I am MacK William UN, a senior officer at John F. Willians
International Airport (JFK) New York.
I have contacted you regarding an abandoned diplomatic ATM Card.
The x-ray scan report of the ATM Card revealed some US dollar bill
in it which could be approximately 5Million dollars and the official
paper of the ATM MASTER CARD indicates your contact details.
For your information, the ATM Master Card was abandoned by the
diplomat agent who was on transit to your city because he was not
able to pay the (JFK) clearance fee
you will and sum of $100 USD to the FedEx Delivery Department being
have to pay a payment for the Insurance Fee of the FedEx Company.
Yours Sincerely.
MACK WILLIANM
I just got an email. It wasn't stopped by my spam filter, so it must
not be spam.
I am MacK William UN, a senior officer at John F. Willians
International Airport (JFK) New York.
I never knew that that's who JFK airport was named for. But
it makes perfect sense. If K can stand for potassium, it can
certainly stand for Willians. And we all remember the tragic
assasination of John F. Willians by Lee Harvey Armold.
I have contacted you regarding an abandoned diplomatic ATM Card.
The x-ray scan report of the ATM Card revealed some US dollar bill
in it which could be approximately 5Million dollars and the official
paper of the ATM MASTER CARD indicates your contact details.
I never knew that dollar bills were actually hidden inside ATM cards.
I foolishly thought that they came out of the machine I insert them
into. I guess I'll skip my next trip to the ATM, and just get the
money out of the card with tweezers and a magnifying glass without
ever leaving my room.
The largest bill I've seen is $100. I've heard of larger ones, but
never seen them. I wonder whose picture is on the 5 million dollar
bill. Maybe Sanford Wallace's? It's especially clever of the
government to make bills readable by x-ray.
For your information, the ATM Master Card was abandoned by the
diplomat agent who was on transit to your city because he was not
able to pay the (JFK) clearance fee
Yes, that happens to me all the time. I keep forgetting to pay the
fee to transport my ATM card, so I have to just toss it on the floor
at the airport for a UN official to pick up. Also, the airlines keep >refusing to "transit" me to "my city." They keep insisting that I say
which city. I told them: *My* city.
you will and sum of $100 USD to the FedEx Delivery Department being
have to pay a payment for the Insurance Fee of the FedEx Company.
I'm trying to figure out what language this is in. The words look
like English, but the syntax, not so much.
Yours Sincerely.
MACK WILLIANM
I've never seen William spelled with an N before. Especially not when
it was spelled without the N earlier in the same message. Maybe his
(her?) name is actually Willia, and she's from New Mexico.
Email [redacted]@gmail.com
Of course all UN officials use Gmail for their official business, and
also have UN as their last name.
I got a scam last week from somebody who knew my name, my phone number,
my street address, AND my Medicare account number. He wanted to send me
a DNA test kit so they could add it to their database on the
relationship between cancer and heart trouble, and they were going to
send it. He actually sounded genuine.
But when the kit arrived, it was from a lab in *Pennsylvania,* and said
the tests had been ordered by a certain doctor whom I'd never heard of,
but I googled him and he's an oncologist, all right-- in Tennessee. At
this point I emailed my endocrinogist with the details.
About that time somebody (different person, a woman) phoned me to see if
the kit arrived, and I said Yes it did, and what was this testing lab in Pennsylvania about, and who was the oncologist in Tennessee (where I
have never been)? She started to hem and haw,
and I said, "If you don't know, can you transfer me to somebody who
does?" and she hung up.
I then got mail back from my endocrinologist, beginning, "Yikes!"
and giving me a .gov site to report it to. I haven't done it yet
(problems with a broken tooth, which got extracted today), but I shall.
It is unnerving that the first guy was able to sound so genuine AND had
my Medicare number! Fortunately, the form they sent me was obviously
phony and the joke was over.
It is unnerving that the first guy was able to sound so genuine
AND had my Medicare number! Fortunately, the form they sent me
was obviously phony and the joke was over.
I just got an email. It wasn't stopped by my spam filter, so it must
not be spam.
In article <sfn8v4$efj$1@reader1.panix.com>, kfl@KeithLynch.net (Keith F. Lynch) wrote:
I just got an email. It wasn't stopped by my spam filter, so it must
not be spam.
A few years ago, I got a spam that looked ever so genuine, until right at
the bottom where there was a button containing the text "Logine".
On 8/20/21 12:35 AM, Dorothy J Heydt wrote:
It is unnerving that the first guy was able to sound so genuine
AND had my Medicare number! Fortunately, the form they sent me
was obviously phony and the joke was over.
If a scammer could put together that much information on you, the "joke"
may be far from over. I'd check every bank and credit statement very >carefully for the next couple of months.
On Fri, 20 Aug 2021 04:35:49 +0000, Dorothy J Heydt wrote:
I got a scam last week from somebody who knew my name, my phone number,
my street address, AND my Medicare account number. He wanted to send me
a DNA test kit so they could add it to their database on the
relationship between cancer and heart trouble, and they were going to
send it. He actually sounded genuine.
But when the kit arrived, it was from a lab in *Pennsylvania,* and said
the tests had been ordered by a certain doctor whom I'd never heard of,
but I googled him and he's an oncologist, all right-- in Tennessee. At
this point I emailed my endocrinogist with the details.
About that time somebody (different person, a woman) phoned me to see if
the kit arrived, and I said Yes it did, and what was this testing lab in
Pennsylvania about, and who was the oncologist in Tennessee (where I
have never been)? She started to hem and haw,
and I said, "If you don't know, can you transfer me to somebody who
does?" and she hung up.
I then got mail back from my endocrinologist, beginning, "Yikes!"
and giving me a .gov site to report it to. I haven't done it yet
(problems with a broken tooth, which got extracted today), but I shall.
It is unnerving that the first guy was able to sound so genuine AND had
my Medicare number! Fortunately, the form they sent me was obviously
phony and the joke was over.
Unlike the email sent to Keith, which was obvious spam because it
didn't begin "Dear Mr. Lynch," whoever was working you was doing it
because you, uniquely, must be important to somebody, for some
reason.
In article <sfn8v4$efj$1@reader1.panix.com>, kfl@KeithLynch.net
(Keith F. Lynch) wrote:
I just got an email. It wasn't stopped by my spam filter, so
it must not be spam.
A few years ago, I got a spam that looked ever so genuine, until
right at the bottom where there was a button containing the text
"Logine".
In article <ChJTI.26706$tv2.18553@fx45.iad>,
Charles Packer <mailbox@cpacker.org> wrote:
On Fri, 20 Aug 2021 04:35:49 +0000, Dorothy J Heydt wrote:
I got a scam last week from somebody who knew my name, my phone...
number, my street address, AND my Medicare account number. He wanted
Unlike the email sent to Keith, which was obvious spam because it didn't >>begin "Dear Mr. Lynch," whoever was working you was doing it because
you, uniquely, must be important to somebody, for some reason.
Oh, no. Somebody had gotten hold of a lot of Medicare information that *should* have been private. They would not have done all that
falsification for just one person.
I view my email as plain text whenever possible. Then there are no
buttons with hidden URLs to worry about. Unfortunately, some
legitimate
lists I'm on make the plain text mail as unreadable as they can.
Well, I checked my bank balance yesterday (had to transfer eight
hundred bucks to pay the oral surgeon; I *hope* my insurance will
reimburse some of it),
In article <qy53Dz.1oMM@kithrup.com>, djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J
Heydt) wrote:
Well, I checked my bank balance yesterday (had to transfer eight
hundred bucks to pay the oral surgeon; I *hope* my insurance will
reimburse some of it),
Is an oral surgeon the same as a dentist? I've just had root canal work
done and that was nearly a thousand quid, and there are no National
Health dentists in Guildford, that I've been able to find.
The one I got yesterday was "You have a new voicemail," with a link
that (according to Google) leands to a link, which leads to a link,
which leads to a fake login for either Gmail or Microsoft's
equivalent, which (after it harvests your credentials) actually logs
you into your account (where there's no voicemail). The screen shots
looke pretty good. If the entire idea hadn't been so ridiculous, I'm
have Googled it to find out if it was fake, rather than out of
curiosity as to which kind of scam it was.
In article <qy53Dz.1oMM@kithrup.com>, djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J
Heydt) wrote:
Well, I checked my bank balance yesterday (had to transfer eight
hundred bucks to pay the oral surgeon; I *hope* my insurance will
reimburse some of it),
Is an oral surgeon the same as a dentist? I've just had root canal work
done and that was nearly a thousand quid, and there are no National
Health dentists in Guildford, that I've been able to find.
