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Roadcrew · 02-09-2025, 06:54 PM

I knew you weren't supposed to laminate a ss card but never knew why. So I looked it up. Security features in the card are interfered with when a laminated layer is applied. Applies mainly to cards issued prior 1983. Some earlier cards may or may not have security features. In any case it is not illegal to laminate the card.

ezaircon4jc · 02-09-2025, 06:58 PM

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Originally Posted by Lady Jane

When the airport has a special senior section.

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This should go in the "guess where" thread!

3.0L · 02-10-2025, 12:52 PM

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Originally Posted by M_Six

Massachusetts used to use your SSN as a driver's license number. Imagine what mayhem could ensue these days if they still did that. Everything you need for identity theft on one card.

I still have the roster sheets for those of us who reported for duty on that
fateful day on August 1st, 1967. Next to each of the 50+ names is our new
Army service number and social security number. As I mentioned, I still
have it.

Toddbmw · 02-10-2025, 02:04 PM

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Originally Posted by M_Six

Massachusetts used to use your SSN as a driver's license number. Imagine what mayhem could ensue these days if they still did that. Everything you need for identity theft on one card.

Virginia also, until sometime in the 1980's (if I remember correctly).

Llarry · 02-10-2025, 02:58 PM

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Originally Posted by 3.0L

I still have the roster sheets for those of us who reported for duty on that
fateful day on August 1st, 1967. Next to each of the 50+ names is our new
Army service number and social security number.

Sometime around 1974, the Navy did away with service numbers and went to SSNs. Some officer probably got a medal for coming up with that brilliant idea. Thirty (?) years later, his nephew, another senior officer, probably got a medal for coming up with the idea of encrypting the numbers.

Were I captured today, I would give only name and rank, since I don't know my service number...

M_Six · 02-10-2025, 05:15 PM

Do Army dog tags still have your SSN on them?

Lady Jane · 02-10-2025, 05:34 PM

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Were I captured today, I would give only name and rank, since I don't know my service number...

Oh yeah tuff guy? If I was to capture you, you would sing like a canary.

3.0L · 02-10-2025, 06:21 PM

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Originally Posted by Llarry

Sometime around 1974, the Navy did away with service numbers and went to SSNs. Some officer probably got a medal for coming up with that brilliant idea. Thirty (?) years later, his nephew, another senior officer, probably got a medal for coming up with the idea of encrypting the numbers.

Were I captured today, I would give only name and rank, since I don't know my service number...

I still know mine, useless as it is. Still have my dog tags, too. Years ago,
I hammered out the SS numbers with a drift punch.

sygazelle · 02-11-2025, 10:57 AM

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Originally Posted by ezaircon4jc

This should go in the "guess where" thread!

It's at the Rock & Roll lounge at the Cleveland Hopkins International Airport.

Lady Jane · 02-11-2025, 11:00 AM

1959 Frigidaire Custom Imperial. It's amazing how some of those vintage appliances are still in use today.

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sygazelle · 02-11-2025, 02:08 PM

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1959 Frigidaire Custom Imperial. It's amazing how some of those vintage appliances are still in use today.

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We have vintage appliances at the family cabin that still run perfectly. We keep waiting for one to break so we can have an excuse to update the kitchen, but we've been waiting for years. In the meantime, the kitchen is early quaint.

Esteban · 02-12-2025, 01:00 AM

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3.0L · 02-12-2025, 10:03 AM

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Our housing tract was built on the side of a hill, so we had several streets
that were ideal for coasters. My coaster began life with wheels liberated
from my Radio Flyer wagon, eventually replaced with genuine Soap Box
Derby wheels. Later, I installed a steering wheel I liberated from a ‘49 Ford
at the nearby wrecking yard.

One day a buddy and I were booking down the steepest hill in the
neighborhood when we hit a bump and the steering wheel came off
(no nut). We crashed into a curb, probably going 25 MPH. The impact
launched both of us across the sidewalk and onto a lawn. We just laid
there, groaning for quite a while. No one noticed.

Buug959 · 02-13-2025, 05:19 AM

BTB

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3798j · 02-13-2025, 10:35 AM

when the obvious brings impact...

M_Six · 02-13-2025, 11:15 AM

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when the obvious brings impact...

It's when the number of people younger than you starts to decrease that you have to be worried.

Esteban · 02-13-2025, 01:32 PM

I have been waking up to blurry vision and use eye drops to clear my eyes in the morning and lately it hasn't helped. My eyes are staying blurry most of the day. I don't think I can drive like this. Had cataract surgery on both eyes years ago and also had the YAG laser procedure after the cataract lenses got blurry, which cleared them up, so it's not that. Have been increasing the size of text on my computer so I can see, which helps a bit. Made and appointment with my optometrist for next week. We'll see what he says. Maybe just a sign of aging... but it has come on kind of quickly.

M_Six · 02-13-2025, 02:12 PM

Hopefully it's minor and can be fixed/corrected.

Esteban · 02-13-2025, 02:24 PM

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Hopefully it's minor and can be fixed/corrected.

Was thinking maybe age-related macular degeneration (AMD). I think I remember Llarry talking about having this problem.

Will probably get a referral to see an ophthalmologist. Had a really good one but changed insurance to get a great cardiologist. Why can't all the good doctors be in the same network?

M_Six · 02-13-2025, 02:28 PM

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Was thinking maybe age-related macular degeneration (AMD). I think I remember Llarry talking about having this problem.

Will probably get a referral to see an ophthalmologist. Had a really good one but changed insurance to get a great cardiologist. Why can't all the good doctors be in the same network?

I was thinking MD, but didn't want to go there. No fun dealing with that.

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