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Verizon Denies DSL Because of Subscriber's Name
mikek2 writes "When retired Philadelphia-area doctor and Vietnam veteran Dr. Herman I. Libshitz went to upgrade his dial-up connection to Verizon DSL, he was informed they wouldn't complete the order because his last name contained an expletive. Repeated calls to several levels of management at Verizon failed to resolve the problem, with several managers suggesting he change his last name. It all worked out in the end, after the Philadelphia Enquirer intervened."
In the end he changed his name to "Harold I. Libshitz" and everything finally went through.
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So, let me see if I have this straight: Verizon wanted someone to change their last name in order to get DSL, and that person didn't do it??? What, are you going to get a cablemodem or something? Just change your name, already. This is internet connectivity we're talking about here. It's important. It isn't like you haven't been getting libshitz for yoru name all your life, anyway.
http://xkcd.com/386/
I can't even get dial up and had to wait until my neighbors had wireless to steal it.
-- John Fuckinson
Good thing he didn't live in Dildo, Newfoundland Dildo, Newfoundland
Good thing he didn't live here
I hate printers.
Or Fucking, Austria.
Back in the early days of the WWW, I was doing IT for a small business whose name was RTS Executive Services. Their phone number was 1-800-RTS-EXEC, so they wanted their website to match: www.rtsexec.com, but that lead to a "sex" in the middle of the domain name and I can't tell you the number of customers we had who couldn't access the website because the blocking software they installed on their computers to stop their kids from accessing porn had determined that our website must be porn too.
My friend mister Koksukhar had no such problems
I don't live all that far from Fucking. It's a tiny, tiny village and they can not afford to replace the signs that get stolen... mostly by tourists from the UK.
So when you go to fucking, please just the pictures of the Fucking Signs and do not steal the fucking signs.
Really.
Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.
Here's a personal story about profanity and a content company... My user name for my cable account is an expletive describing my feelings about the cable company. What's interesting though, is that apparently I'm not the only one who feels this way about the company, since 'fuckyourogers' has been taken and I've had to add numbers on the end of it.
What's even MORE interesting though have been my attempts to get technical support on my account. But during my somewhat angry registration process I didn't hit any snags where the cable company thought my username was inappropriate.
Funny how life works...
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FFS stop posting my e-mail address on the Internet. Now I'm going to get spammed.
All I want is a secure system where it's easy to do anything I want. Is that too much to ask ~~ Randall Munroe
Cultural habit, sorry:) Otherwise, I really don't give a shit.
I can only guess what the owners of Pen Island especially if they need a therapist
Theft isn't as much of a problem any more, they've welded the Fucking signs to the posts.
So, what you're saying is that Fucking tourists from the UK visit and then steal the Fucking signs. Since the Fucking village is so small, they can't afford to replace the Fucking signs.
And what you're asking is, then, for the Fucking tourists to keep their Fucking hands off the Fucking signs? Sounds Fucking good to me.
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I was told that experts-exchange.com used to be expertsexchange.com. At the time I had a bit of a laugh and dismissed it as a good story. However, Wikipedia confirms it here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Experts_exchange#History. So in all, I reckon that must be one of the more famous examples of an embarrassing domain name.
So how did that crude obscenity filter come into place when he spoke to people at Verizon... multiple times?
I once had the misfortune to be a customer of an ISP with such an attitude. They'd essentially installed an obscenity filter on all their staff and if you said anything which tripped the filter, they'd put the phone down on you.
What made this particularly galling was that the service they were selling was filtered internet access for the benefit of the sort of organisation that wants one - schools, mainly. So you ring them up to say "There's a problem with your filter - it lets me visit www.hotteensluts.com" and they've hung up on you before you can finish the sentence.