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		<title>Thank You, AT&amp;T, For The Class Action Settlement</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 May 2012 23:54:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Digger</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So back in the early part of 2011, I was reading the newspaper and saw a class action lawsuit notification against AT&#38;T for some over-billing thing, charging customers to recover amounts that AT&#38;T was responsible for paying. Said you could get up to $1000 for each valid claim between August 1, 2001 and March 31, 2003. [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>So back in the early part of 2011, I was reading the newspaper and saw a class action lawsuit notification against AT&amp;T for some over-billing thing, charging customers to recover amounts that AT&amp;T was responsible for paying. Said you could get up to $1000 for each valid claim between August 1, 2001 and March 31, 2003. &#8220;Claim&#8221; being a phone line.</p>
<p>I happened to have two phone lines during that period, but $1000 each? Yea, right. With thousands of customers submitting claims, that&#8217;ll happen. So I thought WTF, sure, I&#8217;ll play the game.</p>
<p>Only thing is, I didn&#8217;t have copies of my statements from that long ago. So what! All I had to do was fill out an &#8220;Attestation of Charges&#8221; stating I no longer had relevant billing records, but here are the phone numbers and dates. I wasn&#8217;t expecting much, maybe a few bucks.</p>
<p>So last week I get a letter in the mail from the settlement fund guys. I completely forgot about it. The damn check was for $2,000, a cool $1k for each phone line. Wow! That&#8217;ll fix their ass.</p>
<p>The downside is, I also got a 1099-INT for $673.23 in interest. Shit, I&#8217;ll invest with AT&amp;T any day of the week. LOL</p>
<p>So why was the check so much? Because hardly anyone submitted a claim.</p>
<p><strong>In Summary</strong></p>
<p>Folks, when you see those class action lawsuits and even if you only think you&#8217;ll get a few bucks, go through the little bit of trouble to fill out the claim forms.</p>
<p>Next check will be for the <a href="http://www.topclassactions.com/lawsuit-settlements/lawsuit-news/1747-de-beers-diamond-class-action-lawsuit-settlement-update" target="_blank">diamond jewelry</a> I bought.</p>
<p><strong>Resources:</strong></p>
<p>To get notifications of new class actions lawsuits and settlements, sign up at <a href="http://www.topclassactions.com">http://www.topclassactions.com</a></p>
<p>Here&#8217;s some more <a href="http://www.topclassactions.com/open/1781-atat-dsl-speed-class-action-lawsuit-settlement" target="_blank">AT&amp;T lawsuit fun</a>.</p>
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		<title>Why Google Drive Is Evil</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Apr 2012 21:41:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Digger</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Have you heard about the new Google Drive service? You can upload your shit and access it from anywhere from your computer, smartphone or tablet. Google Drive is everywhere you are—on the web, in your home, at the office and on the go. So wherever you are, your stuff is just&#8230;there. Ready to go, ready [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://gettheshovel.com/wp-content/uploads/google-drive-is-evil.jpg"><img class="alignright size-full wp-image-1112" title="google-drive-is-evil" src="http://gettheshovel.com/wp-content/uploads/google-drive-is-evil.jpg" alt="Google Drive Is Evil" width="143" height="113" /></a>Have you heard about the new <a href="https://drive.google.com/start#home" target="_blank">Google Drive</a> service? You can upload your shit and access it from anywhere from your computer, smartphone or tablet. Google Drive is everywhere you are—on the web, in your home, at the office and on the go. So wherever you are, your stuff is just&#8230;there. Ready to go, ready to share. Get started with 5 GB free.</p>
<p>Store your files in a safe place, they say. &#8220;Things happen. Your phone goes for a swim. Your laptop takes an infinite snooze. No matter what happens to your devices, your files are safely stored in Google Drive.&#8221; Yea, RIGHT!</p>
<p>Check this shit out right from their own damn Terms of Service&#8230;</p>
<blockquote><p><strong>Your Content in our Services</strong></p>
<p>Some of our Services allow you to submit content. You retain ownership of any intellectual property rights that you hold in that content. In short, what belongs to you stays yours.</p>
<p><strong>BUT THEN THEY GO&#8230;</strong></p>
<p>When you upload or otherwise submit content to our Services, <strong>you give Google (and those we work with) a worldwide license to use, host, store, reproduce, modify, create derivative works (such as those resulting from translations, adaptations or other changes we make so that your content works better with our Services), communicate, publish, publicly perform, publicly display and distribute such content.</strong> The rights you grant in this license are for the limited purpose of operating, promoting, and improving our Services, and to develop new ones. This license continues even if you stop using our Services (for example, for a business listing you have added to Google Maps). Some Services may offer you ways to access and remove content that has been provided to that Service. Also, in some of our Services, there are terms or settings that narrow the scope of our use of the content submitted in those Services. Make sure you have the necessary rights to grant us this license for any content that you submit to our Services.</p>
