Sometimes c and e are also hard to distinguish at some sites.
It's fairly easy to read the captcha at this site, but there is some error in the software, that makes the submitted captcha entry incorrect on the first try.
There are a few sites where, because the captcha letters and numbers are so distorted, that I give up trying.
Wilmington, Delaware experienced the loss of many jobs after World War II, mostly due to it becoming less utilized as a shipping location. To address this matter, the state legislators sought a way to bring new business into the state, starting in the late 1970s. Led primarily by the Governor Pierre DuPont, in the early 1980s, Delaware attempted to lure large banks away from New York and other large financial companies by dramatically redrafting tax laws for banking industries. Laws also changed to allow banks to charge any interest they wished on credit cards.
Several banks, among them Bank of America and Chase, were inspired by Wilmington’s flexible laws to relocate at least their credit card companies to Wilmington. The ability to charge more interest meant that they could offer credit to less credit-worthy customers. Though big banks moved their credit card companies, the response was even greater than DuPont at first estimated. Many smaller banks also set up shop in Wilmington, to take advantage of being able to charge much higher interest rates, while paying lower taxes on their profits.
Since the enactment of liberal interest rate laws and low taxes, Wilmington has become one of the most attractive cities in the US to set up credit card companies. Other states and cities may have caps on interest charged, and in fact the US congress has even attempted to create lower interest rates, and cap fees and interest. This strategy has not worked, and Congress’ response was lukewarm at best, placing the interest cap at no more than 30%.
In 1988, laws in Delaware protecting credit card companies were made even stronger. During a period where hostile takeovers were becoming standard, Delaware changed its laws to make sure that most Delaware companies would not be subject to this process. The new laws meant any one attempting to take over a company would have to own 85% of its stock, or with a majority of stock holding would have to wait three years before initiating takeover proceedings. Companies stationed in Delaware were thus better protected than in other states, strengthening the position of any bank or credit card companies that created their charters within the state.
Today, there are several major credit card companies stationed in Wilmington. These include Bank of America, Chase, Barclays (which used to be Juniper), and ING Direct. A number of smaller credit card companies also have their home base in Delaware. What this means for the consumer, especially if you’re sifting through a lot of credit card offers, is that you’ll find numerous ones coming from Delaware. You may pay higher interest rates, especially if your credit is not solid. With the luxury of good credit, you may want to shop around for the best credit card offers, especially those from states with laws less likely to favor the credit card industry.
I think you gave some convincing arguments for the legal and financial reasons for being headquartered in the U.S.
I dimly remember that years ago, credit card companies and other corporations would be incorporated in Delaware (in the US), for financial and legal reasons, because Delaware had laws more favorable to business than most other states. Even though those corporations did little business in Delaware.
I very rarely send feedback to a webmaster or customer service.
Part of the problem is that many sites fail to respond to emails. Different reasons for this. Many sites are foreign to US customers, and there is a language barrier. Also, sites have limited personnel, and they don't put a lot of effort into replying to customer emails.
But this is true of non-porn sites as well. I just learned that eBay has no team/workers/division to handle emails sent to customer support. If you want help from customer support, you need to use the telephone. And the waiting time to get a service representative can be long. And if you are transferred to a different agent (higher up in the food chain), you can easily wait 15 to 25 minutes before a human being comes on the line.
It's not clearly written on eBay that emails to customer support are not answered (by a human).
So live and learn. Welcome to the real world, where customer support can be difficult to find.
Don't follow any professional sports. Think the money paid to pro players is obscene. In one year, they can make more than an average person would earn in many lifetimes.
I completely agree with you. You want to know the age of the model at the time of the shoot.
The truth is, at a lot of sites, there is no attempt to be accurate about the model's age. They give the model's age as 18 or 19, even when many of the models are at least in their early 20s. Because they know the customers want the models to be teenagers, which means 18 or 19.
But Metart seems to be an exception to that rule. They do try to give the model's real age. But I believe it's just a software problem that they are giving the current age of the model on the bio sheet that is downloaded with each photoshoot.
On the Metart site itself, it clearly states that the age shown is the current age of the model (not the downloaded bio sheet, but the online bio sheet).
