No, they won't. In general companies tell you to contact the police, etc and go out of their way to be useless.

Some months ago I had someone purchase a plane ticket using my credit card. My bank sent me a SMS when the charge was made (usual alert system, they SMS each time there's a charge). I had the phone with me so I could do something instantly. This is what happened:

- The charge was made for a plane ticket on Airchile according to the SMS.
- I called the bank *inmediately* (as the SMS said) to notify them of the charge. Well, guess what, it was a Sunday at 23:00 or so and they were closed. So the bank couldn't help.
- I drove to the airport to talk to Airchile, which happened to be opened at the time because they was a flight leaving from Madrid to Santiago in a couple hours (I was hoping that the bastard was there). They couldn't help.
- I went to the police station in the airport and they couldn't help because I needed a bank statement before they could do anything. Really? I have to wait until the end of the month before I can file a report with the police?

You see - even if you are really willing to track things down and not demand your money back, the other parties involved rarely assist.

Eventually I got my statement, filed the report (useless at the time of course) and got my money. But I great chance to catch the guy was lost.

I'm willing to bet they make money from Google Apps. And if they wanted to charge something for an ad free gmail account (not in user domains, just the old gmail accounts without any ad) I'm quite sure they'll get lots of cash, too.

Solution (and business decision): Have the exchanges in tax heavens. Make all transfers bitcoin-only, until you really need to cash out. Not an easy thing to solve for the tax guys, but maybe this time they will bother do something that can eventually be used to prevent the tax evasion and money laundering happening until now with regular currencies.

I hear he's going to be in charge of T.P.S. reports

Dear idiot who went to Malaysia so you could live well working for for peanuts: You are fucking everyone else you left behind, by lowering their wages a bit, and if you come back you will find a much worse country.

I assume you are working from Malaysia with US clients, of course, not Malaysian clients who wouldn't pay for $10/hour if that what it takes to live a king there.

You are doing it backwards.

Really? So only people with a proper job with Western salaries are allowed to blog now?

It did, but being telegraph based the bandwidth was horrible, and with Hamming codes not having been invented yet transmission errors were a real issue.

Um...there goes my plans of choosing the next Pope myself...

Now if only it was possible to bribe the clergy that votes. Well, one can dream.

Try starting a online business in Europe. There's no google checkout or amazon payments, all paypal competitors seem as sketchy as paypal or worse, and the online payment solutions offered by traditional banks are an absolute joke.

Seriously, EU, you should go after PayPal first. They are doing whatever the fuck they want over here.

Seedboxes have been around for years, they solve this problem too.

This is true when those women are new to dating services. Once they show up to a couple dates and learn the reality of things they behave quite differently.

Anyway the strategy of (successful) men using the service is a lot different than in real life. In these service you can just prune the women you absolutely wouldn't want have anything to do with and then approach all others. Success is in the numbers. Yes, 95% of women won't reply, fuck them. 5% will give you a chance, so work on those and forget about the others. You'll figure out quite soon what works most of the time, what doesn't work most of the time, and relate what you say with the type of women that like it (which is also a useful pruning tool).

This is absurd. Usually you know what you want as a matter of fact - or are you immorally objectifying a store clerk when you walk in to buy something?

Plus the "object" can also want something from you (or not want anything) which is also fine.

You forgot: Because developers are in general worse than they think they are.

This would lead, by definition, to a boring as hell job.
Beware of SAP!