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When the little ones start to try and play kick @rse with the big boys 
I just GOTTEN a phone call from a scam line. Their spiel was that they were from the World Wide Web Company and that my Computer had been sending in Error Reports that I had a virus. So I let the guy blah blah for five minutes, I was a bit bored, and then I asked him one simple question. "Can you confirm the IP address you are receiving the reports from as I have just changed computer?"
I had to suppress yee giggles as the caller didn't have a flipping clue about what I had asked him. I kindly informed the caller that I built my first system some 30 years ago, make a living from IT and that his drivel was complete cow chains.
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I've had a couple of calls from those people and I always string them along.
The first one I got I let hm go for a few minutes then I told him that I was wasn't near my computer and that I was hiking the Appalachian trail and to call me back in 4 months when I finished.
Along with Antimatter and Dark Matter they've discovered the existence of Doesn't Matter which appears to have no effect on the universe whatsoever!
Rich Tennant 5th Wave
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That was wuite stupid, wasn't it? Now you have to talk to him again in 4 months... 
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
Anonymous
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I'd just like a chance to prove that money can't make me happy.
Me, all the time
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The same or another guy called about 8 months later and I did like Nagy did and strung him along until I couldn't stand it any longer then I just started laughing and went off on him.
Along with Antimatter and Dark Matter they've discovered the existence of Doesn't Matter which appears to have no effect on the universe whatsoever!
Rich Tennant 5th Wave
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I see we have another VAX/VMSer in the house, used to work a lot on MicroVAX and some PDP.
Along with Antimatter and Dark Matter they've discovered the existence of Doesn't Matter which appears to have no effect on the universe whatsoever!
Rich Tennant 5th Wave
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Maybe We Should Form a DEC Group.
You'll never get very far if all you do is follow instructions.
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Absolutely!, and we can have the first meeting when I come out that way? 
Along with Antimatter and Dark Matter they've discovered the existence of Doesn't Matter which appears to have no effect on the universe whatsoever!
Rich Tennant 5th Wave
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Started with VAX/VMS in college, then used it at my first post-college job (Fortran and FMS Forms). Having that knowledge it what landed me my next job and brough me to South Carolina. Used it there heavily for about 6 years, then the primary system was replaced with a Windows based application. The system was still around for archival data, though.
I miss the simplicity and security of it...
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Yes it was an awesome system, used it for Assembler, C and C++ over the years.
I live in Beaufort!
Along with Antimatter and Dark Matter they've discovered the existence of Doesn't Matter which appears to have no effect on the universe whatsoever!
Rich Tennant 5th Wave
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In college, it was BASIC, COBOL, PASCAL, Assembler, RPG and Ingres.
At first job, it was Fortran and FMS.
Next job, Fotran, FMS and some C.
Now, Windows based platforms, mainly using a third party application.
I live in York, work in Charlotte.
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And you've just sent an email to RSE[^]
Don't mind those people who say you're not HOT. At least you know you're COOL.
I'm not afraid of falling, I'm afraid of the sudden stop at the end of the fall! - Richard Andrew x64
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I must remember to check those bloody shortcuts.
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You really need to up your game with these scammers. Watch a few of Troy Hunt's[^] videos to get some ideas. 
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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My father in law tries to keep phone salesmen on the phone as long as possible.
He never buys anything; he just enjoys wasting there time.
He also gets his credit card out and flips it end over end in his hand because it gets his wife upset.
"Larry, don't you buy anything.... Larry, put that card away....", she can be heard to say.
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Nagy Vilmos wrote: So I let the guy blah blah for five minutes
5 minutes? Girl.
I had one on the phone for over 30 minutes in total (he actually called back)
I started up a VM when he first called, and (after lots of chat) allowed him to remote into the machine.
what joy there was to be had as he showed me all these system errors which "showed I had a virus" and then told me they could remotely install software to not only stop all the viruses I had, but also stop any future viruses.
I told him that sounded great, and all I had to do was give him my credit card number.
So I did.
I must have read it out wrong and given him the wrong name, because it wouldn't work at his end! (I even wrote teh fake number and name down so I could tell him the same one each time)
when he told me the number wasn't right, and I told him that was what was written on my card, he started to get quite angry!
That's when I told him to go f*** himself. He hung up.
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The last call I got from "Windows" about my computer was barely audible so I asked him to repeat himself and he gave himself a different name. I fell about laughing and he hung up.
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Use to get calls saying they could reduce my credit card payments. I would ask what credit card I had and they would hangup.
Another one I asked for the name of his lawyer as it is illegal to call cell phones with that type of call, he also hung up.
How rude of people to hangup like that. 
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Quote: When you saw a handsome/a beautiful person in a party, approach and told him/her: I’m rich, marry me. You call that direct marketing.
When you send your friend to tell him/her that you’re rich and want to marry him/her, that’s what you called advertising.
When you get his/her number and called him/her the following day to say that you’re rich and you want to marry him/her, you called that tele-marketing.
And finally, when a guy told a lady that he’s rich, marry me and the girl slapped him, that’s what you called customer’s feedback.
I hope you can open the link from here[^]
She even had punchlines for 'selfies'. 
Don't mind those people who say you're not HOT. At least you know you're COOL.
I'm not afraid of falling, I'm afraid of the sudden stop at the end of the fall! - Richard Andrew x64
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When you saw a handsome/a beautiful person in a party, approach and told him/her: I’m rich, marry me. You call that direct marketing.
I call that Soliciting for Sex.
When you send your friend to tell him/her that you’re rich and want to marry him/her, that’s what you called advertising.
Pimping
When you get his/her number and called him/her the following day to say that you’re rich and you want to marry him/her, you called that tele-marketing.
Stalking and Sexual Harassment
And finally, when a guy told a lady that he’s rich, marry me and the girl slapped him, that’s what you called customer’s feedback.
Assault and Battery
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Obscurum per obscurius.
Ad astra per alas porci.
Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur .
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Dalek Dave wrote: I call that...
Different points of view I think.
Don't mind those people who say you're not HOT. At least you know you're COOL.
I'm not afraid of falling, I'm afraid of the sudden stop at the end of the fall! - Richard Andrew x64
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No, just awareness of law and respect of the individual.
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Obscurum per obscurius.
Ad astra per alas porci.
Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur .
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Okay. I just want to share the humor of the Senator. So, if you didn't see it as a laughing stuff, okay. Maybe, it's not funny for the other guys in here.
Don't mind those people who say you're not HOT. At least you know you're COOL.
I'm not afraid of falling, I'm afraid of the sudden stop at the end of the fall! - Richard Andrew x64
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Pay no attention to him, he thinks he owns this place just because he's racked up a zillion points by posting inane crap, using the lounge like twitter and touting his wares. He's a wannabe poitician too. 
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