Bear Bottoms response to BD slime with MBAM

[Dustin]

Bear Bottoms <bearbottoms1@gmai.com> wrote in
news:4e19e970$0$313$14726298@news.sunsite.dk:

> On 7/10/2011 12:49 PM, ~BD~ wrote:
>> Dustin wrote:
>>> ~BD~<~BD~@nomail.afraid.com> wrote in
>>> news:PNqdnSnYw-C0PoTTnZ2dnUVZ8mWdnZ2d@bt.com:
>>>
>>>> Perhaps I've missed it. Can you, or anyone, advise where I can
>>>> obtain Malwarebytes software on a CD/DVD?
>>>
>>> In the states, you can get it at your local best buy store. In a
>>> nice box. it'll be outdated of course, but that's what the update
>>> button is for. I don't know if they have outside US distribution
>>> in box format yet or not.
>>>
>>>
>>
>> Ah! Thank you Dustin. :-)
>>
>> Oh, wait.
>>
>> I've looked here and don't see it:
>>
>> http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olstempl...bcat0508000&ty
>> pe=category&qp=cabcat0500000%23%23-1%23%23-1~~cabcat0508000%23%23-1%
>> 23%23-1~~q70726f63657373696e6774696d653a3e313930302d3031 2d3031~~f738
>> ||*&sp=-bestsellingsort+skuid
>>
>>
>> Have I searched incorrectly? Anyone?
>
> I see a backup CD here:
> https://store.malwarebytes.org/342/?...out&cart=29945
>
> Amazon has it:
> <http://www.amazon.com/Dsolution-NAV-...ytes-Anti-Malw
> are-Lifetime/dp/B003JZNCFS>
>
>
>
>
>

Hi bear.

I hope David enjoys the effort you took to search for him. Poor *******
can't figure google out to save his life.


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You keep on thinking you can save me save me
(Hey) My ship is sinking but it's
(Hey) all good and I can go down (whoa)
You've got me thinking that the party's all over

[~BD~]

Dustin wrote:

>> I see a backup CD here:
>> https://store.malwarebytes.org/342/?...out&cart=29945
>>
>> Amazon has it:
>> <http://www.amazon.com/Dsolution-NAV-...ytes-Anti-Malw
>> are-Lifetime/dp/B003JZNCFS>

> Hi bear.
>
> I hope David enjoys the effort you took to search for him. Poor *******
> can't figure out Google to save his life.


I did write and thank Bear Bottoms - he was, indeed, very helpful.

One of the things which puzzled me, once before, was this item from the
Malwarebytes payment site:-

"Includes £2.61 VAT (19% on £13.72)"

VAT has *never* been levied at 19% in the UK!

Can you explain to me why Malwarebytes conducts its financial business
in Europe proper when they are actually USA based (I think!)? I'm
interested because, as many folk know, I was an Independent Financial
Adviser after my career in the Royal Navy.

FYI, VAT rates are published here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Europea...alue_Added_Tax

[Dustin]

~BD~ <~BD~@nomail.afraid.com> wrote in
news:f4-dnRYYe5ryFIHTnZ2dnUVZ7oGdnZ2d@bt.com:

> I did write and thank Bear Bottoms - he was, indeed, very helpful.

You should do that more often, instead of sliming people. I don't mean
slime in a good way either. You sure aren't a double dare green slime.

> Can you explain to me why Malwarebytes conducts its financial
> business in Europe proper when they are actually USA based (I

Nope, I cannot explain that. Ask them.



--
(Hey) I keep on thinking that it's
(Hey) all done and all over now (whoa)
You keep on thinking you can save me save me
(Hey) My ship is sinking but it's
(Hey) all good and I can go down (whoa)
You've got me thinking that the party's all over

[~BD~]

Dustin wrote:
> Ask them.

Exactly *how* should I do so, Dustin?

[Dustin]

~BD~ <~BD~@nomail.afraid.com> wrote in
news:A4ydnauBqNeSO4HTnZ2dnUVZ7tOdnZ2d@bt.com:

> Dustin wrote:
>> Ask them.
>
> Exactly *how* should I do so, Dustin?

Heh.. That would be a small problem for you wouldn't it? LOL!

We both know you have other accounts on the forum, why not just use one
of those and inquire?




