Honestly ANY company that charges for online payments is ran by scumbags. Complete and utter SCUMBAGS.
It's cheaper for them to process an online payment than to hire someone to open an envelope and handle the check. They were just trying hard to be as evil as possible, A tradition at Verizon.
"without having to lug around a pocket-filling box."
Stop buying old tech. my dual core wearable computer does not fill a pocket and could easily be worn on a belt. plus my latest version runs 2 days on a single charge. and glasses? Bah.
Put the information display on your arm.... http://www.getinpulse.com/ if you want to be less visible, otherwise you can easily strap the whole computer and display on your arm if you want to look more tech oriented.
Yet I own several ipads and android tablets and have NEVER experienced what you have. In fact the whole office of Ipads and Android tablets have NEVER experienced that.
"I don't like Hollywood movies post 1980. The stories are insipid and repetitive. There are no surprises. "
REally?
Just from the 1990's....
1. Schindler's List - (1993, Steven Spielberg) (Liam Neeson, Ralph Fiennes, Ben Kingsley)
2. GoodFellas - (1990, Martin Scorsese) (Robert DeNiro, Joe Pesci, Ray Liotta)
3. Saving Private Ryan - (1998, Steven Spielberg) (Tom Hanks, Tom Sizemore)
4. Pulp Fiction - (1994, Quentin Tarantino) (John Travolta, Samuel L. Jackson)
5. The Silence of the Lambs - (1991, Jonathan Demme) (Anthony Hopkins, Jodie Foster)
6. Fargo - (1996. Joel Coen) (Frances McDormand, William H. Macy, Steve Buscemi)
7. Unforgiven - (1992, Clint Eastwood) (Clint Eastwood, Gene Hackman)
8. Shawshank Redemption - (1994, Frank Darabont) (Tim Robbins, Morgan Freeman) 13. Sling Blade - (1996, Billy Bob Thornton) (Billy Bob Thornton, J.T. Walsh, John Ritter) 18. Reservoir Dogs - (1992, Quentin Tarantino) (Harvey Keitel, Tim Roth) 35. Being John Malcovich - (1999, Spike Jonez) (John Cusak, John Malcovich) 100. Clerks - (1994, Kevin Smith) (Brian O'Halloran, Jeff Anderson)
That are far more, but those are my favorites from the 90's
2000's
42. The Last King of Scotland (2006) -- incredibly good. 9. No Country For Old Men (2007) 4. The Lord of the Rings trilogy (2001, 2002, 2003) City of Men (2007) City of Ember (2008)
and there are more, I got bored looking, there is a metric buttload of good movies out there cince 1980. you need to look for them. Just like how you have to look for them before 1980. Come on, there was a LOT of crap from 1920-1980 in films.
$50.00 for two tickets. $25.00 for a bucket of popcorn and 2 pops.
I get to enjoy 20 minutes of ad's at the beginning, Sticky floors because they NEVER mop. The asshole with his cellphone talking to his buddy. The lady that yells back at the movie screen. And the movie looks like crap because they are too farking lazy to remove the 3D lense assembly for a 2D movie. IS NOT in focus, and Oh the speakers sound like crap because they were bought new in 1989 and the foam surround has fallen apart. Theater owners REFUSE to do maintenance.
Screw them. it's why I built my own theater in the basement for LESS than $1500.00 including sound control, 1080p projector, BluRay player AND XBMC box. I had a nice Kenwood Soverign surround so that was free.
I now have better theater experience than the Movie theater, and I show better movies. figuring the price of 1 movie date a month and It will pay for it's self in 2 years easily.
No I don't have "theater seating" that stuff is stupid. I bought 3 cheap couches and built a 3 tier riser. Carpet tile rocks.
They even sue farmers that DONT use GM crops that try and keep seeds. anyone with a seed cleaner is sued out of existence, and farmers that plant non GM crops typically get sued because the wind blew and the GM crops a 1/4 mile away pollinated a portion of his crops.
Monsanto needs to be put out of business, they are the most evil company ever existed next to banks and Dick Cheney.
OH god, BK fries SUCK. they don't use animal fat oil... YUCK with that veggie oil crap. BK had good fries back in the 80's. Fries are only good if they are cooked in animals that have been rendered down into a nice cooking fat.
Props to the Wendies spicy nuggets. Gotta love mystery processed chicken by product nuggets. I can eat those by the fist full.
