Criminals do not go to that type of effort. It defeats the entire point of being a criminal. To be a criminal is to suffer poor impulse control and to not be a big fan of working.
Most criminals aren't going to break into the Louvre and steal the Mona Lisa. Is it feasible to try? Sure. But, it isn't in the nature of crime to do so. Why? The who point of crime is that a lazy person or a person with poor impulse control can realize high marginal value by doing something illegal. The marginal value of planning out some super-caper is much lower than just going out and knocking the shit out of a dude and taking his wallet.
Even online crime tends to go after low-hanging fruit, such as spam, botnets, SQL-injection, etc. Why? Because the marginal value of hitting easy tagets for easy money is better than tracking down the actual victim and matching their spending habits to avoid detection for ever so slightly longer.
The actual marginal value in avoiding detection is not much, considering the victim will eventually check their credit limit and their bank account and see that something is up. In fact, I'd guess that's how most credit card fraud is halted.
. . . with humorous results, as always happens when malware tries to replicate human behavior. Seriously, guys? Does no one remember the golden age of spam, when half the emails in your spam folder were 50% clipped quotes from Jonathan Livingston Seagull?
Seems like a good match to me, considering both companies are notorious for pushing the upgrade cycle at twice the speed it needs to go while consumers just ignore them and say, "Hey, I'm fine running Photoshop 6 on Windows XP!"
On the bright side, when the robot apocalypse comes, no one will be blaming the computer programmers. They'll just track down these guys and ask them, "I know you were working really hard, but how did you never catch an episode of Battlestar Galactica?!"
Right up until the moment they need the government. Ain't it a bitch?
I was raised liberal in a redneck part of the country. And a lot of kids I grew up with thought it was clever to call the cops "the pigs". The first time my mom caught me pulling that shit, she pulled me aside and bitched me out, telling me, "You won't be calling a pig on the day you need a cop."
Frankly, I like nice roads. I like a school tax that enables stores to hire cashiers who can read. I like the idea that if any brown people overthrow their government while I'm on vacation that I can go to the embassy and the Marines will fly me the fuck out of there.
I'm a supporter of paying higher taxes -- just make sure I get some decent services to go with it.
I'm not a fan of quoting anything from a website whose motto is "We start where the media stop".
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Researchers have determined that a grandmother from Long Island was the person who overloaded and killed Facebook, while trying to congratulate her grand-daughter on a strong effort during a losing soccer match. This post was the proverbial straw that broke the camel's back.
But, from the female end, simply posting a dating profile means being flooded. The male of our species isn't discriminating or subtle or easily discouraged. Especially online.
It's one of the main things that made me stop looking at online dating.
The anonymity of the internet encourages a precious kind of overly demanding behavior and balls-out lying. The same effect occurs with job ads on Craigslist. When people post something on the internet, they have no fear about being called out for saying the stupidest shit in human history.
You see a lot of the outdoorsy stuff in urban profiles. In the rural profiles you do see more specifics, suggesting hands-on experience. The outdoorsy trends generalize strongly.
I've had a long-standing belief that the heavy preference for outdoorsy crap in women's profiles is their way of engineering the males they receive responses from. The basic idea is to frame yourself in an athletic manner, thereby driving off the lazy, the fat and the unambitious. In practice, I'd expect this to torpedo a lot video gamers, guys who live at home, geeks and low wage earners. In essence, it's a type of razor wire that kills off all the guys no woman wants to talk to.
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Someone troll rated me on this one? Seriously? Someone must deeply love New Jersey . . . is that you, Kevin Smith?
Do you have any idea how much copper can be found in your average 1950s refrigerator thrown away in the Jersey wilderness?
The chasis came with feet, but I didn't attach them. Nary a boot to be seen since I went that direction.
Bet this one rolls in the replies, huh?
Criminals do not go to that type of effort. It defeats the entire point of being a criminal. To be a criminal is to suffer poor impulse control and to not be a big fan of working.
