@Anonymous (Danger? No.)
This is what scares the hell out of me. The extreme ignorance of some people. Please take the time to research how money works and that using credit or debit cards only at the very least gives government and the banks all the power over the money. When this happens, banks now can charge a 10% transaction fee and there is nothing you can do about it. Receiving any money is now subject to government taxes. This is something YOU DO NOT WANT!.
Again as I have said before this is WHY cryptocurrency is so popular with many people. They do not want to be tracked by the banks and governments....And again why banks are freaking out and continually keep blocking it. If the world embraces cryptocurrency then they go out of business or at the very least completely lose control of the money.
.... they say I cannot discuss it with them because my phone number is not the one they have on file. Well of course it's not, you fuckers, it was never my loan.
Fuck you Wells Fargo. Go bankrupt already, you fucking scammers.
Even if it was your loan haven't they ever heard of people changing their phone number ????, I have dealt with that crap before!!!
Facebook and Twitter are dead. I no longer see them on job applications, and no links to them on LinkedIn and if you look up and view many of these applicants accounts you see no new content for a year or longer. Effectively these accounts are dead. I had about 1000 friends, family, etc on FB and Twitter and now-a-days I only have about 150 everyone had deleted or suspended their accounts. No wonder FB wants people on Instagram to look at FB.
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HugeNet and ViaSAT both state they do not service most of these areas. When I asked why it is because they do not have installers or support techs in those areas. If you know of another Satellite company please post it here I will pass that info on and have these people that are desperate for better Internet call them.
In states like Colorado, Utah, Nevada, Arizona, New Mexico and Texas, out side a big city there are typically only one ISP that is it. They charge whatever they want and block everything they feel people should not see. These places have the worst internet and the highest prices. One place I went (to be unnamed) the person was paying $300 a month for 2Mb and sites like Starbucks, Amazon and Walmart were blocked because the ISP board has a issues with these sites so the end-user suffers. Completely out of control. We need to force the ISPs to NOT block anything and provide pricing that is an average nation-wide for same speeds and medium.
Someone please find out what sites Brett Kavanaugh likes and block them. Then call him and say sorry your ISP doesn't like those sites so you cannot view them. Oh and your rates are going up.
Brett Kavanaugh you are a dumbass!!!
A city in the US did something similar and rape increased 76% and violent crime increased 53%. They quietly took the law off the books 18 months later and slowly the crimes dropped.
I use Firefox, but I don't use Pocket. Are there any Slashdot readers who want to share their experiences with read-it-later services, or thoughts about what Firefox is attempting?
I don't use Pocket and there is no need for it. Facebook is loosing a high percentage of users daily which should give Mozilla a clue. Come on Mozilla we just want a solid, clean, fast browser that blows the door off Chrome, IE and Edge!!!
I already designed and setup this very type of system. I demoed it to Wal-Mart about 10 years ago. They thought it was too-far ahead of its time, customers would not like it, and were not interested at that time. Time to dust off paperwork. Microsoft and/or Wal-Mart better not be stealing what I showed them!
Unfortunately 4G is really limited to the big city's. I service a lot of rural areas and am lucky to get 3G which is great for a phone call but horrible for data. Many places you get no phone service at all. Get away from the major cities in Arizona, Nevada, Utah, Colorado, New Mexico and Texas and you will see just what I mean. Cable TV companies came into a lot of these small towns because they could easily sell TV to everyone and make money. Now that they are the only game in town they provide Internet for $150, $200, and in one place $350 a month.
$50 a month what world do you live in?? Comcast is $150 for basic TV and Internet. $275 for TV/Internet/Phone/Alarm. Then if you want good channels $10 here $20 there and so on. Oh and they are the only ISP in town. Word from their employees on Facebook have let us know that in a meeting they had yesterday, Comcast is going to add 30% in our area now that they can. If you don't like it they will take the 30% off and drop you to 10Mb/3Mb. You now have to pay for the fast lane. Sickens me that Net Neutrality is gone!! The prices were already TOO HIGH!
Because in many places there is ONLY 1 ISP and they can do whatever they want. They will now double the price and half the speed, and then ask you for even more to get back what you already had.
Ahhhh, someone is a bit more informed. You are right the bank doesn't have the money either they borrow it too. They also lend money they don't really have which is a whole other problem. So what happens when all you have is your debt card? "This is your money", well not really, the debt card is backed by the bank, so the bank then controls that spending too and tells you that the debt card is not really a "debt card" but a temporary credit card and you are using their money until they get it out of your account. There is no other electronic purchasing mechanism (i.e. debt card) for making purchases and they have the monopoly. The bank has all the control and people just don't see it. Sure you can go back to cash and then you have complete control over YOUR money, but no one wants to do that it is much easier to swipe the card, that is controlled by the bank, because it is not your money. So you want to buy cryptocurrency with your debt card because it is YOUR money, but you can only buy 1000 USD of it because, wait for it, they control your spending, there is a 1000 USD limit. So now you want to buy it with cash so you can buy 100,000 USD worth of cryptocurrency. How are you going to buy it with cash, it is YOUR money??? There is a another thread here where the government is trying to put in place laws to force banks to still handle cash, why because the government is seeing the problem with the banks controlling your money.