--
(Hey) I keep on thinking that it's
(Hey) all done and all over now (whoa)
You keep on thinking you can save me save me
(Hey) My ship is sinking but it's
(Hey) all good and I can go down (whoa)
You've got me thinking that the party's all over

[Aardvark]

On Tue, 12 Jul 2011 18:50:39 +0100, ~BD~ wrote:

> Can you explain to me why Malwarebytes conducts its financial business
> in Europe proper when they are actually USA based (I think!)?

Time you started doing your own ****ing homework, ****.

"The VAT rate charged is between 15% and 25% and is determined by the
customer’ s
country of residence in EU. The supplier has the obligation to check if
the corporate
customer has a VAT registration number and decide whether or not a
contract should be
charged with VAT. Customers with valid VAT ID should not be charged by
the supplier."

Between 15% and 25%, ****. 19% is within that range.

<http://www.scribd.com/doc/2312912/European-Regulations-on-Software-VAT>



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lose the capacity to make any ethical choices, for they willingly
sacrifice others in the name of the politically expedient and
practical." - Dwight Macdonald, “The Root Is Man.�

[~BD~]

Aardvark wrote:
> On Tue, 12 Jul 2011 18:50:39 +0100, ~BD~ wrote:
>
>> Can you explain to me why Malwarebytes conducts its financial business
>> in Europe proper when they are actually USA based (I think!)?
>
> Time you started doing your own ****ing homework.

Why bother to respond if you cannot answer the question?

Thanks for the reference - but I *do* know about VAT. It was quite clear
in the Wiki article too, IMO.

<snip>

[Dustin]

~BD~ <~BD~@nomail.afraid.com> wrote in
news:v-qdneBwDPh7SoHTnZ2dnUVZ8sqdnZ2d@bt.com:

> Aardvark wrote:
>> On Tue, 12 Jul 2011 18:50:39 +0100, ~BD~ wrote:
>>
>>> Can you explain to me why Malwarebytes conducts its financial
>>> business in Europe proper when they are actually USA based (I
>>> think!)?
>>
>> Time you started doing your own ****ing homework.
>
> Why bother to respond if you cannot answer the question?

"The VAT rate charged is between 15% and 25% and is determined by the
customerƒ T s
country of residence in EU. The supplier has the obligation to check if
the corporate
customer has a VAT registration number and decide whether or not a
contract should be
charged with VAT. Customers with valid VAT ID should not be charged by
the supplier."

Between 15% and 25%, ****. 19% is within that range.

<http://www.scribd.com/doc/2312912/Eu...s-on-Software-
VAT>



he did.

--
(Hey) I keep on thinking that it's
(Hey) all done and all over now (whoa)
You keep on thinking you can save me save me
(Hey) My ship is sinking but it's
(Hey) all good and I can go down (whoa)
You've got me thinking that the party's all over

[~BD~]

Dustin wrote:
> ~BD~<~BD~@nomail.afraid.com> wrote in
> news:v-qdneBwDPh7SoHTnZ2dnUVZ8sqdnZ2d@bt.com:
>
>> Aardvark wrote:
>>> On Tue, 12 Jul 2011 18:50:39 +0100, ~BD~ wrote:
>>>
>>>> Can you explain to me why Malwarebytes conducts its financial
>>>> business in Europe proper when they are actually USA based (I
>>>> think!)?
>>>
>>> Time you started doing your own ****ing homework.
>>
>> Why bother to respond if you cannot answer the question?

[....]
>
> he did.
>

"Why does Malwarebytes conducts its financial
business in Europe proper when they are actually USA based?"

Neither he, nor you, addressed that question. <shrug>

It's a straight-forward question too - simply out of general interest.
Is there some financial advantage in them doing so? Are rules in Germany
less stringent than in the USA?

[Aardvark]

On Wed, 13 Jul 2011 00:25:25 +0100, ~BD~ wrote:

> Aardvark wrote:
>> On Tue, 12 Jul 2011 18:50:39 +0100, ~BD~ wrote:
>>
>>> Can you explain to me why Malwarebytes conducts its financial business
>>> in Europe proper when they are actually USA based (I think!)?
>>
>> Time you started doing your own ****ing homework.
>
> Why bother to respond if you cannot answer the question?

I did answer it, ****. VAT on software varies between 15% and 25%.

>
> Thanks for the reference - but I *do* know about VAT.

Apparently not, or you wouldn't have asked in the first place, ****.


--
"Those who do not make human beings the center of their concern soon
lose the capacity to make any ethical choices, for they willingly
sacrifice others in the name of the politically expedient and
practical." - Dwight Macdonald, “The Root Is Man.