<p>You can find more information about how Google uses and stores content in the privacy policy or additional terms for particular Services. If you submit feedback or suggestions about our Services, we may use your feedback or suggestions without obligation to you. <em><a href="https://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/terms/">https://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/terms/</a></em></p></blockquote>
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		<title>Blog Comment Spam April 23, 2012</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Apr 2012 18:27:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Digger</dc:creator>
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		<title>Blog Comment Spam April 17, 2012</title>
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		<title>Blog Comment Spam April 14, 2012</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Apr 2012 20:37:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Blog Comment Spam April 4, 2012</title>
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		<title>Blog Comment Spam April 2, 2012</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[On A Mission Thanks for some other informative site. The place else could I get that type of information written in such an ideal means? I&#8217;ve a mission that I&#8217;m simply now running on, and I&#8217;ve been at the glance out for such info.]]></description>
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		<title>Blog Comment Spam March 31, 2012</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Mar 2012 17:19:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Digger</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve got a feeling this is the same person using different IP&#8217;s from proxy servers. Thank you, I’ve recently been looking for information approximately this topic for ages and yours is the best I have found out so far. However, what in regards to the bottom line? Are you positive concerning the source?&#124;What i don’t [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I&#8217;ve got a feeling this is the same person using different IP&#8217;s from proxy servers.</p>
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		<title>Blog Comment Spam March 29, 2012</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Mar 2012 15:39:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Digger</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today I am starting a new series of posts for the stupid ass comments backlinkers leave on my blogs just to get a link to their pathetic spammy sites. If you are a wannbe blogger hiring overseas non-Inglush speaking backlinking services from that cesspool called Elance, do you ask for proof of their work before you pay [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Today I am starting a new series of posts for the stupid ass comments backlinkers leave on my blogs just to get a link to their pathetic spammy sites. If you are a wannbe blogger hiring overseas non-Inglush speaking backlinking services from that cesspool called Elance, do you ask for proof of their work before you pay them? I thought not.</p>
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		<title>Titanic in 3D &#8211; Is It Really Necessary?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Mar 2012 16:24:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Digger</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I just have one question&#8230; why? The movie was good, a little on the long side, but I can&#8217;t imagine anything in that movie worth seeing in 3D. No blue fantasy characters flying out of anyone&#8217;s butt. James Cameron must need some money for his submarine trips. The Heart of the Ocean necklace was pretty cool. It [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I just have one question&#8230; why? The movie was good, a little on the long side, but I can&#8217;t imagine anything in that movie worth seeing in 3D. No blue fantasy characters flying out of anyone&#8217;s butt. James Cameron must need some money for his submarine trips.</p>
<p>The Heart of the Ocean necklace was pretty cool. It is based on the famous Hope Diamond, even though the Hope never traveled on the RMS Titanic. The Hope Diamond is now displayed in the Smithsonian museum. Many believe the necklace was inspired by a blue sapphire necklace owned by RMS Titanic survivor Kate Florence Phillips.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://youtu.be/zRqKsoT4vuQ">
<p><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zRqKsoT4vuQ">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zRqKsoT4vuQ</a></p>
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