Today is 03/04/05. It’s 3-4-5 Day! Bet that makes you think, huh? I bet you probably already missed 01/02/03. That’s something to regret, right there. Are you aware that this is the only 3-4-5 day you will ever see? You’ll be dead before the next one! You’re such a waste! Why don’t you THINK!
Happy 3-4-5 Day!
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Well, presumably until the relevant copyright cartel fights it for a decade, screaming that it will be the death of them, then eventually gets beaten into submission and makes twice as much money from the new model. As usual.
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Charity ad seen on the back of a bus:
Donate Your Car To Us
& End Homelessness
“The Hausenbildenmächina works at last, Greta! It could be change the future of the world! But the reaction only occurs at exactly 88 miles per hour.” Hans shakes his head in despair. “I can’t go that fast! Not even on my European racing-style bicycle!”
“Ach, Hans!” Greta takes his hands in her own. Her eyes are full and bright. “I always believed in you, always knew–if only we had some way to obtain one car! Any car! But our German-or-possibly-Austrian credit doesn’t carry over to these United States.”
“Greta,” says Hans, face suddenly alight, “I may just have a plan!”
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I get this every time I buy something with a PayPal button and change my funding source to be a credit card instead of my bank account. The advantage of paying with my credit card is obvious: I have a 20-day grace period to actually pony up the cash, while the thing I’m buying is shipped immediately. The disadvantage to PayPal is also obvious: electronic bank transfers cost them nothing; credit card usage requires a per-transaction merchant fee.
But it’s still sad that they’re trying to talk me out of using my credit card like this, and that their reasons are so flimsy. Look at that: it says “the benefits of paying with your bank account,” but none of those things are benefits. They’re implicit conditions of any reputable interweb transaction. I mean, “you’re still paying instantly and securely?” That’s not a benefit, that’s explicitly the same! And am I to assume that credit card payments are somehow delayed, or that they don’t keep my credit card information “safe and secure?” (Note also that “military-grade encryption,” historically, has not been that great a qualification.)
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