Random acts of typing
Friday, September 06, 2002
Just send him up, already, and be done with it.
Damn, this has been on the news sites every day for the past month. If it'll get rid of him, I'll donate to the cause. And it's not like they can't afford it, don't tix to their concerts cost like forty bucks?
Citigroup...reported close to $200M payment in predatory lending case.
So who gets this money? Oh, the FTC....another federal regulation agency. So the citizens, the consumers, get stuck with "exorbitant interest rates, deceptive marketing tactics and abusive debt-collecting practices," probably resulting in or exacerbating their "poor credit histories," but the FTC--the government--gets the 200 million?
Thursday, September 05, 2002
Jade Entertainment Spammers
Don't know who these bastards are, but apparently their method of 'driving qualified traffic' is spamming:
Received: from *MyNetworkServerInfoDeleted*
Wed, 4 Sep 2002 18:48:59 -0400 (EDT)
Wed, 4 Sep 2002 17:11:56 -0400
Subject: Just Opt-In Investor News Network : NOTICE
To: tonmeister2@yahoo.com
Date: Wed, 4 Sep 2002 17:11:56 -0400
X-Priority: 3
X-Library: Indy 8.0.22
Message-ID: <>
X-OriginalArrivalTime: 04 Sep 2002 21:11:56.0734 (UTC) FILETIME=[B35475E0:01C25457]
Jade Entertainment Offering Reinitiated
Tuesday September 3, 5:22 pm ET
MELVILLE, N.Y., Sept. 3 /PRNewswire/ -- Jade Entertainment Group Inc. has reinitiated its current offering of 500,000 shares of common. The Company's voluntary postponement of its selling effort was in response to inaccuracies in a published article.
A prospectus can be downloaded from the Company's web site. Jade Entertainment Group is a marketer of Internet advertising services for the adult entertainment industry. Currently, the Company offers a bid-for-position and pay-for-listing service which operates from the AskJade.com web site. Our focus is to drive qualified traffic to Internet Web sites and ensure that Internet users find what they are looking for when "surfing the Web."
Full release at :http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/020903/nytu200_1.html
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Gee...no opt-in, no opt-out, not even a g*damn 'From' field, even if it was faked. Why sure, let me buy your crappy dot.com stock for some advertising website [we all know how profitable those are, don't we?] that I never heard of.
Screw the $11,000 fine [which noone pays], I think spamming should be a capital offense. I'd be glad to pull the trigger or flip the switch.
Tuesday, September 03, 2002
Ah, Major League Baseball... So, why do people even still give a crap about these moneygrubbing bastards? I think I'll stick with local league. You know, where they actually play the game because it's fun. Don't think the Durham Bulls have ever struck [striked?].
