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consumer issues:

Sugarstacks: showing you how much food hurts your pancreas.

Sugarstacks: showing you how much food hurts your pancreas.

Shocker: Almost 100% of "green" products aren't.

What? My green propane-fired lawn eradicator isn’t eco-sense compliant? My favorite: Comcast’s “Eco-Billing” option to kill the paper bill (it saves them money, not the environment).

Eric Massa is my fucking hero

My new hero in congress, NY-D Rep. Eric Massa, introduces a bill that makes broadband capping illegal and bandwidth metering illegal, as enforced by the FCC. At least SOMEONE is keeping up on how to keep consumers advocated and the e-Conomy 2.0 humming along…

Old FDA Commish's dumpster dives yielded scary results

Food is trying to kill us, according to the man. Worth reading.

Time Warner lobbies to block small town from starting its own ISP

This is rich. Time Warner is trying to force legislation to prevent municipalities (after a small town in NC already did) from starting its own ISP that would provide much, much better service at lower cost. So much for the idea of a competitive marketplace in capitalism!

How to spot ATM card skimmers

You. Must. Read.

Apple, Amazon top customer experience rankings; Cable ISP's worst of all

Apple was the highest ranked PC maker, though number 23 on the list. Comcast, Time Warner and Charter are all at the ass-end of the list. No surprises here.

Time Warner loses Rochester Fight on bandwidth capping

They eat humble pie, we all sigh in relief, for now. I feel sorry for the other markets affected, and I really hope Congressman Massa keeps pressing to make this bullshit illegal, exposing it for the anti-competitive monopolistic bullshit that it is.

United Airlines SFO staffed by heartless idiots

This is heartbreaking. And, due to similar service on an international flight five years ago, that is exactly why no one in my family has flown United ever since.

ATM card skimming on actual ATMs on the rise

This is no joke - please read at least one of these articles and check out every ATM you use CAREFULLY before using. Crappy economy means innovations in crime technologies.

Time Warner expands monopolistic bandwidth capping

Fuck. These. Clowns. They’re implementing this in markets with no cable alternative, no FiOS available. Fish in barrel + chain gun = Time Warner