On Fri, 20 Aug 2021 17:06 +0100 (BST), prd@pauldormer.cix.co.uk (Paul
Dormer) wrote:
In article <qy53Dz.1oMM@kithrup.com>, djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J
Heydt) wrote:
Well, I checked my bank balance yesterday (had to transfer eight
hundred bucks to pay the oral surgeon; I *hope* my insurance will
reimburse some of it),
Is an oral surgeon the same as a dentist? I've just had root canal work >>done and that was nearly a thousand quid, and there are no National
Health dentists in Guildford, that I've been able to find.
I don't know about in the UK but here, dentists do things like oral >examinations and filling cavities (and provide office space for oral >hygienists), while oral surgeons do things like root canals, dental
implants, and denture fittings.
In article <qy53Dz.1oMM@kithrup.com>, djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J
Heydt) wrote:
Well, I checked my bank balance yesterday (had to transfer eight
hundred bucks to pay the oral surgeon; I *hope* my insurance will
reimburse some of it),
Is an oral surgeon the same as a dentist?
I've just had root canal work
done and that was nearly a thousand quid, and there are no National
Health dentists in Guildford, that I've been able to find.
On Fri, 20 Aug 2021 08:54:02 -0700, Jibini Kula Tumbili Kujisalimisha ><taustinca@gmail.com> wrote:
The one I got yesterday was "You have a new voicemail," with a link
that (according to Google) leands to a link, which leads to a link,
which leads to a fake login for either Gmail or Microsoft's
equivalent, which (after it harvests your credentials) actually logs
you into your account (where there's no voicemail). The screen shots
looke pretty good. If the entire idea hadn't been so ridiculous, I'm
have Googled it to find out if it was fake, rather than out of
curiosity as to which kind of scam it was.
(tempting fate mode)
I must have upset someone, somewhere...
I hardly ever seem to get dodgy emails, despite not running a spam filter!
(/tempting fate mode)
But I do get a lot of the ""You have missed a call from your internet >provider. Your account will be disconnected in 24 hours due to illegal >activity, press 1 to speak to an account adviser" phone calls...
Since I'm NOT going to press 1, they aren't half so much fun as the "This is >your internet provider. There seems to be a problem with your router" calls.
No-one is surprised that I can keep them on the line for ages, are they, >although they do seem to hang up faster nowadays if they realise they are >talking to someone who can recognise a clue -before- it bites them.
Example
Scammer "There sees to be a problem with your internet connection."
Bearded Fan "Which one?"
S. "The one you use to connect to the internet"
BF. "Which one, I've got four different internet connections?"
S. "Liar, you are just wasting my time you (Expletive in a foreign language, I >presume)"
S. slams phone down in disgust.
The scammer was 50% right - I was trying to waste his time, but I do have four >separate internet connections - the home broadband, my smartphone, a Mi-Fi >unit, and there is a WiFi hotspot built into the car. :-)
On Fri, 20 Aug 2021 13:10:44 +0000, Dorothy J Heydt wrote:
In article <ChJTI.26706$tv2.18553@fx45.iad>,
Charles Packer <mailbox@cpacker.org> wrote:
On Fri, 20 Aug 2021 04:35:49 +0000, Dorothy J Heydt wrote:
I got a scam last week from somebody who knew my name, my phone
number, my street address, AND my Medicare account number. He wanted >>>...
Unlike the email sent to Keith, which was obvious spam because it didn't >>>begin "Dear Mr. Lynch," whoever was working you was doing it because
you, uniquely, must be important to somebody, for some reason.
Oh, no. Somebody had gotten hold of a lot of Medicare information that
*should* have been private. They would not have done all that
falsification for just one person.
It's my guess that if you gave us the name of the Pennsylvania
lab and the Tennessee oncologist, one or more of us could,
with a little online research, suss out the deception.
On Fri, 20 Aug 2021 17:06 +0100 (BST), prd@pauldormer.cix.co.uk (Paul
Dormer) wrote:
Is an oral surgeon the same as a dentist? I've just had root canal work
done and that was nearly a thousand quid, and there are no National
Health dentists in Guildford, that I've been able to find.
I don't know about in the UK but here, dentists do things like oral examinations and filling cavities (and provide office space for oral hygienists), while oral surgeons do things like root canals, dental
implants, and denture fittings.
On Fri, 20 Aug 2021 11:48:37 -0700, Tim Merrigan
<tppm@ca.rr.com> wrote:
On Fri, 20 Aug 2021 17:06 +0100 (BST), prd@pauldormer.cix.co.uk
(Paul Dormer) wrote:
In article <qy53Dz.1oMM@kithrup.com>, djheydt@kithrup.com
(Dorothy J Heydt) wrote:
Well, I checked my bank balance yesterday (had to transfer
eight hundred bucks to pay the oral surgeon; I *hope* my
insurance will reimburse some of it),
Is an oral surgeon the same as a dentist? I've just had root
canal work done and that was nearly a thousand quid, and there
are no National Health dentists in Guildford, that I've been
able to find.
I don't know about in the UK but here, dentists do things like
oral examinations and filling cavities (and provide office space
for oral hygienists), while oral surgeons do things like root
canals, dental implants, and denture fittings.
Kind of like the difference between optometrists and
ophthalmologists.
Tim Merrigan <tppm@ca.rr.com> wrote in >news:4huvhgdv7ihigg33r9tmvp1qbv2a4n22kr@4ax.com:
On Fri, 20 Aug 2021 11:48:37 -0700, Tim Merrigan
<tppm@ca.rr.com> wrote:
On Fri, 20 Aug 2021 17:06 +0100 (BST), prd@pauldormer.cix.co.uk
(Paul Dormer) wrote:
In article <qy53Dz.1oMM@kithrup.com>, djheydt@kithrup.com
(Dorothy J Heydt) wrote:
Well, I checked my bank balance yesterday (had to transfer
eight hundred bucks to pay the oral surgeon; I *hope* my
insurance will reimburse some of it),
Is an oral surgeon the same as a dentist? I've just had root
canal work done and that was nearly a thousand quid, and there
are no National Health dentists in Guildford, that I've been
able to find.
I don't know about in the UK but here, dentists do things like
oral examinations and filling cavities (and provide office space
for oral hygienists), while oral surgeons do things like root
canals, dental implants, and denture fittings.
Kind of like the difference between optometrists and
ophthalmologists.
Not really, no. Dentists and oral surgeons are both medical doctors,
and so is an opthamologist. An optometrist is a technician. Many have
some medical training, but are *far* from doctors.
Oral surgeons are specialists while dentists are the equivalent of general >practitioners. It's typical to see a dentist for checkups and basic treatment >and get a referral to an oral surgeon for more complex procedures.
Without going to far into the insanity that is the US medical system, dental >and medical insurance have only slight overlap but oral surgery is one of >places where they potentially do. Which policy/company pays and how much can >be the subject of much debate with the patient being the primary loser.
<rkshullat@rosettacondot.com> wrote:
Oral surgeons are specialists while dentists are the equivalent of general >>practitioners. It's typical to see a dentist for checkups and basic treatment >>and get a referral to an oral surgeon for more complex procedures.
Without going to far into the insanity that is the US medical system, dental >>and medical insurance have only slight overlap but oral surgery is one of >>places where they potentially do. Which policy/company pays and how much can >>be the subject of much debate with the patient being the primary loser.
Indeed. Oral surgeons have an MD, dentists have a DDS.
In article <sfphjr$jk4$1...@panix2.panix.com>,
Scott Dorsey <klu...@panix.com> wrote:
<rksh...@rosettacondot.com> wrote:
Oral surgeons are specialists while dentists are the equivalent of general >>practitioners. It's typical to see a dentist for checkups and basic treatment
and get a referral to an oral surgeon for more complex procedures. >>Without going to far into the insanity that is the US medical system, dental
and medical insurance have only slight overlap but oral surgery is one of >>places where they potentially do. Which policy/company pays and how much can
be the subject of much debate with the patient being the primary loser.
Indeed. Oral surgeons have an MD, dentists have a DDS.The three or four oral surgeons I've known have both the MD and
the DDS.
--
I don't know about in the UK but here, dentists do things like oral examinations and filling cavities (and provide office space for oral hygienists), while oral surgeons do things like root canals, dental
implants, and denture fittings.
Ouch! IIRC I had at least one root canal done by my (then)
dentist, but the extractions were done by an oral surgeon.
And this latest one cost me $850.00, but I am hoping that Blue
Shield and/or Medicare will reimburse some of it.