I bought a $15.99 app for my iphone. it puts the satellites in the sky as a augmented reality via the camera. I can then easily spot if a location is clear for shooting that specific satellite in 10 seconds. Works great, and has saved me $25.00 the first time I used it. Every time I use it afterwards it saves me another $25.00. (30 minutes of my time.)
I am going to buy a $79.00 app soon that has a very accurate Real time audio analyzer for tuning a room audio system. That wone will pay for it's self the FIRST time I use it.
People that actually make money using a computer have no problem paying for software.
but in IOS a 5 star rating will drive the rating up, but it takes 10, 1 star ratings to drive it down. I have a couple of friends that are ios app writers and they noted that it's very hard to get a crap app rated down.
Plus what about the paid app you bought 2 years ago that the last update filled the thing with Ad's. I want my frigging $5.00 back.
That $4.00 coffee is a known. it will taste good and do it's job.
the $1.00 app is a crap shoot. It may be great, it may be a steaming pile of crap. The app stores on Apple AND Android help keep the crap out there.
I should be able to buy an app and get a refund in 10 minutes after I run it. Hell I would have done that with the $4.99 iMovie app from apple as it's crap, yet the web is full or rave reviews of that steaming turd.
WE agonize over a $1.00 app just like we agonize over burning a $1.00 bill.
They will have a mini computer that will go 12 hours on a charge and do everything you need for web surfing except for crap designed flash websites.
I want one, I want a laptop that will go all day long and will recharge with a solar panel.
Hell I would buy a laptop that had a e paper display and could not play video. A backpacking computer / tablet that is durable as hell, goes a week on a charge, and cna let me record my thoughts or inspect maps at camp at the end of the day would be a god send. the craptastic kindle cant do any of those, except for the last a week. I carry one for a book to read at night, just wish it had the resolution to display topo maps decently and a flip out keyboard for journal entries.
All ad insertion gear is IT based, it's a server, IT touches it. etc... Honestly as one that worked 7 years in broadcast, the guy is doomed. It will not happen. I ended up head of IT for one reason, I was the one engineer that was doing SQL work for finance. I told finance that I cant do their queries anymore as I was needed in engineering. They created an IT manager position for me to keep me in the office to work on their stuff, side effect was more pay and the ability to dictate IT standards.
Mine was a fluke to keep me, and I am certain that after I left the position evaporated.
Born of rich parents? really? I must have misplaced mine and got these poor ones. My father worked in a Foundry his whole life and died there. my mother lost his pensions and has lived with one of us 3 kids over the past 15 years as she has nothing.
I am a skilled person who makes a little over $24.00 an hour, lower middle class wages. I just dont do stupid things like "buy new" or "pay someone to do it" I bought a home I could easily afford, my daily driver cars are highly affordable, it's why I chose a car that got real world over 38mpg.
My daughter even went to private school.
Again, if you have any financial sense you can easily do all this. And I also have not only a home theater, but home automation and whole house audio with Crestron control gear, many of my rich clients cant afford that stuff.
Not my problem you can't figure out that buying used for far lower prices = you get more for your money. My first 65 fastback mustang restoration was less than $11,500 out of my pocket and I learned how to paint a car in my garage with a $150.00 paint gun. I have won several shows with that paint job that was not done by a professional. Granted it only makes about 550hp and does not have a full racing suspension yet, but it will eventually. It took 3 years and less than the cost of a worn out 10 year old BMW M3, and it's faster and far better looking.
I suggest you learn how to properly handle your finances... it sounds like you are blowing money on all the wrong things.
"Some people are doing their jobs to do something good."
You are correct, but 99% of the time that person is building their own business and Honestly NOT making 7 figures. The hardest working man on this planet is a Small business owner. They create more jobs than any of the "job creators" and their passion is the business they carried to term and gave life.
But they are NOT chasing a career or a "image" they are taking care of their baby, a very different thing.
The smart ones stop working for the career and start working for the weekend.
Having a Mc Mansion with an audi in the driveway and being $690,000 in debt is simple stupidity.
I prefer to work 30 hours a week, and do what I want when it's time to stop working. I have built TWO cars completely by hand, restored 3 classic motorcycles myself and have seen far more of this country than any of the sad and lonely men I see in the corner office.
They may have climbed the corporate ladder, but I actually raised my child by spending time with her, have actually built things that make very rich guys green with envy, and have seen things the man that wastes his life in an office working for a career will never EVER see in his lifetime. My wife and I travel to europe more than any rich person I know, I have ridden a motorcycle from Endbraugh to Paris.
