I'll have to use it for every install now instead of just once, making sure I use a unique key every time.
Really, how are they going to enforce this? Just for the top 5 pirated cd keys or something? Why should JoeWhoever have to buy their software twice because they were ripped off? Dunno.
They don't have your SSN, which means no matter what they say, they cannot do jack to your credit report.
If you are not sure of this or don't believe, simply go ask for a free copy of your credit report at Experian, Transunion, or whatever the third one was. Just say you're credit was used fraudulently, which they'll put your credit on alert (a good damned thing if you ask me) and send you a free report.
Don't sweat it, they just sound tough but can't do a single thing. If they do have your credit card number or bank number and then charge without your permission, you can get it back, just go to whatever got charged and dispute it.
Really, they can't do a thing, people just give in because it sounds all scary.
What the hell.
The company says they are going to pay you X amount of dollars.
Company pays you X - 100,000,000 dollars.
You get pissed, because you wrote a contract stating how much you would get.
How is he greedy for getting what he signed up for? Is he suing for extra, more than was what promised? No, he wants what they said they've give him.
Does your company say they'll pay you $60K a year, then only give you $10K and say oh well... and you being full of integrity, decide oh well, they can keep it, I don't want to be a greedcock.
I bet MS is just pissed that they didn't think of all these browser innovations first so they could patent them.
If everyone is so worried about having their favorite browser's features ripped off, complain to that group to patent the features. It's how we do things in America it seems.
So yes, patent tabbed browsing, rss feeds, and whatever else, so your browser actually stays unique!! I know we can do it!!
True on many counts, though Manpower professional is contracting company for many different clients.
I don't know their pay, vacation services, or much else. I interviewed with them years ago, but don't remember the HR policies.
I do know that they were not an employee with HP, and were required to work just as much as a regular employee, and very very very very likely that they actually had a contract, thus making them contractors.
Now they want more than what was in their contract.
There essentially should not be any difference between contractors and FTEs. We have about 300 IBM contractors here and they work as hard, or harder, than many FTEs where I work. Should they be clamouring for more from the company they contract with simply because they work just as hard?
The worst part is that this is after the fact? I just find this as a bunch of whining. Apparently contracts are only binding when both parties are happy with them for the rest of existence.
I wonder why other countries aren't asking for restitution from Italy because the Romans killed them and set back their natural evolution (or progressed it unfairly.) I think I have a good lawsuit to file.
1. When you're a contractor, your contracting company is paid a lot for your services, more than a normal employee would be paid.
2. If you want benefits, your contracting company should offer it, and you get it from them.
3. Holy crap, you're hired on at a place and they actually expect you to work? You mean consultants don't get to just sit around all day with their thumbs up their ass, mouth off, and do nothing (which is what I saw when I was a consultant fresh out of college, wondering just wtf was going on in the workforce.)
4. Because they expected you to actually work, now you're suing them?
5. As a contractor, I bet you got overtime.
6. As a contractor, I bet you could call into work whenever you wanted without reason.
7. As a contractor, I bet you tried to do as little work as possible.
8. As a contractor, I bet you got more vacation. Maybe not through Manpower, I don't know their policies, so this might not be true.
9. When I was a consultant, the client paid the company $80 / hour for me. Did I see all of that? Hell no. Go sue your consulting company for the money you lost out on.
This is such a load, it just makes me mad. HP should counter-sue for the contractors' hours that were spent doing jack-shit.
I haven't been there, nor have I played e-scrabble, but is this guy Jared paying for the server, bandwidth, whatever else without making a dime in return? Is there some sort of advertising that is on there to recoup his costs?
How long until this guy has a bunch of people addicted, asks for a few dollars, then starts making money off of Hasbro's game? Why can't I start e-monopoly, e-settler's of catan, or e-crack addicted whore quest and then the company should "pay me" because I did such a job without getting their approval?
They would give out a 100% rebate on anything you bought from them, regardless of what it was. They had this great idea that only a small percentage of items would have the rebate sent in, much like normal rebates.
Of course, they didn't count on the fact that when it's 100% refund, -everyone- will turn it in. They closed shop soon after and tons of people did not get rebates.
Awesome!
