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Pay Your Bills · Posted: Wed May 30, 2007 1:20 pm Subject: Hey Losers

Rude comments deleted!Cajunbulldog

Posted: Wed May 30, 2007 1:22 pm Subject:

What about when collectors are trying to collect on a debt that is not theirs, do you think that is fair?

Posted: Wed May 30, 2007 1:27 pm Subject:

This jerk is been to this site since a long time. I can make out what he said.

Cajun, thanks for your prompt actions.

Posted: Wed May 30, 2007 3:55 pm Subject:

Ah, the infamous "pay your bills" guest is back. Welcome back, did you find the spike strip we left in the parking lot for your rustbucket as you drove in? Good! Laughing

Posted: Wed May 30, 2007 4:19 pm Subject:

LMAO!!! I see he has nothing better to do yet..

Posted: Wed May 30, 2007 4:25 pm Subject:

This is the same guy as ASG, and if he wishes to have his Internet Provider notified of his "annoying" internet behavior, at a privately funded site, I will post the recent law for him: "Annoying someone via the Internet is now a federal crime.

It's no joke. Last Thursday, President Bush signed into law a prohibition on posting annoying Web messages or sending annoying e-mail messages without disclosing your true identity.

In other words, it's OK to flame someone on a mailing list or in a blog as long as you do it under your real name. Thank Congress for small favors, I guess.

This ridiculous prohibition, which would likely imperil much of Usenet, is buried in the so-called Violence Against Women and Department of Justice Reauthorization Act. Criminal penalties include stiff fines and two years in prison.

"The use of the word 'annoy' is particularly problematic," says Marv Johnson, legislative counsel for the American Civil Liberties Union. "What's annoying to one person may not be annoying to someone else."

It's illegal to annoy
A new federal law states that when you annoy someone on the Internet, you must disclose your identity. Here's the relevant language.

"Whoever...utilizes any device or software that can be used to originate telecommunications or other types of communications that are transmitted, in whole or in part, by the Internet... without disclosing his identity and with intent to annoy, abuse, threaten, or harass any person...who receives the communications...shall be fined under title 18 or imprisoned not more than two years, or both."
Buried deep in the new law is Sec. 113, an innocuously titled bit called "Preventing Cyberstalking." It rewrites existing telephone harassment law to prohibit anyone from using the Internet "without disclosing his identity and with intent to annoy."

To grease the rails for this idea, Sen. Arlen Specter, a Pennsylvania Republican, and the section's other sponsors slipped it into an unrelated, must-pass bill to fund the Department of Justice. The plan: to make it politically infeasible for politicians to oppose the measure.

The tactic worked. The bill cleared the House of Representatives by voice vote, and the Senate unanimously approved it Dec. 16.

There's an interesting side note. An earlier version that the House approved in September had radically different wording. It was reasonable by comparison, and criminalized only using an "interactive computer service" to cause someone "substantial emotional harm."

That kind of prohibition might make sense. But why should merely annoying someone be illegal?

There are perfectly legitimate reasons to set up a Web site or write something incendiary without telling everyone exactly who you are."

Posted: Wed May 30, 2007 4:30 pm Subject:

Anthony...my hero! Laughing

Posted: Wed May 30, 2007 4:33 pm Subject:

I get so tired of this same person, using different names to attempt to throw us off, but his idiot comments are redundant and shines through what ever alias he uses.