My endocrinologis sent me a site to report it to, and I really need to
quit stalling and do that. Googling the name of the lab yielded only an online article on a different scam whose scammers knock on the doors of elderly people and *ask them* for their Medicare IDs! And get them, sometimes! May I be dead and buried befor I get that dim.
The oncologist is apparently for real; whether he's actually involved in
the scam or is being used by the scammers without his knowledge or
consent, I don't know and it's not my place to find out.
On Fri, 20 Aug 2021 19:28:06 +0000, Dorothy J Heydt wrote:
My endocrinologis sent me a site to report it to, and I really need to
quit stalling and do that. Googling the name of the lab yielded only an
online article on a different scam whose scammers knock on the doors of
elderly people and *ask them* for their Medicare IDs! And get them,
sometimes! May I be dead and buried befor I get that dim.
The oncologist is apparently for real; whether he's actually involved in
the scam or is being used by the scammers without his knowledge or
consent, I don't know and it's not my place to find out.
So it looks like the scammer succeeded in one sense -- putting a brain-
lock on you that prevents you from both reporting to the authorities and >sharing data with would-be detectives.
Alan Woodford <alan@thewoodfords.uk> wrote:
Scammer "There sees to be a problem with your internet connection."
Bearded Fan "Which one?"
S. "The one you use to connect to the internet"
BF. "Which one, I've got four different internet connections?"
....
Bravo!
I view my email as plain text whenever possible. Then there are
no buttons with hidden URLs to worry about.
Unfortunately, some legitimate lists I'm on make the plain text mail
as unreadable as they can.
Gary McGath <garym@REMOVEmcgathREMOVE.com> wrote:
I view my email as plain text whenever possible. Then there are
no buttons with hidden URLs to worry about.
Likewise. Except replace "whenever possible" with "always."
Unfortunately, some legitimate lists I'm on make the plain text mail
as unreadable as they can.
Some lists have even retreated behind the base64 event horizon. I had
to write a base64 decoder that's compatible with procmail to silently
and automatically undo that damage.
I've recently received some emails with xlsx attachments. Any idea
how to decode those?
Chicon sends me HTML emails with a login link whenever I want to see
if they've received my check yet. The login link is buried amongst
numerous other links. And it's both MIME-mangled and much too long
to either cut and paste or retype. Not to mention that it's run by "Mailchimp," an email marketing company, so I had of course long since blocked all Mailchimp emails as spam.
I've found that the best way to deal with it is to locate the login
link, discard the rest of it, manually un-MIME it, turn it into a
proper web page, upload it to my public website, and then load it from
a graphical browser. Neither convenient nor secure.
The good news is that they finally received my check, 32 days after
I mailed it. That's an average of less than one mile per hour. It
would have been faster for me to walk the whole way from Virginia to
Chicago, hand it to them, then walk home. I wonder how the Post Awful carried the letter. No train, plane, automobile, bicycle, pack animal,
or pedestrian is that slow. Maybe they had a turtle carry it.
Fortunately my pharmacy's robocall reminder messages are long enough
for me to catch the tail end, so I know they've called, but not what
about.
Dorothy J Heydt <djheydt@kithrup.com> wrote:
Alan Woodford <alan@thewoodfords.uk> wrote:
Scammer "There sees to be a problem with your internet connection."
Bearded Fan "Which one?"
S. "The one you use to connect to the internet"
BF. "Which one, I've got four different internet connections?"
....
Bravo!
I often get calls telling me my car insurance is expiring. When I'm
asked to verify the make and model, I say, okay, go ahead, I'll tell
you if you're correct. They hang up. (I don't have a car.)
Then there's the "I've been trying to reach you..." scam, which calls
once or twice a day. It's entirely robotic, and there's no way to
reach a person.
Over the past week, whenever I get a scam call from someone with an
Indian accent, I ask them if they really think it's a good idea to
make the whole world think of India as a nation of scammers, given
that the Taliban are rampaging nearby.
I've never understood why any scammer calls the same number multiple
times per day. Do they think anyone will agree to give them money
just to make the calls stop? If so, given that nobody is enforcing
laws against those scum, why don't they just come out and say that,
instead of wasting everyone's time touting an imaginary product?
The good news is that they finally received my check, 32 days after
I mailed it. That's an average of less than one mile per hour. It
would have been faster for me to walk the whole way from Virginia to
Chicago, hand it to them, then walk home. I wonder how the Post Awful
carried the letter. No train, plane, automobile, bicycle, pack animal,
or pedestrian is that slow. Maybe they had a turtle carry it.
I would say s/received/processed/ unless you sent the check return receipt >requested. How much of that 32 days is transit through the postal system and >how much is sitting ignored at the destination?
On Sat, 21 Aug 2021 19:07:37 -0000 (UTC), "Keith F. Lynch" ><kfl@KeithLynch.net> wrote:
Dorothy J Heydt <djheydt@kithrup.com> wrote:
I've never understood why any scammer calls the same number multiple
times per day. Do they think anyone will agree to give them money
just to make the calls stop? If so, given that nobody is enforcing
laws against those scum, why don't they just come out and say that,
instead of wasting everyone's time touting an imaginary product?
In article <rdn2ig1qsu3gn1r4t2hc0kn3slv7mmo335@4ax.com>,
Tim Merrigan <tppm@ca.rr.com> wrote:
On Sat, 21 Aug 2021 19:07:37 -0000 (UTC), "Keith F. Lynch" >><kfl@KeithLynch.net> wrote:
Dorothy J Heydt <djheydt@kithrup.com> wrote:
I've never understood why any scammer calls the same number
multiple times per day. Do they think anyone will agree to
give them money just to make the calls stop? If so, given that
nobody is enforcing laws against those scum, why don't they
just come out and say that, instead of wasting everyone's time
touting an imaginary product?
The only scammer calls I get that frequently are from a bunch of
guys who want me to support the local police force financially.
I get them two or three times a week. I have a stock answer for
them: "We've already set up our donation budget for this year."
In article <sfrlt9$crlm$1@memoryalpha.rosettacon.com>,
<rkshullat@rosettacondot.com> wrote:
The good news is that they finally received my check, 32 days
after I mailed it. That's an average of less than one mile
per hour. It would have been faster for me to walk the whole
way from Virginia to Chicago, hand it to them, then walk home.
I wonder how the Post Awful carried the letter. No train,
plane, automobile, bicycle, pack animal, or pedestrian is that
slow. Maybe they had a turtle carry it.
I don't know about turtles, but we've had several packages sent
from wherever they started to a central office fairly near where
we are, only to be forwarded to ANOTHER central office further
away, and sit there for a week or two till they finally get sent
somewhere nearby and then get delivered in the next day or two.
djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) wrote in
news:qy7JxC.x8B@kithrup.com:
In article <rdn2ig1qsu3gn1r4t2hc0kn3slv7mmo335@4ax.com>,My normal answer for those is "Every police department in the United
Tim Merrigan <tppm@ca.rr.com> wrote:
On Sat, 21 Aug 2021 19:07:37 -0000 (UTC), "Keith F. Lynch" >>><kfl@KeithLynch.net> wrote:
Dorothy J Heydt <djheydt@kithrup.com> wrote:
I've never understood why any scammer calls the same number
multiple times per day. Do they think anyone will agree to
give them money just to make the calls stop? If so, given that
nobody is enforcing laws against those scum, why don't they
just come out and say that, instead of wasting everyone's time
touting an imaginary product?
The only scammer calls I get that frequently are from a bunch of
guys who want me to support the local police force financially.
I get them two or three times a week. I have a stock answer for
them: "We've already set up our donation budget for this year."
States has issued press releases saying, 'We do not - ever - solicit >donations over the phone. If you get a phone call claiming to be from
us, please report this as a criminal scam. What was your name again?"
I don't get many of those these days.
In article <XnsAD8DCD197AB8Ftaustincagmailcom@85.12.62.245>,
Ninapenda Jibini <taustinca@gmail.com> wrote:
djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) wrote inOoooh! Bookmarked!
news:qy7JxC.x8B@kithrup.com:
In article <rdn2ig1qsu3gn1r4t2hc0kn3slv7mmo335@4ax.com>,My normal answer for those is "Every police department in the
Tim Merrigan <tppm@ca.rr.com> wrote:
On Sat, 21 Aug 2021 19:07:37 -0000 (UTC), "Keith F. Lynch" >>>><kfl@KeithLynch.net> wrote:
Dorothy J Heydt <djheydt@kithrup.com> wrote:
I've never understood why any scammer calls the same number
multiple times per day. Do they think anyone will agree to
give them money just to make the calls stop? If so, given
that nobody is enforcing laws against those scum, why don't
they just come out and say that, instead of wasting
everyone's time touting an imaginary product?
