In Belgium when you give a company access to your account, they will still have to send you a bill and they can only get the amount on that bill. You also have 7 days to block the transfer of money. So on the one side I have the ability to go on my 21 days holiday and not be worried that services will be blocked because I forgot to pay. On the other hand I can still block if I disagree with a bill On the third hand, customers are pretty good protected, so there is much less worry.
I can easily withdraw the automatic payment whenever I desire via a website.
These are only for recuring payments. These will be electricity, phone, cable, internet, credit card and the like.
yet I can walk into any Verizon store and pay my bill with the same CC or debit card and not pay that $2 fee
They would LOVE if all would be walking into their stores. It is a numbers game. You and the majority of people will just go into the store, pay the bill and be gone. However a certain percentage will buy something else. Stores LOVE people walking in and out. Those numbers are directly linked to sales numbers. The more people they have coming in, the more money they make.
That is the reason many stores have deals that are real great bargains. Those or not to sell those items, but to get people inside. Sure, some will buy only what is advertised. Enough people will be tempted to buy something else as well and that is where the money is..
In Belgium phonebills can be payed by automated bank order or by credit cards. Depends on the company you use. No charges for this. Sometimes paper will cost extra. Sometimes not having a non-automatic payment will cost extra.
The reason is that going after money for non-payers is pretty expensive, yet they can't NOT go after them. People forgetting to pay their bills because they were on a holiday or for whatever reason means you could block the service, but then you need to pay the agent that answer that phone to explain why they were blocked of said service.
Annoyance for the customer, extra cost for the company. I myself have been without Internet once because I mistyped and payed 34.59EUR instead of 34.95EUR or something similar. No, I do NOT blame the company for blocking me. It was _my_ fault. I did not keep my part of the deal.
Technical warranty is 2 years standard. For batteries it is 6 months. First line is the store where you bought it, but if they are not there anymore, the manufacturer is responsible.
In Belgium (not sure about other countries) a standard phone number must be available, so no expensive phone numbers.
For a PC technical support will be something like: Have you tried to turn it off and on again? Did a re-install work? No? OK, we send it back to the factory and you get an identical or better machine back.
This must also happen within a reasonable time and the replacement will have a one year warranty or to the end of the two year warranty, which ever comes later.
So let me get this straight: Long term thinking is better in the long term, while short term thinking is better in the short term? I am amazed. Does this only apply to IT or could it also be true for other things?
Great for you that you are able to do all those things yourself. If I would try that, I would not only have no money because I would have so much lesser income. I also would have no house and no car.
Only fools think that their way is the only way. I have seem people who LIKE working. That is what they love doing. So according to you they must start doing things they do not like.
The company I work for at the moment: people work 37,5 hours. Managers do about 40, but in return have 3 extra holidays per year extra. That includes the CEO. They will have 38 payed holidays per year. Staff have 35.
I am aware that we are the exception. Most people will only have 24 holidays per year.
So it is possible to have a career and a life. (Yes, I live in Europe. Why?)
It was their choice to hire that company, so to me they are responsible. I do not care if it is an external person or the CEO of the company. He was a spokesperson of the company hired by that company.
If a shoe company buys shoes from some third party who uses slavery, would you say the same thing and just forgive them?
As you said, they were thinking only about the money. If they would have thought about the customer or at least about service, this would not have happened.
when they can get something that looks the same on film for a tenth or less the price.
They GET money to use it. Probably the product placement deal fell through and nobody told the writers.
This will most likely be dealth with out of court for an undisclosed amount of money. Most likely not even money, but free product placement in some movies.
Look at the UK. There is no crime anymore in the UK thanks to all the cameras. Right?
It amazes me how people think that they know what criminals would do. There are two kind of criminals. The ones that are in it because they are lazy. They think short term only. They rob you or a bank with a mask. They want the money now and then they will spend it till they need money again.
These are the criminals we see and know and what we buy camera's for. The thing is, it won't work, because they believe they won't get caught. They do not think ahead. They do not think of others. They want the money now, they take it.
If anything, the camera shows theme where the money is, because otherwise there would be no camera. These are the criminals that make us make feel unsafe. They are the ones with the mask on in a bank, robbing the bank.
The other criminals are also in the bank, but on the other side. They are the real criminals. They think long term. They do not believe they won't get caught. They know they will be rewarded for taking your money.
I bought a QNAP NAS. It runs Linux, has media server stuff pre-installed and runs Linux. You can even install extra software if you like or just trow out all the software and install a "real OS" (Their words) like Debian.
