Thank you for being a valued part of the CNET community. As of December 1, 2020, the forums are in read-only format. In early 2021, CNET Forums will no longer be available. We are grateful for the participation and advice you have provided to one another over the years.

Thanks,

CNET Support

General discussion

Help - Finding it where

Feb 26, 2004 10:36PM PST

I have a friend from another country. as most of you know not every country has equal rights and such for woman. Within the last week she got into a car accident and had a bill of 1,500. Unfortantly she cannot afford this bill and is looking either to her friends or to find some way to pay for this bill does anyone know of a way or a place that helps?

Discussion is locked

- Collapse -
Re:a bill of 1,500
Feb 26, 2004 11:07PM PST

pesetas, rials? she could try calling Andy Rooney, he has a direct line to god....

- Collapse -
Re:Help - Finding it where
Feb 27, 2004 1:02AM PST

I am sorry for your friends misfortune. However, I fail to see what her equal rights have to do with it. USA is very liberal but I have never heard of, even here, them wiping out a legitimate debt just because she is female.!!!

- Collapse -
Re:Re:Help - Finding it where
Feb 27, 2004 1:26AM PST

in thirld world countries its harder to get medical coverage because your a woman. That was my point

- Collapse -
Help - Finding it where
Feb 27, 2004 2:18PM PST
'in thirld world countries its harder to get medical coverage because your a woman. That was my point'

do you have a link?

david williams
- Collapse -
Re:Help - Finding it where
Feb 27, 2004 1:04AM PST
she cannot afford this bill and is looking either to her friends

And your response was?
- Collapse -
Re:Re:Help - Finding it where
Feb 27, 2004 1:27AM PST

This is my responce to try and find someway to help her because im a college student with no money

- Collapse -
(NT) Message has been deleted.
Feb 27, 2004 1:34AM PST
- Collapse -
(NT) Message has been deleted.
Feb 27, 2004 1:40AM PST
- Collapse -
Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Help - Finding it where
Feb 27, 2004 2:09AM PST

What did you expect us to do, take up a collection?

What country does your friend live in?

- Collapse -
(NT) Message has been deleted.
Feb 27, 2004 4:20AM PST
- Collapse -
(NT) Message has been deleted.
Feb 27, 2004 4:25AM PST
- Collapse -
Help - Finding it where
Feb 27, 2004 2:20PM PST
'I go to udub in seattle washington'

funny I do not remember ever seeing such an institution.

are you sure it is not in Oregon State?

david williams
- Collapse -
Re:Help - Finding it where
Feb 27, 2004 10:24PM PST

it's Univ. of Washington's nickname, "UW", with a further shortening of the spoken pronunciation of the W ("dub-ya"), ending with "udub."

dw

- Collapse -
Message deleted at Glenda's request; replies deleted due to loss of context (NT)
Feb 28, 2004 6:21AM PST

.

- Collapse -
That's easy.
Feb 27, 2004 2:35AM PST

As your friend is "from" another country, and you said she is a college student, she is here on a student visa. I imagine her family is paying her tuition.

Thus any financial difficulties she has are best handled through the college.

Or through her country's embassy.

As she is "from" a Third World country, the fact that she is attending college in the US shows she had a secondary education at home, which indicates she had that opportunity, and was not discriminated as to gender.

Angeline
click here to email semods4@yahoo.com

- Collapse -
I think ...
Feb 27, 2004 3:13AM PST

... Denial is claiming that he/she is the college student. Wink

Evie Happy

- Collapse -
Re:I think ...
Feb 27, 2004 4:15AM PST

Hi, Evie,

He said he was a college student and didn't have any money. As she is "from"another country, I thought she would be a student, as well. But, he didn' say she was a student, did he?

BTW, I'm not sure there is a system of health care coverage in Third World countries for either gender.Happy

Angeline
click here to email semods4@yahoo.com

- Collapse -
Hi Evie - I am Frankly surprised that this message wasn't removed - If people cannot even use a believable name when asking for financial help - Well!!! NT
Feb 28, 2004 10:01PM PST

NT

- Collapse -
Re:Hi Evie - I am Frankly surprised that this message wasn't removed - If people cannot even use a believable name when asking for financial help - Well!!! NT
Feb 29, 2004 12:21AM PST

Steve,

He was asking for INFO on financial help and for another person. User names have been authorized in the forums including SE ever since CNet purchased ZDNet about 3 years ago. We may like to see real sounding names or believable names in SE, but just spend some time in the dozens of other CNet forums and you will see an awful lot of non-real sounding or non-believable names as user names. One even posts as **!!**

Look at some of our respectable members who post in SE at their "unbelievable" user names.

