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Trapick
13y ago
That's idiotic. If spam links counted for 0 (when caught) there would be no disincentive for everyone to use them. The appropriate way is for them to count negative but have some way of legitimate sites disavowing them at some kind of time
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Trapick
13y ago
Short answer: yes, but it'll cost you, figure out a better way. First thing to know is, if you're talking to banks you're sort of talking to the wrong people. You need to be talking to Banking Host providers, or Core Banking System provider
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Trapick
13y ago
Probably to make it hard to convert to cash or easily sold goods. That way they can give them out for customer service reasons / free giveaways, etc. without worrying about them being traded in for phones and sold at cash value (or near to
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Trapick
13y ago
If ladders were commonly advertised by their width (as TVs are by the diagonal)? Yes, absolutely.
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Trapick
13y ago
I put funny first for a reason - I think that's the primary reason for her popularity.
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Trapick
13y ago
Please provide a source for that number, it sounds beyond ridiculous. The New Yorker ( http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2008/02/11/080211fa_fact_... ) states 33 million are sold in the US each year - so the idea that thirty times that man
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13y ago
There's no paradox: people don't care all that much about production values. People watch Jenna Marbles because she's funny and attractive. Whether or not she frames her shots well is much less important.
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13y ago
Some places it is - I have friends from France who would consider "where do you work" and "what do you do" about as rude as directly asking how much money you make, and not to be done except among close friends.
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Trapick
13y ago
Sure, if it's well-written and comes with some consideration (as in, you get some cash money for agreeing to the NDA).
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Trapick
13y ago
"Health care in the US is idiotic" doesn't really warrant a headline anymore, everybody gets it.
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Trapick
14y ago
So?
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Trapick
14y ago
First, storage doesn't cost google all that much - on the app engine they charge $0.24/GB/month, so their own cost for gmail is likely a lot lower than that. And it's hardly 10GB per person - I'm a heavy user with lots of email, never delet
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Trapick
14y ago
No thanks, I like my 35 hour work week just fine. Maybe you suckers should try Canada?