And I had all the money I paid for a second hand laptop stolen from me because paypal's dispute service took so damn long, and the perp was allowed to close the account.
I had no recourse. Looks like paypal protects nobody then.
yes, but the hard problems, like interstellar travel, will best be solved by a theory which holds up at all levels, quantum, micro, macro, and cosmological.
There are vacations homes in the boonies in Eastern Oregon that you can get for 20-30k dollars. How the hell is that expensive if you are making at least 60-70k a year if you hopefully graduated college and know what you are talking about. That is like 200-300 a month with a bad down payment.
I only use PayPal and will not deal with any seller/buyer that does not accept PayPal. I don't trust 'the check is in the mail', or 'I will wire the money to you tomorrow'. I am especially wary of sellers that offer me a discount if I pay them direct to avoid additional fees. By using PayPal, every step of the transaction is recorded and logged for reference.
The one time I was warned that a seller had been removed from eBay due to suspicious sales -- and I had already completed the sale -- I filed with eBay and PayPal. I got nearly all of my money back. The seller had gotten to his bank account and removed some of the money first.
Don't like the fees? Then charge more for your auction or go to another auction site.
I'm sorry to say paypal doesn't protect you from scammers. Read the fine print. Trust me, i was defrauded for 500 bucks by a seller who had 1000 positive feedback ratio (all VERY well astroturfed).
The truth is any service which allows you to use a major credit card will allow you to recover defrauded funds by disputing the charge. Don't make the mistake of thinking PayPal or some other service of its sort actually gives a damn, use your credit card's dispute service like I have since that time (recovering a further 1500).
This said, Ebay is on its last legs, at least when it comes to electronics. At least 30% of its listings are hong kong or nigerian scammers running hijacked accounts saying "e-mail me for 'buy it now' price!".
I really do feel for the legit sellers who are left. I honestly think Ebay drove off enough of their peers to make the online auction scene incredibly seedy.
Reading natural language is hard, and I'm of the opinion that a Firefox plugin just won't cut it for understanding the nuanced opinions given by reviewers.
now toss it some ebonics or wow-ese and watch it go nuts..
Also, "our current times" include things that simply didn't exist before: near-universal literacy, 24/7/365 media, and a desire to do something with one's time off other than simply sit around in a half-drunken stupor somewhere while catching up from the work-week's exhaustion. The latter part was pretty much what the vast majority of humanity did with what little leisure time they got.
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ah, so the world sucked worse then for joe everyman (so we should just bend over and take it is that right)?
This is a serious reflection of our current times, where people's eyes gloss over if the concept at hand is not condensed into a convenient sound-byte.
I suppose you could call it the bleeding edge where complacency meets the loss of freedom and the fall of darkness where critical thought once stood.
Now there is enough probable demand to launch a startup designed to remove what minimal labor people are interested in dedicating to the quality of even their leisure time.
I'm sure many fantasize about strangling people this lazy/complacent, but honestly if they're unconscious enough not to care about their own toys, do they really possess a "life" for you to take from them?
Reminds me of the statistic: Every 2 seconds an American woman is raped. That poor woman...
Those are some speedy rapists...
but they're kind too! i mean they bring her food, change her bedpan, and don't comment on the horrific odor she's got after being on her back for so many years!
I don't care if the place is in a nuclear test area, most people can't afford vacation homes, and if you can afford one you can afford the broadband.
Additionally, If your utility argument held water they wouldn't have a phone line to use the dialup they're paying (20% more than "dsl lite" in my area of town) for.
Hopefully Viacom get some money out of Google in return for the content that they had to invest in making.
Google/Youtube should not be able to broadcast content which they don't have the rights to and profit from the eyeballs watching it. Sorry I know the fanboys will be angry but it is true.
You are the same people that get up in arms when someone uses some GPL code against the license terms.. you can't have it both ways.
I know this is hard for you to grasp as someone not subject to the american constitution, but explain to me how eliminating what is now a cultural phenomenon (youtube) is "promoting science and the useful arts".
It's obvious youtube is embedded in our culture enough to be mentioned and featured for at least half a decade now in our nightly news and standup comedy sketches.
