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E.J. Dionne: Have You No Sense of
Decency, Sir? Of Course Not, This is the
Bush Cartel. Being Decent Gets You in
TROUBLE with the Bush Cartel, Whose
Natural Home is the Gutter. 4/27

E.J. Dionne: Have You No Sense of
Decency, Sir? Of Course Not, This is the
Bush Cartel. Being Decent Gets You in
TROUBLE with the Bush Cartel, Whose
Natural Home is the Gutter. 4/27 04/28/2004 05:51 AM
Tempest

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Must Read, Very Long NYT Article,
Unusally Candid Piece About Bush Cartel
Ineptness, Arrogance and Spin: The Bush
Cartel Neo-Con Blueprint for Disaster in
Iraq. Crimes Against Our Soldiers and
Our Nation. 11/1

Must Read, Very Long NYT Article,
Unusally Candid Piece About Bush Cartel
Ineptness, Arrogance and Spin: The Bush
Cartel Neo-Con Blueprint for Disaster in
Iraq. Crimes Against Our Soldiers and
Our Nation. 11/1 11/02/2003 07:35 AM
everyone's weekend reading list

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Qwest sues AT&T over Net phone fees

Qwest sues AT&T over Net phone fees 05/05/2004 09:21 PM
CNET May 6 2004 0:57AM GMT

When 60% Of Your Phone Bill Is From
Unadvertised Fees

When 60% Of Your Phone Bill Is From
Unadvertised Fees 09/20/2004 04:56 AM
We've had plenty of stories about phone companies and all of the additional fees they add to your bill, but the Miami Herald has a few examples where the situation clearly goes beyond any reasonable level. Take, for example, a simple plan from BellSouth, advertised at $11.04/month. What they leave is out the extra $16 in fees and taxes (BugMeNot required) that turn the $11 plan into a $27 one. Then, there are companies like Primus which is adding a $15 "low usage" fee for anyone who doesn't make $25 worth of long distance calls per month. The telcos come back with their usual refrain that they somehow "need" to collect this fee "to recoup normal business expenses." That, of course, is a ridiculous statement. Any normal business prices their "normal business expenses" into their advertised prices. This is simply a way for the telcos to advertise lower prices than they're really charging. Perhaps other companies should get into this game as well. Want a pizza pie? It's just $3, but there's a $3.50 "crust fee," a $9.38 "oven fee," a $4.50 "service fee," and a $2.18 "cleanup fee." Plus tax.

Level 3 Pulls Internet Phone Fees
Request

Level 3 Pulls Internet Phone Fees
Request 03/23/2005 01:29 PM
San Francisco Chronicle Mar 23 2005 4:31PM GMT

Qwest Sues AT&T Over Internet Phone Fees
(Reuters)

Qwest Sues AT&T Over Internet Phone Fees
(Reuters) 05/05/2004 03:41 PM
Reuters - Qwest Communications International Inc. (Q.N) said on Wednesday it sued long-distance giant AT&T Corp. (T.N) claiming it avoided tens of millions of dollars in fees for phone calls carried partly over the Internet.

Level 3 Pulls Internet Phone Fees
Request (AP)

Level 3 Pulls Internet Phone Fees
Request (AP) 03/22/2005 03:15 PM
AP - A company that provides Internet phone service has withdrawn a request to federal regulators asking that it be exempt from paying higher fees to local phone companies for transmitting certain calls over the traditional phone network.

Qwest drops access fees for Internet
phone calls

Qwest drops access fees for Internet
phone calls 04/26/2004 07:04 PM
Reuters Apr 26 2004 11:16PM GMT

Qwest Drops Access Fees for Internet
Phone Calls (Reuters)

Qwest Drops Access Fees for Internet
Phone Calls (Reuters) 04/26/2004 05:24 PM
Reuters - Qwest Communications International Inc. (Q.N) said on Monday it would no longer levy connection fees on calls made to customers on its network from Internet phone services.

In Pivotal Case, Bush Backs Off Rule
That Eased Phone Line Fees

In Pivotal Case, Bush Backs Off Rule
That Eased Phone Line Fees 06/10/2004 11:14 AM
The Bush administration decided not to challenge a court ruling that will allow four Bell telephone companies to charge more from competitors who use their networks.

