Exactly................
'This A numba won modelle'
'New collecxion'
'Same originalle...shuah!'
'Satainless steeewl'
'Sapphirie' (followed by the scratch with a ballpen routine)
'Sawiss machine'
as a sales pitch on this 50mm Patek Philippe POS !!!!!!!
Apologise for bad pic....
Mobile phone/camera,
Bad Light,
Convulsing choking back tears of laughter.
Response.....
'Let me photo & check my customer (& see if he's had a brain hemorrhage in the past couple of days)'
You guys have it easy!
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Well theyve put incredible design effort into the new olympic stadium
Revolutionary in concept the 'Birdsnest' as it become affectionately known is receiving international accolades
Little is known as to its rationale....but insiders say it was the only possible way to vent all the chinese cigarette smoke
Now they just have to work on the grilled flooring and underground sewer systems so patrons can carry on the national pastime of spitting.
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I have known a similar scenario
Buyer makes dispute
Sends back item
Only thing sent back is a registered letter saying 'F**K YOU'
PayPal accepts their proof of posting !!!!!!
Dont hold your breath
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Its oh so simple.......
I see one I like
Hand goes in pocket
Out comes the folding stuff
& one more joins the happy throng
Its now an automatic response (like Pavlov's dogs).
Try it
Youll enjoy it !
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When will people learn....
The courier firms pre schedule customs duty and pay it automatically by account as consignments arrive at destination country (then raise swingeing 'handling fees' on top for the recipient)
Post do no such thing...customs want any duty they have to raise it from scratch....which is why small sized low value packets seldom get a look at.
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Its the same deal...delayed
If non data chip IDs were allowed (analogous to the old passports) it only requires a 'spin'....Terrorism, Olympics, Homeless overheated Polar Bears, Red Nose day, Ant n Dec say so....or whatever...then they are 'updated' as a fait accompli....
just like the Passports were.
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Yes people are deluded by the past
Bits of card hold no fears (weve all spent a Christmas or two watching the Great Escape reruns)
But any doubters only need to see how the charming Cheif of Police of North Wales has utilized minimal technology to crucify motorists and CONDUCT SURVEILLANCE on out of town traffic using number plate reconition cameras.....why? BECAUSE HE CAN....but of course no such mentality could ever be applied to the wealth of possibilities contained in a readable chip ID card.
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Terrorism?
What if the cuddly government doesnt keep my data safe?
GROW UP!
Its when they USE the facility that the headaches start
For the hard of thinking.......suppose one of your inbound packets gets opened, seized, returned, whatever and the diligent blue shirt annotates your file on the DB. You would undoubtely be 'flagged' everytime you appeared on an international flight manifest or trotted your wonderful ID card past a passsive reading post. So no more march thru the green channel after your hols for you #675435788998/SMUGGLER.
Now this is just the most simple, basic usage that took me a second to imagine - what a legion of petty minded bureaucrats could come up with is frightenning......... 'I do no wrong it cant affect me' pu-leeeease
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Exactly my point (and I have it on good authority theres a little bit of organised crime in Spain too)
But
It does put a handle on every Joe Shmoe that lives there.
& all the 'I do no wrong so I dont mind' appologists miss the point that with biometric chips and passive readers (a la new UK passports) its no longer the friendly policeman politely asking to peruse the well thumbed card from your wallet......the potential for invasive abuse/deminishment of basic freedoms is astronomical.
Its not about Terrorism
Organised crime
or any such 'fringe' issues
its about
CONTROL IN GENERAL
But scream n shout all you like, the legislation obsessed UK general public will swallow it like leaping fish (if a national road safety day was declared, with docu evidence - supported by game shows, talent contests and TV chefs and other such luminaries - proclaiming the vast road safety benefits of pedestrians wearing traffic cones on their heads.....I am sure on the day the daft b####rds would).
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