Most criminals aren't going to break into the Louvre and steal the Mona Lisa. Is it feasible to try? Sure. But, it isn't in the nature of crime to do so. Why? The who point of crime is that a lazy person or a person with poor impulse control can realize high marginal value by doing something illegal. The marginal value of planning out some super-caper is much lower than just going out and knocking the shit out of a dude and taking his wallet.
Even online crime tends to go after low-hanging fruit, such as spam, botnets, SQL-injection, etc. Why? Because the marginal value of hitting easy tagets for easy money is better than tracking down the actual victim and matching their spending habits to avoid detection for ever so slightly longer.
The actual marginal value in avoiding detection is not much, considering the victim will eventually check their credit limit and their bank account and see that something is up. In fact, I'd guess that's how most credit card fraud is halted.
. . . with humorous results, as always happens when malware tries to replicate human behavior. Seriously, guys? Does no one remember the golden age of spam, when half the emails in your spam folder were 50% clipped quotes from Jonathan Livingston Seagull?
Seems like a good match to me, considering both companies are notorious for pushing the upgrade cycle at twice the speed it needs to go while consumers just ignore them and say, "Hey, I'm fine running Photoshop 6 on Windows XP!"
On the bright side, when the robot apocalypse comes, no one will be blaming the computer programmers. They'll just track down these guys and ask them, "I know you were working really hard, but how did you never catch an episode of Battlestar Galactica?!"
I'm sorry. I grew up in a redneck town. The cops were far more afraid of us than we were of them.
Being raised redneck tends to lead to the odd off-color joke.
Right up until the moment they need the government. Ain't it a bitch?
I was raised liberal in a redneck part of the country. And a lot of kids I grew up with thought it was clever to call the cops "the pigs". The first time my mom caught me pulling that shit, she pulled me aside and bitched me out, telling me, "You won't be calling a pig on the day you need a cop."
Frankly, I like nice roads. I like a school tax that enables stores to hire cashiers who can read. I like the idea that if any brown people overthrow their government while I'm on vacation that I can go to the embassy and the Marines will fly me the fuck out of there.
I'm a supporter of paying higher taxes -- just make sure I get some decent services to go with it.
The problem with sending a bill to a redneck is they will never pay it.
I'm not a fan of quoting anything from a website whose motto is "We start where the media stop".
Researchers have determined that a grandmother from Long Island was the person who overloaded and killed Facebook, while trying to congratulate her grand-daughter on a strong effort during a losing soccer match. This post was the proverbial straw that broke the camel's back.
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No, but many do write at a 7th grade level.
But, from the female end, simply posting a dating profile means being flooded. The male of our species isn't discriminating or subtle or easily discouraged. Especially online.
It's one of the main things that made me stop looking at online dating.
The anonymity of the internet encourages a precious kind of overly demanding behavior and balls-out lying. The same effect occurs with job ads on Craigslist. When people post something on the internet, they have no fear about being called out for saying the stupidest shit in human history.
Has the risk of a counter-play against a lie ever discouraged any human being from saying a lie?
A strategy doesn't have to be thought through to be a strategy. It just has to be applicable.
It is possible to overthink women and be successful with them. You just have to be comfortable knowingly getting them drunk.
You see a lot of the outdoorsy stuff in urban profiles. In the rural profiles you do see more specifics, suggesting hands-on experience. The outdoorsy trends generalize strongly.
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I've had a long-standing belief that the heavy preference for outdoorsy crap in women's profiles is their way of engineering the males they receive responses from. The basic idea is to frame yourself in an athletic manner, thereby driving off the lazy, the fat and the unambitious. In practice, I'd expect this to torpedo a lot video gamers, guys who live at home, geeks and low wage earners. In essence, it's a type of razor wire that kills off all the guys no woman wants to talk to.
Not quite trolling, but just sort of reflecting on the stupiditude of it all.