Re: ethernet card discussion

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First post badmouthing anyone is by Hector aka QC 11:26pm on the other
thread. Followed by Dawnwolf. I defend myself. Roys chimes in. Then Hector
and Dawnwolf again. They keep at it, bashing and trolling, pissing me off to
no end, and after how many posts of that, you and others think that I
started it. Not to mention that they take everything out of context, and
cross-posted between 2 different newsgroups and 4 threads. If you wish to
believe this SHIT and I use the word SHIT gladly, because no other word
describes it quite as well as that, be my guest. Just don't lie about it
when you tell others that this died because it was ill-concieved, be very
careful when you outline the sabotage you and others committed. Don't leave
any part out. It'll make a very good story.

But whatever you do, don't sit there and think to yourself, that it wasn't
you, but the others only. After reading it all (you have read ALL the posts,
right? In the order they appeared??), there is not a single point in my
favor, something you can say in my defense? I must be so awful. Let's see,
in any argument even remotely similar to this, there will be said things on
both sides that deserve chastisement. I count six seperate counts against
me. From you alone. Sat here and reread your post 4 times, didn't see a
single good thing you had to say in my favor, or hell, even a neutral point.
C'mon penman, please read through these threads carefully, and tell me who
threw the first punch. Get this, at one point, Roy gets after me for
continuing to insult these assholes. As if I'm only allowed to throw one
punch for every punch they throw. They are moderately intelligent, so there
is simply no way they can not be aware of all the fallacies of logic they
are using, or how unfair it is to do so. What is their excuse? Usually, they
behave this way when someone mentions copyright infringement (no matter how
benign or innocent the infraction), but here, we have a situation that in no
way relates to that issue. Maybe QC and his cronies fear that we will
'pirate' the LanceGS drivers, and this is a pre-emptive strike. Maybe they
are bored, but too dense to do something constructive. Maybe in some twisted
love/hate-type mentality, they wish to destroy my project 'to protect the a2
community'. You tell me. Whatever it is, I'm not gonna put up with their
SHIT.

Now, that said, why don't we do something useful. One of the questions I
asked 4 weeks ago (long before Hector/QC ever mentioned it) was how we could
set this up in such a way, that it was possible to 'trust' me. Some people
have mentioned Paypal, but as I understand it, that makes it marginally more
convenient to pay for the kit, but doesn't really solve the trust issue.
What I would like, would be to have everyone like put their payment into a
Paypal account, so to speak, and pay directly from that account to the
component supplier. I don't think they do that, which is a shame.
Eventually, someone prolly will offer a service like that, but I doubt they
will anytime soon enough for us. Any suggestions?