Let me see if I under stand the issue:
1. Living in parents' basement
2. Focus most of your time playing computer games
3. Biggest problem is getting faster Internet connection
I don't know. Have you asked your girlfriend yet? Oh wait, I'm really sorry...
The article is trying to make it sound like eveyone shuns ITunes and is instead running out the the store to but CD's to fill their IPods. And then download one or two songs illegaly. Quoth the article
Far more important to iPod owners, said the study, was free music ripped from CDs someone already owned or acquired from file-sharing sites
First, most people that get IPods already have a bunch of CD's. They get the IPod because of this fact. Second, the article adds CD sales to illegal music downloads, and then compares both together (95%) with ITunes (5%) and says that ITunes is loosing. That's statistically misleading. It's like saying that I worked with Michael Jordan to score a combined 60 points in a single basketball game. He scored sixty and I scored none.
Wow
By this measure, it's just a fair to combine illegal music (94%) with ITunes (5%), and then say that people are shunning CD purchases (1%). Which they are.
btw. I just made up the last three statistics for illustrative purposes, but I'm probably not that far off. And the exact percentages are not the real point anyway. I mean really, get off my back about it...
Funny story, I opened a checking account a couple of years ago and I was wondering if there was any possiblity of protecting my account by requiring all withdrawals be made at the bank or by check (No EFTs from websites, etc). Of course, this isn't possible because of the way the banking system works (banks don't send actual checks to each other, they just send the information electronicly, the same as an EFT).
The funny part is, when I asked the branch manager what could be done, he tole me, "Just don't give your account number to anyone." Basicly, he told me to never use any checks from my account, because ALL OF THEM HAVE MY ACCOUNT NUMBER! If I write a check to someone, he can then take the check, go onto the Internets, and sign up for pron using CCBill and the account number at the bottom of my check.
If someone forged your driver's license and went to the bank to withdraw your money in person, it's the bank's fault for giving it to them
Nice Theory, but this is the real world. In the United States, you don't actually deposit your money into a bank account, you can only give your money to the bank, and then they have the option to give it back to you if you make a withdrawal. That is why they can take $35 dollars from you when you bounce a check, or any amount if some schmuck walks in off the street with a fake drivers license with your name on it. They realize that they stand to make more money if they keep a good public image of not just keeping every depositor's money, so they usually give people "their" money if they ask for it out of "their" account.
If the banks want to keep your money because they want to, they have the law on their side and there is nothing that you can do about it. You gave them your money, after all.
So if someone fraudulently withdraws money from the account, it is not really your place to fight it because it wasn't your money to loose.
If you don't know the law, please don't make one up.
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Let me see if I under stand the issue: 1. Living in parents' basement 2. Focus most of your time playing computer games 3. Biggest problem is getting faster Internet connection I don't know. Have you asked your girlfriend yet? Oh wait, I'm really sorry...
The article is trying to make it sound like eveyone shuns ITunes and is instead running out the the store to but CD's to fill their IPods. And then download one or two songs illegaly. Quoth the article
Far more important to iPod owners, said the study, was free music ripped from CDs someone already owned or acquired from file-sharing sites
First, most people that get IPods already have a bunch of CD's. They get the IPod because of this fact. Second, the article adds CD sales to illegal music downloads, and then compares both together (95%) with ITunes (5%) and says that ITunes is loosing. That's statistically misleading. It's like saying that I worked with Michael Jordan to score a combined 60 points in a single basketball game. He scored sixty and I scored none.
Wow
By this measure, it's just a fair to combine illegal music (94%) with ITunes (5%), and then say that people are shunning CD purchases (1%). Which they are.
btw. I just made up the last three statistics for illustrative purposes, but I'm probably not that far off. And the exact percentages are not the real point anyway. I mean really, get off my back about it...
They can look at all of the porn they want, but only on Bea Arther. (See also: The Golden Girls)
I'm just glad I won't have to give up my Gopher...
The funny part is, when I asked the branch manager what could be done, he tole me, "Just don't give your account number to anyone." Basicly, he told me to never use any checks from my account, because ALL OF THEM HAVE MY ACCOUNT NUMBER! If I write a check to someone, he can then take the check, go onto the Internets, and sign up for pron using CCBill and the account number at the bottom of my check.
Thanks Mr. Manager!!
Of course, you won't need a bank if your account has already been cleaned out...
Nice Theory, but this is the real world. In the United States, you don't actually deposit your money into a bank account, you can only give your money to the bank, and then they have the option to give it back to you if you make a withdrawal. That is why they can take $35 dollars from you when you bounce a check, or any amount if some schmuck walks in off the street with a fake drivers license with your name on it. They realize that they stand to make more money if they keep a good public image of not just keeping every depositor's money, so they usually give people "their" money if they ask for it out of "their" account.
If the banks want to keep your money because they want to, they have the law on their side and there is nothing that you can do about it. You gave them your money, after all.
So if someone fraudulently withdraws money from the account, it is not really your place to fight it because it wasn't your money to loose.
If you don't know the law, please don't make one up.
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