From now on, whenever you complain to IT, do it in writing, and send them a telegram first, telling them to expect a letter with your complaint. Hopefully they will soon see sense.
DRIVING a getaway car is not illegal in and of itself.
IANAL, however, if you have a current drivers licence, valid insurance, road tax, i.e. you and are compliant with your local regulation for driving a vehicle on public roads, it doesn't matter whether you are driving a getaway car, or a truck full of heroin or AK47's, you will not be in trouble for DRIVING, unless of course you break the rules by running a red light, illegal parking, speeding or some other infraction.
Even if you intentionally drive it as a getaway vehicle, what you will be in trouble for has nothing to do with the act of driving. Conspiracy, aiding and abetting etc. will still apply whether you were driving a car, or pushing them in a wheel barrow, or carrying them on your back.
HAWK
verb [ trans. ]
carry around and offer (goods) for sale, typically advertising them by shouting : street traders were hawking costume jewelry.
ORIGIN late 15th cent.: back-formation from hawker 1 .
HOCK
verb [ trans. ]
informal term for pawn
PHRASES
in hock having been pawned. in debt : East European states in hock to Western bankers.
ORIGIN mid 19th cent. (in the phrase in hock): from Dutch hok 'hutch, prison, debt.'
I wanted to use Amazon Payments on my Buy-Proxy website, but I can't setup an account as I don't live in the US. Apparently, the UK is not good enough. I have a standard Amazon Account, that's not the problem, I can't setup an Amazon Payments account without a US Address.
I wanted to use Google Payments on another site, but they have decided that as I'm UK based, I can only make transactions in £'s and I need to be able to sell in Euro's and US $'s. PayPal makes that simple, and handle the exchange rate for me. Google have made it almost impossible. So I only use Google Payments for 1 out of 5 products on the site.
Having lived for more than 2 decades in third world countries, there is more going on than you may think.
It is true that may people in developing countries do not have the funds to pay, which is why the advertisers are getting upset. However, in my opinion the biggest problem is that even when you have the funds to pay, you can't find anyone who will accept your money.
For example, how many online stores only accept Credit/Debit Cards, from their own country? PayPal is supposed to provide a solution for this, but only if you live in a western country. If you live in South America, Asia or Africa forget it, you can't use the service.
Even in the poorest developing countries there are still many individuals who have disposable income, but they are limited to spending it within their own markets, because of artificially imposed trade barriers, often set-up by the very companies that complain that they can't penetrate said market.
If you sell widgets online, and only allow payment via a Credit/Debit card with a US billing address, guess what, you will generally only make sales to people in the US. Everybody else relies on grey imports, and often the middle men\importers & smugglers will make more money than you on your own product.
I don't have a complete solution, as the topic is very complicated, but I am trying in my own tiny little way.
According to my google fu, there were about 600 million cars world wide in 1997, and they estimate that at present rates that will double by 2030.
As we are in 2009, which is less than half way to 2030, let be generous and say there are 900 million cars on the road today.
This means we need to plant trees on 1.8 billion acres.
Considering that the Sahara Desert is over 2 billion acres, I think we have plenty of space. and as the Sahara is not too densely populated, it won't affect too many people, and will actually provide a lot of work for people in Africa, which will go a long way to solving may problems there.
Note: There are other deserts that could be used as well;)
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How many books have this stupid subtitle? It must work...
They don't want you to know ;)
You could post a request at http://www.buy-proxy.com/ Disclaimer: It's my own website, however, this is exactly why it was created
They are unlikely to spend hundreds of years beating him about the head with a $5 wrench, most people give in in minutes
Not your location, I get those in the UK too, they are everywhere.
From now on, whenever you complain to IT, do it in writing, and send them a telegram first, telling them to expect a letter with your complaint. Hopefully they will soon see sense.
Out of interest, what would the insurance companies prefer was done in that case?
Octopi surely? ;-)
Safari 4 on OS X 10.5.7 (Leopard) displays Anonymous Cowardons too.
DRIVING a getaway car is not illegal in and of itself.
