cultbgone - it is not that simple - the default positon on an i-phone mean that if the child is playing a game on the phone they can make in game purchases withput yyour password unless you set the security settings to require a password for any in-game purshases. Similarly the default setting is that for 15 seconds after a pruchase is made another pruchase can be made without needing the password unless you change the settings to prevent this. These games are targetted at children, are free to download but have ridiculously expensive in-game features which make no sense from a value point of view - it is ambush marketing which is misleading and deceptive.
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Kid charged over $500 to a game
by skeeter1 inyesterday, i got our credit card statement, and looked at the charges.
over $500 to itunes.
questioned everyone, and it's for "jewels" for a kim kardashian game my 13 year old charged.
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Kid charged over $500 to a game
by skeeter1 inyesterday, i got our credit card statement, and looked at the charges.
over $500 to itunes.
questioned everyone, and it's for "jewels" for a kim kardashian game my 13 year old charged.
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Frazzled UBM
skeeter1 - I had the same problem with my son on my wife's iphone and a Turbo game. I rang I-tunes straight away and todl them they were facilitating misleading and deceptive conduct manipulaitng children as the game was targetted at children. The guy said to me - well for next time you can adjust the security settings so your son can't do that. I said no your don't understand me either you accept right now that the charges are cancelled or I iwll be complaining to BBC Consumer Watch. He cancelled the charges immediately. This is an appalling scam. Get angry and ring Itunes - they dread bad publicity so use this to your advantage. Frazzled
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Pinker on Terrorism .... Self-Defeating
by jgnat inhttp://chronicle.com/article/era-in-ideas-terrorism/128490/.
his conclusion, .
"even when they are not rooted out by states, terrorist groups carry the seeds of their own destruction.
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Frazzled UBM
Very good points jgnat. ISIS is a bit of an unusual terrorist group in the sense that has becoem a military force. I wonder whether the West treating it as a traditional military enemy may give it more creedibility and that it may switch to more traditional and less brutal military tactics tot ry to sustain itself. It certainly seems unlikely the West will defeat it using air power alone but committing ground troops will be politically unpalatable. So I suspect we will see further IS successes before we see reversals.
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Pinker on Terrorism .... Self-Defeating
by jgnat inhttp://chronicle.com/article/era-in-ideas-terrorism/128490/.
his conclusion, .
"even when they are not rooted out by states, terrorist groups carry the seeds of their own destruction.
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Frazzled UBM
Vidiot: "Anything that flares up brightly can't help but burn out; fuel isn't infinite." The same could be said of a thread on JWN.
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LOVE and JUSTICE: Do humans have it all wrong?
by Terry inlove and death from god's p.o.v.. __________________________.
would anybody care to state exactly what it is .
on what basis this tribal deity known as jehovah can be said to:.
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Frazzled UBM
Yes Terry it is ironic that the notion of God sacrificing his Son to pay for the sins of mankind is so compelling as a religious idea. A bit bizarre really. No wonder Judiasim sees Christianity as such an abberation.
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book about JWs "Watch How We Walk" nominated for prestigious Giller Prize
by Scully inhttp://jenniferlovegrove.wordpress.com/watch-how-we-walk/.
can't wait to read this book, by a canadian author.. .
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Frazzled UBM
A watcher - using your usual troll tactics I see
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Watchtower encouraging members to go and preach in Israel
by wannaexit inan odd letter was read at last nights' meeting.
it was in regards to a special campaign for next year arranged by the governing body to go and preach in israel.
the call is going out to anybody that speaks hebrew and english.
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Frazzled UBM
Israel is safe - the threat from Hama is negligible - you are more likely to die in a car crash - Gaza on the other hand is far from safe.
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Kennedy assassination....
by new hope and happiness into me its a great example of a totalitarian government's ability to manage information and keep us in the dark; .
all right it was a long time ago.
should we just forget about it?.
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Frazzled UBM
please - enough with the conspiracy theories already - general principles suggest blunder and incompetence win over conspiracy everytime. The bigger the supposed conspiracy the less likley it is on the principle that people can't keep secrets - someone will blab. Terry - thank you for your usual dose of sense in the sea of nonsense that prevails on JWN.
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Come with me, back to the 1980s--you know want to.
by FlyingHighNow ini don't know about ya'll, but i did not appreciate the 1980s enough.
i was too busy lamenting how different they were from the 1960s and 1970s to bask in and appreciate how wonderful they were.. this is 80s music, especially new wave music, and 80s fashion and culture appreciation thread.
what did you love about the 80s?
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Frazzled UBM
I was a student in the 1980s (I was a student radical while you could still be a student radical but I would have preferred to have been a student in the late 60s or early 70s) and then started my first job and travelled the world so lots of good memories. I hated New Romantic music like Adam Ant, Boy George, Duran Duran etc. (and still do) but loved Tracey Chapman, Eurythmics, Crowded House etc, though 60s and 70s music still dominates my music collection. Lots of good movies in the 80s like the Indiana Jones series. Looking back I realise that youth is wasted on the young. I would have done a few things differently -- like not get married young -- that ended badly -- and perhaps not burning some bridges I burnt. Still live and learn.
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Watchtower encouraging members to go and preach in Israel
by wannaexit inan odd letter was read at last nights' meeting.
it was in regards to a special campaign for next year arranged by the governing body to go and preach in israel.
the call is going out to anybody that speaks hebrew and english.
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Frazzled UBM
Israel is one of the few countries that views Witnesses as a nuisance and so I think it is very misleading to say Israel is safe - I suspect it would be a very hostile environment for witnessing.