2010: The Year We Lost Free Use of Our Money
I’m really concerned with the public complacency about the recent blocking of donations to Wikileaks by the biggest bank in the US: Bank of America, one of the leading credit card companies: Mastercard...
View ArticleDongle Madness: PayPal Takes on Square
Before Square, the mobile Point of Sale (POS) payment company that Jack Dorsey of Twitter founded in 2010, the word dongle was a lesser-known term for a piece of hardware that plugged into a computer....
View ArticlePayPal Trying to Divide and Conquer to Avoid Class Action Suits
Did you get an email from PayPal mentioning their new User Agreement, where they are taking away your right to be part of a class action suit, unless you “opt out” by December 1, 2012? Did you look for...
View Article2010: The Year We Lost Free Use of Our Money
I’m really concerned with the public complacency about the recent blocking of donations to Wikileaks by the biggest bank in the US: Bank of America, one of the leading credit card companies: Mastercard...
View ArticleDongle Madness: PayPal Takes on Square
Before Square, the mobile Point of Sale (POS) payment company that Jack Dorsey of Twitter founded in 2010, the word dongle was a lesser-known term for a piece of hardware that plugged into a computer....
View ArticlePayPal Trying to Divide and Conquer to Avoid Class Action Suits
Did you get an email from PayPal mentioning their new User Agreement, where they are taking away your right to be part of a class action suit, unless you “opt out” by December 1, 2012? Did you look for...
View ArticleBy: Nancy
And where will the money proceeds of this shakedown be going, we wonders? Perhaps to the RNC to fund their various equally shady activities for 2006-8, hmmm? BTW -is there any way to nuke or otherwise...
View ArticleBy: Dave Nalle
If online gambling is illegal, why aren’t they prosecuting the actual online casinos? For that matter, why aren’t they going after the credit card companies the same way they are going after PayPal?...
View ArticleBy: Nancy
When politicians are involved, one always has to look for the lowest common denominator. If the Dems were in power, I would have said ‘the re-elect Kerry’ committee. I am an equal opportunity...
View ArticleBy: Nancy
One also has to wonder, since when does Missouri have jurisdiction over gambling outside of Missouri? In this case, I think Dave is right: can this upstart wannabe slickie, and administer the state of...
View ArticleBy: Nancy
Oh. Yeah, it IS kind of funny. At the time I was writing that, #4 was one of those damned ad blogs that show up (there are more on other threads this am) urging bloggers to check out this or that...
View ArticleBy: Phillip Winn
Nancy, the question is: where is the gambling taking place? Where the servers are? Where the person actually betting the money is? Some third place? The states have tended to act as if the person...
View ArticleBy: Nancy
Then Missouri is going to have to have a list up front of every Missouri citizen’s gambling transactions that involve Paypal – which involves mass violations of individual privacy rights, not to...
View ArticleBy: Phillip Winn
It is a shakedown, no doubt about it. Paypal, however, is not a bank, and so your privacy rights might not be as secure as you hope they are. Paypal doesn’t want to be a bank and has worked hard to...
View ArticleBy: Nancy
Well, these are finer points that no doubt will be argued out by the lawyers, should it come to that. I have no worries as I don’t gamble nor do I live in Missouri. Thank God.
View Article2010: The Year We Lost Free Use of Our Money
I’m really concerned with the public complacency about the recent blocking of donations to Wikileaks by the biggest bank in the US: Bank of America, one of the leading credit card companies: Mastercard...
View ArticleDongle Madness: PayPal Takes on Square
Before Square, the mobile Point of Sale (POS) payment company that Jack Dorsey of Twitter founded in 2010, the word dongle was a lesser-known term for a piece of hardware that plugged into a computer....
View ArticlePayPal Trying to Divide and Conquer to Avoid Class Action Suits
Did you get an email from PayPal mentioning their new User Agreement, where they are taking away your right to be part of a class action suit, unless you “opt out” by December 1, 2012? Did you look for...
View Article2010: The Year We Lost Free Use of Our Money
I’m really concerned with the public complacency about the recent blocking of donations to Wikileaks by the biggest bank in the US: Bank of America, one of the leading credit card companies: Mastercard...
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