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I had to create an account because that was how one vendor paid for services.
Used it a few other times for online purchases when it seemed that was the only way.
That was up to a few years ago; now credit cards are more widely accepted and direct deposit (seems) to have gotten easier. Also, e-transfers are simpler and are often free (or included in your bank services).
PayPal I think is still useful if you have your own site and are looking for "donations".
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Rather than manually withdrawing, contact PayPal and have "Auto-Sweep" enabled.
Doing so means that funds in your PayPal balance are automatically swept into your connected bank account at the end of each day.
I have one client who deals in paramilitary gear who (temporarily) lost close to $100k when PayPal froze his accounts after someone claimed he was selling firearms and ammunition (which wasn't the case, not even remotely!) and using PayPal for doing such.
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I'm going to do some steganography.
I found THIS PAGE which lists a few tools.
If anyone has any knowledge of these, or other suggestions, please speak up.
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Have you already seen the articles on CP about steganography?
Cheers!
"I had the right to remain silent, but I didn't have the ability!"
Ron White, Comedian
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Have you tried searching the website for steganography? If not, that could be a good starting point.
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So, Sunday (1/1) I was on my way, with Mrs. Wife, to visit son, other family members, and etc., but they dwell in a place called Hoboken, New Jersey. We arrived at the Hoboken Path station and were going to take the light rail, for the first time, to his abode.
It was, however, a Sunday, and weekend schedules were in effect. Apparently, that means the train to his place is not going to run until Monday morning. Meanwhile, our tickets were stamped with the date-time and would become worthless in 45 minutes.
Luckily, some poor unfortunate (i.e., a local denizen) pointed out to us that we can take another train, the other way, get off and take the train back to where we wanted to go. Whilst on this ride I came to a great realization, completing a long known and oft repeated statement (q.v.):
You can't get there from here, unless you go someplace else.
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Hoboken, New Jersey.
I believe thats where Frank Sinartra came from...
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glennPattonInThePubAGAIN wrote: thats where Frank Sinartra came from.
He came from there orignally but had to go somewhere else first.
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And the cake boss, can't forget the cake boss[^].
Jeremy Falcon
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Or in your case, You can't there there from here unless you go in the opposite direction first. 
Marc
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The shortest distance between two points is not necessarily a straight line.
Software Zen: delete this;
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The thing with travelling is that people always talk about getting from A to B, which categorically implies that there is only one direction that can be followed.
But travel isn't like that. Look at a typical international trip, and you'll see that it's highly likely that you could save a few hundred miles if the plane would take off and land at your initial departure/arrival points, rather than flying over them, retracing/pre-tracing long steps, between them and the airports.
As an example, one flight I took from Pudong flew all the way to Heathrow, and I had to take another plane back from London to Schiphol, then a loooooong taxi ride to my home -- which the first plane had flown directly over!*
So what's needed is a different paradigm.
E.g. How many ways are there from getting from zero to one, or from one to two?
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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W∴ Balboos wrote: You can't get there from here, unless you go someplace else.
Wise words, very wise.
Jeremy Falcon
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Finally - someone who's paying attention !
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In IT no less... which never happens. 
Jeremy Falcon
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The swiss federal railways have an excellent app for that - Their online presence is a PITA you'd experience while sucking big hairy donkey balls, but the app is awesome.
Enter your Departure point, destination (can even be a street address which is then mapped to the closest bus/tram/train station), select arrival or departure time and they show you the fastest connection available. Hit "Buy Ticket" and off you go.
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We have tons of applications like that in the USA - integrating many transit systems and methods. Those with cell phones live on them - and my local commuter railroad allows the whole ticket-on-your-cell-phone thing. Not at all the point.
The concept was the point - not the commuter rail insanity for one wretched little city.
Sucking hairy donkey balls? I love the imagery. You Europeans have such quaint customs!
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W∴ Balboos wrote: Sucking hairy donkey balls?
It's actually Nagy's catch phrase, I believe [citation needed]
The whole site looks like it is designed for IE 6. And the handling matches the look.
Seriously, it starts with the login procedure - I don't want to enter a username to login. And the password can only contain characters and numbers.
And don't even try to get a tax receipt for your online order - There is no consistent menu guidance and you receive it as a PDF. One A4 page per receipt, for a single ticket each. And they're only available for 30 days, afterwards you're greeted with a default empty PDF.
And that's just the things I remember right now, there are dozens of others.
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Just got email from recruiter and found it hilarious.
A jobless man applied for the position of 'office boy' at Microsoft.
The HR manager interviewed him, then gave him a test: clean the floor. The man passed the test with flying colors.
"You are hired," HR manager informed the applicant, "give me your e-mail address, and I'll send you the application for employment, as well as the date you should report for work.
The man replied " I don't have a computer, or an email!"
"I'm sorry," said the HR manager. "If you don't have an email, that means you do not exist. And we cannot hire persons who do not exist."
The man was very disappointed.
He didn't know what to do. He only had $10 with him. Once that is spent, he won't have any money to buy any food.
He went to the supermarket and bought a crate of tomatoes with his $10.
He went from door to door and sold the tomatoes in less than two hours. He doubled his money.
He repeated the operation three times, and returned home with $60. He realized that he can survive
this way. He started to go everyday earlier, and return late.
He doubled or tripled his money every day. Soon, he bought a cart, then a truck. In a very short time, he had his own fleet of delivery vehicles.
Five years later, the man became one of the biggest food retailers in the U. S. He started to plan his family's future, and decided to have a life insurance.
He called an insurance broker, and chose a protection plan.
At the end of the conversation, the broker asked him for his email address.
The man replied: ' I don't have an email.'
The broker was dumbfounded. "You don't have an email, and yet have succeeded in building an empire. Can you imagine what you could have been if you had an email?," he exclaimed.
The man thought for a while, and replied, "an office boy at Microsoft!"
The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up.
Paul Valery
modified 3-Jan-17 11:17am.
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That was on Linked In I think...
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It might be. I don't know. I got email one of a recruiter that I know.
The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up.
Paul Valery
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I thort ms bought linkedin?
Surely they would have made it Google, Apple or Oracle?
Then again they did come out with w10, maybe there is more than one joke in them.
Sin tack ear lol
Pressing the any key may be continuate
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What, did you expect anything coming from a recruiter's mouth to be even remotely original?
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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