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Complaint Review: CCBill.com
CCBill.com1501 W. 17th Street Tempe, Arizona U.S.A.
CCBill.com Aye matey, CCBill is the meanest pirate on the Internet, you best keep your weather eye open for 'im, aaarrrrrrggggghhhhhhh! Tempe Arizona
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At the end of the phone call i told her the company she worked for are a bunch of crooks" and she said "Okay, sir" or words to that effect. I decided to look at their precious little Terms and Agreement section and it said something about cancelling your sub 24 hours before end date if you had agreed to automatic billing on the "content provider's" website. Not only did i not agree to it, they didn't mention anything about it, and they didn't have an option for opting out of it like most websites do, or else i would have. Then i looked at uberdate.com's terms and conditions and they said nothing about automatic renewals or cancelling by a certain hour or whatever. To backtrack here i had subscribed on 8/9 and cancelled on 9/8, purposely so i would not get rebilled. But as previously mentioned the dunderheads at CCBill said i cancelled two hours late. On CCBill's website, they say that all the info re their terms and agreement is also on the "content provider's
site. Another fabrication.
There's no mention of CCBill or their policies on uberdate.com. I wasn't aware until another poster mentioned it that this is the same billing company that does a lot of the porno site. Maybe they figure that people will be too embarassed to report it when they play their little rip-off games, i don't know. I just think they should be fined or whatever for what they're doing. But i guess that's never going to happen, so they'll probably keep doing it.
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Not ccbills fault
AUTHOR: 03becca - (U.S.A.)
SUBMITTED: Sunday, July 12, 2009POSTED: Sunday, July 12, 2009
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#2 Consumer Suggestion
First Rebuttal is correct
AUTHOR: Mrh_326 - (U.S.A.)
SUBMITTED: Tuesday, August 14, 2007POSTED: Tuesday, August 14, 2007
The reason you are unable to 'opt' out of the terms and conditions is because technically you are dealing with 2 different companies. The first company is the website itself and the second is the payment processor for the website.
In order for the purchase to be made, the terms and conditions as well as privacy policies MUST be agreed to.
This problem was no CCBill's fault. It was simply your fault. Before you make any purchases online, no matter how horny or desperate you are, read the terms and conditions and see what the cancellation policies are if there are recurring charges.
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#3 Consumer Suggestion
Call your bank
AUTHOR: Robert - (U.S.A.)
SUBMITTED: Wednesday, August 01, 2007POSTED: Wednesday, August 01, 2007
The fastest way to resolve this problem will be to call your bank. If you paid with a visa/mastercard you have powerful recourse you may take in these situations.
Since you did cancel within the free trial you have a very strong case against this particular merchant. Before you call up your bank to dispute this transactions have the following information handy:
The date you canceled, and the method of cancellation i.e. email, phone, mail
The last date you contacted the merchant and their response to your attempts to resolve the matter.
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AUTHOR: Brenda - (U.S.A.)
SUBMITTED: Thursday, December 28, 2006POSTED: Thursday, December 28, 2006
As for UberDate.com, I have used the site and was satisfied as a lot of guys emailed me, but then I did not bother paying through ccBill. Apparently you have to pay to send emails like most online dating sites, but the nice thing with UberDate, as opposed to some other dating sites, is you don't need to pay to just respond to emails, so I responded for free. I'm sure this works better for women as the guys are the ones doing the chasing.
I understand your frustration, but you admitted it was in the ccBill small print and UberDate.com does mention it along with your responsibility to follow ccBill's terms and conditions. As my title said, "buyer beware" - read the terms. Also, it does not sound like a major rip-off like if ccBill were to just keep billing you month after month even though you cancelled. From UberDate.com: "You are solely responsible for cancelling an upgraded membership through www.ccbill.com. The ccBill membership calls for monthly "recurring" billing, per your agreement with ccBill and their Terms and Conditions, and UberDate.com takes no responsibility for the Member not cancelling his or her membership as prescribed by this agreement and ccBill's Terms and Conditions. Member is solely responsible for cancelling the recurring membership he or she agreed to".
This is the membership page you agree to when you sign up with UberDate.com. Also, isn't UberDate.com only $14.95 a month when most other dating sites are $20-$30 a month, and I believe they are all recurring billing? In the future, just cancel the recurring billing the moment you sign-up. I think all dating sites work this way and you still have the 30 days to use the site even after you cancel billing.
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Credit Education GroupLas Vegas, Nevada U.S.A.
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Realizing upon hanging up that this was a ripoff, I called them back and cancelled (much in advance of the post dated check date around May 8 )thinking that the cancellation had taken place and no funds would be withdrawn from my account.
Instead, the funds had immediately been taken from my account in spite of the promise they would not be until the date of the post dated check. This I did not realize until my bank statement was received for the month.
I called my bank and went in and filed an affidavit. my bank, National City Bank, was not very helpful either. By the time they took any action whatsoever on it, they informed me that the time limit they imposed on recovery of funds had passed. Strange! So, I am out of $299.
I considered this to be an unauthorized withdrawal. I
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Since that time I have made numerous calls to CREDIT EDUCATION GROUP and have been promised refund. I have talked to Nancy the customer service manager at 1-888-646-8386, Jasmine, Corsia, Shirley, Allison. Nancy has promised numerous times to call me back, even told me that my reund had been approved and was being processed she had reviewed it herself. I have never received a return call nor have I received a refund.
