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Monthly Archives: April 2006

Whistle-Blower Outs Gov’t & ATT Shadiness, Gov’t Says STFU Tattle-taler

29-Apr-06

AT&T violated federal and state laws by surreptitiously allowing the government to monitor phone and internet communications of AT&T customers without warrants.

This was to be expected especially with all those Patriot Act shinanigans.
Wired News: Whistle-Blower Outs NSA Spy Room
And not long after the EFF started to put a stop to this, Big brother comes in [...]

Hacker Gets Busted Looking for UFOs

29-Apr-06

Sounds like someone’s watching way too many X-Files reruns.
Wired News: Terrorist or UFO Truth Seeker?
Seems like the damaged caused is the really the amount of money the government is using to take this guy to court.  What a waste.  Like its really gonna deter others from trying to break in.  Whats most disturbing is the [...]

Filipino table etiquette punished at local school

26-Apr-06

A Roxboro woman has filed a formal complaint with a local school board after her son was disciplined by a lunch program monitor at Ecole Lalande for eating in what she says is a customary Filipino manner.
Luc Cagadoc’s table behaviour is traditionally Filipino; he fills his spoon by pushing the food on his plate with [...]

Slacker Can’t Be Fired for Browsing the Web

24-Apr-06

Nice to see that there are still a handful of people in the world with some fucking sense.
Judge Rules Web-surfing worker can’t be fired
Score one for slackers.

Seniors Get a Hard Sell on Fee-Laden Annuities

24-Apr-06

Shady vultures:
Los Angeles Times: Seniors Get a Hard Sell on Fee-Laden Annuities
These types of brokerage and insurance agents thirsty for a commission really do put on the pressure to sell you that piece of mind.  But I suspect that this type of behavior will continue because people fail to realize that a company is not [...]

Gas Prices in CA Ain’t Right

24-Apr-06

In the last two weeks I’ve seen the price at the local gas station raise 3 times to its current $3.13 for 87 octane. WTF, man?! Thats the fucking cheap one. At an ARCO! AND the second week isn’t even over. So finally someone notices:
GOP urges price-gouging probe on [...]

Baby Shower Brawl? WTF!?

05-Apr-06

BREITBART.COM – 3 Arrested at Mass. Baby Shower Brawl
What’s the best reason you can think of for this fight to start? Sounds like drugs, definitely beer maybe even a little sherm.
“No! I bet it was going to be a girl”
“There were seven safety pins in the rice!”

IRLB

03-Apr-06

I can’t beleive this. The Internet Regulations and Legislation Bureau is the FCC of television imposed on free internet sites (ebaumsworld, break.com, etc). They begin implementing on June 1, 2006. How can we consider this country land of the free when people can make beach property private. Now I got to worry [...]