I have as cushy of a life as the executive. I live in a sane home that even has a real home theater (I built myself) in a sane neighborhood. My home cost $69,000 and is better built than most any home that was built for $500,000 - $700,000 today. Mine is real stone and real brick, not the fake crap that is on new construction. I drive a realistic $9,800 used 2007 honda civic as my daily driver instead of being a financial retard and wearing out a $75,000 BMW or Audi.
In my experience, only an idiot works for his "career" and a "image", a real man works for his family and doing things that make him happy. The rich clients I work for have a nanny raising their kids, and they get to see them every other sunday. They never use the home automation and high end theaters I design and install for them because they are never home and always at the office.
Working on your "career" is a very sad and lonely life, only fools chase that rabbit.
he did not hire douchebags, the scumbag comapny to market and make it basically stole his idea and hired losers like this cristofo to market it. the guy who designed it told a lot of people at the company that took it over that the guy was an ass and this would happen.
honestly, what is funny is that someone took over the scumbags twitter account, and it seems his life is a digital hell right now. I'm watching and making more popcorn, this has really blow up my productivity for the day, It's like watching someone try to box the internet.
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that is their cost to bear for accepting credit cards.
Suck it bitches!
Honestly ANY company that charges for online payments is ran by scumbags. Complete and utter SCUMBAGS.
It's cheaper for them to process an online payment than to hire someone to open an envelope and handle the check. They were just trying hard to be as evil as possible, A tradition at Verizon.
"without having to lug around a pocket-filling box."
Stop buying old tech. my dual core wearable computer does not fill a pocket and could easily be worn on a belt. plus my latest version runs 2 days on a single charge.
and glasses? Bah.
Put the information display on your arm.... http://www.getinpulse.com/ if you want to be less visible, otherwise you can easily strap the whole computer and display on your arm if you want to look more tech oriented.
Live it now, the tech already exists.
And there are off brand routers and AP's that dont have a function to turn it off.
Unless that is what the "more happy fun" setting is. the Engrish in some of these products is getting silly.
Yet I own several ipads and android tablets and have NEVER experienced what you have. In fact the whole office of Ipads and Android tablets have NEVER experienced that.
I'm guessing your mom's wifi sucks.
Then get a fujistu Stylistic and run Ubuntu.
Honestly, Why half ass it? if you want to do work get something running a full blown Linux on it.
"I don't like Hollywood movies post 1980. The stories are insipid and repetitive. There are no surprises. "
REally?
Just from the 1990's....
1. Schindler's List - (1993, Steven Spielberg) (Liam Neeson, Ralph Fiennes, Ben Kingsley)
2. GoodFellas - (1990, Martin Scorsese) (Robert DeNiro, Joe Pesci, Ray Liotta)
3. Saving Private Ryan - (1998, Steven Spielberg) (Tom Hanks, Tom Sizemore)
4. Pulp Fiction - (1994, Quentin Tarantino) (John Travolta, Samuel L. Jackson)
5. The Silence of the Lambs - (1991, Jonathan Demme) (Anthony Hopkins, Jodie Foster)
6. Fargo - (1996. Joel Coen) (Frances McDormand, William H. Macy, Steve Buscemi)
7. Unforgiven - (1992, Clint Eastwood) (Clint Eastwood, Gene Hackman)
8. Shawshank Redemption - (1994, Frank Darabont) (Tim Robbins, Morgan Freeman)
13. Sling Blade - (1996, Billy Bob Thornton) (Billy Bob Thornton, J.T. Walsh, John Ritter)
18. Reservoir Dogs - (1992, Quentin Tarantino) (Harvey Keitel, Tim Roth)
35. Being John Malcovich - (1999, Spike Jonez) (John Cusak, John Malcovich)
100. Clerks - (1994, Kevin Smith) (Brian O'Halloran, Jeff Anderson)
That are far more, but those are my favorites from the 90's
2000's
42. The Last King of Scotland (2006) -- incredibly good.
9. No Country For Old Men (2007)
4. The Lord of the Rings trilogy (2001, 2002, 2003)
City of Men (2007)
City of Ember (2008)
and there are more, I got bored looking, there is a metric buttload of good movies out there cince 1980. you need to look for them. Just like how you have to look for them before 1980. Come on, there was a LOT of crap from 1920-1980 in films.
