. The astronauts were fine - everyone figured it was all that pilot training, etc. Nope - turned out the astronauts had been hurling back in the early days too - just not telling anyone:)
Damn, I read books/magazines/newspapers/reports while I'm driving to work in the rush hour crap. No shit - prop the material up on the steering wheel so you can see when the cars move in the periphery of your vision, then read until they move. As they move, stop reading, move, stop, start reading again...
No wonder I try to avoid rush hour like the plague (unless I have something I just have to read....:)
1. As already mentioned, the C-64 "Impossible Mission" ("Destroy him, my robots" is indelibly imprinted on my mind, even after almost 20 years).
2. The theme from Moon Patrol and the sound your buggy makes as it dies horribly again and again and again (didn't say I was good at it, did I:)
3. As already mentioned, Gauntlet - loved those sound bytes ("Elf needs drugs, badly")
4. Quake II (I think) with the cries of the captured soldiers when you hit the prison/research cells ("Kill me now..." amongst others)
5. Ridge Racer (the original arcarde version) - the remixes helped you drive and I swear I can still hear that guy saying "Hey, there's someone right on your tail" or "Hang in there, it's the final lap" as I'm zapping about the place in my car (could explain a LOT about how I drive, come to think about it.....:)
While playing a LAN game, I snorted coke up my nose the first time my Protoss Carrier Captain complained at me:
Dude, you gotta learn to stop the game for a bit if you're going to rack up. It's a good thing you were still able to control your surprise and snort, otherwise you would have blown powder everywhere!!!!:)
We started getting hammered by that one around Midnight local time (Australian Eastern Standard Time). Blocked the IP address but guess what, it was still trying around noon the next day.
The other instances we've seen so far are all from US.edu sites. Gee, gotta love those promiscuous universities, hey?:)
I was just reading Simson Garfinkel's column in MIT Technology Review's June 2003 edition where he points out that if computers can't figure it out, farm it off to people - they can.
All these "obfuscated words/sounds" solutions are geared around a pair of concepts:
1. Spammers use computer automated systems to sign up for accounts.
2. These solutions are near impossible for computers to figure out.
It's all for nothing if the spammers set up sweat shop slave labor in countries where someone can be "hired" for US$0.50c per day. Just have them do it.
One of his best ones was the concept of having a "Free Porn" service where every (x) minutes you have to answer one of the obfuscated word thingos. Of course, it's one that's been generated by HotMail and then forwarded to the porn-viewer. Bang - don't even need a sweat shop - just rely on all the people who want free access to good porn on the 'net...
Garfinkel raises a really important issue here. All this crap just fails if you consider that there's a cheap human solution. He also notes that it's becoming *really* offensive to many to have to prove that they're a human...
Food for thought gang - all too often are technological barriers easily thwarted by cheap human solutions (if you've ever worked somewhere where labour is dirt cheap, the last thing you consider/promote is "reducing your head count" when selling computer systems:)
but a first start is calling the use of any un-approved ( i.e. , no governmental backdoor key ) encryption cause for the use to be investigated under the patriot act..
Great, so we arrange for as many people as possible to encrypt everything they do (yes, I know, some of us are already trying this) using no-backdoor encryption systems. Flood the bastards with too much shit so the "real" stuff gets through under the radar.
Then, if they make it illegal, organise civil disobedience and flood them with offenders. This last bit could take a frak of a lot of effort as most people in the western world are content to be fat, dopey sheep with their "bread & circuses" (cheap food, cigs, booze & sports/reality TV).
Still, like the ol' "Cocaine Couriers" (from Illuminati, no?) - after a while, the cops stop searching the trucks 'cos they're always empty or have nothing naughty in them - that's when you put the cocaine in them:)
I'm sure if I wore a big cloak and walked down the street, the police would be nervous of 'what I'm hiding under there' and might be so inclined to ask me about it.
Most people are scared shitless of asking me what I'm hiding under my cloak/clothes - most have to do a SAN check at the meer thought of seeing me without clothing!:)
Slashdot Mirror
Excellent - thanks for this one - I'd forgotten about it (yes, been off discussion boards/usenet/mailing lists for a while now :)
:)
Does this count as some sort of record for time taken to reach the end point?
Thanks for the laugh
I can steal and kill to my hearts content and as long as I don't get caught my targets have only themselves to blame for being in the wrong place at the wrong time
:)
I'm not sure how you take "we are responsible for our actions" and translate that into "I can steal and kill to my heart's content" - also not sure about why you're bringing the killing of European Jews into it.
