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1  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Prison for Kicking a Cat? on: September 30, 2014, 07:21:28 PM
BTW, if this guy had lured a child and then kicked that child, he would have gone to prison even longer. The point is that innocent creatures, unable to defend themselves, whether cats, dogs, or children, have to be protected by society, so yes, put the SOB in prison.
2  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Prison for Kicking a Cat? on: September 30, 2014, 07:09:15 PM
A common thread that links most serial killers is deliberate animal abuse. When someone lures an animal in order to do that animal harm, he is an obvious danger to society. BTW, this is not about race . White guys do it too.
3  Other / Off-topic / Re: My identity has been STOLEN on: September 30, 2014, 06:11:02 PM
Has anyone else experienced this?
Actually not a lot except for the past few weeks this same Indian (probably Delhi or Calcutta) man keeps calling me because he doesn't have enough sense to take this landline # off his list.  He can't decide if he's from Microsoft Windows or if he's Robert or Michael or Barbara from one day to the next.  One day he wanted very badly to help me get my government grant.  I think he was Margaret that day. 

I've developed this shtick I do with him and have great fun with it.  I'm the addled man (senior) who is very excited to hear from...Nelson, is it?  bearing gifts and concern.
Yes, I was getting calls from someone (with an Indian accent) who was supposedly representing Windows and needed to help me fix problems that my computer was having.  They knew this supposedly because my computer was sending them error messages.  Yeah, right.  The first couple of times I actually tried to argue with him.  But I've cut down on the number of calls I'm getting from them by just simply saying "I don't have a computer", they immediately hang up.
4  Other / Off-topic / Re: My identity has been STOLEN on: September 30, 2014, 04:55:53 PM
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Has anyone else experienced this?
I went in to the local IRS office to file and pay my annual taxes.

The lady drew up my SS # and said I had already filed.

I said I had NOT, and she gave me the bogus town I had supposedly filed from. She said they had sent my refund there. I have NEVER received any refund per plan.

I gave her my CPA created tax return and a check for my delta owed, and asked what would happen. She said that two or four agents would go to the bogus address, collect license plate numbers, names from their mailbox, run those names through their system to create a file on the perp.

Once they had all the evidence they needed they would arrest the perp with Fraud charges plus half a dozen others, and take them to trial. She said that unfortunately they would probably be out of prison within a decade.
5  Other / Politics & Society / Re: The lessons of war? on: September 30, 2014, 04:45:02 PM
Also that nagging problem of getting all that oil we depend upon to market, especially when there's that little matter of a Muslim holy war raging on all fronts. Of course, if one really believes that ISIS is going to stop with Iraq and call it a day, good luck with that.

This is a shitty deal. If we withdraw as spectators, ISIS will almost certainly topple Iraq and maybe Syria as well. Then, it's on to Saudi Arabia...if you believe ISIS. I wonder what such a scenario would do to the price of oil and the effect it would have on the economies of the world.

I've got a bad feeling the shit is just beginning to hit the fan.
6  Other / Politics & Society / Re: The lessons of war? on: September 30, 2014, 04:29:26 PM
Bush had what warnings of 9/11?  The FBI could not trace those that were  listed by the CIA.  So those that occurred in Bostow on 9/11 were not during the time this adminstration?  Shallow thoughts are obvious.  You do manage to keep the lies aout Araq. You do sound like one under the Sharia law.

Yep, Dubya had plenty of warnings about a potential 911 attack by OBL.

https://abcnews.go.com/US/story?id=91651

"U.S. intelligence officials warned President Bush weeks before the Sept. 11 attacks that Osama bin Laden's terrorist network might hijack American planes".

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/11/opinion/the-bush-white-house-was-deaf-to-9-11-warnings.html?_r=0

"On Aug. 6, 2001, President George W. Bush received a classified review of the threats posed by Osama bin Laden and his terrorist network, Al Qaeda. That morning’s “presidential daily brief” — the top-secret document prepared by America’s intelligence agencies — featured the now-infamous heading: “Bin Laden Determined to Strike in U.S.” A few weeks later, on 9/11, Al Qaeda accomplished that goal".
In short, the concept of muslims killing muslims, while we set back munching fritos and licking our chops, was quickly falling to one victory after another by ISIS and having the entire country of Iraq becoming one fanatical Islamic State. Now, instead of "whack-a-mole", we have an entire country of Islamic fanatics absolutely devoted to setting the entire ME ablaze...not to mention their hard-on for the good ole USA.