You have your eyes completely closed and are completely missing the point. There is no rant here, just trying to educate people, share what I know and have seen working in the corporate world. It amaze me how everyone is so negative when the truth about banking is told. What is even more telling is how if YOU don't agree with someone else you lash out and again your eyes are closed to what is really going on. It would have been better if you would have provided some feedback to continue the topic allow others to provide their thoughts and gain knowledge in the process, but what really happened is you don't agree and you ranted.
And this is exactly what an "anonymous coward" bank would say because they are freaking out on all the trillions of dollars they will lose if cryptocurrencies take off.
Exactly!!! I know people that have put 50,000 to 100,000 USD on credit. Beyond stupid but it was their choice. The banks want to control what and how you spend so they make the most money. Wake up people this is Wells Fargo controlling you. The sooner you learn this the better off everyone will be. This is like those movies where you think you have the character figured out, and you know they are bad, but then they show them self to be good and you say oppps I was wrong and someone else keeps saying you ARE NOT paying attention not everything is as it seems. Well that is the banks and credit cards.
This is exactly what I was taking about a few months ago about how banks control you! (and a whole bunch of people hated me for it and slammed me on this forum) They control what you can BUY. It does not matter if they say they are trying to protect you, it is your money and you should be allowed to spend it how you like, especially if you pay your debts. (I know you are borrowing the money, and one can say they are protecting their money, however many people make bad purchases on credit all the time and that is NOT the point) The point is they are controlling you and if you cannot see that you are only helping to make the problem worse. The whole reason cryptocurrency exists is because people are tired of the bank telling you what you can and cannot buy plus all the trillions of dollars in fees they make off of you. Wells Fargo is freaking out because if cryptocurrency succeeds they go out of business.
Is this true or just something Twitter wants you to believe? I have contracts with major corporations world wide and a huge percentage of them do NOT or no longer use Twitter, staff included. This is thousands and thousands of people. With that everyone I know does not or no longer uses Twitter. This makes me wonder is Twitter faking this news because they in reality are failing? I assume with President Trump using Twitter extensively that could make this "fake" news more plausible. Food for thought, not the first time a company has lied to help themselves.
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Thank you for sharing.
@Anonymous (Danger? No.) This is what scares the hell out of me. The extreme ignorance of some people. Please take the time to research how money works and that using credit or debit cards only at the very least gives government and the banks all the power over the money. When this happens, banks now can charge a 10% transaction fee and there is nothing you can do about it. Receiving any money is now subject to government taxes. This is something YOU DO NOT WANT!.
Again as I have said before this is WHY cryptocurrency is so popular with many people. They do not want to be tracked by the banks and governments. ...And again why banks are freaking out and continually keep blocking it. If the world embraces cryptocurrency then they go out of business or at the very least completely lose control of the money.
I think you meant the applicants don't give a f. I never put FB on my application. Just telling you what I have seen and has changed over time.
.... they say I cannot discuss it with them because my phone number is not the one they have on file. Well of course it's not, you fuckers, it was never my loan.
Fuck you Wells Fargo. Go bankrupt already, you fucking scammers.
Even if it was your loan haven't they ever heard of people changing their phone number ????, I have dealt with that crap before!!!
If your business model is to screw the customer, then don't be surprised when your customers find different banks.
Well then you are talking about all big banks!
Facebook and Twitter are dead. I no longer see them on job applications, and no links to them on LinkedIn and if you look up and view many of these applicants accounts you see no new content for a year or longer. Effectively these accounts are dead. I had about 1000 friends, family, etc on FB and Twitter and now-a-days I only have about 150 everyone had deleted or suspended their accounts. No wonder FB wants people on Instagram to look at FB.
@Maxwell'sSilverLART HugeNet and ViaSAT both state they do not service most of these areas. When I asked why it is because they do not have installers or support techs in those areas. If you know of another Satellite company please post it here I will pass that info on and have these people that are desperate for better Internet call them.
In states like Colorado, Utah, Nevada, Arizona, New Mexico and Texas, out side a big city there are typically only one ISP that is it. They charge whatever they want and block everything they feel people should not see. These places have the worst internet and the highest prices. One place I went (to be unnamed) the person was paying $300 a month for 2Mb and sites like Starbucks, Amazon and Walmart were blocked because the ISP board has a issues with these sites so the end-user suffers. Completely out of control. We need to force the ISPs to NOT block anything and provide pricing that is an average nation-wide for same speeds and medium.
Someone please find out what sites Brett Kavanaugh likes and block them. Then call him and say sorry your ISP doesn't like those sites so you cannot view them. Oh and your rates are going up. Brett Kavanaugh you are a dumbass!!!
A few years back he said he would give 90% of all his money away that NO ONE needed so much money. ... and that of course was a lie!!!
A city in the US did something similar and rape increased 76% and violent crime increased 53%. They quietly took the law off the books 18 months later and slowly the crimes dropped.
