Why @PayPal is wrong regarding @Regretsy, according to their own policies. « greengeekgirl.
After reading the story of the Regretsy nightmare with PayPal, I would like to find some alternative to PayPal to handle my on-line micro-finance needs. I am especially alarmed at the idea that PayPal can freeze my account for 6 months on the whim of an employee. If I ever decide to put a “Donate” button on my web page, it won’t be with PayPal.
Search the page for “Versatile tool of questionable quality” for an excellent review.
via Amazon.com: Customer Reviews: Black & Decker GR100 Family-Sized Electric Nonstick Griddle.
We really do need to give the banks and the bankers ( and their aiders and abettors) a fair trial. Except they seem to be fighting it tooth and nail all the way.
This Creeping Underwater Ice Tornado Kills Everything It Touches.
I agree with one of the comments that this really is not a tornado. Impressive nonetheless. I was not familiar with this phenomenon.
LG Optimus Hyper Facade in Berlin – Long Version – YouTube.
One of the advantages of living in the big city…
EXCLUSIVE: photos of BofA’s new #OWS-themed ad campaign – Boing Boing.
I especially like the “Building a better America, 1% at a time.”
I have gotten tired of all the nonsense hits I am getting on Google, so I am trying out another search engine -blekko. I made it my default Firefox search engine.
It seems on Google that if you inquire about a subject then you must want to be buying it. No, if I ask about “bookbinding” I want to learn about “bookbinding” not buy “bookbinding”equipment or books.
I started thinking about this after hearing PJ O’Rourke on Marketplace. This was an essay answering the question about “If the 1% had less, would the 99% be better off?”
We have a pie that represents the wealth of America. The “1%” controls about 38% of that wealth (2011). The “20%” (that includes the 1%) controls 88% of the nation’s wealth.
If we use a net worth of $56T (2011) then 38% = $21.3T and 88% = $49.3T.
Wealth is not zero-sum. In 2007 American wealth was over $65T and the control percentages were 1-2 percentage points lower. So while the overall net worth dropped 16% the top “20%” lost only -3% of their share of the pie (going from 85% to 88%). I wonder where the rest of the loss came from?
Wealth is not zero-sum. But the pie is. It sums up to 100% whether the net worth is worth $65T or $56T. If the top “1%” keeps a lock on $20T and the net worth figures keep falling, their percentage of the pie keeps going up. and the “99%” keeps getting squeezed as their percentage goes down.
It isn’t a matter of declaring wealth is evil or that reward for success is bad. It is a matter of saying that using wealth to promote a playing field that favors your increasing your wealth is bad. Buying the influence to set the field in your favor is bad. Gaming the system with a disregard for intent is bad. (Fraud is fraud, unless you can do enough semantic acrobatics to rob everyone blind, legally.
I don’t disparage the 20% their wealth. No matter how you cut the pie, there will always be a 20%. But 88% of the wealth seems a bit much for 20% of the population.
First thing – DO NOT RE-ELECT any incumbents. It doesn’t matter if they are the best public servant you have ever had. Sweep the table clean and let a new mind-set in to office. And don’t vote for an incumbent until the system rights itself.
Second thing – get another political party going. Enough of these Republican/Mini-Republican electoral choices. A choice between the greater and the lesser evil isn’t much of a choice.
We the People of the United States, in Order to
- form a more perfect Union,
- establish Justice,
- insure domestic Tranquility,
- provide for the common defence,
- promote the general Welfare, and
- secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity,
do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.
This looks like some useful information.
That cornbread mix had been hiding in the cupboard too long.