valerie wrote: It depends on their contract.

Did you know Barker is 98 years old!

That's it ? I thought he was close to 137 So yeah he's 98 years OLD indeed and he still earns a good royalty from Price Is Right - deserved, he made the show what it was, I dunno if any of the scandals about him shagging his colleagues true or not, but he was a one of a kind host and he connected with people, unlike the fake they have right now and the new direction of the show - no wonder he is unhappy about that - I think they pushed him out to retirement, it's funny watching clips of him hosting the show when he had black hair

One thing Amazon makes it right when you have issues with your order, BUT the catch with Amazon is that executives are monitoring accounts and banning non profitable accounts - you see Amazon is a bottom line only company, if they are not making money off of you, they kick you out permanently. This is true - so for instance if you return too many items or get too many courtesy credits, etc, you get eventually kicked out. Amazon does NOT reveal the threshold obviously but they do keep tabs - even if your returns are as a result of being deceptive or the credits you get are because of their issues and not your own fault. I've only had a few issues with Amazon, one time product was shipped to wrong address, it was the correct street number, but the wrong street Fortunately I was contacted by the person who noticed the box on their door step - so an Uber driver who cannot read street signs or use a bloody GPS !!! Anyhow, I managed to get a refund for the shipping equivalent from Amazon, even though I am Prime, I pay for perks, which I did not receive, so they credited me $6. Another instance where I was promised one day delivery, and had to wait 2 extra days for delivery because item was not in stock despite being marked in stock - So Amazon gave me a $19 credit towards my next Prime renewal. Another time, I ordered some hard drives, they came in a box loose with poor packing, the drivers were clicking and producing lots of corrupted data and unrecoverable errors. SO they refunded me the entire price of the drive, and asked me to keep the drive. I've never actually returned stuff on Amazon, but I know they keep a track of all those credits you get, even if not your fault - there have been instances where people have been cut off from Amazon because they were not profitable enough - if Amazon is losing money from a customer, they will deny them service and ban them. Amazon has always made it right by me when I had issues though. I think the price hike is excessive but for people who order frequently or for the streaming alone, it's worth it, it's just as every one is raising prices here and there - I mean 20-40% price increases, but it's funny, do people get a 40% raise on their salary ? Never happened

valerie wrote: Rotators would rotate links. Some people that referred others to a program would place their refs links in the rotator. Then they would advertise using the rotator link. Every time someone would click on the link in the ad, a members ref page would come up.

But there was a problem with that.

Ohhhh yes I remember, I knew I heard the rotator somewhere, didn't Jim own one or was it AdHits ?

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Say you had 100 members in the rotator. They did not rotate in any kind of a sequence. So johns page might come up twenty times during the advert and Mary's might come up only five times, etc.

Wow that sucks, talk about clumsy coding - so essentially a random number generator. Good coding would be to make it fair, use a random sequence but make sure the same position is not chosen again until the others are chosen, or after a set number of positions are chosen - there are ways to make a controlled random environment, but I guess coders are usually too lazy - yeah that method sounds unfair, especially considering the nature of traditional RNG on computers

valerie wrote: Just depends on their legal contract.

Actors are paid an amount to be in a movie. Most likely they are not paid anything else. If they are paid 10 million for the movie contract, that's it.

Yes the contract is for the MOVIE - but eventually the movie comes out on DVD / BluRay and or streams online, streamers have to pay licensing fees to the studios, so in theory actors receive some residual from that. I know for a fact TV series work like that, when the show gets syndicated and show re-runs they get paid, I don't know if it is a legal obligation for movie studio to pay residual, I've never starred in a movie before but from a business perspective it is likely. Besides actors never deal directly with anybody, all the deals are done through their agents, including finding them roles, $$$ negotiations, etc. All the actors do is sign the contract(s) - could it be that agents later make sure the studios or networks pay their residuals, maybe, it's all about money. If Johnny Carson was alive, he'd get paid for those Carson re-runs

Bob Barker, still gets paid a big residual from the show, even though he retired so many years ago - He said it himself during an interview when asked about his discontent with new host and the direction of the sow, he said he wants what's best for the show he does not hate the show, he earns a sizable residual income form that show.

