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1. Old issues in a new skin, the snake changed the skin.
   Before it was pick pocketing, burglary, forged cheques etc, now the tools´ve diversified
   and i thought bank robbery and robbery was an “old” American tradition

2. I had never heard of Paratus before but it looks like a heck of a lot of fun! Being a long-confirmed Grinch (although mellowing due to kids… sigh), I enjoyed the cracks in the link about holiday music way too early, and other commerical-Christmas snark. Heh.

3. “They have introduced a whole new set of issues. Consumers are faced with scams, skimmers, and robbers, and even fake ATMs have been discovered.”

   Every time I use an ATM machine I get scammed.

   Whenever I make a withdraw from an ATM machine, it gives me fiat paper instead of gold or silver backed currency.

4. I think the third Friday is September 18th, and the third Monday if September 21st. Did you mean Friday September 18th for Paratus? As always, many thanks for all you and A.L. do for the community here on the blog.

5. RE paratus

   i sold my cousin 1k 556 and 10 mags at last years pricing yesterday. does that count?

6. On the ATM issue: I only use the ATM at the Bank. Only the one in the lobby, not the one outside. Only during regular banking hours. I only use it to get cash, FRN’s. No fees that way. I don’t do online banking in spite of the fact it would be very convenient. On the plus side of things, I haven’t had my identity stolen, yet. So I guess I’ll stick with my old fogie ways, they seem to work, so far.

   1. Charles K… if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it … just my $ 0.02

7. Not only do I not do online banking, I’ve never had an ATM card. Maybe that comes from being an old(er) fart.
   Just a few less ways to get scammed.

   1. In my day, we called them ‘Olde Phartes’.

      They hung-out all day with other Olde Phartes at the Ye Olde Olde Pharte coffee-shop with uniformed waitresses named ‘Hon’.
      The honorific ‘Hon’ was reciprocal.

      A slice of slightly-drying pie from ye olde round glass counter-display was not optional… but never referred to as “Hon, your usual? Coffee and a slice of olde pie?”

      *****

      For ten years, I owned a restaurant business.
      I preferred my waitresses to be slightly frumpy and frazzled and perpetually unflappable.
      And that’s not a bad way to go.

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