$50.00 for two tickets.
$25.00 for a bucket of popcorn and 2 pops.
I get to enjoy 20 minutes of ad's at the beginning, Sticky floors because they NEVER mop. The asshole with his cellphone talking to his buddy. The lady that yells back at the movie screen. And the movie looks like crap because they are too farking lazy to remove the 3D lense assembly for a 2D movie. IS NOT in focus, and Oh the speakers sound like crap because they were bought new in 1989 and the foam surround has fallen apart. Theater owners REFUSE to do maintenance.
Screw them. it's why I built my own theater in the basement for LESS than $1500.00 including sound control, 1080p projector, BluRay player AND XBMC box. I had a nice Kenwood Soverign surround so that was free.
I now have better theater experience than the Movie theater, and I show better movies. figuring the price of 1 movie date a month and It will pay for it's self in 2 years easily.
No I don't have "theater seating" that stuff is stupid. I bought 3 cheap couches and built a 3 tier riser. Carpet tile rocks.
No it's so that a farmer can wholesale spray his crops hard with a nasty chemical and not have it kill the crops.
http://www.organicconsumers.org/Monsanto/farmerssued.cfm
http://planetgreen.discovery.com/food-health/monsanto-sues-pennsylvania-farmer-for-saving-seeds.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/11/02/us/saving-seeds-subjects-farmers-to-suits-over-patent.html?pagewanted=all&src=pm
I can find you literally HUNDREDS of articles about farmers getting sued by GM seed makers. Only a raving lunatic would say "they dont sue farmers"
They even sue farmers that DONT use GM crops that try and keep seeds. anyone with a seed cleaner is sued out of existence, and farmers that plant non GM crops typically get sued because the wind blew and the GM crops a 1/4 mile away pollinated a portion of his crops.
Monsanto needs to be put out of business, they are the most evil company ever existed next to banks and Dick Cheney.
I did not say that, YOU said that so that is what your belief is. Stop being a duschebag that hates linux and GNU.
People who make money with computers have no problem paying for it. and YES, I PAY for linux on our servers.
why? because it's how you get priority support.
OH god, BK fries SUCK. they don't use animal fat oil... YUCK with that veggie oil crap. BK had good fries back in the 80's. Fries are only good if they are cooked in animals that have been rendered down into a nice cooking fat.
Props to the Wendies spicy nuggets. Gotta love mystery processed chicken by product nuggets. I can eat those by the fist full.
"Godaddy is the McDonalds of domain registration."
No they are not. Their fries suck.
At least McDonalds fries are a lot better than everyone elses.
Because you do nothing of value.
I bought a $15.99 app for my iphone. it puts the satellites in the sky as a augmented reality via the camera. I can then easily spot if a location is clear for shooting that specific satellite in 10 seconds. Works great, and has saved me $25.00 the first time I used it. Every time I use it afterwards it saves me another $25.00. (30 minutes of my time.)
I am going to buy a $79.00 app soon that has a very accurate Real time audio analyzer for tuning a room audio system. That wone will pay for it's self the FIRST time I use it.
People that actually make money using a computer have no problem paying for software.
but in IOS a 5 star rating will drive the rating up, but it takes 10, 1 star ratings to drive it down. I have a couple of friends that are ios app writers and they noted that it's very hard to get a crap app rated down.
Plus what about the paid app you bought 2 years ago that the last update filled the thing with Ad's. I want my frigging $5.00 back.
That $4.00 coffee is a known. it will taste good and do it's job.
the $1.00 app is a crap shoot. It may be great, it may be a steaming pile of crap. The app stores on Apple AND Android help keep the crap out there.
I should be able to buy an app and get a refund in 10 minutes after I run it. Hell I would have done that with the $4.99 iMovie app from apple as it's crap, yet the web is full or rave reviews of that steaming turd.
WE agonize over a $1.00 app just like we agonize over burning a $1.00 bill.
Ok, let me add one more requirement.
Must not cost as much as a car.
Panasonic Toughpad $2,995.00
If I cant use it as a shovel in gravel or as a oar in the water taped to a stick and it will take ZERO damage.... It's not worth it.
and the battery life of the toughpad is not at 12 hours with fast recharge like E-paper devices.
I dont.
They will have a mini computer that will go 12 hours on a charge and do everything you need for web surfing except for crap designed flash websites.
I want one, I want a laptop that will go all day long and will recharge with a solar panel.
