Sometimes payments bounce several days later, usually because of a stolen or maxed-out credit card.
That would be an unfulfilled payment, would it not? As I understand, eBay and PayPal hold all payments for a while to make sure that they do clear.
I've had buyers claim non-receipt even though I have a tracking number showing they received it.
Send it in a way that requires a signature, not just a tracking code.
I've had buyers claim the item was smashed in transit.
Pack your items better.
Seriously, these things are on the seller. Of course there are people out there that are going to try to scam you. They can be buyers, and they can certainly be sellers too. Maybe you just have had a few bad experiences, but to me you sound like one of the many sellers who simply do not care to do business in an acceptable way. Sellers blackmailing buyers with negative feedback was unacceptable and out of control. It was fixed. Your problem certainly exists, but it doesn't matter as much in the grand scheme of things. People will continue selling items regardless of policy. It's the buyers that you don't want to turn away.
Kucinich is a very liberal Democrat who's leaving Congress this January after being defeated in a primary election by a more moderate colleague.
Clarification. The Republican's pushed hard to have districts restructured. In the process they conveniently killed off Kucinich's district. What remained was absorbed into a bordering district, held by longtime incumbent Marcy Kaptur... a much more moderate Democrat.
Kucinich had faithfully served his district for almost a decade. He didn't lose by anything I would call a democratic process. He was thrown to the wolves by a system out to get people just like him. I realize most people at the national level see him as a "joke candidate" due to some bogus questions asked of him during his presidential campaign. Those of us in Ohio however know that he has a lot of great ideas, and certainly stands out amongst most of his peers in that regard.
Frankly, the the buy doesn't have as much to hold up in terms of experience. Once you've paid, your end is fullfilled and the seller should leave positive feedback. Unfortunately, far too many eBay sellers are scam artists. Anyone with thousands of sales under their belt and a constant inventory is probably not worth dealing with in my experience.
Perhaps you're just too used to sitting 12' up in the air in your Hummer? I routinely drive a 1974 Triumph Spitfire, that I would hazard to guess sits much lower than anything Tesla is offering. I've never had a problem with visibility, even with the hardtop on.
Perhaps the broader point is that it should apply to more people. People should be more inclined to grow or raise their own food. People should be inclined to eat more vegetables and less meat. People should stop breeding (and eating) at a pace that is beyond our sustainability. We shouldn't be wasting the majority of our food crops to feed livestock, just so we can eat beef three times per day.
The idea that a big slab of beef should be the center piece of a meal is insane, and almost exclusive to the Western World. It accounts for not only a lot of waste, but also a lot of health problems. Instead of having a 20lbs. steak and a volleyball-sized potato with an entire stick of butter melted across it, why not try some fresh fish with steamed vegetables or strips of grilled chicken with rice? Not only will it taste better, but your body will feel better in the long run.
The problem is that the meat industry receives so many subsidies that most people think it's impossible to dine affordably without stuffing their guts with red meat. Try growing your own vegetables. Raise some livestock to treat yourself throughout the year. Not only will the quality of your food go up dramatically, but you won't have to worry about ingesting all of the bizarre hormones and antibiotics that you get with commercial foods.
I should have specified. I don't think that failing in Linux would drag Valve down. I do think there is a very real possibility of Valve's Linux venture not taking off however.
That is a fair point for those people that use such services. Personally, I can't think of any DRM-based distribution services that I use outside of Steam however. I only get discs from Netflix, and absolutely hate iTunes.
I love Linux. I've had some distribution or another set a second partition since the late 90s. It's great for basic usage and applications. Your average user will miss out on nothing by switching to Linux. But for me, it's not something I can use full time, try as I might. Games are a big part of it, but there are other things as well.
I'd say that the lack of Adobe's Creative Suite is a huge sticking point for me. I use just about every one of those programs on a near daily basis. It might work well enough in WINE, but that's not exactly the kind of experience most users are looking for anything. There are certainly no open-source alternative that stack up against Photoshop, After Effects, and Premiere. Hell, there aren't really any proprietary products that work as well as Adobe's suite does for most things.
