They can't can get large files transferred out of the database. Which is why using proprietary databases suck.

It's their damned database! WX is a marketing site for the product.

What a lousy testimonial.

Jesse, you up for keeping the records of charitable donations? If so, send me your addie, and I'll make a copy for me in case the IRS starts questioning me and all of my glorious charity work.

I'd be happy to, but legally the donation is from you. You sent a personal check, right? We don't have a legal entity through which to make donations.

It is designed to take the stigma out of homelessness. When one is applying for a job, or talking to other random people, they can say, "I'm staying at my friend's place." And that's easier than saying, "I'm staying at the shelter."

A slightly less uplifting version of this is the bar in downtown Milwaukee called "My Office."

There was a short lived bar here called Home.

Hm. I would be happy to be Chick What Keeps Charity Records, since I have the records of who gave what and it's my arse if IRS comes a knocking. I can send a record of the amount, charity name, when the donation was received by charity, reason for giving, any other pertinent but not personal info to ita or you for Buffista record keeping/posterity.

It's been a few hundred, not much, but still, I think important as a community to have a record of charitable deeds, so that well hellfire comes to lick our asses, we can maybe use such deeds for a free snowcone every century.

Allyson, if you remember back when I talked to the IRS for you, they said if you called them, they would be glad to talk to you about how incorporating as a non-profit fan organization (it fits under cultural activities). Don't know if your income is high enough for this to do you any good. (And it is none of my business. don't want to know.) You could deduct some of your rent and utilities, most of your book and DVD purchases, part of your internet costs, purchase of action figures. As at present you would not deduct these chartiable contributiosn (unless they came from you rather than other people) because you would never count them in your income. But the people who donated could also count them.

A slightly less uplifting version of this is the bar in downtown Milwaukee called "My Office."

I *just* got this as I was driving this morning. I had been trying to figure out why a homeless person would want to tell a potential employer that he lived in his office. Would whoever stole my brain please return it? I need it...obviously pretty badly.

Right!

Yes!

It came up during the last exile ... CafePress and their new TOS. I don't think we should be keeping our swag there, not if it risks costing us dosh.

Are there alternatives? Ideas?

Here is a clarification to that bit of the Member Agreement (bold mine):

Clarification: Members who have commission in their accounts and do not reach the $25 minimum payment threshold within 6 months will be subject to a $25 per month account maintenance fee until their account balance is $0. Members are not charged beyond the balance in their accounts (we will not charge your credit card, send you a bill, etc). The CafePress.com service and CafePress Basic Shops are still free, and if you have not commissions in your account, you will never be charged the account maintenance fee. This fee is only charged to those members with outstanding commission that never reach the payment threshold.

Which means that most of our stores will never be charged, since they earn no commission.

The original swag stores have a current commission of about $16. In order to get that out of CafePress' hands (before July 1st, when the new agreement goes into effect), what I can do is close those stores, and reopen them w/o commission. This will cost $5, but we won't have to pay the $25 commission fee, ever.