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I don't feel they are a scam. I do feel, however, it's like trying to protect yourself from mosquito bites during the day by wearing a suit of armor. In other words...a little bit of overkill for the cumulative price you will eventually pay. The monthly/yearly fees don't seem bad on their own, but cumulatively, when added altogether...it's a ton of money to pay for something that may never happen. Especially with the willingness of financial institutions nowadays (as I mentioned above in my own experience) to protect their customers from fraudulent purchases and not hold them accountable, it minimizes this need even further.

I use two from that list....both are integral to an awesome phone experience for me. The LauncherPRO home replacement....incredible. The Dolphin Browser HD...some more incredible.

Only thought to drop by because I saw this thread title yesterday. I know it's not an app thread (not sure if there is one of those), but a new Android music player was developed called "PowerAMP." I recommend the hell out of this thing. As most of you know, the Android stock player kinda sucks. Most will use 3rd party players. THIS thing is amazing. Very nice equalizer. Plays 10 different music formats as well. I really like this thing and, though it is a trial for a few weeks, I will not give it a second thought to buy it when the trial period is over. Really digging this player. Should have been the stock app from the beginning. Using on my Droid.

The bank won't give you the info they have, or the progress they've made, for good reason. If they tap the wrong guy, but give people info in the meantime, there are some people out there, as I'm sure you know, who would take matters into their own hands in the interim. Think of the litigation against the bank if they handed you info pegging the wrong guy that you harmed by that person's family? It's right for the bank to withhold the info until the matter is cleared. As for the info you have, the banks, I have found, are pretty good at tracking these things down. I have been hit with a similar situation twice in the last three years. They were kinda tipped off when I took out money from an ATM in Illinois, but just 45 mins later, I had "made purchases" from two Targets in Kentucky. The bank later let me know that the person was an employee of a Target I went to here in IL and passed the CC info to an accomplice in KY. Shifty bastards, those minimum wage employees. There are employees in bank divisions that get their rocks off on getting these people, and if you've supplied the info to them, such as which purchases are the fraudulent ones, they can go through the legal motions to subpoena the information they need from these business that are, by law, not obligated to supply to you. It will take time, though.

Comics Pipeline released a statement today announcing the addition of some new artists to the site. It's pretty cool, as one of the artists currently does Transformers, another artist does the art for the upcoming MEGAMIND movie with Will Farrell and Brad Pitt, and a few others. Shaping up to be a solid group of talent on this. COMICS PIPELINE MAKES A SECOND SPLASH! CHICAGO, IL - 21 October 2010 – One month after the initial splash page with exclusive artwork featured by Ben Templesmith (Choker), Tyler Kirkham (Green Lantern Corps), Talent Caldwell (Batgirl) and Jimmie Robinson (Bomb Queen), COMICS PIPELINE announces a second splash page with even more exclusive work from today's talented comics industry creators! Grant Bond (Megamind), Juan Ferreyra (Rex Mundi, Falling Skies), Dan Leister (Hack/Slash), Chee Yang Ong (Dawn of the Dead, 5 Ways to Die), Jenny Frison (cover artist for IDW's Angel) and Newsarama columnist Dirk Manning (Nightmare World), in conjunction with artists Seth Damoose (Bomb Queen Presents: All Girl Comics, Fractured Fables) and Anthony Peruzzo (Popgun Vol. 4, Fractured Fables) are among the next talents to partner with comicspipeline.com ! The creators assembled thus far are enthusiastic about stretching the boundaries of traditional comic book publishing, creating their own delivery methods for their "private" Pipeline sketch work as well as their exclusive story lines only found on this website. Artist Jenny Frison (Angel) "is excited to be a part of Comics Pipeline and is honored to be included alongside such talented creators." Tyler Kirkham (Green Lantern Corps) is one of those creators pushing his boundaries by offering a Comics Pipeline-only ongoing story, saying "I have some great talent helping out for an original story I'm looking forward to putting up exclusively on Comics Pipeline!" as well as Ben Templesmith (30 Days of Night, Choker) who's "gearing up for an all-new webcomic that I'm creating specifically for Comics Pipeline fans!" Bomb Queen creator, Jimmie Robinson, caps it best by saying "November's going to be a pretty exciting month!" COMICS PIPELINE launches in a few short weeks in November. However, fans that go to the site right now will be able to gain access for a taste of some of the exclusive artwork uploaded by all ten of these exciting creators that will be launching with Comics Pipeline in November! COMICS PIPELINE provides a direct conduit between exclusive, never-before-seen artistry by today’s top industry creators and their fans! Instead of reprinting archived material that fans and readers already have, Comics Pipeline will contain original pieces and stories by the top-tier creators that drive this industry. Dirk Manning eloquently characterizes ComicsPipeline.com, saying "Comics Pipeline represents a huge step forward in the evolution of delivering online comic content to directly to readers, and I'm happy to be involved alongside so many other talented and forward-gazing creators who are also embracing this revolutionary new approach to delivery and creator/reader interaction!" For more information, visit http://www.comicspipeline.com