Are you a pr0n star or something? What movies have you starred in? Anything I might know, like "Ass Angels 2" perhaps? Man, was that ever a good flick.
Limit one coupon per customer while supplies last, or for the first 300 coupons presented for redemption at each store, whichever is less. Good only at participating continentals U.S. stores.
Consumer may pay applicable tax.... so reading that, if more than 300 people actually redeem this, I'm out? I have to pay tax on it if I try to eat in the place? Of course, they can choose to not participate as well.
I'm going here tonight with my girlfriend for free ice cream. If they don't honor my coupon, I'm kicking them in the jimmy.
You should have slapped that old woman with a grape scented ram-head double dildo. Why grape scented? To cover up the fermaldehyde.
Seriously, I am so sick of hearing rude people and their cell phones - at work, when I'm eating, when I'm in the freaking movie theater... if I could just do something just as rude, as say, slapping them with a double-dong out of spite in public, we'd be even.
Maybe they'd stop then.
Okay, maybe cherry scented would do.
It all depends on the person. I went to DeVry and I was very hirable, and got a lot out of going there. Some of my classmates were complete idiots who after getting their degree in CIS still did not know what a variable was, if-else structure, and so on. They wasted 40K on school for a piece of paper but do not know a thing.
Not much different from any other school I suspect.
They will change any new installs of IE, or upgrades for that matter, to point to the MSN Search page.
Instant exposure, people will be used to going there as a default, and never change due to complacency or ignorance.
I'm not sure they should, would, or could (okay, maybe should and could) but pushing an update to IE that simply sets your homepage for you to MSN search would be quite amusing as well. Heck, lock it out even so you can't change it!
There were many times when I became very infatuated with a video game, daydreaming in school of playing it, of how to beat some level, or what I would try next... but nothing comes close to when I was first introduced to a MUD.
For those that don't know, they're scrolling text based games played with others online, sometimes with a modicum (or more) of role-playing involved. Back when there were not many online games, this was the fo-shizzle.
Being someone who enjoyed table top gaming and loved console RPGs, when I started MUDding in college at the somewhat infamous Moosehead SLED, I was addicted.
It was worse than crack. Worse than heroin. Well, I imagine at least. I was in college, and for the first week I literally would go to computer lab at 8am after breakfast, get a good spot, and sit there until until dinner time playing. Then I'd go to dinner, come back, and play more until about 6am. I might get 2 hours of sleep... maybe. Sometimes less. This went on for a full week. I made it to one class, which I slept at during the whole lecture, then went back to playing. Since I had slept then, I didn't need to sleep as much that night, yay!
Insanity. When I did sleep, it was of scrolling text that I couldn't read, but I knew what it meant. When I closed my eyes, I saw scrolling text. I started relating everything to the game. I started talking with MUD socials (single commands that would do an action response on the game.) I started referring to my backpack as my inventory.
When we had spring break shortly after and I went home for a week, I went through withdrawals so much that I went out and bought a $1200 computer on two different credit cards just so I could get my fix.
I'd turn down going out with friends to play the MUD. I'd try to get out of work as soon as possible to play the MUD. I'd spend my days off, my lunch breaks when I could, and nearly every spare moment to play this game.
My friend was nearly as bad... when he died online against another player, I have seen him shred his hat and a few other items in disgust at dying.
As with most things, you burn yourself out and lose interest... thank goodness.
On a similar note, while in college a friend and I decided to speak with a bad italian accent -all- the time. After a month of this, I started thinking with an italian accent. I started reading (to myself and others) with an italian accent. I had to concentrate to speak without an italian accent. Ack.
Well, they paid me $10/hour cash and I was able to do my college schoolwork while getting paid, and program in my spare time. An investment in pr0n that paid off!
Prime example of scum:
4:00 am in the morning, customer walks in, browses movie boxes in another room. Nothing unusual, men will spend hours picking out porn. 5:30 am, I look at the camera, see the person looking behind him. Suspicious activity, no one looks around unless they are trying to be secretive.
I walk back there quietly, the man is wearing sweat pants with his hand in there, while looking at a movie box with the other hand.
I say, "Excuse me, you're going to have to leave."
His response, "What?"
