Plaag wrote:
Heck...avatar distracting...huh

ShaneG.

Indeed that's a...really nice...avatar...

On a similar note:

http://www.seacoastonline.com/articles/ ... S-90224044

I dont know about the rest of of the country but the women that work in the coffee shops around here are all in their 50's and 60's and I dont really wanna see them walking around topless while I am having a cup o' joe and a short stack.  

JohnGaunt wrote:I logged on this morning to check on the problem, and no record of the erroneous charge was listed on my account history.  Less than 18 hours after the bad charge was recorded, it has been removed.  My PayPal balance has returned to what it should be.  That is good . . .

. .  . but also bad.  My PayPal balance has returned to normal, but it was significantly reduced while the erroneous charge was in my account history.  I am concerned that any random amount can be deducted from my account without my knowledge and cause PayPal to draw upon my bank account.  Is PayPal any more susceptible to this than my bank debit card?

Were you buying from ARCO? This same thing happen to me. ARCO gets an auth. for $75 when you first start pumping your gas. Once done they put thru the actual charge. I was pissed when I found this out. I no longer use my Paypal card at ARCO. They seem to be the only ones that do that here where I live. (Phoenix AZ) It is funny that if I use my bank debit they don't do this.
John

Error typing Acaeum into my browser threw up this strange result. A demographic analysis by Quantcast on those people who frequent this site...

http://www.quantcast.com/acaeum.com

It appears to be a comparative analasys of Acaeum's traffic and the US online populus as a whole....

Majority of us are between 36 and 45 (probably fairly accurate), college or degree educated (again, pretty much spot on), without kids (probably wrong there), 60% male (I'm guessing a bit out there too), earning less than $30K a year (I doubt it), and most of us are Asian!  

jasonw1239 wrote:There is something wrong with their traffic analysis from the looks of it.
Visits per month = 7,359
People per month = 12,661 per month

How can you have more people than visits? Are they estimating that a certain percentage of visits have more than one person sitting in front of the computer?  

That is easy. They forgot the part noting we are mostly conjoined twins.

zanarchist wrote:Were you buying from ARCO? This same thing happen to me. ARCO gets an auth. for $75 when you first start pumping your gas. Once done they put thru the actual charge. I was pissed when I found this out. I no longer use my Paypal card at ARCO. They seem to be the only ones that do that here where I live. (Phoenix AZ) It is funny that if I use my bank debit they don't do this.
John

Nope, I used an Exxon in Lewisville, Texas.  It is conveniently close to the HPB there.  

Goofy stuff.  No more Exxon (or ARCO) for me.

JohnGaunt wrote:Nope, I used an Exxon in Lewisville, Texas.  It is conveniently close to the HPB there.  

Goofy stuff.  No more Exxon (or ARCO) for me.

This probably what happened. Some banks "block" those types of charges automatically and others don't. Our old bank used to put a $1 hold charge each time we gassed up and then a few days later removed it once the actual charge appeared. It was frustrating as hell because the balance was always wrong.

I remember in the 1991 Gulf War when Iraqi's were surrendering by the tens of thousands.

Can you imagine what a burden it would have placed on the US judicial system if each and every one of them had  been able to claim constitutional rights and request a hearing?  

Still, if the US wants to try to regain any kind of "moral high ground" in the eyes of the world, they have to remove that stigma of being just another damned country that is willing to torture prisoners for the sake of expediency.

Canada is not much better over the last few years. In some cases we have turned over our own citizens for "foreign renditions".  

jasonw1239 wrote:I remember in the 1991 Gulf War when Iraqi's were surrendering by the tens of thousands.

Can you imagine what a burden it would have placed on the US judicial system if each and every one of them had  been able to claim constitutional rights and request a hearing?  

Still, if the US wants to try to regain any kind of "moral high ground" in the eyes of the world, they have to remove that stigma of being just another damned country that is willing to torture prisoners for the sake of expediency.

Canada is not much better over the last few years. In some cases we have turned over our own citizens for "foreign renditions".  

Good point.

But I am of the opinion that the U.S. does not need to regain the moral high ground in the eyes of the rest of world. I really could care less what some anti-U.S. guy across the ocean thinks about how we deal with prisoners of war.

The minute the U.S. starts adjusting policy to conform with what the rest of the world thinks is the same minute we take the road of failure. Sometimes doing what is right is to risk scorn from others. But that does not make it the wrong thing to do.

This whole torture thing is flat out bullshit anyway. The U.S. is not the freaking Soviet Union of the 50s (or even today). The enemy is the enemy. There is a war going on. And in war bad things happen. Decisions have to be made - many of which are not very popular - but victory is the goal.

It seems it is very easy for those who have never been in the field to criticize those who have. That is the American way. And I am ok with that.  But when my political leaders start changing policy because of that, we are all in trouble.