Yeah, I figured this site would be right up your alley, Big.

I'll see what I can do.

Yeah, you should! Is VERY cool! It's got original zombie art never seen anywhere else by Ben Templesmith, the artist that was most known for his work on "30 Days of Night," which was that badass vampire movie out about 2-3 years ago! And Bomb Queen on there, by Jimmie Robinson, always shows boobies.

Got mine yesterday! Love 'em both! Be sportin' the 101Damnations at Volleyball Network I run and the Get Some at the gym! Thanks, UF!

Check out http://ComicsPipeline.com as this cool site is setting out to revolutionize an entire industry! Spread the word to comic fans! It's pretty badass!

Went ahead and pulled a small trigger on purchasing two tshirts just now from the UF store....thanks to the very persuading promo code that I was emailed this morning from UF. I will now await my "101 Damnations" (TOLD you I was going to buy this one...it's awesome) and my "Get Some" Tshirts! Thanks, UF. I'm looking forward to throwing these on. - TOW

I enjoyed watching that....nice find!

They all saw the movie "Kickass," I guess....

I won't be able to watch this.....because she creepily looks TOO much like daddy. And his scene in inciting a mass F'n orgy in the Matrix is the CLOSEST I wanna associate Lawrence with intercourse. Seeing this tape could potentially ruin the basic missionary position for me....

Hmmm, this is only a GUESS, Chili, but I'm thinking that my storied post count here may get lowered every now and then if the admins clean out some old hidden sections or what not...cleaning out some archives and such to make way for more updated shtuff. My guess, anyway. Either that, or you are just one bored, post-happy mutha.

Ravenfall arguably had its toughest, most enjoyable, most challenging and most nail-biting war against U two days ago in the semi-finals. We're still talking about it even today. 14 round match that went to a tie-breaker.....as unofficial as THAT was (and hopefully a situation that warrants a small amendment to future rules). Uprising and Ravenfall had a war that brought me back to early days of UF when I wasn't so jaded after hundreds of wars and when they were still new and anxiety-ridden! Because of it, we're pulling for a U victory here in the championship. We hope the ones that beat us win the whole thing. cKs...best of luck to you in the match none-the-less. Good luck to both. U.....give 'em hell. - TOW

I was on the beach last Saturday during all that mist and cloud. Was AWESOME. Half-expected the dead to start walking out of the lake...

Or at the very least, a cape.

Arrested in a Harry Potter Tee. Yeah, HE'S not getting ass-raped in prison. It's the fucking Comic-Con, for chrissakes, at a MOVIE PANEL, no less ....he must have thought it was the BETs or some shit.

