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Michael "Weiner" Savage is annoying the heck out of me, the prissy little self important prima donna started yelling at his board ops. Seriously, I mean you hear feedback over the headset, you simply slide the headset off your ears and continue until they fix it and give you a hand signal to put your cans back on.... Savage despite calling himself an expert is quite the newbie. And you NEVER EVER berate your board ops while ON THE AIR... EVER!!!!! Reminds me of the overly self important bully type boss who berates his employees in front of the other...

DAMN! What a mess they are making of my (our) country!

Annoying someone via the Internet is now a federal crime.It's no joke. Last Thursday, President Bush signed into law a prohibition on posting annoying Web messages or sending annoying e-mail messages without disclosing your true identity. In other words, it's OK to flame someone on a mailing list or in a blog as long as you do it under your real name. Thank Congress for small favors, I guess. This ridiculous prohibition, which would likely imperil much of Usenet, is buried in the so-called Violence Against Women and Department of Justice Reauthorization Act. Criminal penalties include stiff fines and two...

The New York Times Magazine ran an 8,300 word piece on Senator John Kerry on Sunday titled “Kerry’s Undeclared War.” But as one plowed through the fluff piece it became apparent that John Kerry is not even convinced that America is at war. In fact when John Kerry was asked “"what it would take for Americans to feel safe again," he answered with an analogy comparing combating terrorism to fighting prostitution and illegal gambling. I’m not making this up. [ . . . ] Senator John Kerry has ratcheted up the rhetoric of late, but it is very apparent that...

<p>Ron Scelson admits he's an outlaw. But he'll gladly go straight, he insists, as soon as the federal government legalizes his business, which happens to be spamming. Scelson sends out millions of junk e-mail advertisements every day from his Slidell, La., home. Many of them are illegal under the laws of Louisiana and many other US states. So Scelson wants a federal law that would establish a national standard for e-mail advertising, and new e-mail technology that would let users permanently block their e-mail addresses from unwanted ads. Under his plan, Scelson said, consumers could screen out unwanted messages, while still allowing Scelson to continue the e-mail advertising business that has made the high-school dropout a wealthy man.</p>

Axel Koester for The New York Times Albert Ahdoot and Alyx Sachs have operated the e-mail marketing business NetGlobalMarketing in Los Angeles for about a year. Alyx Sachs is no longer sending people e-mail offering to "fix your credit risk free." Confronted by an increasing number of individuals, businesses and Internet service providers using software meant to identify and discard unwanted junk e-mail — commonly known as spam — Ms. Sachs has been forced to become more creative in her marketing pitches. The subject line on her credit e-mail, for example, now reads "get a fresh start." From a...

I am just disgusted that the major news sites are all SELLING access to the video from the last few minutes of life of Columbia's astronauts. That footage doesn't belong to them; it belongs to all of us who care and grieve for the loss of a national asset and its crew. We paid for the shuttle, we paid for the camera the astronauts took up with them...and we paid for the technology that restored the tape to viewability. It's taxpayer property. I think what they're doing is worse than putting shuttle memorabilia up on Ebay. It stinks to high...

I've been collecting an annoying series of internet advertising that is OBVIOUSLY fraudulent and VERY persistent. Think of it as the internet answer to Publishers Central Clearing.