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    Cyber Diver Website

    Anyone have any thoughts about whether the Cyber Diver website [http://www.cyber-diver.com/] is worth $60 for a year's subscription?

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    $60?

    What do you get for $60???

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    Cyber-Diver...

    What do you get for $60???
    Answer: You get ripped off for $60, plus you support a disreputable outfit.


    I boycott their website. They harvested email addys & listed them as "subscribers" when they were petitioning advertisers,( they wanted to show a large "subscription base").
    Their "street address" was a small mom & pop mail drop, and their phone number was that of a body shop that hadn't heard of them.
    That makes them spammers, a fraud*, and I haven't even gotten onto the plagiarism** part yet, where they take articles from other sources & post them as their own.
    Do you REALLY want to give someone like that your money?

    *Definition of FRAUD:
    1 a : DECEIT, TRICKERY; specifically : intentional perversion of truth in order to induce another to part with something of value or to surrender a legal right b : an act of deceiving or misrepresenting : TRICK
    2 a : a person who is not what he or she pretends to be : IMPOSTOR; also : one who defrauds : CHEAT b : one that is not what it seems or is represented to be synonym see DECEPTION, IMPOSTURE

    **Definition of Plagiarize:
    transitive senses : to steal and pass off (the ideas or words of another) as one's own : use (another's production) without crediting the source
    intransitive senses : to commit literary theft : present as new and original an idea or product derived from an existing source

    Here's a little more on the topic: http://diverlink.com/boycott.htm
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