We've seen the light of hope that is games before. I'm sure we all remember Loki Software. It was a great concept, seemed to have a ton of support, and the ideology was even spreading throughout some of the better developers, like Id Software. Then it went belly up, almost quicker than it hit the scene to begin with. I hope that's not the case now with Valve, as Linux has matured quite a bit. Still, the worry is there. They can either put the effort forth and force hardware developers to get in line, or they can fail. Really though, between a handful of Steam games and Minecraft, I would be covered in Linux.:P
Finding the solution to Adobe's absence is an altogether different problem though. They sell remarkably expensive software to professionals. They don't see the money in supporting Linux. The upfront costs would surely be high, and that isn't helped by the perceived unwillingness of Linux users to pay for any software, let alone pricey software. If they weren't in it for the money, they wouldn't be throwing out toy-like applications for tablets.
It's been about 7 years for me. I have a cheap Netflix account and a server full of ripped media. It all plays just fine through my Boxee at almost no cost at all. I don't watch more than a couple of hours of movie/television in any given day anyway. I pity people who have nothing better to do in life than sit around watching the latest reality show.
He should have just released it on the PC instead. It has a much larger built-in audience, and doesn't cost anything in licensing/patching fees. It really serves him right for siding with some outdated set-top box.
Again, my statement was not in direct relation to the rental of vehicles. Rather it cherry-picked the aforementioned quote to offer a broader sense of what is or isn't just.
That said, I do indeed think you would be a fool to hand your keys over to anyone that you didn't not personally know and trust. Barring that, you would certainly be a fool for providing access to your property (via rental) to someone whom is in this country illegally. They almost assuredly have falsified documentation and would leave you with little legal recourse were something to happen to your vehicle.
No, my reply was in reference to the grandparent's statement, just as yours' seemed to be.
[...] tell them you're an illegal and they're not allowed to discriminate against you.
I wouldn't hand over the keys to my car to any stranger, let alone the majority of my friends and family. Race or legal status would have very little addition bearing on the situation, if any.
My first thought was: Why even go into a McDonald's? They're disgusting enough in the States, let alone when surrounded by the plethora of fine dining throughout Paris. It just stinks of consumer conditioning, frankly.
My second thought was: This guy is a coward. Why would he show off his medical papers to every asshole who looked at him funny? He can explain the presence of the glasses, their use, and move on. Unless it's airport security or something, no one really needs to see his doctor's excuse. Following up on that, this guy allowed himself to be manhandled, his device potentially damaged, and then just stands around talking and snapping picture for passive aggressive internet rants later? Please. Those minimum-wage fucks should have had their asses kicked. That right there is what's wrong with the world and exactly why people think they can do the things they do... because no one stops them.
Unfortunately, the statement is more true than not. I've volunteered within a few different social service and public assistant roles over the years. When looking for assistance on things like housing/heating/food, the government forms all state very boldly that a lack of citizenship or legal residency will not necessarily disqualify you. I'm not a bigot, but as a taxpayer it disturbs me to see welfare programs abused to the extent they are... let alone by illegal immigrants.
I don't really want to pay more for a product, no one does, but I'd be one of those people who'd pay more for BF4. Why?
real first-person-shooters nowadays. I recall a time when Quake and Unreal ruled the scene, where skill and accuracy mattered, and you could create and download free content to your heart's content... Then consoles hit it big with frat boys across the world, who think that the genre began with Halo.
Do your Mom a favor and tell her you just want some nice pants for your birthday. Don't make her waste $70 buying you some shit military "sim" each year. She has to work for that stuff, 'yknow?
By 2050—earlier, probably—all real knowledge of Oldspeak will have disappeared. The whole literature of the past will have been destroyed. Chaucer, Shakespeare, Milton, Byron—they'll exist only in Newspeak versions, not merely changed into something different, but actually contradictory of what they used to be. Even the literature of the Party will change. Even the slogans will change. How could you have a slogan like "freedom is slavery" when the concept of freedom has been abolished? The whole climate of thought will be different. In fact there will be no thought, as we understand it now. Orthodoxy means not thinking—not needing to think. Orthodoxy is unconsciousness.
So don't complain if this election is stolen. You forgot to fix the system.
The system doesn't want to be fixed. It is, of course, setup that way on purpose. Sometimes it is better to just start over than it is to try to fix something broken beyond repair. If voting actually had the power to change anything, it would most certainly be illegal.
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Sometimes payments bounce several days later, usually because of a stolen or maxed-out credit card.
That would be an unfulfilled payment, would it not? As I understand, eBay and PayPal hold all payments for a while to make sure that they do clear.
I've had buyers claim non-receipt even though I have a tracking number showing they received it.
