Ronny’s Thoughts

If your a Bank of America customer then I am sure that you know about their new envelop-less cash deposit. Thats rite no envelope needed. I had not really used the system until a few days ago. I noticed that the machines that actually use the system are not in places of low income (do u see where this is headed?). Now this would not bother me much if the system had not been out for almost 2 years now. More than enough time to change all of the ATMs. So my theory is this:

• The new ATMs are in rich places so that it is simpler to deposit counterfeit cash.

That’s right its a conspiracy. They know that most of the people of low income even if they wanted they would not be able to make counterfeits. The thing is that because its a machine the cash only has to be good enough to fool the machine. That I know of the machines are given a set of guidelines to follow. These guidelines are for the most part simple so that as to speed up the proses. I am sure that the machine will look for some of the obvious things such as the ID strip, the water mark, the reflective paint, the UV reaction from the ID strip and to top it off color. Oh and size but thats the simplest one. I am sure that it wont go to the point of checking for the mass because then it would have to take into consideration the moisture so that as to compensate for any differences. It is however possible that it will take thinness into consideration.

I am not saying that it is simple. No no no not at all. I am just saying that with the right background you could pull it off. But not getting caught is a different story. Now lets just say that you do find the way to fool the machine. You will most certainly not be able to fool the person that checks the machine every so often that they do. That means that when they find any funny money they will look at who it was that deposited this cash and then go after them. That’s right they keep track of who deposited each bill. What methods they use can vary from keeping track of the position in each stack, to taking pictures of the serial number and then have the computer look at the number and enter it in numerical data. If you think that sounds hard, PLEASE BITCH. That’s a half a mega bite (or smaller) computer algorithm. This means that you will have to find some way of making fake bank accounts using some other persons SSN bla bla bla bla… Mad work.

The only way to avoid doing the whole ID thing is by making the cash good enough to fool the person as well. That can be a bit costly and the only way it will pay off is if you make a shit load of the funny money. There are also new challenges. Like now you will have to worry about the texture of the paper which changes depending on the area of the bill, this is a very important part. Then you worry about the micro printing. That’s right tiny printing that you can only really see if you have a magnifying glass, or really really really good close up vision. Then there is the raised lettering. The list goes on and on but you get the point right?

Well anyway if you really wanted to you would have to take your time to really analyze the notes and then experiment. Basically do some reverse engineering.

So yea its a conspiracy I tell ya. Oh and if any one needs my services do contact me via a secure connection.

I was at the store a few days ago buying some thing and I was waiting in line for the register. When I ask myself “What the hell is taking so long?” So I leaned to the side and saw that the person that was paying was looking for exact change. This is a very annoying sight. I remember when I worked in Dunkin Donuts and people would try to pay in exact change and it would piss me off to no end. Its like for the love of GOD (I used God figuratively because I am not religious) just give the woman a 20.

It seems to me like people are afraid that they wont get their change back. I find it frustrating finding exact change. It takes time and effort. So much so that Id rather not even pay in cash rather use my credit card/debit. Yea I know what your thinking. That it takes just as much time to do that as it do to pay in cash. Well sure it does if your an idiot. Its simple as hell. You swipe a card and scribble something on a paper. Now i say scrible because you know just as well as I do that no one actually signs it. Also no one actually checks for ID thats some old shit. That is only used for buying products that are age restricted.

To solve this problem of people having too much change stores like Stop & Shop have put in Coin Stars in all of their stores. For those of you that don’t know what the Coin Star is, is a machine that counts the all the coins that you put in it and gives you a total and you can then use the receipt that it gives you to use it for your store purchases or just get it in cash. The first time I used the dam thing I racked up some $106 dollars. 106 in fucking pennis, nickels, dimes, and quarters. I was a happy jerk that day.

Well… school is now on winter vacation. Along with many other people. For some this is an awesome time. For others is this not a so awesome time. Then there are those that just go with the flow. The holidays bring people together, whether they want to or not. Come on people be honest with yourselves. No one really wants to go and spend bullshit amount of time and their energy talking to family. Its not always because they hate the family, it can also be because they talk to one another so much they don’t find the point in it. I don’t hate my family but I would be lying if i say that i love it. Yes I am writing this with the thought that my family could be reading this, but I don’t really care because the odds of that are a bit slim.

Another good thing that the holidays is good for is spending redoncules amounts of money on stuff for people that you don’t care about and will probably not like the present in the first place. Thats why to make it simple on people and just tell them to just give you cash and you do the same. To make it simpler than that I give no one anything and tell people to not give me any thing and use that money to buy yourselves presents. The best part of that is that you can set your own price limit. For example the snowboard and boots that I bought a few days ago was quite an expensive buy. It would have taken some 10 cash presents from family to get me this and you know what I love the hell out of it. See how simple that was. I didn’t even need to make a single call.

What I find funny is how every year its the same bull shit. People rush to stores at the last minute. Stores close early and then don’t open at all. People stay home recovering from eating hug and unhealthy amounts of food all at one time (guilty as sin to that).

Now I am not anti family or anti holiday or even anti social. I am just simple and realistic.

If there is something that I hate, and  I mean hate with a passion it is spam. Spam (for those of you that don’t know) is the abuse of electronic messaging systems to indiscriminately send unsolicited bulk messages. ‘Wikipedia‘ I could have given you my definition but then you wouldn’t really know what it is.

For the most part I am accustomed to spam in my e-mail because Gmail filters it with no problem. I dont even see it i just know that its there because it has a counter. I have seen that counter at 3000 at one time and i think to myself “what a waist of resources. Now i am not saying that 3000 is a lot because the spam box of a friend of mine was at 10,000!!! I asked him “What the hell man? How many porn sites do you go to a day?” He just laughs.

I am a bit OCD and I cant stand it when that spam box number is at anything but ZERO. I occasionally find myself looking at the spam to see if any of it is actually something that should have gone to the in-box. Eventually I stopped doing that and only looked at them for a laugh. Some of these bull shit commercials are actually funny. I would just have Gmail delete it automatically but there are occasions where something that I sign up for do get sent to the spam box and I have to go and find it.

The problem with spam is that its not just in e-mail its all over the place. For example in forums and blogs. My blog is no exception. I am getting some 30 spam comments a day. You would not see them because I have it so that comments have to be approved before they actually show up. The thing that puzzles me is the fact that its an attack on the same post every time. My No Sympathy or empathy post. It might be some crap ass attempt to find weakness in my word press install or some install of a plug-in. None the less I will simply disable commenting on that post and be done with it. If anything I can add a plug-in that makes it so that people have to do one of those security image authentication thing. The ones that give you a distorted image of numbers and letters, that are supposedly unrecognizable by computers.

PS to the asshole that is doing this: Stop fucking killing my sites bandwidth. It’s fucking limited in case you don’t know.

Well today I bought myself a new K2 anagram wide (159) snowboard and a pair of K2 raider boa boots, the ones that have the lazy man’s lacing, and the bindings are from Burton’s freestyle line. I have gone snow boarding a few times before but I would always be renting the equipment. Well I got tired of that and so I opted for my own gear.

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