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Tell them the truth; this was unauthorized and your account was NOT to be charged! Keep emphasizing how you never authorized anything! Direct them to the hundreds of victims reports that were filed on Rip-off Report.com. And if you're at the bank, walk them over to their computer and make them go to this site! If you are on the phone with them, tell them you will wait while they access this site! Either way, be persistent!
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Let them know nicely, that you were advised to Report them (the Bank) and this situation to the Banking Commission in your state. Since each state has a different name for the agency/comptroller over banks, find that name before you call or get to the bank so you can throw it in their face. The more knowledgeable you appear to be, the further you will get.
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Skip to comments.'I created Obama's certification of birth'
Posted on 08/09/2011 6:10:13 PM PDT by rxsidEdited on 08/09/2011 6:11:45 PM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
When the White House posted online an image of President Obama's purported long-form birth certificate, it also linked to the previously circulated "Certification of Live Birth," the short-form version that had been presented as the only birth documentation available.
However, the short-form certificate to which the White House linked April 27 was a forgery, claims computer expert Ron Polland, Ph.D., who says he made the image himself.
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"No such claim has been made that I've ever seen. However both parents must be Citizens at the time of the birth for their child to be a NBC. The method of Citizenship of the parents isn't an issue."
Well, I saw the claim quite often, and yes, I do know that both parents must be citizens.
Did this not come up recently concerning Trump's parents?
One was not born in the USA, but may have been naturalized?
As I said, it is all probably moot now, and no one will ever question the messiah again.
Thanks rxsid.
I take back part of my statement.
I do recall a poster maybe a year ago trying to confuse the parents citizenship issue by, (I believe deliberately,) falsely claiming that one of the "nasty birthers" said both parents must be Natural Born Citizens. The "nasty birther" had in fact stated both parents must be Citizens at the time of birth.
"I take back part of my statement."
Thanks for your reply.
Before other FReepers castigate me and treat me like a troll, I should point out that I lurk quite often on the inane Topix forums, and some of the obfuscation comes from that site.
I have been a loyal and active FReeper longer then most on here.
The point I have been trying to clarify is the status of the PARENTS, naturalized, or citizens at birth.
There were a number of conflicting claims on various internet sites.
I am not clear on the status of Obama's father.
I understand that he is NOT a "natural born" citizen, and maybe not even naturalized.
Of course I know that the CANDIDATE must be a citizen at birth.
I do not need fellow FReepers jumping all over me for a simple clarification.
Some of the replies had nothing to do with my question.
Keep in mind, I live on the other side of the world, and many post go by while I sleep.
I can not go back and read all of a day's postings.
I made it this far. I was on that original thread with Danae, where it was memorable that she needed to be told that posting to all was not posting to All. I would have declared Danaes authentic COLB a forgery, too, because it contained information only available after 2007 that she claimed she had in 2000.
Stop it. THAT was not the reason polarik declared Danae's COLB a FORGERY. It was NOT A FORGERY! He used his *expertise* to graphically illustrate that it was a forgery. AND IT WASN'T. PERIOD. And THAT is the point.
HER mistake was honest and innocent. His was fabricated, fallacious and utterly vicious and malevolent.
HE LIED. And he planned to spring on her like a damn predator. Danae is/was a Freeper in good standing. She has an excellent reputation on FR. What he did to her was UNCONSCIONABLE.
To add insult to injury, he posted her personal information all over the web where others grabbed it and reposted it. He tried to do the same to me. He had us all at each other's throats.
I am a birther. Proud of it. I do not believe the man is an American either by birth or by loyalty. I want him gone yesterday. And what polarik did was make it almost impossible for any of us to be taken seriously.
I was on the thread, several in fact, where we picked obama's NEW offering apart piece by piece and step by step. WE showed it actually WAS a forgery and have since been upheld on that conclusion by REAL experts. But why do you think NO ONE paid any attention to it? OR to the experts who proved it? You can thank polarik. Defend him if you want to, but he conned everyone and now NO ONE has any credibility because of it.
Had he actually gone to court, he would be in jail now. And for MY money, that is where he belongs.
And I am done with this.
Anyone who calls me an obot knows better. I have been a straight shooter from the first minute I ever posted my first word on FR. And I will not sell my soul to defend a greedy, criminally motivated, pathological conman to bolster my belief that obama is not an NBC because everything he said and did was a lie, a scam, and a fraud...and he did it to YOU.
Brown Deer, I love you and Fred Nerks, I love you too. You don't see polarik for what he is and I don't know why. The image you see of him is not real. Nothing about him is real. It's very sad. And I am so sorry because I WISH with all my heart it had been true. I wanted it to be true. It wasn't.
It proves that the natural-born thing is not quite so black and white as some here would like to believe. Joseph Story too somehow leaves out parentage when discussing this:
§ 1473. It is indispensable, too, that the president should be a natural born citizen of the United States; or a citizen at the adoption of the constitution, and for fourteen years before his election. This permission of a naturalized citizen to become president is an exception from the great fundamental policy of all governments, to exclude foreign influence from their executive councils and duties. It was doubtless introduced (for it has now become by lapse of time merely nominal, and will soon become wholly extinct) out of respect to those distinguished revolutionary patriots, who were born in a foreign land, and yet had entitled themselves to high honours in their adopted country. A positive exclusion of them from the office would have been unjust to their merits, and painful to their sensibilities. But the general propriety of the exclusion of foreigners, in common cases, will scarcely be doubted by any sound statesman. It cuts off all chances for ambitious foreigners, who might otherwise be intriguing for the office; and interposes a barrier against those corrupt interferences of foreign governments in executive elections, which have inflicted the most serious evils upon the elective monarchies of Europe. Germany, Poland, and even the pontificate of Rome, are sad, but instructive examples of the enduring mischiefs arising from this source. A residence of fourteen years in the United States is also made an indispensable requisite for every candidate; ...ML/NJ
These things are easy enough to find before you go insulting other FReepers.
