I honestly sell my used stuff on ebay, and I am constantly discussing matters with buyers. If a problem arises ebay does either nothing or its best to screw me, This happens when I am the buyer and when I am the seller. And when selling even if a problem does not arise I am supposed to pay twice at least for the same item: Listing Fees, Final Value commission, Paypal submission fee.
By reklessly complying with those rules I managed to make 150 positive feedback and a couple of negs... guess where the negs come from? Paypal costumers. Ebay/Paypal on the other hand managed to make 200+â out of me wich is extraordinary unfair since their costs are just website hosting/band and staff. Also they are dropping the feedback system wich will lead the marginal utility of selling through them 0 (Call it costumer un-fidelization)
What do you think would have happened if it had been purchased with a stolen credit card, check book, etc? Same thing. Bullshit. CC companies have insurances against fraud. Once you get the money it is yours. Only exception is that you participate in the scam, in this case you get a prison term, wich is something that paypal is NOT providing to the scammers.
Can anybody explain to me in what way entrusting funds to Paypal offers any real and accessible legal protection against fraud? That's the point. In a normal situation the Ebay feedbacks should protect against scammers and the police should prosecute the scammers. Handling the "protection" job to anyone else than public enforcment is BAD.
Read as: "You have been giving already a lot of money to us. Nevertheless starting 17 june we want to get more money from you, just because we can.
We are so confident that we don't even feel the need to justify it by adding the usual bullshit about security issues with other payments methods.
Take note that the purpouse of these innovations is ultimately to fuck you, our loyal user, in the ass. So you are welcome to join us to discuss your "position" on our Q&A Forums where our dedicated masters will educate you (in bdsm techniques)
For those of willing to submit without futile resistance we will grant some recreational activities including the online brainwashing course on how we did successfully turn a user supported community into a pyramidal scheme lookalike wich will benefit your ebay masters for a loong time"
I guess it's not far away the time when google gets the slight hint of business opportunity.
The delegate is in serious need of dismission. People don't deserve to ear such idiocies from officially elected people and should be able to fire them!
For instance I have set up several FON access points at various location with the intention of sharing WiFi. So I doubt that to share wifi is illegal, even remotely unlawful it may be it's my right! http://www.fon.com/
"under my umbrella" - Now you are guilty of downloading lyrics. Your connection will be terminated soon.
(This is the world we are gonna live if we don't educate the masses on the risks of corporations messing with laws)
What part of "unanimous vote" don't you understand? Absolutely none is needed to comprehend that there is a Duocracy and both parties are on the payroll of corporate oligopolists. As I proved in the above message with the links, they actually are and it's a fact. Clinton could have spoke against this law but obviously that was against family interests (a sad thing that his family interests are not the same as those millions of american citisens).
It was Clinton who gave us the DMCA. Not just Republican administrations are corporate puppets And by a mere coincidence was the same year that his wife (Hillary) was collecting cash from the media companies for her run as Governor. http://moneyline.cq.com/pml/home.dohttp://opensecrets.org/
Not that Barak Obama Ussein is much better. He's collecting from the same corporate tugs.
I can't see your point. If you want to say you want to keep substitizing this monopoly with your money you are free to do so, I won't buy anything more. Keep in mind that there are many other alternatives to support artists, like concerts and direct donations.
There are bands whose very sound was defined by the studio, and whose sound is very intentionally pristine and over produced. Impossible to create anywhere outside the studio (I'm thinking Steely Dan). Even Daft Punk, the most studio electric duo of all times, managed to go live here is proof http://youtube.com/user/daftpunkalive - I am sorry but if this Steely Dan it's not up to the task he doesn't deserve my money, live with it.
It's one month since I installed a Fonera router (http://www.fon.com/) in a pub. People does not connect. They just don't go to the place for WiFi. Most people have internet access at work and at home, accessing the internet even when relaxing in front of a coffee is actually nonsense.... well... hmmmm.... I shoulnd't be posting this on slashdot, right?
People are living longer and 50 years of copyright protection no longer give lifetime income Those sleazy bastards have beeing doing anything since 50 years. Why should they further enjoy the benefits of a pension found they ain't being paying at all? Why can't I do the same? FIRE THE COMMISIONER and when I say FIRE i mean it.
Note: I know that this has nothing to do with artists. I suppose it has to do with lobby money and corporation interests.
I don't understand why even the artist is entitled to profiting for their entire life I am wondering myself why do the architects, builders, cooks, truck drivers can't have a lifetime revenue for all the work they have been doing...... i see now, they are not backed by a corporation willing to corrupt politicians into passing absurd laws like this one.
These laws proposals might only come from someone utterly corrupted by the corporations. Unfortunately unlike the USA in Europe there is no obligation to disclose were the lobbying money goes. We do know lobbying is done and this idiotic proposal is the PROOF. As a added damage the european commission has the undemocratic habit of imposing the laws on member states without ever consulting european or local parlaments. Take a look here: http://www.free-europe.org/blog/english.php Sometimes they make me feel sympatetic for the MAFIAA
In uk now you can freely cospire and organize islamic bombings. It is clear that this case has been a waste of precious time for the courts and the police. They can go back now to more productive asignments.
I am quite sure the people of england will be reliefed to know that no mercy ever will be given to their true enemies: pirates and file sharers.