Send it in a way that requires a signature, not just a tracking code.
I've had buyers claim the item was smashed in transit.
Pack your items better.
Seriously, these things are on the seller. Of course there are people out there that are going to try to scam you. They can be buyers, and they can certainly be sellers too. Maybe you just have had a few bad experiences, but to me you sound like one of the many sellers who simply do not care to do business in an acceptable way. Sellers blackmailing buyers with negative feedback was unacceptable and out of control. It was fixed. Your problem certainly exists, but it doesn't matter as much in the grand scheme of things. People will continue selling items regardless of policy. It's the buyers that you don't want to turn away.
Kucinich is a very liberal Democrat who's leaving Congress this January after being defeated in a primary election by a more moderate colleague.
Clarification. The Republican's pushed hard to have districts restructured. In the process they conveniently killed off Kucinich's district. What remained was absorbed into a bordering district, held by longtime incumbent Marcy Kaptur... a much more moderate Democrat.
Kucinich had faithfully served his district for almost a decade. He didn't lose by anything I would call a democratic process. He was thrown to the wolves by a system out to get people just like him. I realize most people at the national level see him as a "joke candidate" due to some bogus questions asked of him during his presidential campaign. Those of us in Ohio however know that he has a lot of great ideas, and certainly stands out amongst most of his peers in that regard.
Frankly, the the buy doesn't have as much to hold up in terms of experience. Once you've paid, your end is fullfilled and the seller should leave positive feedback. Unfortunately, far too many eBay sellers are scam artists. Anyone with thousands of sales under their belt and a constant inventory is probably not worth dealing with in my experience.
Also, somebody should create jobs only for them [...]
Cooking meth? Scamming disability for pain killers?
Perhaps you're just too used to sitting 12' up in the air in your Hummer? I routinely drive a 1974 Triumph Spitfire, that I would hazard to guess sits much lower than anything Tesla is offering. I've never had a problem with visibility, even with the hardtop on.
There can be only one!
I am indeed. Thanks for the heads up on that one!
Perhaps the broader point is that it should apply to more people. People should be more inclined to grow or raise their own food. People should be inclined to eat more vegetables and less meat. People should stop breeding (and eating) at a pace that is beyond our sustainability. We shouldn't be wasting the majority of our food crops to feed livestock, just so we can eat beef three times per day.
The idea that a big slab of beef should be the center piece of a meal is insane, and almost exclusive to the Western World. It accounts for not only a lot of waste, but also a lot of health problems. Instead of having a 20lbs. steak and a volleyball-sized potato with an entire stick of butter melted across it, why not try some fresh fish with steamed vegetables or strips of grilled chicken with rice? Not only will it taste better, but your body will feel better in the long run.
The problem is that the meat industry receives so many subsidies that most people think it's impossible to dine affordably without stuffing their guts with red meat. Try growing your own vegetables. Raise some livestock to treat yourself throughout the year. Not only will the quality of your food go up dramatically, but you won't have to worry about ingesting all of the bizarre hormones and antibiotics that you get with commercial foods.
I'll take my cyberpunk without the magic, please. Really, Shadowrun is little more than D&D with guns.
I should have specified. I don't think that failing in Linux would drag Valve down. I do think there is a very real possibility of Valve's Linux venture not taking off however.
That is a fair point for those people that use such services. Personally, I can't think of any DRM-based distribution services that I use outside of Steam however. I only get discs from Netflix, and absolutely hate iTunes.
I love Linux. I've had some distribution or another set a second partition since the late 90s. It's great for basic usage and applications. Your average user will miss out on nothing by switching to Linux. But for me, it's not something I can use full time, try as I might. Games are a big part of it, but there are other things as well.
I'd say that the lack of Adobe's Creative Suite is a huge sticking point for me. I use just about every one of those programs on a near daily basis. It might work well enough in WINE, but that's not exactly the kind of experience most users are looking for anything. There are certainly no open-source alternative that stack up against Photoshop, After Effects, and Premiere. Hell, there aren't really any proprietary products that work as well as Adobe's suite does for most things.
