Off Topic 2014

[Chef Matt]

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Our Sears is the last real anchor in the derelict mall here.

We shop it because it's close to us and all the shops in the "mall" are cheap.

It's kind of like an upscale indoor swap meet.

...but just up the street their putting a super Walmart in an old mervyns building. So we'll be saying good bye to it soon I'm sure.

[dickey1331]

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They won't stop until we make institutional changes to how we handle and store credit card data. Thankfully there's some reform coming with the new chip and pin cards next year. We've done this to ourselves by using technology from the 1950s. I'm amazed that it's taken this long.

Most American banks are using Chip and Signature vs Europe using Chip and Pin. Of course America goes with the less secure way of doing it.

[LambertandHam]

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Wednesday I went to Sears in the Largest commercial mall in my area; and it was just about empty. It was like walking through a Ghost town, there was one person in the TV, electronics area but no one in appliances, kitchen, appliances, bedding. Very few employees as well and they all had very grim looks on their faces like they were counting down the minutes until they clocked out.


Could have been that it was Wednesday evening, but I doubt it's much different on the Weekends anyway.

I always get mobbed by sales people when going into Sears(connects to the larger mall). Not sure if they still work on commission.

[Gotmadskillzson]

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I always get mobbed by sales people when going into Sears(connects to the larger mall). Not sure if they still work on commission.

They do.................

[bigbob]

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Does anyone here know German?

I was asked a question, however I can't figure out what the girl means. The translation I found is still a little iffy for me to understand exactly what she means.

[TracerBullet]

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Just got our first tornado warning in 17 years up here. Nothing happened, kinda weird though.

[TheMatrix31]

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They won't stop until we make institutional changes to how we handle and store credit card data. Thankfully there's some reform coming with the new chip and pin cards next year. We've done this to ourselves by using technology from the 1950s. I'm amazed that it's taken this long.

I doubt they'll stop regardless. They're not gonna be like, "Oh, you guys changed the technology? GREAT! It worked! We'll stop being annoying ****sticks now." This isn't them trying to "teach us" about "securing."

They're disruptive by nature. They exist solely to create continual headaches for everyone else. Losers.

[Cabke]

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I doubt they'll stop regardless. They're not gonna be like, "Oh, you guys changed the technology? GREAT! It worked! We'll stop being annoying ****sticks now." This isn't them trying to "teach us" about "securing."

They're disruptive by nature. They exist solely to create continual headaches for everyone else. Losers.

Well no, of course not. But it'll be much harder. Especially since, if I'm understanding it correctly, each card will be encrypted separately so you can't break in and get millions of numbers. That, and NFC payments like ApplePay will make it infinitely harder to hack into stuff.

[mb625]

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Does anyone here know German?

I was asked a question, however I can't figure out what the girl means. The translation I found is still a little iffy for me to understand exactly what she means.

A little. Plus i've got a friend who was a German major in college, so I could ask him if need be (as long as it's not too inappropriate. Lol)

[bigbob]

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A little. Plus i've got a friend who was a German major in college, so I could ask him if need be (as long as it's not too inappropriate. Lol)

I actually had my professor figure it out. The girl forgot one letter in the word she sent and it threw off the entire meaning of the sentence.

[jasontoddwhitt]

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It's hard work to get a YouTube channel up PROPERLY while trying to balance a real world job (and real world finances). But it's a labor of love.

Since we couldn't find jobs to utilize our skills from college, we decided to just do our own thing. The basic premise of our channel is that its a Let's Play (though we have other ideas down the pipe depending on how this go).

Just waiting on my tattoo artist buddy to finish our channel logo, then we can really start focusing more on video editing and actually uploading some stuff.

[mb625]

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So today I passed a sign for a K-Mart going out of business sale here in Ft. Wayne... another one bites the dust, I suppose.

[l3ulvl]

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Our K-Mart and Sears have been gone at least 10 years, if not 20. The spot where K-Mart used to be is an eyesore now, the whole strip mall is abandoned, not a single business left in the whole lot. There's a gas station and a Chili's on the other side, behind that is the huge empty parking lot.

[Chef Matt]

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Our old super k mart turned into an RV super lot/camping store. Then that folded and now it's just a hide out for transients.

Our original Kmart from years ago turned into many things, circuit city being one of them. Now it's a furniture store.

I remember back in the day everyone laughed about being Kmart shoppers but you always saw everybody there!

And nothing better than Kmart cafeteria popcorn and lunch. The best!

[gopher_guy]

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Sometimes being a government worker pays off.

Columbus Day off