"this outrageous"

"this outrageous" 03/27/2005 06:21 PM

"This is truly outrageous"

"This is truly outrageous" 12/02/2003 03:01 AM

"outrageous"

"outrageous" 02/15/2004 10:44 AM
So blustered innumerable Congress-ites re CBS's behavior managing the Super Bowl. But of course, none of them were talking about the judgment CBS showed when it decided that the MoveOn ad was "too controversial" but ads about viagra, the war on drugs (sponsored by the institution that appoints members of the FCC), tobacco sponsored messages, and of course, the Janet and Justin show were not. The Congress-ites were more interested in assuring better systems to censor artists. Bob McChesney's got a few things to add.

Completely Outrageous

Completely Outrageous 05/12/2004 06:43 PM
Bush runs an ad which says that Kerry voted against ?Apache Helicopters, Tomahawk Cruise Missiles,? as well as ?Bradley Fighting?

"Outrageous images"

"Outrageous images" 05/12/2004 05:27 PM

Most Outrageous Rebate Offer Ever

Most Outrageous Rebate Offer Ever 02/01/2005 09:07 PM

I stumbled upon this while looking for a deal on TurboTax. I honestly cannot believe they expect customers to spend $300 and then wait 12 weeks for them to send back $270. Then they throw in this little gem:

Note: Some rebates in this Tax Software Bundle are UPGRADE / COMPETITIVE UPGRADE rebates. Please review those rebate coupon for detailed information.

I won't even get into the fact that my Mac doesn't need half the stuff they are offering for "free". What a bargain.

Personal Data Theft: It's Outrageous

Personal Data Theft: It's Outrageous 04/18/2005 08:41 AM
Business Week Apr 18 2005 12:39PM GMT

Now You're Just Getting Ridiculous

Now You're Just Getting Ridiculous 07/16/2004 12:12 AM

Is your 2.5 pound Ultralight laptop really dragging you down when you tote it through the airport? Sony has you covered:

The X505 is Sony's smallest notebook, weighing less than two pounds and under an inch thin. While small in size, the X505 delivers big performance through the power of the Intel Pentium M Processor and a host of other top features. The fusion of style and technology gives it all the functionality of notebooks twice its size. With its sleek lines and sophisticated design, you wont mind bringing your office with you where ever you go.

You really have to go look at the pictures to get an idea of how insanely thin this thing is. And the best part? No fan. So now we have notebook computers that are smaller than actual notebooks.

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Journalist: Wikipedia is "outrageous,"
"repugnant" and "dangerous"

Journalist: Wikipedia is "outrageous,"
"repugnant" and "dangerous" 08/28/2004 08:12 AM
Cory Doctorow: A Techdirt writer sent a note to Al Fasoldt, a "journalist" with the Syracuse Post-Standard who wrote an editorial telling his readers that Wikipedia couldn't be trusted and should be avoided ("Wikipedia is a do-it-yourself encyclopedia, without any credentials").

Fasoldt responded with an increasingly patronizing and hysterical series of messages in which he described Wikipedia as "outrageous," "repugnant" and "dangerous," insulting the Techdirt writer and storming off in a huff.

