pabearhunter
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The other day I had a ad on my phone that you can pay for to stop having ads on your phone !
Think about this for a minute.
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Forkyfinder
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All depends on the websites you visit.
All depends on the websites you visit.
Some of us are old enough to remember AOL and dial up. Don't @ me with your veiled algorithm slights, sir.
Reminds me of Amazon Prime.
Prime WAS next day delivery. Now? Still decent though pay for quicker shipping, etc.
Prime video WAS no commercials, no additional charge. Now? Rent / buy your movie OR enjoy a movie with commercials though keep paying us our annual fee.
Mega companies that collect the masses, push out the smaller competition, then twist the screws for more profit.
Hey, that's business. Life. I'll take American (regulated) economics over socialism any day including Sunday.
Prime WAS next day delivery. Now? Still decent though pay for quicker shipping, etc.
Prime video WAS no commercials, no additional charge. Now? Rent / buy your movie OR enjoy a movie with commercials though keep paying us our annual fee.
Mega companies that collect the masses, push out the smaller competition, then twist the screws for more profit.
Hey, that's business. Life. I'll take American (regulated) economics over socialism any day including Sunday.
Reminds me of back in the day, when we had a senator named Bob Packwood. He came to town to campaign for reelection. One of the big issues he was running on was term limits for senators.
He was running for his seventh term.
Paty lines were fun when I was a kid and got a little bored. Didn't have algorithms listening in but when I was 15 the FBI bugged our phone. I had a 16-year-old and 13-year-old sisters at the time, so whoever got the job of listening in must have gone bat shit crazy before that assignment was over.
Gellar
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So…what did you do that the FBI was bugging your phone?
Laelkhunter
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Reminds me of the signs that say "FOR SALE BY OWNER". Who else would be selling it- Your neighbor??
Nothin, But the CIA asked them to bug our phone. So, they did.
It actually wasn't a big deal. The CIA was recruiting my oldest sister for a position with the agency, so they were doing a very thorough and invasive background check on her and anyone connected to her.
She worked for the CIA for about a decade before she decided that the spy game wasn't as glamorous and romantic, and the danger was far more real than what she envisioned as a teenager.
She worked for the CIA for about a decade before she decided that the spy game wasn't as glamorous and romantic, and the danger was far more real than what she envisioned as a teenager.
44hunter45
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It is a funny story in my family about the time the FBI came to visit my grandmother to interview her for my background check. This was for a tech rep clearance in the 1990's. It was quite a while before she stopped looking at me sideways.
