Yes. Do you know a way to have RSS beamed directly into your brain that I am not aware of? Even if you use RSS, you have to go somewhere else, or open up a separate application. If you're already using twitter, getting updates there is more convenient.
When I was a kid, I did get my ass kicked once for not being black; not at my school, but in my neighborhood. I wasn't an asshole then, I'd had no previous interaction with the people that beat me up, I was just a kid going to the playground.
I have lived all over the US and in parts of Asia, in varying class-dominated areas. In some areas, regardless of what race is the majority, yes there is a danger. But in some areas you are in danger of being robbed, arrested, or even beat up... in the poor black areas, you are in danger of being shot. Yes I know that isn't PC, that it's stereotypical, and it's based on my anecdotal experiences (of having several people I know shot, most fatally, and seeing several strangers shot) etc. but, oh well. I'm going to teach my children whatever I think they need to know to stay safe.
Many reasons, including but not limited to: If you like the product, you may buy another when you don't have a coupon. You may recommend it to friends, who may buy it without the coupon. Many people think they are too cool to use coupons, and will purposely forgo the coupons.
I think it is highly likely someone that steals credit card numbers in this fashion would do nothing with the card number except buy games - which is pretty much all I do. I go to the local coffee shop so rarely that they should be watching when I do; yet I have not yet had them cancel my card after I have done so.
What exactly are they going to do with these? Identity theft? I'd be willing to bet that these people don't have good enough credit, assets, etc. to make it worthwhile.
I don't know, why? There are a lot of behaviors I deem abusive, yet they are still tolerated and often encouraged. I personally do not find comprising of a business name, product name or web address of a competitor's business not sponsored, affiliated or associated with the particular advertiser to be abusive. Why do you?
If people have confidence that they can believe reasonable claims in advertisements, they start to believe the unreasonable ones too. "Buy this and you can be pretty and well-liked like the celebrity in the ad!" Etc.
I disagree. People don't think they need them; they think they learned it all from porn, or they think the advice they got from a friend is true. I have met adults in the US that honestly believe that if you "wash out" a vagina in a shower after sex you won't get pregnant.
The descriptions of someone trying to sell it to you shouldn't be the only thing on which you base your purchase decisions, especially with something as expensive as a truck, and especially not from a site you're not sure is legit. A quick google would show that the trucks being sold on the site are not Fords, and that they are worse than, better than, or equal to real Fords. And if I'm that determined to get a specific brand of vehicle, I'd likely know what sets it apart from other brands (it isn't just the logo), and I'd quickly see the differences. If I know nothing and am just getting a specific brand to feel better about myself, I still think I got that brand, so it doesn't really matter. Why do we have to make laws to protect people from their own stupidity?
I find it quite amazing that these kids watch so much porn, yet all they ever see is the condom-less, silicone, shaved pubes type. I also love how it smoothly connects teens viewing porn and the sexualisation of children - which are really two very different things - in the reader's mind.
Has anyone here ever seen porn without opting in? Even back in the days when porn rules were a lot more lax on the internet, I never once accidentally viewed porn. It's always on a site that I know has the potential to have porn, or I have to actively seek it out. And I've been on computers since the BBS days. The closest thing I can come up with is when goatse was new and a friend told me to check it out; But even then, it was my choice to go to a website with no prior knowledge of what it was about, I knew it could potentially be porn.
My kids have unfiltered/unlimited internet access and have never accidentally looked at porn. This whole idea of "ensuring people opt-in" stems from people getting viruses from porn sites, or porn in their history and then lying by saying they accidentally stumbled upon the porn site. Nowdays, pretty much every porn site requites you to click/check that you are 18+. Why wouldn't they? People under 18 don't pay for porn or anything the porn sites are advertising; those people don't make them any money. There isn't some secret conspiracy to shove porn into children's faces for no reason.
Porn definitely should not be used as sex ed. The fact that porn was your only source of sex ed shows a huge failure on the part of your parents, your school, and your culture. But anyway I'd be willing to bet that the banning of porn would just happen to catch valid sex ed information, too.
So you're saying that someone can have the exact same spending patterns as I do, yet somehow it will be detected as fraud. Sorry, but I find that a bit hard to believe.