The only scammer calls I get that frequently are from a bunch
of guys who want me to support the local police force
financially. I get them two or three times a week. I have a
stock answer for them: "We've already set up our donation
budget for this year."
United States has issued press releases saying, 'We do not -
ever - solicit donations over the phone. If you get a phone call
claiming to be from us, please report this as a criminal scam.
What was your name again?"
I don't get many of those these days.
But USPS isn't the only shipper that does stupid things. I ordered
a printer for one of our stores in Davis. The FedEx tracking
information showed it in Sacramento a couple of days later, 10
miles from the store. The next entry shows it being delivered to a
business with a completely different name - in Virginia. (The
shipper was very cooprative about reshipping it.)
In article <sfrlt9$crlm$1@memoryalpha.rosettacon.com>,
<rkshullat@rosettacondot.com> wrote:
The good news is that they finally received my check, 32 days after
I mailed it. That's an average of less than one mile per hour. It
would have been faster for me to walk the whole way from Virginia to
Chicago, hand it to them, then walk home. I wonder how the Post Awful
carried the letter. No train, plane, automobile, bicycle, pack animal,
or pedestrian is that slow. Maybe they had a turtle carry it.
I don't know about turtles, but we've had several packages sent
from wherever they started to a central office fairly near where
we are, only to be forwarded to ANOTHER central office further
away, and sit there for a week or two till they finally get sent
somewhere nearby and then get delivered in the next day or two.
Maybe they had the turtle assigning the delivery schedule?
rurtles aren't all that bright.
I would say s/received/processed/ unless you sent the check return receipt >>requested. How much of that 32 days is transit through the postal system and >>how much is sitting ignored at the destination?
Or somewhere.
djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) wrote in
news:qy831x.1uyB@kithrup.com:
In article <XnsAD8DCD197AB8Ftaustincagmailcom@85.12.62.245>,It has the advantage of being pretty close to true, too. Call your
Ninapenda Jibini <taustinca@gmail.com> wrote:
djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) wrote in >>>news:qy7JxC.x8B@kithrup.com:Ooooh! Bookmarked!
In article <rdn2ig1qsu3gn1r4t2hc0kn3slv7mmo335@4ax.com>,My normal answer for those is "Every police department in the
Tim Merrigan <tppm@ca.rr.com> wrote:
On Sat, 21 Aug 2021 19:07:37 -0000 (UTC), "Keith F. Lynch" >>>>><kfl@KeithLynch.net> wrote:
Dorothy J Heydt <djheydt@kithrup.com> wrote:
I've never understood why any scammer calls the same number >>>>>>multiple times per day. Do they think anyone will agree to
give them money just to make the calls stop? If so, given
that nobody is enforcing laws against those scum, why don't
they just come out and say that, instead of wasting
everyone's time touting an imaginary product?
The only scammer calls I get that frequently are from a bunch
of guys who want me to support the local police force
financially. I get them two or three times a week. I have a
stock answer for them: "We've already set up our donation
budget for this year."
United States has issued press releases saying, 'We do not -
ever - solicit donations over the phone. If you get a phone call
claiming to be from us, please report this as a criminal scam.
What was your name again?"
I don't get many of those these days.
local PD public affairs office and ask about it, and they'll tell
you that nobody who has any official connection to the department
*ever* solicits with cold calls - because of the scammers.
I've never understood why any scammer calls the same number multiple
times per day.
About ten years ago, I got a phone call just as I was getting up
from someone claiming to be with a company dealing with a blocked
drain in my street. They said they'd be leaving equipment on my
property and I'd have to pay a deposit, payable by bank transfer,
quite a large amount, as I recall.
On the matter of not having a car, a few weeks ago I was asked to
come into the local hospital for an echo cardiogram. They asked me
to come in on a Sunday as it would be easier to park. Well, even if
I had a car, it would be quicker for me to walk across the road to
the hospital.
The only scammer calls I get that frequently are from a bunch of
guys who want me to support the local police force financially.
Dorothy J Heydt <djheydt@kithrup.com> wrote:
The only scammer calls I get that frequently are from a bunch of
guys who want me to support the local police force financially.
Unlike most scams, that might actually work. Not because anyone
actually supports the police anymore, but because they might feel
intimidated into donating. Not many people want to risk their whole
family being massacred in yet another "wrong address" midnight SWAT
team raid. A hundred dollars or two each year is a small amount to
prevent such a "terrible mistake."
They're probably scammers who have nothing to do with the police, but
why risk it?
Police Departments => State supported protection rackets.
Tim Merrigan <tppm@ca.rr.com> wrote:
Police Departments => State supported protection rackets.
Indeed. Not all cops are killers, but they're all liars. Lying is a
job requirement. Such lies do enormous legal and psychological damage
to innocent defendants who totally trust the police. Fortunately,
this problem is self-correcting in the long run, as there are fewer
and fewer people that gullible every year.
Illinois has passed a law invalidating confessions by minors that
were obtained through willful deception by the police. They can
still do it to adults, but it's a small gain.
Gary McGath <garym@REMOVEmcgathREMOVE.com> wrote:
Illinois has passed a law invalidating confessions by minors that
were obtained through willful deception by the police. They can
still do it to adults, but it's a small gain.
Good. But unless it's matched to a requirement that the police record
all interrogations from the beginning, and that "the dog ate my tapes"
not be accepted as an excuse, it's worthless, since otherwise nothing
would keep the cops from lying to the court about whether they lied to
the suspect.
On Sun, 22 Aug 2021 21:59:08 -0000 (UTC), "Keith F. Lynch" <kfl@KeithLynch.net> wrote:
Gary McGath <garym@REMOVEmcgathREMOVE.com> wrote:
Illinois has passed a law invalidating confessions by minors that
were obtained through willful deception by the police. They can
still do it to adults, but it's a small gain.
Good. But unless it's matched to a requirement that the police record
all interrogations from the beginning, and that "the dog ate my tapes"
not be accepted as an excuse, it's worthless, since otherwise nothing
would keep the cops from lying to the court about whether they lied to
the suspect.
IMHO any time one is in police custody (including being stopped on the street, even if it's only to be asked directions) whether as a
witness, a victim, or a suspect, one is under arrest, and is subject
to all rights and protections (such as they are, e.g. Miranda rights,
and them explaining why one is being detained).
I've noticed that in some cop shows (the Law & Order franchise comes
to mind) the detectives seem to think the phrase "this is a murder investigation" trumps the requirement for warrants.
IMHO any time one is in police custody (including being stopped on
the street, even if it's only to be asked directions) whether as a
witness, a victim, or a suspect, one is under arrest,
and is subject to all rights and protections (such as they are, e.g.
Miranda rights, and them explaining why one is being detained).
I've noticed that in some cop shows (the Law & Order franchise comes
to mind) the detectives seem to think the phrase "this is a murder investigation" trumps the requirement for warrants.
I had a car, it would be quicker for me to walk across the road to
the hospital.
I've never lived that close to a hospital, but I can see Fairfax Inova Hospital out my bedroom window, just barely,
On 8/22/2021 5:34 PM, Tim Merrigan wrote:
On Sun, 22 Aug 2021 21:59:08 -0000 (UTC), "Keith F. Lynch"
<kfl@KeithLynch.net> wrote:
I've noticed that in some cop shows (the Law & Order franchise comes
to mind) the detectives seem to think the phrase "this is a murder
investigation" trumps the requirement for warrants.
I don't think I've ever seen a cop show that sometime in the series or
movie doesn't use questionable, or even outright illegal, methods but
since we're the good guys it's really ok.
On 8/22/21 8:22 PM, Jay E. Morris wrote:
On 8/22/2021 5:34 PM, Tim Merrigan wrote:
On Sun, 22 Aug 2021 21:59:08 -0000 (UTC), "Keith F. Lynch"
<kfl@KeithLynch.net> wrote:
I've noticed that in some cop shows (the Law & Order franchise comes
to mind) the detectives seem to think the phrase "this is a murder
investigation" trumps the requirement for warrants.
I don't think I've ever seen a cop show that sometime in the series or
movie doesn't use questionable, or even outright illegal, methods but
since we're the good guys it's really ok.
I've watched some episodes of the German cop show "Mord mit Aussicht"
(murder with a view). Often I wonder how much German police authority
differs from the US, and how much is the writers making stuff up.
