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Risks of debit card use

Via metafilter: Careful with that debit card, they may be putting a hold on your cash money for several days.

There’s a lot of hysteria about this with false reports of “$10 surcharges” etc, but retailers do put holds on credit cards regularly, and then they go ahead and do the same thing on a debit card which if you don’t have a lot of money can make your bank account kind of.. SPRAINED for a few days. Word to the wise (and broke).

Like all the other WHAT?

Not only was the F1 race in Indy a comic disaster, but Bernie Ecclestone… Well, just read below.

F1 boss likens Danica to ‘domestic appliance’
FOXSports.com
Posted: 13 hours ago

Danica Patrick has surged onto the open-wheel racing world, but that might not be sitting well with the old-school boss of Formula One racing.

Formula One is getting its most high-profile United States presence with the U.S. Grand Prix at Indianapolis Motor Speedway this weekend, but Formula One chief Bernie Ecclestone doesn’t seem to be too crazy about Patrick joining her male competitors on the track, despite her recent Indy 500 success.

“She did a good job, didn’t she? Super. Didn’t think she’d be able to make it like that,” Ecclestone told a gathering of reporters about Patrick’s Indy 500 finish.

“You know, I’ve got one of these wonderful ideas that women should be all dressed in white like all the other domestic appliances,” Ecclestone added.

Ecclestone has controlled Formula One for 25 years, amassing a fortune estimated at $3.7 billion. He has a holding company which operates some of F1’s commercial ventures, ranging from television rights to sponsorships.

But nine of the F1’s 10 teams are in dispute with Eccletone and others over the running of the sport and have threatened to start their own series in 2008. Only Ferrari has signed to stay with Ecclestone after the 2007 season.

surprise!

From the LA Times site:

Where is the Wikitorial?

Unfortunately, we have had to remove this feature, at least temporarily, because a few readers were flooding the site with inappropriate material.

Thanks and apologies to the thousands of people who logged on in the right spirit.

THE EKKLESIA FOUNDATION WISHES TO REPORT

This person keeps posting on the mailing list for the macintosh mail plugin that allows you to use GPG privacy in your mail. Kind of a niche thing, you know, fairly narrow. Nor for the Ekklesia Foundation! It’s all about the Big Picture for him/her/them.

Think globally, annoy locally:

the only reason mentioned the solar storms, geomagnetic storms and radio black outs were it delayed and hindered our downloading of mail of this forum;
in travels and catch what ever broadband, ethernet or wireless when we can . have found some light encryption can help when data streams are playing havoc.
there were a few satellite disruptions in some parts of the planet 17 June

http://www.sec.noaa.gov/sxi/current_sxi_4MKcorona.png take a look provided by US tax dollars

from the last few notes on the forum, much has to do with older means and manners access to internet:
a) we go back tot he days of modems of 300/75 baud and forever having to convert between 7 e 1 and 8 n 1
b) seen small wars before on forums over the last quarter of century
c) nothing has changed, issues remain

YES the Internet did exist well before the WEB which was introduced in 1993.

Do not think there will ever be any set standards, written in stone.
We have found e-mail exchange between users of GPG has had little issue, except maybe finding public keys; There are times e-mail with PGP and older versions are issues.

All we are saying internet is NOT Perfect!
Even the sun affects communications 🙂

patience and perseverance remain