Cybercat

On Sat, 18 Sep 2010 08:17:45 +0100, Ophelia wrote:


Close, but no cigar. I'm actually 6' 6" - and I don't have a beard. That's
what shavers were invented for. Should I email you some pics of my tattoos? ;-)

But seriously - I know most people we "meet" on-line are generally decent
human beings - but how can anybody be 100% certain about who they're
dealing with on-line until they actually do meet 'face to face' in Real
Life? And even then, how can one be sure that the person turning up at the
meeting *is* indeed the same person, and not someone that has been sent by
the real person in his/her place? You have to admit that even before there
was a computer in almost every [First World country) household and we had
to rely on snail mail, it wasn't unheard of for "pen pals" to send photo's
of their "good-looking friend" to said pen pals because they thought that
sending a real photo of themselves would put him/her off.

Also been several documented cases of teen-aged girls being lured into
believing they were chatting on-line to a boy of similar age and interests
(and even exchanging photos with), only to end up dead when the person
behind the keyboard turned out to be some forty-something murdering
nutcase.

And then you get cases like this:


or
http://tinyurl.com/2bfp9kc

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Cheers
Chatty Cathy
 
notbob wrote:


I wouldn't hold your breath, nb. Expecting Default User/Brian to do some
in-depth research, or even arrive at a logical conclusion about matters
that are also relevant to the other 6.2 billion people living on this
planet, seems to be a waste of time.
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Cheers
Chatty Cathy
 
On Mon, 27 Sep 2010 21:41:04 GMT, notbob wrote:


Why blame Microsoft? It's a product. Apparently people didn't like
Microsoft, they LOVED it. If no one had bought it, nothing would have
changed and you'd still have your .txt or whatever it is that you're
mourning the loss of as your document standard.

--

Never trust a dog to watch your food.
 
On 9/24/2010 11:29 AM, ChattyCathy wrote:

I once ran into the opposite problem. In Quebec, my first night there,
it had been a long ride and I was pretty beat, so I took a nap, napped
longer than I intended, and ended up looking for food after 10 PM. Only
place I could find that was open within walking distance of the hotel
was Burger King. Then to thicken the plot further, I ordered a "whopper
avec fromage et frites" and found out that the kid behind the counter
couldn't understand French so I had to order in English. Despite
. Found out later
that the St. Hubert in the other direction was also open late, not that
it's that much of an improvement over Burger King.
 
In article ,
"Cheryl" wrote:



Because Blake doesn't live in South Africa?

I live in the US, and I don't know if my fingerprints are on file, but I
know that a whole lot of organizations take them. Maybe they just check
them to see if you have a criminal record, or maybe they file them, I
don't know. In California, anyone who works for the state has their
fingerprints taken. Anyone who works in the schools, even in a
temporary or volunteer position, has their's taken. And when I got my
driver's license renewed, they took my thumb print, electronically.

--
Dan Abel
Petaluma, California USA
[email protected]
 
On 9/24/2010 2:41 AM, sf wrote:

Actually it was, just not to you.


Thing is, in this state one needs the CCW to have a handgun in one's
possession at all, including driving to the range with it locked in the
trunk. So having the CCW and actually going armed on a regular basis
have little correlation.
 
On Sep 18, 3:10?am, ChattyCathy wrote:
Probably far more often the forty-something man shows up to meet the
girl and finds another forty-something man.


--Bryan
 
On 9/24/2010 12:30 AM, sf wrote:

What is your point? "Green Mountains" is a proper noun referring to a
specific group of mountains in Vermont. All mountains that are green
are not part of the Green Mountains.
 
On Tue, 28 Sep 2010 11:36:34 -0500, Stu wrote:


I have no idea what he's talking about. I only know he's permanently
mad at Microsoft - basically for being a success... just like all the
Apple/Mac (now turned Linux) users were trained to be.

--

Never trust a dog to watch your food.
 
Dan Abel wrote:


Even Disney World takes one! I've never been fingerprinted for a
job except for when I needed to be bonded as a bank teller. I
don't find the idea of being fingerprinted as a matter of course
very appealing. What's next, DNA? I guess a lot more crimes
would be solved.

nancy
 
On Thu, 23 Sep 2010 07:48:29 -0700 (PDT), Nancy2 wrote:


frankly, i've never had that impression, nancy. c.c. is usually quite
explicit when things are RSA-specific.

your pal,
blake
 
On Sep 24, 10:59?am, "J. Clarke" wrote:

Could I hate the terrorists and feel contempt for the politicians and
the
press? I'm not sure the latter have earned actual hate.

Cindy Hamilton
 
On Sep 24, 2:19?pm, blake murphy wrote:

I didn't notice her original statement was qualified in any way as
being, "...here in RSA." However, I could be wrong about that. I'm
too lazy to look it up. My impression was that she thought people in
the US were foolish for not wanting to pay for a passport, just to
carry one around. That implies that her experience in paying for one
would be the same, hence her judgement.

Whatever, I'm over it.

N.
 
"Dan Abel" wrote in message
news:[email protected]...

Yeah, whatever. She said unless he has been investigated his prints
wouldn't be on file. Then after being told there are many other ways *here*
in the US, said:

Whatever. You're just not following my thought train. Doesn't matter.
 
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