You’ll need a tray.
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What If Somebody You Know Steals Your Identity? ∞ Get Rich Slowly
What If Somebody You Know Steals Your Identity? ∞ Get Rich Slowly
This is just a tragic story, and such an interesting subject. In reading it I got to thinking about my conflicting impulses when I consider “what if?” and it made me wonder why I had some of the more sympathetic reactions.
After all, if a family member had assaulted me, would I be as sympathetic? If they’d endangered my life in some other way – say, tampering with medication I took – would I be as inclined to simply feel for them? What about if they’d endangered my livelihood somehow, like say abusing some resources I had professionally, or using my name and risking my reputation?
It’s so odd once we involve money in the equation. Chances are we’d all advise our sister to call the cops if her long-time boyfriend punched her and gave her a black eye, but would we do the same if he took out a credit card in her name and ran up debt she might be held responsible for? Chances are we’d scoff at excuses like “he’d had a bad day,” or “he’d been drinking” but “he couldn’t get credit in his own name” or “he’d been making all the payments on the account” might incline us to pause.
The reality is that the credit has the potential to be significantly more damaging to her life in the long term than a black eye ever could. Somehow we’re more quick to say that someone who’d physically abuse you doesn’t deserve your love, but fiscal abuse is indirect enough that we are less quick to make that claim.
I don’t know what’s right in this kind of situation, but it’s certainly food for thought.
No, not so much “more help”
C:\Documents and Settings\Don>net use v: \\192.168.1.250\movies /persistent:yes /user:don /savecred
A command was used with conflicting switches.More help is available by typing NET HELPMSG 3510.
C:\Documents and Settings\Don>net helpmsg 3510
A command was used with conflicting switches.
C:\Documents and Settings\Don>
Um… where is that MORE help? How about “The same exact help is available by typing…” or “the computer version of repeating the same thing, but louder, to the person who doesn’t speak your language is available by typing” perhaps.
That about summarized my opinion of the song
Jason called this a testament to “hand sphincter control” and I don’t know how better to describe it.
Average rap
I can’t afford a car, I use public transportation
I don’t mind, I read till I reach my destination
Sometimes a newspaper, sometimes a book
the amount of money I save, that shit is off the hook!
I’m just an average everyday normal guy
When I go to the clubs I wait in LINE, motherfucker!
Poor Jimmy
If he was ashamed to have committed adultery in his heart what might this do to him?
Clap your hands for Tinkerbell!
Wikihistory
How much better can it get? A free bit of excellent science fiction writing that covers time travel with humor and takes a swipe at Wikipedia and forum lawyering?
Abyss & Apex : Fourth Quarter 2007: Wikihistory
At 02:29:17, SilverFox316 wrote:
All right; that’s it. Having just returned from 1907 Vienna where I secured the expulsion of Hitler from the Academy by means of an elaborate prank involving the Prefect, a goat, and a substantial quantity of olive oil, I now turn my attention to our newer brethren, who, despite rules to the contrary, seem to have no intention of reading Bulletin 1147 (nor its Addendum, Alternate Means of Subverting the Hitlerian Destiny, and here I’m looking at you, SneakyPete). Permit me to sum it up and save you the trouble: no Hitler means no Third Reich, no World War II, no rocketry programs, no electronics, no computers, no time travel. Get the picture?
Spam is so odd
I really should not be so philosophical about spam, considering how much time I spend fighting it. Maybe it’s a correlary of the “if you spend too long fighting monsters you become a monster yourself” concept. I’m not going to start sending it but sometimes it seems more like an amusing sparring partner than an actual enemy I battle. Like Inspector Clouseau and his manservant who would attack him without warning from unexpected places.
Anyway, in clearing out my folder that captures ’suspect’ mail – that which seems dicey but has the remotest possibility of being legit – I see one here with the subject line “All your gay issues solved.”
Putting aside the fact that my mail filter thinks that it’s possible that a mail about “gay issues” might be a legitimate message I would receive, what exactly would be all of someone’s gay issues? Or at least, what would they be that someone could sell you a service or thing that would resolve them? Parental acceptance cream? A bathhouse map? Valium so that you don’t mind the absence of marriage rights?