I do not care about a model for movies, tv and music, but books are of a different category
That is an emotional and not a rational observation. Why does it matter if you write a book, but not if you write a movie script or a song? What about newspapers or magazines? And blogs? What if a writers does all of that or some of them? Movies are turned into books. Books are turned into movies.
The important thing here is to understand that these are the rights of the copyright holder and that is seldom the writer. In a few exceptions will they make money, but most will loose money.
First they laugh at you Then they fight you Then they bribe you Then they win
Wait. What?
Basically what he is saying is that as long as Firefox does what they want (Advance the web, whatever that means) they will keep funding. Once Firefox stops doing that, the money will be gone. That means Google has as least some sort of influence of what is going on. Sure it is their right, but with their own browser, they will be extremely tempted to direct things. e.g. never make any google blocking default part of Firefox.
How would I now know if decisions are made because of what users want or of what google wants?
And not caring about the share of Chrome? Then why do they try to push it so hard that it feels like rape?
Google is a marketing company and they are using marketing wording to sell us a story.
Is that the time it take a Volkswagen to cross a football-field diagonally? Or is it 1 score (As in 4 scores and 7 years) divided by the books in the library of congress? I get a bit confused with all these measurements.
What do we do about this? Wrong idea. Each one of us does something about it individually. You think for yourself; you vet things yourself; you don't worry about the rest of the "crowd" and how they might be deceived.
So basically you are saying that we are all individuals. Well, I am not.
Who needs sets if you have Lego? I thought the whole point was to use your imagination and use the standard blocks. Just like a stick is not a perfect sword, it makes for a great light saber. The same with Lego. Give a kid the standard blocks and it can build anything. Colors don't even matter.
The building (and destroying) is the fun part. I made people from Lego long before they came pre-build. ull block. On top of that a half block, full one and then a half one. Looked like an upside down F. Sure, it was not to scale with everything else, but I did not care. I had build an army that was destroyed about 3 minutes later and became a tank and then a boat and then...
Sets? We don't need no freakin' sets. (Now get of m,y lawn)
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In Belgium when you give a company access to your account, they will still have to send you a bill and they can only get the amount on that bill.
You also have 7 days to block the transfer of money.
So on the one side I have the ability to go on my 21 days holiday and not be worried that services will be blocked because I forgot to pay.
On the other hand I can still block if I disagree with a bill
On the third hand, customers are pretty good protected, so there is much less worry.
I can easily withdraw the automatic payment whenever I desire via a website.
These are only for recuring payments. These will be electricity, phone, cable, internet, credit card and the like.
They would LOVE if all would be walking into their stores. It is a numbers game. You and the majority of people will just go into the store, pay the bill and be gone.
However a certain percentage will buy something else. Stores LOVE people walking in and out. Those numbers are directly linked to sales numbers. The more people they have coming in, the more money they make.
That is the reason many stores have deals that are real great bargains. Those or not to sell those items, but to get people inside. Sure, some will buy only what is advertised. Enough people will be tempted to buy something else as well and that is where the money is..
In Belgium phonebills can be payed by automated bank order or by credit cards. Depends on the company you use. No charges for this.
Sometimes paper will cost extra. Sometimes not having a non-automatic payment will cost extra.
The reason is that going after money for non-payers is pretty expensive, yet they can't NOT go after them. People forgetting to pay their bills because they were on a holiday or for whatever reason means you could block the service, but then you need to pay the agent that answer that phone to explain why they were blocked of said service.
Annoyance for the customer, extra cost for the company. I myself have been without Internet once because I mistyped and payed 34.59EUR instead of 34.95EUR or something similar. No, I do NOT blame the company for blocking me. It was _my_ fault. I did not keep my part of the deal.
The users of that law are the MAFIAA.All others are irrelevant.
Hey, I got an email about my credit card being disabled and I don't even have a credit card.
Technical warranty is 2 years standard. For batteries it is 6 months. First line is the store where you bought it, but if they are not there anymore, the manufacturer is responsible.
In Belgium (not sure about other countries) a standard phone number must be available, so no expensive phone numbers.
For a PC technical support will be something like: Have you tried to turn it off and on again? Did a re-install work? No? OK, we send it back to the factory and you get an identical or better machine back.
This must also happen within a reasonable time and the replacement will have a one year warranty or to the end of the two year warranty, which ever comes later.
So let me get this straight: Long term thinking is better in the long term, while short term thinking is better in the short term?
I am amazed. Does this only apply to IT or could it also be true for other things?
Great for you that you are able to do all those things yourself. If I would try that, I would not only have no money because I would have so much lesser income. I also would have no house and no car.
