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Yet again Amazon has failed at that. They never cease to amaze with WTFs!
Getting information off the Internet is like taking a drink from a fire hydrant.
- Mitchell Kapor
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Dang and I just ordered one for $120K, shoulda waited for the roll-back! 
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Do you know what this is?
No?
Then let me tell you.
Someone has put this up for a huge amount of money because they are embezzling money from the company they work for.
It is under $100,000 which is presumably an amount that requires supervisory authority.
They make the purchase, presumably hidden under some bland narrative as Technical Equipment and have the cost sent to a paypal account.
The trouble is that people are stupid.
There will be a full audit trail leading right back to them.
Also, Amazon, eBay etc are all aware of this type of fraud and you can bet your bottom dollar they are monitoring it.
Accountants are not stupid, and will pick this stuff up in the annual audit.
I certainly would question the bona fides of such an amount.
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Obscurum per obscurius.
Ad astra per alas porci.
Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur .
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Interesting. The seller (bonbonshop) has several other items[^] for sale, each priced at CAD 99.999.00.
/ravi
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Somebody's fired
www.dirkstechblog.blogspot.com
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Either that or fired up!
/ravi
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Yeah, definitely a procurement fraud.
the employee will get the company to buy as much as possible, very quickly, then disappear.
It sounds simple, but it will inevitably end in tears before bedtime for the crooked employee.
Much better to sneak snaller amounts through over a longer time span.
As I said before though, most people who try accountancy frauds are unaware of the controls in place or the trail they leave.
You never hear of accountants defrauding people, do you?
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Obscurum per obscurius.
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Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur .
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This[^] is one of my favorite shows. Amazing how gullible people can be - even those who ought to have known better.
/ravi
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Greed, heedless of wisdom, has brought many a man down.
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Obscurum per obscurius.
Ad astra per alas porci.
Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur .
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Indeed - even otherwise rational and intelligent ones.
/ravi
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Just heard back from Amazon (pretty quick, methinks):
"Our investigations team will look into the situation and take appropriate action."
/ravi
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Dalek Dave wrote: You never hear of accountants defrauding people, do you?
Although they managed to get their conviction overturned (due to a courtroom error on the judges part) Arthur Andersen[^] were initially convicted for their part in the Enron debacle.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Just notified Amazon. Gave you anonymous credit for the feedback.
/ravi
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I can see that you've researched this very carefully, and in great detail.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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One of the courses you have to pass in order to get certified by CIMA is about fraud and embezzlement.
It is a surprisingly large and interesting section of the curriculum.
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Obscurum per obscurius.
Ad astra per alas porci.
Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur .
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Dalek Dave wrote: One of the courses you have to pass in order to get certified by CIMA is about fraud and embezzlement.
That section is obviously funded by the Mafia, who was sick of their accountants getting caught.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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you actually managed to get something done over the weekend - Now one out of two school projects is finished, and I can focus onto the other one (which is gonna be a though bit of work, gotta hand it in on January 8th next year). I got the first article which is documenting the first part of my project (Explain serial communication, using an Arduino Board as example device) through the approval queue yesterday, and now the second one, a 3D Cylinder Chart based on WPF, is in the queue. And I can finally lean a bit back and enjoy the rest of the weekend (about 2 hours, but eh! It is something).
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Veni, vidi, caecus
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/ravi
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Four brothers left home for college, and they became successful doctors and lawyers and prospered. Some years later, they chatted after having dinner together. They discussed the gifts they were able to give their elderly mother who lived far away in another city.
The first said, “I had a big house built for Mama.”
The second said, “I had a hundred thousand dollar theater built in the house.”
The third said “I had my Mercedes dealer deliver an SL600 to her.”
The fourth said, “You know how Mama loved reading the Bible and you know she can’t read anymore because she can’t see very well. I met this preacher who told me about a parrot that can recite the entire Bible. It took twenty preachers 12 years to teach him. I had to pledge to contribute $100,000 a year for twenty years to the church, but it was worth it. Mama just has to name the chapter and verse and the parrot will recite it.”
The other brothers were impressed. After the holidays Mom sent out her thank you notes.
“She wrote: “Milton, the house you built is so huge. I live in only one room, but I have to clean the whole house. Thanks anyway.”
“Marvin, I am too old to travel. I stay home, I have my groceries delivered, so I never use the Mercedes. The thought was good. Thanks.”
“Michael, you gave me an expensive theater with Dolby sound, it could hold 50 people, but all my friends are dead, I’ve lost my hearing and I’m nearly blind. I’ll never use it. Thank you for the gesture just the same.”
“Dearest Melvin, you were the only son to have the good sense to give little thought to your gift. The chicken was delicious. Thank you.”
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Dirk Higbee wrote: The chicken was delicious.
 
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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 +5
/ravi
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That joke is older than Methuselah!
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I survived the French last night when tbe boks beat France. The hotel was a dunghole but hey-ho, this was Paris. The afternoon meal was revolting but I was asking for that as I had a bok logo on my jacket counting against me. The breakfast wasn't much better but I was asking for that as well as the staff either look that surly and serve pigswill on the menu or maybe it was exacerbated by having lost the night before. I've been to lots of places in France and I liked them all, but that particular experience was the worst. Great atmosphere at the stadium; I was the sole bok supporter in a few rows but what the heck, the result made it even more sweet.
Got home lunchtime this afternoon and settled down to watch the Ireland v All Blacks game in Dublin on Auntie and how exciting it was. The pikeys were leading 22-17 on the last move of the game and the the ABs took it wide to the wing to level the score 22-22. The micks charged the conversion too early giving the ABs an uncontested second attempt which gave them a 24-22 win. Never have Irleand beaten them in 27 games but this game was shirley one of the best games of rugby in years. Why Mick & Co didn't just weather heavy traffic in the last 30 seconds of playing time I don't know. Once they lost the ball the ABs just ground their way forward and never gave in. Rugby doesn't get better than that.
If there is one thing more dangerous than getting between a bear and her cubs it's getting between my wife and her chocolate.
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Several years ago I took my wife for a romantic weekend in Paris. I saved money on the hotel by booking into a three-star in a "good" location, near several stings we wanted to see. The travel agent told me over the phone that star ratings in Paris are tough so a three-star was more like a four-star elsewhere. This was total BS! The room had a couple of small windows which let us see the crumbling brick wall of the next door hotel only about four feet away. If we opened one of the said windows and looked down into the filthy, narrow alley we saw the trash and smelled the incredible stink that made us shut the window quickly and never open it again. The room was barely bigger than the double bed and wardrobe with a very narrow door into the "on-suite luxury bathroom" which was a shower stall and toilet unit and the smallest sink I have ever seen (about 1 pint capacity to overflowing). The whole thing looked like it hadn't been decorated since before the war (the First World War, probably).
Speaking with some other guests we found out that most of the rooms were like this and yet the hotel still rated three-stars - probably because of it's location. Oh, and the food provided in the laughingly-named breakfast room - which was actually a curtained-off space between reception and the TV room/lounge was crap - even by French breakfast standards.
I never plan to go to a Paris hotel again. If I visit Paris again it will be a day trip via train from somewhere else.
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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