Mike Tyson is gonna leave Jake Paul as flat as the Earth!
Sombody said (I think a boxer) everone has a plan until you get punched in the face.
The “somebody” was Mike Tyson.
As much as I loath Jake Paul, he’s managed to survive and win against other retired fighters. Tyson is old, and even when he was in the final stages of his active career he was badly beaten by many lesser fighters.
Don’t worry, he’ll protect himself with NFCs and crypto, that stuff is capable of anything.
Remember to hold your judgement until we have all the facts. Maybe the toddler was a Nazi.
Do we count the ears left standing at the end?
Back when I was in college, two of my roommates and I decided we wanted to start a computer business. We ‘talked’ about it from time to time with about as much seriousness as some drunk friends deciding they should own a bar or start a band. One of these friends always went directly to ripping people off with things like installing less memory than the person asked for, or a smaller hard drive, or swapping out other componants in their computers with cheaper ones (ie bring your computer in to remove a virus and take it home with a 16x CD ROM instead of the 32x one that you dropped it off with).
I remember being shocked when I found out they decided to apply for a business loan for a few hundred (thousand) bucks. They were turned down, duh.
In any case, I was looking one of them up recently and found that he is the Second man convicted in Catholic Memorial IT theft case.
The Cliff’s notes version, from what I can tell, is that he and his dad have a computer business where they rip people off (sound familiar). At least in this case, they appeared to have gotten the IT contract for a private school and were billing them for services they weren’t receiving, to the tune of nearly a half a million dollars. For example, they farmed out some sort of subscription based malware defense. However, they owned that company as well, it wasn’t actually providing any malware defense and the school already pays for it via someone else (Microsoft?), which may have been how they got caught.
As of right now, his dad has been in jail for over a year and both their cases seem to still be working their way through the system. It looks like the son is playing the ‘I just did what I was told’ card, so I’m guessing dad is taking the fall for both of them.
This is one of those cases where I sometimes consider going down to the courthouse to see if I can sit in the courtroom without being noticed (by him). He was a real dirtbag in college. I’ve told the story here in the past, but back when him and I (and another) had an apartment together, he just up and decided he didn’t want to live there, moved out and stopped paying rent. I had to take him to court to collect the money I paid to keep us from getting evicted. And I’m still the asshole in that situation, at least as far as the other two roommates concerned.
I mostly just wanted to post this because I was amused by the situation, but if you to read more, this article appears to be a bit better. I just like the other one because the headline forms part of the reply to ‘remember my old roommate from college?’
Great story. It’s hard for me to imagine how people like that think.
Easy:
I want [whatever] and everyone else (including the cops / courts) don’t matter any more than ants do.
It might be hard for you or I to behave that way. But IMO it’s pretty easy to understand how we’d behave if we naturally had the “everyone else is just an ant” part.
Just realized that should be a few hundred or a few thousand dollars, not a few hundred thousand dollars.
If I had to guess, they probably realized they could slip in an extra invoice here and there and it would be paid without anyone questioning it. Do it with larger and larger amounts and eventually you have to keep doing it because you’re depending on that extra income for your mortgage that you couldn’t afford or the car you otherwise wouldn’t have bought and suddenly you’ve stolen a half million dollars and the cops are knocking on your door.
This pisses me off so much. I’ve been in IT for decades. Doing that kind of work requires people to trust you. You have an understanding of things that lay people don’t have a clue about, and they have to trust your word on things. If you work for a large organization, you are often privy to a lot of information (or have the ability to access it) and they need to believe you won’t abuse that authority and can use discretion and act professionally.
Every time some shitbag takes advantage of that trust, it hurts everyone else in the industry that is just trying to do their jobs and keep information safe and help people. It makes all of us look bad. It makes me sick.
I got into IT initially through retail. I worked at a computer store and my earliest knowledge came from there and formed a foundation I built a career from. Before I fixed computers for a living I sold them. And when I was a newbie, just a guy helping out customers and straightening shelves and answering simple questions, not even a salesman yet, I saw one of our slimy salespeople overpricing people without their knowledge, lying his ass off, making promises he couldn’t keep and doing everything he could to make a buck at customers’ expense (literally). He was basically a scammer in a retail commission sales job. He eventually quit and got a job selling used cars. (How much of a caricature can a person be?!)
So I’ve seen that shit firsthand. I hope there’s a special place in Hell for any professional who victimizes the people who rely on them.
Same with mechanics. There’s a general distrust of mechanics because some of them will happily rip people off.
I remember being in a Best Buy maybe 15 or 20 years ago and I happened to overhear a salesperson selling someone a new TV/Receiver/Surround Sound system. I almost interjected myself when I heard him tell the customers they wouldn’t be able to use surround sound unless they upgraded to s-video cables.
To make it worse, they were buying a Home Theater (or surround sound) all in one kit. Everything they needed was in the box, there was no reason to buy anything else at all. I could understand the salesperson trying to up sell them on “better” cables, but he just plain lied and said it wouldn’t work at all without these s-video cables.
And that’s the kind of shit this guy did.
It’s not just being a scumbag, people who do that are bad at sales. Ripping people off is not profitable. I went on to do real commission sales and I did well because I approached it with the attitude that a customer needs my help and I am there to get them what they need. You do that, and not only will they be back but they’ll refer their friends to you. That’s how I got to be top salesman in my area for my store’s chain after a while. If they know you’ll take care of them you’ll get more business. Rip people off, eventually the word will get out.
Stupid MFers indeed.
Winning elementary achool basketball team banned from tournament because losing teams might be dangerous to the winners
“Doing this for 28 years, what we have worried about is a boys team losing to a girls team (especially in the year end tourney), they may get frustrated and retaliate against a girl. Then we have liability issues,”
And these liability issues would be different if sore losers attacked a boy on the winning all-boy team exactly how?
These morons can’t even lie convincingly.
Concur
Sounds like the cell phone salesman who upsold my mom and uncle on everything. Like, he told them that their new phones wouldn’t work with their existing chargers (they did, of course), and then sold them new “high-speed” chargers that were slower than their old ones.
Oh, I believe the concern about retaliation, although I think it far more likely to come from parents rather than the boys themselves. You know, you’ve got to be taught to hate, and that lesson may not have sunk in yet by 6th grade.
To be fair, IF the league’s official statement about this situation is accurate, this team was being knowingly misrepresented as a boys’ team in order to play in the boys-only league.
While I agree that it’s a bit stupid to deliberately segregate pre-pubescent and just-pubescent athletes by gender, enforcing existing rules about gender restrictions is not the same thing as arbitrarily kicking out a girls’ team because they’re beating the boys too much.
The stated “liability” reason for insisting on gender segregation, though, is indeed super stupid and discriminatory.