Only fools think that their way is the only way. I have seem people who LIKE working. That is what they love doing. So according to you they must start doing things they do not like.
The company I work for at the moment: people work 37,5 hours. Managers do about 40, but in return have 3 extra holidays per year extra. That includes the CEO. They will have 38 payed holidays per year. Staff have 35.
I am aware that we are the exception. Most people will only have 24 holidays per year.
So it is possible to have a career and a life.
(Yes, I live in Europe. Why?)
256 would be more logical. Or 1000 if you like the metric system.
It was their choice to hire that company, so to me they are responsible. I do not care if it is an external person or the CEO of the company. He was a spokesperson of the company hired by that company.
If a shoe company buys shoes from some third party who uses slavery, would you say the same thing and just forgive them?
As you said, they were thinking only about the money. If they would have thought about the customer or at least about service, this would not have happened.
Don't pick a fight with a big company or with people with money or power. Great. In other words, if you are the small man, you are fucked.
No female nipples either. They are apparently not suitable for young children.
They GET money to use it. Probably the product placement deal fell through and nobody told the writers.
This will most likely be dealth with out of court for an undisclosed amount of money. Most likely not even money, but free product placement in some movies.
Look for the LV logo on Batmans next costume.
But be bad for them loosing so much money on a movie.
Signed,
your Hollywood Accountant.
Look at the UK. There is no crime anymore in the UK thanks to all the cameras. Right?
It amazes me how people think that they know what criminals would do. There are two kind of criminals. The ones that are in it because they are lazy. They think short term only. They rob you or a bank with a mask. They want the money now and then they will spend it till they need money again.
These are the criminals we see and know and what we buy camera's for. The thing is, it won't work, because they believe they won't get caught. They do not think ahead. They do not think of others. They want the money now, they take it.
If anything, the camera shows theme where the money is, because otherwise there would be no camera. These are the criminals that make us make feel unsafe. They are the ones with the mask on in a bank, robbing the bank.
The other criminals are also in the bank, but on the other side. They are the real criminals. They think long term. They do not believe they won't get caught. They know they will be rewarded for taking your money.
Neither of them is botherd by the camera's.
I bought a QNAP NAS. It runs Linux, has media server stuff pre-installed and runs Linux. You can even install extra software if you like or just trow out all the software and install a "real OS" (Their words) like Debian.
http://www.qnap.com/pro_detail_feature.asp?p_id=134 shows a list. Connecting my Linux machines goes over NFS. If I had a MAC, I could use AFP and for Windows there is Samba.
The standard possibilities are almost endless and as you can install extra software, they really are limited to your imagination and knowledge.
That is an emotional and not a rational observation.
Why does it matter if you write a book, but not if you write a movie script or a song? What about newspapers or magazines?
And blogs?
What if a writers does all of that or some of them?
Movies are turned into books. Books are turned into movies.
The important thing here is to understand that these are the rights of the copyright holder and that is seldom the writer. In a few exceptions will they make money, but most will loose money.
So basically he is all for Free, but not for Open.
First they laugh at you
Then they fight you
Then they bribe you
Then they win
Wait. What?
Basically what he is saying is that as long as Firefox does what they want (Advance the web, whatever that means) they will keep funding. Once Firefox stops doing that, the money will be gone. That means Google has as least some sort of influence of what is going on. Sure it is their right, but with their own browser, they will be extremely tempted to direct things. e.g. never make any google blocking default part of Firefox.
How would I now know if decisions are made because of what users want or of what google wants?
And not caring about the share of Chrome? Then why do they try to push it so hard that it feels like rape?
Google is a marketing company and they are using marketing wording to sell us a story.
Is that the time it take a Volkswagen to cross a football-field diagonally?
Or is it 1 score (As in 4 scores and 7 years) divided by the books in the library of congress?
I get a bit confused with all these measurements.
So basically you are saying that we are all individuals. Well, I am not.
Who needs sets if you have Lego? I thought the whole point was to use your imagination and use the standard blocks.
Just like a stick is not a perfect sword, it makes for a great light saber. The same with Lego. Give a kid the standard blocks and it can build anything. Colors don't even matter.
The building (and destroying) is the fun part. I made people from Lego long before they came pre-build. ull block. On top of that a half block, full one and then a half one. Looked like an upside down F. Sure, it was not to scale with everything else, but I did not care. I had build an army that was destroyed about 3 minutes later and became a tank and then a boat and then ...
Sets? We don't need no freakin' sets. (Now get of m,y lawn)
I am the 98%!
There are ways to white-list people who you can then answer. All the rest is ignored and drops on voicemail.