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Yahoo Shuts Down Their PayPal Competitor
LostCluster writes "MSNBC and ZDnet are both reporting that Yahoo and HSBC have announced a shutdown plan for their PayDirect service which was their rival to PayPal. Since CitiBank abandoned their c2it service last year, PayPal now seems to be a monopoly by default." There are other players in this field, though, like bidpay and worldpay.
Reneged - sure I believe that, or even "niggardly". Both seem to be unrelated to the American "N" word, but they're close enough that I DO despair over them.
This is one of those words that we could easily remove from the lexicon if we could get over the absolutist position that ALL free speech is a good thing.
It simply is NOT.
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For example, the "N"-word has its roots in the word "negro" - the Spanish word for "black".
I've always looked at it that way, but both "reneged" and "niggardly" have negative connotations of revocation and being miserly. That American slaves were forced to be frugal AND probably got caught not fulfilling their 'owners' every demand occasionally(sic), it is also reasonable to think that the origin of the "N-word" came from a bully's(cracker) pun on the phonetic and inferior similarities with "renege" and "niggardly". This bullying is what I loathe so much of - and think the world can do without. Though modern opinion says the words are not related, I find it hard to believe as "niggardly" predates the American South, and slave owners were greedy bastards. A psychological weapon to use on the slaves.
As I told the other respondant, I am probably wrong on my stance, my friends and I don't use the word - so we have effectively censored our environment for the most part, and Darwin will proably take care of it in time anyway.
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I agree. People will be outlawing the use of the word "picnic" next. Fucking Liberals.
[You have a stable society when some nut guns down a schoolyard and the law doesn't change.]