May
29

Anti-Smoking Campaigning Going To A New Level Of Absurdity

pjerky on May 29th, 2009

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I will be the first one to tell you how much I appreciate the anti-smoking laws being a non-smoker. Though the arguments against them are just as pertinent as those for them, especially when talking about our rights. However, now anti-smoking groups are trying to force movie studios to give an automatic R rating for [...]

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Apr
3

Major Broadband Providers Determined to Squeeze More Money Out Of Their Customers

pjerky on April 3rd, 2009

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This has been a busy week for broadband providers. First Time Warner announces that they will be rolling out tiered internet access to markets in Texas and New York. Tiers which give extremely low consumption caps (5, 10, 20, and 40GB plans). Then AT&T has decided to completely ignore any concept of Net Neutrality on [...]

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Mar
26

Betraying Your Customers Trust And Privacy Is No Way To Run A Business

pjerky on March 26th, 2009

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It seems that every day we are hearing about more and more situations where businesses prove to be not only unreliable, but untrustworthy as well. Recently the RIAA has started a 3-strikes project. They would have ISPs ban users from connecting to the internet after they have been accused of piracy three times. The plan [...]

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