On Sun, Dec 05, 2010 at 04:38:09PM -0600, L. V. Lammert wrote: > On Sun, 5 Dec 2010, Dmitrij D. Czarkoff wrote: > > > > On Sun, 5 Dec 2010, Randal L. Schwartz wrote: > > > I agree totally that there are a lot of idiots running parts of the US > > > system, but at least they ARE predictable. > > > > Being predictable is just not enough. Hardly You would enjoy predictability > > of > > You being put to prison on suspection of possibility of You committing some > > crime. > > > Actually, being predictable ALLOWS planning to avoid such problems! > > Ever head of Don Quixote? The moral of the storey - pick the battles you > have a chance of winning and avoid the rest. > > Lee >
if nothing else think about the charges they put on every transaction: you sell something on ebay, they charge you; you process their payment through paypal (ebay) they charge you again. they're clearly ripping us all us all off - fact! and to top it all of the charges have become extortionate.