Tilt your phone to see more

For quite some time I'd been thinking "Wouldn't it be nice if you could tilt your device to see more content?" So now Ive seen for the first time an implementation of the idea and it's in The Guardian app. What took someone so long, and why them?

Master, Missy Doctor Who

Missy goes to the trouble of saying she's insane. I liked it better when the Master thought he was doing the necessary thing and the Doctor was delusional. The best villians are heroes in their own stories and it feels like the Master had it and lost it.

Cup color: Purple or pink

Is this cup purple or pink. My mom says it's pink and I say it's purple.

YouTube's comment failure

YouTube has this bell icon that indicates that someone has commented in a thread that you have commented in, but does not provide an easy way to actually get to the thread. What's up with that, YouTube? And sometimes YouTube, for no apparent reason decides to eliminate line breaks in your posts/

Banks and predatory fees...and PayPal.

Banks like to use acronyms to hide bad behavior on their part. My bank has a NSF ACH fee. NSF stands for Non-Sufficient Funds. Why they can't spell it out or say insufficient funds like the rest of us, I don't know. They also don't tell you about ACH which stands for Automated Clearing House which is overseen by the nongovernmental agency, NACHA, which on a one glance over their main web page and visiting a few other pages, I had no idea what it stands for, but can be found here. It stands for National Automated Clearing House Association. They charge to even look at their rules, which makes this article about transparency on their website a joke. This fee can be charged to savings accounts, which they don't tell you, and can and will be issued whenever someone decides to make any (automated? just about everything to do with account balances is automated to a degree) withdrawal from anybody else's account. Enter Paypal, Apparently, as I said before, they came up with a new "service" called Pay After Delivery which takes the money for no good reason out of your bank account, not your Paypal balance. The bank told me that PayPal told them that PayPal always takes money out of the bank account first. Look at this screen that PayPal puts up after selecting PayPal from a merchant.

Nowhere does it tell you anything about where the money is coming from. Also, there's nothing to tell you whether or not it just goes back to the site and tells it you successfully logged into PayPal and they're going to give the vendor the money.

Here's a link to NACHA's Contact Us form.

PayPal's contact page.

Update: Someone from my bank called me and told me that NACHA charges them for "returning" a request for withdrawal. The place that made the request for withdrawal doesn't get charged though. I don't know why NACHA members thought this was a good idea, nor why they have to talk in a jargon to understand each other but can't seem to understand ordinary words for things.

Achievements that are liberal in nature

Copied this from a site that is abrasive to conservatives. Wanted to start a post explaining why the ideas are liberal in nature, but this is in early stages.

1. The 40-hour work week.
2. Weekends
3. Vacations
4. Women’s Voting Rights
5. The Civil Rights Act of 1964

6. The right of people of all colors to use schools and facilities.
7. Public schools.
8. Child-labor laws.
9. The right to unionize
10. Health care benefits
11. National Parks
12. National Forests
13. Interstate Highway System
14. GI Bill
15. Labor Laws/Worker’s Rights
16. Marshall Plan
17. FDA
18. Direct election of Senators by the people.
19. Occupational Safety and Health Administration, Workplace safety laws
20. Social Security
21. NASA
22. The Office of Congressional Ethics. Created in 2008.
23. The Internet
24. National Weather Service
25. Product Labeling/Truth in Advertising Laws
26. Rural Electrification/Tennessee Valley Authority
27. Morrill Land Grant Act
28. Public Universities
29. Bank Deposit Insurance
30. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
31. Consumer Product Safety Commission
32. Public Broadcasting/Educational Television
33. Americans With Disabilities Act
34. Family and Medical Leave Act
35. Environmental Protection Agency
36. Clean Air Act
37. Clean Water Act
38. USDA
39. Public Libraries
40. Transcontinental Railroad and the rail system in general
41. Civilian Conservation Corps
42. Panama Canal
43. Hoover Dam
44. The Federal Reserve
45. Medicare
46. The United States Military
47. FBI
48. CIA
49. Local and state police departments
50. Fire Departments
51. Veterans Medical Care
52. Food Stamps
53. Federal Housing Administration
54. Extending Voting Rights to 18 year olds
55. Freedom of Speech
56. Freedom of Religion/Separation of Church and State
57. Right to Due Process
58. Freedom of The Press
59. Right to Organize and Protest
60. Pell Grants and other financial aid to students
61. Federal Aviation Administration/Airline safety regulations
62. The 13th Amendment
63. The 14th Amendment
64. The 15th Amendment
65. Unemployment benefits
66. Women’s Health Services
67. Smithsonian Institute
68. Head Start
69. Americorps
70. Mine Safety And Health Administration (This has been weakened by conservatives, resulting in recent mining disasters.)
71. Food Labeling
72. WIC
73. Peace Corps
74. United Nations
75. World Health Organization
76. Nuclear Treaties
77. Lincoln Tunnel
78. Sulfur emissions cap and trade to eliminate acid rain
79. Earned Income Tax Credit
80. The banning of lead in consumer products
81. National Institute of Health
82. Garbage pickup/clean streets
83. Banning of CFCs.
84. Erie Canal
85. Medicaid
86. TARP
87. Bail Out of the American Auto Industry
88. Lily Ledbetter Fair Pay Act
89. Wildlife Protection
90. End of Don’t Ask Don’t Tell
91. Establishing the basis for Universal Human Rights

