I had thought about calling customer service and giving them the option of a) removing the charge, or b) using the option after only one month of paying that profit fee. I've been with them almost 3 years now, and two of those years I've spent over $125 a month for all the time and an additional phone on the plan. I know I'm a small fish in their sea, but with what I've paid for as long as I have, I wonder how much they value their some what loyal customers. Well, not feeling so loyal after that added fee, and I won't even bring up the 911 fee I payed for, over a year the service wasn't even in place for use at the time.. yep.. it's a scam..
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I have to point out on my new Sprint bill, there is a $2.50 charge A MONTH for Number Portability, should I ever decide to change to another carrier. I know they had said it would be a reasonable fee, but that is outragous. Multiply that $2.50 per customer, per month, and that's one HELL of a profit. Sure would love to start a movement to blow that scam out of the water...
Sounds like some pretty unsafe computing to me. It has more to do than with attachments, or executables. The ONLY way you would ever avoid getting a virus without running an A-V would to be NEVER hook a phone line or Wireless, or network cable of ANY sort to your computer, and NEVER put in ANY kind of removable media. This kind of computing is very unsafe. It only takes one bad website you drive by to infect your machine. I hope you practice safe sex better than this. I hope you do more than shove a cork in the hole of your pecker, and I also hope you never bang you peter on the side of the urinal to dry it...
My GF is 44 and has hardware that is to die for. I'm thinking an easy 'nother 20 years left on her.. aaaahhh.. now If I just had as much youth left in me to enjoy to the fullest..
Ammo boxes may be great for storing ammo, but fire a few/. readers at them, and the bottom falls out. Maybe they should have used a crate from a 500lb cluster bomb...
For "Flowers", and I'll be damned if thier first 14 hits are for buying or delivering flowers, and of course #15 is a course on flowers (not a free course).... Seems to me if M$ would have wanted to give their report any validity, they would have changed their searchs to bring up something other than a full page of flower sales.... or any sales for that matter.. i'm off to find a good research article on "Widgets" I think I'll try hotbot...
...10 people using their cell on a plane... than on the road with one fool trying to drive, talk on the cell, read a map, and drink their soda.. hhhmm.. then again, seen too many that can't even drive without any of the above...
"the NT 4 that is so broke it can't be fixed -- Microsoft is hoping for quick adoption."
I don't think they will ever release anything that isn't broke, so, "hopefully someone that knows something will adopt us" is probably what Billy is thinking.
"...And, in certain cases, we also may help them build relationships with potential customers who happen to be on the P2P site"
"On some level they understand that P2P users are also potential customers -- record buyers, video renters or gamers -- and don't want to alienate them"
Well if you want my business, then maybe you should give me a sample of what you have to offer, and not just waste my time in the first place. But then again, If I can buy a complete movie on DVD for even as low as $5 on sale, or $20 not on sale, why would I want to pay $18 for a CD with maybe 15 tracks if I'm lucky.
Either way, these businesses need to figure out how to attract my attention, rather than ram their practices which are tried and proven to be not working, down my throat. Can't open my wallet that way!
Maybe you should take a look at this site then. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/1839997.stm
Computers sent to recyclers in America, and other countries for that matter are ending back in Asia. yes, some is recycled and that's good, but a lot of toxins are leached out... We should recycle ours here where we have regulations to control this, but then again, if we did recycle while being responsible, then it would cost more than it's worth..
Since they have been releasing all this hype about how wireless is a security threat as a terrorist tool, now they are putting it on aircraft. Well,if they are using wireless to hide their identity, at least we have the subjects narrowed down to being on a particular aircraft. They'll only have to weed through a couple hundred passangers to find the culprets.
Since I spend a lot of time standing with my hands in my pockets, (cushy job huh?) it is no more different to just pull the phone out.. as it is to raise my arm to look at a watch. (display on the outside of the flip) However, I trust the time on this much more. A couple thoughts, Has M$ ever delivered a product on time? Why should I trust them to deliver the time to a product? ALSO, have you ever installed an M$ OS.. or app? Ever notice when they say it's going to be 32 minutes, that actually translates to about an hour or so. I never did like the way M$ kept time.. or figured out what clocks they were using..
When I have a cell phone that fits in my pocket, that has the time on it, surfs the web, brings me the news, does text messaging.. AND doesn't run on a OS that is well known for bugs?
I've been both a mechanic, and now a computer tech, and in both fields I've seen people with all kinds of certs that meant nothing because they couldn't do anything right.
Most anyone can take a test and pass it if they study hard enough to remember all the right questions and answers. It's the person that builds off their past experiances and is able to think critically that will be of the most value.
