It's wrong.

perry · Post by **perry** » Thu Mar 06, 2003 10:27 am

I just got a letter through my door. It was a small brown envolope. On the front was written 'Please help me' ina small child's writing, it was printed but you couldn't really tell the differance. When I opened it there was a letter at the front which had 'I just don't want to be hit anymore' written in the same children's writing. accompanied by letters saying donate money to the NSPCC. Don't get me wrong im all for helping charity, especially one such as this. But they shouldn't be allowed to put that through my door. It's horrible loooking at it. You get that nasty gut feeling. I hate the adverts too, they get the message across...just int he wrong way. They make people feel either guilty, sorry, depressed or scared into giving money. It's all done wrong.

Them adverts where you see people get ran over are sick aswell.

Wasgo · Post by **Wasgo** » Thu Mar 06, 2003 10:31 am

I don't really see what's wrong about it. Stuff like that really happens and monetary donations help to prevent it. Sure, you don't like to look at it, but if it convinces more people to help the poor innocent people of the world, why wouldn't it be worth it?

perry · Post by **perry** » Thu Mar 06, 2003 10:40 am

But people shouldn't be given stuff they don't want through the door of their own house. Especially if it's sometihng like this. If they'd just made it a letter saying 'please donate money' and perhaps said 'Read on' or 'open to read about some children, or read more' That would have been differant cause you would have had the choice not to read it. With this it just looks like a letter from a little child on your hall floor.

-Azathoth- · Post by **-Azathoth-** » Thu Mar 06, 2003 2:13 pm

Yeah, that's a pretty pathetic thing to do. Slipping some sad story under your door?

Send them some hate mail, or some obscene pics in return.

Covar · Post by **Covar** » Thu Mar 06, 2003 4:08 pm

they shouldn't have done it. you also have to be careful about charities, from what i've heard the head guy at United Way makes a pretty hefty salary of his "charity work"

Narcissus · Post by **Narcissus** » Thu Mar 06, 2003 4:12 pm

That is pathetic... That's worse than telemarketing...

Don't get me wrong, I think some charities are good... but the only ones I donate to are the ones where if you drop the quarter into the water and land on the plastic thing, you can win a free taco at Taco Bell. I don't give money to bums either...

And I'm no insensitive, I'm just a little wiser with my money. If I were a millionaire, I'd donate lots for sure... but when I'm barely making it... I can't afford to invest in something like that. Especially when you're not sure how much of the money is really going toward the cause.

perry · Post by **perry** » Thu Mar 06, 2003 4:14 pm

1LINUXuser wrote:they shouldn't have done it. you also have to be careful about charities, from what i've heard the head guy at United Way makes a pretty hefty salary of his "charity work"

This was the NSPCC...

Wasgo · Post by **Wasgo** » Thu Mar 06, 2003 6:09 pm

1LINUXuser wrote:they shouldn't have done it. you also have to be careful about charities, from what i've heard the head guy at United Way makes a pretty hefty salary of his "charity work"

But do you know why? It's a job. The person at the helm isn't doing it for charity, it's a job.

Take as a function, $$ for charity = function of leaders quality - cost of leader. You need to find a point where the derivative equals zero. Rather $ = Q - C(Q), so 0 = 1 - C'(Q). This does not nessacarily occur on near the low salary end of the spectrum. So the function may max out at a higher salary. Yes, this means a lower percentage of dollars go to the cause, but overall more money goes.

BornStupid · Post by **BornStupid** » Thu Mar 06, 2003 6:40 pm

Take as a function, $$ for charity = function of leaders quality - cost of leader. You need to find a point where the derivative equals zero. Rather $ = Q - C(Q), so 0 = 1 - C'(Q). This does not nessacarily occur on near the low salary end of the spectrum. So the function may max out at a higher salary. Yes, this means a lower percentage of dollars go to the cause, but overall more money goes.

WTF, are you TRYING to look smart? Yeesh..

Wasgo · Post by **Wasgo** » Thu Mar 06, 2003 6:44 pm

Nah, just bored and felt like explaining it for a change. Either way I'm right.

perry · Post by **perry** » Thu Mar 06, 2003 6:46 pm

BornStupid wrote:
Take as a function, $$ for charity = function of leaders quality - cost of leader. You need to find a point where the derivative equals zero. Rather $ = Q - C(Q), so 0 = 1 - C'(Q). This does not nessacarily occur on near the low salary end of the spectrum. So the function may max out at a higher salary. Yes, this means a lower percentage of dollars go to the cause, but overall more money goes.
WTF, are you TRYING to look smart? Yeesh..

Hopefully you've never attempted looking smart...

Or you've failed miserably.

Post by **melancholy** » Thu Mar 06, 2003 10:08 pm

Narcissus wrote:but the only ones I donate to are the ones where if you drop the quarter into the water and land on the plastic thing, you can win a free taco at Taco Bell.

OMG, there was this girl in my driver's ed group back in high school. Every Tuesday for 6 weeks, our group of three would go with an instructor out driving around the county, eat somewhere, then go back to school. It seemed like everywhere we stopped to eat, there was that little plastic thing that your talking about. Now, this girl, she never would take any cash with her. Instead, she would take a quarter, a dime, and a nickel, drop them in that thing, and win her supper. During the whole 6 weeks, she never missed a catch, ever. It was like an artform to watch her drop the coin in, twirl the knob, and catch that coin almost dead center everytime.

btm4k · Post by **btm4k** » Fri Mar 07, 2003 12:59 am

melancholy wrote:
Narcissus wrote:but the only ones I donate to are the ones where if you drop the quarter into the water and land on the plastic thing, you can win a free taco at Taco Bell.
OMG, there was this girl in my driver's ed group back in high school. Every Tuesday for 6 weeks, our group of three would go with an instructor out driving around the county, eat somewhere, then go back to school. It seemed like everywhere we stopped to eat, there was that little plastic thing that your talking about. Now, this girl, she never would take any cash with her. Instead, she would take a quarter, a dime, and a nickel, drop them in that thing, and win her supper. During the whole 6 weeks, she never missed a catch, ever. It was like an artform to watch her drop the coin in, twirl the knob, and catch that coin almost dead center everytime.

I won once, but it was at Denny's and there are no prizes.

zickfun · Post by **zickfun** » Fri Mar 07, 2003 1:14 am

wtf...what cheap advertising :/

spaghetti · Post by **spaghetti** » Fri Mar 07, 2003 1:42 am

They shoved it under your door? I mean, I can see it would be okay if it came in the mail or something... but... that's just weird.

perry · Post by **perry** » Fri Mar 07, 2003 6:45 am

spaghetti wrote:They shoved it under your door? I mean, I can see it would be okay if it came in the mail or something... but... that's just weird.

Nah lol, in the UK our mail is put through a slot in the front of our door...