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I still get a few spams in my gmail inbox and I still get actual email going to the spam box. I'm on a ton of mailing lists and I have it set so everything sent to my domain goes to gmail.

I have my domain registration email set to dead_babies@ which is starred when I get those. Those almost always go to the spam box and they hardly show up but it makes me laugh when I get them.

Part of the false positives are probably my fault to occasionally responding to the "we should swap links" with "sure, would you like to be on the page about necrophilia or the page with the naked girl pinning Marshmallow Peeps (tm) to her vagina?

I have too much time on my hands sometimes.

I still get a few spams in my gmail inbox and I still get actual email going to the spam box. I'm on a ton of mailing lists and I have it set so everything sent to my domain goes to gmail.

I have my domain registration email set to dead_babies@ which is starred when I get those. Those almost always go to the spam box and they hardly show up but it makes me laugh when I get them.

Part of the false positives are probably my fault to occasionally responding to the "we should swap links" with "sure, would you like to be on the page about necrophilia or the page with the naked girl pinning Marshmallow Peeps (tm) to her vagina?

I have too much time on my hands sometimes.

I wrote a journal about my problems with Pair. I've been happily using Pair for many years, and still use them, but they told me to start looking for another provider.

Pair told me they'll remove my entire site if they get another DMCA request about my posting 17 out of 600 questions from the MMPI. It's the same issue that slashdot has posted before. My problem is, the same attorney from the previous slashdot article, Carl W. Covert, Jr. from NCS Pearson, Inc., sent Pair two DMCAs about the same page, two months apart, and Pair hasn't had a customer who sent in a non-compliance response.

With my first DMCA, I went to Chilling Effects and used a boilerplate response. I had a copyright attorney check it before sending it. The DMCA says they have 14 days to sue. I asked Pair if it was settled after 14 days went by and only received the "we received your response and will respond". I figured if they ignored that, then the issue was settled. After two months, I got the same DMCA from the same attorney about the same page.

Pair removed my page for 14 days and sent an email saying that if they get another DMCA they will remove my entire site. My site covers a Star Trek band, Sacramento punk rock history, and an outdated blog about riding a crappy old motorcycle round the world. Now I'm in Korea, trying not to fight with an ISP that I was happy with, over 17 questions.

After having to badger Pair for a response, I finally got this:

Dear Dave,

I apologize for your confusion and I also appreciate your conviction.
However, pair Networks is a web hosting provider, not a law firm. Our job
is not to interpret the DMCA or the law in general, but to follow it.
Lawyers are very expensive, and the bottom line is that our Service Contract
states that we can terminate all or any part of an account for any reason
without notice. In this case, we are giving you fair warning that to keep
your site online, the best thing for you to do is remove the contested
material. While we appreciate your business, We also have to look out for
our best interest. While I understand that it
causes a moral dilemma for you, the bottom line is that, if we receive a
restraining order, we are not going to fight it; we are going to follow our
lawyer's advice and disable the site as a whole. If you want to proactively
avoid this situation, then you may want to look into moving your site to
another provider. We are not trying to push you away with this statement;
you always have the option of simply removing the content in question.

Sincerely,

Gary H.
pair Networks, Inc.

"Of Gods and Men" is pretty good, if you're a geek. Luckily, I'm a geek so I liked it. The sad thing is, I've been hosting a Peep Off, a Marshmallow Peep eating contest, for every fucking Star Trek movie there has been. I've been calling it "the last ever Peep Off" for a few years now and I'm sadly disappointed that there's another sequel coming. Please make it stop!

http://www.nokilli.com/food/peep.html

Now's my chance to ask the immortal question, that my friend Lurch asked a little person: "So, do regular beers seem really, really big to you? Since you're a midget and all?"

I hope the answer isn't "Fuck you" which is what he got when he asked.

Apollo was a god, and Kirk basically rabbit punched him to death. Why couldn't Kirk do that with the current favorite god (ie, God)?

No one can survive an Angry Kirk!

From "T is For Tiberius (Damn it Bones, I'm Serious)"

I slew the god Apollo
I spared the reptile Gorn
Romulans and Klingons hate me
I'm the object of their scorn

T is for Tiberious
Damnit Bones, I'm serious
T is for Tiberious
That's James Tiberious Kirk

Yup, I RTFA.

I know 2 people with masters from the Yale Divinity School. One is the guy I sometimes reposses cars with. I've got a picture of us standing in front of MC Hammer's house when we were looking for a couple of Hammer cars. I also went to cockfights with him after we bought a cock to enter. He's ordained from ULC and is getting his doctorate to be a professor.

The other person I know with a Masters from the Yale Divinity School is his wife. Yesterday was their 2nd anniversary (hi Brad and Stacey!)

Now why would I take a religious degree with a God-sized grain of salt again?

It's not just music. Ulink.net shut down part of my site when I was still hosted by them after receiving a complaint from the Beverly Hills police department for "displaying children with pornography". It was a background picture of the Trix rabbit saying "tits are for kids". Didn't bother telling me about either. It was shut down for days before I noticed and sent them an email asking what was going on.

7th Heaven sarcasm

Ulink quote:
We have been contacted by authorities regarding your displaying of a child star on a page with pornography. For your own protection we had to take down that page or you could be in serious trouble. In the future, please do not display pornography and children together. It is against the law and Ulink policies.

