K
KCB
You can't prevent stupid.Big Steel said:
B
Big Steel
I know what I am doing. It's for home user dummies like you that can't
piss in a boot straight.
G
Gene E. Bloch
I think you might have misinterpreted KCB's remark.
Actually, I'm sure you did.
B
Big Steel
Then he should have stated something like "you can't prevent people from
being stupid." You can inform people with information and that makes
them more educated about situations, which needs to happen more often.
K
KCB
I wasn't implying that YOU were stupid. I was trying to say that no matterBig Steel said:
how much you may warn people, there will always be some dumbass, stupid
enough to click on some link or fill out some fake form. I know exactly
where you're coming from.
B
Big Steel
The more information that is put out there, it will stop that one person
in doing that point and click and think about it.
S
SC Tom
I see that the age group listed is 18-25. That's not surprising, since it seems that most "kids" in that group feel theBig Steel said:
world owes them. . . for everything! A place to live, unlimited credit cards that they don't have to pay off, a new car,
etc., etc. Why wouldn't someone be sending them sweepstakes winning? Never mind that they didn't enter one.
And that poor banker in Nigeria who can't get those millions out of the country. . . Who wouldn't want to help him out
for a slice of the pie?
And then when they fall for it and their credit is ruined and/or bank account drained, they're the first to cry, "It's
not my fault! Nobody ever warned me this could happen!" Never mind that it's been on the news forever now. At least
once a week there's a story on the local or national news about scams, and how to not fall prey. As Ron White called his
show, you can't fix stupid.
G
Gene E. Bloch
Well, I had no trouble understanding it as I read it.
S
Stan Brown
But his reaction does kind of prove the "can't prevent stupid"
comment.
The original article *was* stupid, IMHO. Just posting URLs, with no
indication of their content, and expecting people to click on them?
B
Big Steel
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Satanic Mechanic ©
blah blah blah. your diatribe almost put me to sleep and that was
after the third word.
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Allen Drake
So you are saying I won't be getting that deposit in my bank account ?
Darn................
G
Gene E. Bloch
Hah! I didn't think of that
I did, thus presenting another proof of that comment
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James Silverton
The New Yorker had a cartoon about that late last year: "Your check is
in the Cloud". The URL is on the long side so here's a Tiny one:
http://tinyurl.com/7cp5u8b
G
Gene E. Bloch
No, that's not true. Please send me a check for $2467 so that I can pay
for the export license, and the check will be on the way in a day or
two.
B
Big Steel
On 2/24/2012 2:20 PM, Gene E. Bloch wrote:
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<yawn>
The post had the desired affect regardless of the yap on the
lip-service, which is to inform people about possible scams. They seem
to be talking about it. That's all that counts. The rest is much to do
about nothing.
<snipped>
<yawn>
The post had the desired affect regardless of the yap on the
lip-service, which is to inform people about possible scams. They seem
to be talking about it. That's all that counts. The rest is much to do
about nothing.
B
Big Steel
On 2/24/2012 12:04 PM, Satanic Mechanic © wrote:
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<JYI>
None of your funky lip-service will ever be read by me.
<snipped>
<JYI>
None of your funky lip-service will ever be read by me.
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Allen Drake
Ok, but this is the last time Buanna.
K
KCB
It's "Much Ado About Nothing". On a side note, I can't believe you've neverBig Steel said:
heard the phrase, "You can't prevent stupid."