I get the idea here that the powers that be in Washington have decided that waiting until the ME is a blazing inferno probably isn't the best way to go and most likely doesn't really address our own national security interests in that region of the world. And whether we like it or not, sitting idly by, crossing our fingers and hoping for the best...doesn't exactly feed the bulldog here.
7  Other / Off-topic / Re: IT Crew question on: September 30, 2014, 04:24:29 PM
You don't need a degree to get into IT. The stuff you learn in the first half of schooling is obsolete by the time you graduate. The textbooks themselves lag behind the industry by at least a year. A school isn't going to get you caught up on any particular language or field, but it will teach you how to wrap your brain around the abstract concepts that may be waiting for you. That is, school will teach you how to think like a programmer, or network administrator, or whatever.

But if you can get to that point without school, then you can get a job in the industry. Just go take the tests to get your certs once you've learned the material. For some fields (such as software engineer, i.e., programmer) you don't need a cert; you can just create a portfolio to show off your knowledge.
8  Other / Off-topic / Re: My identity has been STOLEN on: September 30, 2014, 04:20:16 PM
If you did not solicited a $400 gift card for Walmart, I would think when you went to "register" it, you gave information that probably gave the scammers enough identifying information to try and rip you off. 
9  Other / Off-topic / Re: VPNs - do you use it on: September 30, 2014, 11:15:02 AM
I had used vps for website developing and hosting for another server, I have known others to use it stealth purposes but never really quite worked out for any of them.   Roll Eyes
10  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Bitcoin missing big oppurtunity on: September 30, 2014, 10:55:22 AM
Bitcoin should be capitalizing BIG TIME on all these corporate hacks that you read about each and every day.  Target, Home Depot, and the list goes on and on and grows everyday. Each time I hear about a hack I write an email to the company suggesting they accept bitcoin. 

Wouldn't these companies want to offer a secure payment system after losing all their customers personal information?  Ive had my identity stolen three times and don't use credit cards anymore.  I pay with cash only and would love to start paying with bitcoin.

This to me should lead to the quickest path to merchant adoption, which I'm turn would lead to more people buying bitcoin as it's utility increases.

I encourage all of you to also write emails every single time you hear about a hack.
alot are missing out, but have you seen walmart and other adopt to paypal and googlecheckout?
11  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: The transaction fee is just ridiculous. on: September 30, 2014, 09:32:20 AM
I dont know why u have problem with tx fee, what I have problem is the middleman overcharging to exchange btc to fiat.  I have to pay WU and the middleman to collect the fiat which really sucks.
12  Other / Meta / Re: Why this selective topic movement ? on: September 30, 2014, 09:29:00 AM
wait for the mods to come back im sure it was a simple mistake, I checked it out I dont see how is a service disccssion, should belong to society thread more, but wait to they come here, maybe an error
13  Other / Politics & Society / Re: The lessons of war? on: September 29, 2014, 07:14:34 PM
Maybe we should all prepare ourselves for what is commonly referred to as...mission creep, the eventual insertion of American boots on the ground and we're right back where we started in Iraq.

Several reasons this is a distinct possibility. The Iraqi army, for the most part, sucks. Kurds are far and few in between, the so-called "free Syrian army" won't be much help. On the other hand, the fanatics of ISIS are well funded, well motivated, number over 30,000 and growing...and well equipped (mostly with our own weapons).
I believe ISIS was some 30 miles from marching into Baghdad before Obama ordered in the air strikes that halted their advance.
14  Other / Politics & Society / Re: The lessons of war? on: September 29, 2014, 07:11:13 PM
Lessons learned: We were safer under bush because he really did have al qaida on the run and without money to finance their terrorism. That leaving Iraq created a void that terrorist filled just like bush warned and the military predicted. And that IED's in the ME are preferable to IED's in America. BTW if you take the subways in NYC, they're the planned target for terrorist IED's.
I always appreciate your sense of humor, like the post above.

 "Safer under Bush". Wowee Skipper. Um, just to remind you it was Bush ignoring warnings that bought us 9/11 the greatest act of terrorism in our history. And it has been under Obama that zero acts of terrorism have happened on our soil. And safer under bush got hundreds of thousand of Iraqi's killed, millions displaced and nearly 5,000 of our young men and women dead.
Bush had what warnings of 9/11?  The FBI could not trace those that were  listed by the CIA.  So those that occurred in Bostow on 9/11 were not during the time this adminstration?  Shallow thoughts are obvious.  You do manage to keep the lies aout Araq. You do sound like one under the Sharia law.
As some other guy said once  in other thread  "they said it would be airplane attacks, but they did not say where" (paraphrase)

Yea, how silly of the enemy to not provide the flight numbers.
Yes you are silly.  The start of the investigation started under Klintoon.  The information was what after that?  Or is it your type of alleged thought the FBi could  not think about it?  No remember of  Boston?   Shall it be to much to ask what about the population in Minnesota?  Dare we ask about those that travel to the ISIS?  Would the attach on this nation be pointed at this or that party?  Or is the response from this or that party the result?  Keep up the representation.
15  Other / Politics & Society / Re: The lessons of war? on: September 29, 2014, 06:36:26 PM
Lessons learned: We were safer under bush because he really did have al qaida on the run and without money to finance their terrorism. That leaving Iraq created a void that terrorist filled just like bush warned and the military predicted. And that IED's in the ME are preferable to IED's in America. BTW if you take the subways in NYC, they're the planned target for terrorist IED's.
I always appreciate your sense of humor, like the post above.