Please show me the steps you've taken to go from my point to yours as I'm so not following you
Hey John,
:)
:)
:)
Nice reply - very true and good points. Thanks for the clarifications - I grok it better now
As to being shit on - yup - been there too. Gone through some of the forms of "escape" and found that, no matter where you go, there you are. Currently pulling myself out of yet another hole and getting on with it again. Will let you know if it's true about "Third time lucky"
One of my favourite sayings at the moment is "You've never really tried until you've been bankrupt at least once."
A person I know got totally hooked on heroin and wound up getting sent to a clinic (in Mexico, from memory) to straighten out. After returning, their system was cleared of heroin and, further more, had been drugged up to prevent their body from processing opiates. Basically, opiates just go straight on through the body - so long as they keep taking their booster pills, they can't get off on heroin/opiates.
Guess what - it wasn't the heroin that was the root cause of the problem. It was the fact that this person didn't like their life, couldn't handle reality and wanted to escape it all.
Guess what - the booster pills don't block Special K.
Guess what - a few months later, this person is whacked out on Special K all the time, stops taking the boosters and, a few months after that, is back on heroin again.
All the "blocking" in the world doesn't mean shit when the root cause of the problem is how a person handles "reality." When I hear of these things, I think of my friend's story - I wonder what'll happen to the suicide rates if they find some way of totally blocking addicts to everything (heroin, Special K, coke, LSD, speed, E, etc etc etc) - when "reality" is the problem and they can't "escape" temporarily, how many will choose the permanent solution?
I blame society.
:)
:)
Please, tell me you're joking!
(rant mode on)
The collapse of a democratic nation begins with the abdication of responsibility. All this "Society is to blame" crap is just so much bullshit.
Every single person is responsible for where they are. Yes, shit happens. Yes, bad luck happens. Yes, there's the lure of "escape" (be it drugs, booze, sex, religion, movies, role playing, slashdot, whatever). Next thing you know, it's too hard to get up in the morning. You can't face life without a bong hit. Everything's out to get you. Why vote - it makes no difference. You're calling in the cops to discipline your child. It's never your fault.
But get this straight right now. Society is NEVER to blame. People are to blame. People who take the easy way out and don't take responsibility for where they're at.
Remember - shit doesn't just "happen" - it comes from assholes
(rant mode off - sorta
Sorry mate - not meaning to dump on you specifically - I just really hate that "Society is to blame" way of avoiding responsibility.
but your country gets precisely the president it deserves
:)
Which explains why Australia has John Howard as Prime Minister - too many Australians can't be stuffed to stop and think...
In the timeline of Ancient Rome, your country is firmly in the Byzantine era of decadence, apathy, and corruption
Which is why the western world is well and truely in the grip of "Bread and Circuses" (relatively cheap eats/drinks and 'Reality TV' shows
As Rome had its so called Barbarians (the Goths, etc), the ones who will rise after the empire of the USA falls will probably be the Indians and the Chinese.
Hmmm - lesseenow - "Nightly Business Report" says the Internet's effect on politics is pretty minimal. OK. And Mass Media Network Broadcasting is the winning stragegy, huh?
:)
:)
Now, is "Nightly Business Report" a web page or a show on a Mass Media Network Broadcasting system.
Oh - gee - really? Now, how does *that* flavour/slant the reporting?
One thing I've learned to do over time - always check the bias of the reporter and/or owner of the medium (eg: who owns the newspaper and how do they lean, what's the "lean" of the paper in general, etc). It's interesting reading through a copy of The Australian Financial Review and seeing how it paints the two major parties - what kind of reports is it showing - what's the general tone. Seems that at the moment they like the incumbent and not the other guy (well, that's what comes through based on the stories being reported).
Keep that in mind whenever you read/watch/listen to stuff on TV, radio, newspapers, books, the web (especially the web!
Dear Sir,
Thank you for your email indicating that I was targeted for execution which could be prevented by the deposit of US$40k to your bank account. Please be advised that we have traced the account and for the princely sum of US$5k have hired a group of African hitmen who are happy to take out your entire organisation and the officials of the bank you mentioned.
Perhaps you can consider the folly of charging First World Rates when perfectly competant professionals are available at Third World rates. These professionals can not only do the same work as you at a lower rate, they can also ensure that you and your organisation are removed from future bidding. In Western cultures it's usually referred to as "Outsourcing" and if it can work for IT, it can work for assassinations too.
