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eBay's Ill-Timed Lifetime Achievement Webby
theodp writes "eBay CEO Meg Whitman will accept a special Webby Lifetime Achievement Award next month on behalf of the eBay Community, which has 'permanently changed the way people connect, discover and interact with each other.' Perhaps by then, people will have forgotten how eBay enabled buyer 'Blazers5505' to hook up with sellers like 'oneclickshooting' just weeks before the worst mass shooting in modern US history, prompting eBay to issue a gun-parts-don't-kill-students-guns-and-ammo-do statement that showed little evidence of its celebrated commitment to social consciousness. CEO Whitman, who received $11.1M last year for her leadership efforts, has kept a low profile since tooting eBay's trust-and-safety horn for Wall Street analysts two days after the Va. Tech rampage."
Recent information indicates that it will be necessary to also ban hammers from sale on Ebay, to avert future criticism along these same lines.
"Sacrifice for the good of The State" - The State
to kdawson!! Congrats on the award! How about a snarky, back-handed, sarcastic award speech for us?
SJW: Someone who has run out of real oppression, and has to fake it.
I'm guessing it's revenge for negative feedbacks.
Thunderclone: ONE MAN ENTERS! TWO MEN LEAVE! ONE MAN ENTERS! TWO MEN LEAVE!
You just don't get the big picture! If they were hungry, then they'd have been more occupied with trying to eat and they wouldn't have been able to commit their crimes!
'We are deeply disturbed by the presence of these articles,' investigator Stew Piddington stated
If you want to be an investigator, changing your name from something that starts with "stupid" is a good first move.
Where does the school board find them and why do they keep sending them to ME?
....Says the hypocrite selling pet supplies on the net. Wow, you are just so elite.
There is a war going on for your mind.
Greenpeace issues a statement expressing their displeasure on how eBay has a poor environmental policy when it comes to computer manufacturing and disposal. An eBay spokesperson responded that eBay does not manufacture any computers. To which Greenpeace responded that eBay re-sells computers and therefore shares the social responsibility to ensure that the computers are manufactured and disposed in the most environmentally friendly way. To which the eBay spokesperson said, "Bite my shiny metal ass."
Well, there's spam egg sausage and spam, that's not got much spam in it.
There are ads on Slashdot?
There is a war going on for your mind.
Spoons and spoon makers are responsible for numerous people being fat, without spoons they couldn't shovel in the lard it would simply run through their forks. Anyone supporting spoon companies is directly responsible for fat people and should be ashamed.
Knowledge = Power
P= W/t
t=Money
Money = Work/Knowledge so the less you know the more you make
Ebay didn't kill anyone, sheesh
In all fairness, the submitter didn't imply eBay killed the students, he's only implying that Meg Whitman killed them. :)
Sometimes it's best to just let stupid people be stupid.
Seems that if you can blame eBay for a nutjob killing people, then you can blame eBay for scam artists ripping people off. But why stop there? Blame eBay for deaths caused by drunk drivers who bought cars, furries who bought stuffed animals, and trolling Slashdot submitters who bought new computers.
Gamingmuseum.com: Give your 3D accelerator a rest.
They are
It is
You are
They're not
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You are comming to a sad realization, Cancel or Allow?
"I use a Mac because I'm just better than you are."