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Our Web service provider, Lycos has decided to migrate its end users' web content to a new utitily provided by a company and namesake utility called WebOn. Lycos's decision to move from Trellix to WebOn is not very well received because they never published that they were contemplating the idea, and we the end users don't seem to have had a lot of input in the decision.

In fact, what Tripod provides with Trellix was just fine with me. I became very adept at using Trellix. Where they saw the need to migrate to WebOn is not very well explained. Given my nightmare experience with the ever growing EBay - Paypal - Verisign conglamorate, I am beginning to question if they were influenced to change their service plans offered to the public. Clearly, gone are the days of the Angelfire web buffs who were able to experiment with this new form of media by applying nominally high graphics utilities to content virtually for free. I don't believe everything is being said. I truly believe that it is only a matter of time before all of us will have to pay for using Tripod, be it WebOn or Trellix. If Paypal (which is owned by EBay) gets their way with bullying Lycos and Daum, it want be long before the only way you can use the utilities on both Tripod and Angelfire is if you have a Paypal account, and pay!!!.

WHAT ANTITRUST?????

The Securties and Exchange Commission (SEC) isn't looking at the activities of the EBay conglamorate because EBay has already co opted both the SEC and Obama. Roel Campos, the first Hispanic member of the SEC's board of commissioners resigned right after I sued EBay because Paypal took money out of my bank account. He then became the "Partner in Charge" of the D.C. offices of Cooley Godward Kronish, LLP, the law firm that is defending EBay and Paypal in the lawsuit I have before the D.C. Courts (DCCA Case No. 07-cv-1208). I had asked in my complaint that the court certify the case to the SEC so that EBay could be investigated, but then we found out that the SEC has been rendered toothless. Ebay wants the court to compel me to file suit or negotiate with Paypal in the virtually 97% white Santa Clara County, California, and so far they are winning because the courts view me as a ""creative""suspect". So far, the only thing that Paypal has done is to return my money that they took, but the EBay conglamorate continues to grow, and with it that swindle scheme that they call the "Paypal User Agreement", which continues to change without notice with only more daring than the way in which Lycos has switched out Trellix to free users of Tripod and Angelfire. This is why I remain uneasy about the change. It does not appear to be a change for the better, but for the worse. It is not in the public's interest for Lycos to succumb to the influences, overtures,or control of the ever growing EBay conglamorate.

That said, here we are on WebOn for a test drive. Here we may use the Crucialpromotions account platform to familiarize ourselves with WebOn and report any quirks in the system until a final decision is made as to the best direction to go from here. Lycos may have concretized its decision to stick with WebOn. Now it is our turn to decide if we should too, or if we should migrate our collective Websites to a competing service provider.

Written by Radcliffe B. Lewis

[As of 9 SEP 2009]

Wednesday, 16 September 2009

Okay - Today I checked all of my Tripod accounts to see how they are doing with the migration from Trellix to Webon. In a recent email dated 8/05/09 Tripod says the main reason for this is that they can't "fix" upgrade Trellix and that Webon is in-house. All this time I thought Trellix was in-house.

Of my various websites they have completed their end of the process in only two of them: the site for my investigative firm (Radcliffe Research and Investigations) and the site for Intellexae. So the only two affected so far are the two that prove to be the scariest for the Social Democrats and Republicans alike. How's that?

Neither one of those factions particularly like the internet being available to the public; particularly those blogs with all their keep-it-in-the-limelight focus on stories that can derail whole agendas if not careers. For example, I think a shiver goes down the D.C. Government's spine whenever I put something on the internet about the other DC $48 million scandal - the real one - about how the government dug a lottery ticket belonging to an old woman out of a garbage dumpster and used the proceeds to buttress the bbb bond rating of the city back in 2000; or the newest issue, how trial lawyers make all that money at the expense of the public interest by hoarding the market so that the public is not availed to the services of better legal/law professionals such as investigators for fact finding and canvassing. you can read my latest Notice to the Court regarding this issue, which is set to be filed this week -- if, and that's a BIG IFFFFFF! Duane B. Delaney, Clerk of the D.C. Superior Court doesn't find a way to reject it. You can read the filing by visiting

http://docs.google.com/View?id=dgp89zxb_476ch97p4dx where it is published.

I would like to believe that the buerucrats and aristocrats are not putting on the pressure on Tripod to set up a scheme to limit eventually limit content on the internet, but maybe it is just better to be paranoid about them right now.

Of course we are not limited to Tripod, but based upon what I have encountered over the past two years nw from antics of Ebay to the power-plays of the the courts, I am just not convinced as yet that all is as innocent as we are supposed to conclude it to be.

On a completely unrelated issue, I recently learned that the National Transportation Safety Board would like to allow police officers to stick a needle in you if they pull you over on their percieved suspicion that you are driving under the influence. See

http://www.jbs.org/jbs-news-feed/5359-federal-program-to-draw-blood-from-dui-suspects

It just never occurred to me that any sane individual could concieve such an idea. Whatever happened to

penetration no matter how slight is rape!?

Maybe we should all write Congress and tell them to bend over first so we can stick those syringes where the sun doesn't shine -- or better yet, to start with their six year old kids, to bend them over and stick them with syringes where the sun doesn't shine.

This is not the kind of Change that I voted for!

Read the filed Petition for Rehearing in the EBay case here.

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