I dunno. I've been in a Star Trek punk band for pretty danged close to 11 years and we haven't been sued. Although Paramount did sue The Romulans, who weren't a Star Trek band, they just had that name. The Romulans won the lawsuit.

Higher up muckity-mucks on The Next Generation knew about us, but they thought it was funny (at least a producer and a director). One bought me a fifth of Jack Daniels which I drank before a show for 7 kinds of wacky shenanigans. Of course, they weren't lawyers though.

If we ever make it to Finland to play, we'll look these guys up. I think it's funny. Although I also laughed outloud watching the lame-o Master & Commander every time they said "sea men".

Try reading this about some jerk and Nauru.

Here's a good paragraph from it:

I grabbed another can of Busch, smoked a cigarette and went back to
work. Only now I was too drunk to get it up proper like. Had her on
her knees but she was too fat to get in good. Flipped her over, and
she was bouncing around a lot and I was having problems keeping it in.
I'm just a little guy and she had a lot of mass to wrestle with. As
she'd buck, she'd bounce me off. I ain't no great thing in the sack,
but undoubtedly, I was the worst I've ever been nookie wise. Slept
as far away from her as possible with one arm anchored off the side
of the bed. You ever see the episode of the Simpsons where Homer
gets really fat and he flops down in bed, the bed sinks and Marge
rolls on top of him? It was like that. She pulled down the mattress.

So once again, I need to say, visit my site and get Star Trek punk rock songs for free. Recorded live to 2 track but hey, they're free and they're about Star Trek. Man oh man, I'm a geek. I wanted a slashdot sticker for my bass for when we were filmed for Trekkies 2, but I never got one.

I always ask to be put on the DNC list. I used to just mess with them, but now I just say remove me. The last time the caller was from India and she started laughing. "You want me to what?" She put her boss on the phone so I could repeat "Put me on your do not call list". He laughed too. He said, "You know we're calling from India, so there's nothing you can do. If you'd like call up DirectTV and complain to them, but we'll still call you for our next client."

They were both actually really nice and honestly amused. I filed a report with the FCC against DirectTV but I'm sure I'll never hear anything back from it.

Although since I've been asking to be put on the master DNC list, and asking for a written copy of the DNC policies to be mailed to my PO Box, I don't get as many calls. I've also never received a copy of the DNC policies.

I've got 2 or 3 copies of that record too. Part of my huge Hogan's Heroes collection.

We're just a punk rock band, so if that's not your thing, don't get too excited. Although I think some of our lyrics are pretty funny though.

Sometimes that's not enough to curb the desire to be a dickhead, so also remember this: these 14 year olds don't care what you say to them. They're getting paid minimum wage to be there and make very little commision. They've been desensitised by 10000 callers before, and I guarentee you:

You aren't that clever.

But I am that clever. I made a telemarketer cry.

I think the House passing a bill doesn't mean it's going to pass. Who pays the House & Senate more money? You or DMA? I doubt this will be one of the bones the gub'mint tosses us once in a while. Soon DMA will be saying that terrorists block telemarketers. Bush will announce that and say it's solid proof why we should bomb Iraq. All your base are belong to us. Somebody set us up the bomb.

When I purchase things from the internet, I use a hotmail account. It's the account I set up because I knew it'd get spam. So, it's weird -- I don't really count the spam I get there as spam, because it's expected.

The yahoo account I use for mailing lists gets no spam. I'm sure at some point, some spammer will find the address, but in the last year of using it, no spam at all. It's kind of creepy to have an email with no spam. Especially when it's just used for mailing lists.

And me, being a dumb-ass, just put my email on my site. And I figure that now that I get so much spam, there's no point in hiding my email on the site.

I really like screwing with telemarketers, I'm still fond of the time I made one cry. But in the last year or so, I've just been saying "Take me off your list, and send me a written copy of your do-not-call policy". Which usually means being hung up on.

I'm not in a popular band, I mean, who cares about a Star Trek punk rock band. But on our site on mp3.com, I say don't purchase the cd, just burn your own copies. We're not trying to make money with our songs. And so far, mp3 hasn't offered us any money for the cds they've sold and they won't answer my email.

When I was in another band, signed to a label, we received nothing. It was repressed twice, and another label printed 2 different 7"s we made. Our label received a few hundred for free and sold them, and the paperwork from our label said it cost the label to sell them. Yes, selling free records cost them money.

I know the RIAA wouldn't have made money from us on an independant label, but still. Try to buy records/cds/shirts from the band, that way they'll receive some money.

I'm sure eBay is just looking for CD-R (and variations) and yanking them. I've had plenty of problems with eBay (the most recent being me giving away a friend's memorial instead of selling it, but I had that one coming. He was in a band called the Fuckboyz and after the auction ended, eBay also sent a notice saying they were moving it to mature audiences.).

Any cd-rs I put on eBay will be labeled as a "CD Arrgh" with an explanation. I'm sure that will miss their search. I'm in a small Star Trek punk band and don't like the RIAA.

Then I could get people to download my songs for free.

Dang, I just wasn't thinking. The horrors of a Star Trek punk band....

Then I could get people to download my songs for free.

Dang, I just wasn't thinking. The horrors of a Star Trek punk band....

Then I could get people to download my songs for free.

Dang, I just wasn't thinking. The horrors of a Star Trek punk band....

Then I could get people to download my songs for free.

Dang, I just wasn't thinking. The horrors of a Star Trek punk band....

Then I could get people to download my songs for free.

Dang, I just wasn't thinking. The horrors of a Star Trek punk band....