aol has now joined forces with citibank to offer quickcash, where you can "transfer" money from email to email account.
contrary to all that is legal and we are taught, they don't tell you:
1. how it works.
2. how much it will cost.
3. what are the terms and conditions.
like so many other internet offers, they slowly extract info from you, thereby committing you page by page, until you finally get the surprise of the essential facts, after you are done giving them all they want.
since i know it will be futile to write to aol, i will use my mj powers to say to all who will read:
aol, stick it up your a..!!!!!! not all your members are morons!!!
you business owners and professionals:
some time ago, my banker offered my business an unsolicited "standby" loan. there would be no cost, and it would just be there if and when i needed it. she insisted so much, that after the 4th or 5th time i agreed to go ahead and do it.
well, by the time she showed up at the office with the paperwork, and i started to read the terms, among those clauses there were a couple with widely written language which tied this "standby" loan to my regular account, where i released the bank from just about any irregularity, including, but not limited to theft, fraud, etc. by bank employees. of course they did not write it this way, they wrote it in a different fashion so as not to exclude this without actually saying it.
in essence, by my signing that "standby" loan i was agreeing to give up almost all of my rights as an account holder. those rights that have been acquired through decades of regulations, i would have wiped out in a minute with my signature, not to mention putting my 15 year old business on the line.
my banker insisted that that was the normal paper that had to be signed, that all professionals, doctors, businessmen, signed it, that i was paranoid and the first person to ever refused to sign it. well, as much as i liked that person, and as sincere i thought she was, i absolutely refused to sign it unless i scratched those 2 lines, and so it was.
i won't sign one-sided leases either, by the way. if i can't get a decent two-way contract on a lease, i will go elsewhere.
the best legal words from our language are:
"good faith" and "reasonable", both of which are gone from most of our legal contracts, mainly because big business is not interested in doing business that way. instead they choose phrase like "including but not limited to" and a lot of negative negatives to hide poisonous clauses.
are you worried about street crime? that is nothing, folks. our respectable business leaders and executives will make sure of that, and our colleges and professors will keep churning out wise-ass attorneys, who will get bundles of money for writing these type of contracts.
In God i trust, and no one else, unfortunately.
pep
contrary to all that is legal and we are taught, they don't tell you:
1. how it works.
2. how much it will cost.
3. what are the terms and conditions.
like so many other internet offers, they slowly extract info from you, thereby committing you page by page, until you finally get the surprise of the essential facts, after you are done giving them all they want.
since i know it will be futile to write to aol, i will use my mj powers to say to all who will read:
aol, stick it up your a..!!!!!! not all your members are morons!!!
you business owners and professionals:
some time ago, my banker offered my business an unsolicited "standby" loan. there would be no cost, and it would just be there if and when i needed it. she insisted so much, that after the 4th or 5th time i agreed to go ahead and do it.
well, by the time she showed up at the office with the paperwork, and i started to read the terms, among those clauses there were a couple with widely written language which tied this "standby" loan to my regular account, where i released the bank from just about any irregularity, including, but not limited to theft, fraud, etc. by bank employees. of course they did not write it this way, they wrote it in a different fashion so as not to exclude this without actually saying it.
in essence, by my signing that "standby" loan i was agreeing to give up almost all of my rights as an account holder. those rights that have been acquired through decades of regulations, i would have wiped out in a minute with my signature, not to mention putting my 15 year old business on the line.
my banker insisted that that was the normal paper that had to be signed, that all professionals, doctors, businessmen, signed it, that i was paranoid and the first person to ever refused to sign it. well, as much as i liked that person, and as sincere i thought she was, i absolutely refused to sign it unless i scratched those 2 lines, and so it was.
i won't sign one-sided leases either, by the way. if i can't get a decent two-way contract on a lease, i will go elsewhere.
the best legal words from our language are:
"good faith" and "reasonable", both of which are gone from most of our legal contracts, mainly because big business is not interested in doing business that way. instead they choose phrase like "including but not limited to" and a lot of negative negatives to hide poisonous clauses.
are you worried about street crime? that is nothing, folks. our respectable business leaders and executives will make sure of that, and our colleges and professors will keep churning out wise-ass attorneys, who will get bundles of money for writing these type of contracts.
In God i trust, and no one else, unfortunately.
pep