If a person can't remember something they have had to deal with in the past, the kind of problems you will never find answers to in a book or manual, no matter how many certs they have hanging on the wall, they are useless. I'm not impressed by paper, I'm impressed by a job well done.
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I had thought about calling customer service and giving them the option of a) removing the charge, or b) using the option after only one month of paying that profit fee. I've been with them almost 3 years now, and two of those years I've spent over $125 a month for all the time and an additional phone on the plan. I know I'm a small fish in their sea, but with what I've paid for as long as I have, I wonder how much they value their some what loyal customers. Well, not feeling so loyal after that added fee, and I won't even bring up the 911 fee I payed for, over a year the service wasn't even in place for use at the time.. yep.. it's a scam..
I have to point out on my new Sprint bill, there is a $2.50 charge A MONTH for Number Portability, should I ever decide to change to another carrier. I know they had said it would be a reasonable fee, but that is outragous. Multiply that $2.50 per customer, per month, and that's one HELL of a profit. Sure would love to start a movement to blow that scam out of the water...
Sounds like some pretty unsafe computing to me. It has more to do than with attachments, or executables. The ONLY way you would ever avoid getting a virus without running an A-V would to be NEVER hook a phone line or Wireless, or network cable of ANY sort to your computer, and NEVER put in ANY kind of removable media. This kind of computing is very unsafe. It only takes one bad website you drive by to infect your machine. I hope you practice safe sex better than this. I hope you do more than shove a cork in the hole of your pecker, and I also hope you never bang you peter on the side of the urinal to dry it...
It's all explained right here... http://yudkowsky.net/tmol-faq/meaningoflife.html
Ammo boxes may be great for storing ammo, but fire a few /. readers at them, and the bottom falls out. Maybe they should have used a crate from a 500lb cluster bomb...
It's news for nerds.. but is this stuff that matters? ---
For "Flowers", and I'll be damned if thier first 14 hits are for buying or delivering flowers, and of course #15 is a course on flowers (not a free course).... Seems to me if M$ would have wanted to give their report any validity, they would have changed their searchs to bring up something other than a full page of flower sales.... or any sales for that matter.. i'm off to find a good research article on "Widgets" I think I'll try hotbot...
"the NT 4 that is so broke it can't be fixed -- Microsoft is hoping for quick adoption." I don't think they will ever release anything that isn't broke, so, "hopefully someone that knows something will adopt us" is probably what Billy is thinking.
"On some level they understand that P2P users are also potential customers -- record buyers, video renters or gamers -- and don't want to alienate them"
Well if you want my business, then maybe you should give me a sample of what you have to offer, and not just waste my time in the first place. But then again, If I can buy a complete movie on DVD for even as low as $5 on sale, or $20 not on sale, why would I want to pay $18 for a CD with maybe 15 tracks if I'm lucky.
Either way, these businesses need to figure out how to attract my attention, rather than ram their practices which are tried and proven to be not working, down my throat. Can't open my wallet that way!
Maybe you should take a look at this site then. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/1839997.stm Computers sent to recyclers in America, and other countries for that matter are ending back in Asia. yes, some is recycled and that's good, but a lot of toxins are leached out... We should recycle ours here where we have regulations to control this, but then again, if we did recycle while being responsible, then it would cost more than it's worth..
Since they have been releasing all this hype about how wireless is a security threat as a terrorist tool, now they are putting it on aircraft. Well,if they are using wireless to hide their identity, at least we have the subjects narrowed down to being on a particular aircraft. They'll only have to weed through a couple hundred passangers to find the culprets.
Since I spend a lot of time standing with my hands in my pockets, (cushy job huh?) it is no more different to just pull the phone out.. as it is to raise my arm to look at a watch. (display on the outside of the flip) However, I trust the time on this much more. A couple thoughts, Has M$ ever delivered a product on time? Why should I trust them to deliver the time to a product? ALSO, have you ever installed an M$ OS.. or app? Ever notice when they say it's going to be 32 minutes, that actually translates to about an hour or so. I never did like the way M$ kept time.. or figured out what clocks they were using..
When I have a cell phone that fits in my pocket, that has the time on it, surfs the web, brings me the news, does text messaging.. AND doesn't run on a OS that is well known for bugs?
I've been both a mechanic, and now a computer tech, and in both fields I've seen people with all kinds of certs that meant nothing because they couldn't do anything right. Most anyone can take a test and pass it if they study hard enough to remember all the right questions and answers. It's the person that builds off their past experiances and is able to think critically that will be of the most value. If a person can't remember something they have had to deal with in the past, the kind of problems you will never find answers to in a book or manual, no matter how many certs they have hanging on the wall, they are useless. I'm not impressed by paper, I'm impressed by a job well done.