I remember that pretty well... I believe it was the same one I had stayed awake almost 3 days straight trying to pick through all of the new info (pictures) coming in..
Also.. wasn't he banned from FR over that?
A quick session in photoshop invalidates this story completely. The BW image used by the WH matches the current posted image at Snopes - NOT the manufactured file at photobucket claimed to the source.
It is easy to see that. I am not sure why this story came out.
That said - it is very, very odd that the WH would use a BW image that is clearly just an Explorer browser screen print (the headers and footers formats are default Explorer settings) instead of fresh new scan and photos of the actual COLB. Unless the COLB in the 2008 images has been destroyed since then. Very odd.
If Comrade Obama's father was indeed Barak Hussein Obama (SR) as he claims his father was never a US Citizen.
He was here on a Nonresident Student Visa and never intended to become even a Resident Alien.
If I remember correctly, he *voluntarily* absconded with the caveat that he would never post ... as polarik ... again. He abused Free Republic like noone else I have seen since I have been here. He actually posted on his damn blogs and youtube channels, (of which there were many,) that if anyone had a beef with him, they could *reach* him at Free Republic...trying to send the dregs of the loony left hit squads over here to disrupt FR with glee...and a lot of them tried. Great mods we have here and the Freeper sixth sense caught most of them in the bud.
The prestige of Free Republic gave him a legitimacy he NEVER deserved and for awhile, he was king. NO ONE could utter even the slighest criticism of him without getting hit with verbal body blows, no matter how slight the criticism was.
Being fairly new at the time, I was actually afraid that everyone on FR would hate my guts or even that I might be banned if I said anything.
Finally, I told Jim Robinson I couldn't stand by anymore, told him that I was going to expose polarik, and that if he saw fit to ban me for it, then so be it.
After receiving no response, I did it beause it was the right thing to do. The more I exposed, the more he exposed himself.
And that is why I cannot understand why some Freepers still honor a man who has not one honorable bone in his entire body.
I read this at another site and don't know whether it's true or not: Snopes had the Polarik fake and then it was replaced at some point. It was on a Citizen Wells thread quoting from WTPOTUS, IIRC, from a commenter named Miri.
Miri may have been just taking Polarik's word on that. I'll have to try to find the thread to see whether she herself saw the change at Snopes.
That may be the case. But the image the WH posted does match the image that Snopes currently post at their web site.
But is not strange we are talking about the Executive Branch of the Federal Government resorting to using a rumor debunking website as its actual source for a supposed critical document that they are supposed to have in their possession?
The fake COLB must have been destroyed after the images and photos were taken 2008 - possibly to create fake documentation for passport records. That is almost the only explanation.
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It seems as if she just took his word. She talks about Snopes being excluded from the Wayback Machine. I don't know enough about that topic to believe anything suspicious.
That is a very good point. Why is Snopes the source? Is that a fact that no one can dispute?
They probably just took the first result from a Google image search.
One thing I know for sure is that Polarik is lying when he says the black and white image posted at the same time as the long form is a copy of the image hosted on his Photobucket account. The line at the bottom, "This copy serves as..." is clearly aligned differently, even to the naked eye.
Maybe Snopes did link to his copy for a short time back in 2008, but Polarik hasn't proven that it was linked to this year when the White House allegedly copied it. I've linked to the image on Snopes many times, and it's always been the current link, not one with the name of a man I would instantly recognize.
"It is an established maxim that birth is a criterion of allegiance. Birth however derives its force sometimes from place and sometimes from parentage, but in general place is the most certain criterion; it is what applies in the United States; it will therefore be unnecessary to investigate any other.
What? You found the only tool in your bag is a hammer and all your problems must therefore be nails? Your argument as been refuted, yet here you are persistent in it. Were Madison's comment the law of the land it would have made citizens of Slaves and Indians, yet we know for a fact they were not until they were manumitted and/or naturalized.
You simply don't seem to comprehend that the facts contradict the only quote (and that offhand) you have in support of your position. The seating of Mr. Smith to the US congress not only did not repeal article II, it did not even address it.
So you ask for my evidence, I provide it (PhD in instructional systems, not in computer, not in document forensics) and now I'm a troll because you "know his expertise"? Why don't YOU provide evidence of his expertise in document forensics? Or is your will to believe all the proof you ever need?
He said place was the most important criteria of allegiance, and what applies in the United States. Self evident.
Sheesh. Go read it carefully. It addresses criteria for allegiance, and unequivocally states place is the most important and what applies in the United States.
You want to argue "Ok, he says place is the most important and what applies in the United States, but he really meant that only for Congress, not for any other office?"
So glad you can read his mind in retrospect, and know that he didn't really mean what he so clearly declared.