I then say, "Your hand is in your PANTS. You have to leave." At the time of me saying this, his hand was still there.
He pulls it out, walks into the other room with the mags and such, goes to look at a magazine as I say, "I'm going to call the police unless you leave."
On his way out, he says to me rather angrily, "You shouldn't be looking at guys dicks anyways."
I respond, "Well, maybe you shouldn't be wacking off in the store anyways, get the f*** out."
Apparently he was rather pissed I didn't let him finish up or something.
So... tell me the last time you wacked off in a pr0n store to some boxes. Now that's scum to me.
Seeing as how I used to sell this stuff in mass quantities to some of the lowliest scum on the face of the planet, all I can say is this...
There is no reason for them embrace this new technology until it becomes mainstream and cheap. So few movies make use of the multiple camera angles , and those that do cost $59.99 (retail mind you.) They're the Jenna Jameson or (insert some triple implanted face lifted ugly skank here) movie where she's not even doing another guy, it's all solo vibrator stuff.
If they need to put more content on there, they just put it on another DVD fairly cheaply, then hike the price up a lot. The Fashionistas was some glamourous production, coming on 4 discs. Yes, 4 discs. Just like LotR, 2 discs were movie, 1 was extra crap you'd never watch, and 1 was more extra crap you'd never watch. $79.99 retail. It's about the only movie I've seen use multiple disks for actual content that wasn't just cuts of other movies.
Most movies that are over 60-90 minutes are just a bunch of cuts from other movies, some huge 8 hour montage.
Not to mention bondage, those movies are a total of 30 minutes. That's it.
$29.99 - $39.99 is the selling point price it seems for most profit. Hell, we'd sell movies we bought for $1.50 for $39.99 and people would buy them. Want to make some money? Open an adult bookstore. They raked in about $20K net profit... net... per month.
I highly doubt they'll use the extra capacity to make a longer movie, or even put in extra angles, or much of anything else. They will move to the next gen format only when other people are using it enough to make profitable to them.
Why?
They are already making a lot of money without using next gen discs, without putting in extra content, and without putting in extra angles. All this is fluff that people do not care about, they just want to buy some movie that has a picture of a goat on the front.
Yes, true story... some man wanted to rent a movie that said "Explicit material" on the front and had a picture of a goat. He asked me at least 10 times if they had sex with the goat in it, and each time I assured him it was illegal and there would be no animal sex of any kind in it. After all this, he rents it anyways just to make sure.
f-ing sick. I'll spare you some of the more graphic stories, but let me tell you... nothing makes you more apathetic for humanity that working in a pr0n store for almost three years.
I don't agree with the CEOs driving a company into the ground, walking away will millions, and maybe having to pay back a few bucks but ends up filthy rich for destroying a lot of people.
I also do not agree with the logic of "well, he got rich by stealing, so I can do it too" or "well, he screwed so many people over, so it's okay if I steal some on my behalf."
A tsunami just killed some 120,000+ people, so it must be alright for me to go kill a few people I don't like. I mean, the difference between 120,000 and the 3-4 I'd kill is so vast, it must be okay. Replace tsunami with war, terrorism, 9/11, holocaust, whatever - and that's just what you told me.
You say it is okay to steal from companies because some CEO screwed over a lot of people and got rich off of it.
At first, I was just disgusted at these people who decide to scam the system the best they can and for as much as they can. When I saw they'd be getting 8-whatever years for this, I felt a little better.
Then I see people posting on tips how to do this more efficiently, how they have done it at Home Despot, Best Buy, and so on, and I wonder...
Are these the same people that think downloading movies and music is just fine? How are you justifying this, since every thief I know has some way to justify it.
They charge too much, therefore it is right of you to systematically lower the price via a UPC swap?
You couldn't afford it, therefore it is right of you to systematically lower the price via a UPC swap?
You wouldn't have bought it at such a high price, it is right of you to systematically lower the price via a UPC swap?
So, by stealing an item for a lower price, you're driving up the price of the rest of their inventory. You can now justify their high prices by requiring them to set the prices higher to account for loss, the loss you have created. Nice job.
Everyone has some kind of justification, I bet these criminals had some as well. They did not want to work, found the system easy to exploit, and wanted free money... what better reason is there really? Sure, they are "innocent until proven guilty" I suppose.
