The really funny part about this is that the teenagers who run this site can parrot the party line about hating Microsoft and Bush but can't tell a joke when they see one.
There is no way in hell I am giving these companies permission to withdraw their billing amounts directly from my account. I find at least one mistake on each credit card bill and my cable and utility bills screw up at least once a year each.
Europeans are much more used to turning over their lives to government and then complaining that nothing gets done. This is another example of that and another reason that Silicon Valley did not and could not have happened there.
There are a number of other things we are behind them with, like our weak family relationships and our slavish consumption of what the advertisers tell us to buy but this is not one of them.
Even *if* you can get NSI to release a domain after it's expired Tucows will register it the moment it becomes available if it is a decent name. They pick out all the good names and then register them. You can either pay them the $700 they ask for it or go through the dispute procedure (Minimum $1500) if you feel that it rightfully belongs to you or you accidentally let it expire. There should be a rule that Domain registrars can't use their inside information to resell domains.
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That's the sound of shagging a badger.
The really funny part about this is that the teenagers who run this site can parrot the party line about hating Microsoft and Bush but can't tell a joke when they see one.
There is no way in hell I am giving these companies permission to withdraw their billing amounts directly from my account. I find at least one mistake on each credit card bill and my cable and utility bills screw up at least once a year each. Europeans are much more used to turning over their lives to government and then complaining that nothing gets done. This is another example of that and another reason that Silicon Valley did not and could not have happened there. There are a number of other things we are behind them with, like our weak family relationships and our slavish consumption of what the advertisers tell us to buy but this is not one of them.
Big brother knows what's best anyway so just let him determine what we can and can't see, say, do and think. Stop struggling, it'll only leave marks.
Even *if* you can get NSI to release a domain after it's expired Tucows will register it the moment it becomes available if it is a decent name. They pick out all the good names and then register them. You can either pay them the $700 they ask for it or go through the dispute procedure (Minimum $1500) if you feel that it rightfully belongs to you or you accidentally let it expire. There should be a rule that Domain registrars can't use their inside information to resell domains.
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