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You're not giving to charity, as you have just figured out.
I refuse to donate to the red cross - no charitable organization should have a 6 figure head.
I don't do good will or the united way for the same reason...
Salvation Army President is paid only $13,000 per year-Fiction! - Truth or Fiction?[^]
The 13K is fiction, but I feel it's far more reasonable than the other groups... So, I will give to them as well as preachers, evangelists, missionaries and the odd person who walks up to me for a tank of gas.
But not to an executive.
Charlie Gilley
<italic>Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape...
"Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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There should be a law forbidding such greed.
CEOs of charities may not earn more than twice the average salary, including bonuses.
Breaking this law will result in hefty fines (everything they "stole" + some extra) and jail time.
Unfortunately, it doesn't work like that 
There is a "guideline", but that line is ridiculous.
In fact, all three CEOs of Natuurmonumenten are "well within the accepted guidelines."
I guess other millionaires make those guidelines.
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Which begs the question - who gets fined and jailed?  Not arguing, I completely agree with you. But if you passed a law like this, then pretty soon here in the States we might want to find out how lowly congressman making 200K a year end up with over 10 million net worth after 5 terms... hmmmm
This has to fall under the good-old-boy network - I'm not sexist, the women at the top are in it too. The leader of the Red Cross pulls in a cool 500K "which is considered mid-range for a non-profit of that size." Plus all the other perks. The United Way reports 1.3 MILLION for their CEO. 
These non-profit CEO's are not stealing this money, it's being offered to them. Then they go sit on another board and do the same for the next CEO. It would be an interesting MBA thesis (I'm sure it's been done) to cross reference all of the top management of companies with where they sit on the boards....
People need to understand where their money is going and choose wisely.
Charlie Gilley
<italic>Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape...
"Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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There's considerable profit to be made from charity (as in the charity of others.) A sad state of affairs.
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You must be lost, Marc...
You're responding to a post from 2019 
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Prisoner held in nasty, little place (7)
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. - Mark Twain
modified 23-Sep-19 6:39am.
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Nope.
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. - Mark Twain
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Total guess: CAPTIVE. CAVE with PIT inside?
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Never throw anything away, Griff
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That would be a slightly dyslexic pit, then?
Nope.
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. - Mark Twain
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CONVICT (because it's a 7 letter synonym for prisoner, I still don't know how these things work )
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I thought about it, and CON is a synonym for PRISONER, but I can't get anything for "VICT"
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Sander Rossel wrote: because it's a 7 letter synonym for prisoner
That could be an element of it (it isn't, in this particular case, though).
Clues do normally contain a literal definition at one end or the other and the rest is word-play that could lead you to the same answer.
So if we had a clue like:
Wild cat passage of play (3)
A passage of play could be an ACT, wild cat would give us anagram of CAT - which again would lead to ACT.
Similarly:
Follow round terrier (3)
Would give us DOG as a terrier is a DOG and follow round also means to DOG.
So the answer is effectively double-clued and you're looking for something that's in there twice. So your approach is actually right (find a 7 letter word - preferably not "scrotum" - that either means a convict or a small place and see if you can the rest of the clue to fit it).
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. - Mark Twain
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I just don't usually see the clues.
Sometimes because my English just isn't good enough (like I didn't know that "to dog" means "follow round").
So anyway, I take it CONVICT wasn't correct (luckily, I wouldn't want to be up tomorrow) 
Although (taking another shot at it)... A nasty little place could be a duct, leading to CONDUCT?
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Hmmm,
What a vile little puzzle. But I have no time today due to my computer lag.
Best Wishes,
-David Delaune
Scientiæ de conservata veritate.
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Oh c**k!
@Randor gave it away ...
VILLAGE - LAG (prisoner) inside VILE (nasty)
I was hung up on CON, and dismissed LAG as being too Anglo-centric ... 
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Never throw anything away, Griff
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OriginalGriff wrote: Randor gave it away
He did, rather.
Must admit that I hadn't clocked on to "lag" being specifically British.
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. - Mark Twain
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Well,
I could go back to posting word checksums. I enjoy solving puzzles but don't like creating them for the next day. Better yet... I should probably go back into Lurk mode[^]. 
Best Wishes,
-David Delaune
Scientiæ de conservata veritate.
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Doh - I had Vile but was hung up on con 
"We can't stop here - this is bat country" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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Oh... Dang! I considered it, but then when I looked if prisoner was a container indicator I didn't find it, so I moved on.
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No, really, it's not! 
I need to program a remote switch via Bluetooth to a smart 'phone. Both ends are the easy bit. It's the hardware in the middle that's worrying me.
I need a really small, I mean a really, really small - smaller than a very small thing - bluetooth board, that can just talk to an android device and send h/w switch presses to it, nothing more. The user presses a h/w switch, and the 'phone logs it.
If I forgot everything I know about such boards, I would quite possible know more about them than I do now. 
There seems to be an HC-05 or 06 out there, but I have no idea if they would do the job. They are actually larger than I would like, anyway. Also, I guess I would need a BLE device.
Does the hive-mind of CP have any idea of what's worth looking at?
Pretty please? 
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Chris C-B wrote: Does the hive-mind of CP have any idea of what's worth looking at?
Oh yes. Very much so. Nothing at all to do with your problem though ... 
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Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Thanks very much for that. It's going to be one hell of a learning curve!
I tracked it back to ONS and read a lot of stuff.
I now know 10 times what I used to - 10 x zero = er… zero.
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Chris C-B wrote: I need a really small, I mean a really, really small - smaller than a very small thing - bluetooth board
Bluno Beetle[^] is 29x33mm, about the same as a SD card. If you need smaller than that you will probably need to design and build your own board.
HC-05/06 are serial to Bluetooth modules and need a separate microcontroller.
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