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A look inside a check cashing and payday lending business

July 13, 2009

An amusing and terrifying look inside two shady types of businesses that will fleece you every way they can, from check cashing fees to postage for a premium.

As Ben Popken says “I can’t wrap my mind around the idea of paying someone for my own money.”
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Beware false charities

May 20, 2009

Some scammers have no shame, and will take advantage of your kind and giving nature for their own personal gain. Numerous shysters have seen the advantage of pretending to be a charity in order to get their grubby hands on your sympathetic cash.
But today the FTC is cracking down. It is starting a nationwide sweep targeting [...]

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Obama violating copyright laws right and left

April 3, 2009

It isn’t really his fault; many people unintentionally violate copyright laws every day. But if the President can’t give a simple gift without breaking the law, the system is broken.
When British Prime Minister Gordon Brown visited the U.S., President Obama gave him a box of DVDs. Of course, in order to play them, Brown would [...]

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Michael Capuano (D-Mass) has some choice words for Wall Street CEOs

February 12, 2009

Capuano to CEOs: No One Trusts You Anymore | TPM TV

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Delta Makes Woman With Muscular Dystrophy Crawl Off Plane

July 29, 2008

Please please please Sun Country expand your service so I don’t have to fly Delta when they take over Northwest’s routes in Minneapolis. Delta Makes Woman With Muscular Dystrophy Crawl Off Plane | Consumerist

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We take you to a meeting of the RIAA

January 4, 2008

From joyoftech.com:

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Already at ludicrous speed, the RIAA goes a bit faster

December 31, 2007

Mark Frauenfelder of BoingBoing points out that the RIAA’s ludicrous stance on copying CDs for personal use is actually even more ludicrous in light of what they were saying just months ago:
The record companies, my clients, have said, for some time now, and it’s been on their Website for some time now, that it’s perfectly [...]

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RIAA has achieved ludicrous speed

December 29, 2007

In its efforts to bring about the overthrow of copyright protection by adopting arguments more ridiculous than the Bush Administration’s attempts to exclude Dick Cheney from the executive branch, the RIAA is now arguing that it is illegal for you to transfer music from a CD you purchase to your computer for your own, personal [...]

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