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I have personally experienced a problem with PayPal;I sold an item on eBay. I was paid via PayPal. The payment turned out to be made from a hijaked account. PayPal's method of "fixing" the problem is to take the money from me to give back to the hijaked user.Now, I have no problem with the hijaked user not losing out. However, I have a very big problem with taking the money from me to do it. PayPal allowed the account to be hijaked (likely) or the user allowed the account to be hijaked (less likely, still very possible). I committed no crime, I was not an active participation in any attempt to commit a crime. In fact, I am also the victim of a crime. What justification does PayPal have in taking the money from me? None. It simply allows them to look like the good-guy to the user whose account was hijaked. Problem is, they lose nothing themselves. It should be their liability, unless they prove I had prior knowledge. I should not lose my money.

I mean I really, really hate myspace. Every time I log on they are experiencing some technical difficulty, and then I suffer through it just to open a posting from some idiot about how I'll die at midnight if I don't repost their *BLEEP* posting. Why on earth do 30 year olds feel compelled to forward chain mail that has obviously been created by some grounded 12 year old???Now I've taken to hitting "reply" to the annoying postings just to tell the jackass (who is an old friend of my husband's who seems to have Peter Pan syndrome) that he is wasting my *BLEEP*ing time. So basically I've become a myspace *BLEEP*. Awesome.I keep my account because lately it's allowed me to become connected to people I had lost touch with and genuinely missed. But, man, do I hate myspace.

its not a irc script its a irc chat client running via java so it uses the resources of the client not the resources of xisto but i removed it from my site anyway because i have some proplems with the compability to java 1.5 wich is the standart vm maybe when everything is working without problems i upload it again Edit: now its possible to download java 1.6 aka 6.0 without the development kit i added a download link on my site and i uploaded the applet again do you like it?

!!!!warning!!!!! doesnt work except you own java 1.6(wich isnt downloadable ) i try to make it compatible but it will take some time sorry the website is a java applet you can chat with the applet in irc and the things you chatted in irc will be uploaded to my homepage you can also draw via irc and the picture you draw will also be uploaded on my homepage all useres in a irc channel will draw to one single picture index: http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/ direct link: http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/ pictures when it doesnt work get the latest java VM version: https://www.java.com/de/download/windows_xpi.jsp

