You know it's been too long since I've posted something relating to how awesome Jeff Bezos is so here's another fun article to read. https://theconcourse.deadspin.com/i-am-very-excited-to-give-amazon-the-power-to-unlock-th-1819837915 Here's the first two paragraphs to help make certain you'll make the right decision and click on the link to find out how it all ends (spoiler it doesn't end well). Great news for insane people and morons: Amazon has disrupted the lock! Now, you can choose to pay money to grant this giant faceless hell-corporation the ability to send strangers inside your locked home when you’re not there. Just like you always wanted. I don’t know about you, but for me, Man With A Mouth Full Of Elmer’s School Glue At All Times, a persistent annoyance of daily life in the 21st century is how I choose, of my own free will, to configure the doors and windows of my home in such a way as to prevent anyone from being able to enter when I am not there and/or asleep. It’s infuriating! Why can’t strangers freely violate the security of my home that I have deliberately locked? Why can’t they come and go as they please through the portals I have closed, intentionally, for the express purpose of preventing them from coming and going as they please? Why can’t I fit an entire motorized nine-speed hand-mixer up my nose?
THIS SHITLORD. Bezos is a terrible human being and this just adds another bit to the shitlist that is amazon. Glad I stopped selling on there, 30% off the top was entirely unsustainable.
For the same reason that people let the entire world see their private info on Facebook, then complain about their privacy being violated. I'd like to hear what @ohsostrange has to say about this. And wait, you'll see millions of jerks signing uip for this.
Did you know Amazon also owns these companies? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon_(company)#Subsidiaries_2 Oops, they omitted fabric.com. PS--we're giving Bezos money right now through the requesters. I feel very righteous never using any Google services, but can I quit Amazon? When you have time, scroll down that article to "poor working conditions."
I used to sell on there too but stopped for a few other reasons and it wasn't 30% off the top back then...he'd take more if he could but eBay keeps them in check somewhat. Also if you have a hot product that they don't have a supplier for they will try and find out where you are getting it from and go to that source to undercut you. They only do third party selling because they have to they HATE sharing that kind of money with you I mean you have some nerve trying to thrive instead of work in a warehouse without air conditioning for slave wages.
2 minutes Title: Research Study: Your perception of company actions - Short survey(~ 6 minutes) | AcceptA Requester: Benjamin Neuwirth [A1D3SKHUTEFYCA] Contact TV: [Hrly: $7.43] [Pay: 2.50] [Fast: null] [Comm: null] [Rej: 0] [ToS: 0] [Blk: 0] TO: [Pay: 3.19] [Fast: 3.75] [Comm: 2.23] [Fair: 4.34] [Reviews: 119] [ToS: 0] TO2: No Reviews Reward: $0.40 Duration: 1 hour Available: 45 Description: This is a study of your perception of different actions taken by companies - Will only take a few minutes to complete Requirements: Exc: [2771283-86187] DoesNotExist; Total approved HITs GreaterThanOrEqualTo 1000; HIT approval rate (%) GreaterThanOrEqualTo 95; Location In US
Title: Tell us your shopping opinions! | PANDA Requester: Elizabeth Friedman [A4W6F7C8EKV44] (Contact) TV: [Hrly: $10.94] [Pay: 3.60] [Fast: 3.67] [Comm: null] [Rej: 0] [ToS: 0] [Blk: 0] TO: [Pay: 3.72] [Fast: 4.24] [Comm: 3.29] [Fair: 4.77] [Reviews: 79] [ToS: 1] TO2: No Reviews Reward: $0.25 Duration: 1 hour Available: 1 Description: Tell us your shopping opinions in a series of easy questions! Requirements: HIT approval rate (%) GreaterThanOrEqualTo 95; Location EqualTo US
I gladly don't buy anything from any of their subsidies. I don't even watch anything on twitch because it's annoying. Mind you, I dislike yourtube as well since it's the ONLY fucking option (mainly cause daily motion changed their format to be total ass). I wouldn't be surprised in the next few years there's some serious trust busting going on (who am I kidding, they couldn't even break up the obvious monopoly that was microsoft).