We look forward to doing business with you in future lives...
Regards,
xyz
If one was particularly clever, they could build the device as an attachment to a device like an ipaq or an ipod, allowing it to be used inconspicuously.
:)
Hmmmm - interesting - iPaq and iPod = inconspicuous at a bar/club, huh?
More like "Hey, lookit da dork!"
Perhaps if it was in a "smart phone" then you'd attract less attention ("Oh, they're just sending messages..."
Yeah, I'm a Kiwi and I found it rather amusing that while bouncing around the place (some years ago) I could go to the USA for 90 days or France for 30 days without a tourist visa. All the while, my poor Aussie friends had to have their visas all sorted out in advance, got hassled at various points, etc.
:)
And to think, Australia was always bent over with cheeks spread for their mates the yanks while the Kiwi's said "No Nuke Ships" and (in true Mouse that Roared fashion) gave the bird to the USA.
I kept telling the Aussie guys that their country just had to learn how to stand up to the USA and they too could travel without hassles
At $1000 per setup, thay'd only have to catch 2 cards to get their money back. After that, the rest is profit.
:)
Yeah, right - if the cards are linked to accounts like mine, they'd need about 100 accounts to get their money back!
Don't forget to also think of a different number while your hand is typing in the correct one, just in case they're using mind-reading systems!
Maybe it's my browser but I got kinda disappointed with the first quiz - it keeps saying "Wrong, no selection made." on each of the checkbox responses - no matter which ones I check.
:)
I couldn't imagine JPL putting up a web quiz that didn't work - I mean, that'd be like having different modules in a probe using different units of measurement.... oh, yeah, oops...
I was DJ'ing at two different parties here on New Year's Day (from about 3am to 6am and around 10am to 1pm at the next). In both cases they were showing hardcore porn continuously on the various video screens around the place.
:)
Could just be an indication of the types of parties I spin at, but it sure seemed to help people get into the swing of things....
Check out the bags from Crumpler - they're from Australia but they have stores all around the world. Simply the best bags you can get.
They started off doing bags for bicycle couriers and developed from there. Very strong, very well designed, pockets for everything and no dirty great "Hey, I've got a laptop in here so steal me!" logos and designs.
I have been using their "Crisp Suit" bag (look in the computer bags section) for over a year, including four weeks using it to carry two (yes, TWO) laptops around Asia while working in Korea, Thailand and Japan. The bag goes with me whenever I carry my laptop (read: almost every day) and I'm still in love with it.
Definitely worth finding the nearest Crumpler store / distributor and picking one up.
Watch for the abuse and you find the spammers' IPs
:)
:)
Yup - a machine I've recently become admin for started to receive a significant increase of incoming traffic (without a massive increase in outgoing traffic). It was also starting to slow down, misbehave, etc.
I was able to monitor it during one such session and found that DNS was being raped by three machines from an ISP in the US. They were using our DNS to obtain the MX records for shitloads of domains, not just ones this machine hosts. I gathered a bit of evidence and emailed abuse@ the ISP in question.
With the help of our colo hosting providers, I had the offending IPs blocked. I then changed our DNS config to limit the number of connections it'd try to process and to refuse lookups for any domain not hosted on that machine. Go find someone else's baby to rape, you bastards!
The best bit was when the ISP responded to my email and advised that I had tipped them off to a spammer that was using open proxies to send spam. They had no idea the bastards were there because they don't monitor what people do with their links. So, due to violation of the ISP's AUP, the spammer had their link terminated immediately, without refund of their "paid in advance" account.
Small moment of satisfaction but I doubt it stopped the spammer (unless the money they lost due to termination of their "paid in advance" account wiped out any money they might make from spamming
Actually, a thingy that synch's my inner-ear to the motions I'm experiencing in VR-world would be ACE. I get full on motion sickness after playing VR flight simulator for more than 30 minutes or so. Very annoying as it's the best I ever fly on a computer.
:)
I remember a NASA tech saying that the whole puking thing went like this:
1. Wwwwaaayyyy back on the savannas, if your eyes said you were rolling around but your inner said you were straight up, odds were that you'd eaten something nasty - brain sends signal to stomach to void, thus increasing your odds of surviving the poisoning.
2. Cue to now - either via VR games or through a weightless environment, your inner ear says "Nope, you're static" but your eyes/ears say "You're moving" - guess what - back to the good ol' days and puke-a-rama.