The Temperature RisesWe should liberate Iran first ? now.hile the world obsesses on Iraq, Iran, the most-important country in the Middle East ? and the keystone of the terror network ? has once again been shaken by the rage of its people. On the one hand looms the terrible regime which, fearing that it may be brought down by the kind of national insurrection that the mullahs led against the shah 23 years ago, is lashing out in an increasingly incoherent wave of thuggery, torture, and public executions and amputations. On the other, those segments of the population able to organize are demonstrating their contempt for the regime, daring the security forces to do their worst.And so, once again the University of Tehran ? at several different campuses ? was the scene of violent demonstrations, leading one of the country's leading elected representatives (Ahmad Pour Nejati, the head of the parliament's cultural committee) to say that the country is headed for an uncertain future, without so much as a parachute.The demonstrations began on Saturday at 6:35 in the afternoon in Tehran. The pretext for the gathering was given by hundreds of cases of food poisoning, and the public revelation that students were being fed low- quality meat. Within an hour the security forces closed all streets leading to the university, and the students began singing the old Iranian national anthem ? banned by the mullahs. At 9 o'clock, ten bus loads of security forces arrived on the scene, and the thugs tried to force the students back into the university buildings, but they were driven back, as the students chanted "Hashemi (Rafsanjani), Pinochet, Iran will not be a Chile," along with "(failed reformist president) Khatami, resign!" and "referendum, referendum."When the security forces were driven back, the students lit bonfires with wood and tires, at which point the security forces fired gas grenades at the crowds. The fighting went on until 1:30 in the morning. Thirty- seven students were arrested.The demonstrations resumed on Sunday, with nearly 2,000 students chanting against Rafsanjani and again demanding a referendum. Later in the day the body of one of their leaders ? Ruhollah Ghoujani ? was found under a bridge, with visible signs of terrible vengeance on it. He had been murdered by the goon squad from the Intelligence Ministry. The Faculty of Trade and Commerce was also shut down, as was the Fatemiah University in Qom, that was supposed to have been a model for the next generation of Iranian higher education. Yet another bad sign for the mullahcracy, as is the call for yet another demonstration on Tuesday, this one in the mosque at Tehran University. In yet another development, scores of women have demonstrated in Tabriz against the oppressive actions of the Basij, the regime's prize bullies.Meanwhile, some of the braver members of parliament have decided to vote with their feet as well as their mouths. When university professor Hashem Aghajari was sentenced to death last week, it provoked considerable public condemnation, and on Sunday two MPs resigned in protest. Both were from the western regions, and one, Hossein Loqmanian, had first-hand experience with Islamic Justice, Iranian style, having himself earned the honor of becoming the first member of parliament to be thrown into prison since the 1979 revolution. Loqmanian represents Hamedan, which is where the court passed its outrageous sentence on Aghajari, condemning him for blasphemy even though some of the country's leading religious authorities had said the charges were baseless. And even the Parliament Speaker, Mehdi Karroubi, denounced the sentence and demanded it be reversed.Both the regime and its opponents are rapidly reaching a point of no return, and the odds certainly favor the people. The mullahs are hopelessly outnumbered, and the forces of freedom in Iran are getting braver all the time. Late last week a commander from the Revolutionary Guards announced he would not order his men to fire on student demonstrators, and was immediately replaced, but this sort of thing can be contagious, as General Jaruselski and Slobodan Milosovic found to their doom. The mullahs are constantly firing and hiring new thugs to protect them against the wrath of the people, and the question is whether or not there is a sufficient supply of killers to forestall the end of this hated regime.This is yet another test of the courage and coherence of American leaders. President Bush has been outstanding in endorsing the calls for freedom in Iran, as has Defense Secretary Rumsfeld. It would be nice if Secretary of State Powell added his own eloquence to the chorus, especially because many Iranians fear that the State Department is still trying to cut a deal with the mullahs.I have long argued that it would be better to liberate Iran before Iraq, and events may soon give us that opportunity. Let's hope our national-security team recognizes how wonderful an opportunity it is, and therefore gives the Iranian freedom fighters the assistance they so richly deserve.Faster, please. Opportunity is knocking at our door.

Alot of people are finally aware of the gas issues, now that it effects them, being monetary of course. I am probally of a small few who believes that this is the best thing to happen.... So what we pay double, triple, or whatever amount for gas because we are inviting innovation to this capitalist economy. There is a better way to propel vechiles and there is now a demand, because people are tired of spending too much money on gas. Not only does gas pollute the environment, but now it addresses a larger audience, the broke people like myself. Alternative answers must be in the works, and if I must pay $20 more to fill up.... SO BE IT.... Money spent to usher in a new form of mobility......... AND TO PUT THESE PETROLEUM *BLEEP*S OUT OF BUSINESS FOREVER!!!!!!!!!

I despise school. I am a freshman in High School, and I cannot stand it. I hate the teachers, the cirriculum, you name it. Every day this senior and his little clique treat me like *BLEEP* because someone told them I am gay, and obsessed with him. Theres other people that hate me for God knows what reason. That doesn't mean I am gonna go in there with a sawed off shotgun and start shooting holes in them. If I even felt enough hatred towards them whereas I felt I needed to actually kill them, I sure as hell would not do it in a school with a whole bunch of innocent people standing around. These pussies needed to learn to deal with their problem. People will blame the media, society, parents, teachers, whoever - but the truth is these kids just had problems they needed to work out. Their fault. Period.

o you bush monkey demon, Bush is a mentally ill terrorist, and he betterunderstand that we don't want american government thugs on Canadian soil,Canada is a Sovereign Country that doesn't allow foreign government agentsto carry weapon's on it soil, like your state texas troppers and customofficers think they can....because if you as an idiot wish to give up "TheConstitution of the United States of America" for government terrorism andbush made surcurity, your then an idiot,

Notice from saint-michael: although i have yet to find it they post looks copied and pasted. So this will remain quote until further notice.

