LINKS: DON’T BUY CARS WITH OnStar!! Also: RIAA is dying, bad cops, stop mail catalogs

This hurts my brain. But read on .. the stories are quite interesting today.  And, way to go Eisturzende Neubauten!

 

TECHNOLOGY WAR: Vibrator banned as national security threat

Plus: War In Iraq funds could feed every starving person on the planet for years, How To Stop Getting Junk Mail. Turtle Vs. Cat video, and proposed legislation to officially outlaw NSA eavesdropping. Read on for the rest of the links.

 

Cops beat up 70-year-old man; town will seize homes over $5 parking tickets; semi-identical twins; and how to stop getting credit card offers in the mail

Just read the headlines. These stories are ridiculous. Read on for more explanation. $5! WTF is ‘suspicion of speeding’?! ‘Semi-identical’?? Stop credit offers!

 

If you don’t understand how AOL’s “email tax” is bad, you should read this. (Corpratization of internet!)

http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/03/29/1411221

I'm not going to go into lengthy discourse, but suffice to say:  If you are using hotmail, and are unlucky, companies that send bulk mail to you, mail that you may want, may go to your spam folder if they don't pay up a $2,000 fee.   That's just one example.  Read the slashdot article for more info.

 

JUNK MAIL: How To Stop Those Credit Card Offers From Coming In The Mail

https://www.optoutprescreen.com/

I also used http://www.junkbusters.com in the past to eliminate most of my direct marketing postal junk mail. (But the best solution was to not answer mail for 3 months. The companies think you died and stop sending you junk.)

 

Best Subject for a Spam Email.

I got a piece of spam today. The subject is:

“Success is not the result of spontaneous combustion.
You have got to set your self on fire for it.”

Words to live by, indeed.