Ah, so google hands over 16 terabytes of text (your average thousand page novel is 200 megs.. in WORD FORMAT.), and they'll just be nice and honest with their findings right?
No third party, court appointed expert?
I smell an increasingly large, steaming pile of pertinent reasons for appeal here. Google should have no trouble getting this to the USSC.
The family members using AOL have the broadband service at home, and then they use the 56K at their cottage. Without this, they would normally be required to buy two Internet packages.
they can afford a vacation home, but can't afford internet for it?
Additionally, if it's in another country, and that country is in western europe or the pacific rim, they could probably get broadband there for half the current price of AOL.
Either way, they're paying a "tax" for that level of stupidity.
4. To prevent direct hyperlinking to a specific piece of information in order to force you (and ESPECIALLY your clueless relatives) to click through link after link.. with ad after ad, and in less ethical cases prompt after prompt to install malware of some kind.
That pile of needless bullshit navigation is precisely what hypertext was supposed to allow you to avoid.
and, sadly, what most hosts and advertising revenue driven sites don't want you to be able to avoid.
The more ads they can shove in your way and get you to accidentally click.. the more malware they can infect your computer with.. the more money they make.
I'd like to add something to my point about forensics because I don't think i was clear enough on this.
Good forensic evidence doesn't leave the type of wiggle room you talk about
It ties you, conclusively, to a crime.
Almost everything made today has lot numbers, and even the most consistently made product has statistically significant variation between lot numbers, but extreme consistency within those lots. This is why fiber evidence can be utterly damning.
Blood spatter analysis, again, does not lie. Velocity and direction can be proven via established fluid dynamics.
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And I had all the money I paid for a second hand laptop stolen from me because paypal's dispute service took so damn long, and the perp was allowed to close the account.
I had no recourse. Looks like paypal protects nobody then.
Please google "vertical monopoly".
Name any competing auction site of similar stature to Ebay.
I believe the last one was shuttered in mid 2k7
But it didn't save you from price gouging ISP's giving you crap for service, then metering it on top of that.
If it is detectable in any way, it's not "dark" anymore!
Wouldn't it be better to call it an effort to "define" dark energy?
yes, but the hard problems, like interstellar travel, will best be solved by a theory which holds up at all levels, quantum, micro, macro, and cosmological.
Otherwise, we will never leave our solar system.
There are vacations homes in the boonies in Eastern Oregon that you can get for 20-30k dollars. How the hell is that expensive if you are making at least 60-70k a year if you hopefully graduated college and know what you are talking about. That is like 200-300 a month with a bad down payment.
someone's never had kids.
wow you like to blow a lot of smoke.
Forensics testing is done by sending pieces of the same sample to independent labs and experts, un-named, for independent analysis.
at least 2 different labs in different regions is the standard for DNA testing on capital cases.
I only use PayPal and will not deal with any seller/buyer that does not accept PayPal. I don't trust 'the check is in the mail', or 'I will wire the money to you tomorrow'. I am especially wary of sellers that offer me a discount if I pay them direct to avoid additional fees. By using PayPal, every step of the transaction is recorded and logged for reference.
The one time I was warned that a seller had been removed from eBay due to suspicious sales -- and I had already completed the sale -- I filed with eBay and PayPal. I got nearly all of my money back. The seller had gotten to his bank account and removed some of the money first.
Don't like the fees? Then charge more for your auction or go to another auction site.
I'm sorry to say paypal doesn't protect you from scammers. Read the fine print. Trust me, i was defrauded for 500 bucks by a seller who had 1000 positive feedback ratio (all VERY well astroturfed).
The truth is any service which allows you to use a major credit card will allow you to recover defrauded funds by disputing the charge. Don't make the mistake of thinking PayPal or some other service of its sort actually gives a damn, use your credit card's dispute service like I have since that time (recovering a further 1500).
This said, Ebay is on its last legs, at least when it comes to electronics. At least 30% of its listings are hong kong or nigerian scammers running hijacked accounts saying "e-mail me for 'buy it now' price!".
