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Comments on: Fraud, Plain and Simple https://whynow.dumka.us/2007/05/08/fraud-plain-and-simple/ On-line Opinion Magazine...OK, it's a blog Wed, 09 May 2007 17:20:53 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.3 By: Bryan https://whynow.dumka.us/2007/05/08/fraud-plain-and-simple/comment-page-1/#comment-26158 Wed, 09 May 2007 17:20:53 +0000 http://whynow.dumka.us/2007/05/08/fraud-plain-and-simple/#comment-26158 Just in time inventory control strikes again. The flow is interrupted so “divers alaurms” ensues.

OT: most of the monitoring software sucks, so I leave a blank desktop when I have to go out.

]]> By: Steve Bates https://whynow.dumka.us/2007/05/08/fraud-plain-and-simple/comment-page-1/#comment-26156 Wed, 09 May 2007 16:48:20 +0000 http://whynow.dumka.us/2007/05/08/fraud-plain-and-simple/#comment-26156 Bryan, the cans I have are from a Fiesta store, a big-box chain which fills the international foods niche here. They haven’t pulled those cans from the shelf, but they haven’t restocked, either; they may well not be able to get them given everything going on. I think I’ll pass on eating what I’ve got already.

OT: I had no trouble at all with an identical APC that I installed at Stella’s place about a week earlier. The only thing I don’t like about this new Belkin is that they’ve replaced their monitoring s/w since the last Belkin UPS I bought, and the results are ugly… and not just visually.

]]> By: Bryan https://whynow.dumka.us/2007/05/08/fraud-plain-and-simple/comment-page-1/#comment-26150 Wed, 09 May 2007 15:27:29 +0000 http://whynow.dumka.us/2007/05/08/fraud-plain-and-simple/#comment-26150 Steve, this is apparently a recent thing, last year or so. Someone found out you could get away with it and started doing it.

The cat food I make for the ferals uses rice, but real Arkansas rice. The protein is recognizable as fish, chicken, turkey, or beef. No problem when you stay close enough to the original food to recognize it and them boil it to save the vitamins and kill the bacteria.

It’s the retailers who are taking most of the loss, the small stores. Consumers want their money back and the retailers can’t get their money back.

OT: I’ve always had luck with Belkin products, but I can’t complain about my two APCs.

]]> By: Steve Bates https://whynow.dumka.us/2007/05/08/fraud-plain-and-simple/comment-page-1/#comment-26141 Wed, 09 May 2007 05:28:20 +0000 http://whynow.dumka.us/2007/05/08/fraud-plain-and-simple/#comment-26141 Having had my head in software installation and documentation for most of the past couple of days, I just discovered the “fishy” story… and was coming over here to let you know. Under the circumstances, I should know you’d be on top of it already.

I still need to decide whether to eat the contents of those cans of vegetarian “Peking duck” … whether they’re wheat gluten or wheat flour. I know I’m scraping the barrel for work at the moment, but just how hungry am I?

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(OT aside: I exchanged that UPS for one by Belkin. No “big bang” with the new one.)

]]> By: Bryan https://whynow.dumka.us/2007/05/08/fraud-plain-and-simple/comment-page-1/#comment-26135 Wed, 09 May 2007 02:59:32 +0000 http://whynow.dumka.us/2007/05/08/fraud-plain-and-simple/#comment-26135 Formica is melamine soaked paper. At least the paper is recycled these days, and they no longer add mica to the coating for sparkle [oops, was originally going to be a replacement for mica in insulators]. Oh, the “For” is from formaldehyde, the chemical necessary for the reaction that turns the melamine into plastic.

]]> By: Scorpio https://whynow.dumka.us/2007/05/08/fraud-plain-and-simple/comment-page-1/#comment-26134 Wed, 09 May 2007 02:28:11 +0000 http://whynow.dumka.us/2007/05/08/fraud-plain-and-simple/#comment-26134 Counter tops are Formica. Plastic dishes are melamine.

🙂

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