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As a rule I detest the "what about the children" defense-Stoic Joker (March 02, 2012, 06:40 AM)
Did she deserve to go to jail?
Purely on the charge of sending her kid to school where she shouldn't have? I personally don't think so. And neither does anybody else I've talked to.
As far as the drug possession and sale charges go, reaction is mixed. Almost everybody I talked to thought 12 years was very harsh, but that automatically suspending it after 5 actual years served was reasonable. I still think it's a little heavy. But I'm dubious about the value and effectiveness of incarcerating people for long periods of time unless they've committed an act of extreme violence and we're concerned they'll do it again if released. But that's just me.-40hz (March 01, 2012, 03:58 PM)
We are all of us pieces in many different hidden games.-40hz (February 29, 2012, 06:36 PM)
*sigh*-wraith808 (February 29, 2012, 08:53 PM)
I have personal premier and I always get fees for incoming money.-mahesh2k (March 01, 2012, 01:24 PM)
TRANSFERRING MONEY
Usually free
Sending money to friends and family is also free for you and the recipient when you fund the transfer with your bank account. You can also use a debit or credit card or make an international transfer for a small fee.
Debit/Credit Card Fee
2.9% of total amount sent plus $0.30 per transaction (the sender decides who pays this fee).
Outside the US
Small fee of 0.5% to 2% (depends on destination) when fully funded with bank account or PayPal balance. 3.4% to 3.9% if paying with a credit or debit card.
I thought we were far enough off-topic already-tomos (March 01, 2012, 09:05 AM)
I think the bottom line is Paypal does not want to be a generic money transfer service like Visa or Western Union. For example, from stories I have heard, if you try to send money "just because" or for charity, and they get wind of it, they will reverse the transaction. They started off as just an easy way to buy stuff on ebay, perhaps that explains things somewhat.-daddydave (March 01, 2012, 09:27 AM)
Without quoting the text rendered in the referenced text (and having to add the spoiler tag), it would appear that it is an argument of semantics rather than substance, and that after-birth abortion is a euphemism on the same level as collateral damage.
(spoilered argument on killing babies/after-birth abortions)-Renegade (March 01, 2012, 08:52 AM)
Tough call this story. I agree with PayPal not wanting to handle this type of business. But I also fault them for not having the kahunas to originally say what the real reasons for that decision were.
At any rate, this is a potential bellwhether that bears watching because of the opportunity it provides for future legal abuses.-40hz (March 01, 2012, 06:35 AM)
And maybe a complete transition isn't the right idea. Perhaps it should be a gentle expansion of my computing habits. I'll just add it to my ecosystem. Use it as my second computer, or backup computer, or media server. Heck, if I can learn how to set up a decent file server easily, that's worth it right there.-superboyac (February 29, 2012, 09:32 AM)
Please be aware that Linux is not perfect either. It does give you the opportunity to get very involved in the details of your OS, but it has it's own pitfalls*.-Rover (February 28, 2012, 11:02 PM)
Looks like Amazon management may have just demonstrated an inability to adapt their own business model to the flexible and dynamically changing nature of the value chain in the market that they have de facto been largely responsible for developing from its infancy right up to this point. Maybe the management are prone to serial execution errors - this looks to be almost certainly an error in any event.-IainB (February 28, 2012, 06:53 PM)
the following links can be used to purchase the Pro or Ultimate versionsThank you very much-vuesoft (February 28, 2012, 06:33 PM)
-cranioscopical (February 28, 2012, 07:44 PM)
Amazon.com removed more than 4,000 e-books from its site this week after it tried and failed to get them more cheaply, a muscle-flexing move that is likely to have significant repercussions for the digital book market.
While Amazon has the right to decide with what company it does business, its removal of many of our authors’ books from its ordering system will have an economic impact on them. Our authors depend on people buying their books and a significant percentage of them have books distributed through IPG. Therefore, SFWA is redirecting Amazon.com links from the organization’s website to other booksellers because we would prefer to send traffic to stores where the books can actually be purchased.
Summary: PayPal has forced its merchants that publish and distribute e-books to censor erotic literature.
*I just pulled that number out of the sky.-zridling (February 27, 2012, 01:32 PM)
Whew - I was afraid you might have pulled it out of somewhere else!-mwb1100 (February 27, 2012, 01:50 PM)
