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Very true.  Some of us even questioned whether it could be characterized as "thinking". 

However, killing people off with medicine while trying to prevent an ailment that was never going to affect them is worse than pointless.

I was listening to a recent interview with former SAS soldier Chris Ryan ('the one that got away') from the Bravo Two Zero team in Gulf War I. At the end of GWI he and others had an audience with General 'Stormin Noman' Schwarzkopf. The obvious question came up as to why they hadn't carried on into Bagdad and toppled Saddam. Schwarzkopf replied that they'd thought about it but had concluded that without Saddam then Iraq would probably decend into a chaos of multiple opposing factions, religous zealots, etc and quite possibly civil war. In that condition they were far more likely to become a destabilising influence in the area, provide a haven for terroists and potentially present a danger to the West's interests.

But 10 years later George W Bush didn't 'think' any of that would happen ...

Neither was I.

OK, so final conclusion, the American troops should invade Fotolia, remove the threat by toppling the management, get the contributors to vote for new Fotolia management, admit that they could not find evidence that Fotolia would have went through with the threat, withdraw their troops and start focusing on another website which might be a threat. 

Can the Subject now please be changed to include the words "The war against....."

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That's an apt phrase. I pulled out of FO last year. Just really wasn't worth the space on the spreadsheet. I do have a couple of micro friends that are still on, and some of the rejections they get there are absurd.

I think this point is underestimated and would deserve a thread by itself. How is that possible to have FT giving away images like that at Photoexpress and pretend to act all offended by competitors playing with prices/commissions as they want? I am disgusted already by their policy to set images without sale for six months back to 1 credit... (BTW: how am I supposed to control then that they put it back?)
and in fact I have started to delete my good images that are put back at 1 credit. In this way they will be only available at DT and SS. Result: this month I see both of these agencies going up, when FT stay put, but I think it will not be for long... I am down in four months from 90 to 330 in weekly ranking.  Surely part my fault, but hardly motivated anymore with them and their weird policy with newer images.
I license more images from years 2006-2008 than from the three years after. Probably I didn't keep up with competition, I have considered also this aspect, but as said above, motivation is not anymore there for me at FT. I submit more exclusive material at DT and expand into video and macro territory (Alamy) as many others and for now is good in this way. FT is on my list as the next (and last) agency to abandon to his poor destiny.