I use Firefox, but I don't use Pocket. Are there any Slashdot readers who want to share their experiences with read-it-later services, or thoughts about what Firefox is attempting?
I don't use Pocket and there is no need for it. Facebook is loosing a high percentage of users daily which should give Mozilla a clue. Come on Mozilla we just want a solid, clean, fast browser that blows the door off Chrome, IE and Edge!!!
I already designed and setup this very type of system. I demoed it to Wal-Mart about 10 years ago. They thought it was too-far ahead of its time, customers would not like it, and were not interested at that time. Time to dust off paperwork. Microsoft and/or Wal-Mart better not be stealing what I showed them!
I will give you that...the monopoly is a huge problem. Still I don't like that they now and do even worse things now that the rules are gone.
Unfortunately 4G is really limited to the big city's. I service a lot of rural areas and am lucky to get 3G which is great for a phone call but horrible for data. Many places you get no phone service at all. Get away from the major cities in Arizona, Nevada, Utah, Colorado, New Mexico and Texas and you will see just what I mean. Cable TV companies came into a lot of these small towns because they could easily sell TV to everyone and make money. Now that they are the only game in town they provide Internet for $150, $200, and in one place $350 a month.
$50 a month what world do you live in?? Comcast is $150 for basic TV and Internet. $275 for TV/Internet/Phone/Alarm. Then if you want good channels $10 here $20 there and so on. Oh and they are the only ISP in town. Word from their employees on Facebook have let us know that in a meeting they had yesterday, Comcast is going to add 30% in our area now that they can. If you don't like it they will take the 30% off and drop you to 10Mb/3Mb. You now have to pay for the fast lane. Sickens me that Net Neutrality is gone!! The prices were already TOO HIGH!
Because in many places there is ONLY 1 ISP and they can do whatever they want. They will now double the price and half the speed, and then ask you for even more to get back what you already had.
Ahhhh, someone is a bit more informed. You are right the bank doesn't have the money either they borrow it too. They also lend money they don't really have which is a whole other problem. So what happens when all you have is your debt card? "This is your money", well not really, the debt card is backed by the bank, so the bank then controls that spending too and tells you that the debt card is not really a "debt card" but a temporary credit card and you are using their money until they get it out of your account. There is no other electronic purchasing mechanism (i.e. debt card) for making purchases and they have the monopoly. The bank has all the control and people just don't see it. Sure you can go back to cash and then you have complete control over YOUR money, but no one wants to do that it is much easier to swipe the card, that is controlled by the bank, because it is not your money. So you want to buy cryptocurrency with your debt card because it is YOUR money, but you can only buy 1000 USD of it because, wait for it, they control your spending, there is a 1000 USD limit. So now you want to buy it with cash so you can buy 100,000 USD worth of cryptocurrency. How are you going to buy it with cash, it is YOUR money??? There is a another thread here where the government is trying to put in place laws to force banks to still handle cash, why because the government is seeing the problem with the banks controlling your money.
You have your eyes completely closed and are completely missing the point. There is no rant here, just trying to educate people, share what I know and have seen working in the corporate world. It amaze me how everyone is so negative when the truth about banking is told. What is even more telling is how if YOU don't agree with someone else you lash out and again your eyes are closed to what is really going on. It would have been better if you would have provided some feedback to continue the topic allow others to provide their thoughts and gain knowledge in the process, but what really happened is you don't agree and you ranted.
And this is exactly what an "anonymous coward" bank would say because they are freaking out on all the trillions of dollars they will lose if cryptocurrencies take off.
Exactly!!! I know people that have put 50,000 to 100,000 USD on credit. Beyond stupid but it was their choice. The banks want to control what and how you spend so they make the most money. Wake up people this is Wells Fargo controlling you. The sooner you learn this the better off everyone will be. This is like those movies where you think you have the character figured out, and you know they are bad, but then they show them self to be good and you say oppps I was wrong and someone else keeps saying you ARE NOT paying attention not everything is as it seems. Well that is the banks and credit cards.
This is exactly what I was taking about a few months ago about how banks control you! (and a whole bunch of people hated me for it and slammed me on this forum) They control what you can BUY. It does not matter if they say they are trying to protect you, it is your money and you should be allowed to spend it how you like, especially if you pay your debts. (I know you are borrowing the money, and one can say they are protecting their money, however many people make bad purchases on credit all the time and that is NOT the point) The point is they are controlling you and if you cannot see that you are only helping to make the problem worse. The whole reason cryptocurrency exists is because people are tired of the bank telling you what you can and cannot buy plus all the trillions of dollars in fees they make off of you. Wells Fargo is freaking out because if cryptocurrency succeeds they go out of business.
Is this true or just something Twitter wants you to believe? I have contracts with major corporations world wide and a huge percentage of them do NOT or no longer use Twitter, staff included. This is thousands and thousands of people. With that everyone I know does not or no longer uses Twitter. This makes me wonder is Twitter faking this news because they in reality are failing? I assume with President Trump using Twitter extensively that could make this "fake" news more plausible. Food for thought, not the first time a company has lied to help themselves.
That's funny right there!