 "Safer under Bush". Wowee Skipper. Um, just to remind you it was Bush ignoring warnings that bought us 9/11 the greatest act of terrorism in our history. And it has been under Obama that zero acts of terrorism have happened on our soil. And safer under bush got hundreds of thousand of Iraqi's killed, millions displaced and nearly 5,000 of our young men and women dead.
Bush had what warnings of 9/11?  The FBI could not trace those that were  listed by the CIA.  So those that occurred in Bostow on 9/11 were not during the time this adminstration?  Shallow thoughts are obvious.  You do manage to keep the lies aout Araq. You do sound like one under the Sharia law.
16  Other / Off-topic / Re: Conscience on: September 28, 2014, 05:52:01 PM
Here me this: you can not spread lies and keep a clear conscience.you know you perpetuate lies.you're not fooling anyone...if you killed someone your guilty !
17  Other / Politics & Society / Re: ISIS CRISIS - IS US NO USE - IS IS ISSUE 10X911 on: September 28, 2014, 05:16:19 PM
If it took 100 years to develop the best humanoid war robots to combat them, ISIS rebels are cracked off cheaply with a bit of cock juice and spring to life over the years into serious loopers ready to cause mayhem in far off territories known to the US and Europe to be the toughest arena on earth to take on an ideology in the form of loose terror cells, individuals, groups, all scattered, hidden here and there among populations and elsewhere.

Give it a few years and I think we are going to have a 10X911 situation.
18  Other / Politics & Society / ISIS CRISIS - IS US NO USE - IS IS ISSUE 10X911 on: September 28, 2014, 05:04:43 PM
The ISIS crisis seems bigger than the US can handle. Will IS become an issue ten times the scope of 911 ?

See the current situation using the benefit of maps ...

http://www.vox.com/2014/9/25/6843611/14-maps-that-explain-isis


With infinitely renewable poverty stricken religious nut cases being created daily in the middle east on a never ending conveyor belt just needing cock and balls to produce them and woman forced to take some cock and ball action, before long offspring become radicalised teenagers forming nut job armies generally with 18 to 22 year olds with no common sense and nothing else to do.
19  Other / Politics & Society / Re: How do we defeat ISIS without U.S. Ground Troops? on: September 28, 2014, 04:51:22 PM
Then like locust storms, repeat the same manoeuvre at all other none christian religious gatherings, even down at the ganges river where the religious bathing festival occurs, stuff like that. Should be able to shoot a few dozen million here and there ? It would lessen the none authorised religiousness going on in the world and send a message out, that you don't need either drones or jet power from the skies or troops on the ground, just flying Mohameds with machine guns.

A second wave of firepower could be in the form of 5 million really fit women in bathing suits toting rocket launchers, again with jetpacks, to go after ISIS directly, hiding in their odd small enclaves.
If I get what you're saying...essentially, it might not be a bad thing to let a bad thing fail, then I certainly understand where you're coming from even if I personally don't like the idea of letting something fail.

You have a really good point at the end there.
Basically, yes that's what I'm saying. As an example, slavery was a "bad thing", and it was doomed to fail at some point. Now a proper solution would have been to find a way to end it peacefully, and a worse way was to end it by civil war, but if you're dealing with a collapsed society with shifting alliances such as the middle east as a whole, sometimes the best answer is to watch from a distance.

I don't like the results any better than you do in the short/medium term. I'm just not sold a better answer exists in the real world.
20  Other / Politics & Society / Re: How do we defeat ISIS without U.S. Ground Troops? on: September 27, 2014, 02:25:11 PM
Then like locust storms, repeat the same manoeuvre at all other none christian religious gatherings, even down at the ganges river where the religious bathing festival occurs, stuff like that. Should be able to shoot a few dozen million here and there ? It would lessen the none authorised religiousness going on in the world and send a message out, that you don't need either drones or jet power from the skies or troops on the ground, just flying Mohameds with machine guns.

A second wave of firepower could be in the form of 5 million really fit women in bathing suits toting rocket launchers, again with jetpacks, to go after ISIS directly, hiding in their odd small enclaves.
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