For example, in one episode the cops dug up the grave of a pet on the >suspect's property without getting a warrant or anything like it. The
purpose was to establish that the pet had been poisoned, which was a
link to a human victim having been poisoned. In the US that search would
be illegal, which doesn't guarantee cops wouldn't do it. Is it legal to
dig up someone's property in Germany on suspicion without a warrant? I
don't know.
I can't actually see the hospital from my bedroom window as there
are trees in the way.
The road in question is the A3, a major road from London to
Portsmouth. The safest way to cross it is to use a subway
(in the UK sense of the word).
It takes me about five minutes to walk to the supermarket and maybe
a couple more minutes to continue to the hospital.
When I had my prostate operation ten years ago, they wouldn't let
me walk home afterwards and insisted in calling my brother out of
a meeting in London to drive here to collect me. Of course, once
I got home, the first thing I had to do was visit the supermarket.
If current trends continue, by the 22nd century every building in
the US will be a Starbucks, a medical facility, or a Starbucks in
a medical facility.)
It takes me about five minutes to walk to the supermarket and maybe
a couple more minutes to continue to the hospital.
The closest two supermarkets, an H-Mart and a Lidl, are both about
1000 ft (300 m) away.
In article <sg1iob$112$1@reader2.panix.com>, kfl@KeithLynch.net (Keith F. Lynch) wrote:
If current trends continue, by the 22nd century every building inThere was an episode of the TV series Sleepy Hollow where 21st century
the US will be a Starbucks, a medical facility, or a Starbucks in
a medical facility.)
cop Abby gets transported back to the eighteenth century. As she is
about to enter a building she says, "This is a Starbucks in my day - a
coffee house." She then looks across the street. "And that is a
Starbucks, too. We like coffee."
Paul Dormer <prd@pauldormer.cix.co.uk> wrote:
I can't actually see the hospital from my bedroom window as thereLikewise, but they're only in the way in summer.
are trees in the way.
The road in question is the A3, a major road from London toLikewise, except the road the hospital and I are both on is Gallows
Portsmouth. The safest way to cross it is to use a subway
(in the UK sense of the word).
Road, and the hospital is about 1.3 miles (2.1 km) away, not directly
across. Directly across from me is a facility where very large dump
trucks bang their tailgates as loudly as possible, unfortunately.
At least they only do so all day. They used to also do so all night.
(I'm not quite directly on Gallows, but it's only 150 ft (50 m) from
my bedroom window.) But yes, I'd have to cross the road to get to
the hospital.
Once I was pointed at a website that showed how many Starbucks
(Starbuckses?) were located within 2 miles of a given geographic point.
There were something like 80 within 2 miles of my workplace. That was
close to Harvard Square, so the 2-mile radius circle covered a large
part of Greater Boston. Even so...
The place I recently moved from is about a mile from a quarry, and
occasional explosions are audible. One of them made national news this
year, when someone detonated 80 pounds of Tannerite for a "gender
reveal" party. It was noticeably louder then the usual explosions. Some
people claimed property damage, but I don't think any claims were
upheld. The guy who did it got a suspended fine.
I now live about three miles from the quarry. The blast was probably
audible here.
--
Gary McGath http://www.mcgath.com
Then Lidl converted the old Currys and opened there.
If current trends continue, by the 22nd century every building in
the US will be a Starbucks, a medical facility, or a Starbucks in
a medical facility.)
Then Lidl converted the old Currys and opened there.
Will Lidl sell you the makings of a curry? :)
Paul Dormer <prd@pauldormer.cix.co.uk> wrote:
I can't actually see the hospital from my bedroom window as
there are trees in the way.
Likewise, but they're only in the way in summer.
The road in question is the A3, a major road from London to
Portsmouth. The safest way to cross it is to use a subway
(in the UK sense of the word).
Likewise, except the road the hospital and I are both on is
Gallows Road, and the hospital is about 1.3 miles (2.1 km) away,
not directly across. Directly across from me is a facility
where very large dump trucks bang their tailgates as loudly as
possible, unfortunately. At least they only do so all day. They
used to also do so all night. (I'm not quite directly on
Gallows, but it's only 150 ft (50 m) from my bedroom window.)
But yes, I'd have to cross the road to get to the hospital.
Directly across Gallows from Inova Fairfax Hospital is what used
to be the Exxon/Mobil headquarters but is now the Inova Center
for Personalized Health. (Ever since Obamacare put its thumb on
the scale, more and more of the US economy is devoted to medical
care. If current trends continue, by the 22nd century every
building in the US will be a Starbucks, a medical facility, or a
Starbucks in a medical facility.)
On Tue, 24 Aug 2021 08:24:49 -0400
Gary McGath <garym@REMOVEmcgathREMOVE.com> wrote:
[]
The place I recently moved from is about a mile from a quarry, and
occasional explosions are audible. One of them made national news this
year, when someone detonated 80 pounds of Tannerite for a "gender
reveal" party. It was noticeably louder then the usual explosions. Some
I'm not sure how much gender is revealed by exploding people; I'd rather
not have it happen.
What if 'they' decide on a different gender later?
Gary McGath <ga...@REMOVEmcgathREMOVE.com> wrote:
Once I was pointed at a website that showed how many Starbucks >(Starbuckses?) were located within 2 miles of a given geographic point. >There were something like 80 within 2 miles of my workplace. That wasDuring the cold war, it was claimed that the KGB taught their agents to
close to Harvard Square, so the 2-mile radius circle covered a large
part of Greater Boston. Even so...
live off the land, teaching them to be able to find edible items under any conditions and to survive off edible insects and roots. While, at the same time the CIA assured the survival of their agents by making sure there was
a McDonalds every fifty feet across the face of the earth.
There are over 750 McDonalds in Russia now. I guess we won.
Once I was pointed at a website that showed how many Starbucks
(Starbuckses?) were located within 2 miles of a given geographic point.
There were something like 80 within 2 miles of my workplace. That was
close to Harvard Square, so the 2-mile radius circle covered a large
part of Greater Boston. Even so...
On Tuesday, August 24, 2021 at 11:12:11 AM UTC-4, Scott Dorsey
wrote:
Gary McGath <ga...@REMOVEmcgathREMOVE.com> wrote:
During the cold war, it was claimed that the KGB taught their
Once I was pointed at a website that showed how many Starbucks
(Starbuckses?) were located within 2 miles of a given
geographic point. There were something like 80 within 2 miles
of my workplace. That was close to Harvard Square, so the
2-mile radius circle covered a large part of Greater Boston.
Even so...
agents to live off the land, teaching them to be able to find
edible items under any conditions and to survive off edible
insects and roots. While, at the same time the CIA assured the
survival of their agents by making sure there was a McDonalds
every fifty feet across the face of the earth.
There are over 750 McDonalds in Russia now. I guess we won.
I ate at one in Tallinn, Estonia, in 1985, when the USSR was
still a going concern.
Peter Trei <pete...@gmail.com> wrote in news:392cf926-e0b7-462a...@googlegroups.com:
On Tuesday, August 24, 2021 at 11:12:11 AM UTC-4, Scott Dorsey
wrote:
Gary McGath <ga...@REMOVEmcgathREMOVE.com> wrote:
During the cold war, it was claimed that the KGB taught their
Once I was pointed at a website that showed how many Starbucks
(Starbuckses?) were located within 2 miles of a given
geographic point. There were something like 80 within 2 miles
of my workplace. That was close to Harvard Square, so the
2-mile radius circle covered a large part of Greater Boston.
Even so...
agents to live off the land, teaching them to be able to find
edible items under any conditions and to survive off edible
insects and roots. While, at the same time the CIA assured the
survival of their agents by making sure there was a McDonalds
every fifty feet across the face of the earth.
There are over 750 McDonalds in Russia now. I guess we won.
I ate at one in Tallinn, Estonia, in 1985, when the USSR was
still a going concern.
I recall the news coverage when the first McDonalds open in Moscow.
The line to apply was as long as the line to eat there, and the
average employee lasted about an hour before being let go, until they
got a crew they liked. The reason for both long (long, long, long)
lines was the same: McDonalds won't open a new location unless they
can guarantee supplies of food products needed to run it - including
meat (and employees were given one meal a day off the menu).
I recall the news coverage when the first McDonalds open in Moscow.
The line to apply was as long as the line to eat there, and the
average employee lasted about an hour before being let go, until they
got a crew they liked. The reason for both long (long, long, long)
lines was the same: McDonalds won't open a new location unless they
can guarantee supplies of food products needed to run it - including
meat (and employees were given one meal a day off the menu).
