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Comment Re:Good (Score 4, Insightful) 459

You're rational is the same we followed when arming Afghan jihads against the USSR. That didn't come back to bite us.

The problem with that was, as soon as they ran off the USSR, we wiped our hands and walked away, ensuring that the people with the best access to guns got to rule the country. Had we stayed and helped them rebuild we could probably have swayed most of the country over to our side and enstilled a more democratic government. Instead we got the Taliban.

Comment Re:Ha (Score -1, Flamebait) 459

When you said "Not everyone approves" for a second I worried that it was talking about someone who is, oh I dunno, an American and not a foreign politician with a decades-long bias toward keeping the US hostile toward Iran.

Sadly Netanyahu has a lot more say in US government policay than most Americans do. If the US would just give Israel the spanking they deserve, tell them to put on their big boy pants, and make a deal with Palestine so that both groups (who both have legitimate claims) can live in peace it would go a long way to making the MIddle East a more peaceful place. Oh, yeah, and stop the damn settlements you idiots and maybe you would get a little more support in the international community. And Palestinians, please stop shooting rockets from backyards and using schools and hospitals to store your weapons, because you know Israel is just going to bomb them. Your little spat is taking attention away from the bigger mess going on in the MIddle East, namely ISIS.

Comment Re:Million dollar idea... (Score 1, Funny) 184

With the latest trend of workout clothes sewn with copper thread to supposedly help with pain or circulation of something (and let's not forget those magical magnetic wristbands that do everything from stopping arthritis pain to curing cancer), you could easily sell a pair of pants with a pocket lined with copper fibers that would "block harmful radiation". Of course, it would possibly also block reception, but whatever.

Comment Re:Next year's budget for Hapeville: no bomb squad (Score 2) 431

The article cites two excellent examples of why the Hapeville bomb squad needs to be dropped from next year's budget. I'm not sure of the county authorities would be any better, but if the local squad's hapless misjudgment of risk leads to wasted funds on response, wasted funds on defending their mistake, wasted funds on legal restitution (I sincerely hope the kid and his parents sue the city), and general loss of reputation for the city... then the bomb squad is a liability in terms of finance, risk, and reputation. The most obvious response is to take the toys away from the idiots.

Don't fight them, defund 'em.

They don't need a bomb squad anyway: Hartsfield International Airport sits literally right in the middle of Hapeville but is considered part of Atlanta and patrolled by APD. They have bomb squad members stationed there and they could be mobilized for any potential threats in the surrounding area. The city of Hapeville could then take the money saved put it into infrastructure because there are some very rough areas around there.

Comment Re:Simplest explanantion is easiest (Score 1) 213

I get other people's Gmail all the time. I was one of the first to get a gmail account so I have myname@gmail.com

I have the same format as one of my email addresses, but I have a very uncommon name (as far as I know it is the only occurrence of that name in the world for people still living-although Google does bring up the name in a fiction book someone apparently wrote). However, I once got a call from a guy who I did not know I think asking if was going to play goalie for them at a soccer match. I had no clue what he was talking about, but the guy did have my name. The week before I had a guy (might even have been that guy) text me and ask if I was going to come look at his car to buy. I've always found those 2 instances to be somewhat odd, but nothing weird (like credit cards in my name that I don't have) has ever come up on a credit report.

Comment Simplest explanantion is easiest (Score 5, Insightful) 213

Her email address is not a common one so we do not believe that it is someone accidentally using it; rather, we believe that an identity thief is subscribing to cable services intentionally using her name and email address.

Or someone just happened to use a similar email address and misstyped theirs. Are you actually getting emails regarding unpaid bills for the cable company, or is it just simple account-type stuff like changing passwords? Or charges attempting to be made against any of your credit cards? If you are getting emails once a month, it sounds to me like someone put in the wrong email and when they go to pay it online they change the password because they can't log in. And even if there was an unpaid balance, the first thing they would do is send the bills to the physical address they have on file or to the holder of the card that was used to intially set up service, which is also where any collections would likely start.

Hell, 10 years ago I used to get recordings on my phone that someone had overdue movies at Blockbuster. I didn't immediately assume someone was using my identity to steal movies from them in some criminal enterprise, I just figured they had put in a wrong number.

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