Posted on 11/29/2009 11:56:19 AM PST by BunnySlippers
911 phone call Tiger Woods
I have no idea but there ought to be.
I sometimes think that being very bright is a detriment to becoming rich. Very smart folks know their weaknesses, and they know all the things that can go wrong... thus they are sometimes impaired from trying at all.
[Wanna live next door to illiterates? Buy a house in a gated community!]
Strange comment.
In my south Texas area, these ‘illiterates’ are the money makers who are able to afford the beautiful brick and austin stone homes, each on a few acres of land in a fabulously landscaped parkland, where they are both protected and given privacy by Gated Communities!
[ I can’t understand why anyone with millions would live in a gated community. Trailer trash!]
???
Someone once posted pictures of a couple of homes in California that were selling for one million dollars. I couldn’t believe my eyes as they looked like a 1200 SqFt 1950’s style Ranch Home that “might” sell for $80,000. where I live!
I assume different states have different standards.
Would you rather be rich or be happy. Many intelligent people have enough trouble just trying to fit in, and become happy. Getting rich is often a much lower priority.
The problem is digital. All the information is somewhere, and the gods of the databases seethe to find it, connect it, analyze it, and, of bloody course, sell it.
If "knowledge is power," then "information is control."
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I recently was lured into a "jobs" website on the pretext of submitting my resume for a job posted on another one. As soon as I realized I'd been misled, I aborted the process of filling out their forms. I continued to get emails from that site for weeks.
Finally, I wrote them by email and asked why I was on their contact list if I'd deleted my "account?" I demanded the complete removal of my information from their databases. Believe it or not, somebody wrote back and said, "we've taken you off our email list, but we aren't allowed to remove you from our databases."
When I wrote back for a legal explanation, they stopped replying.
Now, what am I going to do, sue them? Not a chance. But maybe my son or daughter will marry a really sharp hacker...
Too bad Tiger has now missed the Cash for Clunkers deadline from the US taxpayers. Maybe he can get a good deal on a Buick!
I was just thinking the same thing.
Tell me about it. It’s a struggle for me to get through one day without either being made to feel like a freak or wanting to strangle someone for their utter stupidity. I feel like I’m on a different planet than those around me sometimes. That’s why I come here. I may not agree with a lot of things, but most folks on FR can hold an intelligent conversation.
Oh boy, let’s give it a rest. Why are we eating our own?
BTW, to any of you PIs out there. I HATE your kind. None of the countless creeps of your ilk have ever bothered to make sure the data in your little program was correct before harassing my wife and I. And that is the biggest problem with this overreaching reliance on digital data. It is too easy to get fouled up... and near impossible for individuals to get corrected.
http://www.people.com/people/archive/article/0,,20103321,00.html
Like Andre Rison and Lisa Left Eye Lopes.
Well, it is the basis for the right to abortion on demand.
You continue to fool around with twisted logic like that and you'll need medication.
Yeah, and this: if you’re served papers for any reason (divorce, for example), you’ll find a search has been done for anyone with your name and possible aliases (iirc). That information is contained in the reciprocating party’s copy of the service and can give them plenty of reasons to suspect you of all kinds of things. Not that it’s material, but it can make an already difficult situation that much more so.
Also I had a lawyer “friend” once who used to call to shoot the breeze once in a while (never billed me for it) but would always do search on some databases for my name so he’d have something to talk about. A call might begin with, “So, you’re still not divorced yet?”
Go ahead and explain, if you can.
In an amoral world, this might fly. But we don't live in an amoral world. In a moral world, some rights are subordinate to others.
But of course you know this, it's common sense, your post was just baiting bullshit.
I responded because it's good to restate truths to people who engage in that sort of nonsense.
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