Date: March 7th, 2007 3:31 AM Author: Ocher crackhouse
You guys better be careful. Not many people noticed, but the recent congress passed a little known bill:
Internet harassment, the anonymous kind, is now a federal crime.
The Communications Act of 1934 criminalizes anonymous harassment by a telecommunications device. Congress recently amended the law to criminalize anonymous harassment via the Internet (PDF copy of bill).
Some argue that the law curtails freedom of speech. Perhaps. If someone is blogging or commenting anonymously about a private citizen in an “obscene, lewd, lascivious, filthy, or indecent” manner ” with intent to “annoy, abuse, threaten, or harass,” it is actionable, according to the new law. But should someone have the freedom to do that? Apparently Congress doesn’t think so. What do you think?
Date: March 7th, 2007 3:36 AM Author: carnelian theater stage Subject: Wrong! Here's the real facts
In ACLU v. Reno, EFF and a coalition of public interest groups achieved a landmark victory by successfully challenging the unconstitutional Communications Decency Act. The U.S. Supreme Court's unanimous decision affirmed that online speech deserves the full protection of the First Amendment. EFF continues to fight related censorship policies today.
Date: March 7th, 2007 3:31 AM Author: Boyish Half-breed Pisswyrm
i had to get things set up... i will work on this when i get into work tomorrow... maybe i'll let TALC and some west coast ppl get the site started...
BTW, anyone who works on the site... make SURE that we post our email on every page... we need to make it so Rep Defender, law deans, Heide, pedophiles, etc can easily email us (and then we post the emails)
the email for our site is either pauliewalnuts.xoxo@gmail.com or reputationdestroyer@gmail.com
Date: March 7th, 2007 3:48 AM Author: obsidian learning disabled fat ankles hell
I'm just saying that in a typical neighborhood there would be at least one woman in the background. It's pretty obvious that those boys were sampling some of the local flavor. Not that there's anything wrong with that. Look at that grin!
Date: March 7th, 2007 3:50 AM Author: offensive light queen of the night
Of course, it would be great if, for all the inane hilarity, there were a part of the site actually dedicated to logically rebuffing the moves on the part of ReputationDefender.
Date: March 7th, 2007 3:56 AM Author: Boyish Half-breed Pisswyrm
MEMO TO HEIDE AND MARINA:
THIS IS WHAT YOU (OR, MORE LIKELY, YOUR PARENTS) PAID FOR WHEN THEY SIGNED UP FOR REPUTATION DEFENDER TO HANDLE YOUR ISSUES WITH MY T14 SITE AND WITH XOXO IN GENERAL.
Date: March 7th, 2007 4:08 AM Author: obsidian learning disabled fat ankles hell
I actually feel a little bad about that. She obviously had no idea what sort of people she was dealing with, and she seems kind of unstable. I hope this doesn't hurt her for real.
Date: March 7th, 2007 4:15 AM Author: Boyish Half-breed Pisswyrm
these guys have dropped the ball for Heide.
if she paid them, i DONT feel bad for her.
if she allowed them to do it pro bono, because they approached her and offered to do the job, then i feel bad for her bc she was goaded into it, was promised too much, and is being hurt by their incredibly poor judgment
every email i've gotten from Rep Defender is an incoherent joke and every tactical move they've made on this board (start petitions, etc) reaks of misapprehending the real risks of screwing with this board
Date: March 7th, 2007 4:20 AM Author: obsidian learning disabled fat ankles hell
I'm fucking glad they decided to bring it. Putting us on their front page was a far worse move than they've even begun to realize.
Them vs. xoxo is basically a match made in heaven. They're moderately credentialed and trying to make a living targeting internet abuse. We're a pack of fucking jackals who haven't had a semi-decent opponent since Leiter. Hell yeah.
Date: March 7th, 2007 4:27 AM Author: Boyish Half-breed Pisswyrm
they have Drew Sucktoe's IRL name on their site... bc I was using it as my moniker for a few days after I outed him and he emailed me to ask that I edit out the outing.
anyway, Reputation Defender is shamelessly posting everything, totally unaware that even IF they saved Heide's rep, they're also ensuring that Drew's name is run through the mud yet again... just as the Washington Post story hits.
Date: March 7th, 2007 4:20 AM Author: offensive light queen of the night
Seriously. I have tragic momentary nightmares of her killing self. Of course, a certain company would love it, as it would generate business in the end.
