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Abiword's PayPal Donation Fund Robbed
SabberFlapper writes "According to this Announcement to the developer list of Abiword the Abiword fund was robbed. Dom Lachowicz writes: 'I'm duty bound to let you all know that the AbiWord Fund/Tip Jar has
been robbed approximately three weeks ago. I'm telling you this now,
rather than sooner, since I believed that Paypal would do something
about my complaints during the interim, and that this would all be
resolved quietly. Today, 23 days later, this does not look like it will
happen. [..]
I do however, recommend doing several things:
1) Writing to Paypal, in letter, email, or fax form alerting them to
this travesty.
2) Calling Paypal on AbiWord's behalf.
3) Writing or calling your Congressman/woman, pointing out that Paypal
is acting like a bank, but not operating under formal banking laws.
4) Boycotting Paypal because of these reasons, and the fact that their
system is notoriously insecure, and encouraging others to do the same.'" Of all the groups to steal from -- AbiWord?
eph pee
by SexyKellyOsbourne
The influence of mallcore -- the "nu-metal" genre of detuned guitars with alternating rapped and screamed lyrics -- upon the modern music scene is truly revolutionary; so much so that many of the metalposeurs' (non-mallcore "metal" fans) favorite bands, who keep it real and don't adhere stingily to the bleak past, have become part of the movement. These bands from the past know that the future of music lies in mallcore, and those who deny it are simply denying the future. Anyone who turns their back on the now-mallcore Gods of the past are too soft and weak, closed-minded, and pretentious to join in listening to mallcore, the ultimate form of music.
These bands include but are not limited to:
Danzig - Glenn Danzig, former punk legend of the Misfits and Samhain now lends his Elvis/Morrison-like voice and idiosyncratic style to his own brand of mallcore with 777 I Luiceferi.
Helloween - Borrowed mallcore styles with The Dark Ride, but failed miserably, since they're too soft for the genre.
In Flames - Considered Gods by many metal fans alike, these Swedes have quit playing their "gay" melodies and showed their hard side by turning into an excellent Mallcore band with Reroute to Remain, and are now metal enough to tour with the mighty Slipknot.
Megadeth - Megadeth briefly joined the mallcore scene with their album Risk, then sold out with World Needs A Hero. Karma afflicted Mustaine greatly, and the band soon broke up for turning their backs on mallcore.
Metallica - After some of their earlier garage band releases, they put out the Black Album, their rough first real album. After that, they joined the party and produced some excellent heavy metal with Load and Reload. Metallica now takes the stage with Ja Rule and creates heavy rap-metal.
Ozzy Osbourne - The Alpha and Omega of metal, creating the genesis of all things metal with Black Sabbath, Ozzy has switched his style entirely to detuned, minimalist mallcore with Down to Earth and now tours with only the best at Ozzfest -- bands such as Drowning Pool, Flaw, Adema, and POD.
Sepultura - After abandoning their lackadaisical 80's metal, Brazillians Sepultura went on to put out some excellent mallcore albums in the early days of the mallcore underground. After breaking up, lead singer Max Cavalera went on to form the very talented and tight Soulfly.
Slayer - They have put out their own brand of mallcore with God Hates Us All, abandoned their tired thrash metal sound and acknowledged Slipknot's superiority, and are now touring with Hatebreed.
Steve Vai - What some used to call "The Greatest Guitarist of All Times" before guitarists like Munky, Mick, and Wayne Static took over has bowed before the all-mighty fathers of mallcore, KoRn, when interviewed. In the same interview, Yngwie Malmsteen dared not to put up a rebuttal of any kind, thus submitting to the superior mallcore genius and technical abilities of Korn.
Clippy took the money. That monster...
roffle(tm, if you dont understand it, say it three times out loud very quickly), i didnt know karma could hit the negatives.
(to the forgiving moderators: i'm aware that my posts may digress from...yeah, basically anything, so fuck off)
A woman gets on a bus with her baby. The bus driver says: "That's the ugliest baby that I've ever seen. Ugh!" The woman goes to the rear of the bus and sits down, fuming. She says to a man next to her: "The driver
just insulted me!" The man says: "You go right up there and tell him off - go ahead, I'll hold your monkey for you."
6) PROFIT!!!
Narc.
Australian dwarf moderators are trying to hide the truth. But the truth can only be found at pay pal is 1-face dirty liar. Evil ass dumb teachers are a Santa god.
you like getting your shit pushed in.
--clouts
You want the truth?
The mods can't handle the truth!
Only fucking deadbeats need to make credit card payments to live operators on a recurring bill like a cell phone. Pay your fucking bills on time, loser.
1) Rob the piggy bank
2) ??????
3) Profit
you sure make a whole lot of excuses for the bitches at Pay Pal.
http://quiz.ravenblack.net/blood.pl?1125698285
Ha. Petty funny.
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RumorsDaily
A few facts (more or less) for the uninitiated:
- Banks are federally insured in most countries. That means that the funds you have on deposit are insured by the government up to a certain point. Even if the bank goes bankrupt, they will pay you.
- Credit cards offer fraud protection, often by contract, more often by law, usually by both.
- Paypal is not a bank. Paypal is just a company. They have contracts with you, but ultimately they are an unregulated clearinghouse. The service they provide is easy financial transactions at a higher than average price.
- It follows that if you leave any significant amount of money in your paypal account, you are asking for trouble.
- There are other methods of payment; anyone working with more than a small amount of money should look into getting a visa merchant account, and other business banking tools. Banks WILL help you with this.
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