So it's just a software programming error.
Years ago, the age shown in the downloaded bio sheet was the approximate age of the model at the time of the shoot. But I don't know specifically, if they were giving the model's age at the time of the photo shoot, or the model's age at the time the photo shoot was posted to the Metart site.
I only sent one email to Metart tech support about the current versus shooting photo age of the model.
I sent the email on Monday, early morning.
This is Saturday, evening.
No reply to the email. I figure it got lost in their spam filter.
The problem still appears in the bio text file that downloads with a photoset. It still gives the current age of the model. Not the age of the model at the time of the photoshoot, or when the photoshoot was posted to this site.
Just a bit of sloppiness. Annoying, but minor. Because they did list, and keep a record at Metart, of the age of the model with almost all photoshoots. But I don't know specifically if that age referred to the age of the model at the time the photoshoot was shot, or if it referred to the model's age at the time the photoshoot was posted to the Metart site.
There are lot of different models. Some cute, a lot not so cute. The photographic style is very different from glamor styles used at Met-Art or MPL Studios. I like it a lot less than the glamor style. You have attractive to lovely girls, and the photos make them seem a lot less attractive. That's my opinion, anyway.
I just joined today. So I don't know a lot about the site.
I don't know anything about Netbilling, never used them. I have used CCBILL a lot.
But I think it's worth using Netbilling, if they offer a cheaper price.
Get a new email address, there are plenty of providers that will give you a free email address.
Also, maybe use a special credit card, that you've never used before. I know some people use like a temporary credit card to pay for their porn site subscriptions. I never did. But if you can do that for free, that would make you safe two ways:
Your new/temporary email address is a safety measure, against spam.
Your temporary credit card would limit your liability against fraudulent charges.
But if there are any fraudulent charges on any credit card you use, I would assume that you are covered on any credit card. That's the way it works in the United States.
You are UK, but I would assume you are protected against any fraudulent charges on a credit card as well. But you can check that out, if you don't already know. If there are fraud charges, it would take a telephone call and one or two letters to the credit card company to straighten that out.
This site used to use a lot of British models. I haven't come across them yet, but they are supposed to be here. Most of the newer models are from Eastern Europe, supposedly because the models will work for less money.
But you might find the site of especial interest because they are supposed to have a large backlog of British models.
If they send me a reply to my email to technical support, I will let you know.
Also, if I notice within a week or two that the downloaded bio now shows the age of the model at the time the photoset was posted (or it was shot?), I will let you know, by posting a reply to your post.
I've been to Glamourcon, where the Playboy playmates attend. That's usually held twice a year, once in Los Angeles, once in Chicago. You have to be 18 years old or older to attend. So that would be a porn convention, according to most people. But it's strictly softcore. No nudity. No topless. No sex. So it's not even softcore: they do sell old copies of Playboy magazine, and the Playmates sell photos of themselves, that they autograph.
Sorry, my mistake. I meant David Hamilton, not Peter Hamilton.
But David Hamilton has been accused of using under-age models, as well. But he used a soft-focus effect, which is a better term than a fuzzy effect. And Galitsin used the same kind of soft-focus effect in some of his photo shoots.
Some of Ronin's photo shoots are still at MetArt. But it's probably been 6 years or more since he's had any new work posted at MetArt.
I'm not aware of any shoots that are in his artsy style that were posted at MetArt in the last few years.
I think that in the early days of MetArt, they were more accepting of different styles of eroticism. At least in some of their offerings.
But since then, they have mainly focused on more mainstream, less artistic photography.
Let me rephrase that. The far-out artistic style were always, at most, a very minor part of the MetArt offerings. And now they are even less on view.
Even the fuzzy (not a very appropriate term) of Grigori Galitsin photo shoots, which I thought were somewhat artsy, are not in evidence at MetArt today. But Galitsin was a different case, where he was accused of using under-age models. So all of his photo shoots were removed from MetArt, I believe.
But I thought Galitsin's shoots had a certain artistic quality, sort of in the Peter Hamilton style, with a fuzzy (I'm not using the proper term to describe it) effect to the photos.
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