They found me again!

Today I found several e-mails that were sent to me by payment gateway that several cheap hosting package purchases were declined. Well, $5.95 is not an amount that would send you all the way through bancrupcy court, but when after certain silence you get few declined transactions (and I don’t advertise the fact that I am selling hosting, selling hosting alone proved to be much more headache then doing what I do now) it kind of raises the suspicion. Well, I though, this could be some poor kid trying to get his CS clan up (all “client” e-mails were same), so I went to examine the transaction details.
All of them were - ofcourse - from totally different people, living in totally different places. So that rules out mom and dad’s cards. Next step - the IP addresses, it turned out to be from Amsterdam, Netherlands. Right, that’s where most americans live and that’s where they conduct their business from. Smoking pot and buying cheapest web hosting plan that was pretty much there for sorting out spammers and scammers… Third sign was that transaction came in every two minutes, which looked like the guy had all the credit cards in front of him. Quite unlikely… I mean you see the six-dollar transaction gets declined you would first get angry and then go after next card… but not so here.
All this leaded me to shut down automatic payment processing. After all, I don’t think now that I have valuable clients on server it would be a good idea to let some greedy kid run his stolen credit cards through my gateway, as well as having constant disputes with stupid PayPal people… but that’s whole another story.

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A group of studens prepare the project for presentation which is due today by 7pm. By 11:49am last member (let’s call her Elaine) posts her part (a Word file, 45 pages of double-spaced text) on discussion board for other people to review. She’s unemployed, so she finished the whole thing in the morning and posted as soon as she’s done.

The events unfold as follows:

11:49am Elaine: Guys, please review the file and let me know what you think.

12:14pm Kym: I think I can’t review the 45 page document while at work, that’s what I think!

12:35pm Ron: Can’t do, working…

12:59pm Elaine: Come on, you can spare 20 minutes of your time to skim the paper!

1:23pm Ron: Negative, working…

1:33pm Kym: Elaine, we are all at work, some people don’t even have time to check the board, not to say review the paper

1:39pm Elaine: Why don’t you want to take a look, it’s only 20 minutes. When I was working I could always spare 20 - 30 minutes…

1:43pm Natalie: And remind me again, why are you still unemployed?

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(discussing Dante’s Inferno…)
- He’s in hell, but he’s alive…
- Well, that’s a good start.

Being fat is a new way to get society’s attention and people’s money

Women who complain that man pay too much attention to them are usually deprived of it. Women who say they don’t get enough attention are actually getting too much attention. That’s why matriarchy didn’t survive - no government can sustain such crappy teamwork.

Given that God is a man, the Woman is the most sophisticated entity man ever created. Women can outsmart any device, even the simplest ones. If a woman can’t circumvent something, she can employ one of two proven winning strategies: she can cry or she can complain the device to death…

(while discussing Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales, the Miller Tale part)
- Alfonso is a weak guy, he’s desperate, he likes the girl and wants to be with her, he wants to be loved, but the girl refuses him, so he decides for revenge…
- There’s a simple word for such guys, they’re called “loosers”…

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