I am a computer person, and when I was younger I thought that the sky was the limit. In the early days, there was so much creativity and idealism...the big question way back when god was a child was how the internet was going to pay for itself. And sadly, it seems the internet has unleashed upon the world the full power of corporatization, and with it the Byzantium like fetish for substituting common sense with slavish adherence to "rules" that principally protect big money. It's not all bad but this war against Ukraine has shown we little people how much the fate of the human race is in the wrong hands. I too have run into issue about what words not to include when I am trying to contribute support. I used to hate Paypal as they used to creep me out because obviously they have people on the inside who are selling personal information to 3rd parties as judged by the number of scammers who send me fake invoices but at least stuff can get thru. The institutional banks seem to be even more sketchy...just ranting...I know how easily banks can get under a person skin with so called rules.
I had a right runaround with my bank over the money from a big fundraiser we had for our first mobile bakery. For ages they blocked it claiming it must be fraud. Eventually after many shenanigans they ended up apologising, giving me a donation and the CEO phoned personally and sent a box of cake and biscuits!
Great article, couldn't agree more. Western nations are sleepwalking into war, it's deja vu all over again, 1939 style. That was a shock back then, when Europe finally realised Germany was serious when we had the writing on the wall for at least 8 years. It's going to be a shock again, even though this war started 10 years ago. People still do not understand that weakness or vacillation is a green light for dictatorships - our lights have been stuck on green for Putin since 2014, maybe even earlier when you think about German complicity in refunding and rearming Russia after the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1989. Cheap Russian oil and gas has been the backbone of the German, and several other European countries, economy since the mid 1990's up to the present day - we still buy 100 million euros a day of Russian oil and gas. Sanctions? Don't make me laugh! There is just too much money to be made.
I am a computer person, and when I was younger I thought that the sky was the limit. In the early days, there was so much creativity and idealism...the big question way back when god was a child was how the internet was going to pay for itself. And sadly, it seems the internet has unleashed upon the world the full power of corporatization, and with it the Byzantium like fetish for substituting common sense with slavish adherence to "rules" that principally protect big money. It's not all bad but this war against Ukraine has shown we little people how much the fate of the human race is in the wrong hands. I too have run into issue about what words not to include when I am trying to contribute support. I used to hate Paypal as they used to creep me out because obviously they have people on the inside who are selling personal information to 3rd parties as judged by the number of scammers who send me fake invoices but at least stuff can get thru. The institutional banks seem to be even more sketchy...just ranting...I know how easily banks can get under a person skin with so called rules.
Unknown side of the volunteers' hard and unsafe work. Thanks for telling this story. Misunderstanding is still a boarder between two worlds
I could not agree more with Vaughan Bean. I am disgusted. The Italian (bad) word for the sort of people at Santander is "paraculo".
I had a right runaround with my bank over the money from a big fundraiser we had for our first mobile bakery. For ages they blocked it claiming it must be fraud. Eventually after many shenanigans they ended up apologising, giving me a donation and the CEO phoned personally and sent a box of cake and biscuits!
Congratulations on getting a climbdown!
Great article, couldn't agree more. Western nations are sleepwalking into war, it's deja vu all over again, 1939 style. That was a shock back then, when Europe finally realised Germany was serious when we had the writing on the wall for at least 8 years. It's going to be a shock again, even though this war started 10 years ago. People still do not understand that weakness or vacillation is a green light for dictatorships - our lights have been stuck on green for Putin since 2014, maybe even earlier when you think about German complicity in refunding and rearming Russia after the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1989. Cheap Russian oil and gas has been the backbone of the German, and several other European countries, economy since the mid 1990's up to the present day - we still buy 100 million euros a day of Russian oil and gas. Sanctions? Don't make me laugh! There is just too much money to be made.