We've seen the light of hope that is games before. I'm sure we all remember Loki Software. It was a great concept, seemed to have a ton of support, and the ideology was even spreading throughout some of the better developers, like Id Software. Then it went belly up, almost quicker than it hit the scene to begin with. I hope that's not the case now with Valve, as Linux has matured quite a bit. Still, the worry is there. They can either put the effort forth and force hardware developers to get in line, or they can fail. Really though, between a handful of Steam games and Minecraft, I would be covered in Linux. :P
Finding the solution to Adobe's absence is an altogether different problem though. They sell remarkably expensive software to professionals. They don't see the money in supporting Linux. The upfront costs would surely be high, and that isn't helped by the perceived unwillingness of Linux users to pay for any software, let alone pricey software. If they weren't in it for the money, they wouldn't be throwing out toy-like applications for tablets.
We should really get together sometime! It'd be fun to shoot at another human being for a change. But should we play TF2 or CS:S? ;)
It's been about 7 years for me. I have a cheap Netflix account and a server full of ripped media. It all plays just fine through my Boxee at almost no cost at all. I don't watch more than a couple of hours of movie/television in any given day anyway. I pity people who have nothing better to do in life than sit around watching the latest reality show.
He should have just released it on the PC instead. It has a much larger built-in audience, and doesn't cost anything in licensing/patching fees. It really serves him right for siding with some outdated set-top box.
Console kiddies don't know how to play first-person shooters anyway. No big loss on either side there.
Again, my statement was not in direct relation to the rental of vehicles. Rather it cherry-picked the aforementioned quote to offer a broader sense of what is or isn't just.
That said, I do indeed think you would be a fool to hand your keys over to anyone that you didn't not personally know and trust. Barring that, you would certainly be a fool for providing access to your property (via rental) to someone whom is in this country illegally. They almost assuredly have falsified documentation and would leave you with little legal recourse were something to happen to your vehicle.
No, my reply was in reference to the grandparent's statement, just as yours' seemed to be.
[...] tell them you're an illegal and they're not allowed to discriminate against you.
I wouldn't hand over the keys to my car to any stranger, let alone the majority of my friends and family. Race or legal status would have very little addition bearing on the situation, if any.
My first thought was: Why even go into a McDonald's? They're disgusting enough in the States, let alone when surrounded by the plethora of fine dining throughout Paris. It just stinks of consumer conditioning, frankly.
My second thought was: This guy is a coward. Why would he show off his medical papers to every asshole who looked at him funny? He can explain the presence of the glasses, their use, and move on. Unless it's airport security or something, no one really needs to see his doctor's excuse. Following up on that, this guy allowed himself to be manhandled, his device potentially damaged, and then just stands around talking and snapping picture for passive aggressive internet rants later? Please. Those minimum-wage fucks should have had their asses kicked. That right there is what's wrong with the world and exactly why people think they can do the things they do... because no one stops them.
Unfortunately, the statement is more true than not. I've volunteered within a few different social service and public assistant roles over the years. When looking for assistance on things like housing/heating/food, the government forms all state very boldly that a lack of citizenship or legal residency will not necessarily disqualify you. I'm not a bigot, but as a taxpayer it disturbs me to see welfare programs abused to the extent they are... let alone by illegal immigrants.
I don't really want to pay more for a product, no one does, but I'd be one of those people who'd pay more for BF4. Why?
real first-person-shooters nowadays. I recall a time when Quake and Unreal ruled the scene, where skill and accuracy mattered, and you could create and download free content to your heart's content... Then consoles hit it big with frat boys across the world, who think that the genre began with Halo.
Do your Mom a favor and tell her you just want some nice pants for your birthday. Don't make her waste $70 buying you some shit military "sim" each year. She has to work for that stuff, 'yknow?
After they completely ruined TechTV? You're part of the problem.
You'd be missing out on all of Rupaul's shows by not having the Logo channel. :(
By 2050—earlier, probably—all real knowledge of Oldspeak will have disappeared. The whole literature of the past will have been destroyed. Chaucer, Shakespeare, Milton, Byron—they'll exist only in Newspeak versions, not merely changed into something different, but actually contradictory of what they used to be. Even the literature of the Party will change. Even the slogans will change. How could you have a slogan like "freedom is slavery" when the concept of freedom has been abolished? The whole climate of thought will be different. In fact there will be no thought, as we understand it now. Orthodoxy means not thinking—not needing to think. Orthodoxy is unconsciousness.
So don't complain if this election is stolen. You forgot to fix the system.
The system doesn't want to be fixed. It is, of course, setup that way on purpose. Sometimes it is better to just start over than it is to try to fix something broken beyond repair. If voting actually had the power to change anything, it would most certainly be illegal.