I think only principle performers and actors get residuals, if a show is syndicated, gets, redistributed or streamed, but extras obviously not There could be exceptions of who gets Royalties and who doesn't.

Jerry Sienfeld for example, well he earns around $40 million A YEAR only from residuals for Sienfeld alone - that's crazy, that's good retirement money right there for doing nothing

valerie wrote: Yep it's just warming up here during Spring. Next month it will begin to get hot.

I don't like insects or crawly things. I keep the place sprayed inside and out and if I see an insect inside, it is dead. Spiders seem to like the garage here. Rather big spiders too. They're dead but big and ugly.

How big ? It seems everything is bigger / supersized in America I'm sure your spiders cannot compete with Australia, they have the world's most dangerous insects over there, second to Hawaii, mind you HI is a state so yeah US cannot compete with Australia though. Those spiders in your house can be your best friend Valerie, fortunately most spiders are harmless and rarely bite (so they say), and they eat all the bugs in and around your house They may like your garage for a reason - for some reason, spiders LOVE the smell of gas or car's exhaust. If you use a gas BBQ and you clean out your burners, you will notice spiders in them, they love the smell ....... So I think those spiders are entering your garage through your car, has to be You can probably find some up in the attic too, just don't bother the brown recluse or black widows Some spiders do bite, but apparently most won't do so unprovoked, I dunno exactly which species of spiders are venomous or more aggressive, I do know the ones in Australia are, like the funnel web spider, they have spiders there the size of a basketball or larger

valerie wrote: It's a giant line of pigeon poo from a pigeon secret invasion alien ship. They visit earth to dump their.....poo.

WELL no I don't think so, that cloud looks like a giant snake - and snake represents evil - could this be a sign in the sky ?

valerie wrote: tasman1 the next time pigeons go poo on your nest, place it in a jar.

You could sell canned pigeon poo on eBay. People buy anything on eBay.

So I heard, yeah that's true - stories of frivolous sales on eBay are all over the place - I remember the story of someone who sold a piece of toast with a cross on it, claiming it was blessed, sold it for thousands of $. Oh yeah, the fart jars, apparently this is a good seller - done initially as a joke, someone found out that he / she was getting LOTS of requests for farts in a jar - I'm pretty sure eBay must have some rules, but there again they probably are ignored, just like there are many scammers selling on Amazon, fake items, deceptive, etc. I'm pretty sure you can find anything on eBay, from farts, to real human toes, to a jar of clipped nails

tasman1 wrote: Thank You all here , I learned a lot but still can not find value of ..my... Excretion
Maybe I am rich ? Will try to find price on Dow or Nasdaq , if price is good I can stop doing surveys , cool

Oh I misread that word Tasman1, good thing I re-read it

Humans are full of it, so it probably has no value - but whale's blue vomit, that's worth millions $ - and apparently when bees munch on the pollen or whatever, they then vomit, and that's the honey we eat - well apparently honey is good for you, and Kopilewak Coffee comes from fermented poop of cats, yet it's the most expensive coffee in the world

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valerie wrote: Oh gosh Darkstar2, I am so happy you posted that link. For the past week I have not been able to sleep due to wondering about bird poo and bird wee wee.

You see folks, especially you folks that read this junk but never post, how much you can learn here! All is not lost. Education is the most important thing you can have in your brain (altho most of it serves no outward use).

Whatever studies man bring and say as the final word are junk . There is so much of mystery in nature which is very much difficult to unveil. the above link is really misleading. every discharge coming through same hole

Why is it hard to believe, and how is it misleading, it's true - and yes charge coming through same hole, remember there is a reason why it's not the case for humans - I won't spell it out why would they lie about pigeons, I tried getting more info and can confirm it to be true. The article is fact, birds use one hole to do No. 1 and No.2 that hole is called the "cloaca" (hey at least you can't say this topic was for nothin' ).

Birds, unlike mammals, do not have separate exits for urine and feces. Both waste products are eliminated simultaneously through the cloaca. While mammals excrete nitrogenous wastes mostly in the form of urea, birds convert it to uric acid or guanine, which reduces water loss in comparison.

Hey mom guess what I learned in school today ?