Hell I would buy a laptop that had a e paper display and could not play video. A backpacking computer / tablet that is durable as hell, goes a week on a charge, and cna let me record my thoughts or inspect maps at camp at the end of the day would be a god send. the craptastic kindle cant do any of those, except for the last a week. I carry one for a book to read at night, just wish it had the resolution to display topo maps decently and a flip out keyboard for journal entries.
Bingo.
All ad insertion gear is IT based, it's a server, IT touches it. etc... Honestly as one that worked 7 years in broadcast, the guy is doomed. It will not happen. I ended up head of IT for one reason, I was the one engineer that was doing SQL work for finance. I told finance that I cant do their queries anymore as I was needed in engineering. They created an IT manager position for me to keep me in the office to work on their stuff, side effect was more pay and the ability to dictate IT standards.
Mine was a fluke to keep me, and I am certain that after I left the position evaporated.
Born of rich parents? really? I must have misplaced mine and got these poor ones. My father worked in a Foundry his whole life and died there. my mother lost his pensions and has lived with one of us 3 kids over the past 15 years as she has nothing.
I am a skilled person who makes a little over $24.00 an hour, lower middle class wages. I just dont do stupid things like "buy new" or "pay someone to do it" I bought a home I could easily afford, my daily driver cars are highly affordable, it's why I chose a car that got real world over 38mpg.
My daughter even went to private school.
Again, if you have any financial sense you can easily do all this. And I also have not only a home theater, but home automation and whole house audio with Crestron control gear, many of my rich clients cant afford that stuff.
Not my problem you can't figure out that buying used for far lower prices = you get more for your money. My first 65 fastback mustang restoration was less than $11,500 out of my pocket and I learned how to paint a car in my garage with a $150.00 paint gun. I have won several shows with that paint job that was not done by a professional. Granted it only makes about 550hp and does not have a full racing suspension yet, but it will eventually. It took 3 years and less than the cost of a worn out 10 year old BMW M3, and it's faster and far better looking.
I suggest you learn how to properly handle your finances... it sounds like you are blowing money on all the wrong things.
this motorcycle goes underground, I drove UNDER the channel with a little help from a giant steel snake on tracks.
it's not magical, All of them do it over there when you try and cross the channel, even CARS can do it there!
"Some people are doing their jobs to do something good."
You are correct, but 99% of the time that person is building their own business and Honestly NOT making 7 figures. The hardest working man on this planet is a Small business owner. They create more jobs than any of the "job creators" and their passion is the business they carried to term and gave life.
But they are NOT chasing a career or a "image" they are taking care of their baby, a very different thing.
The smart ones stop working for the career and start working for the weekend.
Having a Mc Mansion with an audi in the driveway and being $690,000 in debt is simple stupidity.
I prefer to work 30 hours a week, and do what I want when it's time to stop working. I have built TWO cars completely by hand, restored 3 classic motorcycles myself and have seen far more of this country than any of the sad and lonely men I see in the corner office.
They may have climbed the corporate ladder, but I actually raised my child by spending time with her, have actually built things that make very rich guys green with envy, and have seen things the man that wastes his life in an office working for a career will never EVER see in his lifetime. My wife and I travel to europe more than any rich person I know, I have ridden a motorcycle from Endbraugh to Paris.
I have as cushy of a life as the executive. I live in a sane home that even has a real home theater (I built myself) in a sane neighborhood. My home cost $69,000 and is better built than most any home that was built for $500,000 - $700,000 today. Mine is real stone and real brick, not the fake crap that is on new construction. I drive a realistic $9,800 used 2007 honda civic as my daily driver instead of being a financial retard and wearing out a $75,000 BMW or Audi.
In my experience, only an idiot works for his "career" and a "image", a real man works for his family and doing things that make him happy. The rich clients I work for have a nanny raising their kids, and they get to see them every other sunday. They never use the home automation and high end theaters I design and install for them because they are never home and always at the office.
Working on your "career" is a very sad and lonely life, only fools chase that rabbit.
he did not hire douchebags, the scumbag comapny to market and make it basically stole his idea and hired losers like this cristofo to market it. the guy who designed it told a lot of people at the company that took it over that the guy was an ass and this would happen.
honestly, what is funny is that someone took over the scumbags twitter account, and it seems his life is a digital hell right now. I'm watching and making more popcorn, this has really blow up my productivity for the day, It's like watching someone try to box the internet.