My main problem was that he seemed to write off Wikipedia based solely on how it was created and maintained, and not at all on the actual content. Along with my post, I sent an email to the writer, Al Fasoldt, giving him some additional information about Wikipedia, and wondering why, after telling us how you can't trust any random info online, he trusted the email from a random librarian claiming Wikipedia was somehow untrustworthy. The ongoing discussion with Mr. Fasoldt has been quite a lesson in watching how a journalist (a) continues to make unsubstantiated allegations (b) seems to prefer insulting me and putting words in my mouth to actually responding to my points or questions and (c) sticks steadfastly to his belief that only "experts" can be trusted with information -- and, in his case, only experts that he chooses. Yet, somehow, we're supposed to find him more trustworthy than a self-correcting community. Figuring he might appreciate the views of others in his profession (you know, "experts"), I sent him links to Dan Gillmor's article on Wikipedia and Steve Yelvington's recent realization of the power of Wikipedia. However, rather than actually look at that information, Mr. Fasoldt accused me of wanting "students to trust a source that's not trustworthy." After some back and forth of this nature, where Mr. Fasoldt responded to my request that he do a little more research by saying: "I'm glad you're not the publisher of a newspaper" (apparently, his publisher lets him do no research at all) and then telling me that anyone who wrote for Wikipedia obviously knew nothing (his phrase was: "100 times zero is still zero"), I suggested an experiment. I pointed to the Wikipedia page on Syracuse, NY where he apparently lives, and suggested he change something on the page, to make it provably, factually incorrect -- and see how long it lasted. Rather than take me up on the experiment, or suggest an alternative, he complained simply that the whole idea of Wikipedia was "outrageous," "repugnant" and finally (in another email) "dangerous," and therefore he refused to take part in my experiment.

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the most ridiculous transformer ever

the most ridiculous transformer ever 08/22/2004 04:15 AM
wow, and i thought metroplex was insanely huge

Fox New: Is "Fair and Balanced"
"ridiculous"?

Fox New: Is "Fair and Balanced"
"ridiculous"? 07/18/2004 06:39 PM
"Is 'Fair and Balanced' ridiculous?" So opened the FOX News Watch segment examining Robert Greenwald's film, OutFOXed. And astonishingly, the uncontradicted view of FOX News Watch was "yes"! As Neal Gabler put it, "To say that this network promotes the Republican view ... is like saying that the Pope is Catholic. It's self-evident ... pretty much undeniable." But, he asks, as if he hadn't actually seen the film, "So what?" So what? Well first, start with the question that opened the segment: Fox says it is "Fair and Balanced." If it is "self-evident" that it is not, then I guess we agree then that it is "ridiculous" to say that it is. And second, "obviously" media critics get this about Fox. Anyone who critically watches Fox gets this about Fox. But as one questioner at the San Francisco opening put it, for those who aren't media critics, and for those who don't actually watch Fox, just how "ridiculous" Fox's claim is is something significant. My bet is that a cross-section of FOX viewers would be surprised just how false Fox's claims actually are. The discussion opened with Jim Pinkerton of Newsday calling the film "dull and didactic." He then asserted that the film says that media networks are "either worse than the Mafia that ran Cuba in the 1950s or worse than the Soviet Union." When I heard him say that, I understood why he saw the film as "dull and didactic": if this is his view, he didn't really watch the film. The opening allusion to the Mafia comes from Robert McChesney, where he compares how the Mafia carved up Cuba with how the government carves up media ownership -- nothing to do with the media being "worse than the Mafia." The allusion to the Soviet Union, also McChesney's, again had nothing to do with Pinkerton's claim. McChesney's claim was simply that propaganda is most effective when the audience is unaware -- unlike in the Soviet Union. The other simple fabrication of Pinkerton was that the film comprised "two or three disgruntled employees." That's true if by "two or three" you mean seven (four listed here; three requested anonymity). But the more fundamental fabrication is the suggestion that the film's claims are based on nothing more than the word of "two or three disgruntled employees." The film has five independent sources for its "self-evident," as Grabler puts it, conclusion: (1) former Foxies, (2) Fox memos (unmentioned by anyone on the show), (3) independent studies of Fox viewers, (4) media commentators, and (5) clips from Fox shows. Cal Thomas -- who was one of the people in the film -- found the film flawed because it "ignored the many Democrats I've had on my show." Again, not true. The movie never asserts that there are no Democrats, or liberals on the show. It just asserts -- not denied by Thomas -- that the "balance" is "unbalanced." Indeed, in one of the best parts of the film, Greenwald reports a media group that studied months of Brit Hume's "Special Report" and found over 80% of the guests on that premier show were Republican -- and that most of the Democrats were centrists. Not balanced, and not a fair picture of the facts reported. Thomas goes on (with his wonderful announcer voice -- I love listening to him) to say something extraordinary however. Here's the quote:

"I think the reason that this network looks so Republican ... is by contrast on [sic] what the others do. If you went and did -- as the Media Research Center has done -- clips of what is said on the broadcast networks ... you would find an enormous tilt to the left. So by contrast it looks conservative."