Now this post makes it officially PAGE 6 !

valerie wrote: It's been a beautiful Palm Sunday today in Kentucky. I wouldn't mind it staying this way year round except a little less breezy. We're expecting rain rain rain.

April Showers brings ants and dirty pants!

and in May the wasps find new nests and the ants start farming I heard that this year insects will be bigger and in larger quantities - not to mention migration of giant killer wasps and spiders - you have none of that in cold weather, none of that in the North Pole, don't you just wished you lived in a cold snow climate all year long not to deal with nasty bugs, crazy hot and humid weather and dirty pants ?

valerie wrote: Well most do these days get a percentage when their series is shown, especially.
But in the older days that was not always so.

Same with music.

Syndicated shows most certainly do - if not mistaken, syndication can occur after a minimum of 100 episodes, once a show is syndicated it can be shown across networks, reruns, etc, it's good residual income for all involved. Any movie or old series is streamed somewhere, these actors get a residual - even for the garbage movies

It's funny that a lot of celebs don't even bother watching their own movie -

valerie wrote: I forget but seemed like the boy that was really a doll, was possessed. It wasn't the type of movie one really remembers because it is slow and rather boring. All I can remember is that stupid doll.

I kinda felt sorry for the old couple that jumped in the lake - I wanted to see more of their weirdness - the best part of the movie was hearing the couple talk How the HELL does Netflix sign up for such trash is beyond me, but at least it's far better than that alien invasion crap, Dark Skies, much better If that doll was possessed it sure didn't seem like it, possessed what what, a pigeon ? I expected some true horror, action, or a twist, like that grocery guy is a wanted serial killer, oh well I will finish it tonight and see - if it were that easy to submit garbage to Netflix to get paid, then sign me up - easy money $$$$$

valerie wrote: Yep, yahoo is a search engine. I guess they still are, maybe not.

Of course Yahoo is still a search engine, and so is Bing

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I was the first person online to have a sequential rotator. My partner back then actually created it. I guess I could tell lots of stories about how it was then and in many ways, it was better.

What's that a sex toy of some sort ? Is it the same thing as a Cycler I remember those shady programs, you invested money you then were added at the bottom of a list, someone ivnested after you your name would be pushed up a position until you went to the top and cycled out, or something like that - true ponzi scheme model these programs never lasted anyway, or perhaps you meant rotators as in advertising ?
As to DonkeyMail, it's probably not worth the time anymore, probably doesn't pay much anyways, maybe a few cents a week, I wouldn't be interested in any programs unless it could earn a few dollars daily, if I wanted just cents I'd do everything here instead Whatever active referrals people had are probably no longer active anymore - people get lured all the time where there is more money and ever sine this Cryptocurrency crap has become a trend, people have flocked to those shady sites promising riches, they are just ponzi schemes, but people like to dabble with garbage even if it means risking losing money. This is why it is extremely difficult to find ACTIVE and committed referrals to legit, sustainable business. It seems nobody likes to work for money anymore or earn slow but legit. People have gotten used to the shady programs like, invest $100 and earn back $300 in 24 hours I know, I've been gullible too and got scammed thousands of $ in these scams - fortunately I recovered all my losses in 1-2 years earnings on CS

valerie wrote: Oh gosh Darkstar2, I am so happy you posted that link. For the past week I have not been able to sleep due to wondering about bird poo and bird wee wee.

You see folks, especially you folks that read this junk but never post, how much you can learn here! All is not lost. Education is the most important thing you can have in your brain (altho most of it serves no outward use).

Well to be honest I find the material through that pigeon link far more interesting than the stuff they teach in school
Some of the stuff you "learn" in school you will almost always forget, but learn about pigeon poo, that stuff you can't forget, I guess it "sticks" in your mind Imagine if human beings did #1 and #2 from same hole, how awkward and inconvenient that would be

Don't pigeons get UTIs that way ?

Well I am happy to have contributed to fun facts - next up - hONEY, who here consumes honey, did you ever wonder what is honey ? You know it comes from bees right - well here is a fun fact for you - once again you will sleep less dumber tonight. Honey is actually bee VOMIT, literally - that's it. So next time you indulge, remember you are eating insect throw-up -

valerie wrote: It's a flying dickie bird.

