From jericho at attrition.org Wed Nov 10 23:47:28 2004 From: jericho at attrition.org (security curmudgeon) Date: Wed Nov 10 23:47:30 2004 Subject: [attrition] Movie Review: My First Mister Message-ID: http://www.attrition.org/movies/first_mister.html From jericho at attrition.org Thu Nov 11 03:11:32 2004 From: jericho at attrition.org (security curmudgeon) Date: Thu Nov 11 03:11:34 2004 Subject: [attrition] spleh Message-ID: http://www.attrition.org/postal/p0009.html Hotmail thinks my ass is fat. psychopath in love YOU'LL FIND THAT WE'RE EXTREMELY SMART amen I understand that you are experiencing difficulty.. man smelt angry and single? become binary i thank AOL for that. be glad to help From jericho at attrition.org Thu Nov 11 20:39:40 2004 From: jericho at attrition.org (security curmudgeon) Date: Thu Nov 11 20:39:43 2004 Subject: [attrition] Movie Review: The Passion of the Christ Message-ID: http://www.attrition.org/movies/passion.html From jericho at attrition.org Mon Nov 15 19:20:07 2004 From: jericho at attrition.org (security curmudgeon) Date: Mon Nov 15 19:20:09 2004 Subject: [attrition] The shocking truth about the FCC: Censorship by the tyranny of the few Message-ID: Interesting story with references about 3 people "pressuring" the FCC to fine Fox 1.2 million dollars for *suggesting* sex on a show that had already been cancelled. -- http://www.buzzmachine.com/archives/2004_11_15.html#008481 The shocking truth about the FCC: Censorship by the tyranny of the few : With not much original reporting, I discovered that the latest big fine by the FCC against a TV network -- a record $1.2 million against Fox for its "sexually suggestive" Married by America -- was brought about by a mere three people who actually composed letters of complaint. Yes, just three people. I filed a Freedom of Information Act request on Oct. 12 asking to see all of the 159 complaints the FCC cited in its complaint against Fox. I just received the FCC's reply with a copy of all the complaints -- and a letter explaining that, well, there weren't 159 after all. William H. Davenport, chief of the FCC's Investigations and Hearings Divison, admits in his letter that because the complaints were sent to multiple individuals at the FCC, it turns out there actually were only 90 complaints. It gets better: The FCC confesses that they come from only 23 individuals. It is shocking enough that what tens of millions of us are permitted to see by our government can be determined by 159 ... or 90 ... or 23. But it gets even better: I examined the complaints and found that all but two of them were virtually identical. In other words, one person took the time to write a letter and 20 other people then photocopied or merely emailed it to the FCC many times. They all came from an automated complaint factory like the one I write about here. Only two letters were not the form letter. So in the end, that means that a grand total of three citizens bothered to take the time to sit down and actually write a letter of complaint to the FCC. Millions of people watched the show. Three wrote letters of complaint. [..]