I don't get while that's illegal. When the consumer gets to the site and sees only Toyota trucks for sale, they are likely to leave as they want to buy a Ford truck. Then Toyota has paid google for an ad click, but not gotten a purchase out of it.
"And you can get into the right IRC channel and buy a bunch of zero-day card dumps for the same cost"
The cost of free? Either way, the type of people I think would do this probably don't know what IRC is. I'm thinking teenagers who know how to mod and repair xboxes, not programmers or career criminals. Armed with my credit card number and my xbox live or ebay name, my address is just a google search away - and if I sold it to someone and shipped it, it's right there on the return label. Never mind the fact that you don't really need anything more than a credit card number for most transactions. If they're buying something that I buy often, such as video games (which is what I think this sort of person would buy), it won't trip the fraud protection. No one is going to notice until I try to use my card elsewhere and have it declined. What many card companies have been doing in recent years is, when a card is renewed, the number stays the same and only the expiration date is updated. It would not be difficult for someone to guess the new expiration date based on the old expiration date and type of card. Depending upon which card it is, I might just be screwed. You might be able to call your bank and just not be held liable for the payments, but personally, if this happens to me, I'd just be out of whatever money the person spent.
I have no reason to worry about being murdered - I would not suffer from that, I'd be dead. I'm not even worried about this, really - though there are xboxes out there that, if this is true, have my credit card number on there, I can't remember if it is the same as my current one and I don't care enough about money to really worry about it. But (if this is true) there is the possibility that someone could be screwed over. If that possibility wasn't there, Microsoft would not give a second thought to the statement. I can say I discovered Xbox 360s eat babies, but no one is going to give that comment a second thought, Microsoft is not going to investigate it, because we all know it isn't possible.
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Yes. Do you know a way to have RSS beamed directly into your brain that I am not aware of? Even if you use RSS, you have to go somewhere else, or open up a separate application. If you're already using twitter, getting updates there is more convenient.
The fact that you honestly believe women are not as extreme as men says a lot.
When I was a kid, I did get my ass kicked once for not being black; not at my school, but in my neighborhood. I wasn't an asshole then, I'd had no previous interaction with the people that beat me up, I was just a kid going to the playground.
I have lived all over the US and in parts of Asia, in varying class-dominated areas. In some areas, regardless of what race is the majority, yes there is a danger. But in some areas you are in danger of being robbed, arrested, or even beat up... in the poor black areas, you are in danger of being shot. Yes I know that isn't PC, that it's stereotypical, and it's based on my anecdotal experiences (of having several people I know shot, most fatally, and seeing several strangers shot) etc. but, oh well. I'm going to teach my children whatever I think they need to know to stay safe.
Because women aren't held responsible for their actions most of the time.
If you don't have money but have coupons, and do things right, you can get stuff for free.
Many reasons, including but not limited to: If you like the product, you may buy another when you don't have a coupon. You may recommend it to friends, who may buy it without the coupon. Many people think they are too cool to use coupons, and will purposely forgo the coupons.
I think it is highly likely someone that steals credit card numbers in this fashion would do nothing with the card number except buy games - which is pretty much all I do. I go to the local coffee shop so rarely that they should be watching when I do; yet I have not yet had them cancel my card after I have done so.
So that you don't have to visit a separate website constantly to see if your favorite tweeter-bloger updated their blog.
What exactly are they going to do with these? Identity theft? I'd be willing to bet that these people don't have good enough credit, assets, etc. to make it worthwhile.
I don't know, why? There are a lot of behaviors I deem abusive, yet they are still tolerated and often encouraged. I personally do not find comprising of a business name, product name or web address of a competitor's business not sponsored, affiliated or associated with the particular advertiser to be abusive. Why do you?
If people have confidence that they can believe reasonable claims in advertisements, they start to believe the unreasonable ones too. "Buy this and you can be pretty and well-liked like the celebrity in the ad!" Etc.
You told me the name of the illegal action, not why it is/should be illegal.
I disagree. People don't think they need them; they think they learned it all from porn, or they think the advice they got from a friend is true. I have met adults in the US that honestly believe that if you "wash out" a vagina in a shower after sex you won't get pregnant.