IANAL, however, if you have a current drivers licence, valid insurance, road tax, i.e. you and are compliant with your local regulation for driving a vehicle on public roads, it doesn't matter whether you are driving a getaway car, or a truck full of heroin or AK47's, you will not be in trouble for DRIVING, unless of course you break the rules by running a red light, illegal parking, speeding or some other infraction.
Even if you intentionally drive it as a getaway vehicle, what you will be in trouble for has nothing to do with the act of driving. Conspiracy, aiding and abetting etc. will still apply whether you were driving a car, or pushing them in a wheel barrow, or carrying them on your back.
Even Zimbabweans won't take 'em any more ;)
verb [ trans. ]
carry around and offer (goods) for sale, typically advertising them by shouting : street traders were hawking costume jewelry.
ORIGIN late 15th cent.: back-formation from hawker 1 .
HOCK
verb [ trans. ]
informal term for pawn
PHRASES
in hock having been pawned. in debt : East European states in hock to Western bankers.
ORIGIN mid 19th cent. (in the phrase in hock): from Dutch hok 'hutch, prison, debt.'
Your plans would mean that ideas from people in poorer countries, where they don't have $5 to $10 just lying around, are not worth bothering about?
For old people with memory loss, it is.
why are old people with memory loss leaving their homes to go grocery shopping alone? that seems pretty stupid/dangerous.
They keep forgetting to stay at home ;)
I wanted to use Amazon Payments on my Buy-Proxy website, but I can't setup an account as I don't live in the US. Apparently, the UK is not good enough. I have a standard Amazon Account, that's not the problem, I can't setup an Amazon Payments account without a US Address.
I wanted to use Google Payments on another site, but they have decided that as I'm UK based, I can only make transactions in £'s and I need to be able to sell in Euro's and US $'s. PayPal makes that simple, and handle the exchange rate for me. Google have made it almost impossible. So I only use Google Payments for 1 out of 5 products on the site.
Out of curiosity, will you do business with Canada or the UK?
What (if any) problems have you had with credit cards from these two countries?
Having lived for more than 2 decades in third world countries, there is more going on than you may think.
It is true that may people in developing countries do not have the funds to pay, which is why the advertisers are getting upset. However, in my opinion the biggest problem is that even when you have the funds to pay, you can't find anyone who will accept your money.
For example, how many online stores only accept Credit/Debit Cards, from their own country? PayPal is supposed to provide a solution for this, but only if you live in a western country. If you live in South America, Asia or Africa forget it, you can't use the service.
Even in the poorest developing countries there are still many individuals who have disposable income, but they are limited to spending it within their own markets, because of artificially imposed trade barriers, often set-up by the very companies that complain that they can't penetrate said market.
If you sell widgets online, and only allow payment via a Credit/Debit card with a US billing address, guess what, you will generally only make sales to people in the US. Everybody else relies on grey imports, and often the middle men\importers & smugglers will make more money than you on your own product.
I don't have a complete solution, as the topic is very complicated, but I am trying in my own tiny little way.
Original Poster
How about Mark 7:25-30 where Jesus is being racist towards a woman who comes to seek his help? Not as bad as pedophilia but still...
He wasn't being racist!
She wanted Him to cast out a demon from her daughter. The text then mentions that she was Greek.
His response was basically, "Let the kids eat first, it's not right to take their food and throw it to the dogs."
She replied that even dogs eat the crumbs under the kids table.
He said "Touche! and for that, your daughter is well, off you go"
How on earth is that racist?
As we are in 2009, which is less than half way to 2030, let be generous and say there are 900 million cars on the road today.
This means we need to plant trees on 1.8 billion acres.
Considering that the Sahara Desert is over 2 billion acres, I think we have plenty of space. and as the Sahara is not too densely populated, it won't affect too many people, and will actually provide a lot of work for people in Africa, which will go a long way to solving may problems there.
Note: There are other deserts that could be used as well ;)
gift cards will do the trick, see instructions at http://gifttunes.buy-proxy.com/howto.php Disclaimer, I own/run the site
Whee... would have done
put the coin signal DTMF tones, on your mobile phone or MP3 player. ;-)
This makes 2009 "the year of linux on the palmtop" for this guy ;-)
maybe because it's iconic? Ok, Ok, I'm leaving
Britain == Country
Briton == Person from Britain