February 7, 2012
Earn $1,000,000 or sue for £150,000, what would you do?
An article on Huffington Post caught my attention today: “Psychic” Sally Morgan Sues Critics for £150,000 After Refusing $1 Million to Prove Her Powers
According to Google, today’s exchange rate is 1 British pound sterling = 1.5805 US dollars. That means Sally Morgan is turning down £632,711 and sticking with the £150,000.
Let me see if I have this straight.
- Article exposing the trickery of psychics published
- Psychic Sally who supposedly uses ability to earn income cry’s foul and tries to sue for lost income of £150,000 and damaged reputation
- Offer to instead prove ability, earn £632,711 and repair reputation is made but turned down by psychic Sally
So psychic Sally is offered four times the money and the repair of her reputation by the people she is trying to sue but she turns them down. All she has to do is prove that her ability works. But still she refuses? Why you might ask? Why?
Could it possibly be that her ability does not work?
Dear Spaghetti Monster in the Sky,
Please make the stupid people go away.
Signed,
A Faithful Pastaferian.
BG Defender (WoW Plugin for PvP) 1.6.2 now available
From user feedback I added a new feature that allows you to announce the incoming messages in a different language than your default client language.
It is available here on www.curse.com
One issue with the feature is it mixes the actual message with both your local client language and the chosen language. For example, if using the German client but selecting French as the announcement language, it will make the announcement in French, but the node name used in the announcement is still in the local client language, in this case German. The result is a French announcement using a German node name.
This is due to the node name coming from the local client directly.
One woo peddler down, 999 bazillion to go…..
ConsumerAffairs.com reported today that “Central Coast Nutraceuticals has agreed to pay $1.5 million to settle federal claims that it used fraudulent marketing, phony claims and bogus endorsements from Oprah Winfrey and Rachael Ray to peddle its acai berry supplements, ‘colon cleansers,’ and other products.”
I applaud the fact that the FTC has stepped in and dealt with the victimization of customers from the business practices used by Central Coast Nutraceuticals and the product claims. It would be nice too if we saw more judgements like this and not ones that rely upon credit card fraud to be noticed. These types of products sadly lead people like Oprah Winfrey and Rachel Ray to believe in this woo and promote it to an audience of uninformed people clinging to a false sense of hope packaged in a snake oil bottle.
Yet just like Howard Camping on May 22nd, 2011, I wager we will not be seeing any retraction, apology or verifiable product truth out of Oprah or Rachel Ray as a follow up to this. You would think that they at least owe an apology to their audience that fell for this scam, otherwise it seems to me that their show was no more than an endorsement for this fraudulent product and company.
A great light has gone out. Christopher Hitchens Dies at 62.
Christopher Hitchens, Who Wrote of War, God, Cancer, Dies at 62 (Bloomberg)
Dec. 16 (Bloomberg) — Christopher Hitchens, the British- born journalist at home in the middle of U.S. political disputes including Bill Clinton’s infidelity, the war in Iraq and the role of organized religion, has died, Vanity Fair magazine said. He was 62.
Hitchens died at the MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, Texas, Vanity Fair reported on its Web site.
His insight and reason will be missed.
Bank of America $5.00 Debit Card Fee. Is it justified?
I have been watching the news on the Bank of America announcement about the $5.00 debit card fee. From all of the news reports I have seen, a basic report has been missed. It quite surprises me that the numerous financial newspapers have absolutely failed to calculate some basic numbers for the announcement to compare the “before” and “after” of what this new fee structure means.
Let me explain.
The Fed capped debit-card swipe fees at 21 cents starting Oct. 1. It will let issuers tack on five basis points, or 0.05 percent, of each transaction, or almost 2 cents based on the average debit purchase of $38, and a conditional 1-cent adjustment for lenders that follow fraud-prevention standards.
Reference: Bloomberg
Okay, that explains the new plan, but how does it compare to the old plan? For that I had to do some digging (perish the thought that a journalist would do this….)
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