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The Greatest Threat to Civilization

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ringo
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09-03-2015 1:03 PM 		Reply to: Message 4 by Stile
09-02-2015 3:08 PM

Stile writes:
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-actually stupid people
-lazy people
-people scared of editing "the data" and getting fired
-people not trained properly in their jobs (not stupid employees, but stupid managers...)
I got a letter from a law firm trying to collect $34 for a magazine subscription that I had never agreed to. I asked them what kind of idiot hires a lawyer to collect $34. I told them to fuck off and leave me alone. They did.
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Edited by ringo, : Removed redundant "dollars".
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ringo
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09-04-2015 11:46 AM 		Reply to: Message 10 by caffeine
09-03-2015 2:29 PM

caffeine writes:
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... it was much more economical to scare people with threatening letters written by fake lawyers they invented than to pay the absurd fees actual lawyers no doubt charge to scare people with threatening letters.
It's true that I wouldn't even have opened the letter if it hadn't had the return address of a "law firm". But I was gleefully thinking of the legal bill they were going to run up trying to collect.
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