Declaration of Independence
92. Miranda Rights
93. Banning of torture
94. The right to a proper defense in court
95. An independent judiciary
96. The right to vote
97. Fair, open, and honest elections
98. The right to bear arms
99. Health care for children and pregnant women
100. A stable and strong government established by a Constitution
101. The founding of The United States of America
102. The defeat of the Nazis and victory in World War II
103. Paramedics
104. The Brady Handgun Act
105. The Glass-Steagall Act (since been repealed)
106. Oil industry regulations
107. The Affordable Care Act which makes insurance companies more honest and fair.
108. Woman’s Right to Choose
109. Title IX
110. Affirmative Action
111. A National Currency
112. National Science Foundation
113. Weights and measures standards
114. Vehicle Safety Standards
115. NATO
116. The income tax and power to tax in general, which have been used to pay for much of this list.
117. 911 Emergency system
118. Tsunami, hurricane, tornado, and earthquake warning systems
119. Public Transportation
120. The Freedom of Information Act
121. Emancipation Proclamation, which ended slavery
122. Antitrust legislation which prevents corporate monopolies
123. Water Treatment Centers and sewage systems
124. The Meat Inspection Act
125. The Pure Food And Drug Act
126. The Bretton Woods system
127. International Monetary Fund
128. SEC, which regulates Wall Street.
129. National Endowment for the Arts
130. Campaign finance laws
131. Federal Crop Insurance
132. United States Housing Authority
133. Soil Conservation
134. School Lunch Act
135. Mental Retardation Facilities and Community Mental Health Centers Construction Act
136. Vaccination Assistance Act
137. Over the course of nearly 50 years, liberal ideas contributed greatly to the eventual end of the Cold War.
138. The creation of counterinsurgency forces such as the Navy Seals and Green Berets.
139. Voting Rights Act, which ended poll taxes, literacy tests, and other voter qualification tests.
140. Civil Rights Act of 1968
141. Job Corps
142. Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965
143. Teacher Corps
144. National Endowment for the Humanities
145. Endangered Species Preservation Act of 1966
146. National Trails System Act of 1968
147. U.S. Postal Service
148. Title X
149. Keeping the Union together through Civil War and rebuilt the South afterwards.
150. Modern Civilization

PayPal's horrible new feature.

https://www.paypal.com/myaccount/settings/wallet/ which you can't get to without logging in reads, "If you have a PayPal balance, we'll use it first." But PayPal's new "feature" Pay after Delivery bypasses the PayPal balance and goes for money in your bank account for some unexplained reason. It makes it harder to keep track of your spending because there is no setting aside money for the pending transaction as usual.  Also, this feature is opt-out instead of opt-in.
When I checked out of eBay with Edge, twice blank popup windows occurred and there was a PayPal box in among the eBay page. I don't know if I didn't look at the PayPal box too clearly, but all I saw was that the money was coming from PayPal.

I don't usually keep money in the savings account that PayPal is planning to take money from. All the unhelpful replies to my complaint amounted to just explaining the feature. I've changed banks and the previous one charged me for an attempt to withdraw money that wasn't there while declining the transaction.from a savings account. Update: The new bank charges the predatory price of $29 for someone attempting to withdraw money when there isn't enough there. More on this in a later post.