He had an interesting side note - when the shuttle first started taking scientists, they were hurling. They practically couldn't work. The astronauts were fine - everyone figured it was all that pilot training, etc. Nope - turned out the astronauts had been hurling back in the early days too - just not telling anyone
Damn, I read books/magazines/newspapers/reports while I'm driving to work in the rush hour crap. No shit - prop the material up on the steering wheel so you can see when the cars move in the periphery of your vision, then read until they move. As they move, stop reading, move, stop, start reading again...
:)
No wonder I try to avoid rush hour like the plague (unless I have something I just have to read....
In no certain order:
:)
:)
1. As already mentioned, the C-64 "Impossible Mission" ("Destroy him, my robots" is indelibly imprinted on my mind, even after almost 20 years).
2. The theme from Moon Patrol and the sound your buggy makes as it dies horribly again and again and again (didn't say I was good at it, did I
3. As already mentioned, Gauntlet - loved those sound bytes ("Elf needs drugs, badly")
4. Quake II (I think) with the cries of the captured soldiers when you hit the prison/research cells ("Kill me now..." amongst others)
5. Ridge Racer (the original arcarde version) - the remixes helped you drive and I swear I can still hear that guy saying "Hey, there's someone right on your tail" or "Hang in there, it's the final lap" as I'm zapping about the place in my car (could explain a LOT about how I drive, come to think about it.....
While playing a LAN game, I snorted coke up my nose the first time my Protoss Carrier Captain complained at me:
:)
Dude, you gotta learn to stop the game for a bit if you're going to rack up. It's a good thing you were still able to control your surprise and snort, otherwise you would have blown powder everywhere!!!!
Yeah, we got most of ours from one in Albany...
.edu sites. Gee, gotta love those promiscuous universities, hey? :)
We started getting hammered by that one around Midnight local time (Australian Eastern Standard Time). Blocked the IP address but guess what, it was still trying around noon the next day.
The other instances we've seen so far are all from US
I was just reading Simson Garfinkel's column in MIT Technology Review's June 2003 edition where he points out that if computers can't figure it out, farm it off to people - they can.
:)
All these "obfuscated words/sounds" solutions are geared around a pair of concepts:
1. Spammers use computer automated systems to sign up for accounts.
2. These solutions are near impossible for computers to figure out.
It's all for nothing if the spammers set up sweat shop slave labor in countries where someone can be "hired" for US$0.50c per day. Just have them do it.
One of his best ones was the concept of having a "Free Porn" service where every (x) minutes you have to answer one of the obfuscated word thingos. Of course, it's one that's been generated by HotMail and then forwarded to the porn-viewer. Bang - don't even need a sweat shop - just rely on all the people who want free access to good porn on the 'net...
Garfinkel raises a really important issue here. All this crap just fails if you consider that there's a cheap human solution. He also notes that it's becoming *really* offensive to many to have to prove that they're a human...
Food for thought gang - all too often are technological barriers easily thwarted by cheap human solutions (if you've ever worked somewhere where labour is dirt cheap, the last thing you consider/promote is "reducing your head count" when selling computer systems
but a first start is calling the use of any un-approved ( i.e. , no governmental backdoor key ) encryption cause for the use to be investigated under the patriot act..
:)
Great, so we arrange for as many people as possible to encrypt everything they do (yes, I know, some of us are already trying this) using no-backdoor encryption systems. Flood the bastards with too much shit so the "real" stuff gets through under the radar.
Then, if they make it illegal, organise civil disobedience and flood them with offenders. This last bit could take a frak of a lot of effort as most people in the western world are content to be fat, dopey sheep with their "bread & circuses" (cheap food, cigs, booze & sports/reality TV).
Still, like the ol' "Cocaine Couriers" (from Illuminati, no?) - after a while, the cops stop searching the trucks 'cos they're always empty or have nothing naughty in them - that's when you put the cocaine in them
I'm sure if I wore a big cloak and walked down the street, the police would be nervous of 'what I'm hiding under there' and might be so inclined to ask me about it.
:)
Most people are scared shitless of asking me what I'm hiding under my cloak/clothes - most have to do a SAN check at the meer thought of seeing me without clothing!
Hell, I've used my credit card on the 'net, over the phone and in person around Australia, Asia and South America. Never had a problem.
:)
Of course, the fact that my card was almost perpetually over the limit *may* have had something to do with it