Month: August 2010

Clickbank or BigCommerce: Which is Best?

Everybody these days seems to be jumping on the Ecommerce bandwagon. Rightly so, because there is potentially a good chance to make a pretty penny off your Ecommerce business. Many merchants started off as have an online store for a side business, many of which converted into full-time merchants earning their sole bread and butter off this business.… read more “Clickbank or BigCommerce: Which is Best?”

Wells Fargo BLOWS

Wells Fargo bank is terrible to use. They nickel and dime you with a million different fees and then try to upsell you to new accounts every time you deposit checks. Not even to mention the huge amount of junk mail they send.

Flat Fee Child Support Proposal

Our current child support system incentivizes people who are unsuccessful at life to have children while penalizing those who are successful. Child support is currently based on income- the more you make the more you pay.

I suggest changing that to a fixed monthly fee- $1,200 a month no matter who you are.

This will encourage natural selection by codifying it.… read more “Flat Fee Child Support Proposal”

Bought Droid X & Switching From ATT to Verizon

I just purchased a Droid X (the best smartphone currently out) and am switching my service from AT&T to Verizon. I am sick and tired of getting no service in my apartment building and need much more reliable service.

I was an AT&T customer for 6 years and wasn’t happy the quality of service they offered so I finally am switching over.… read more “Bought Droid X & Switching From ATT to Verizon”

Simple & Ideal Taxation System Idea

Current systems of taxation are complex, unfair to many groups, expensive to administer, and lead indirectly to much societal damage.

I suggest a much fairer way to operate the government and one which would place natural limits on government size and power:

Change the Constitution to only allow an estate tax of 75% and a personal gift tax of 75% (except for charities which will abide by strict rules).… read more “Simple & Ideal Taxation System Idea”

Emerging Adulthood

I just read an interesting ten page article in the NYTimes about a psychologist named Arnett putting forth a new theory adding a stage to the development cycle: emerging adulthood.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/22/magazine/22Adulthood-t.html?src=me&ref=homepage

Emerging adulthood is supposed to be a new life stage that in modern life comes between adolescence and adulthood. Adulthood has been traditionally defined as obtaining a job, getting married, and having children.… read more “Emerging Adulthood”

Magento – Disadvantages and Problems

Ecommerce websites are an effective way to make money online. But only few websites, like BigCommerce (currently the best), is SEO friendly and fulfill all army-men-carrying-comthe potentials required by search engines. Magento ecommerce is one such solution like BigCommerce (though not quite as good), which is both, open source and SEO friendly, and proves to be a better shopping cart than many other ecommerce solutions.… read more “Magento – Disadvantages and Problems”