I fell for that claim until someone pointed out the evidence that it was false. McCain was indeed born outside the United States proper, but he was not born outside of a United States Military Hospital as has been alleged all over the internet. There is a fake birth certificate floating around on the net showing him as being born in a Panamanian Hospital, but this document was fabricated. His real birth certificate is not available online because he has not released it. He has shown it to a few people, but that is all.
It is indeed a pathetic type of person who continuously tries to sell an unsellable theory.
By your logic, the fact that women were not made citizens invalidates "chosen every second Year by the People of the several States," since women were part of the people and yet could not vote.
You have also set up a strawman - I never claimed "law of the land" as there was no clear law on the books at that time on "natural born" - rather it was a continuation of English Common Law, on which much US law is based. Posters were discussing insight into the Founders' idea of Natural Born. I provided James Madison's clearly stated opinions on Jus Soli and Jus Sanguinus.
You don't want to accept it? Fine, you can believe that a preexisting book by the Swiss De Vattel is more important than clear statements by the Father of the US Constitution.
At this point Obama can be defeated only by his own policies - and he does everything in his power to defeat himself. He might be a "disposable President" who is installed for one term to do a specific task, no holds barred, and then he is set aside. Obama doesn't really like governing anyway.
This is the most reasonable argument I have heard as to why the birth certificate/eligibility issue might be not worth pursuing. If others had the intellectual perspicacity and civil grace to make such an argument, they would not be mistaken for Obama sympathizers or Obot Trolls.
I respect this argument, but I do not completely agree with it. I regard it as our job and duty to educated the ignorant public, and to spread the meme of Obama's illegitimacy. If the Nation crashes as I am horrified that it might, it is important for people to view Obama as a negative example of violating the Article II requirements. At least he would then serve some useful purpose.
Sometimes selling failures works well. Obama for example.
Extremely Extreme Extremist was going around claiming that both parents must be Natural Born Citizens back in 2009.
He accepted correction then that this was a ludicrous criteria that would render just about every American ineligible.
I have had it pointed out to me that the "Colon" birth story is a hoax, and that the McCain birth certificate floating around the net is a fabrication. I was pointed to a link from a well known newspaper (Washington times or post I think) that shows McCain has never released his birth certificate for public viewing. At the moment I don't have the link, but if you search my posts for the word "Colon" I bet you can find the link I saw. (I'm not exactly sure how to do that myself or I would do it for you.)
In any case, I urge you to consider the allegation that McCain was born outside of a Military hospital as suspect unless you come up with some information which demonstrates it to be true.
Yes, James Madison's offhand comment trumps all the delegates and Legislatures of the 13 states combined. He was dictator you know.
Slaves and Indians put the lie to your theory.
Not at all. McCain's ONLY claim to citizenship is through his parents. That this meets the "natural born citizen" standard is what the constitution has meant all along. (As further stipulated in the "Naturalization act of 1790." That a Unanimous Senate would confirm this simply reinforces the point that this is the central requirement of the condition.
Lame Cherry had an interesting piece today,
*Into the bowels of Obama*
Link: http://lamecherry.blogspot.com/2011/08/into-bowels-of-obama.html
You have one comment that seemingly supports your point, and we have dozens that refute it. And you still have not addressed the fact that were Madison's offhand comment true, Slaves and Indians would have been citizens. They meet his criteria, but lo and behold they were not citizens! Your argument is rebuked by fact.
The alinskyesque tactics of this breed of axelsleazy insulters gives them away. They donn their obamanoid kneepads and gleefully march off to the Internet to defend their bastard pResident. At FR, we've addressed this same misdirection garbage so many times, it is not worth wasting time with these obaaaaamanoids. The owner of FR has stated unexquivocally that there are no Obama supporters at FR. Let them sleaze along until someone notices how obviously twisted they are.
Why would he set himself up for any questions if he was born on the base as you say?
We are not ignorant enough to fall for your fallacy of substitution. The topic being discussed by Madison was that of "CITIZEN", not "Natural born citizen." As the founders themselves demonstrated by making an exception for themselves, NONE of them were "NATURAL BORN CITIZENS" and that included Congressman Smith, whom Madison was defending.
I mean, what background could James Madison, the principal author of the Constitution, have for really understanding what the phrase "natural born citizen" means?
You are again substituting the term of art "Natural born citizen" for that of "Citizen." The distinction between which is manifested by the fact that Article II uses both terms rather than one. James Madison was not arguing "natural born citizen", he was arguing just basic citizenship. (No one older than 14 years of age was a "natural born citizen" at this time.) Even then, his next statement is an appeal to Jus Sanguinus.
"Mr. Smith founds his claim upon his birthright; his ancestors were among the first settlers of that colony."
Were his argument of "place" enough, there would be no need for an appeal to the man's right by blood. (ancestors) Madison asserts "Jus Soli" yet immediately invokes "Jus Sanguinus."
What's his credentials and claim for knowledge to try to usurp what thousands of birthers and Corsi and WND readers all KNOW as fact?
Firstly, you are intentionally misleading people about what it is he is claiming, and secondly you are overlooking the fact that subsequent generations have the advantage of Hindsight and access to knowledge he didn't posses. Thirdly you are overlooking the fact that his argument appealed not to the soil, but to his rights by descent.(blood) You are in fact, trying to twist Madison's argument from it's purpose in a futile and pathetic attempt to serve your own.
I look forward to your reply because I enjoy beating on the stupid and ignorant who are none the less smug and arrogant in their false certainty.
