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Comment Re:Yikes (Score 1) 145

Square seems to be going for the paypal market - being a middle-man between the credit card companies and the merchants.

Just like with paypal, I cannoth fathom why the credit card companies would allow this to go on without offering a similar service themselves, and I also cannot understand how it could possibly be anything but more expensive per transaction for the merchant.

The difference is that Square is actually a Merchant Service Provider, for all intents and purposes, they ARE the credit card company. Paypal is more like an escrow service. I own a small business and have a merchant service account through a decent provider, the rates are pretty good and the money shows up in my bank pretty quickly. After reviewing services like Square and Intuit's GoPayment I realized that once I factor in the monthly fee I'm currently paying my provider, any fees associated with my POS terminal as well as yearly compliance fees I can get a MUCH better rate by using Square or GoPayment (I decided to go with GoPayment because of the integration with QuickBooks).

Comment Re:Three Laws (Score 1) 305

Wow, Troll?

Have you guys even READ any Asimov? This is the story line for 'The Evitable Conflict' and also the movie 'I, Robot'. The laws are misinterpreted to mean mankind or humanity instead of the individual person, so limited harm could be inflicted on the individual to prevent harming humanity as a whole.

Even the posts below either didn't read the very first sentence in my post or they aren't familiar with the I, Robot stories.

Comment Re:Three Laws (Score 1, Troll) 305

As in I, Robot. The robot was able to differentiate between the well being of the one against the well being of the many and caused harm to the one.

Similarly, our 'robots' harm the one (the owner) for the benefit of the many (the corporate overlords and the minions that thrive off the aggregated data supplied to them by our little robots).

Comment Why karaoke? (Score 2) 349

Almost every karaoke machine I've ever seen, the music is NOT the original artists recording. Why then are the original recording artists entitled to a per performance fee. I would think that the mechanicals have been paid when the karaoke company licensed the song to be included in whatever package they purchased.

Also, in the states, bars are already required to pay fees for music performed in the venue which includes karaoke.

Comment Ink Jet == Bad (Score 2) 350

You aren't going to get any serious life span from ink jet printers. I guess the top notch is pigment based but that comes at a cost. I've had pretty good luck with Wal-Mart and Costco photo printing provided the printers are maintained properly although I have no idea on the longevity of the images.

I do have a Canon Selphy photo printer to print one offs and hang tags Arts & Crafts projects, the tags we printed 7-8 years ago still look pretty good. Canon boasts a life span of close to 100 years for the Selphy printers but I'm a bit skeptical about that claim. One thing I really like about the Canon printer is it takes different size cartridges to print anything from a wallet size to post card and 4X6 although the cost per print is between 60 cents to a dollar, much more that what you will pay to get your images printed in bulk.

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