I'm not sure if it's the lack of morals, or just the lack of brainpower that causes such things. Self-justification of stealing is still just stealing and it makes me sick.
These things are looking more and more realistic/genuine all of the time. The last I got I opened up the email just to take a look, and the reply to address was "cgi.ebay.com/cgi-bin/"whatever else... it looked so nearly authentic it was scary. Everyone sees the cgi-bin at the ebay page, so having the name cgi.ebay.com was just... yah...
I see why people fall for these, they are just uninformed, thinking someone actually was trying to steal their eBay account and such.
What needs to be done is when you sign up for stuff, you are required to read aloud to a microphone some statement about how the company will never send you emails to verify account information, social security numbers, and so on. It's the only way to guarantee they read it, but perhaps they still wouldn't understand it.
It's just scary. What we need is to make a global law about these things as well... if you are found doing this sort of act, you and your whole immediate family is executed in front of a live TV audience. I bet it'd get higher ratings that Survivor!
Call in to any of the three major credit reporting agencies and put your credit on fraud alert. I believe TransUnion would like you to submit a form in writing with a large amount of verification, but if you do it with either of the other two, they will notify the other agencies of this _and_ they will all send you your credit reports.
The downfall, though not in my mind, any time you apply for a large credit item, the credit agencies will call you to verify information with you.
I put my information on fraud alert long ago. You need to renew it every two years. It will keep anyone from getting credit cards in your name and such. Since my father has my SSN, my mother's maiden name, and my DOB, this comes in handy.
Also, when you get a credit card, put a password on it. Call them and request this, since your mother's maiden name is just too easy to find out.
I went to buy a car recently and experian and transunion both called me to verify it was me getting the car. Maybe a hassle to some, but something I enjoy having done personally. I know no one is going to royally screw me over.
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That game is just that good. It is more than able to hold the Metroid name. I hope Metroid Prime 2 is just as good, as I'll be getting it soon.
I'll have to use it for every install now instead of just once, making sure I use a unique key every time.
Really, how are they going to enforce this? Just for the top 5 pirated cd keys or something? Why should JoeWhoever have to buy their software twice because they were ripped off? Dunno.
They don't have your SSN, which means no matter what they say, they cannot do jack to your credit report.
If you are not sure of this or don't believe, simply go ask for a free copy of your credit report at Experian, Transunion, or whatever the third one was. Just say you're credit was used fraudulently, which they'll put your credit on alert (a good damned thing if you ask me) and send you a free report.
Don't sweat it, they just sound tough but can't do a single thing. If they do have your credit card number or bank number and then charge without your permission, you can get it back, just go to whatever got charged and dispute it.
Really, they can't do a thing, people just give in because it sounds all scary.
What the hell. The company says they are going to pay you X amount of dollars. Company pays you X - 100,000,000 dollars. You get pissed, because you wrote a contract stating how much you would get. How is he greedy for getting what he signed up for? Is he suing for extra, more than was what promised? No, he wants what they said they've give him. Does your company say they'll pay you $60K a year, then only give you $10K and say oh well... and you being full of integrity, decide oh well, they can keep it, I don't want to be a greedcock.
I bet MS is just pissed that they didn't think of all these browser innovations first so they could patent them. If everyone is so worried about having their favorite browser's features ripped off, complain to that group to patent the features. It's how we do things in America it seems. So yes, patent tabbed browsing, rss feeds, and whatever else, so your browser actually stays unique!! I know we can do it!!
I was trying to figure out if A----- meant Asshole or Allison. Hrm.
A laptop larger than a porn star's member... finally. Millions women, many of them midgets, have been waiting for 19 inches.
True on many counts, though Manpower professional is contracting company for many different clients.
I don't know their pay, vacation services, or much else. I interviewed with them years ago, but don't remember the HR policies.
I do know that they were not an employee with HP, and were required to work just as much as a regular employee, and very very very very likely that they actually had a contract, thus making them contractors.
Now they want more than what was in their contract.
There essentially should not be any difference between contractors and FTEs. We have about 300 IBM contractors here and they work as hard, or harder, than many FTEs where I work. Should they be clamouring for more from the company they contract with simply because they work just as hard?