I think we need more Media Research Centers on both the Left and Right and -- imagine this -- even without a political agenda! But I've not seen that they've put together "clips" as Greenwald has. And again, the film is comparing what Fox News actually is to what Fox News says it is. Jane Hall (Who? She's an assistant professor in the School of Communication at American University) complained the film was flawed because it left "out any evidence to the contrary." There were plenty of liberals on Fox she said -- for example, she said, she was a liberal. She also mentioned Jeff Cohen, cofounder of FAIR, was on Fox News Watch "for five years." Jeff Cohen? Actually, the movie not only doesn't ignore Jeff Cohen. He is one of the most critical interviewees. And again, the film doesn't say there are no liberals on Fox. The show instead reports Clara Frenk reporting that the "quality" of the liberals was far less than the quality of the conservatives -- in the sense that the liberals were either "unknown" or "weak." Hall also repeated the total non-thought that has been framed around this film -- that somehow the film is weak because it didn't get Roger Ailes to respond. The film in fact has Roger Ailes stating Fox News was to be a fair and balanced news program. It also has Roger Ailes stating Fox News failed its viewers on election night by allowing George Bush's cousin, on the basis of extremely weak data, to call the election for Bush. But even if it didn't twice include Roger Ailes in the film, the idea that before you release a film critical of someone you must include their comment is inane. I've had many critical reviews of my work published, some very intelligent, some others not. Never has anyone asked me for my comment on their review before they publish it. Indeed, to do so would be unethical. But my favorite part of the whole show is the contrast between segment one and segment two. The review of Outfoxed was in segment two. Segment one was about -- I swear -- "Media bias." For a full segment, Fox News Watch focused on a single statement by Newsweek's Evan Thomas. As Media Research Center quotes him,

The media want Kerry to win. They’re going to portray Kerry and Edwards as being young and dynamic and optimistic, and this glow is going to be worth maybe 15 points."

This single quote by a single editor at a single magazine apparently proves, according to the show, that liberal "media bias" exists. Yet a film gathering (1) former Foxies, (2) Fox memos, (3) independent studies of Fox viewers, (4) media commentators, and (5) clips from Fox shows is, by contrast, "not that fairly put together," said Eric Burns, the show's host. I guess they would know. They're the trademark holder for the words "Fair and Balanced" (at least until the challenge to that trademark gets resolved).

John Judis is just ridiculous

John Judis is just ridiculous 11/12/2003 01:17 PM
fears

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1000 Ridiculous Tragedies

1000 Ridiculous Tragedies 11/16/2003 02:31 AM
absolutely most favorite websites? .. 1000 ridiculous tragedies .. finds amusement .. "And Then..." .. Owls McGee

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Ridiculous Infomercial Review

Ridiculous Infomercial Review 01/28/2004 03:25 AM
Why won't Ron Jeremy say 'penis' on the air? This and many more important questions are pondered at the Ridiculous Infomercial Review. If you click in the next 20 minutes, you'll receive Matthew Lesko's wardrobe, absolutely free!!

This has got to be one of the most
ridiculous things I've ever read

This has got to be one of the most
ridiculous things I've ever read 08/16/2004 08:37 AM
I'll link to the Athens Olympics site however I see fit, Thanks .. Olympic Games 2004 Hyperlink Policy .. rather bizarre linking rules

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DVD Cartel Gives Up Lost Cause

DVD Cartel Gives Up Lost Cause 01/22/2004 05:08 PM
The Electronic Frontier Foundation rep orts that the DVD consortium has abandoned the argument that its widely disseminated scrambling software, which prevents people from playing DVDs on non-authorized devices and operating systems, is a trade secret.

