The Off Topic Topic

[Syt]

A street corner in Vienna's 6th district then and now.





In many of those before/after shots you can usually recognize the buildings, but it appears they demolished a fair bit of them, not least to make the street wider (though it might just look that way due to different focal length).

[mongers]

Nice subject matter, but not a patch on what Oexy linked us to a while back.

Maybe if the person had shot it not on a camera phone, not at night, had taken a copy of the original photo with him and spent time composing the picture, the results would have been better ?

[garbon]

[Syt]

Nice subject matter, but not a patch on what Oexy linked us to a while back.

Maybe if the person had shot it not on a camera phone, not at night, had taken a copy of the original photo with him and spent time composing the picture, the results would have been better ?

The first picture is from a facebook page called "Vintage Vienna" showcasing photos from old Vienna (1800s to 1980s). In this case a guy said, "Oh, btw, I have a picture of just that corner." It was not an effort to recreate angle/position. Wiener Linien, the Vienna public transports often do that for their facebook page, though:

[Admiral Yi]

Nice subject matter, but not a patch on what Oexy linked us to a while back.

Maybe if the person had shot it not on a camera phone, not at night, had taken a copy of the original photo with him and spent time composing the picture, the results would have been better ?

So gratuitously pissy mongers. 

[Caliga]

I wonder why the Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations Office of International Oversight Services would have an email address at the domain 'superposta.com'?

From: Ms. Carman L. Lapointe.

UNITED NATIONS OFFICE OF INTERNATIONAL OVERSIGHT SERVICES

Internal Audit,Monitoring,Consulting And Investigations Division.





Attention:





My name is Ms. Carman L. Lapointe, from the United Nations. It is a distinct pleasure to write you again. As you are well aware many foreigners have invested thousands of United States Dollars into Nigeria transactions in Hopeless Dreams to have none of them become a reality.





Right now, as directed by our secretary general Mr.Ban Ki-Moon, We have agreed with the Nigeria Government that US$100,000.00 (One Hundred Thousand United States Dollars Only) would be paid to you through the Western Union Money Transfer Via special arrangement as first installment.





This is to enable you have enough funds to pay for the Tax Clearance and bank charges before you will receive the balance of US$4.1M (Four Million One Hundred Thousand United States Dollars Only). Please take note that you will pay US$185 only, being Notarization fee and this is the only financial obligation that you will undertake to receive the US$100,000.00 (One Hundred Thousand United States Dollars Only) through the Western Union Money Transfer.





Lastly,i will like you to reconfirm your information to me such as your full name, address and telephone number so that I will proceed with your Western Union Money Transfer within the next 24 hrs and the transaction information will be released to you.





I await your response for further proceedings.





Sincerely yours,





Ms. Carman L. Lapointe

E-mail: [email protected]

{Under-Secretary-General}

[frunk]

I was listening to a historical study of the Spanish Prisoner scam and its descendants, and one of the points they made was that they are deliberately made to sound dumb because they only want the most gullible to reply.  If they were realistic then they'd have to deal with many more respondents who would wise up part of the way through the correspondence.  Since they send the emails to hundreds of thousands or millions of addresses they only want those most likely to keep sending money in pursuit of the big payoff.

[Caliga]

I was listening to a historical study of the Spanish Prisoner scam and its descendants, and one of the points they made was that they are deliberately made to sound dumb because they only want the most gullible to reply.  If they were realistic then they'd have to deal with many more respondents who would wise up part of the way through the correspondence.  Since they send the emails to hundreds of thousands or millions of addresses they only want those most likely to keep sending money in pursuit of the big payoff.

Interesting.

[CountDeMoney]

I'm going to miss my Jamaican friends.

[garbon]

She's Canadian. Looks shifty.

[Barrister]

She's Canadian. Looks shifty.

You're calling "Canadians" shifty-looking?

[Tonitrus]

The big thing that I notice a lot in those "then" and "now" photos, is how public transport was much more ubiquitous in the past.  Lots of what we'd call "light rail" was removed in favor of automobiles.

[DGuller]

Those are trams.

[Razgovory]

The big thing that I notice a lot in those "then" and "now" photos, is how public transport was much more ubiquitous in the past.  Lots of what we'd call "light rail" was removed in favor of automobiles.

I was surprised they were still around in the 1980's.  Most of those were decommissioned in the US in 1950's.  Several members of my family worked in that business.  At a family reunion I saw an old new paper where they all made the front page in some sort of racketeering scam involving street cars.

[derspiess]

They were well on the way to bringing streetcars back here in Cincy, but the new mayor is dead set against them & will order all work to cease.  There were valid arguments against the project before it started, but with all the sunk cost I think it should continue.