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Category Archives: Greedy Companies

gimme gimme gimme – the cartels

Cause they still want the Oil

24-May-10

Why hasn’t it occurred to anyone that the only reason its taking BP so long to stop polluting the Gulf and Atlantic is because they aren’t trying to simply stop the flow of oil-they are trying to still get the oil from that well. Which if you think about it…why are we letting an obviously [...]

Un-Kindle’d

25-Jul-09

So you pay $300.00 for your Kindle and you pay another $10.00 for a file. Then later midway through 1984 something rather Orwellian happens…
Amazon deletes your files
yup, deleted from afar. I don’t know what else one should expect from something called ‘whispernet’; with a name like that nefarious activities should be expected.
If your [...]

We are not friends

24-Jun-09

So recently i played some Electronic Arts game on my Microsoft brand console that wasn’t all that great (Battlefield Bad Company) and decided Id had enough. A few days later I get an email from EA via getting my info from Microsoft which reads something about that game when it hits me. EA and I [...]

I thought it was 2007 not 1984 WTF?!

04-Oct-07

Excuse me did i miss something…
Woman Gets The $222,000 RIAA Shaft
How the hell is this right? WTF was that jury thinking? These record labels should be ashamed of themselves. Yet another reason not to buy music. $9,250 per song…thats a little more than itunes. Hopefully they do some online fund-raising for this lady.
At least some [...]

MPAA Shows Off Anti-Piracy Dogs in Dubai

14-Jan-07

This has got to be the most retarded use of resources EVER.
MPAA Shows Off Anti-Piracy Dogs in Dubai at TorrentFreak

Don’t Copy That Floppy

11-Jan-07

Anti-piracy campaigns are comedy. Before Captain Copyright there was MC Double Def DP the “Disk Protector”:

More info on the ‘92 anti-software campaign here.

iPhone: Why I don’t care.

09-Jan-07

So the big hot new Mac gadget is the iphone:
Shop Cingular | Cingular Wireless
and wow doesn’t that slimmed down pda/smartphone/media player/camera look nice, so why not want one?
-4 or 8 GB means not enough storage.
-Touchscreen makes for lousy dialing surface.
-Touchscreen makes for lousy keyboard.
-OSX looks nice but I like outlook.
-Camera lense is only good for [...]

Dark cloud over good works of Gates Foundation

07-Jan-07

Dark cloud over good works of Gates Foundation – Los Angeles Times
I new these shifty bastards had to be up to no good…
Looks like the foundation is just a tax exempt corporation. 95% towards more profit, 5% for the pesky poor. Long Article though.

RIAA petitions to lower artist royalties, weakens piracy arguments

21-Dec-06

RIAA petitions to lower artist royalties, weakens piracy arguments
This is a good one for all those ‘protect the artists!” dick riders. Seriously folks, Fuck DRM and the RIAA.

Rich few hold world’s wealth | NEWS.com.au

06-Dec-06

Rich few hold world’s wealth
I’d be jolly for a couple extra bucks an hour, meanwhile. . .
if the world’s population was reduced to a group of 10 people, one person would hold $US99 and the remaining nine would share $1.
Greed, Damn.