We are a group of Professor Laurence H. Tribe’s current and recent students, research assistants, and teaching assistants. In our view, the Crimson’s recent coverage of the allegation that Professor Tribe in a 1985 book inadvertently failed to give proper attribution to a book by Professor Henry Abraham simultaneously (News, “Prof Admits to Misusing Source,” Sept. 27) overstates the seriousness of that allegation and fails to acknowledge Professor Tribe’s deserved reputation as a scholar.
As you may know, a recent survey of 13,000 Harvard Law School alumni found that Professor Tribe is the most admired member of the school’s faculty, past or present. When Tribe was just 35 years old, Time Magazine included him in a list of the ten most outstanding law professors in the United States. He has helped author the constitutions of several emerging democracies, including South Africa, Russia, and the Czech Republic. He has argued more than 35 cases before the Supreme Court, and he has won most of them. His masterful treatise, American Constitutional Law, justly dominates the field and is cited far more than any other text of its kind.
Although Professor Tribe’s book, God Save this Honorable Court, acknowledges the work of Professor Abraham as the leading contribution to the field, it does not specifically attribute some language in a few isolated sentences. Professor Tribe has sincerely apologized, and that prompt acknowledgment should be the end of the matter. Because the concern has not been raised in the many years since the book went out of print, there is nothing more that Professor Tribe can do.
Such an isolated error—emerging from the gloaming after two decades—should not, and will not, tarnish the reputation of America’s leading and most creative constitutional scholar. The country and the legal profession should be as proud and grateful as we are that Professor Tribe continues to work as hard and conscientiously as he has for the past forty years.
Date: March 7th, 2007 4:00 AM Author: cerebral flushed boistinker
HOLY FUCKING SHIT.
In response to Fertik's suckup letter there about the tribe, someone wrote a long satirical letter to the crimson about it tearing him apart, and implying that he's incredibly gay and a ridiculous brownnoser
relevant portion:
That was it. Fenno had to get out of there. He exited the side door of Langdell North and made his way into Pound. Lying on one of the seats in the hallway was a copy of the undergrad Harvard Crimson. Fenno thumbed through the pages. In the editorial section, he came across something rather unexpected: a letter submitted to the Crimson defending Professor Tribe against charges of plagiarism, co-written by seven current and former HLS students. Fenno read the letter thoughtfully. It generally noted how well-regarded Professor Tribe was by alumni and practitioners, and in how much esteem his scholarship was generally held. Fenno re-read it again, to ensure he hadn't missed any of its finer, more nuanced points. Reflecting prudently, he then reached his own carefully wrought conclusion about the letter: what a pile of crap. As if it's somehow okay to copy passages verbatim if everyone agrees you're a swell person in general. Fenno was a super guy, too - especially according to the girl in Washington - but he had a feeling he wouldn't get away with lifting quotes wholesale. If so, he was really looking forward to exam period for once.
While reading the letter in the Pound hallway, Fenno passed by the wall of professors' portraits. Curiously, he noticed that Professor Tribe's frame was missing. That's odd, thought Fenno. Where did it go? He continued walking down the hall. As he passed by a dimly lit Pound 102, he heard strange noises. A sucking sound, or slurping, or something like that. Peering through the door window, Fenno made out the figures of two of the co-authors of the Crimson letter, Michael Fertik and Dan Richenthal. Fertik was holding something up close to his face. It appeared to be the missing Tribe portrait.
"Mmmm... yeah. Just like that. That's how I'd do it." Fertik mused dreamily.
Richenthal grabbed the portrait from him. "No way," he responded. "If I got the chance, I'd do it like this." With that, he moved his face toward the frame and planted his lips softly on the glass. "Yeah... that's nice." His mouth roved the portrait glass sensually. "Mmmm. Good stuff," Richenthal murmured delicately. Fenno thought he glimpsed a little tongue.
Fenno just couldn't let this opportunity go to waste. He swung open the door and called out to the two 3Ls. "Hey fellas! What's up?"
Fertik and Richenthal turned toward Fenno, horrified. Richenthal dropped the portrait, which crashed to the ground. Fenno hadn't seen Richenthal in quite a while; he wondered what he'd been up to. It certainly wasn't charm school.