It was the Washington Post reporter he supposedly showed it to.
"Persons born in the Canal Zone or Republic of Panama on or after February 26, 1904
(a) Any person born in the Canal Zone on or after February 26, 1904, and whether before or after the effective date of this chapter, whose father or mother or both at the time of the birth of such person was or is a citizen of the United States, is declared to be a citizen of the United States.
(b) Any person born in the Republic of Panama on or after February 26, 1904, and whether before or after the effective date of this chapter, whose father or mother or both at the time of the birth of such person was or is a citizen of the United States employed by the Government of the United States or by the Panama Railroad Company, or its successor in title, is declared to be a citizen of the United States"
That law only grants citizenship, not NBC. So, playing along with whichever story of McCain being born somewhere in Panama and his father being stationed there, he'd be a US citizen but still not eligible for POTUS.
Let the freepers decide for themselves. Danae posted a 2007 document claiming it to be a 2000 document. She apologized to Polarik but didn't post it to Polarik because she didn't know that pinging All isn't pinging to all. Polarik "quit" FR soon after. She acted like a third grader on his opus thread.
You pointed me to a thread which was supposed to be the end-all proving your point, but instead it negates your point. You neglect to recall that I was on that original thread where Danae posted her nonsense, and she focused some of her invective towards me as well. So, yeah I don't feel like reading through another CoLB thread to find out where the discussion ended up, because I was there when it started.
Kevmo, I wouldn't care if she thought it was a 2025 document. She could have said it was a 3009 document. IT DOESN'T MATTER! The FACT remains. It was NOT a forgery. It just wasn't. And there was no way polarik could have claimed it was. BECAUSE IT WASN'T! But he SAID it was and used his *expertise* to PROVE it was. Now how in G-d's name is that even possible?
Are you deliberately being obtuse? Indians were considered members of "sovereign" Indian nations (classified as "domestic dependent nations") so their citizenship was with their Indian "nation," which is also why the Constitution excluded them from taxes. It's also why if you visit the Navajo reservation in the Southwest, you will see you are visiting the "Navajo Nation." Note that current US Title 8 gives citizenship to "Any Indian or Eskimo born in the United States, provided being a citizen of the U.S. does not impair the person's status as a citizen of the tribe [emphasis added.]
Slaves, since they were property, did not have citizenship rights. (Do you know of any country where slaves were citizens with citizenship rights while still slaves?)
I again point out that by your logic, "chosen every second Year by the People of the several States, would be invalid since women could not vote and yet are of the people.
And I'm so glad you were physically present when James Madison gave his speech so you could attest that his "comment" was "offhand" instead of part of his prepared speech.
Idiot point. How could you think James Madison was arguing "Natural born citizen" for William Loughton Smith when Smith was born in 1758, and therefore was a British Subject at birth as were all the Founders old enough to be members of Congress in 1789?
Madison was arguing that Smith was naturalized at the same time as all the other citizens of South Carolina when the Declaration of Independence was written, and that Under the British laws then in effect (jus soli) He was legally a citizen of South Carolina prior to independence, and therefore was a Legal American citizen after independence, as were ALL citizens of South Carolina.
None of this proves that he is rebuking the standard used in Article II.
Good try, but no. That part of the Naturalization act dealt with those born outside of the US. You have now decided that agreeing that McCain met conditions for "natural born" when born OUTSIDE the US, now means all those conditions apply to those born inside.
Again, if you are taking the resolution as binding on conditions for natural born, it now means that only those born on a military base qualify. Logical fallacies abound.
I did not know that. Do you have a link regarding the Salvation army home in Vancouver?
We tolerate you. How bad could Polarik be?
Kevmo, she SCANNED an original document. Don't you understand? It was a genuine Hawaiian COLB. She had the receopts to prove it, which she ALSO scanned. It wasn't a forgery. That is the whole point and nothing else that is even remotely connected to it is relevant. It was NOT a forgery as polarik claimed. And yet you all believed him. And Danae was angry. Put yourself in her place. She was doing nothing but trying to help him. Do you realize he PLANNED what he did to her? He PLANNED it and hyped his *army* through Freepmails to be ready to attack her unmercifully on HIS command. He effing KNEW he was lying through his teeth.
How could anyone with a conscience, or any sense of fairplay, be part of that? It's sickening. It made me sick to my stomach. I get angry all over again every time I think of it. It's twisted.
And you still defend him? What if it had been you?
This is the ONLY point where I would like clarification.
The birthplace of the parents are completely irrelevant if they are or have become American citizens before the child is born. All of the founders were British citizens prior to July 4, 1776. Only Children born after July 4, 1776 were "natural born citizens."
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Then in september, I worked it down to 19.99 and around the same time. Magazine Services Of America gives me a call and somehow had my information about the magazines I had previously been receiving and gave me a better off since Virgina company held off a month with out my 5 magazines. i though the company moved and gave me a better deal for just missing out my month, their offer was great and they recorded the whole agreement ( which i will talk about later), Then they sent me a letter in the mail about their service and I found out they were two separate companies, and Magazine service of america started charging me $57.48 starting september to this month( and one the conversation i remembered the service was cheaper then this). The dumb thing is its the same magazines from virginia club so I was noticing something fishy, to try to distinguish it I included playboy in the virginia one which magazine of america didn't have in their deal. It was kind of obvious which company was sending the magazines and which wasn't. I now forced to pay 19.99 from virginia company and 57.48 for magazine service of america and receiving the same magazine.
