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  1. If you want the whole story, here: https://www.naschenweng.info/2017/06/07/mybroadband-co-za-censors-consumer-activism-afrihost-sms-email-spam/ Point is that companies can be held liable for sending you unsolicited emails or SMS's. In this case, it was Afrihost and the complaint was laid with ISPA, but the link above should give you an idea of how you can lay a complaint, the procedures involved and what your rights are. The only sad thing about the whole story is that they were fined an amount which is basically pocket change. One would want ISPA to send a much stronger message out and fine them a whole lot more.
  2. More: http://www.htxt.co.za/2017/09/22/afrihost-fined-r14-000-for-sending-spam-emails/
  3. They do indeed
  4. ... or Bidorbuy [emoji14]
  5. pishop.co.za maybe? Not too clued up with prices.
  6. So a Raspberry Pi, a Router and Double Sided Tape walks into a bar...
  7. Question: why not just serve the site from a server that is connected to the router/network?
  8. Well routers do it already to serve their admin sites, but that's most likely via firmware.
  9. Which router?
  10. I started out with FNB's Share Saver (Top40 + MidCap) when they announced it. I think the first single share I owned was SAB Miller.... Technical analysis at the time showed that it was a major contributor to good times
  11. I take it they'll maintain it the same way Bidorbuy does - push the transaction through Luno Would be interesting to see if somebody actually used it.
  12. Well well well: https://techcentral.co.za/bitcoin-now-accepted-pick-n-pay/77019/ For a limited time (trial run?)
  13. See, I said all of that and got a response about national currencies etc. I mention that it is not being used as currency but rather digital gold and am told to think of it as borderless currency. The gist of the post was that the die hards blatantly ignore anything anti-crypto and respond in force to come to its rescue, almost like they are protecting an ideology. If you look at these ICOs, they are used to raise capital (FIAT) in a very short time. Somebody is cashing in "real" money for bits of data that has no reason for value other than sentiment. I'm not saying the day is not coming, but call me when the the crypto market breaks all ties with FIAT currencies and Bitcoin isn't used as a proxy for it.
  14. I think people should be careful of just discrediting anything somebody from a traditional investment company or bank has to say about cryptocurrencies. Yes, there is potential bias but they do have valid points sometimes. What happens,most of the time,is that after somebody from one of these companies issues a statement the crypto fanboys (and I mean fanboys in every single sense of the word...die hard extremists even) come in, read the headline, shout dinosaur and claim bias - all without reading the article. The truth hurts and avoiding it doesn't make it go away. New cryptocurrencies keep on springing up, prices get inflated because of demand and somebody is actually cashing the real money being spent on it. Without mainstream adoption where BTC or any of these coins are used for actual transactions what's its purpose except to serve as digital gold? And why would those investing in it want it to be used as a real currency? HODL ya'll! So let's assume, for a second, "mainstream" never happens. You sit with you R10 million worth of BTC, ready to retire and buy a house. The hype is long gone and nobody is buying your BTC because everybody interested in BTC only has BTC to trade with. A very extreme view, but maybe an extreme view is something the die hard extremists fanboys need.
  15. Depends on who you ask. If you're asking a crypto investor/I-pumped-everything-I-got-into-it-bevause-I-dont-understand-the-give-and-take-nature-of-econonics ...then yes, you're the only one worried.
  16. Isn't he still wanted for murder? Either way, he's like Denny Crane - fun to keep around for lols
  17. OH! And like Bloomberg's offering multiple watchlists will be awesome so I can split my TFSA and ETF Portfolio. But what is missing is an auto watchlist that automatically combines the other watchlists to give me an overview of all my investments.
  18. I just want a decent watchlist where I can add my positions, categorise the instrumetnts and see pie charts with a breakdown of the stats: 40% local, 50% developed, 10% emerging or 30% local equities 10% local property 10 % foreign property 50% foreign equity ... default categorisations that I can override (multiple categories per instrument). It's actually not difficult to build if one has the time.
  19. F*** I love Jerm
  20. Chicken breasts stuffed with mozzarella and dried tomato, baked and topped with basil pesto. Chicken breasts stuffed with cream cheese and topped with cranberry jam. Chicken breasts wrapped in bacon. Basically... chicken breasts are the whores of the food world
  21. Update Roughly: So about 60:40 split between offshore and local 20% of it is property 30% local 40% developed 10% emerging
  22. Her parents... grocery shopping... progress on side projects I'm doing for a client... Great fun.
  23. Welcome indeed!
  24. 2. No, the rich guy will be buying more stuff and as a result pay more tax in total. If you charge 50% VAT on a luxury car you'll stop the rich from spending money here and you'll sit with the same situation RSA is sitting now - the well off are over taxed and taking it offshore leaving you with only "poor" people that aren't spending any money... Stagnant economy in 3...2...
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