by pugzleyca3 » Fri Feb 17, 2006 4:45 am
I hope I am not highjacking a thread here because I am not familiar with the original subject matter, so tell me to shut up and start my own thread if this is the case. I just keep having these thoughts about this and I wanted to put them down here, somewhere, and see what you think. Of course, everything I am saying is pure speculation and I have nada to back it up regarding who owns what and who they are.<br><br>The fact that most people pay for their internet useage with a credit card is another factor to consider with this web of information. Even if the card isn't used, there is some form of payment and registration which requires you to give up everything anyone would need to know about how to physically locate you. Even if you use a post office box, you can still be found easily. And another poster mentioned pictures being posted freely. Can we possibly help them out any more? <br><br>I don't mean that there are armies of people out there monitoring each of us on a daily basis. But I believe through key word matching throught the web, the ptb could get a good handle on where subjects are being discussed which are a possible threat to them or anything else that might interest them. And draw them to places like RI.<br><br>If the ptb are actually the owners of the internet providers, which I can't see that as being too far fetched either, since media is concentrated into so few hands, this is their heaven. I think of the internet as possibly being the thought police. Not only that, all your thoughts are in writing. You can't even waffle and try to deny anything you may have said, if it ever comes down to this. When I first got the net, back in 1998, I personally remember thinking I liked the internet because it makes it darn near impossible for people to lie and then try to deny what they said on a message board. This could very well turn out to be a double edged sword for people like us. But I don't care, as Floyd indicates above, bring on the alphabet soup, because I need the internet for information, too. <br><br>Cell phones are another one. They are tracking devices and could become another form of policing not only your thoughts, but your physical location at any time of the day. I will not own a cell phone and never will for this reason. The FBI is definitely illegally monitoring people, we know that from another post I believe I saw here or on prison planet. <br><br>If there is anything that can be exploited, there is no doubt that it will be. No doubt at all.<br><br>Here's the part that really sucks, if my theory is correct, then we are paying them to monitor us. Ain't that a hoot.<br><br>Doesn't this kind of insidious arrangement fall in line with the general opinion most have of the ptb?<br><br>Ok, I am going to take this a step further. I know there are people who can hack into websites and steal credit card numbers. But it seems to me that there is an awful lot of this that goes on for it just to be computer hackers doing this. <br><br>One thing most people do not know about vendors who accept ccards online is that if there is a hacking problem, the ccard companies are not the ones who eat the monetary damage caused by the hackers. They tell you how they protect you and sell you all these packages for x amount of dollars a month or brag how they take care of any liabilities in the event of identity theft and the use of your card. <br><br>But in reality, if I accept a stolen ccard on my website, I am the one who eats the money and the goods I shipped out. They take the money directly (electronically) out of my bank account the minute a customer complains about the use of a fraudulent card. I may not hear that it is gone until I get a letter from them 2 weeks later telling me there is a dispute on the charge.<br><br>Now, my point about that is that I think the ccards companies are also owned by the ptb and I doubt it would be beyond them to hack their own systems and steal from vendors like me. Not only do they take the money for the merchandise I shipped out to the fraudulent person and refund it to the person who was defrauded, they charge me a huge fee for processing it. I think it's like 25.00 or 50.00 for a chargeback on a ccard. (This only happened to me once a few years ago.) I am sure the fees the ccard companies collect annually must run into the millions of dollars with all the websites there are. I don't believe there isn't a pot they don't have their sticky fingers into when it comes to generating cash. Money is their true god. Their love of money is the root of their evil. There is no doubt about that.<br><br>Anyway, that last part about the ccard theft might not be part of this, but it popped into my head.<br>This would only come into play if I am right and they own everything. <br><br><br><br><br><br> <p></p><i>Edited by: <A HREF=http://p216.ezboard.com/brigorousintuition.showUserPublicProfile?gid=pugzleyca3>pugzleyca3</A> at: 2/17/06 3:19 am<br></i>