[ale] OT: Go Vote!

[Jeff Lightner]

Yes but they didn't retract about AT&T and guess who Bellsouth is in the
process of merging with?  If Bellsouth doesn't destroy your records
before the merger (and they won't) then they'll be under AT&T's setup.
AT&T announced a new policy in which they basically claim to OWN your
data and therefore can do whatever they wish with it.  By the way
Cingular is made up of AT&T (formerly SBC wireless) and Cingular (which
oddly enough had just purchased the erstwhile AT&T wireless last year.
This means if you had SBC, AT&T, Cingular or Bellsouth it will all be
AT&T in the near future and it is THAT AT&T that sent out the new policy
in reaction to the story.

 

AT&T reminds me of T2 - no matter how it gets blown apart it just
reassembles itself...

 

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From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of Jay
To: ale at ale.org
Finch
Sent: Wednesday, July 19, 2006 8:21 PM
To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts
Subject: Re: [ale] OT: Go Vote!

 

Not sure if you knew this, but USA Today retracted that story on June
30th:
http://www.bizjournals.com/atlanta/stories/2006/06/26/daily46.html?from_
rss=1


USA TODAY retracts BellSouth/NSA story


Atlanta Business Chronicle - June 30, 2006


USA TODAY has retracted a May news story in which it accused BellSouth
Corp. <http://www.bizjournals.com/atlanta/gen/BellSouth_Corp_1174.html>
and other telecommunications companies of participating in a National
Security Agency
<http://www.bizjournals.com/search/bin/search?q=%22National%20Security%2
0Agency%22&t=atlanta>  surveillance program. 

USA TODAY claimed in a news story in May that Atlanta-based BellSouth
(NYSE: BLS), Verizon Wireless
<http://www.bizjournals.com/search/bin/search?q=%22Verizon%20Wireless%22
&t=atlanta> , Sprint Nextel Corp.
<http://www.bizjournals.com/atlanta/gen/Sprint_Nextel_Corp_290596.html>
(NYSE: S) and AT&T Inc.
<http://www.bizjournals.com/atlanta/gen/AT&T_Inc_318879.html>  (NYSE: T)
had been participating in a NSA surveillance program since after the
Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks. Following the story, BellSouth quickly
sought a retraction from the McLean, Va.-based newspaper. BellSouth and
the other telecoms were soon after hit with class-action suits
<http://atlanta.bizjournals.com/atlanta/stories/2006/06/12/newscolumn3.h
tml>  from customers following the USA TODAY story.

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But it doesn't matter to me anyway - the government brainscanners won't
get through my tinfoil skullcap.  I'll bounce the rays back up to their
Mind Control Satellites, and let them control the Alien Overlord Xenu.
;-)   (I won't play in their little Illuminati games. heh)

Cheers!
Jay

PS - Please regard the last paragraph as humor.  Your Mileage May Vary.
Please, try the veal.  30-second Warranty not included.  Beware of the
Leopard.

Jeff Lightner wrote: 

You have all now been added to a government list because Dan is using a
Bellsouth account.  I doubt the NSA has stopped at getting phone records
from the phone companies.
 
-----Original Message-----
From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of Dan
To: ale at ale.org
Lambert
Sent: Wednesday, July 19, 2006 3:45 PM
To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts
Subject: Re: [ale] OT: Go Vote!
 
On Wed, 2006-07-19 at 19:10 -0400, Jim Popovitch wrote:
  

	James P. Kinney III wrote:
	    

 
  

	Along the same line..... am I the only one who voted in a
Church? 
	Doesn't that equate with government sponsored religion?
	 
	-Jim P.
	    

 
Nope. I vote in a church. Maybe we better not say anything. ACLU will be
after them to stop that, too.
 
Dan
 
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