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Originally posted by tothetenthpower
Who owns Ebay?
The answer might interest you.
~Keeper
Originally posted by starless and bible black
reply to post by tothetenthpower
I seem to recall when paypal shut down all the sellers on ebay who had poor credit, by FORCING everyone to use paypal, or else. It was a distinct lockstep with the beast maneuver. No cred? No ebay, period. I have no sympathy for them.
You are going to be really pissed when the satellites are brought down.
Originally posted by starless and bible black
You are going to be really pissed when the satellites are brought down.
Originally posted by Hefficide
reply to post by tothetenthpower
It's easy to blame anon and to them to take credit for all these DDoS attacks. But the truth is that anon is mostly script kiddies who download apps that just put them into a botnet. There is really no "doing" involved.
Not standing up for them in any way, to be clear. I agree with their views on a free Internet and can engage well with some of the old school folks from that community. But the vast majority are tweens who have limited knowledge of anything beyond the moment.
Now those who herd the botnets... Well they are in control. And they get paid a LOT of money. And they don't tend to provide their services for free. I suspect that there is a money trail to be found in this, somewhere.
~Heffedit on 12/8/10 by Hefficide because: sp
Originally posted by nerbot
Originally posted by 12voltz
Yeah so much for a nuclear armageddon ,now we cant buy stuff online.Who would have thought?
Then this is the luckiest day of your life.
Wake up, smell the roses and be grateful for all the things that don't cost money.
I'm loving this.
The more you have, the more you can lose. If you cannot prepare for the bad times and accept them when they come, then only expecting good times is unrealistic.
C'est la vie.edit on 8/12/2010 by nerbot because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by hawkiye
Ok to all the idiots claiming paypal shouldn't have gotten involved in politics they are a private business they can decide who they offer service to or not. The alternatives to paypal don't hold a candle to thier service believe me most of us have tried. Which one of you who are saying this BS has started thier own business from scratch and starved while trying to get it off the ground? Or is Mommy and Daddy paying for your school, or are you working for someone else who went through all the trouble to start a business so you could have a job?
Grow the fack up! This is serious! Yeah there will be a lot of angry people but they will be angry at the punks like you who supported this crap, and at WL, and will holler for lock down of the Net so this sh!t can't happen again. Congratulations you just helped the rogue government steal another freedom!
In the mean time people like me who lost a job over a year ago and has been struggling to start a business in this economy, who is doing handyman work and even putting up Christmas lights right now for people to make ends meet while I try and build this business into being able to support us fully will loose it. You are messing with my family now and I am pissed so don't preach to me about how paypal shouldn't do what they have done from your smug little ill informed emotional idiocy...
People need to think things through and stop reacting to every little thing this is how they manipulate you and you fall for it like weak minded fools...
Originally posted by nerbot
Originally posted by 12voltz
Yeah so much for a nuclear armageddon ,now we cant buy stuff online.Who would have thought?
Then this is the luckiest day of your life.
Wake up, smell the roses and be grateful for all the things that don't cost money.
I'm loving this.
The more you have, the more you can lose. If you cannot prepare for the bad times and accept them when they come, then only expecting good times is unrealistic.
C'est la vie.edit on 8/12/2010 by nerbot because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by jaynkeel
reply to post by Xavialune
Can you tell me where you and all who think like you have been for the last I don't know how many years? What wikileaks just suddenly made you open up your eyes and realize all this in the past week???? And if I may ask one more question just last week you were freaking out how someone was watching you in your parents house where you live? And yet you've been homeless for a year? Sorry don't mean to belittle you just alot of things don't add up for me? You seem to want to be all wise and knowing yet at times act like a scared juvenile?
Don't talk down to people like you're on some high mighty horse because you've 'started from scratch' and had some hard luck. you're not the only person in that boat and you won't be the last. Personally I HAVE done my own business related ventures and I dont see the point in using that as an excuse to sit back and let things go on all hunky dory like they are now, never changing because you percieve that this change will ruin you. Will it? maybe. But maybe not.. Paypal isnt the end all be all, there are other ways and if more people supported those alternative ways, those companies who DONT get involved in politics would be able to rival the 'service' of paypal. They may be a private business who can refuse service to anyone they want but there are CONSEQUENCES to that just as there will be consequences for supporting such a company.
Is it weak minded to stand up and fight against corruption and suffer some casualties in the process or is it weak minded to want the tyranny to continue based on fear?
Originally posted by tothetenthpower
I would love to see the reactions of those people who are telling me to suck it up and quit whining if their lives were at stake instead of mine and my children's.
Luckily I'm a smart business owner and have found an alternative so this mess will be solved shortly.
~Keeper
Originally posted by beholdblight
reply to post by jaynkeel
good luck tracking down someone hiding behind 7 proxy servers.
Also think about the thousands of people you'd be messing with.
Now think of those thousands of kids and they're focused on you.
I don't mess with anonymous for a reason, cause I've seen the causalities.
two words
Tuff Luck
Paypal isn't the only game in town. Why should you honor their monopoly? Open other accesses. There is always money orders. C.O.D.'s ...Find another way.