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Member Section => Down Range Cafe => Topic started by: TAB on June 07, 2018, 02:40:47 PM
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Only I didn't buy it but sure as hell it was bought on my AMX. Luckily the company sent it signed receipt. Why do I have a feeling like someone was planning on swiping it later. I have been sitting by my bedroom window looking at the front door with my AR right next to me. God I hope I catch the bastard
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Is the box it came in stuffed with paper, or explosives, and back on the front porch?
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Is the box it came in stuffed with paper, or explosives, and back on the front porch?
That's what I was gonna say. ;D ;D ;D
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Nope one of these
https://m.newegg.com/products/N82E16834234944
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Well, Hell, Tab...you are all set for the next GameCon of whatever variety comes up.
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That's one heck of a laptop. It's faster than my desktop and has a good NVIDIA GeForce graphics card. My computer has crap. It won't even play my favorite screensavers at the settings I like. I should have spent $100 more and gotten a Dell instead of a Gateway. Maybe that would work. I guess I'll have to get a gaming computer next time. http://www.reallyslick.com/screensavers/
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I just got Miss Kitty a MacBook Pro and it was only $1,200.
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Leave the box where it can be seen from the road.....and you can film the perp in action.
Maybe it was a lawyer woman?
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Is the box it came in stuffed with paper, or explosives, and back on the front porch?
Just stick a box about the same size on the porch, no one will know until the perp comes to grab it and checks the label - assuming s/he's that smart anyhow.
That laptop is about as powerful as my desktop, which I built from components at the end of 2014 - 8-core FX processor, 32G memory, 512G SSD and 1TB hard drive. Cheapened out on the graphics, not into gaming that much anymore. It's amazing how good of a machine you can have if you know what you're doing.
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Did you ask your wife if she ordered it?
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Did you ask your wife if she ordered it?
I was wondering the same thing. He could be sitting there in ambush mode when she asks it got there yet, but I figured that was one of the first things he did.
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The funny thing was it was addressed to my full name. Which I never have anything too me with that. Either my company or my first initial and last name. So that was the 1st wtf. She would never use my card, is not a signer on said card and she has her own accounts. As soon as I saw my full name(middle as well) I knew something was up.
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The funny thing was it was addressed to my full name. Which I never have anything too me with that. Either my company or my first initial and last name. So that was the 1st wtf. She would never use my card, is not a signer on said card and she has her own accounts. As soon as I saw my full name(middle as well) I knew something was up.
Thaddeus Anton Beauregard?
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Thaddeus Anton Beauregard?
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Nope..
"Pull TAB"
LOL
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Thaddeus Anton Beauregard?
I had a ham radio friend name Doug Jacques who was a long haul trucker. I needed to get in touch with him and he wasn't on the air, so I looked him up in the phone book (back when we had those). Couldn't find his name. Next time I saw him I inquired. Doug Jacques was his truck driving nom-de-plume. Real name:
Garsney Sheldon Wigslip, III
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Garsney Sheldon Wigslip, III
That sounds like a character from a segment from one of the old Rocky & Bullwinkle shows... :) :)
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That sounds like a character from a segment from one of the old Rocky & Bullwinkle shows... :) :)
Snidely Whiplash's uncle perhaps?
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Find the villain or just get a new card?
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New card.
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Did you get to keep the laptop, or did someone pay to get it shipped back where it came from? For $1,900 I bet someone wanted it back, and wanted it badly. I would. Homey don't have that kind of cheddar lying around the crib.
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My credit card is being used by someone in Nashville.
I'd turn them in and get a new card, but they are only spending half of what I was..... ;)
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A friend told me today that someone made a charge to her checking account in New York at Saks Fifth Avenue. It was $550 for a T-shirt with a monkey on it, but it could have been worse. They have a $1,220.00 Prada hoodie with a monkey on it too. She called the bank and they put the money back in her account. Within a couple of hours someone used her checking account to buy something in California. I can't remember what it was, but it was something she'd never buy, like a big box full of guitar picks or something equally useless. So she called the bank again and got her money back. There was a third charge for $9 that she's not even going to worry about, but she's closing the account or something so it doesn't keep happening.
https://www.saksfifthavenue.com/main/ProductDetail.jsp?PRODUCT%3C%3Eprd_id=845524447242889&R=8056382417204&P_name=Prada&Ntt=monkey&N=0&FOLDER%3C%3Efolder_id=2534374306418050&bmUID=mg84xrx
With 50 million credit cards stolen here and 150 million Social Security numbers stolen there, all this information is cheap and plentiful on the dark web. Some information, like maybe an account number, might be sold for less than a dollar. The lowest I ever heard of was around 50 cents worth of bitcoin. Full IDs with name, address, medical records, bank account numbers, SS numbers, etc. can cost hundreds of dollars, but on average your information sells for around 20 bucks. $21.35 according to a 3 year old article I found online, but the price should be less with the huge amount that's been stolen by now. Supply and demand, you know.