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oh it is 100% entirely OK to share that you got screwed by a company .. this crap happens all the time.. companies like this get away with ZERO shits give about customer support all the time.. it is insane..

buy a gift card, sell it to a friend or relative for cash, and donate the $10 to a homeless shelter or go buy good and beverages and hand them to a homeless person..

Telecom Australia's "information & directory" services always resulted in a standard Australian call connect cost, there was never any such thing as a free call ;-)

you paid for it, the information ( I'm assuming 111 is "directory information" in what ever nation you live in ), the phone company would always charge you a "flag fall" connecting fee once your call was connected.. why on earth did you ever assume you got free calls?

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yep.. I use a xxx@zoho.com webmail account to register for 100% of anything that required a "regwall" ( registration firewall ) as you are 100% going to get email from them all even if you opt-out.. also any events like webinars or free ebook or whitepaper downloads that say "work email only" allowed I use https://temp-mail.org/ to teach them to not be so stupid about this "only work email address" nonsense..

move to zoho.com FFS

facebook are morons ;-)

already doing it in my sleep.. next question?

Get in touch with the Vitality team at mainframe.vitality@broadcom.com

ping me for an introduction to the Broadcom Mainframe Software Division any time ;-)

http://twitter.com/dez_blanchfield

be sure to follow

https://twitter.com/BroadcomMSD

Trivial..

https://codecanyon.net/item/socialkit-the-ultimate-social-ne...

(This is a serious response..)

We are witnessing the 2nd fall of the Roman Empire..

Best advice I can offer, is disconnect for 24 to 48 hours and find out for yourself..

This is the sort of question a young person asks, with the greatest of respect, so I recommend spending time with older generations and learn from mentors who will gladly guide and advice based on their decades of life and experience "living" an actual "live".

you'll like this one:

Talking with Jim Dworkin, Sr. Director of Cloud Business Unit at Intel PSG

https://soundcloud.com/dez_blanchfield/conversations-with-de...

... THIS IS FAN TAS TIC !!! ...

100% signing up and will refer EVERYONE to you, 10 points to Gryffindor, I hope you keep this running FOR EVA !! ...

if this is insanely the case, then both their parents and their teachers have failed them ( the children that is ) but also they have failed themselves, well educated enquiring minds self educate after the age of 2 or 3..

find a fun challenge you personally enjoy solving, and start with some high level languages to get some experience of what "coding means", and slowly give yourself time to learn, through trial and error, copy other people's work from places like github and "check out" copies to work with, see if you can get things to build, or "compile" and run, and be patient, take your time, keep it interesting and fun, and find groups to work with, at least 2 or 3 peers learning at the same pace as you, and a few mentors to learn from, folk you can easily meet online, join some meetup.com groups, virtual and in person, dial into googel hangouts or zoom calls where you can to listen, watch, and absorb, and be careful and selective about the amount of content you consume from youtube or similar as it's easy to get caught wasting time on folk who are not good teachers or programmers and you go down a dead end rabbit hole..

start small, have fun, build many things - even start with things like HTML and build a web page you can load with a web browsers, then add some simple JavaScript for popups or forms, don't write off the fun languages like LOGO and BASIC can give you to get started, jumping in too deep too soon will potentially turn you off coding..

you can have a lot of fun with web based programming spaces as well..

here's a fun COmmodore 64 BASIC emulator to play with

https://c64emulator.111mb.de/index.php?site=pp_javascript&la...

here's a fun simple workspace to learn how to program in different languages, try this one:

https://www.tutorialspoint.com/execute_basic_online.php

here are some other great resources

https://www.businessinsider.com/64-places-you-can-learn-to-c...

https://www.hostinger.com/tutorials/learn-coding-online-for-...

https://learntocodewith.me/posts/code-for-free/

https://dynomapper.com/blog/410-top-25-websites-to-learn-to-...

https://skillcrush.com/blog/64-online-resources-to-learn-to-...

have fun!!