We had some pretty crazy winds and lightning storms all night Friday night. Not sure what he total aftermath was..........but there was a tree fallen across the lakefront path that I bike along the next morning. It was a stressful thing because I was presented with the choice of going around it to the left, where I would have to navigate between a few of the tree's leaves and the fence...or I could opt for the right where it would be wide open atop the grass, but other bikes and walkers and runners were streaming together. Going over it was not an option as the tree was too massive. I could have turned around as well, but I had already biked two miles and was not ready to quit prior to hitting my targeted ten miles. I was going to go to the left...the side with the fence...but then I noticed the large spiders that fashioned their webs throughout the links of the fence, and I did not want any hangers-on biting my ass mid-ride afterward. So I went right. I narrowly missed two walkers, a runner, and four bikes and I almost had a head-on collision. Our street smarts saved us at the zero hour. Damn storm....

Just the strangest idea for a thread....

It's an alternate opinion on this whole situation, and alternate opinions are always good to digest. Though I think the first half of his article is a bit flimsy, I can definitely see some windows of truth in the second half. Hypocrisy, sadly, is all too prevalent in today's eager-to-bitch-about-something society... _____________________________________________________________________________________________ Charles Davis Special to AOL News (July 21) -- We Brits are very attached to BP. Or our pension funds are, at least. And since our pension funds are rapidly falling apart, any Brit intent on mitigating the looming indigence of old age needs to come to the defense of this great British institution. So, as an expatriated Englishman whose pension policy is to be a burden on BP shareholders, let me suggest a different take on recent events in the Gulf of Mexico. Seen from the land of cheese-eating peace-monkeys, it would seem that a gross injustice has been inflicted on this beleaguered giant and its hapless principal, the widely vilified Tony Hayward. BP has been portrayed as negligent, greedy, arrogant and grasping. Well, there's your first positive spin right there. Negligent, greedy, arrogant and grasping has been the role an envious world has thrust upon the United States over the last half-century. Indeed, as far as the French are concerned, those words define the American model of liberal capitalism. You should be thanking that nice Mr. Hayward for relieving you of such an onerous burden. Second, there is a widespread suspicion in the rest of the world that, when Americans need oil, they're normally obliged to invade somewhere warm and dusty to get it. Oh, really! There's just no pleasing some people. Here we are, actually delivering the stuff to your very doorstep, and you're up in arms about that, too. In fact, contrariness has been the principal characteristic of the American response to this whole affair. It's worth remembering here that there has been a low-grade war going on in Nigeria for the last 30-odd years, largely because a lot of irksome locals think it might be nice if the profits from the oil that is being pumped out from under their land -- the same oil that is polluting their rivers, contaminating their crops and obscuring their skies -- could be used to educate their children. People really are unaccountable. BP took account of them, though. It did the decent thing and went as far away from people as possible -- and now it's being condemned for that, too! Some people might go further. Some people might say that the outcry against BP was slightly hypocritical in a nation dominated by a car culture that has engendered cities in which, as Martin Amis memorably observed, the only way to cross the road is to be born on the other side. A nation where it is thought that the cost of a tank of gas, like the price of a baguette in France or a pint of beer in Britain, could not climb above a certain amount without provoking social unrest. A nation where the Hummer was considered a suitable recreational vehicle for your average suburban gorilla. A nation that was, until very recently, governed by men who thought climate change was what happened when you drove from Miami to Maine. Some people might even regard as faintly grotesque the spectacle of a palaver of politicians working themselves up into a lather of moral indignation so potent that they were obliged to repeat one another's bold denunciations for what seemed like days on end. But, as I say, there's no accounting for some people. If your own moral disgust is such that you're feeling a touch embarrassed by the BP shares in your portfolio, please don't hesitate to forward the certificates to me. Mind you, I might have a slight problem explaining the acquisition away to the neighbors.

Might just be a title issue "UF Clan Leader" or something...or maybe just because you hate me...but I do have access to the Suggestions Box area of the forum. I think this may have happened through the creation of the new forum, maybe? Just letting ya know. (Haven't gone through ALL of the other sections yet, though this one seems to be the only issue at-a-glance)