"Er, uh, hey Fenno! Um, what are you doing here? I thought you had con law right now."
"I cut out for a little while... say, guys, great letter to the Crimson. Really made a good point."
Fertik's face lit up. "You think?"
Replied Fenno, "No, of course not, you sniveling mass of back hair. All you did was basically admit that Tribe plagiarized, but then said it's okay as long as the guy is admired by others. I mean, what the fuck?
"You don't get it, Fenno," replied Fertik. "It's all about the context--"
"Oh, bullshit, it's all about the context. You either copied or you didn't. And by the way, did it really take seven people to write a four-paragraph letter? Did you actually divide up the twelve sentences, or were five of you there just to pat each other on the back?"
Retorted Richenthal, "Suck it, Fenno!"
"From the looks of it, you seem to be taking care of that," Fenno answered coolly. "By the way, be sure to wipe down those smudges before you put the frame back up. You don't want to leave a mark." And with that, he headed out of the room.
Fenno found himself back in the hall. He figured he should probably get back to Fried's class. Outside, the skies were already pitch dark, and the wind looked to have picked up. Rain was threatening. Gotta love those Cambridge falls, thought Fenno. Or was it winter already? Sometimes it was just too hard to tell.
Date: March 7th, 2007 4:07 AM Author: Boyish Half-breed Pisswyrm
tomorrow, i will be posting links to all these sites all over various law blogs and indexing the incredible body of Fertik-related material on the reputationdestroyer Googlepages site...
Date: March 7th, 2007 4:07 AM Author: cerebral flushed boistinker
Another EPIC QUOTE from this letter:
Dean Kagan was already on stage, lively as usual, strutting around the room and scaring the bejeezus out of unsuspecting victims. She stopped speaking suddenly, and Fenno realized she'd just asked a question. All the students immediately slumped down in their seats, typing furiously. Everyone but Michael Fertik who, as usual, wanted to impart his genius on the class and was straining to catch the professor's attention without raising his hand.
"Don't eyeball fuck me, asshole!" Kagan barked, rejecting his silent plea for attention with a dismissive glance.
Date: March 7th, 2007 4:09 AM Author: Boyish Half-breed Pisswyrm
this guy is an enormous jacktool. the trail of info around him makes me question his maturity, his judgment, and the service he is pushing on naiive YLS and UVA Law students
The session leader was a Harvard law student named Michael Fertik, who runs a political-action committee, the Campaign for a National Majority, that bundles contributions to just such regional candidates. Previously, he had been the CEO of a software company called TruExchange -- which he started, and for which he raised $1 million in capital, while he was still an undergraduate -– that sold trading software for complicated financial transactions. "If you want to Google me," he said offhandedly, "there's a law named after me in the financial world, called Fertik's Law, which is a theorem I developed about the way liquidity develops in certain conditions in the markets." (The somewhat ambiguous results of that Google search can be found here.)
....
"This is not conspiracy stuff; this is not crazy stuff; this is real," Fertik concluded. "People should be going to jail." Echoing the regulate-us plea, he went on: "I know plenty of people at Goldman Sachs, at Merrill Lynch, at corporate law firms, who have to defend against Eilliott Spitzer's suits every day, and they still give him money. Because they believe in what he's doing, even though it might take a bite out of their wallet."
...
On the question of corporate influence in politics, and how its more corrupting aspects could be avoided, his prescriptions were far less simple. "More or less, it comes down to the types of people you elect," he said. "It's one thing if [a candidate] comes out of business but understands that there's a separation between his or her life in business and his or her life in the private sector. But when you have a Dick Cheney, who takes his business allegiances with him, that's another matter." When I asked him how one could expect to tell the difference before we elect them to office, he admitted that it could sometimes be difficult. But he said one could, in talking to candidates, manage to "get a read on" them.
Date: March 7th, 2007 4:34 AM Author: Silver coldplay fan trump supporter
Ferik's law...eh? My father was a lot like him. He would make outrageous claims that he invented the question mark. Sometimes he accused chestnuts of being lazy. The sort of general malaise that only the genius possess and the insane lament. My childhood was typical. Summers in Rangoon, luge lessons. In the spring we'd make meat helmets. When I was insolent I was placed in a burlap bag and beaten with reeds- pretty standard really. At the age of twelve I received my first scribe. At the age of fourteen a Zoroastrian named Vilma ritualistically shaved my testicles. There really is nothing like a shorn scrotum.