There are plenty of valid reasons to do those two.
The descriptions of someone trying to sell it to you shouldn't be the only thing on which you base your purchase decisions, especially with something as expensive as a truck, and especially not from a site you're not sure is legit. A quick google would show that the trucks being sold on the site are not Fords, and that they are worse than, better than, or equal to real Fords. And if I'm that determined to get a specific brand of vehicle, I'd likely know what sets it apart from other brands (it isn't just the logo), and I'd quickly see the differences. If I know nothing and am just getting a specific brand to feel better about myself, I still think I got that brand, so it doesn't really matter. Why do we have to make laws to protect people from their own stupidity?
I find it quite amazing that these kids watch so much porn, yet all they ever see is the condom-less, silicone, shaved pubes type. I also love how it smoothly connects teens viewing porn and the sexualisation of children - which are really two very different things - in the reader's mind.
Has anyone here ever seen porn without opting in? Even back in the days when porn rules were a lot more lax on the internet, I never once accidentally viewed porn. It's always on a site that I know has the potential to have porn, or I have to actively seek it out. And I've been on computers since the BBS days. The closest thing I can come up with is when goatse was new and a friend told me to check it out; But even then, it was my choice to go to a website with no prior knowledge of what it was about, I knew it could potentially be porn.
My kids have unfiltered/unlimited internet access and have never accidentally looked at porn. This whole idea of "ensuring people opt-in" stems from people getting viruses from porn sites, or porn in their history and then lying by saying they accidentally stumbled upon the porn site. Nowdays, pretty much every porn site requites you to click/check that you are 18+. Why wouldn't they? People under 18 don't pay for porn or anything the porn sites are advertising; those people don't make them any money. There isn't some secret conspiracy to shove porn into children's faces for no reason.
Porn definitely should not be used as sex ed. The fact that porn was your only source of sex ed shows a huge failure on the part of your parents, your school, and your culture. But anyway I'd be willing to bet that the banning of porn would just happen to catch valid sex ed information, too.
So you're saying that someone can have the exact same spending patterns as I do, yet somehow it will be detected as fraud. Sorry, but I find that a bit hard to believe.
I don't get while that's illegal. When the consumer gets to the site and sees only Toyota trucks for sale, they are likely to leave as they want to buy a Ford truck. Then Toyota has paid google for an ad click, but not gotten a purchase out of it.
Why exactly should we be protected? Why should it not be left up to us to actually think? All of advertising is misleading in some way.
"And you can get into the right IRC channel and buy a bunch of zero-day card dumps for the same cost"
The cost of free? Either way, the type of people I think would do this probably don't know what IRC is. I'm thinking teenagers who know how to mod and repair xboxes, not programmers or career criminals. Armed with my credit card number and my xbox live or ebay name, my address is just a google search away - and if I sold it to someone and shipped it, it's right there on the return label. Never mind the fact that you don't really need anything more than a credit card number for most transactions. If they're buying something that I buy often, such as video games (which is what I think this sort of person would buy), it won't trip the fraud protection. No one is going to notice until I try to use my card elsewhere and have it declined. What many card companies have been doing in recent years is, when a card is renewed, the number stays the same and only the expiration date is updated. It would not be difficult for someone to guess the new expiration date based on the old expiration date and type of card. Depending upon which card it is, I might just be screwed. You might be able to call your bank and just not be held liable for the payments, but personally, if this happens to me, I'd just be out of whatever money the person spent.
I have no reason to worry about being murdered - I would not suffer from that, I'd be dead. I'm not even worried about this, really - though there are xboxes out there that, if this is true, have my credit card number on there, I can't remember if it is the same as my current one and I don't care enough about money to really worry about it. But (if this is true) there is the possibility that someone could be screwed over. If that possibility wasn't there, Microsoft would not give a second thought to the statement. I can say I discovered Xbox 360s eat babies, but no one is going to give that comment a second thought, Microsoft is not going to investigate it, because we all know it isn't possible.
So God basically thinks it's okay as long as the balls don't touch.
A wedding can be a religious ceremony. A marriage is not.