MrGuvernment
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And yet another case of blame someone else for YOUR bad parenting.
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Also, looking at that couch, leather? or pleather.. what she is wearing, by no means does it look like she is some struggling single mom.
I don't know, maybe I am just being a dick...
BUT
...it's just one of those parental things, I guess. I believe that, as a parent, it is my job to know what my son is playing, to know what movies he is watching, so on and so forth. It is my job to make sure the kid doesn't get into any online mischief, isn't chatting with pedophiles and isn't a smack talking piece of crap like 80% of the little bastards out there.
Zarathustra[H];1036824700 said:How old is your son?
I wouldn't go as far as calling you a dick, but while what you are saying sounds right, I think its quite another thing in practice.
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Once they are old enough to know not to stick it in their mouthes, they should be able to play with it with only minimal supervision. Any other outcome is a failing on the part of the manufacturer.
A lot of you people are out of it, you think working people who have a life to deal with understand the new technologies, including how Microsoft likes to make it "easier" to charge your card!? They don't, in fact lots of them are completely clueless. Lots of the people I deal with day to day don't understand any meaningful computer terminology, even now, and while you people think these stories are retarded and the parent should have to deal with it blah blah blah, these stories are the only way MS, Sony, and Nintendo will change how they charge customers.
BTW: I'm not sure about the cheap real estate thing (or why it matters) but there is nothing cheap in Alaska. We pay more for everything in Alaska than any other state in the union aside from maybe Hawaii.
BTW: I'm not sure about the cheap real estate thing (or why it matters) but there is nothing cheap in Alaska. We pay more for everything in Alaska than any other state in the union aside from maybe Hawaii.
I thought you moved to Vegas?
Its easy, very easy to miss things on your statement unless you are looking for them. My brother had around $300(over a year) in charges he didn't realize until I saw him receive a letter for some type of credit protection agency(then he started to look through all his records). These things happen and you don't realize you were automatically signed up when checking out(or they tricked you into hitting the wrong button), he immediately went to his bank and made them reverse those charges. Microsoft understands parents are going to forget to setup parental controls which lets kids who mostly don't understand money spend it.The moral of the story here is, if a person can't check up on their kid, can't use parental controls, can't be bothered to check her own account balance for 6 months, etc. etc. etc. shit like this will happen...every....single....time...and then internet nerds like me are going to laugh at them when they claim it was the fault of <insert corporation>.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victim_blamingIt has been proposed that one cause of victim-blaming is the "just-world phenomenon". People who believe that the world has to be fair may find it hard or impossible to accept a situation in which a person is unfairly and badly hurt. This leads to a sense that, somehow, the victim must have surely done 'something' to deserve their fate. Another theory entails the need to protect one's own sense of invulnerability. This inspires people to believe that rape only happens to those who deserve or provoke the assault (Schneider et al., 1994). This is a way of feeling safer. If the potential victim avoids the behaviors of the past victims then they themselves will remain safe and feel less vulnerable. A global survey of attitudes toward sexual violence by the Global Forum for Health Research shows that victim-blaming concepts are at least partially accepted in many countries. In some countries, victim-blaming is more common, and women who have been raped are sometimes deemed to have behaved improperly. Often, these are countries where there is a significant social divide between the freedoms and status afforded to men and women.
Its easy, very easy to miss things on your statement unless you are looking for them. My brother had around $300(over a year) in charges he didn't realize until I saw him receive a letter for some type of credit protection agency(then he started to look through all his records). These things happen and you don't realize you were automatically signed up when checking out(or they tricked you into hitting the wrong button), he immediately went to his bank and made them reverse those charges. Microsoft understands parents are going to forget to setup parental controls which lets kids who mostly don't understand money spend it.
I see a lot of victim blame going on here since they think it can't happen to them, obviously this idiot is the only one its happened too...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victim_blaming
While what is described in the wikipedia section is more severe I see the same thing going on here, blame the victim.
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I see a lot of victim blame going on here...
I agree with what you are saying and I think we are on the same page for the most part.
There is no way I would've played the "victim" card like this woman when it was obviously preventable and totally my fault.
BTW: I'm not sure about the cheap real estate thing (or why it matters) but there is nothing cheap in Alaska. We pay more for everything in Alaska than any other state in the union aside from maybe Hawaii.
I was giving an example, but its nice to see someone think the victims at fault...You not reading your bill is YOUR fault and YOURS alone, I don't care how easy or hard it is to read it (in this case, it's not hard to miss if you've been keeping up with the thread), but if you can't manage your own bills then perhaps you should discontinue the service and/or credit card.
The kid deserves an ass whipping
She may have a nice rack but there is nothing else there to justify that Rack. How do you even know that rack isnt deformed lol
Look, saying you can't remove or edit the card just isn't correct. You have the choice to remove the card completely.
Parental controls stop EVERY purchase by a minor child.
There are 50 different ways to pay for your XBL account and items
This was just a major FAIL on the parents part, simple as that. I'm sorry she didn't know how to work parental controls. I'm sorry she didn't know how to remove her card or how to check her own bank account, etc. etc. etc. but you can remove / edit your card whenever you want and PARENTAL CONTROLS will avoid all of this in the first place.
Man, that is one weird looking, devious 11 year old.
I didn't check the entire thread to see if anyone mentioned this but didn't see it. Did anyone else mention they are trying to say how innocent he is from this pic and he has a picture of what appears to be a pornstar as the background of his live screen?
That's a picture of his mom.
That's a picture of his mom.
I am aware of that button. Have you actually tried clicking it? I have, you get a nice message saying that you can't remove that card because it is "in use" or some other bullshit like that.
I was giving an example, but its nice to see someone think the victims at fault...
were you in the middle of a transaction when you tried to remove it?
LOL, this thread is great, some great funny comments.
I don't know why this is even newsworthy, other than to make the mom look like a complete idiot, then it succeeds.
Man, that is one weird looking, devious 11 year old.
Forgot to mention,... as some one else brought up. The article says, it's over the time of 6 months. Even if she does not know how to use parental control, which she should if she were going to give it to her child, she should still be checking her credit card information, atleast by the first month if not more, and see charges foreign to her.
If she did and she ignored it, then she needs to switch to pure cash, cuz there is too much fail involved.
Well good thing people can't download porn directly off the xbox 360, she would have a $10,000+ bill by the looks of that kid and especially his xbox wallpaper
That is defininitly, without a doubt, one of the kids that screams and yells into his gaming headset. And look, he has the brand new slim black xbox and not the older white one so he obviously didn't have it more than one year.
ROFLMAO!
No f&@#cking way that is the picture! Are you joking?
He is 11, right? Look at his wallpaper on his xbox! Some whore hahaha.
And by the way his mom looks, I am definitely guessing New Jersey? If not, NYC.
Nope. That button is there so that when you add a second payment option, you can remove one. The error is something along the lines of "This is the primary payment method for your account, it cannot be removed".