The "For Great Justice" thread twice brings up the enslavement/biomodding of kids from Hogwarts, but does it in such a way as to imply that something has happened to Hogwarts itself. But the latest changes to the "places" thread doesn't note anything happening to Hogwarts the way it notes the Jan '13 destruction of Crystal Osaka. Is this something we need to hash out?

-- Bob
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The Internet Is For Norns.

PIN the suger pill banks call security so they don't have to actually have any security.

If the PIN doesn't change in a pattern that can't be easily calculated or predicted with each transaction then like a suger pill any resistance it has to a thief dissolves the first time a thief goes after it.
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These crooks seemed to have used a different route, but I always wondered/worried and made fun of a security system that required every person in what is in most cases a near minimum wage job to be honest.
I wouldn't be surprise if the Police eventually discover that several of the checkout people in the stores were actually part of the teams. Either adhoc members by being slipped a few hundreds to look the other way or long term members of the teams that were actively searching for Checkout jobs to gain access to the keypads.

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Authorities in a number of states have reported local instances of a new high-tech crime: Crooks replacing or "bugging" checkout keypads at grocery and convenience stores. The rigged keypads record your credit card number or the personal identification number (PIN) that you key in when using your debit card. The crooks later return to collect the keypads--sometimes by ripping them from checkout aisles--and use the intercepted data to siphon large sums of money from unsuspecting store patrons.
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howard melton
God bless

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Oh, yeah.

The Gorman Familly. The Patriarch's a Circle of Thorn mage and the Matriarch's a behemoth. Don't ask me how it's possible, it's just what my brain belched out after I made the oldest of their children, Anthony Gorman, the 'runt' of the family.
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As soon as he has him, his bruiser will be Timothy "Tiny Timmy" Gorman, the baby of the family.
Their Mother tends to baby Timmy a lot btw, here's dialogue I made.
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"Damnit Timmy, be careful. If you get yourself arrested working for me, Mum's going to rip my head off."
"Aw, you're just jealous because mommy likes me more than you."
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Aside from those odd tidbits, here's a few monologues I've made of Anthony briefing Lil' Nicky, Frail Fred, Pyro Pete, two currently unnamed Lieutenants and Timmy before an heist.
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Ok boys, we've got a job to do, and here's how we're going to do it.
Fred, stop picking on Nicky and watch the door for the hero that'll arrive to try and stop.
Yes, I know there's going to be one, there always is.
Nicky, stop goading Fred and go check the patrols. I don't care that you're not touching him, that's still goading.
Pete, stop laughing and just, y'know, put stuff on fire when the fighting start. Just try not to light up the entire bank like last time.
Yes Timmy, I know I'm always the one to give orders.
Because you got us in jail last time I let you.
Don't you dare tell Mum that or I'm not letting you beat up the hero.
Yes yes, most horrible meany on the planet, moving on...
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And that's it. Why I've put this up online? Because my muse struck and I know better than refuse to obey, she might keep hitting.

Canada's newest museum is the Big Valley Creation Science Museum, in Big Valley, Alberta. It appears to be a quite serious, if small, museum devoted to putting Creationism on a scientific basis.
If you surf to their website and look at the press kit, you'll discover the curator/owner's name is Harry Nibourg.
"Scientific creationism" plus "Nibourg" equals a blatantly obvious quote from the Heavy Metal movie, IMHO:

(sniff) "great nibourg, man..."

-Rob Kelk
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Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."

- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012

... because Batman's probably behind it.

-Logan
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"Wake up! Time for SCIENCE!"
-Adam Savage
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... is right here.
The following is the part that sent me into hysterics --

Quote:

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Also, I feel I should mention that Dr. Frankenpalmer explains that while he'll be contributing to some of the major motor functions, Batman's mostly going to be operating purely on reflex. Which means that Batman's involuntary reaction to the world around him is to hunt down evil and beat the crap out of it.
And that is probably the most badass thing I have ever heard.

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Friend of mine posted this in his LJ, and I thought I'd share here:

Quote:

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You are standing in a building. There are terrorists here.
Suddenly, a wall comes crashing in. It's Optimus Prime in truck form, and he just drove right through the damn wall and into the middle of the terrorists. Then John McClain jumps out of Optimus' cab and punches one of the terrorists right in the face while shouting "Transform and roll out, motherfucker!"
Would this be the most awesome thing ever? Y/N

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HA!!!
-Logan
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"Wake up! Time for SCIENCE!"
-Adam Savage
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As many folks know, Evangelia's been one badge each away from a good handful of accolades. One of those was the Conspiracy Theorist, for which she still needed the Infiltrator badge.
Well, after Task Force Hunter on Friday night, she was very, very close. By my estimate she needed to take down no more than 10 Paragon Protectors to get the badge and thus the accolade. I was playing on Saturday in between holiday obligations to family, wondering where I was going to find some protectors that wouldn't kick her butt, when I got a team invite out of the blue. I accepted it, and what to my wondering eyes should appear but a mission where 90% of the opposition were Paragon Protectors.
I got the badge and the accolade before we were finished with the first room.
The irony is that I might have been invited on that mish at any point in my last two levels... but I only get it when I really don't need it that much.
So anyway, Eva's now got the Ice Gun. I've fired it once. I couldn't see what it did in the heat of battle, and it took so long to recharge, I didn't use it again that mish. Anyone have experience with it and can clue me in to how useful it really is?
Thanks.

-- Bob
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The Internet Is For Norns.