Right, lets get this straight. Football and American Football are both goodsports in their own rights. But like most American sports, the Americans don'tthink they've seen a good game unless there has been a barrel load of goals/points.Look at the kind of scores run up in American football and basketball. Yet Americanfootball is one of the slowest games to be played. Have you ever watched one live?The action comes in bursts of 5 or 10 seconds and then you may have to wait anothercouple of minutes to see the next play! How fans manage to keep their bums on theirseats for hours on end is beyond me when the sport in question just keeps stoppingand starting. I have watched soccer games that have ended up 0-0 and come awaythinking "That was a cracker of a game". Americans have no sense or appreciationof style or skill, they just care about the end result in their own sports. Whereas Europeans and southern Americans realise there is more to Football than justknocking a ball around a park. There is something infinitely more spiritual aboutFootball and the fans attitude towards their choosen teams that americans will neverappreciate.

In practice, however, this is not how human nature works. People generally try to fit the facts to their existing opinions, rather than the other way around. Those who had marched against the invasion barely paused to touch up their placards before campaigning for the immediate evacuation of the troops. Their attitude drove some supporters of the war into a bloody-minded determination to see things through, almost regardless of the merits of the case.Three years after the original invasion, supporters of the war should assess the situation with pitiless clarity. Three years is more than enough time to have trained a new generation of police recruits and native soldiers.The continuing insurgency can no longer be regarded as a mopping-up exercise, or a prolongation of the military campaign. The question we need to ask ourselves is whether our troops are containing a civil conflict that would be occurring anyway, or whether they are in fact exacerbating the unrest by their presence.A bit of both, is the honest answer; but, with each day that passes, the truth tilts towards the latter. No one likes living in an occupied country. Even the kindest and most disinterested of foreign soldiers eventually become resented by all sides.This is not 1950s Malaya, where we knew that we had to defeat a specific rebellion before pulling out; it is 1940s Palestine, where our mere presence made us targets.The goal of building up impartial state forces, trusted by their people, is an admirable one, which even anti-war hardliners ought to have the decency to support. But the converse of this argument is that it would be wrong to remain in Iraq simply to prove a point.

Homosexual couples certainly have some legitimate issues to be addressed, as Boom outlines in comment 2. Not urgent, I might say. Homosexuals certainly can't really claim much oppression in the US. You're mostly pretty well tolerated now, which is the main thing you should have a right to expect from society.However, it seems reasonable that you might also ask for equivalent legal protections, the common contractual relationships that heterosexual couples routinely get.Still, it's not that simple. Most obviously, some people have not so much legal as semantic objection to homosexual "marriage." You are expecting to suddenly re-define perhaps the oldest institution in human culture.I do know it is entirely semantic/religious objections that we face. What is amazing to me is how many Americans want equality for all based on popular vote. I cannot speak for any other than myself, but I am not seeking society approval. I am not seeking Al and Mary down the street to bless or even condone my relationship. I am seeking equality from my government.

Yes, Western civilization used to embrace the concept of heroic nudity,but it has nearly completely disappeared.Oh, that's probably not what you meant. Still, I agree with the nudityissue. I'm amazed when even medical shows blur body parts, like theydon't know that nudity in that context is acceptable to the FCC. Theyare likely being paranoid, though with good reason, given theoutrageous, random, and immoral fines we've seen in recent years.

I?m amazed at how much people are talk about this man. I thought he was a local Aussie hero - but it seems news of his death is resonating throughout the world. You have a lot of people who will miss you Steve