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Sonata Arctica rocks!

Yesterday I was at Sonata Arctica`s concert here in DC. The concert was awesome. They performed songs from almost all their albums. They mix and matched some of the best songs at the end of the concert and that made the day : ) Unfortunately, despite all our screams, they didn`t play Wolf&Raven, but I still could die happily after yesterday`s concert : D

Skype? What a ripoff!

Oh you are using Skype and very happy with that right? Well I`m NOT! Here is my story.

I purchased SkypeOUT minutes from Skype on the 22nd of December 2005.
This was just a 10 euro purchase (which was around $12 at the time of
the purchase) I felt safer to use PayPal and made this purchase over
PayPal.

I was in Germany at the time and didn`t check my Skype account until
the new year 2006. I found out that actually my payment never been
credited to Skype although it was taken from my credit card and PayPal
account. But this was only the beginning of the nightmare!

I said no problem, every company has problems and with thousands of
transactions going around, maybe I was the unlucky one. I tryed to
contact Skype by phone first. But a company that is giving a phone
service DOES NOT have a phone number that I can call and get support
: ) YAY! great job Skype!

Then I tried to file a complaint from their support web pages. Be
careful there! Be very very careful if your support request passed
through! Cause at the end page there is a small part that “confirms”
your request! If you ask me it is bullshit! It is another way of
tricking the user, giving her a feeling that the support request is
opened but not really opening the ticket…

So after trying twice to open a ticket on their web system I received
an email saying that the billing services will contact me in 48 hours.
I work on computer field, if I don`t reply an incident in few hours I
WILL BE FIRED! But not Skype workers I guess…

Of course nobody contacted me in 48 hours. On the third day of the
request I went ahead and requested an update. Yep, you guessed right!
Nobody was giving a damn about me. I am a customer who can be fucked
easily by creating a maze of support process. But oh no baby, oh no!

I was busy or I didn`t care that much about my 12 dollars, I went to
the customer support site to check out the status of my request after
11 days of opening my case, and 8 days after the update request.
Aaaaannndd??? My ticket was CLOSED! : ) YAY! Auto magically closing
tickets. (And of course no refunds, no credits to my Skype account…)
Fuckers…

I reopened the ticket today, reported this incident to PayPal (since
paypal and skype are both owned by the great major father company
asshole eBay, I don`t have much chance right? That`s what I think
too!)

Well I am giving Skype three more business days, and I will report the
incident to American Express customer service (ridicilous, but I will
do whatever I can).

By the way, if you thikn I`m a whiny bastard, ranting on his blog, please check Skype forums, billing section, how many more whiny bastards there are! We are getting raped by Skype everyday…

And I`m doing what Skype is suggesting
me to do! : ) I`m showing my friends that I downloaded Skype, used it,
and I`m fucked by them over a ridicilous amount of money. Please if
you, my friends, want to be fucked by another major company turn your
asses to their services…

FAA releases a draft on space flight security…

There is a draft on touristic space flight activities issued by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA)… It talks about the security checks before and during the space flight since it might be popular one day to become a terrorism activity…

Imagine a terrorist on space flight holding a SCRAMJET going to a low orbit flight and slamming on earth like a meteor… That scares me more than the fact that a terrorist might put a conventional C4 to a crowded mall or theater… I mean what are the odds of a terrorist putting a bomb to a mall… Compared to space flight hijacking? I think terrorists are highly likely to hijack a space flight…

I wonder if we will be allowed to carry nail clippers or scissors since someone can cut the Oxygene tank pipes with them (or the foams)… Or will they check my flight suit that will possibly beep on the security check since it will have some metal tubes in it for heating and cooling on a space walk… How about gravity shoes? A baad baaad person might use the magnets in it to sabotage the avionics of the space carrier… Oh, they better arm the space marshall with a laser gun other than a ballistic gun, misfires might punch a hole in the space ship, we don`t want to lose our breathable air… Time to train some storm troopers! NOW!

More news:

CNN

BBC

Bruce Schneier`s blog

Pet Shop Boys – Always on my mind.

Maybe I didn`t treat you quite as good as I should

Maybe I didn`t love you quite as often as I could

Little things I should`ve said and done, I never took the time

You were always on my mind

You were always on my mind

Maybe I didn`t hold you all those lonely, lonely times

And I guess I never told you, I`m so happy that you`re mine

If I made you feel second best, I`m so sorry, I was blind

You were always on my mind

You were always on my mind

Tell me, tell me that your sweet love hasn`t died

Give me one more chance to keep you satisfied

Satisfied

Little things I should`ve said and done, I never took the time

You were always on my mind

You were always on my mind

Tell me, tell me that your sweet love hasn`t died

Give me one more chance to keep you satisfied

You were always on my mind

You were always on my mind

You were always on my mind

You were always on my mind

You were always on my mind

You were always on my mind

Maybe I didn`t treat you quite as good as I should

Maybe I didn`t love you quite as often as I could

Maybe I didn`t hold you all those lonely, lonely times

And I guess I never told you, I`m so happy that you`re mine

(maybe I didn`t love you…)

World of suffering…

From The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin:

“Suffering is misunderstanding,” …. “It exists,” Shevek said, spreading out his hands. “It`s real. I can call it a misunderstanding, but I can`t pretend that it doesn`t exist, or will ever cease to exist. Suffering is the condition on which we live. And when it comes, you know it. You know it as the truth. Of course it`s right to cure diseases, to prevent hunger and injustice, as the social organism does. But no society can change the nature of existence. We can`t prevent suffering.This pain and that pain, yes, but not Pain. A society can only relieve social suffering, unnecessary suffering. The rest remains. The root, the reality. All of us here are going to know grief; if we live fifty years, we`ll have known pain for fifty years. And in the end we`ll die. That`s the condition we`re born on.” …