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Get Paid To Read SMS Messages?

Cash Texts is a new way to get paid for receiving SMS text messages. They will send you interesting ads, that’s right, advertisements – and pay you for each one you receive. Be sure they are collecting the difference between what they get paid to send them and what they pay you – but you can collect some scratch by viewing ads (in the form of texts) throughout the day. They also have a recruitment program so you can get paid by getting friends and family in on the deal. One site mentioned that you could easily make a minimum of $7.50 a month for getting these texts. Doesn’t sound bad at all does it? Use the opening link to get started or simply scan the QR Code below to send a text to CashTexts. It’ll let them know I sent you and start the enrollment process. Couldn’t be easier.

SCAN THE QR CODE TO GENERATE A SMS MESSAGE

I see a lot of people promoting this, and was referred myself – and have read various stories on getting paid. The first question everyone has is if this whole thing is a scam. As they say, and rightly do, scams want money – not pay money. I think the biggest thing you have to fear is eventually recruiting so many people that they can no longer pay out – but if they recruit their targets and people are paying them to send these ads – then you will get paid. Seems like a simple business model actually. Get up to five texts a day, seven days a week (you decide) and twice a month they fund an account (1st and 15th).

Do the math yourself. Here is the level scheme for recruitment or referrals – showing the payment for one text going to you and the person who was recruited by someone who was recruited by someone, who was recruiting by someone… etc

(Table courtesy of CashTexts.com FAQ)

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“dankando: Back to school sale for stay-at-home parents http://twitpic.com/33qynn

–http://twitter.com/dankando/status/29646257823

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JAMIE LEE CURTIS: Gridlocked (Out) At Christmas I am spending my holiday in the mountains of Idaho in our log cabin, and after a lovely Christmas Eve pizza party, the lights went out — everywhere.

She laments about not having power on the holidays. Oh and eating Activia without flushing water. Wow, but touching.

(Sent from my phone)

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If you recently updated to the iPhone 3.0 firmware you may find that you can’t sync your iPhone in Windows (reports coming in from Windows 7, Vista and XP) without receiving an error. The sync is automatic after the update, and the lame part is that when it fails it will make all your media invisible to you in the iPod app.

Luckily there is a solution to this fail other than restoring from a backup (lengthy) or just throwing your Jesus Phone away:

Heres how to fix.

Unsync your music/videos or whatever isnt going onto your iphone/itouch by plugging in your device and unchecking the sync box within each multimedia tab then click apply. Let the device sync then once completed reconnect your device check all your sync tabs that you want and sync again. This should resolve the problems and sync your files.

It should only be your music and videos and some podcast that dont sync at the start but this description should fix the error 13019.

via Apple – Support – Discussions – Iphone sync error 13019? ….

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Not Lame: beer and (beef) corn dogs

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Someone needs to launch an in-depth investigation into the practices of Fruit of the Loom. I’m the type of guy who finds something that works and sticks with it. One of my longest mainstays have been Reebok Classics, I’ve been buying them over and over for ten years. Up until now another was Fruit of the Loom tagless white T-shirts, I like to wear them under my button down shirts, especially after I stopped wearing ties (I have some high chest hair I need to hide).

Honestly, I didn’t buy any new ones for a long time. I kept wearing the same old ones even though they lost their white-ness. But eventually I noticed that the necks had become stretched out and I decided to pick up a few packs. And another admission that I don’t want to make publicly, but some I wore without washing them. Today is one of those days. I thought I got them all but I grabbed one and put it on.

All day I’ve been pulling the back collar part up because it’s been falling, and bugging the crap out of me. Then upon closer inspection I find that the collar is wider than the ones I recently threw out. What gives? It hasn’t even gone through the wash yet, how can this be? How did the others last so long and these new ones stretch when you open the bag?

Congress, Ralph Nader, someone, please help. And don’t get me wrong, I checked them before I paid for them – they weren’t streched before I bought them.

Fruit of the Loom – I want an apology. A personal one.

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What do you do with an old dog who can’t stand up anymore? You do the “humane” thing and put them, to sleep. People will tell you it’s the right thing to do, that you are doing right by that animal by killing it. You are being merciful. You do the right thing.

What about your dying relative? I’d be willing to bet that 70% of people feel that it’s also “humane” to kill them too; although the level of their suffering differs between each person. This movement has gained momentum, it seems to me in the past years, but I think it’s our pets fault.

We’ve “put down” animals for so many years. When a horse is hurt, a pet ages or we come upon a hurt animal we feel the right thing is to take their life. I think this has put us in the position to make the leap to take the life of a breathing person.

I’m not even trying to make the argument that we aren’t doing The Right Thing (TM). I just see where we are moving. I agree with the science of evolution and the idea of things like animal husbandry (genetical selection of animal stock for our benefit). The problem is things like the selection of your childs sex or eye color.

We’ve seen animals as objects for so long that it has changed our view of people. Maybe it is psychological, maybe we don’t identify with an unborn child or someone so sick they can’t talk. Maybe they become to us an animal. I once made tremendous fun of Terri Schiavo, and I don’t regret it. What I somewhat regret is how I began to see her as something and not someone. I never really formed a real opinion on if she should be, killed perhaps, but I never identified.

Yes you could say “how can you identify with someone that has no brain function?” How could you want a loved one to suffer? I just fear the people who view this as such a casual matter. People, I fear, have become even more casual to the mystery and beauty of life. We’ve learned the sex of our children long enough to think it’s a good idea to decide that for your liking.

The begining and end of life is not something that should be played with plain and simple. It is just one justification after another. This is the proverbial slippery slope. It can take us places that we don’t want to think we are capable of. We can’t imagine, even though we’ve been there before, what people can do with justification.

It seems our morality swings in our history here on Earth. We seem to build up our empathy and we lose it. We now though are becoming even more selfish than usual. Most people first cite themself as the reason they shouldn’t have, sorry, couldn’t have a disabled child.

This is all one arguement I feel. All of it is born out of not identifying with the subject of the conversation at hand. A pet, an aging loved one or an unborn child. They don’t speak, they don’t talk to us and we lose sight of them. Most people don’t agree, and I feel as if I am putting myself in camp of people I don’t care much for, but there is nothing wrong with not going with popular morality.

Again I’m not making the “inhumane” argument here. I just want to study the idea of how people make either one. I fear either extreme. But this one, the laziness of which people look at life, is even more scary. I could make all types of arguments for both sides and call out the opposite, but we all need to look a little deeper at what we are deciding.

In these economic times this line of thinking becomes even more troublesome. I just hope again the moderates come out on top.

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