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Warning: I are not a lawbeast.

However:

Daniel Kline@9: I wonder what the legal situation is here, re: simply instructing your bank to stop paying them.

Well, they're still going to provide the service, even though you're not using it. You're still going to have access to it - and they're not going to cut you off, just because you're not paying.

No, they'll let in run for a few months more, before they call you up and demand all the back pay at once. And when you refuse, they'll make back *most* of that "debt" by selling your account to a collection agency.

The collection agency will then hound you, and hound your bank, and screw up your credit rating, over the fees for the service you didn't want and didn't use.

And the company who screwed you in the first place is making a profit - they got a good percentage of your fees from the collections guys, and had to provide *zero* services for the months where you weren't paying them and weren't using it.

Basically, customers who just stop paying are *profitable*, and so scummy companies like Real *love* people who do it.

Wait, wait, you gave money to *Real*, voluntarily?

Eww.

Real have always been bad, bad, bad people.

I'm with the consensus so far: Not parody.

He sounds identical to all the other vocal creationists online. There's nothing to set him aside as being absurdist.

Suggestion: Change your password, and manually make sure there is no forwarding set on your account. Missing emails and "deleted unread" notifications that you didn't send could be a sign that someone's tapping your mailbox and they're not very bright about keeping it a secret.

It's been known to happen, sometimes even by people who are supposed to be able to read your email (your employer) but who are unaware that they're causing problems for you.

And it could be one wacky mixup. But change your password, check for forwards, and ask your boss about it, anyway.

And it's gone, the entire blog is gone.

That was fun while it lasted.

In fact, this is the comment I made, originally:



Awfully interesting thing: PZ Myers over at ScienceBlogs.com appears to have copied your article! Word for word! Punctuation by punctuation! Link by link!

How horrible... and PZ even appears to have done it *the day before* you posted yours. Why, the fiend must have broken into your computer and stolen your draft version! And your writing sounds so much like PZ's that nobody might ever have noticed PZ taking your article at all, if you hadn't bravely continued to post your original.

We're all fortunate that you possess the strength and character it takes to deal so effectively with other people posting your articles in the days before you yourself do, taking the high road and not even commenting at all on their crime, simply letting your words stand for themselves.

An yes, I did mean the plural "articles". After all, look at what Glenn Greenwald did with this other piece of yours! And there's more! In fact, trivially googling shows me that four of the last five of your posts have been stolen, word for word, by other bloggers who have then posted them hours or days before you posted them yourself! And the fifth? Well, all the others have been cruelly stolen from you, why not that one, too? You should check further!

And you should probably take your computer to the shop, install a firewall, get it scanned by a professional, etc. Everyone's posting all your work before you do, that MUST mean your computer is compromised!

He's deleting them as I watch, this morning, after I posted a comment commending him on his bravery in continuing to post despite half the internet breaking into his computer and stealing his writing before he could post the originals.

I think it's funny.

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