- Collapse -
Members names John? Do you mean all the aliases that have been used in the past ? NT
Feb 29, 2004 12:28AM PST

NT

- Collapse -
User Name, the name that is posted with the title of your post ....like....
Feb 29, 2004 12:45AM PST

Gearup
Snapshot
Kiddpeat
IanC/OZ
Dell_Dude
Coryphaeus

- Collapse -
Re:User Name, the name that is posted with the title of your post ....like....
Feb 29, 2004 2:40AM PST

The diference is that what they have to say is in relation to a current news item, and not just a convoluted request. Their names are nouns, which cannot be said for the word "denial". Even for a foreign person it wouldn't be the sort of name that they would use. leroy, ahmed, christian, Peta, abraham, are all the sort of names you would expect.

- Collapse -
Re:Re:User Name, the name that is posted with the title of your post ....like....
Feb 29, 2004 3:41AM PST

Well those sort of names is what was required prior to the authorization of User Name. Just looking at the CNet Adminstators Feedback forum....some User Names there:
Scat
Pretender
Com2pc
megamadv
Homegrown
Eggman
CursorCowboy
Broken Arrow
poss
Catamount Panther
rockboy
slim_shady
Gatorhank

and a few over in the Computer Help forum like:

thisdayforward
Help!
THE KxLxBx
justjoinme
Hideous
redmaggott
ThePoopsmith
alwaysme
blamecoffee
WereWookie
jellybaby
29JB49

and if one of them were to post in SE, the Mods cannot remove their post based on their name. Some of those names may be in use by "a foreign person"...who knows Wink

- Collapse -
BTW Steve.......
Feb 29, 2004 4:14AM PST

When all these forums required a real name (or real sounding name) Broken Arrow was the only one give special permission to start using 'Broken Arrow' instead of the name he was using, because of his claim that is his ancestral American Indian name.

I remember a girl posting in Computer Help using a fake sounding made up name. She was promptly pounced on by the 'hawks'. The girl replied that she was 13 years old and her mother told her she was not to use her real name on the internet. Well, the hee-hawing began (cannot disobey Mom), and it finally ended up with the Mods and Manager that she would use a deceased Aunts name. Gads! All she had to do was make up any real sounding name to use. Those were the days...Wink

- Collapse -
I think a sensible name would be prefered but I don't just judge a post just by the name John
Feb 29, 2004 7:20AM PST

I do take into consideration what is posted as well.
In the case of the young girl I think a different name is wise, and I wonder why the mother didn't help her choose a suitable one in the first place, which I believe is what you said.
Unfortunately there are people around who think it is very funny coming on to a message board and posting some strange message to stir things up.
If this is one of those cases then we have all been had in one way or another, but if the person is foreign and genuinely looking for advise then I apologise.

- Collapse -
Re:I think a sensible name would be prefered but I don't just judge a post just by the name John
Feb 29, 2004 10:56AM PST

I never said the person is foreign. We should give the benefit of doubt in my opinion on this one. Appears to me if he was desirous to stir things up, he would have said more like others have done in the past.

- Collapse -
Re:Re:I think a sensible name would be prefered but I don't just judge a post just by the name John
Feb 29, 2004 12:16PM PST

Hi John,
Without access to the server log it would be difficult to know where the hell the person is.
I find the exclusion of the currency when he stated 1500 very suspicious. $1500,

- Collapse -
Re:Re:Re:I think a sensible name would be prefered but I don't just judge a post just by the name John
Feb 29, 2004 12:31PM PST

A possibility Steve. I also noted the plain 1500 in one of my post. Seeing the grammar, punctuation, and spelling in his post it could be just another not paying attention error. Want to read some teenage errors ....check out GameSpot. Happy

- Collapse -
I just had to share this with you John
Feb 29, 2004 12:44PM PST

I did a google using denial and scam, LOL - I wonder when the blackmail for money will come Happy

http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=story_17-11-2003_pg6_4

Blackmail latest scam for hackers

LONDON: The rapid growth of broadband home computer connections may be inadvertently fueling what police suspect could be the start of a new crime wave ? cyber-blackmail.

As more homes connect to faster delivery systems, their computers are becoming vulnerable to hackers and virus writers who can turn them into ?zombie? machines, ready to carry out any malevolent command. Favorite targets for the extortionists ? many thought to come from Eastern Europe ? have been casinos and retailers. ?At the end of the day, this is old-fashioned protection racket, just using high-tech,? a spokeswoman for Britain?s Hi-Tech Crime Unit said.

On Wednesday, British cybercrime cops made a plea to companies to report attacks against their Internet businesses after a recent string of incidents with the blackmailing trademark. Police have seen an increase in the number of distributed denial-of-service attacks targeting online businesses.

In some cases, the attacks, which can cripple a corporate network with a barrage of bogus data requests, are followed by a demand for money.

loads more on the link - Perhaps this is the way the criminals operate LOL

- Collapse -
Re:I just had to share this with you John
Feb 29, 2004 2:07PM PST

The recent MyDoom worm (also known as Novarg or Mimail-R) was considered to have features of the "denial-of-service" attacks targeting online businesses as well as infecting private individuals computers. I participated in a disucssion or two concerning the MyDoom worm at the Virus & Security forum a couple weeks ago.

Thanks for the link. .