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Yerboogieman
Nobel Prize Winner
USA
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 Posted - Feb 13 2010 : 11:31:06 PM
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| Happy 30th Birthday Aaron! |
If you don't have the time to do it right, when will you have the time to do it over? |
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boron
Mad Scientist
Canada
223 Posts |
Posted - Feb 14 2010 : 08:13:17 AM
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| Happy belated birthday Aaron, hope it was the best one yet. (assuming Yerboogieman isn't just messing with everyone :p) |
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Yerboogieman
Nobel Prize Winner
USA
577 Posts |
Posted - Feb 14 2010 : 1:42:34 PM
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| That's what it says in the Random Thoughts section. |
If you don't have the time to do it right, when will you have the time to do it over? |
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Aaron Cake
Administrator
Canada
6718 Posts |
Posted - Feb 15 2010 : 11:01:46 AM
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| Yes, the 13th was my birthday. I am officially old, and have avoided death for one more year. I spent the 13th relaxing and just working on the website, then had a nice pasta dinner. Yesterday I went to the Canadian International Auto Show. On account of the big "3-oh", I think I will buy a bottle of Dom Paringnon to share with some family and a few friends. |
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Yerboogieman
Nobel Prize Winner
USA
577 Posts |
Posted - Feb 15 2010 : 7:34:07 PM
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| Is there a day that you don't have a pasta dinner? |
If you don't have the time to do it right, when will you have the time to do it over? |
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Aaron Cake
Administrator
Canada
6718 Posts |
Posted - Feb 20 2010 : 10:16:50 AM
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Yes, often.
My belated birthday present was finding out on the 14th that someone had used a stolen copy of my debit card to have a really good time in Montreal. They were going from ATM to ATM pulling out $400 at a time from 2AM - 4AM until the bank deactivated the card. I had to go into the bank on Tuesday to get a new card and I am waiting for them to credit my money back...yay. |
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wasssup1990
Nobel Prize Winner
A Land Down Under
2261 Posts |
Posted - Feb 20 2010 : 10:19:02 PM
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That sucks.  I hope you get your dough back. |
When one person suffers from a delusion it is called insanity.
When many people suffer from a delusion it is called religion. |
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Aaron Cake
Administrator
Canada
6718 Posts |
Posted - Feb 21 2010 : 10:14:35 AM
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| I'm not worried about getting it back because the bank was clear that I would, but I would sure like to know how my card was copied. There was a rash of fraud in Windsor and it was traced to handheld card scanners at restaurants modified with Bluetooth serial transmitters to send card data to a hidden cellphone. And coincidentally, I ate in Windsor just after the North American International Auto Show and paid via debit on a wireless machine... |
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wasssup1990
Nobel Prize Winner
A Land Down Under
2261 Posts |
Posted - Feb 21 2010 : 10:40:38 AM
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Damn I forgot to put "soon" at the end of my sentence.
Actually a similar thing happend in Sydney I think. Thieves planted a scanner on the ATM slot and waited for someone to come and withdraw some money. They managed to collect quite a lot of money (I don't remember how much) but they were being recorded the whole time.
Ah here it is.
http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/sydneys-atm-skimming-epidemic-scum/story-e6freuy9-1225816361240 |
When one person suffers from a delusion it is called insanity.
When many people suffer from a delusion it is called religion. |
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Yerboogieman
Nobel Prize Winner
USA
577 Posts |
Posted - Feb 21 2010 : 9:35:46 PM
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I was making a joke.
That sucks. I hope they catch them. Although, that sounds pretty cool. Not stealing money like that, but building a modified card scanner that sends information to a cellphone. |
If you don't have the time to do it right, when will you have the time to do it over? |
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Yerboogieman
Nobel Prize Winner
USA
577 Posts |
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wasssup1990
Nobel Prize Winner
A Land Down Under
2261 Posts |
Posted - Feb 21 2010 : 10:38:26 PM
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| Oh that's so appalling. |
When one person suffers from a delusion it is called insanity.
When many people suffer from a delusion it is called religion. |
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Yerboogieman
Nobel Prize Winner
USA
577 Posts |
Posted - Feb 22 2010 : 09:21:16 AM
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| I know! |
If you don't have the time to do it right, when will you have the time to do it over? |
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pebe
Nobel Prize Winner
United Kingdom
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Posted - Feb 22 2010 : 11:19:36 AM
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Originally posted by Yerboogieman
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Originally posted by wasssup1990
Ah here it is.
http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/sydneys-atm-skimming-epidemic-scum/story-e6freuy9-1225816361240
They forgot to capitalize 'They' after a period. Damn them!
The phrase from the beginning of the paragraph up to the period is not a sentence because there is no verb in it, so the period should not have been there.
Probably the typist hit the period instead of the comma. Forgivable? |
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codingplanet
Mad Scientist
United Kingdom
195 Posts |
Posted - Feb 22 2010 : 2:03:29 PM
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| I agree that there should be a comma. However, I believe that "said" is the past participle of the verb "say", therefore the sentence does contain a verb. :) |
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Aaron Cake
Administrator
Canada
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Posted - Feb 28 2010 : 10:10:59 AM
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At ate at the same East Side Marios last night in Windsor, and paid on a cordless machine with my debit card. We'll see if the same thing happens. Call it an experiment.  |
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