rebates do it as hard as possible becuase the rebate companies job is to get as few rebates actually proccessed as possible. thus all the hoops. as for patriot act, any act of anynonimity is "antisocial" and "possible terrorist activity" im reminded of a short that was in amazing back in the 70's about a conquered society in the peasants were required to record EVERYTHING in a diary, and it was made a compulsion through the training of the young, and every friday was a public diary reading. no secrets from each other, no secrets from the conquering power,and they were trained to the point that if someone DID keep secrets, public diary reading night became public stoning night. anyone else see it happening. its along the lines of general jeffrey miller. ran gitmo, went to iraq to train them in how to interrograte in abu ghraib, was a direct cause of the torture there, and while the soldiers are being court martialed, the good general just got promoted. errg.
back onto software, software companies may NOT require personal information to use. you legally can give them false information. i do all the time. for some good ideas, search ampcast for three dead trolls in a baggie, privacy song. hilarious and partly true. also there are companies that charge outrageous amounts. such as m$ and adobe. several hundred bucks for photoshop, when they dont understand that photoshop, the most pirated piece of software of all time, would sell like freaking HOTCAKES if priced at 50 dollars, and that the profit margin would soar. i keep my consience clear, if i pirate a piece of software, i send the company a cashiers check for what i feel is a fair price. 30 bucks for photoshop, say. they cant track me, but i paid them what is essentially pure profit, as there was no overhead involved to them, and i wasnt going to buy it no matter what, so no loss is involved. >@< On Sun, 28 Nov 2004 16:44:01 -0900, Horace Heffner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > At 7:47 PM 11/28/4, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >I purchased some software. I paid the required $50 for it. > > Let us know what software it is so we don't have the same problem. > > I have similar frustrations obtaining rebates, especially for computer > stuff, even if I buy it at major stores. When I fill out the rebate forms > or web forms I find out that a physical address is required and it will be > used to mail the rebate. When a phone number is provided I then call the > rebate company (usually a different company than the manufacturer) and > complain that I live in Alaska and the US Post Office does not delver to my > house nor to many houses in the area. For that reason I and my neighbors > all have post office boxes (only). I almost always end up with no rebate. > They won't even send them FEDEX or UPS, etc. > > I recently applied for a credit card only to be told that the Patriot Act > now requires responses to credit card applications to be to the physical > address, no post office boxes allowed. I can't believe Senator Ted Stevens > let tens of thousands of Alaskans get affected by that kind of blunder. > Maybe he plans to force the post office to deliver door to door here. That > would cost them a bundle! > > Regards, > > Horace Heffner > > -- Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten. -G.K. Chesterton
