The New Jazz Thing - Vince Outlaw's Audblog
Friday, February 27, 2004
Howard Stern Censored and 9/11/2001
BuzzMachine... by Jeff Jarvis:
": The more I think about this, the more enraged I get. One tit flopped out and the government -- the Bush administration -- can't wait to play to its far-right fringe and censor speech and intimidate speech and chill speech. How dare they? This is not the role we expect of our government. We don't need a nanny."
When I read this, I flashed on 9/11/2001 and the legislative aftermath of that: The USA Patriot Act. The linkage is in the current administration using a dramatizing event (although the dramatics of seeing Janet's fake tit have been totally exagerated, especially when put besides all of the alcohol commercials being sold with sexual tit-ilation) to push heavy-handed, rights-limiting policies into the mainstream. I know that linking 9/11 to the Jackson boob will not be easy for some, but the similarities in the government response are striking.
Techweb > News > SEC, Sarbanes-Oxley Act, new deadlines > SEC Extends Sarbanes-Oxley Deadlines > February 27, 2004
Techweb > News > SEC, Sarbanes-Oxley Act, new deadlines > SEC Extends Sarbanes-Oxley Deadlines > February 27, 2004: "Accelerated filers, generally U.S. companies with equity market capitalization over $75 million that file at least one annual report with the SEC, now have until Nov. 15, 2004 to comply with Section 404 of Sarbanes-Oxley. The previous deadline was June 15.
Non-accelerated filers, on the other hand, now must begin to comply with Section 404 for their first fiscal years ending on or after July 15, 2005, rather than the original April 15, 2005 deadline."
FT.com Home UK
FT.com Home UK: "Security for the Olympics will cost at least $750m (€600m, £400m), more than three times the amount spent at the Sydney games four years ago. SAIC, the US company responsible for co-ordinating security, has a $250m contract with the government to install equipment and manage surveillance of more than 100 games-related sites."
SignOnSanDiego.com > News > Business -- Study: Up to 40% of California firms plan to move jobs out of state
SignOnSanDiego.com > News > Business -- Study: Up to 40% of California firms plan to move jobs out of state: "The California Business Roundtable, composed of the chief executives of such companies as Bank of America, ChevronTexaco, Sempra Energy and SAIC, released its survey in the midst of its campaign to overhaul the state's workers' compensation program, freeze the growth of unemployment benefits and alter the rules governing the eight-hour workday. "