I called Magazine service of america to cancel a few times always busy. i got through today and this guy answers and I asked about my total amount and it was 977.16 for paying 57.48 for 20 months and so I decided to cancel and he put me on hold for 30 minutes and next thing you know a a snotty women picks up I tell her the whole process again as if they didn't know who I was. i told her I wanted to cancel and she told me my canceling was up and I had to pay and I spend about another 30 minutes telling her my situation of how this company tricked me into thinking its a the same company and all she did was tell me that its a separate service and that "I should of known about it from the begining" But I never knew about it and I never signed a contract to enter into it. I remember signing a contract for virginia company but not for this company so I assumed it was the same company. If I did know it was a separate company, I wouldn't of signed up for another service because I already have alot of magazines coming from virginia company, why would I want more, I told her that and all of a sudden she gets all snooty and bitchy ( bad customer service, so I decided I am going to cancel and she tells me "Call back monday" crap and that no one is availble fo rthat service, I mean whats ups with that, she gives me her extention 121 and I have to call back monday to cancel but she has already told me about the amount to pay and its half the price of 977.16 about $488.58, I mean come on why can't you just cancel the service if the service didn't even start yet. I already went ahead and blocked this service form charging my master card and I have to wait to file a report but till then I have to wait till monday o see if they pull some trick on me by reducing my price and extending it for another f***ing month or something, so frustrating and I feel so ripped off and cheated of my money.
Alan New York, New York
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I am a quality breeder of Australian Terriers. I have a website with many beautiful photos all of which are copy written. I was informed by someone today that photos of my puppies have been used on the site petfinder.com for sale by a company called Wasatch Animal Rescue http://www.petfinder.com/petdetail/16213315 and http://www.petfinder.com/petdetail/16213359
This website and this company note under my photo of my male australian terrier that is now 1 year old, the following:
Nittany is up-to-date with routine shots and spayed/neutered
This websit and this company note under my photo of my male Australian Terrier puppy that is placed with it's new family the following:
Pattie is up-to-date with routine shots and spayed/neutered.
I have never used Pet Finder, I have never placed a puppy with this company, this is false and fraud. They have stolen my photos.
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Wasatch Animal Rescue - probable scammers!!
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THANK YOU so much for making time to file your report.
After repeated difficulties in trying to adopt a mini-aussie pup from the Wasatch Animal Rescue; I decided I had better do some research on them (Lesson Learned.....do your research first; not after the fact !).
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I filed a report this morning with RipOffReport which will hopefully be posted soon, and I also filed a report against the Wasatch Animal Rescue with the Utah Better Business Bureau.
Thanks again for making your problem known, because it certainly supports my misgivings that I have about this "rescue" organization.
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Nah! None of you chumps could ever wind me up, not on your best day!Can you remember when I wound you up though? To the point of losing the plot? All because I got your favourite profile deleted! HahahahahaaDo you remember when you yabbered on about me hacking your account, which I hadn't, and how you were getting the internet police to come and get me? Hahahaha What a total MUG I made of you, like so many of your fellow manUre dipsticks before you!Funnily enough I did watch the match Ian, and manUre played ever so well and punished Chelsea's defensive errors, what do you want me to say here, as I can't take anything away from the players on the pitch......but the manUre fans like you still make me laugh, and you certainly didn't go to Old Trafford today, did you? PLASTIC FAN!!! HahahahahahaNEXT!!!


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Plug-ins or signal processing software are really essential tools for fine tuning your audio production. There is also a ton of fun that allow you to kind of generate really interesting sounds and psychedelic effects as well. So they're worth checking out. Generally, its one little application kind of dedicated to one task. So some might work for tonal enhancing, like equalization or dynamic compression, changing volumes, they can apply effects like reverb, or delay, or crazy chorus effects, they can also act as virtual instruments where you actually plug in something that you can use to set sounds and use as a sound module and control with MIDI within your application.
We'll explain this more and actually take a look at it later in this movie, but virtual instruments are something to be aware of, they're great for making music. Other plug-ins can function as tools in terms of changing the sound, the volume, doing things like noise reduction, or cleaning up audio files, kind of the dirty work. Plug-ins come in really handy when you're doing mixing and trying to get different sounds to live together well and making certain sounds sound better and they're also great for mastering. There are whole sets of plug-ins that are designed just for mastering purposes. We'll get to all this later in a few other chapters, but it's good to know that you can use plug-ins for a lot of applications.
Speaking of applications, if you're doing music production or voice-over and sound design, they're great things to have. With music, you can change the EQ of the guitar, the drums, put that reverb on the drum set. For voice-over production, you can compress the vocal track, or take out some of the noise in the background. They're also great for sound design if you're working on game sounds or film sounds. You can use plug-ins to create new and interesting sounds via effects and different kinds of manipulation of the Digital Audio. In general, they're great for all around enhancements and manipulation of your Digital Audio and well worth looking into.
Most Digital Audio software will come with a fair number of plug-ins built in, but you'll also find that there's a ton of third-party plug-ins out there that you can buy and use in your software. One note there, there is a few different formats for plug-ins, and so it's important to make sure that the software you're using will actually accept or work with the plug-in format that you're using. So it's important to make sure that your software and the plug-in are compatible. Some popular manufacturers of plug-in software include Waves, McDSP, and Native Instruments, but there is a whole wide range out there, you can find freeware, and you can also go spend a couple of thousand dollars on a beautiful suite of compressors and EQs.