In article <20210824162716.7ddc08029df1ed20290c2c27@127.0.0.1>,
Kerr-Mudd, John <admin@127.0.0.1> wrote:
On Tue, 24 Aug 2021 08:24:49 -0400Right. I assume, from your omission of injuries, that there
Gary McGath <garym@REMOVEmcgathREMOVE.com> wrote:
[]
The place I recently moved from is about a mile from a quarry, andI'm not sure how much gender is revealed by exploding people; I'd rather
occasional explosions are audible. One of them made national news this
year, when someone detonated 80 pounds of Tannerite for a "gender
reveal" party. It was noticeably louder then the usual explosions. Some
not have it happen.
weren't any?
Keith F. Lynch <kfl@keithlynch.net> wrote:
If current trends continue, by the 22nd century every building in
the US will be a Starbucks, a medical facility, or a Starbucks in
a medical facility.)
You'll be able to avoid both by going to a small town...hospitals are
closing and Starbucks isn't interested in that demographic, except to
push bagged coffee in the local market.
We own some land outside of a town in Oklahoma (small, but still the
county seat and home to half the county's population). The closest
Starbucks is 72 miles away. They do have a hospital, for now, but most
of the people I know in the area end up travelling the 150 miles to Oklahoma City (or sometimes the 250 to Dallas).
A generation later, my son's and daughter-in-law's firstborn
(identified as male at birth), at not quite age four, said, "I want
to be a girl!" They said, "Okay, (And we're going to have to
research trans-friendly kindergartens.)"
The place I recently moved from is about a mile from a quarry, and
occasional explosions are audible. One of them made national news
this year, when someone detonated 80 pounds of Tannerite for a
"gender reveal" party. It was noticeably louder then the usual
explosions. Some people claimed property damage, but I don't think
any claims were upheld. The guy who did it got a suspended fine.
I now live about three miles from the quarry. The blast was
probably audible here.
The reported cracks in walls could have been there before.
I'm not sure how much gender is revealed by exploding people; I'd
rather not have it happen.
What if 'they' decide on a different gender later?
During the cold war, it was claimed that the KGB taught their agents
to live off the land, teaching them to be able to find edible items
under any conditions and to survive off edible insects and roots.
While, at the same time the CIA assured the survival of their agents
by making sure there was a McDonalds every fifty feet across the
face of the earth.
There are over 750 McDonalds in Russia now. I guess we won.
If I walk or ride the bus ~ 1 mi I wind up in a commercial area that
has 3 supermarkets. No Lidl, but there's an Aldi.
I haven't visited that Aldi in months, but I use Instacart to
deliver groceries from there. They sent me loads of food 24 hours
before TS Henri showed up.
I could walk up the hill from the intersection of the streets the
markets are on, but it is quite steep, and the hospital really ought
to remotely monitor my vital signs I'm while doing that!
Once I was pointed at a website that showed how many Starbucks
(Starbuckses?) were located within 2 miles of a given geographic
point. There were something like 80 within 2 miles of my workplace.
Kerr-Mudd, John <admin@127.0.0.1> wrote:
I'm not sure how much gender is revealed by exploding people; I'd
rather not have it happen.
People have been killed by gender reveals gone wrong, but not in that
New Hampshire case.
What if 'they' decide on a different gender later?
Then the parents will be required to get another 80 pounds of
explosive and do it again, of course.
Last(?) year one of our (SoCal) wild fires was started by a gender
reveal party. They planed to launch blue or pink fireworks, but
someone knocked over the rocket platform as they were lighting the
fuses, and the rockets went off into the brush, starting the fire
which burned some hundreds or thousands of Acers and took about a
week to contain. I don't remember if anyone died as a result.
Last(?) year one of our (SoCal) wild fires was started by a gender
reveal party. They planed to launch blue or pink fireworks, but
someone knocked over the rocket platform as they were lighting the
fuses, and the rockets went off into the brush, starting the fire
which burned some hundreds or thousands of Acers ...
and took about a week
to contain. I don't remember if anyone died as a result.
(Part of the reason for the vagueness is I'm reporting from memory,
that was one of three fires that week, and we get so many fires here
that they tend to merge in memory (even when they don't on the
ground).)
Dorothy J Heydt <djheydt@kithrup.com> wrote:
A generation later, my son's and daughter-in-law's firstborn
(identified as male at birth), at not quite age four, said, "I want
to be a girl!" They said, "Okay, (And we're going to have to
research trans-friendly kindergartens.)"
At the risk of my being called transphobic and "literally Hitler,"
perhaps the child doesn't yet fully know themself, hence shouldn't
be pushed into a life-long female role because of a passing remark
that they may have forgotten by the next day.
At that age I remember
briefly identifying as all sorts of things, including a pirate, a king,
a wizard, and even a horse. I'm glad I wasn't put out to pasture.
Tim Merrigan <tp...@ca.rr.com> wrote:
Last(?) year one of our (SoCal) wild fires was started by a genderEasily found via a search engine that Gary prefers that I not name:
reveal party. They planed to launch blue or pink fireworks, but
someone knocked over the rocket platform as they were lighting the
fuses, and the rockets went off into the brush, starting the fire
which burned some hundreds or thousands of Acers and took about a
week to contain. I don't remember if anyone died as a result.
A California couple has been criminally charged for their role in
igniting last year's destructive El Dorado wildfire after they used
a pyrotechnic device during a gender-reveal party.
The blaze torched close to 23,000 acres (9,300 hectares), destroyed
five homes and 15 other buildings, and claimed the life of a
firefighter, Charlie Morton.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/jul/21/couple-gender-reveal-party-wildfire-charged
On July 4, 2007, the official fireworks show in Vienna, Virginia,
where I lived at the time, malfunctioned in the same way, sending
rockets into the crowd. Several people were severely burned.
Fortunately for me, I wasn't there, but was at my usual Fourth of July
picnic at a home in Arlington, which featured an illegal fireworks
show at which nobody was hurt.
--
The barrage landed on a Best Buy....? :)
Exercise is good for you. And it's a useful test: If you can walk to
the hospital, you don't need to go to the hospital.
On Tuesday, August 24, 2021 at 9:18:54 PM UTC-4, merri...@gmail.com wrote:
[snip]
Last(?) year one of our (SoCal) wild fires was started by a gender
reveal party. They planed to launch blue or pink fireworks, but
someone knocked over the rocket platform as they were lighting the
fuses, and the rockets went off into the brush, starting the fire
which burned some hundreds or thousands of Acers ...
The barrage landed on a Best Buy....? :)
and took about a week
to contain. I don't remember if anyone died as a result.
(Part of the reason for the vagueness is I'm reporting from memory,Here in CT, there are fierce wrangles before local Planning &
that was one of three fires that week, and we get so many fires here
that they tend to merge in memory (even when they don't on the
ground).)
Zoning committees over whether people are allowed permits
to blast through rock so that they can put up homes and other
structures. The problem of neighboring properties suffering
damage from blasting is common around various New England
towns.
In article <sg43ne$ibt$1@reader1.panix.com>, kfl@KeithLynch.net (Keith F. >Lynch) wrote:
Exercise is good for you. And it's a useful test: If you can walk to
the hospital, you don't need to go to the hospital.
When I came out of hospital back in January, the cardiac nurse wanted me
to do at least a ten-minute walk every day - on the level. When I
mentioned this to a neighbour, he said I could always walk up and down
the street ten times. (For those that don't know Guildford, it's where
the River Wey cuts through the North Downs and everywhere is uphill from >everywhere else.)
Since then my walking has much improved and yesterday according to the >walking app on my phone, I walked for 120 minutes, 40 of which were brisk. >No, I don't know how it defines brisk.
If, on the other foot, I fall *forward,* I sprain my toes, and
can't walk for several days.
On Tuesday, August 24, 2021 at 10:25:35 PM UTC-4, Kevrob wrote:
On Tuesday, August 24, 2021 at 9:18:54 PM UTC-4, merri...@gmail.com wrote:
[snip]
Last(?) year one of our (SoCal) wild fires was started by a gender
reveal party. They planed to launch blue or pink fireworks, but
someone knocked over the rocket platform as they were lighting the
fuses, and the rockets went off into the brush, starting the fire
which burned some hundreds or thousands of Acers ...
The barrage landed on a Best Buy....? :)
and took about a week
to contain. I don't remember if anyone died as a result.
I find this a bit strange. I lived in Sweden in the 60's. Sweden is not(Part of the reason for the vagueness is I'm reporting from memory,Here in CT, there are fierce wrangles before local Planning &
that was one of three fires that week, and we get so many fires here
that they tend to merge in memory (even when they don't on the
ground).)
