03-25-2026, 03:46 AM
Can we legislate scam prevention and protection from womb to tomb?
...but was now on three different recurring donations to PACs for this candidate, who can't even be a candidate any more, for ridiculous amounts. I guess I expect third world scammers trying to get theirs, but billionaires tricking grandmas out of their social security money over and over is a whole new level. Definitely help your kupuna with their budgeting and make sure leeches aren't bleeding them dry.
Well, I am more of a womb to tomb education versus legislative regulations gal myself, but having said that, could we do a little combination of both? For example, helping the kupuna with community outreach programs to understand how to recognize a scam which, might have to be reoccurring as memory for some does fade as one ages, to educating our youth as to what a check book, bank, debit card and credit card is and does.
Now, on the other hand, a good easy regulation could be as randomq describes the issue they found helping their kupuna friend and the reoccurring PAC or other similar type of discretionary contributions made via an EFT/ACH automatic bank transfer could be a regulation that only allows a 2 times at the monthly trough and then must be legally re approved by the donor and not just an allowable suck at the old lady money teat forever type of law?
As for the regulation of big tech, how does the technology get born that goes from the old Ma Bell telephone over copper wires to today's VOIP with caller ID being able to be "scammed" that would allow someone like say me, a retired pre catheter needing boomer to obtain the equipment, software, technology as well as the knowledge to perpetrate a scam that allows me to call you and spoofs your caller ID into me being the Hawaii County Police calling you? We're coming to arrest your ass unless you pay me now!
Remember back in the Ma Bell days, when if you somehow managed to get an actual Ma Bell telephone, most likely stealing it and brought it home and hooked it up on your home telephone, the phone company could actually tell you have a phone you are not paying for by how much voltage the ringer drew by the phone company by just simply calling you?
At any event, as long as humans are just pure greedy bastards, I guess we will never stop the scammer from scamming! I guess I can be considered a scammer myself, as I did scam my grandson for 4 or 5 years that cutting about an acre and a half of grass using a combination of a riding lawn mower, regular lawn mower and weed whacker was the coolest and neatest thing a young boy could do. But then the little guy got educated. And kept reminding me of child labor regulations and laws or some other nonsense like that!
...and no need for carbon to be expended on making any merch or physical embodiments of their work and shipping them halfway round the world. So today's tech is not all bad, just have to deliberately utilize it in pro-social and mutually supportive ways...
Except, you more or less traded one form of carbon expending for a different form of carbon expending, albeit a lower carbon expending activity, similar to comparing the total carbon emissions that a fossil fueled vehicle creates versus the total carbon emissions an EV only or EV/Hybrid vehicle creates.
Just be honest about it.
You watched the videos, right? About the open house in Aiea with the youngins trying to help inform the kupuna? (This strange insistence on having a strong opinion while being woefully uninformed even when directly provided information is a baffling behavior...)
Yes, I watched the video about an open house in Aiea from last September that if I give it the low side, was attending by and presented by 98% boomers. Not too many "youngins" in sight at all. But I don't see how that video helps the average Puna resident much, but hey, you were able to give this boomer a good zing right? Ok, now off to soak the dentures and get my varicose vein stockings on! And just remember with all this insulting boomer talk, at one time in your life, or maybe a lot of times, a boomer wiped your ass. Maybe there could be a little "payback" from you in the way of some helping education for them doing that for you, before you have to eventually do it yourself to and for a boomer!?! Just saying. Something to consider maybe?
...but was now on three different recurring donations to PACs for this candidate, who can't even be a candidate any more, for ridiculous amounts. I guess I expect third world scammers trying to get theirs, but billionaires tricking grandmas out of their social security money over and over is a whole new level. Definitely help your kupuna with their budgeting and make sure leeches aren't bleeding them dry.
Well, I am more of a womb to tomb education versus legislative regulations gal myself, but having said that, could we do a little combination of both? For example, helping the kupuna with community outreach programs to understand how to recognize a scam which, might have to be reoccurring as memory for some does fade as one ages, to educating our youth as to what a check book, bank, debit card and credit card is and does.
Now, on the other hand, a good easy regulation could be as randomq describes the issue they found helping their kupuna friend and the reoccurring PAC or other similar type of discretionary contributions made via an EFT/ACH automatic bank transfer could be a regulation that only allows a 2 times at the monthly trough and then must be legally re approved by the donor and not just an allowable suck at the old lady money teat forever type of law?
As for the regulation of big tech, how does the technology get born that goes from the old Ma Bell telephone over copper wires to today's VOIP with caller ID being able to be "scammed" that would allow someone like say me, a retired pre catheter needing boomer to obtain the equipment, software, technology as well as the knowledge to perpetrate a scam that allows me to call you and spoofs your caller ID into me being the Hawaii County Police calling you? We're coming to arrest your ass unless you pay me now!
Remember back in the Ma Bell days, when if you somehow managed to get an actual Ma Bell telephone, most likely stealing it and brought it home and hooked it up on your home telephone, the phone company could actually tell you have a phone you are not paying for by how much voltage the ringer drew by the phone company by just simply calling you?
At any event, as long as humans are just pure greedy bastards, I guess we will never stop the scammer from scamming! I guess I can be considered a scammer myself, as I did scam my grandson for 4 or 5 years that cutting about an acre and a half of grass using a combination of a riding lawn mower, regular lawn mower and weed whacker was the coolest and neatest thing a young boy could do. But then the little guy got educated. And kept reminding me of child labor regulations and laws or some other nonsense like that!
...and no need for carbon to be expended on making any merch or physical embodiments of their work and shipping them halfway round the world. So today's tech is not all bad, just have to deliberately utilize it in pro-social and mutually supportive ways...
Except, you more or less traded one form of carbon expending for a different form of carbon expending, albeit a lower carbon expending activity, similar to comparing the total carbon emissions that a fossil fueled vehicle creates versus the total carbon emissions an EV only or EV/Hybrid vehicle creates.
Just be honest about it.
You watched the videos, right? About the open house in Aiea with the youngins trying to help inform the kupuna? (This strange insistence on having a strong opinion while being woefully uninformed even when directly provided information is a baffling behavior...)
Yes, I watched the video about an open house in Aiea from last September that if I give it the low side, was attending by and presented by 98% boomers. Not too many "youngins" in sight at all. But I don't see how that video helps the average Puna resident much, but hey, you were able to give this boomer a good zing right? Ok, now off to soak the dentures and get my varicose vein stockings on! And just remember with all this insulting boomer talk, at one time in your life, or maybe a lot of times, a boomer wiped your ass. Maybe there could be a little "payback" from you in the way of some helping education for them doing that for you, before you have to eventually do it yourself to and for a boomer!?! Just saying. Something to consider maybe?