Simon! No doubt agencies have cleared their strange behaviours with their legal-depts but there is still lots of "legit" skull duggery going on, lots of it. Every single thing they do is based on short term profit thinking.
Their survival is exclusivly based on new contributors with new ports constantly joining! still thinking in terms of a rich over night success.

I think possibly you and me and a few hundred other oldies are among the last ones still involved in micro-stock but if you want to go with a really great RM/RF agency, give me a PM and I tell you!

Quote from: Shelma1 on February 18, 2018, 13:18

Quote from: farbled on February 18, 2018, 13:14

Yup, agreed. But from the outside looking in, the USA very (internationally) publicly holds itself up as a beacon of peace and prosperity to the world and as a model for what democracy should be. The news you get inside your borders is vastly different from the news the rest of the world sees.

So yes, your country has a problem and because of the propensity of media to always fixate on your country, we will all get a front row seat.

Yada lives in Canada, not the USA, despite his proclivity for saying "we" and "us" when discussing issues in a country other than his own.

Ignore the subject and attack him with false claims. Blame Trump, not the party in power the last 8 years.

Look at this, Churches are a common target for Islamic militants in Indonesia, the world's most populous Muslim nation. Police in Indonesia shot a sword-wielding man who attacked a church congregation during Sunday Mass, injuring four people, including a German priest. http://www.foxnews.com/world/2018/02/11/police-shoot-man-during-sword-attack-on-indonesian-church.html

The region has also seen a large number of people join Islamic State terror group, according to Reuters.

Dagestan is a predominantly Muslim region between Chechnya and the Caspian Sea. Following two separatist wars in neighboring Chechnya, an Islamist insurgency spread to Dagestan. http://www.foxnews.com/world/2018/02/18/russia-church-shooting-leaves-5-dead-after-gunman-opens-fire-on-people-leaving-service.html

Why don't you stop defending the terrorists, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Islamist_terrorist_attacks liberals like you love diversity but miss the truth.

Or these people who you want to take over the country, they can't read or write English. Illegal Alien Crime Accounts for over 30% of Murders in Many States. http://www.breitbart.com/big-journalism/2015/08/08/illegal-alien-crime-accounts-for-over-30-of-murders-in-some-states/ Then blame Trump for pointing out the elephant in the room. These facts are not attacking hispanic people, just the illegals that are criminals. Same as others have said, don't punish the innocent for what the criminals do. Guns or illegals.

Yes but it dont matter Jim! like my post above! bashing Trump is a must. A guy is having toothache in Djakarta, its Trumps fault!...the leftie/Lib crap never give up they make themselves look so stupid they dont even realize it and it all boils down to jealousy and especially in Europe where the IQ is so low among politicians they are close to surrender their culture, values and laws to that of the Islamic state!....never mind lets see who gets the last laugh?? hahaha!

Very good month at IS!...surprised actually since I am an independent but its been good for the last 4 months!

My cap was lifted for 3 days and during that period totally fantastic,  then they switched off and daily takings fell by 70% and not only me but same with a whole bunch of oldies!
Very questionable indeed actually!

Microstock is dead!  and its almost uncanny as I said that some buyer bought 11 single sales for a total of $303.74. After this I will complain all the time, it PAYS well!

Quote from: derek on February 07, 2018, 14:27

Stan is right, he is just messing around, trolling on purpose to see if some people are imbeciles enough to take notice, looking for reactions!

Yep, I bet he would have loved to be a stand-up comedian or a reality TV star, able to "mess around" without consequences.
Meanwhile he is president. Not a troll on a some forum. Everything he says matters and has consequences.
And all he is doing and saying is a real "mess", indeed. Not so much "just messing around".

There are much better people at "messing around" than our "Moron in Chief": https://youtu.be/hSCAHKy61-M

Enjoy! 

Well I would like to be that sort of a moron! business-man worth 5 billion bucks, makes poor Oringer look like a beginner! Let me tell you Zero just to quote a famous quote, you dont become super-rich by being stupid!
If he was to walk around all stiff and dignified well-spoken eloquent well then the leftie/lib brigade would find something wrong with that calling him snobbish or whatever.
If IS blow up a bus in the Alps his Trumps fault, if a car has a flat-tyre its Trumps fault, if an englishman dont like Haggis its Trumps fault??  people never tire do they. Trump didnt come to the MSG but some people here introduce Trump to the MSG and for what............??

Meanwhile yes I can understand you I presume youre from the US which I personally still think is one of the greatest countries in the world and especially when you compare it to poverty stricken and cretin-like Europe! unfortunately!

Stan is right, he is just messing around, trolling on purpose to see if some people are imbeciles enough to take notice, looking for reactions!

DT is just dead! not overnight but over the last 2 years its just faded away. Used to be one of the most stable sites but ever since Serban took a back-seat its gone. See this is what happens when an agency gets stuck in just pushing sub-packages.

Forget weekends!  part-timers editing.

Yes I got about 25 requests here, WEB EL'S maybe someone from DT could enlighten us if its a bug or not??

Who remembers. geez man. this all you have to do?. that was years ago. and the owner was a good friend. He came to My first seminar 2006. and for me it was good in the beginning. so what. things change man. get a life. move on dude. Today it's Alamy for me. not you? who Cares. not me.!!!! wanna discuss someday or are ya gonna follow me around, What , do you file away everything I say? let me Know because i do. 54,255 Posts on SS and I have a copy of everyone.BTW....I probably wrote that about quite a few sites . remember when we got referral Money????LOL I Made about 10 Grand back in the day. mostly with SS till they took it away which was a LIE. And Did you know.....you must know this. MSG was the first Place I advertised something. Our first book and it sold extremely well thanks to leaf..

Not as bad as in the old days but there are still some people left here who havent found their life yet! and they sort of "stalk" you and some others. You tell em the pacific is an ocean and they will tell you its a desert! part-timers I recon? ya know the score.

Anyway never got on with Alamy I personally know the founder, owner as well and many years back he got me to join but I'm not into that sort editorial lark and thats what they sell to 80% but yeah I can see you content doing well there, especially your people shots!

See I told you! first one emerged out of the wood-works, hahaha!

Apart from your 180 bucks at the end of last week presumably?

sure of course you still get the odd single-sale but its nowhere in the world as often as before....besides that buyer had asked SS if they could buy the copyright of that shot, mailed me and I had to refuse since its been out/sold in many other agencies. Pity!!  that would have fetched lots, lots more!  could even have gone to the Pub and bought you a Pint!