I feel you on this one, but building an industry on misinformation is not the way.
Another thought: maybe we need to stop being so obsessed and utterly dependent on cars in general. Live locally, support your community, become more self-reliant, leverage personal technogy.
If it is PR mastery (not convinced) it's in the tone of the writing.
It reminds me of a notice of late payment I received from The Economist magazine some years back. It was so darn polite and diplomatic, I kept it in a shoebox ever since.
Now, whenever there's an outstanding payment issue with a client, I read the letter for inspiration.
This comment doesn't clearly refute claims made by the original blog post. The statement "they probably aren't actually bricks, but cars in need of servicing" sounds inconclusive.
All I am saying is if people are going to refute the original blog post as "nonsense" and will "confront it with facts", then do so convincingly and without contradiction.
If someone really wants to stop contributing to pollution, oil spills, energy dependence etc - don't buy a car. Any car.
Manufacturing cars requires a tremendous amount of energy and natural resources. Everything we manufacture and consume punishes the earth.
Myself, I've decided to eschew driving. Our perceived dependence on automobiles is insane. The roads are insane. No car is going to make me cool. I want no part of it.
I likely won't. Reason being, if I want customized, "filtered" searches, Google is where to be. If I want privacy and/or unfiltered searches, I'll use Duck Duck Go and Blekko.
If trust becomes an issue with Google, I won't just clear my search history, I'll leave for good.
It's horrifying that we need a TL;DR for a modest chunk of text - a mere comment.
If our attention spans are that fried, are we any better off than the hypothetical guy trying to fill out a government form?
It's a bit like taking someone's synopsis for what the Bible is about. You can't. You have to read it, experience it and parse it yourself or you can't really know.
Myself, I'm not going to pablum-feed you guys a over-simplified short form version of what I think I just read. Read it for yourself.
I use PayPal every day, numerous times in a day, but I will jump ship in a nanosecond if PayPal gets a real competitor.
Here is my list why PayPal is (a necessary) evil:
- The Wikileaks blockade
- The internal staff who deal with refunds and other customer issues. They need to be trained MUCH better, and taught manners and courtesies when interacting with users.
- A lot of nickle and dime-ing me on every transaction, every which way. PayPal makes a mint off of me.
Actually, I agree with Duncan_bayne's list, except for buying firearms online with the service. I'm in vehement disagreement with that.
Nicely said. I'm did the same. The elephant incedent was more than enough incentive for me never to do business with them again.
EDIT: Foxylad, you're the kind of ethical person I would like to work with in the future. Please leave some contact info in your profile so I can reach you. Thank you.
JotForm should have bailed from GoDaddy when most other people did. Instead, they were apathetic and took a chance with their business and all of their clients as well.