P.S. I know Michael Fertik, the CEO of this absurd company. He sat in front of me in one of my 1L classes. He was a pretentious gunner who wore lots of Armani. The last time I saw him, he was standing in the D.C. Metro bitching about how haaard it is to be summer associate because he had firm events practically every night. I think my response was something along the lines of "yeah, it sure sucks to be massively overpaid for a summer sinecure and expensively entertained non-stop." I don't think this was the reaction he was expecting. He's ridiculous and I hope his company tanks.
Date: March 7th, 2007 4:16 AM Author: cerebral flushed boistinker
comment:
Not until this moment had I spared a thought for M. Fertik in seven years. I knew him in college. He was a complete and utter tool. In fact, I half-wondered if he was putting on an act, his toolishness was so far off the charts. Guess not.
Date: March 7th, 2007 4:29 AM Author: Boyish Half-breed Pisswyrm
i have TALC helping me tomorrow. like i said, i'll be on it for at least 2 hours tomorrow.
if any other regular/known XOXO person wants to help out, drop me an email with your moniker (that i would recognize) and just say you want the password
Date: March 7th, 2007 5:18 AM Author: Boyish Half-breed Pisswyrm
this was my plan also... hence the reason that i proposed this idea @ 1am and stayed up gathering more info and hatching ways we can exploit this... im busy tomorrow morning but i hope to get to it in the afternoon.
i know these guys will act quickly to have things taken down, but fact is--they are already too late.
Date: March 7th, 2007 5:01 AM Author: cerebral flushed boistinker
He also gets pwned by TTT goalies:
News and Notes
With 36:01 to play, Penn freshman Ross Chanin collided with Lafayette goalie Craig Schroeder. Schroeder got up quickly and stayed in the game, but Chanin remained on the ground for several minutes. He did not return to the game, and will go for X-rays today.
Date: March 7th, 2007 5:18 AM Author: cerebral flushed boistinker
Owen Tripp, director of myprivacy has long supported stifling speech:
POLITICS: ‘Loose Change’ Close to Treasonous
The Kitsap Sun recently carried an announcement that the Kitsap Unitarian Universal Fellowship would show a film called “Loose Change” at their building on Perry Avenue.
The film claims that Sept. 11, 2001, attack on the World Trade Centers, the Pentagon, and the crash of a passenger plane in a Pennsylvania meadow … are NOT the result of terrorists, but rather a cleverly executed conspiracy by our own government people.
Ordinarily, I would not dignify such an announcement with a comment, but the level of preposterousness keeps urging me to do so.
Obviously, such a film is a sham, to influence politics and to bring shame upon our country. I feel the authors and the KUUF should be judged close to treasonous.
Similarly, a story was promulgated at the start of World War II that President Franklin Roosevelt started a war with Japan so as to boost us out of the Depression. Both cases are at a level of ignorance beyond description.
We need organizations that have a higher regard for USA.
Date: March 7th, 2007 5:20 AM Author: cerebral flushed boistinker
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Date: March 7th, 2007 5:28 AM Author: Boyish Half-breed Pisswyrm
tytyty
TALC and i will commence this tomorrow.
TALC, if you're reading this... just work off the same basic site design now in use but feel TOTALLY free to present things however you want to.... the key is content, not necessarily form.
Date: March 7th, 2007 10:52 AM Author: twinkling histrionic twinkling uncleanness
What, exactly, is wrong with the fact that these girls are upset about the way they were treated by posters here (and the originator of the "T14" site in particular)?
Date: March 8th, 2007 1:14 AM Author: Electric fortuitous meteor
What's really funny is that shills for Reputation Defender are popping up in the feminists' blogs to support them, as well as to link to www.reputationdefender.com, a pretty shitty source of identity protection.
Reputation Defender also mentions the right a woman has to her good name. Does that not seem sexist to anyone?
Date: March 8th, 2007 2:27 PM Author: Boyish Half-breed Pisswyrm
all the info for the site is still in the pagebuilder account.
they just disabled our ability to make it visible.
therefore, it will be fairly easy to move the content elsewhere.
this will be done soon--i dont have much time, but i'm looking for others to get involved. this is an open project... this could be done in less than 1 hour. but someone needs to help.