The worst part is that this is after the fact? I just find this as a bunch of whining. Apparently contracts are only binding when both parties are happy with them for the rest of existence.
I wonder why other countries aren't asking for restitution from Italy because the Romans killed them and set back their natural evolution (or progressed it unfairly.) I think I have a good lawsuit to file.
1. When you're a contractor, your contracting company is paid a lot for your services, more than a normal employee would be paid.
2. If you want benefits, your contracting company should offer it, and you get it from them.
3. Holy crap, you're hired on at a place and they actually expect you to work? You mean consultants don't get to just sit around all day with their thumbs up their ass, mouth off, and do nothing (which is what I saw when I was a consultant fresh out of college, wondering just wtf was going on in the workforce.)
4. Because they expected you to actually work, now you're suing them?
5. As a contractor, I bet you got overtime.
6. As a contractor, I bet you could call into work whenever you wanted without reason.
7. As a contractor, I bet you tried to do as little work as possible.
8. As a contractor, I bet you got more vacation. Maybe not through Manpower, I don't know their policies, so this might not be true.
9. When I was a consultant, the client paid the company $80 / hour for me. Did I see all of that? Hell no. Go sue your consulting company for the money you lost out on.
This is such a load, it just makes me mad. HP should counter-sue for the contractors' hours that were spent doing jack-shit.
I haven't been there, nor have I played e-scrabble, but is this guy Jared paying for the server, bandwidth, whatever else without making a dime in return? Is there some sort of advertising that is on there to recoup his costs?
How long until this guy has a bunch of people addicted, asks for a few dollars, then starts making money off of Hasbro's game? Why can't I start e-monopoly, e-settler's of catan, or e-crack addicted whore quest and then the company should "pay me" because I did such a job without getting their approval?
Jared should pay Hasbro.
They would give out a 100% rebate on anything you bought from them, regardless of what it was. They had this great idea that only a small percentage of items would have the rebate sent in, much like normal rebates. Of course, they didn't count on the fact that when it's 100% refund, -everyone- will turn it in. They closed shop soon after and tons of people did not get rebates. Awesome!
Are you a pr0n star or something? What movies have you starred in? Anything I might know, like "Ass Angels 2" perhaps? Man, was that ever a good flick.
Give me the physical address. I'll drive there, or just employ someone, to take a sledge hammer to it. It will then be completely broken.
Limit one coupon per customer while supplies last, or for the first 300 coupons presented for redemption at each store, whichever is less. Good only at participating continentals U.S. stores.
... so reading that, if more than 300 people actually redeem this, I'm out? I have to pay tax on it if I try to eat in the place? Of course, they can choose to not participate as well.
Consumer may pay applicable tax.
I'm going here tonight with my girlfriend for free ice cream. If they don't honor my coupon, I'm kicking them in the jimmy.
You should have slapped that old woman with a grape scented ram-head double dildo. Why grape scented? To cover up the fermaldehyde. Seriously, I am so sick of hearing rude people and their cell phones - at work, when I'm eating, when I'm in the freaking movie theater... if I could just do something just as rude, as say, slapping them with a double-dong out of spite in public, we'd be even. Maybe they'd stop then. Okay, maybe cherry scented would do.
It all depends on the person. I went to DeVry and I was very hirable, and got a lot out of going there. Some of my classmates were complete idiots who after getting their degree in CIS still did not know what a variable was, if-else structure, and so on. They wasted 40K on school for a piece of paper but do not know a thing. Not much different from any other school I suspect.
They will change any new installs of IE, or upgrades for that matter, to point to the MSN Search page.
Instant exposure, people will be used to going there as a default, and never change due to complacency or ignorance.
I'm not sure they should, would, or could (okay, maybe should and could) but pushing an update to IE that simply sets your homepage for you to MSN search would be quite amusing as well. Heck, lock it out even so you can't change it!
There were many times when I became very infatuated with a video game, daydreaming in school of playing it, of how to beat some level, or what I would try next... but nothing comes close to when I was first introduced to a MUD.