Zoning committees over whether people are allowed permits
to blast through rock so that they can put up homes and other
structures. The problem of neighboring properties suffering
damage from blasting is common around various New England
towns.
only the birthplace of dynamite, it's also incredibly rocky - the glaciers stripped everything down to the granite bedrock.
So, blasting is very common, and even back then, exquisitely controlled.
I lived in a row house on Lidingo, and our neighbors decided they
want
The contractor blasted it out, under our neighboring unit, with which
we shared a wall. While we were evacuated during the actual blasting,
there were zero other issues; not a cracked window, let alone a foundation.
One thing they did in Sweden was to cover the blasting site with what I can only call 'blankets', made from old tire segments sewn together with wire rope. These prevented fragments from flying away, and mitigated the
blast to some extent. However, I think skill in placing the charge, and in deciding the charge size, was the main factor.
pt
In article <qyECEt.H5q@kithrup.com>, djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) wrote:
If, on the other foot, I fall *forward,* I sprain my toes, and
can't walk for several days.
My sister (who is four years younger than me) is a keen runner. A few
weeks ago, she slipped running and her leg hurt. But she still went for
a week's holiday in the Outer Hebrides. It was only when she got back
she discovered she'd broken her leg.
Gary McGath <garym@REMOVEmcgathREMOVE.com> wrote:
Once I was pointed at a website that showed how many Starbucks
(Starbuckses?) were located within 2 miles of a given geographic
point. There were something like 80 within 2 miles of my workplace.
At one time there were three in the Tysons mall, and two more at the
other Tysons mall across the street from the first Tysons mall. I
know there were others within a mile or two, but I don't know how
many. Probably not 80.
I don't drink coffee, but I once had a donut at a Starbucks. (Someone
bought it for me.)
In article <qyECEt.H5q@kithrup.com>, djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) >wrote:
If, on the other foot, I fall *forward,* I sprain my toes, and
can't walk for several days.
My sister (who is four years younger than me) is a keen runner. A few
weeks ago, she slipped running and her leg hurt. But she still went for
a week's holiday in the Outer Hebrides. It was only when she got back
she discovered she'd broken her leg.
Keith F. Lynch wrote:
I don't drink coffee, but I once had a donut at a Starbucks.
(Someone bought it for me.)
Be careful with those donuts. On Twitter, I replied to a tweet
mentioning Krispy Kreme's giving away donuts to vaccinated people.
I said that meant you could die of a heart attack rather than COVID.
Twitter took this as a threat to induce a heart attack (by voodoo, I
guess), and currently I'm not allowed to post to my account.
A few weeks ago, she slipped running and her leg hurt. But she
still went for a week's holiday in the Outer Hebrides.
On Wednesday, August 25, 2021 at 10:47:58 PM UTC-4, Keith F. Lynch wrote:
[snip]
As for heart attacks, if someone who eats donuts every day will get
a heart attack in ten years, then I'm likely to get a heart attack
in about a thousand years, so I'm not worried about it. Anyhow, my
increasingly insane landlord/housemate tells me that I will die this
winter, along with everyone else who is vaccinated against covid-19.
He's concerned that he might catch the vaccine from me. Did I mention
that he's crazy?
Any crazier and he'll start informing Alex Jones of
massive worldwide conspiracies rather than vice versa.
I need to be walking more than a half mile at a time. The hot weather
ought to cool off on the weekend, so maybe I can get some miles in!
{Hmmm.... the public library is 2.2 mi round trip...}
As for heart attacks, if someone who eats donuts every day will get
a heart attack in ten years, then I'm likely to get a heart attack
in about a thousand years, so I'm not worried about it. Anyhow, my increasingly insane landlord/housemate tells me that I will die this
winter, along with everyone else who is vaccinated against covid-19.
He's concerned that he might catch the vaccine from me. Did I mention
that he's crazy? Any crazier and he'll start informing Alex Jones of
massive worldwide conspiracies rather than vice versa.
--
In article <df85c7b5-c14d-4b7e...@googlegroups.com>,
Kevrob <kev...@my-deja.com> wrote:
On Wednesday, August 25, 2021 at 10:47:58 PM UTC-4, Keith F. Lynch wrote:
[snip]
Not previously, but by the Great Horn Spoon, you just did.As for heart attacks, if someone who eats donuts every day will get
a heart attack in ten years, then I'm likely to get a heart attack
in about a thousand years, so I'm not worried about it. Anyhow, my
increasingly insane landlord/housemate tells me that I will die this
winter, along with everyone else who is vaccinated against covid-19.
He's concerned that he might catch the vaccine from me. Did I mention
that he's crazy?
Any crazier and he'll start informing Alex Jones of
massive worldwide conspiracies rather than vice versa.
I need to be walking more than a half mile at a time. The hot weatherI used to walk that far (each way) to work. Honesty forces me to
ought to cool off on the weekend, so maybe I can get some miles in! >{Hmmm.... the public library is 2.2 mi round trip...}
admit that I usually took the bus home.
Now it's all I can do to walk to the bathroom and back.
--
Now it's all I can do to walk to the bathroom and back.
all
it needed was a boot and some time.
My only mental association with "Hebrides" is Felix Mendelssohn's
Hebrides Overture. (Has anyone ever found the rest of the opera?)
That overture is also known as Fingal's Cave. I see that there is
such a cave, but it's in the Inner Hebrides, not the Outer Hebrides.
In article <sg6upd$571$1@reader1.panix.com>, kfl@KeithLynch.net (Keith F. Lynch) wrote:
My only mental association with "Hebrides" is Felix Mendelssohn's
Hebrides Overture. (Has anyone ever found the rest of the opera?)
That overture is also known as Fingal's Cave. I see that there is
such a cave, but it's in the Inner Hebrides, not the Outer Hebrides.
You are being ironic, I assume, and are aware that it is a concert
overture? No opera followed.
Apparently, Mendelssohn went to visit the cave on a visit to Scotland and
the Macpherson Ossian poems were all the rage at the time which featured
the mythic hero Fionn mac Cumhaill, often given as Fingal.
On Fri, 20 Aug 2021 17:06 +0100 (BST), prd@pauldormer.cix.co.uk (Paul
Dormer) wrote:
Is an oral surgeon the same as a dentist? I've just had root canal work >>done and that was nearly a thousand quid, and there are no National
Health dentists in Guildford, that I've been able to find.
I don't know about in the UK but here, dentists do things like oral examinations and filling cavities (and provide office space for oral hygienists), while oral surgeons do things like root canals, dental
implants, and denture fittings.
On Thursday, August 26, 2021 at 12:55:01 AM UTC-4, Dorothy J Heydt wrote:
In article <df85c7b5-c14d-4b7e...@googlegroups.com>,
Kevrob <kev...@my-deja.com> wrote:
On Wednesday, August 25, 2021 at 10:47:58 PM UTC-4, Keith F. Lynch wrote: >> >Not previously, but by the Great Horn Spoon, you just did.
[snip]
As for heart attacks, if someone who eats donuts every day will get
a heart attack in ten years, then I'm likely to get a heart attack
in about a thousand years, so I'm not worried about it. Anyhow, my
increasingly insane landlord/housemate tells me that I will die this
winter, along with everyone else who is vaccinated against covid-19.
He's concerned that he might catch the vaccine from me. Did I mention
that he's crazy?
I used to walk that far (each way) to work. Honesty forces me toAny crazier and he'll start informing Alex Jones of
massive worldwide conspiracies rather than vice versa.
I need to be walking more than a half mile at a time. The hot weather
ought to cool off on the weekend, so maybe I can get some miles in!
{Hmmm.... the public library is 2.2 mi round trip...}
admit that I usually took the bus home.
Now it's all I can do to walk to the bathroom and back.
I've had medical problems that made shuffling to the bathroom
or kitchen a real chore. I empathize! I'm happy that those were
temporary conditions, once my medicos figured out how to
alleviate them. I dread other systems degrading with similar
effects.
In article <sg6upd$571$1@reader1.panix.com>, kfl@KeithLynch.net (Keith F. >Lynch) wrote:
My only mental association with "Hebrides" is Felix Mendelssohn's
Hebrides Overture. (Has anyone ever found the rest of the opera?)
That overture is also known as Fingal's Cave. I see that there is
such a cave, but it's in the Inner Hebrides, not the Outer Hebrides.
You are being ironic, I assume, and are aware that it is a concert
overture? No opera followed.
Apparently, Mendelssohn went to visit the cave on a visit to Scotland and
the Macpherson Ossian poems were all the rage at the time which featured
the mythic hero Fionn mac Cumhaill, often given as Fingal.