So let's go into Pro Tools and take a look and listen at what you can do with plug-ins. Okay, so now we're in Pro Tools, and we've got a session set up, and we're going to play it back, let's give it a listen. (music playing) And I am going to go ahead and solo our drum track, highlight it, and make sure it's set here to Loop and just let the drum track go. Now, I am going to hotkey into the Mix window. Here's our drum track over here.
In this area I can initiate a plug-in. Now, I am going to hit Pause, go in here, click an Insert, and we will click a multi-channel plug-in. Let's start with something simple like an EQ, say maybe a 3-band EQ. So with this I can change the sound of the drum track. Play it through in real-time, take that, take some of this out, go in and cut all the bass off.
Simple equalization, pretty cool. So that's a plug-in. I can also add effects like Reverb. (audio playing) Oh yeah! Change a bunch of these parameters, get different sounds, from non-linear action, very cool! There's also other kind of cool effects like Modulation and effects that you can apply.
This one is kind of nice. (music playing) So that's how you can use plug-ins as signal processing devices, and you can bypass them, get in and out, we'll do a whole section on all these different ones. I just want you to get sense of how they operate. The other thing I want to show you though is a plug-in as a virtual instrument.
So I have created an instrument track here, and I am going to show you where you go in, say Instrument, and you pick this instrument called Xpand!, this opens it up. In here I can go in and pick different sounds. If you think about it, it's kind of like GarageBand, and that there is these different voices available, but they aren't samples, they're just single notes usually. So I can go, and I've kind of decided I am going to use a B3. So I set that up in a channel. I can make manipulations and adjustments. But the thing is to know that I've loaded a voice into this virtual instrument. I am going to hide that, go back to my main Edit window.
Make this a little bit bigger, and I will solo it, and then I can go in, and this is a MIDI track and these are MIDI notes. These not actually contain sound, but if I click on them, they send information, and they tell that virtual instrument what note to play and for how long. So check this out, if I click on it, I get that organ. I can change the note, I can go in and change the duration of that note. So if I want it to be a long note. (audio playing) So that's the virtual instrument.
You can send it some MIDI, and here I will go back to our Mixer window and then pick different sounds. So if I wanted to use that classic B3 sound, I have got it. What if I want to go to like let's see, maybe the Glockenspiel, we can go back and change that, and now it will play the Glockenspiel. (audio playing) And now here it is in my beat.
So that's what you can do with the virtual instrument and then what's possible is really amazing with virtual instruments. They are really cool, very exciting, and definitely worth looking into if you want to do composition or make different pieces of music, very, very cool! Great for sound effects too. It doesn't necessarily have to be musical, you can also load in different sound effects or sound samples just different kind of random noises and kind of play those noises as instruments to come up with special sound effects. So those are plug-ins. In the next movie, we'll take a look at some of the other varieties of software that are out there that don't fall into the last few categories.


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They claim they had me on the first page with numerous search terms on many, many occasions. I never saw it once! I printed Google search pages, Yahoo search pages, Bing Search pages etc- and neither my site nor the "optimized" site placed anywhere on the first page of the searches at any time.
When I signed up they indicated that if they did not do as advertised I could always dispute it with my credit card company. I did that. They fought it by saying that they gave me extra keywords and offered me other items and longer contract terms. If the original keywords did not work that I paid for, why should they decide what other keywords they should give me and just extend the term of something that was not working anyway?
They have not made good on the SEO and have not refunded any of my money. Please everyone - call them at 877-332-2960 and tell the to refund my money!
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The team is excited to be moving into the second phase of our Campus Community go-live. Starting this October, UB Applicants will have access to their Student Center in UBSIS through MyUB. We are preparing for this change with new security roles as well as training for UB staff who will be supporting questions from new applicants.
Campus Community is already live in production, with Biological and Demographic data (or bio-demo for short) available to users. The next phase beginning in October will enlarge the audience to include UB Applicants as well as Student Response Center Staff. An interface that shares the bio-demo data across the systems will reduce the need for students and staff to re-enter the same basic data multiple times, thereby reducing errors.
In the upcoming months, we will be developing our access to UBSIS for continuing UB students, including the development of training and documentation for students and the staff that provide services to students.
Much of the information for campus community updates is similar to admissions information, as the teams have been closely collaborating to ensure the system is well-integrated.
The Campus Community team is finalizing go-live documentation. Much of this content was generated through summary comments from user acceptance testing. We are currently working closely with the admissions team to support "train the trainer" sessions to ensure that stakeholders have a clear understanding of how to use the new UBSIS.
The most consuming task this month has been the three types of testing we've been engaged in: Conversion (aligning data from the old system into the new system), User Acceptance Testing (making sure the features all function as planned) and Integration testing (ensuring that that the entire system functions as designed using models that predict how the system will function after the August go-live.
The Campus Community team has been working very closely with the Portal (MyUB) team to ensure that we're ready for the August go-live. One of the concerns expressed from stakeholders has been how students and faculty will find information during the transition from legacy systems to UBSIS. During the spring 2011 semester, information for fall 2010 and spring 2011 will be in legacy, while information for summer and fall 2011 will be in UBSIS. Communication to all stakeholders – faculty, staff and students - through MyUB will be the key.