What The Cartel Thinks

What The Cartel Thinks 04/19/2005 04:08 AM

The fact that iTunes continues to dominate just might be a clue that Steve Jobs' onto something. By Alan Wexelblat, Corante

rebutting the most outrageous lies and
slanders of right-wing media pundits

rebutting the most outrageous lies and
slanders of right-wing media pundits 05/04/2004 07:48 AM
out there

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Guardian Unlimited | Arts features |
'People don't know how to be outrageous
any more'

Guardian Unlimited | Arts features |
'People don't know how to be outrageous
any more' 06/02/2004 08:54 AM

"ridiculous anti-Bush attack I've seen
yet"

"ridiculous anti-Bush attack I've seen
yet" 08/11/2004 08:52 PM

Domain Names Selling For Ridiculous
Prices Again

Domain Names Selling For Ridiculous
Prices Again 12/26/2003 02:55 PM
More evidence that we're approaching a rehash of 1999. We've seen dot com stock prices going up, IPOs from tech companies that actually do well, traffic increase in Silicon Valley and VC money that is being invested in dot coms with no revenue and no business model. Now, the latest sign of a returning dot com era is that domain names are beginning to fetch high prices again. Someone just sold men.com for $1.3 million, and others believe that the latest land rush for domain names is about to start again. While many of the original domain name speculators went out of business over the past few years, now they're coming back, and buying up as many domain names as possible.

Why the Sun-buying-Novell rumor is
ridiculous, Part 2

Why the Sun-buying-Novell rumor is
ridiculous, Part 2 08/14/2004 04:41 AM
Last issue, I took apart the rumor that Sun might be about to acquire Novell by looking at what Sun would have to pay compared to the value of the products that it might get - and be able to use. Today, we'll look at some of the intangibles that might also be part of the deal.

Why the Sun-buying-Novell rumor is
ridiculous, Part 1

Why the Sun-buying-Novell rumor is
ridiculous, Part 1 08/12/2004 03:54 AM
There was a huge amount of ink (both virtual and physical) spent on the non-story of the year circulating last week about the possibility of Sun buying Novell.

"The Top Ten Most Ridiculous Black Metal
Pics Of All Time"

"The Top Ten Most Ridiculous Black Metal
Pics Of All Time" 08/15/2004 09:32 PM

How Copyright Cartel is Killing Privacy

How Copyright Cartel is Killing Privacy 05/02/2004 02:02 PM
To understand the dangerous confluence of privacy and "digital rights management" that copyright holders use to keep control over what...

the economist on death of the diamond
cartel

the economist on death of the diamond
cartel 07/22/2004 04:45 PM
one can only hope

Australian doping scandal udderly
ridiculous (Reuters)

Australian doping scandal udderly
ridiculous (Reuters) 08/10/2004 01:23 AM
Reuters - Australia's Olympic athletes aren't the only ones coming under anti-doping scrutiny.

Proper Propaganda - Michael Moore's
Fahrenheit 9/11 is unfair and
outrageous. You got a problem with that?
By David Edelstein

Proper Propaganda - Michael Moore's
Fahrenheit 9/11 is unfair and
outrageous. You got a problem with that?
By David Edelstein 06/27/2004 04:47 AM
§†‡§Šͺ /: ˆ§§†§Œ ˆ¨› ŠˆŠ §„ͺŠ†Œ §„Šͺ .. excellent Slate review .. David Edelstein .. so what?

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DVD cartel backs off, EFF wins, DVD keys
aren't "secret"

DVD cartel backs off, EFF wins, DVD keys
aren't "secret" 01/22/2004 04:53 PM
EFF won an important legal battle today. DVDCCA, the Hollywood licensing body that runs DVD, has dropped its bullshit suit against Andrew Bunner, a client of ours whom they accused of misappropriating their secret keys -- "secret" in this instance meaning, "available on millions of webservers all over the world."

"DeCSS has been available on hundreds if not thousands of websites for 4 years now," said EFF Legal Director Cindy Cohn. "We're pleased that the DVD CCA has finally stopped attempting to deny the obvious: DeCSS is not a secret."

The California Supreme Court last year ruled that one could apply preliminary restraint on publication of a computer program only in very narrow circumstances. DVD CCA sued Bunner along with hundreds of people, including some T-shirt manufacturers.

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