Provided that you run PCLite and install the latest version of IE, Firefox and Thunderbird and keep it safe behind a Linux firewall and Samba server...
If you serve local clients, then get a VISA merchant account. Most banks allow you to accept cards from multiple CC companies, but you have a monthly fee of $3 to $10 that you have to eat in addition to the discount fee.
If you are Canadian, then you can join PGIB and get VISA and Mastercard at 1.8% discount, but then you have to pay PGIB fees.
The main advantage of PayPal, is its world-wide capability and it is really easy to set up.
Transfering small amounts of money between countries is very expensive otherwise.
VISA used to charge me a 4.5% discount fee for manual processing. Setting up online processing is difficult and expensive, with monthly charges to boot.
There is the CertaPay system in Canada, which can be used to transfer money by email between almost all Canadian banks, but it only works in Canada.
For a little guy just starting up, charging small amounts, operating world-wide - PayPal is pretty much the only way to go.
The Canadian gun registry cost is exceeding 2 billion dollars and climbing - 1.9 billion of which is probably wasted on corruption, but that 260 million sounds like a lowball.
As a package huh? So how am I supposed to watch all 500 channels of shit at the same time 24h a day? Even if I had 500 screens I can't do that - got to eat and sleep some time.
So if fast forwarding around an advert is illegal, is switching channels to avoid an advert illegal too? Not to mention falling asleep again.
If you skid on a hard surface, then you don't need to do much - just lift your foot off the gas.
Ice is different. An automatic always sends a substantial amount of power to the driven wheels - if you lift your foot off the brake, the car will start to crawl forward. That small amount of power is enough to keep the driven wheels spinning on ice and the only way to get them to roll again, get your static friction back and regain control, is to slam the lever into neutral.
You can move the lever of an automatic to neutral, without pressing the button, so you just whack it forward and then try to control the skid. Whatever you do on ice - don't immediately step on the brakes, as you may end up with all 4 wheels skidding.
Anti-lock brakes only work while one of the wheels is still rotating. If all 4 wheels are locked and the car is skidding like a runaway tea trolley, then the anti-lock system thinks the car is standing still and will keep the wheels locked - so the car will keep skidding. Anti-lock systems usually work very well, but in certain circumstances, they make things worse and are probably the cause of many fender benders.
This is why top of the line cars now have 'tracktion control', which is a small improvement in the wheel control algorithm, so that it also looks for spinning and the system will apply the brake, when a wheel is starting to spin.
So what are you supposed to do when you get into a skid on ice? With an automatic, you can't depress the clutch - you need to be able to shift into neutral, else your car will continue skidding until you hit something. I hope the Prius isn't for sale in Canada...
I think you are being sarcastic too, but I am not - I am perfectly serious. I am an ex military officer and happened to have lived in the middle east for a few years, where I watched lots of Iraqi TV programs. It was quite hillarious sometimes, since Saddam Hussein featured in *every* TV program.
The Hussein regime was a total abomination. There has been a constant civil war in the country for decades now - that same civil war is still continuing today. The different factions in Iraq hate each other so badly, that even the common foe - the USA - can't get them to stop fighting each other for more than a week or so at a time.
Saddam and Hitler are the only rulers ever, that gassed their own citizens. Saddam had to be removed - kudos to President Bush and the US Military for doing that.
Maybe it is because the USA really did not need any more reasons to remove Saddam Hussein from power. He still holds the distinction of being the only ruler ever, to use chemical weapons against his own citizens.
I happened to have been in Israel during the first gulf war and he launched missiles at us for no reason whatsoever. One of them came damn close to our house, so I don't have much love lost for Ol'Saddam.
If the US Prez wants to beat him up - cool - go for it...
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Yup, MS Windows is an excellent OS, if your time is worth nothing.
My gawd, I tried that and it worked. This old dog never ceases to be amazed by the power of being Borneagain...
Provided that you run PCLite and install the latest version of IE, Firefox and Thunderbird and keep it safe behind a Linux firewall and Samba server...