Title: Quick survey - approx. 2 minutes | AcceptA Requester: Usability Tester [A30H69CMEV7ERM] Contact TV: [Hrly: $14.77] [Pay: 4.63] [Fast: 5.00] [Comm: null] [Rej: 0] [ToS: 0] [Blk: 0] TO: [Pay: 2.88] [Fast: 4.58] [Comm: 1.00] [Fair: 5.00] [Reviews: 45] [ToS: 1] TO2: No Reviews Reward: $0.40 Duration: 15 minutes Available: 5 Description: - Requirements: Total approved HITs GreaterThanOrEqualTo 1; HIT approval rate (%) GreaterThanOrEqualTo 90; Location EqualTo US
Yep The Telecommunications act of 1996 pretty much allowed all these monopolies to be legal. People still don't get how both parties are designed to appeal to certain types of people but ultimately they are there to screw us over in favor of the rich. The last decent president we had was Carter and he was pretty strapped to do much given the corrupt system he was working with back then it's 20 times worse now.
Added a writing prompt and cut pay in half. Still under 2 minutes, worth doing edit: for those that haven't done his hits before, they are different so you can do more than one. Title: Evaluate the results of a search engine. | AcceptA Requester: Zachary [A338RYLOXSDIJH] Contact TV: [Hrly: $23.50] [Pay: 4.83] [Fast: 5.00] [Comm: null] [Rej: 0] [ToS: 0] [Blk: 0] TO: [Pay: 5.00] [Fast: 5.00] [Comm: 5.00] [Fair: 5.00] [Reviews: 27] [ToS: 0] TO2: [Hrly: $14.12] [Pen: 0.00 days] [Res: ---] [Rec: 100% of 1] [Rej: 0] [ToS: 0] [Brk: 0] Reward: $0.50 Duration: 10 minutes Available: 1 Description: Use the given search engine to perform search tasks and evaluate the results for relevancy and usefulness. Requirements: Location EqualTo US
2 min Title: Answer a 5-minute survey about a disease | AcceptA Requester: Pankaj Aggarwal [A2M0KCPMB53IW5] Contact TV: [Hrly: $14.35] [Pay: 4.33] [Fast: null] [Comm: null] [Rej: 0] [ToS: 0] [Blk: 0] TO: [Pay: 4.02] [Fast: 4.25] [Comm: 2.00] [Fair: 4.50] [Reviews: 60] [ToS: 1] TO2: No Reviews Reward: $0.70 Duration: 1 hour Available: 1 Description: Give us your opinion about a disease that affects a number of Americans. We want your opinions and views. There are no right or wrong answers Requirements: Total approved HITs GreaterThanOrEqualTo 1000; HIT approval rate (%) GreaterThanOrEqualTo 95; Location EqualTo US
10 minutes. Title: Read a news article and answer surveys | PANDA Requester: Molly Brown [A26718PGC8TG8C] (TO) TO Ratings: TO Unavailable Submit a new TO review Description: Being in the research involves answering questions about your demographics and political affiliation. You will be asked to read a news article and respond to statements about the article and some general questions on your attitudes, beliefs, and voting. Time: 1800 HITs Available: 1 Reward: $2.00 Qualifications: Location EqualTo US
Title: Make predictions about political events $16 (~ 120 minutes) | PANDA Requester: SurveyComet [A3NC2P2SPK9QQ] (Req TV): $21.06/hr (TO): [Pay: 4.23] [Fair: 4.84] [Comm: 4.27] [Fast: 4.75] Description: This is an invitation to complete a 2 hour political forecasting HIT to make predictions about political events. Time: 4 hour(s) HITs Available: 2 Reward: $16.00 Qualifications: Inc: [19-86219] Exists ; Exc: [86808-86219] DoesNotExist ; Location In US;
The final part you can have the computer choose for you if you wish. Do the questionnaires first. It's really not that painful.
There's also Vimeo, and I think if you search (with duckduckgo.com or startpage.com, of course,) you'll find other video site. Somehow they all manage to get around the anti-trust laws.:dunno: