eBay chatboard archive: Feb-11-08 to Feb-17-08 week

Posted by 22028   ( 1684 ) on Feb-17-08 at 22:41:44 PST   Listings
73vinylpaste91, if you are a member in ebay USA you can use the same login informations at the other ebay sites as well.
Posted by 73vinylpaste91   ( 485 ) on Feb-17-08 at 22:13:48 PST   Listings
how can a person sign on to a ebay site in Germany, Demark, Sweden, UK etc.. Tom
Posted by stamphick!   ( 338 ) on Feb-17-08 at 22:11:26 PST   Listings
So your assertion that self-declaration of independence is all that is required for fait accompli independence is simply not correct;

Of course, I made no such statement.
Posted by stamphick!   ( 338 ) on Feb-17-08 at 22:07:58 PST   Listings
I take the position that Congress has better things to do and this is really none of their business.
Posted by stamphick!   ( 338 ) on Feb-17-08 at 22:07:11 PST   Listings
First, the signatories of the Montevideo Convention were all solely from the Americas, and nineteen countries can scarcely be said to speak for entire world.

However, as a restatement of customary international law, the Montevideo Convention merely codified existing legal norms and its principles therefore do not apply merely to the signatories, but to all subjects of international law as a whole
Posted by jaywild   ( 1052 ) on Feb-17-08 at 22:01:52 PST   Listings
stamphick… Er—just a guess, but in the he-said/he-said baseball steroid use flap, I have a hunch you take the part of Roger Clemons. Am I correct?

Jim
Posted by jaywild   ( 1052 ) on Feb-17-08 at 21:57:05 PST   Listings
stamphick… First, the signatories of the Montevideo Convention were all solely from the Americas, and nineteen countries can scarcely be said to speak for entire world. Further, the signed compact rather flies in the face of history US policy toward its own rebellious provinces. As cited earlier, the Confederacy was never treated in any fashion by the US government, let alone any other in the world, as an independent entity. It lived and died as a rebellion, despite what it may have thought of itself.

The most important part of your citation is the section about the European Union, and its definition of a “state”, which differs from the Montevideo agreement in that a state’s existence is a question of fact completely independent of the conveying or withholding or recognition by other states. So your assertion that self-declaration of independence is all that is required for fait accompli independence is simply not correct; there are four standards required by the Montevideo pact, three by the European Union, none of which is a self-declaration of independence. The article cites the specific instances in which such a loose system would (and has) caused chaos, the “Republic of China” being a glaring example. There is really no such entity.

Jim
Posted by 22028   ( 1684 ) on Feb-17-08 at 21:08:24 PST   Listings
Jim, the Tibet items are of interest, but only for collectors of forgeries...
Posted by stamphick!   ( 338 ) on Feb-17-08 at 20:59:03 PST   Listings
"here are four accepted standards to qualify as a nation that are described in international public law: territory, population, sovereignty, and government."

"The Montevideo Convention - which is an international treaty signed and ratified by the United States and numerous other countries - makes this clear in its article 3. Recognition is not a formal requirement of statehood. Therefore, neither a political unit needs to be recognized to become a state, nor does a state have the obligation to recognize another one. At the same time, neither recognition is enough to create a state, nor does its absence abolish it."

Starting from those quotes you should be able to satisfy yourself if you're so inclined.

There's lots more on the web or you can continue to lecture off the top of your head.
Posted by jaywild   ( 1052 ) on Feb-17-08 at 20:25:39 PST   Listings
stamphick… I look forward to your providing some concrete citations to support your assertions as to “international law” on the subject of independence. Funny, but the situations in Biafra, Katanga, Chechnya, or Tibet, to name a few, haven’t followed what you have “found” to be a dictum. A definite citation from you will certainly clear things up, which I eagerly await.

Jim
Posted by jaywild   ( 1052 ) on Feb-17-08 at 20:18:57 PST   Listings
Rainer… Is this of interest?

Jim
Posted by stamphick!   ( 338 ) on Feb-17-08 at 20:07:20 PST   Listings
I was interested in the question I asked earlier about when a country becomes a country so I looked up a little international law.

What I found was that most states do indeed become states by self declaration and in international law the political existence of a state is independent of recognition by the other states.

There are a few other requirements like having a defined boundary and an established political system.

So it looks like Kosovo is indeed a country as of today. Who knows what tomorrow will bring.
Posted by jaywild   ( 1052 ) on Feb-17-08 at 19:57:31 PST   Listings
due2cents… I think your Jamestown cancel is from a International machine, a nice strike on both sides.

Jim
Posted by due2cents   ( 26 ) on Feb-17-08 at 19:49:53 PST   Listings
I liked this coil use

and the term
LOCAL used in 1916 Washington DC
Here
Posted by due2cents   ( 26 ) on Feb-17-08 at 19:33:58 PST   Listings
some danish

semipostals

HERE
Posted by due2cents   ( 26 ) on Feb-17-08 at 19:22:13 PST   Listings
Hey Jaywild

I got this expo mark
because it was a miss
reprocessed
VA
Posted by due2cents   ( 26 ) on Feb-17-08 at 19:17:00 PST   Listings
Not in Alec's time
But got this
Clean-CDS
Posted by jaywild   ( 1052 ) on Feb-17-08 at 18:44:18 PST   Listings
due2cents… Your card is from Infla period 27. The date is December 11, 1923, not November 12. (Europeans write their dates day-month-year, Americans prefer the month-day-year format.) The stamp’s denomination is 5 Rentenpfennig, reflecting the new currency introduced on December 1, 1923.

Jim
Posted by jaywild   ( 1052 ) on Feb-17-08 at 18:39:26 PST   Listings
Io… If I may insert a quibble—a declaration of independence does not make a province, region, colony etc. “independent”. The best example I can think of is the American Confederacy, which was recognized as a nation by no one on earth but themselves.

While there are no standard rules for a nation to achieve independence, such a situation usually occurs only when the original hegemon agrees to formally cede the territory involved. The US was not made independent on July 4, 1776; it merely stated the goal toward which it was struggling. Holland recognized its independence first, to its severe detriment—Holland would suffer for well over a century for its rashness—but it was the Treaty of Paris that verified the United States’ status as an independent nation. (It’s first government was under the Articles of Confederation, a doomed, unworkable arrangement that proved no less successful when the Southern states resurrected it eighty years later.)

Regarding Kosovo there will be much wrangling in the UN, at the end of which Serbia and Russia may agree to recognize Kosovo as independent or they may not. If they don’t I doubt they have any leverage to force a return to the earlier state of affairs, seeing that the US and the EU are pretty solidly opposed to such a move. So perhaps in this case de jure independence will only come after a long, bitter period of de facto independence. Rancor dies hard in the Balkans, always has…

Jim
Posted by due2cents   ( 26 ) on Feb-17-08 at 16:48:30 PST   Listings
The other sides of those
Postal?



Infla-Alec

Here is one i picked up today in your range.
11-12-23
Posted by due2cents   ( 26 ) on Feb-17-08 at 16:38:03 PST   Listings

Any one here or upstairs in the balconeers
ever do any business in the 50's-60's
with "M.UHL"
in Fla
I guess he ran a ww fdc and cover service/club/business


He had a bunch of this kinda thing

Postal-somethings

should I buy more of this kinda stuff WW
for .25 per or not.
My last shot at them is in the AM.
Posted by iomoon   ( 1060 ) on Feb-17-08 at 16:35:47 PST   Listings



WADP
Posted by 220man   ( 170 ) on Feb-17-08 at 16:25:09 PST   Listings
WADP?
Posted by claghorn1p   ( 414 ) on Feb-17-08 at 16:13:05 PST   Listings
Tomorrow we might see first day covers on eBay.
Posted by claghorn1p   ( 414 ) on Feb-17-08 at 16:12:08 PST   Listings
just kidding. They were asking if the stamps were "legal". I am not sure if a mailman in podunk knows where Kosovo is, to say nothing of whether their stamps are "legal".
Posted by dbenson   ( 8847 ) on Feb-17-08 at 16:04:23 PST   Listings
Just heard on the news that Australia has recognised Kosovo independence,

David B.
Posted by iomoon   ( 1060 ) on Feb-17-08 at 15:59:19 PST   Listings
Bill C.

I would imagine that one of the last things that Kosovo would be likely to do in the euphoria of declaring independence, is registering their stamps with WDAP.

I may be wrong.

D2

Stop provocating international crises :-)
Posted by dbenson   ( 8847 ) on Feb-17-08 at 15:31:45 PST   Listings
If Kosovian stamps are recognised on international mail then they would be deemed legal. Wonder if anyone wants to organise some covers from Pristina to Belgrade or Moscow and see what happens,

David B.
Posted by dbenson   ( 8847 ) on Feb-17-08 at 15:29:31 PST   Listings
Claghorn, AFAIK not every country registers their stamps with WADP and there are many who are years behind in paying their registration fees. That does not make their stamps illegal, just not registered,

David B.
Posted by claghorn1p   ( 414 ) on Feb-17-08 at 15:14:47 PST   Listings
Illegal stamps are unfortunately flourishing in the names of existing independent countries (members of the UPU and their dependencies), in the names of existing places not authorised to issue stamps, and also in the names of fictitious places. This market is estimated to be worth at least five hundred million dollars, if not more. In terms of the numbers sold, this represents a considerable loss of potential revenue to the countries concerned, which are mostly the developing countries of the African, Asian and Eastern European regions (more than 50 UPU member posts have been identified). Work in this area is consequently considered a priority issue for the WADP.

http://www.upu.int/philately/en/upu_combat.html
Posted by claghorn1p   ( 414 ) on Feb-17-08 at 15:12:18 PST   Listings
IO Jim I thought that there is a board member here who says that any country which does not register stamps with WDAP and UPU are illegal stamps? Please clarify?

http://www.wnsstamps.ch/en/

http://www.upu.int/philately/en/index.shtml

http://www.wnsstamps.ch/en/about/fr.html
Posted by iomoon   ( 1060 ) on Feb-17-08 at 14:54:01 PST   Listings
Very simple David, when they say they are.

They "officially" declared independence today.

Therefore they are officially independent.

It really doesn't matter two cents if the UN, Russia or Serbia don't recognize them as such.

Which country pays any attention whatever to the UN unless it's to ask for funds which usually come from the US and Eu anyway.

Is the USA not independent because the UN (non-existent at the time) or Great Britain, its ruling country, did not recognize it as such at the time of independence?
Posted by stamphick!   ( 338 ) on Feb-17-08 at 14:24:55 PST   Listings
due...Yes, I guess that started it all but as far as I know no one recognizes it yet. The EU and the UN are both meeting to consider the situation -- tomorrow I think.
Posted by due2cents   ( 26 ) on Feb-17-08 at 14:04:39 PST   Listings
StampHick
I thought when we sent US Troops to Kosovo
it made it a country.

at least started it all.
Posted by stamps12345   ( 225 ) on Feb-17-08 at 13:47:05 PST   Listings
It was the U.N. that first issued stamps for Kosovo .It was a joint issue between the U.N. and the Post & Telecommunications of Kosovo that issued stamps in 2000 .
Posted by stamphick!   ( 338 ) on Feb-17-08 at 12:46:53 PST   Listings
When is a country a country? When they say they are or when he EU recognizes them or when the UN acknowledges that they are.
Posted by bjornmu   ( 984 ) on Feb-17-08 at 11:25:48 PST   Listings
Kosovo have actually issued their own stamps since 2000, valued first in DM, then in Euros. But I guess they will soon have stamps which just say "KOSOVA" without any UN stuff. Or will they also include the Serbian name which will look like "KOCOBO"?
Posted by iomoon   ( 1060 ) on Feb-17-08 at 10:46:31 PST   Listings
Mitchell

I'm pretty sure Kosovo has already had such stamps in preparation for use tomorrow.
Posted by antonius-ra   ( 672 ) on Feb-17-08 at 10:42:56 PST   Listings
Looks like we have a new country in the World today. I wonder if they have their first stamps ready.
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Posted by bjornmu   ( 984 ) on Feb-17-08 at 06:17:53 PST   Listings
NOIP: One of the items in my collection now has a twin! Last year I bought this SCADTA cover with the wrong date BARRANQUILLA 2-II-1935 (should have been 3-II-1925), now I've just bought its twin! Different sender and receiver, but same franking and same date.

NB the first image is over 500K, it's from Rubystamps.
Posted by stamps12345   ( 225 ) on Feb-17-08 at 05:56:56 PST   Listings
Rain in Chicago ,good day to stay home and work on stamps ......taken the wife out for breakfest and then spent the whole day working on early China ,up to 1946 . Seen very few attempts of collectors to ever fiqure out all the overprints,perfs,watermarks of those long sets of cheap /common material .It will be a long and slow process much like the long sets of watermark variations of Brazil ,another area where nobody has a decent showing of the watermark varities .
Posted by stamps12345   ( 225 ) on Feb-17-08 at 05:35:37 PST   Listings
DAVID B. ----The Egyptian fake was not on watermarked paper . A scan showed nothing so I didn't make a link .

PAPERHISTORY -------Your not looking at your situation correctly ,You now have a philatelic assistant who can sit with you and you can spent quality time talking about the stamps in front of both of you ,some of my best memories are of us sitting with my assistant Paul's stamp assistant ....paul

Posted by paperhistory   ( 1995 ) on Feb-17-08 at 04:37:52 PST   Listings
pro: nice card. Amazing the stuff you dig up....

Not many stamps for me these days. In the midst of buying a house....need to get into a better school district since my daughter is starting kindergarten in the fall. Will put a crimp in the stamp budget for the next 30 years! :)
Posted by billsey   ( 888 ) on Feb-16-08 at 22:32:23 PST   Listings
vinb29, it seems to me like at $1.50 for the first stamp and $0.10 each for additional, you'll never have to worry about paying extra when the envelope gets too thick. By that time you'll have raked in several dollars in extra shipping. Maybe if you were offering the cheaper sets of 10-20 stamps each you'd put things on a better footing for the low income and beginner stamp collector.
Posted by vinb29   ( 889 ) on Feb-16-08 at 21:35:33 PST   Listings
Matt, You know I guess that makes some sense, but that is where I get annoyed because when I (we) shop on ebay, I won't buy anything from a seller when it is obvious this is happening(the price of the item is so low and the s/h so high). I don't know about other shoppers because like I said we try to stick to the rules, we combine s/h and when we sell 1 stamp even if it cost me nothing to purchase we charge a $1.50 U.S. this covers shipping/handling and fees barely. If the stamp sits in the store for more than a month it is 6 cents every month. We charge only 10c extra to combine each stamp and if the envelope gets thick the post office gets more $. When I look at a purchase I look at the whole picture If I see a stamps CV is $1.75 and someone wants a $1.00 for it? plus s/h? All I can say is I am going to have to revamp my entire store. And it isn't cost effective to send those stamps to auction because the cost will be the same price as what I charge in my store. And it won't stop those sellers from charging outragous s/h they will just charge $1.00 for an item instead of a penny.
Posted by keleofa   ( 3757 ) on Feb-16-08 at 20:18:01 PST   Listings
Vin,

There probably is some logic for the change. eBay gets a percentage of the closing price. Many Sellers keep these costs to a minimum by having a very low BIN then a high shipping charge, of which eBay gets nothing.

If a stamp Seller had a BIN price of $1 and allowed a SASE, the Seller would lose money (even if the stamp cost them zero) with the listing fees, selling fees, Paypal fees etc.

Why not just have an auction with a $1 (or 99¢) opening? Same effect, basically.

Matt in Arizona
Posted by vinb29   ( 889 ) on Feb-16-08 at 19:44:54 PST   Listings
I was wondering if anyone has an opinion on the nice new Ebay rule that any BIN price Cannot be under a $1.00?(starting feb. 20th) We try to cater to beginners, people with limited income, kids and everyone else but who is going to want to pay 100% CV? Does anyone else see this as a problem or are we the only ones?
Posted by due2cents   ( 26 ) on Feb-16-08 at 17:15:13 PST   Listings
rOGER

Saw a bunch of these
Reciept/


MATT L

or any one with a passing interest

Check-Out-The-Calling_card
Posted by billsey   ( 888 ) on Feb-16-08 at 17:04:33 PST   Listings
I've told this seller several times now that the sales sheet he's illustrating is not a certificate, and in fact the item is a common forgery... Yet he keeps on sending his listing fees to eBay. :-(
Posted by dbenson   ( 8847 ) on Feb-16-08 at 15:39:29 PST   Listings
Paul, you never got around to showing the back of your 2nd. Egyptian forgery,

David B.
Posted by postalhysteria   ( 3899 ) on Feb-16-08 at 15:02:05 PST   Listings

Re my post: Mi should be MEF, my comment about 3-across referred to other pages from your table at left
Posted by postalhysteria   ( 3899 ) on Feb-16-08 at 14:56:47 PST   Listings
Hi Alec:

I was delighted to view your inflation pages and appreciated the ease in which the rates were made clear, the various frankings to achieve the rates, (I am a big fan of Mi frankings from anywhere), the first day of stamp uses, the first day and last day of rates, the examples of only 3 or 4-days of valid single franking.

The patterned border is terribly distracting, and the gray borders distracting. Your covers have enough color tone to them to set them off a white page on their own. The gray inhibits this.

Should you be able to make one adjustment, in your 3 columns where you show 3 covers across showing the same rate with different stamps, it would be cleaner if you could insert just a single rate description across the top of all 3 covers instead of having to duplicate it atop each one.

I appreciated your larger images from the start and enlargement capability. Their resolution to me with casual interest was fine. Specialists would likely wisher clearer enlargements.

You stated from the onset that this is an online presentation, not a traditional philatelic exhibit. I have no trouble with what you have done given the restraints of your template other than the borders. It is far more ambitious than anything I have ever done.

Noe: On a pair of adjacent covers you have a technical error in a period of use, in that they are not the same by one day. You should spot it easily.

Thanks for taking the time to create this online reference, when completed it will be an easily used and valuable tool.

Jeff
Posted by stamphick!   ( 338 ) on Feb-16-08 at 14:48:30 PST   Listings
Yep, defining the column widths in percentages rather than pixels would be a big improvement and would allow the various browsers to use the available screen width.
Posted by iomoon   ( 1060 ) on Feb-16-08 at 14:28:04 PST   Listings
Alec

For you to read tomorrow, and someone may correct me.
The table width is determined by the TD command in your code.
In your case it is set to 149 (pixels wide).
You could probably increase it to 200 without having people scroll.
Alternatively, you can express it as a percentage of page width.
I use TD=25% so I can get a table 4 columns wide.
Posted by infla-alec   ( 582 ) on Feb-16-08 at 14:13:16 PST   Listings
Jim the table width isn't something I know how to change. I figured out how to put it on the template site ok and then add the picture and text. Once that is done table width is determined by itself ? Don't ask me to explain how it does that but it does. Getting late here so I'll say goodnight for today.
Posted by iomoon   ( 1060 ) on Feb-16-08 at 13:42:40 PST   Listings
Alec

I wasn't suggesting adding another column of covers.
As it is, what you have only occupies three quarters of my screen.
Just increasing the width of the tables slightly would not detract and shouldn't cause Roger to have to scroll sideways.
Posted by infla-alec   ( 582 ) on Feb-16-08 at 12:58:37 PST   Listings
Roger ok point taken I never considered the usual blue underline as being links. I'll re think that colour for sure. Text size increase by one font shouldn't be too much of a problem either but no promises when that will be done.

Width wise I think I prefer the two cover width. So presumably Jim has a volcano sized screen to view things on :-)

Obviously I can't please everyone all the time and the end layout is mainly done to what I think and like the best. But constructive critique is always welcome.
Posted by malolo   ( 877 ) on Feb-16-08 at 12:50:32 PST   Listings
Alec -

When I hover over the links t the left they turn from white on grey to black on white and are highly legible. I assumed at first look that the "titles" such as Printed Matter / Drucksache/ were links. They aer blue and underlined on my screen which always means the should be a link. In this case they aren't, are they?

Like I said, if you add a third card horizontally I will need to scroll to see it. That action will make the links on the left disappear off the screen to the left. I like the width. Sorry, IO. I use Safari which I understad is a Mozilla version of somehting. Not sure of all these browser versions.

Roger
Posted by infla-alec   ( 582 ) on Feb-16-08 at 12:47:43 PST   Listings
Billsey Forgive my ignorance but I don't know what you mean by rollover function ? I'm using Firefox and their FTP to do the uploads and view the site as updates are made also using firefox. Yet I know when I view in IE it doesn't look the same as when viewed in Firefox. No idea why that happens or what can be done about it.
Posted by malolo   ( 877 ) on Feb-16-08 at 12:43:59 PST   Listings
Alec -
A great improvement in layout.
I prefer the plain grey frames, do not like the zigzaggy ones that you have retained on some of the cards.
I like the width. Some sites make the pages too wide and force me to scroll both directions. I don't think you need to go wider than two cards on a page. If it was wider text would make for very long lines.

I'm an image person and my critique comes from that pint of view. I think you need to increase the sharpness of your scans. The scan on the page you showed should have been done at 72 dpi, and the enlargements most likely 150 dpi. I suggest you don't try to reduce, definatley not enlarge, from a single scan. Scanning the same card twice is no great time consumer when done at the same time. I'm viewing at 1024x768, and many times I go to 800x600 which allows me to read everything on a page. I haven't a clue what size font some programmers think we can read on web pages, but for me anything smaller than 10 point is difficult forcing me to "increase" fonts size on my computer. I tend to not read the text and move on! It wouldn't hurt to have your text one size larger.

Roger
Posted by infla-alec   ( 582 ) on Feb-16-08 at 12:43:54 PST   Listings
Jim Yes I agree on too much on the one page but I am more concerned with having the content filled in just now and organising the layout better as time permits. I still have all of Period 18 to scan and upload.
By width I assume you mean to add width to the site with an extra table width ?

Then I have some other information chapters that I'd like to add to make it of interest to the pure stamp collector also. It is hard work for me but also a lot of fun even if frustrating at times when I don't know how to do certain things. I'm determined not to let Katrina do the work and take the easy option. Better I try and learn how things are done even if it is the hard way to go about it.

mccoy A link to the certificate in question or more details about the sheet would help someone give you a far better answer. Yes there are many experts here but we are not mind readers and so do need some more information please to try and help you.
Posted by billsey   ( 888 ) on Feb-16-08 at 12:37:55 PST   Listings
McCoy161 [I assume you're the real one? :-)], we're going to need to know a bunch more before we can really answer that question. Can you provide a link to a scan of the stamps? (Look at the Yellow Boxes below to find out how to do that if you don't already know). Failing that, can you describe the stamps for us? What country are they from, what does the certificate say as a description? How many stamps on the sheet? What's pictured on the stamp, what color(s) are they?
Posted by billsey   ( 888 ) on Feb-16-08 at 12:35:04 PST   Listings
Alec

With my browser (FireFox 2.0 under Vista) when you hover your mouse over the links at the right, the highlighted section ends up white lettering on a white background, only the underline for the link is visible. I see in function doRollover() you are checking for various versions of IE and Netscape, I'm not sure where FireFox will fall out in that function.
Posted by mccoy161   ( 1 ) on Feb-16-08 at 12:28:13 PST   Listings
I bought a sheet of stamps at an estate sale There is a certificate of authenticity but I don't know where or when they were purchased. How do I know if they are authentic other then this piece of paper that is numbered?
Posted by iomoon   ( 1060 ) on Feb-16-08 at 12:12:28 PST   Listings
Alec

My two critiques would be that there is too much on a single page and that it only occupies about 75% of my browser width.
Posted by infla-alec   ( 582 ) on Feb-16-08 at 10:58:18 PST   Listings
Pretty quiet week for philatelic postings so I'll take this opportunity to show some updates to my OPD site.

Following the comments about a more uniformed look does Period 19 appear easier on the eye and more structured than before ? It is my first attempt at using tables. No, I haven't gotten around yet to learning how to make the exhibition style pages. Bear with me that will come in good time.
Posted by jaywild   ( 1052 ) on Feb-16-08 at 08:57:59 PST   Listings
NOIP… Here’s a cheerful, upbeat seller. Below I have copied some of her terms of sale (red/bold are my enhancements)—
FEEDBACK:

This seller leaves feedback after bidder's have posted feedback. The seller no longer automatically leaves feedback in good faith due to feedback blackmail. If you are unsatisfied with your purchase then contact the seller before posting feedback.

It is your legal responsibility to remove any accidental or intentional false feedback within 30 days after it was posted. Should it be necessary for the seller to obtain a legal judgment against you (including small claims court) in order to remove false feedback you are hereby agreeing to:

Pay the seller a service charge of $25,000.00.
Pay the seller any additional actual and punitive damages as awarded by the court.
Reimburse the seller all legal fees including, but not limited to, attorney's fees and court costs.
All expenses associated with your legal defense are your financial responsibility.
All legal disputes shall be decided within the local legal jurisdiction of the seller. Failure to appear at a legal proceeding initiated by the seller shall result in you agreeing to a no contest default judgment in favor of the seller.

On the 30th day following the date of the judgment against you all unpaid balances due the seller in relation to the removal of feedback will be sold to a collection agency which is authorized to report unpaid balances to the national credit reporting bureaus as a unpaid debt. All unpaid balances shall incur a $5.00 administrative fee each 30 day period (or fraction thereof) and a finance charge of 1.25 percent interest per 30 day period until paid. All paperwork and transaction details associated with the legal judgment(s) against you will be forwarded to the collection agency. All legal fees, attorney's fees, court costs, administrative costs, collection agency fees, and other costs deemed necessary to collect the unpaid balance will be added to the balance due.
I think I’d rather kiss a tarantula…



Jim
Posted by jaywild   ( 1052 ) on Feb-16-08 at 08:33:27 PST   Listings
NOIP… I’m not sure I want to know what an Iron Remedy is…

Jim
Posted by keleofa   ( 3757 ) on Feb-16-08 at 06:23:36 PST   Listings
Frank,

The Post Office doesn't keep plate blocks as you wondered, they destroy the whole sheet . There is no reason to destroy good higher value mint stamps. The adjoining stamps may have been damaged. Were you looking at a scan that was cropped?

Matt in Arizona
Posted by philaweb   ( 361 ) on Feb-16-08 at 04:05:30 PST   Listings
Good Morning/Day/Afternoon/Evening!

iomoon Adjara.
Posted by breffington   ( 404 ) on Feb-15-08 at 21:22:32 PST   Listings
Hi, I was looking at a plate block of the $2 Kerosene Lamp definitive Scott#1611 and noticed that it was trimmed so that part of the adjoining stamps were still attached with part of their denomination showing. Has anyone heard if the PO takes left over stock retains the plate block and destroys the remainder of the sheet on high denomination stamps like these? Frank
Posted by jaywild   ( 1052 ) on Feb-15-08 at 21:18:49 PST   Listings
Io… Adzaria, straight from ПРАВДА…

Jim
Posted by iomoon   ( 1060 ) on Feb-15-08 at 20:13:52 PST   Listings


Adzaria??????
Posted by brad   ( 544 ) on Feb-15-08 at 19:35:47 PST   Listings
Sorry, probably asked and answered here already, but how do I find United Nations and US Possessions with the latest revisions?
Posted by jaywild   ( 1052 ) on Feb-15-08 at 19:03:35 PST   Listings
NOIP… Also, a glimpse of the side of Mercury unseen until Messenger arrived in January of this year. Some pretty big splats there…

Jim
Posted by dbenson   ( 8847 ) on Feb-15-08 at 17:58:57 PST   Listings
and another hour,

http://www.iian.ibeam.com/events/pmny001/template/eFrame.jsp?eventid=25431&tokenPassed=no&userid=2008-02-15-19.56.03.727917&sessionStart=2008-02-15-19.56.03.727917

David B.
Posted by dbenson   ( 8847 ) on Feb-15-08 at 17:54:47 PST   Listings
anyone got an hour to spare,

http://www.iian.ibeam.com/events/pmny001/template/eFrame.jsp?eventid=25201&tokenPassed=no&userid=2008-02-15-18.48.12.995507&sessionStart=2008-02-15-18.48.12.995507

David B.
Posted by jaywild   ( 1052 ) on Feb-15-08 at 15:47:47 PST   Listings
NOIP… News flash from Mercury—copyright symbol found on surface by NASA Messenger mission.



Jim
Posted by 220man   ( 170 ) on Feb-15-08 at 15:20:09 PST   Listings
This of course was to show everybody that we could do it, specifically the Russians.
Posted by 220man   ( 170 ) on Feb-15-08 at 15:15:03 PST   Listings
Way back in 1985 an F-15 launched a missile and knocked down an American satellite, see http://www.cdi.org/program/document.cfm?DocumentID=3106

Phil
Posted by jaywild   ( 1052 ) on Feb-15-08 at 14:31:08 PST   Listings
Io… Then I hope they are successful! I’d hate to have to spend a day combing hydrazine out of my hair.

I reserve, however, the right to be dubious…

Jim
Posted by iomoon   ( 1060 ) on Feb-15-08 at 14:25:48 PST   Listings
David

I'm sorry to inform you, he is deceased.
Ironically, like me, he did not even have a driving license!
Posted by stamphick!   ( 338 ) on Feb-15-08 at 14:15:04 PST   Listings
iomoon...I'd like to meet that guy. Actually the total solution needn't be made pre-launch if the missile has mid course and terminal guidance correction capability. I'm not familiar with the Standard-3 missile but I'd be surprised if it didn't have that capability. If it doesn't the Navy is going backwards.
Posted by stamphick!   ( 338 ) on Feb-15-08 at 14:11:45 PST   Listings
Roger...It doesn't matter if the ship is pitching, rolling, or yawing. The guidance solution doesn't start in earnest until the missile is airborne.
Posted by iomoon   ( 1060 ) on Feb-15-08 at 14:11:07 PST   Listings
Jim

I have sat next to a person (who shall remain nameless, but he worked for Rand Corporation) at a conference, who could do those calculations in his head in minutes.

No need even for computers.
Posted by jaywild   ( 1052 ) on Feb-15-08 at 14:08:11 PST   Listings
Io… Scientists had about ten years to plan, build and test the vehicle that successfully sent a probe smacking into that comet. The current timeframe is about one month. That should only provide enough time for the first paragraph of the shoot-down proposal to be written, edited, wrangled over and finally agreed to...

Jim
Posted by jaywild   ( 1052 ) on Feb-15-08 at 14:03:25 PST   Listings
Milenko… Here’s what my device map says about the CD-DVD drive. The computer is only about a month old, so I will take Brad’s advice and go with the “+R” disks.

I’m with Roger on the difficulty of smacking that satellite down neatly and cleanly. This is the old “hit a bullet with a bullet” problem. We’re not going to send up a pipe-smoking old harbor pilot that will board the satellite and gently steer it away from the sleepy villages below, chuckling all the while. The object, alas, will be the same as with the Chinese satellite, that is explode something near enough to it to cause it to disintegrate and enter the atmosphere in shards. The experiments run in the 1990’s to test an anti-missile missile over the Pacific were all dismal failures, rendered “successes” afterward however by changing the supposed intent of the test (i.e. moving the goalposts after the game was played.) It will be interesting to see what is accomplished by this upcoming attempt. We can at least all expect headlines on the order of—WORLD SAVED FROM HYDRAZINE DISASTER



Jim
Posted by iomoon   ( 1060 ) on Feb-15-08 at 14:02:53 PST   Listings
BTW Roger,

Since 1973 Cape Canaveral returned to its original name.
It is the Kennedy Space Center on Cape Canaveral.
Posted by iomoon   ( 1060 ) on Feb-15-08 at 13:49:06 PST   Listings
If JPL can hit a 3 km wide comet at a distance of 429 million kilometers at 37,000 km/hr, the Navy ought to be able to hit a satellite coming out of Earth orbit!
Posted by malolo   ( 877 ) on Feb-15-08 at 13:16:29 PST   Listings
You know chasing something that is going 17,000 mph with a missle is not the same as lauching into orbit to rendezvous with another space craft. It is much more of a chance collision at an intersection in Chicago where we know traffic goes by all day and someone in New York wants to crash into a specific car at 5pm on Thursday, March 17th. That's a lot of calculations, especially when the car has to be modified from an all purpose vehicle to one that ignores all traffic along the way. And the Navy is shooting the missle! It's not being launched from Cape Kennedy or Vandenberg. What if the missle is not fired on the top of the roll? (I've been reading more Patrick O'Brian recently.)

Anyway, I'm no more an expert on spy satellites than I am of Egyptian stamps. Quality of product is apparently the same.

Roger
Posted by stamphick!   ( 338 ) on Feb-15-08 at 12:49:52 PST   Listings
thebriguy1...What we intend to do is quite different from what China did and the aftereffects will be different. We're not leaving space junk in low earth orbit.

As to proving that we can do this -- knocking down a satellite is not rocket science. Well, I guess it actually is but is very elementary rocket science. I was modeling guidance for satellite intercept in the mid 60's.
Posted by bjornmu   ( 984 ) on Feb-15-08 at 12:25:00 PST   Listings
Or, they shoot it down as a realistic excercise and a way to demonstrate to the world that they can do it...
Posted by thebriguy1   ( 64 ) on Feb-15-08 at 12:24:16 PST   Listings
PS.....the launching of this hyper expensive dud satellite, and the associated costs of then shooting it down......will be funded by a one cent increase in USPS postal rates effective this coming May.

Enjoy.
Posted by due2cents   ( 26 ) on Feb-15-08 at 12:23:33 PST   Listings
i got beer
Posted by thebriguy1   ( 64