Author: Michael Pellegrini
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Sunday Morning Musings…
Al Qaeda are coming!!! I was watching Meet The Press this morning – Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) was on, pushing the company line for the Bush administration. What a shit-for-brains idiot! It’s all, al Qaeda, al Qaeda, al Qaeda! The surge is working! We must stand firm! Our national security is at stake. If we…
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Pay-By-The-Byte Ressurected?
If a “pay-by-the-byte” pricing scheme is necessary for the economic survival of US ISPs, then how on earth are the ISP’s in Asia and elsewhere making it? Here are some current prices from Asia: Japan: 100 mb/s symmetrical FTTH – $51/ month US 47 mb/s down, 5 mb/s up ADSL – $6.00 / month https://asahi-net.jp/en/…
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RIP – Laura Ellen Hopper
At right, Laura Ellen With Jay Boy Adams at KFAT. On Memorial Day, Laura Ellen Hopper passed away due to complications from cancer. This truly is the week the music died. Laura Ellen was the Program Director of KPIG radio – 107 oink 5, in Freedom, California. Before that, she was the Program Director of…
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Religious Bigot, Jerry Fallwell Finally Dies
Scratch one religious bigot. It was certainly high time. Let the celebrations start at once! Sadly, many more still exist. We can only hope and dream they will follow Falwell, soon .
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Oh to be a shill for a telco (or a gullible retard)
It never fails to amaze me how the telcos shills populate user forums. There was a story on broadbandreports.com: http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/81287 5% of ISP Users Generate 45.3% of Traffic On the flip side, 40% generate just 3.8%… Ellacoya is a supplier of network hardware that can monitor and shape network traffic, and they recently shared some…
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Cheney Plays Nuclear Card
Now we’ve heard it all. Today Vice President Dick Cheney told America that the threat of terrorists detonating a nuclear bomb in an American city: “It’s a very real threat … something that we have to worry about and defeat every single day.” And then he went on to warn that if the United States…
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Bush Administration Must Be Held Accountable
The controversy over the firing of the eight US Attorneys continues to percolate in Washington DC, amid new charges by President Bush of partisan politics and democrats leveraging for political “show trials.” House and Senate Judiciary committees are now preparing subpoenas for senior Bush administration officials, including Karl Rove and Harriet Miers. President Bush has…
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Mid-week Rants
Once Crook Down…Bunches To Go… Yesterday’s guilty verdict in the trial of Lewis “Scooter” Libby for lying to the FBI and obstruction of justice is an important victory for Americans – after six reckless years of governing with impunity, the Bush administration has finally been held accountable for its criminal actions. Perhaps the tide of…
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George Bush: Next Stop Tehran!
Anyone remember Colin Powell jumping up and down at the UN, holding a vial of what he said was something that proved Iraq was manufacturing Weapons of Mass Destruction? Oh, yeah! Well that information was given to him by the very same people that are now claiming that Iran is providing Improvised Explosive Devices (IED’s)…