Or a Russian missile

It's one of the conspiracy theories they wrote on social media.

tasman1 wrote: Valerie , I know you many years , now I give you a secret how to earn BIG money on puregarbage
Two day ago I made a survey on puregarbage 2.68 , only 10 min and was paid

How did I do that ??? Since January I did try 1000s , all empty shit and finally I got one , paid , lucky me

You shouldn't complain you do well I've been trying for 2 bloody years here with almost $0, until 1 day last week almost earned $30 a few double digit days this month too - never stopped trying, never closed doors, because last time I left ClixSense to work for a company and help them and earn 4 figures a month, they betrayed me, sometimes the grass may appear greener on the other side but it harbours some poisonous snakes, it's the best example I can think of the SNAKES I worked with including people I thought were close friends and trusted colleagues - shame on them and F*** them all because many don't deserve to be where they are right now - but company preferred keeping mediocre workers that sucks up to the community manager and licks company's collective nuts - I don't work like that, I like to keep my tongue pink and not brown Besides I think many of us are still here for nostalgia and because something is better than nothing. and where else on earth can you discuss about pigeons and poo

valerie wrote:
It's a habit and something to check daily to see if a million dollar survey is listed.
My luck it would be a purespectrum survey also known as puregarbage.

Well the survey invites directly from PureSh** are one thing and the Spectrum ones redirected through other routers is another - Yeah they are generally bad, but found that they have gotten better over the years, I've actually completed some high paid surveys with them - even on ySense, you never know, I still try them, I think even PureSpectrum sometimes redirects to other common routers too, they are no more garbage, than the rest of the surveys here including ySense PMR and the off quota, bottom of the barrel invites from Samp. It's not like we have a plethora of routers here anyway. You never know - I mean one day last week here I earned almost $30 in surveys, so far I have almost $80 for April, I mean I sure wish it was like that all the time and not once every 2 years

tasman1 wrote:
Habits die hard , and as we grow older it become harder and harder to kill habit

It depends on the habit right ? Though nowadays you never know, you have 90 year old still at it

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I did post not long ago asking myself why I am here ??? Money ? Nope , I have no debt , not a single cent in debt , I have good saving , I have my home , cars and rest end of next week I will get some inheritance from Croatia , extra 35-40000 depend on Euro value

With the inflation and cost of living through the rough, a $35k would be poverty here and in the US and most probably Australia - not everyone who earns extra money online is piling debt, any extra money is good to have it's better than nothing, it's a supplement - of course unless you live in a mansion with 10 cars and have millions in the bank, you probably don't need the extra cash, unless your lavish lifestyle costs you more money than you have - it's not uncommon for rich people to go broke because they still manage to live beyond their wealth. You are here, because you know that your opinion is important to all these companies and that by filling surveys you make a big difference in shaping the quality of products and services - your opinion matters

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What am I doing here ? Stupidity or habit ? think it is just long lasting habit
Why I am angry if 50 cent survey did not paid me ??? Money ? Nope , it is just bloody habit
Will I stay here once I get this extra money from inheritance ,? will I still do 20 cent survey ? I think we all know answer

Well you cannot jump for joy and be happy for not getting paid for a survey, it's a matter of time and principle.

valerie wrote: I watched that one some years ago. It's ok and some what different....and weird.

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I haven't finished it yet, I can't wait to see how it goes, it's just so slow and boring, it trails on and on, and so far there is a lot of questions unanswered, like why did the couple lie about going on a retreat and they went to a lake and jumped. I know that they have had a son, what was odd about their son, where did the doll come into play, I mean the acting is really good, but so far this looks to me like another budget film, I haven't heard the doll speak yet or do truly horrific things, guess will continue watching it and hope it gets better, it falls short on what I was expecting though, but I love the story, and yes it's definitely weird, - the doll looks more like a girl than a boy though and what about the nanny that went up in the attic and all of a sudden she was locked there, the ladder came up by itself ? Did the doll have powers ? That grocery guy is so damn suspicious, I dunno something about him I guess I have to continue watching to find out later tonight.

So how did donkeymail work, how much did it pay was it really worth it if you did not have referrals ?
As far as search engine, I think Yahoo was used too, also Yahoo Messenger and ICQ were a thing

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