Today, students must call or visit the Student Response Center (SRC) to manage many of their questions or transactions (such as paying invoices or checking on financial aid). In the future, most of these functions will be facilitated online through MyUB self-service features that will offer new levels of anytime-anywhere convenience. The UBSIS Student Center will serve as an online home base for all self-service functions such as viewing application information, admission status, billing details and planning an academic career several months or years in advance; as well as receiving grades for those classes afterwards. Students will be able to personalize and update their Student Center information online, significantly reducing the amount of paperwork and forms, often managed through traditional snail mail.
These changes will have significant and positive impacts, facilitating communications between UB students and administrative staff. It is anticipated that the amount of detail that will be soon be available to students will change the types of questions directed to the SRC. Obviously many new questions will arise and still require a conversation to resolve, but students will no longer be required to seek real time help to understand billing details, holds (service indicators) or other types of information that was not easily related through traditional (paper-based) means. Instead, SRC staff and others who provide services to students should be able to devote their time to meaningful, quality conversations with students and their parents. An additional benefit is that shifting to more self-service supports UB's commitment to going green and reducing our carbon footprint by relying on secure electronic communications instead of paper.
Campus Community, the heart of the new UBSIS common information, is in full swing of business process redesign, with only four months to go until "go live." In August, Campus Community information will be available in UBSIS for applicants for the summer and fall 2011 semesters.
The Campus Community Team has been actively engaged in offering presentations to many groups around campus and seeking feedback while working on BPR (business process redesign). One of the items we talk about is terminology changes. The new system, UBSIS (University at Buffalo Student Information System) uses terms that are different than those we've traditionally used here at UB. One example is that "Check stops" will be called "Service Indicators." Other terminology changes can be found in our UBSIS Glossary, which is at: http://ubsistraining.buffalo.edu/pdfs/glossary.pdf The UBSIS Glossary will keep changing as we find more terms that require definition.
For some of these concepts, not only the terminology is changing. We will also have additional functionality in UBSIS. Take our previous example of Service Indicators. We can use UBSIS Service Indicators to duplicate our current checkstop functionality, but we can also do much more. Service Indicators aren't limited to a single-digit field, so we can have a larger quantity of Service Indicators. When placing a Service Indicator, it can be date ranged or made effective at some date in the future. Service Indicators can even be positive. For example, departments may use a positive Service Indicator for good academic standing within a student's major. Additionally, when students log on to view their Service Indicators, they can see much more information on the reason that a process is on "hold" and what they can do to resolve it. We hope that this will result in fewer phone calls from students regarding how they can remove holds on their registration.
This increased flexibility of Service Indicators requires us to work together to determine appropriate use for Service Indicators at UB. We've been working with the Campus Community Advisory Group on developing guidelines for Service Indicators and outlining a process for requesting a new Service Indicator. These guidelines and processes will be shared at the UBSIS training sessions.
Campus Community is continuing our conversion efforts. We completed a round of conversion testing with the help from members of the UB community. We are now reworking the conversion to ensure complete accuracy. We have also involved many in on the campus with the beginning of our list of Functional Design documents to be written for our interfaces and customizations. Several of the documents have been written, many more are in the wings waiting to be done.
Our Campus Community Advisor Groups has met several times. The members represent many areas of the university to assist in decision making and communication with their areas as we continue forward with our build and implementation of the Campus Community module. A major accomplishment of this group so far has been the creating of a Value Change Process document which will guide the project and the group in adding new values to the module as requested by the core team or interested university groups post go live.
In the coming new year we will continue to develop our Functional Design documents as well as continue our business process redesign opportunities.
Campus Community is continuing to complete our tasks and meet our module milestones. Our initial configuration is done in the PeopleSoft system. We have completed our modeling of the initial configuration with help from members of the UB community. We are now compiling the group's feedback.
As part of our validation of our initial configuration, we just wrapped up a service indicators workshop (Checkstops). Since this is an item that involves many in our university community, we invited all offices that have Checkstop access to attend. Overall, the workshop was quite successful with more than 40 offices/departments in attendance and many great discussions as well.
As we finish up our conversion plans and documents, we will be reaching out to many sections of the university community to present our research and decisions, and to receive feedback to validate our findings.
So be on the lookout for Campus Community; we will soon be coming to a venue near you.
Welcome! We would like to take this opportunity to update everyone on the progress of the Campus Community module of the Student Services Transformation Project. My goal is to continue to give you and other interested parties monthly updates around this module and project.
Marsha Gottovi and I joined Steve Woodward as the leads on this team in January; amazingly enough we are now beginning May and so much has been accomplished at this point. We are winding down our initial configuration of Campus Community and HR tables. Many of you were instrumental in assisting us with feedback and we thank you for that. We have also begun the conversion and security processes which have been going well so far.
As we continue in our building of Campus Community in PeopleSoft as Subject Matter Experts and Core Team members, you will be contacted to provide critical information, to attend functional team meetings and brain-storming sessions. These activities are necessary to continue preparing our legacy data for conversion and testing, to assess our current business processes, and to make adjustments when required. Because of your expertise, we rely on your feedback and attention so that this transition is successful. I look forward to continue working with you as we progress with the PeopleSoft implementation.
Thank you for all you have done so far and in advance for all you will be doing to make this transition not only successful but exceptional.
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