For those that don't know, they're scrolling text based games played with others online, sometimes with a modicum (or more) of role-playing involved. Back when there were not many online games, this was the fo-shizzle.
Being someone who enjoyed table top gaming and loved console RPGs, when I started MUDding in college at the somewhat infamous Moosehead SLED, I was addicted.
It was worse than crack. Worse than heroin. Well, I imagine at least. I was in college, and for the first week I literally would go to computer lab at 8am after breakfast, get a good spot, and sit there until until dinner time playing. Then I'd go to dinner, come back, and play more until about 6am. I might get 2 hours of sleep... maybe. Sometimes less. This went on for a full week. I made it to one class, which I slept at during the whole lecture, then went back to playing. Since I had slept then, I didn't need to sleep as much that night, yay!
Insanity. When I did sleep, it was of scrolling text that I couldn't read, but I knew what it meant. When I closed my eyes, I saw scrolling text. I started relating everything to the game. I started talking with MUD socials (single commands that would do an action response on the game.) I started referring to my backpack as my inventory.
When we had spring break shortly after and I went home for a week, I went through withdrawals so much that I went out and bought a $1200 computer on two different credit cards just so I could get my fix.
I'd turn down going out with friends to play the MUD. I'd try to get out of work as soon as possible to play the MUD. I'd spend my days off, my lunch breaks when I could, and nearly every spare moment to play this game.
My friend was nearly as bad... when he died online against another player, I have seen him shred his hat and a few other items in disgust at dying.
As with most things, you burn yourself out and lose interest... thank goodness.
On a similar note, while in college a friend and I decided to speak with a bad italian accent -all- the time. After a month of this, I started thinking with an italian accent. I started reading (to myself and others) with an italian accent. I had to concentrate to speak without an italian accent. Ack.
Well, they paid me $10/hour cash and I was able to do my college schoolwork while getting paid, and program in my spare time. An investment in pr0n that paid off!
Prime example of scum:
4:00 am in the morning, customer walks in, browses movie boxes in another room. Nothing unusual, men will spend hours picking out porn. 5:30 am, I look at the camera, see the person looking behind him. Suspicious activity, no one looks around unless they are trying to be secretive.
I walk back there quietly, the man is wearing sweat pants with his hand in there, while looking at a movie box with the other hand.
I say, "Excuse me, you're going to have to leave."
His response, "What?"
I then say, "Your hand is in your PANTS. You have to leave." At the time of me saying this, his hand was still there.
He pulls it out, walks into the other room with the mags and such, goes to look at a magazine as I say, "I'm going to call the police unless you leave."
On his way out, he says to me rather angrily, "You shouldn't be looking at guys dicks anyways."
I respond, "Well, maybe you shouldn't be wacking off in the store anyways, get the f*** out."
Apparently he was rather pissed I didn't let him finish up or something.
So... tell me the last time you wacked off in a pr0n store to some boxes. Now that's scum to me.
Seeing as how I used to sell this stuff in mass quantities to some of the lowliest scum on the face of the planet, all I can say is this...
There is no reason for them embrace this new technology until it becomes mainstream and cheap. So few movies make use of the multiple camera angles , and those that do cost $59.99 (retail mind you.) They're the Jenna Jameson or (insert some triple implanted face lifted ugly skank here) movie where she's not even doing another guy, it's all solo vibrator stuff.
If they need to put more content on there, they just put it on another DVD fairly cheaply, then hike the price up a lot. The Fashionistas was some glamourous production, coming on 4 discs. Yes, 4 discs. Just like LotR, 2 discs were movie, 1 was extra crap you'd never watch, and 1 was more extra crap you'd never watch. $79.99 retail. It's about the only movie I've seen use multiple disks for actual content that wasn't just cuts of other movies.
Most movies that are over 60-90 minutes are just a bunch of cuts from other movies, some huge 8 hour montage.
Not to mention bondage, those movies are a total of 30 minutes. That's it.
$29.99 - $39.99 is the selling point price it seems for most profit. Hell, we'd sell movies we bought for $1.50 for $39.99 and people would buy them. Want to make some money? Open an adult bookstore. They raked in about $20K net profit... net... per month.
I highly doubt they'll use the extra capacity to make a longer movie, or even put in extra angles, or much of anything else. They will move to the next gen format only when other people are using it enough to make profitable to them.