People do care about things which affect their lives(as this sort of nonsense would). This is why in pretty much every country in the world that isn't part of region 1, off the shelf DVD players(despite advertising to the contrary) are regionless. You buy a Sony DVD player in Australia(where I live) and stick a dvd from the US in it and it'll play right off the bat, because region encoding screws everyone outside of region 1 and the consumers wouldn't stand for it. I bought a legal DVD in hongkong, it was a favourite movie: my sassy girl. Well, the mac would not play it because of regional coding! That's one of the few times I thought fuck Apple. Buying DRM is always bad.
Did you actually see a video of the shitty machine in operation? It takes ages to fill the tank!!!!
Is it possible that Duch people are that lazy not to do it themselfs? If they need a robot for such a trivial taks then there are great chances that they will need a robot for getting out of the bed and dressed and another to feed them.
According to the number of idiots that i see crashed on the roadside in I think it's very unhealthy. Specially when they get tested for alcool AND marijuana usage and they come out positive.
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I tell you what's up with me.
I honestly sell my used stuff on ebay, and I am constantly discussing matters with buyers. If a problem arises ebay does either nothing or its best to screw me, This happens when I am the buyer and when I am the seller. And when selling even if a problem does not arise I am supposed to pay twice at least for the same item: Listing Fees, Final Value commission, Paypal submission fee.
By reklessly complying with those rules I managed to make 150 positive feedback and a couple of negs... guess where the negs come from? Paypal costumers. Ebay/Paypal on the other hand managed to make 200+â out of me wich is extraordinary unfair since their costs are just website hosting/band and staff. Also they are dropping the feedback system wich will lead the marginal utility of selling through them 0 (Call it costumer un-fidelization)
See any reason to be "not satisfied"?
Read as:
"You have been giving already a lot of money to us. Nevertheless starting 17 june we want to get more money from you, just because we can.
We are so confident that we don't even feel the need to justify it by adding the usual bullshit about security issues with other payments methods.
Take note that the purpouse of these innovations is ultimately to fuck you, our loyal user, in the ass. So you are welcome to join us to discuss your "position" on our Q&A Forums where our dedicated masters will educate you (in bdsm techniques)
For those of willing to submit without futile resistance we will grant some recreational activities including the online brainwashing course on how we did successfully turn a user supported community into a pyramidal scheme lookalike wich will benefit your ebay masters for a loong time" I guess it's not far away the time when google gets the slight hint of business opportunity.
The delegate is in serious need of dismission. People don't deserve to ear such idiocies from officially elected people and should be able to fire them!
For instance I have set up several FON access points at various location with the intention of sharing WiFi. So I doubt that to share wifi is illegal, even remotely unlawful it may be it's my right! http://www.fon.com/
Does this article means that Vista is coming out of Beta?
"under my umbrella" - Now you are guilty of downloading lyrics. Your connection will be terminated soon. (This is the world we are gonna live if we don't educate the masses on the risks of corporations messing with laws)
I hope you recover soon from your rage attack.
Cheers
I can't see your point. If you want to say you want to keep substitizing this monopoly with your money you are free to do so, I won't buy anything more.
Keep in mind that there are many other alternatives to support artists, like concerts and direct donations.
It's one month since I installed a Fonera router (http://www.fon.com/) in a pub. People does not connect. They just don't go to the place for WiFi. Most people have internet access at work and at home, accessing the internet even when relaxing in front of a coffee is actually nonsense.... well... hmmmm.... I shoulnd't be posting this on slashdot, right?
Answer is: Stop paying for music. Once they run out of money they will have no way of corrupting our goverment into these laws.
Note: I know that this has nothing to do with artists. I suppose it has to do with lobby money and corporation interests.
These laws proposals might only come from someone utterly corrupted by the corporations. Unfortunately unlike the USA in Europe there is no obligation to disclose were the lobbying money goes. We do know lobbying is done and this idiotic proposal is the PROOF. As a added damage the european commission has the undemocratic habit of imposing the laws on member states without ever consulting european or local parlaments. Take a look here: http://www.free-europe.org/blog/english.php Sometimes they make me feel sympatetic for the MAFIAA
An insightful reply demands a informative one:
http://moneyline.cq.com/pml/home.do
http://opensecrets.org/
Please check your candidates this time.
In uk now you can freely cospire and organize islamic bombings. It is clear that this case has been a waste of precious time for the courts and the police. They can go back now to more productive asignments.
I am quite sure the people of england will be reliefed to know that no mercy ever will be given to their true enemies: pirates and file sharers.
Here it goes another excuse for microsoft not to roll out a much needed service pack 3.
YES. Idiocy breeds terrorism.
Did you actually see a video of the shitty machine in operation? It takes ages to fill the tank!!!!
Is it possible that Duch people are that lazy not to do it themselfs? If they need a robot for such a trivial taks then there are great chances that they will need a robot for getting out of the bed and dressed and another to feed them.
Please, don't go develop a album. Find one you like HERE http://www.jamendo.com/ download it legally and share it legally.
:D
But if you really want to do a Album yourself then share it
According to the number of idiots that i see crashed on the roadside in I think it's very unhealthy. Specially when they get tested for alcool AND marijuana usage and they come out positive.