Eh, I'm a terrible/miserable roll model :P It's just really easy for new providers to spin out of control with debt. Serverhand was an extremely recent example of that. They got caught up in their own

* WholesaleInternet: because I owe @AaronW a debt of gratitude and still couldn't manage to pay him back somehow.

I don't know the details, all I know is there was $50,000 of unrecovered debt against him. If you want the details look yourself. All this shows is he was awful at managing money several times over.

I see. And was this debt discharged in a bankruptcy? In the US, that's not a criminal record.

Yeah, you couldn't pay me to go back through those threads. There was $50,000 of debt against him that was unsatisfied as he moved addresses.

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At this stage it is just not worth continuing, tell all customers to open disputes, do not contest them, PayPal will refund them for you and close your account, get a day job, pay off the debt, don't

prove the debt, write him a letter with 14 days to respond, contact a UK debt collection agency who will add £500 collection fee on top and charge him for the pleasure on a no win no fee basis.

Were I a ruthless bookie - I might offer to buy Ashley's debt to you for 10cent/$ or similar.

Worst case scenario is zxhost has to close up shop because of debt in fees to Paypal - In that case everybody loses - I have not a shadow of doubt that Paypal will collect their fees first. - If you l

You should already be running a profitable business (in which case you wouldn't move your existing database to nukern anyway) with no debt and at least 25% or more pure profit per customer to afford t

I also don't see any problem with a bit of inflation. Inflation generally encourages things like consumption and investment, both of which are good for economic growth. It also helps those with debt b

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The US does also not subsidise energy, not sure where the hell you get this idea from, in fact a LOT of US energy companies are highly in debt - they only provided comparatively cheap nuclear raw mate

(In reality it's more like belligerent man in sleeveless shirt opens door with beer in hand and tells the tax collector where to shove it)

On the other hand, for people at Amazon, Microsoft, Linode and the like which have big business outside US, the situation is completely different, they have to play the tax collector, because, while t

It's not about me paying taxes, but it's about me collecting money and sending it to them? That's what paying taxes means. Charging tax, gathering it, and shipping it off to the tax collector.