Why?
They are already making a lot of money without using next gen discs, without putting in extra content, and without putting in extra angles. All this is fluff that people do not care about, they just want to buy some movie that has a picture of a goat on the front.
Yes, true story... some man wanted to rent a movie that said "Explicit material" on the front and had a picture of a goat. He asked me at least 10 times if they had sex with the goat in it, and each time I assured him it was illegal and there would be no animal sex of any kind in it. After all this, he rents it anyways just to make sure.
f-ing sick. I'll spare you some of the more graphic stories, but let me tell you... nothing makes you more apathetic for humanity that working in a pr0n store for almost three years.
I'd have to agree that they aren't concerned with justice, or just not caring.
Greed is the overall motivating factor in humanity, and I see it more and more every day.
I don't agree with the CEOs driving a company into the ground, walking away will millions, and maybe having to pay back a few bucks but ends up filthy rich for destroying a lot of people.
I also do not agree with the logic of "well, he got rich by stealing, so I can do it too" or "well, he screwed so many people over, so it's okay if I steal some on my behalf."
A tsunami just killed some 120,000+ people, so it must be alright for me to go kill a few people I don't like. I mean, the difference between 120,000 and the 3-4 I'd kill is so vast, it must be okay. Replace tsunami with war, terrorism, 9/11, holocaust, whatever - and that's just what you told me.
You say it is okay to steal from companies because some CEO screwed over a lot of people and got rich off of it.
I don't agree.
At first, I was just disgusted at these people who decide to scam the system the best they can and for as much as they can. When I saw they'd be getting 8-whatever years for this, I felt a little better.
Then I see people posting on tips how to do this more efficiently, how they have done it at Home Despot, Best Buy, and so on, and I wonder...
Are these the same people that think downloading movies and music is just fine? How are you justifying this, since every thief I know has some way to justify it.
They charge too much, therefore it is right of you to systematically lower the price via a UPC swap?
You couldn't afford it, therefore it is right of you to systematically lower the price via a UPC swap?
You wouldn't have bought it at such a high price, it is right of you to systematically lower the price via a UPC swap?
So, by stealing an item for a lower price, you're driving up the price of the rest of their inventory. You can now justify their high prices by requiring them to set the prices higher to account for loss, the loss you have created. Nice job.
Everyone has some kind of justification, I bet these criminals had some as well. They did not want to work, found the system easy to exploit, and wanted free money... what better reason is there really? Sure, they are "innocent until proven guilty" I suppose.
I'm not sure if it's the lack of morals, or just the lack of brainpower that causes such things. Self-justification of stealing is still just stealing and it makes me sick.
These things are looking more and more realistic/genuine all of the time. The last I got I opened up the email just to take a look, and the reply to address was "cgi.ebay.com/cgi-bin/"whatever else... it looked so nearly authentic it was scary. Everyone sees the cgi-bin at the ebay page, so having the name cgi.ebay.com was just... yah... I see why people fall for these, they are just uninformed, thinking someone actually was trying to steal their eBay account and such. What needs to be done is when you sign up for stuff, you are required to read aloud to a microphone some statement about how the company will never send you emails to verify account information, social security numbers, and so on. It's the only way to guarantee they read it, but perhaps they still wouldn't understand it. It's just scary. What we need is to make a global law about these things as well... if you are found doing this sort of act, you and your whole immediate family is executed in front of a live TV audience. I bet it'd get higher ratings that Survivor!
The downfall, though not in my mind, any time you apply for a large credit item, the credit agencies will call you to verify information with you.
I put my information on fraud alert long ago. You need to renew it every two years. It will keep anyone from getting credit cards in your name and such. Since my father has my SSN, my mother's maiden name, and my DOB, this comes in handy.
Also, when you get a credit card, put a password on it. Call them and request this, since your mother's maiden name is just too easy to find out.
http://www.bankrate.com/brm/green/cc/crdt2e.asp has all the numbers you should need.
I went to buy a car recently and experian and transunion both called me to verify it was me getting the car. Maybe a hassle to some, but something I enjoy having done personally. I know no one is going to royally screw me over.