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STOP STOP STOP!!! DO NOT EVER UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES EVER EVER GIVE OUT YOUR USER NAMES AND PASSWORDS FOR ANYTHING FOR ANY REASON. NEVER EVER GIVE OUT YOUR ACCESS INFORMATION TO ANYTHING FOR ANY REASON. REMEMBER THAT WHEN YOU SET UP YOUR ACCESS ACCOUNTS WITH ANY VENDOR THEIR TERMS AND CONDITIONS (THIS IS FOR EVERYTHING KIDS) STATED THEY WOULD "NEVER" EMAIL YOU AND ASK FOR YOUR USER NAME AND PASSWORD.
A tragic breach of security happened to someone very close to me recently. Whenever you release personal information you are compromising the security of you and your family.
Hackers and identity thieves regularly send emails that appear to be from an online merchant. The content of these emails is basically the same "Your account has been temporarily suspended due to a possible security breach. Please send us your user name and password so that we may confirm your account status". The sum and substance of these emails is to appear to be from the merchant, and to cajole you to provide your access information so the merchant can confirm you are you. Again....remember the terms and conditions - the merchant will never ask for you to send them your user name and password. If you went to your bank, handed the teller your ATM card and asked for cash will the teller ask you for your PIN number? Hell no!! Try it...go to your bank and take out some money from the window teller, ask if your PIN number is required. I promise you the teller will advise that you never give anyone that PIN number.
So that's the lesson for today class. Hopefully this will help at least one of the millions of readers of Complaint Central.

This is old news but it has merit. This past December I heard a radio personality hit rock bottom. The kind of rock bottom one would hit when they've sold out. The kind of sold out you do when you sell out to the ways of the modern media machine. I hope you out there in John Q land get me. The radio personality (I bet half of the louses on the air don't own a record, how can you call them DJ's?) said something during this past Christmas holiday that blew my mind. Over the years I have witnessed the 8-track player-recorder, the coming and going of cassettes, the first walk on the moon, the "moon walk", and a bevy of other items far and away more important than the aforementioned. These developements in the machine strike a new low.
Apparently, Santa is a pimp. If he isn't a pimp the on air person must have known what the FCC was going to do over these past 3 months. The radio personality said and I quote "Who Who Who, Merry Christmas".
I presume that if you can find your way to my scrap pile of incoherent thoughts as so recorded on some hidden harddrive in this environment we call the Internet (which don't forget was invented by the former vice president formerly known as president elect) that you also are reading and listening to the corporate media machine. This being true then you are certainly aware of the FCC's latest antics.
Practically speaking most people will try to correct an error they've made without drawing the attention of those whom will cause the most negative impact should the error be found.
Having said that, it would seem to me that the offensive...uh, offending radio personality would had to have had knowledge of the forthcoming travesty. Why else would this radiodude avoided the now or soon to be forbidden words "Ho Ho Ho"?
I will end today's broadcast without providing an answer to the above question. The broadcast is being terminated leaving behind dangling participles, unfinshed thoughts, improper sentence structure, improper verb conjugation and probably an all out assault on grammer and punctuation of which I am certain would cause my english teachers to turn over.

There is no such thing as a dumb question...Just be prepared for one hell of an answer! Is everyone due a refund? If so, I would like mine now please. Why does everyone expect a refund, a rebate, or a discount? Why is it when you go to the grocery store you don't haggle for the cost of the boxed or canned goods you purchase? Why is it that you haggle for a better price when you buy fresh produce and meats directly from the farmer in an open air market? Does John Q realize the profit made from a can of anything for outweighs the profits made by the farmer in a fresh food market? Does J.Q. have any clue who is making the profits in these types of equations? It seems to me that if we as the consumers used less of the prepackaged, precooked, microwaveable homemade fast food and started actually preparing meals as we may have learned from those from whom we came we could help our e-c-o-n-o-m-y. C'mon, say it with me "the economy is our r-e-s-p-o-n-s-i-b-i-l-i-t-y". That's right, OUR responsibility. So where is all this going? If you can't stay with me on this kids then you'll have to find another playground...I move fast. We as a society are leading the pack in our own demise. We outsource instead of hiring in. We ship our business overseas and pay wages to consumers that do not purchase our products. And today of all days to point this out. The things that happen here happen because John Q let's them happen. Hear that? It's the bell. The blame game is over.

3 hot 3 mild. Pretty simple. No. Really, really.....REALLY simple. Fast food restaurants must maintain the lowest standards for hearing and comprehension in the entire service industry. If you work in the industry, please understand this isn't directed at you. When the fast food dude takes your order, the order gets repeated. You get to the window, pay your money and take the sack. We take it for granted that when your order is placed and repeated at the "place order here" speaker and again at the "pay for food and pick up here" window, what you ordered will be inside the sack. But when you drive off, eyes glazed over, the last thing you are thinking is....I better check to make sure that what I asked for is in the bag. Maybe it's because when you enter same said establishment and make the same order at the "place order here" counter, you get what you asked for. Again, this isn't quantum physics here....I don't even understand algebra that well, but I do know there must be a set of standards by which these operations operate. It simply stands to reason that if you employ someone to work with high temperature commercial multi-bi-substa-food-product preparation equipment they should possess the mental agility to sort out 3 of one thing and 3 of another. Try it. The next time you have 10 minutes and 10 bucks to spare, pull up "to the border" and get a couple of those tacos. And when they ask if you want sauce just tell them 3 hot and 3 mild and see what you get.

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