Here you go, an executable text file: X5O!P%@AP[4\PZX54(P^)7CC)7}$EICAR-STANDARD-ANTIVIR US-TEST-FILE!$H+H*
It is amusing that the much maligned WinME nowadays work better and doesn't suffer from half the problems in XP - "The Most Secure Windows Ever".
Obviously you haven't tried the latest Mandrake Linux Multi-Network Firewall. The point and click firewall that even MSCEs can install.
If you are Canadian, then you can join PGIB and get VISA and Mastercard at 1.8% discount, but then you have to pay PGIB fees.
The main advantage of PayPal, is its world-wide capability and it is really easy to set up.
Transfering small amounts of money between countries is very expensive otherwise.
There is the CertaPay system in Canada, which can be used to transfer money by email between almost all Canadian banks, but it only works in Canada.
For a little guy just starting up, charging small amounts, operating world-wide - PayPal is pretty much the only way to go.
PayPal may occationally screw up, but they don't screw you over consistently like Western Union...
So what is causing the mild concentration in tropical Africa? There is no industry there. The monkeys must be farting a lot...
No, worm.exe won't spread nearly as fast as virus.exe...
Hmm, you could do layers and store multiple images in one file, then call it a single image. For instance tiff or gerber files...
The Canadian gun registry cost is exceeding 2 billion dollars and climbing - 1.9 billion of which is probably wasted on corruption, but that 260 million sounds like a lowball.
Yup, IPV6 has something in common with ISDN. It will become obsolete before anyone will use it...
So if fast forwarding around an advert is illegal, is switching channels to avoid an advert illegal too? Not to mention falling asleep again.
Stupid idiots...
Hrrm, both the blink and marquee tags are better than the paperclip...
You are both correct I think. The menus are different in Windoze and Linux versions. Gawd gnows gwy...
Ice is different. An automatic always sends a substantial amount of power to the driven wheels - if you lift your foot off the brake, the car will start to crawl forward. That small amount of power is enough to keep the driven wheels spinning on ice and the only way to get them to roll again, get your static friction back and regain control, is to slam the lever into neutral.
You can move the lever of an automatic to neutral, without pressing the button, so you just whack it forward and then try to control the skid. Whatever you do on ice - don't immediately step on the brakes, as you may end up with all 4 wheels skidding.
Anti-lock brakes only work while one of the wheels is still rotating. If all 4 wheels are locked and the car is skidding like a runaway tea trolley, then the anti-lock system thinks the car is standing still and will keep the wheels locked - so the car will keep skidding. Anti-lock systems usually work very well, but in certain circumstances, they make things worse and are probably the cause of many fender benders.
This is why top of the line cars now have 'tracktion control', which is a small improvement in the wheel control algorithm, so that it also looks for spinning and the system will apply the brake, when a wheel is starting to spin.
So what are you supposed to do when you get into a skid on ice? With an automatic, you can't depress the clutch - you need to be able to shift into neutral, else your car will continue skidding until you hit something. I hope the Prius isn't for sale in Canada...
Nuff sed.
Pardon, couldn't resist - I'm watching Austin Powers on TV...
Seriously, the place I'm working with has been doing that since 1996.
The Hussein regime was a total abomination. There has been a constant civil war in the country for decades now - that same civil war is still continuing today. The different factions in Iraq hate each other so badly, that even the common foe - the USA - can't get them to stop fighting each other for more than a week or so at a time.
Saddam and Hitler are the only rulers ever, that gassed their own citizens. Saddam had to be removed - kudos to President Bush and the US Military for doing that.
Really, thank you guys.
I happened to have been in Israel during the first gulf war and he launched missiles at us for no reason whatsoever. One of them came damn close to our house, so I don't have much love lost for Ol'Saddam.
If the US Prez wants to beat him up - cool - go for it...
"They have the right to do anything that we are unable to stop them from doing. That, is Catch 22." -- The neurotic bomber of Joseph Heller.
Not for long, at the rate the US currency is devalueing... ;-)