Online Price Steering

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Margot Peppers for MailOnline: Price-steering: How e-commerce websites charge some customers more for the same item-- "According to a study by computer scientists at Northeastern University, many major e-commerce sites personalize prices per customer, depending on what software they use or their browser history."

Although I ran across this same thing, I wasn't aware this was a deliberate act. When I was looking to buy my security cameras online at a major online site the price for each camera was $100. I did a bit of searching on Google and was surprised there was another page on this very same site which offered them for $80. This was the exact same camera from the same retailer. So apparently they have two exact pages in two separate locations offering two different prices. A total savings of $80.

So it does appear they set up two different pages depending how a customer comes into the site. While I did not clear my browser's history nor try using a different browser that's something I'll have to try in the future.

Watch out for so-called 'free shipping' versus the total purchase price. Sometimes it ends up costing more. As do some of those offers that come in via email with discount codes. On a number of occasions I found items cheaper elsewhere w/o the discount codes.

I Want to Break Free' (Queen) Performed In North Korea

Yeah sure they're fake but still super cool
Maybe Kim Jong Un secretly enjoys them.
Never know.

Scientific Explanation For Bad Behavior

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For quite sometime I've questioned why people over the last few years seem to have less and less ethics, civility and moral turpitude.

Do I finally have my answer?

Research from MIT suggest: "Moral Judgments Can Be Altered"

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) researchers affected activity in the right temporo-parietal junction (located at the brain’s surface above and behind the right ear). They construed that "People's moral judgment can be altered by disrupting part of the brain"

Pardon me while I make a giant leap here and say..
Hmmm.. this could explain a whole lot, eh?

Johnny's Slowly Making His Way Back To Ukraine

Johnny is slowly making his way back to his apartment in Kyiv over the next few weeks. He spent the past month with his relatives in Taiwan the birth place of his parents. Currently they live in LA but it was cheaper to bring them over then what it would cost to visit them in the USA. This video describes his 22 hour layover in Singapore's Changi Airport before his next stop in Athens.

I've been following Johnny for some time and have been surprised over his many travels in other countries where you wouldn't think English was spoken. Sometimes prices are a fraction of what things cost here if you know where to look. Here in the United States we like to think we're the cat's meow. Tell me we have any airport in the United States anything like this one in Malaysia.

Not only Johnny but three other world travelers who make me realize Americans are not the only pebble on the beach. Some country's governments are unfriendly but the people themselves are surprising welcoming. Sometimes more so then we are here in the USA. While this airport wasn't particularity inexpensive there are some countries where he stayed cost less then $1,000 a month for all expenses in some really beautiful accommodations. You just need to know where to go, away from the touristy areas.

Music Break With Ray Benson | Brennen Leigh

Good stuff, eh?

LVCI Going To Jail ?

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Oh No, Say It Isn't So !

This is an example of the calls going around from these scumbags. There's a few things that should be a tip off. They gave no specific information knowing who I am. It was a Robo call. This IRS only does business in this way by certified, registered mail or by a process server coming to your home. Even if some scumbag should come to your door the documents themselves will list all your personal details that crooks have no way of knowing. Take it and don't leave them in under any circumstance.

The IRS itself warned on August 2nd, 2016 there's been a surge in automated phone scam calls.-- "The IRS has seen an increase in “robo-calls” where scammers leave urgent callback requests through the phone telling taxpayers to call back to settle their “tax bill.” These fake calls generally claim to be the last warning before legal action is taken.... Scammers are evolving and using more and more automated calls in an effort to reach the largest number of victims... If you think you might owe taxes, call the IRS directly at 800-829-1040."

Don't be stupid. Before responding in anyway what-so-ever call the IRS number mentioned above to make an inquiry no matter the circumstance which you've been approached.

Hey I may look stupid.

May even be possibly dumb...

BUT I didn't just crawl out from under the cabbage patch yesterday either !




BTW:
It use to be a cell phone number out of Los Angeles, California.
Not exactly what the IRS would be using, is it?

"Person Of Interest"

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Another series we used to enjoy.

screenrant.com
Why The Show Was Cancelled "Here's why Person of Interest was cancelled after season 5 and what season 6's story could've been about. The action-thriller series was based on the concept of an artificial intelligence called The Machine that could predict murders before they happen."



Show Opening Season 1 (2011)

Knowing today there's facial recognition software, cellphone tracking, trojan virus malware, etc. this program was not as far fetched as some may believe it once was. Who knows what the government (and others) may have at their disposal.