I really do feel for the legit sellers who are left. I honestly think Ebay drove off enough of their peers to make the online auction scene incredibly seedy.
Obligatory comment about a nice game of thermonuclear war *here*
Reading natural language is hard, and I'm of the opinion that a Firefox plugin just won't cut it for understanding the nuanced opinions given by reviewers.
now toss it some ebonics or wow-ese and watch it go nuts..
Also, "our current times" include things that simply didn't exist before: near-universal literacy, 24/7/365 media, and a desire to do something with one's time off other than simply sit around in a half-drunken stupor somewhere while catching up from the work-week's exhaustion. The latter part was pretty much what the vast majority of humanity did with what little leisure time they got.
ah, so the world sucked worse then for joe everyman (so we should just bend over and take it is that right)?
This is a serious reflection of our current times, where people's eyes gloss over if the concept at hand is not condensed into a convenient sound-byte.
I suppose you could call it the bleeding edge where complacency meets the loss of freedom and the fall of darkness where critical thought once stood.
Now there is enough probable demand to launch a startup designed to remove what minimal labor people are interested in dedicating to the quality of even their leisure time.
I'm sure many fantasize about strangling people this lazy/complacent, but honestly if they're unconscious enough not to care about their own toys, do they really possess a "life" for you to take from them?
Those are some speedy rapists...
but they're kind too! i mean they bring her food, change her bedpan, and don't comment on the horrific odor she's got after being on her back for so many years!
i've seen at least two hotel holding companies (which run multiple chains) advertising free wifi.
I don't care if the place is in a nuclear test area, most people can't afford vacation homes, and if you can afford one you can afford the broadband.
Additionally, If your utility argument held water they wouldn't have a phone line to use the dialup they're paying (20% more than "dsl lite" in my area of town) for.
Hopefully Viacom get some money out of Google in return for the content that they had to invest in making.
Google/Youtube should not be able to broadcast content which they don't have the rights to and profit from the eyeballs watching it. Sorry I know the fanboys will be angry but it is true.
You are the same people that get up in arms when someone uses some GPL code against the license terms.. you can't have it both ways.
I know this is hard for you to grasp as someone not subject to the american constitution, but explain to me how eliminating what is now a cultural phenomenon (youtube) is "promoting science and the useful arts".
It's obvious youtube is embedded in our culture enough to be mentioned and featured for at least half a decade now in our nightly news and standup comedy sketches.
numa-numa guy anyone?
Ah, so google hands over 16 terabytes of text (your average thousand page novel is 200 megs.. in WORD FORMAT.), and they'll just be nice and honest with their findings right?
No third party, court appointed expert?
I smell an increasingly large, steaming pile of pertinent reasons for appeal here. Google should have no trouble getting this to the USSC.
But logs are in plain text. they have no "metadata".
screencap it, pdf the screencaps, let them try to sift it.
they can afford a vacation home, but can't afford internet for it?
Additionally, if it's in another country, and that country is in western europe or the pacific rim, they could probably get broadband there for half the current price of AOL.
Either way, they're paying a "tax" for that level of stupidity.
and you are still paying for this why?
you forgot one:
4. To prevent direct hyperlinking to a specific piece of information in order to force you (and ESPECIALLY your clueless relatives) to click through link after link.. with ad after ad, and in less ethical cases prompt after prompt to install malware of some kind.
and, sadly, what most hosts and advertising revenue driven sites don't want you to be able to avoid.
The more ads they can shove in your way and get you to accidentally click.. the more malware they can infect your computer with.. the more money they make.
This surprises you after so many voted a potted plant back into the presidency after such obvious failure in 2004?
I'd like to add something to my point about forensics because I don't think i was clear enough on this.
Good forensic evidence doesn't leave the type of wiggle room you talk about
It ties you, conclusively, to a crime.
Almost everything made today has lot numbers, and even the most consistently made product has statistically significant variation between lot numbers, but extreme consistency within those lots. This is why fiber evidence can be utterly damning.
Blood spatter analysis, again, does not lie. Velocity and direction can be proven via established fluid dynamics.