On 8/26/21 12:44 AM, Dorothy J Heydt wrote:
Now it's all I can do to walk to the bathroom and back.
Mokka is having trouble walking to the litter box and back this morning.
I called the "24-hour" emergency vet, only to find that they don't open
till 8 AM due to a shortage of veterinarians. They neglect to mention
this on their website.
I hope they find something treatable.
I don't know about turtles, but we've had several packages sent
from wherever they started to a central office fairly near where
we are, only to be forwarded to ANOTHER central office further
away, and sit there for a week or two till they finally get sent
somewhere nearby and then get delivered in the next day or two.
Gary McGath <garym@REMOVEmcgathREMOVE.com> wrote:
I view my email as plain text whenever possible. Then there are
no buttons with hidden URLs to worry about.
Likewise. Except replace "whenever possible" with "always."
I've recently received some emails with xlsx attachments. Any idea
how to decode those?
I've found that the best way to deal with it is to locate the login
link, discard the rest of it, manually un-MIME it, turn it into a
proper web page, upload it to my public website, and then load it from
a graphical browser. Neither convenient nor secure.
Keith F. Lynch <k...@keithlynch.net> wrote:
Gary McGath <ga...@REMOVEmcgathREMOVE.com> wrote:
I view my email as plain text whenever possible. Then there are
no buttons with hidden URLs to worry about.
Likewise. Except replace "whenever possible" with "always."
Always, but if I see it is important, it is a matter of an eyeblink to
hit "v" to display e-mail composition, navigate to the html part, hit
Enter and it opens a window in my (usually running) GUI browser. In incognito, sandboxed mode (previously, I used lynx, but more often than
not, if there is a html e-mail without a readable text alternative, it
won't display well in lynx).
I've recently received some emails with xlsx attachments. Any idea
how to decode those?
localc is the canonical way; though for your needs I guess xlsx2csv is
the best
I've found that the best way to deal with it is to locate the login
link, discard the rest of it, manually un-MIME it, turn it into a
proper web page, upload it to my public website, and then load it from
a graphical browser. Neither convenient nor secure.
Your browser cannot open file:// URLs? Nor does it recognize a file
as a $1 argument? What kind of a twisted, unpleasant OS is that?
In article <sg7sq6$v5s$1@dont-email.me>,
Gary McGath <garym@REMOVEmcgathREMOVE.com> wrote:
On 8/26/21 12:44 AM, Dorothy J Heydt wrote:
Now it's all I can do to walk to the bathroom and back.
Mokka is having trouble walking to the litter box and back this morning.
I called the "24-hour" emergency vet, only to find that they don't open
till 8 AM due to a shortage of veterinarians. They neglect to mention
this on their website.
I hope they find something treatable.
I hope so too. How old is Mokka?
Our cats, now at about fourteen months, are in robust good health
and perform the morning-and-evening crazies with great glee.
Mokka is having trouble walking to the litter box and back this morning.[snip]
I hope they find something treatable.
Mokka is 17. I got an appointment with my regular vet. Her weight was
low but not down from last time, her temperature was a shade high, and
the bloodwork didn't show anything beyond the known kidney problems.
But her behavior was atypical. She normally fights anyone who tries to
handle her, except me, furiously. She let people pick her up without a protest today. At one point she had what might have been a mild seizure.
If only by elimination, the signs are pointing to something
brain-related. I got a tube of Mirataz to improve her appetite.
Sometimes cats improve after brain-related incidents, but the hope isn't high. I'd just like her to hang on a while longer, so I don't have to
lose both cats in the same month. But if she keeps getting worse, I'll
do what I have to.
On 8/26/21 5:27 PM, Gary McGath wrote:
Mokka is 17. I got an appointment with my regular vet. Her weight was
low but not down from last time, her temperature was a shade high, and
the bloodwork didn't show anything beyond the known kidney problems.
But her behavior was atypical. She normally fights anyone who tries to
handle her, except me, furiously. She let people pick her up without a
protest today. At one point she had what might have been a mild seizure.
If only by elimination, the signs are pointing to something
brain-related. I got a tube of Mirataz to improve her appetite.
Sometimes cats improve after brain-related incidents, but the hope isn't
high. I'd just like her to hang on a while longer, so I don't have to
lose both cats in the same month. But if she keeps getting worse, I'll
do what I have to.
Yesterday evening Mokka got worse, with rapid and labored breathing. She
died about 1:30 AM.
It's a consolation that she didn't have to face a scenario I had
dreaded. If I'd found it necessary to get euthanasia, it was likely
she'd experience her last waking moments in terror. But whatever
happened to her brain took away her fear of other people. The end wasn't
too stretched out, and I think or at least hope she didn't suffer too
much. She seemed to be just out of it.
On 8/26/21 5:27 PM, Gary McGath wrote:
Yesterday evening Mokka got worse, with rapid and labored breathing. She
died about 1:30 AM.
It's a consolation that she didn't have to face a scenario I had
dreaded. If I'd found it necessary to get euthanasia, it was likely
she'd experience her last waking moments in terror. But whatever
happened to her brain took away her fear of other people. The end wasn't
too stretched out, and I think or at least hope she didn't suffer too
much. She seemed to be just out of it.
I'm just a new lurker around here, but I just wanted to say you have my empathy.
On 8/27/21 11:05 AM, Lafe wrote:
I'm just a new lurker around here, but I just wanted to say you have my empathy.New lurkers are always welcome. There are few enough of us here. And thanks. --
On Friday, August 27, 2021 at 3:26:54 PM UTC-4, Gary McGath wrote:
On 8/27/21 11:05 AM, Lafe wrote:my empathy.
I'm just a new lurker around here, but I just wanted to say you have
New lurkers are always welcome. There are few enough of us here. And thanks. >> --
I agree with Lafe's sentiments, and with Gary's, also.
<emphatic cough!>
I'm not a huge FDA fan. Private certification that the vaccines
were safe would have been enough for me, had such a system been
allowed to evolve.
ObSF: V\304\215era, dnes, zajtra by Jozef Schek (short summary
since I think there are some people here who did not read it:
archaeological excavations uncover a skull with unbelievable perfect
teeth. Of course, it turns out time travel is/was/will be involved)
It would be nice if they were
allowed to charge less to those who are vaccinated and more to those
who refuse.
<garabik-news-2005-05@kassiopeia.juls.savba.sk> wrote:
ObSF: V\304\215era, dnes, zajtra by Jozef Schek (short summary
since I think there are some people here who did not read it:
archaeological excavations uncover a skull with unbelievable perfect
teeth. Of course, it turns out time travel is/was/will be involved)
Lots of people died with perfect teeth before sugar became cheap and >plentiful. Others did so because they died young. So there's nothing
at all unusual about an ancient skull with perfect teeth.
Keith F. Lynch <kfl@keithlynch.net> wrote:
<garabik-news-2005-05@kassiopeia.juls.savba.sk> wrote:
ObSF: V\304\215era, dnes, zajtra by Jozef Schek (short summary
since I think there are some people here who did not read it:
archaeological excavations uncover a skull with unbelievable perfect
teeth. Of course, it turns out time travel is/was/will be involved)
Lots of people died with perfect teeth before sugar became cheap and plentiful. Others did so because they died young. So there's nothing
at all unusual about an ancient skull with perfect teeth.
Perfect adult *regular* teeth, I'd say it is very unusual.
Diamond-coated teeth, and a tiny very smooth hole in the skull, with
a charred rim... this is when the protagonists started to consider time travel (or a practical joke) seriously.
<garabik-news-2005-05@kassiopeia.juls.savba.sk> wrote:
ObSF: V\304\215era, dnes, zajtra by Jozef Schek (short summary
since I think there are some people here who did not read it:
archaeological excavations uncover a skull with unbelievable perfect
teeth. Of course, it turns out time travel is/was/will be involved)
Lots of people died with perfect teeth before sugar became cheap and plentiful. Others did so because they died young. So there's nothing
at all unusual about an ancient skull with perfect teeth.
In article <c3a7b770-79bb-40e0-a385-0c1458b1bd40n@googlegroups.com>,
Kevrob <kevrob@my-deja.com> wrote:
On Friday, August 27, 2021 at 3:26:54 PM UTC-4, Gary McGath wrote:
On 8/27/21 11:05 AM, Lafe wrote:my empathy.
I'm just a new lurker around here, but I just wanted to say you have
New lurkers are always welcome. There are few enough of us here. And thanks.
--
I agree with Lafe's sentiments, and with Gary's, also.
<emphatic cough!>
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