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The Outlook For Sirius XM's Average Subscription Fee [View article]
So let me get this straight. If Sirius XM brings in DOUBLE the revenue (MRF will absorb the increased costs of royalties) and other costs stay the same, SIRI will not even be worth twice as much as it currently is.
Do you see why this is absurd?
You guys write some ok articles but man ya have to lose that silly interactive price target thing unless you're going to make it reasonable....Apr 30, 2013. 07:34 PM | 9 Likes |Link to Comment
Sirius XM In Serious Trouble As Mobile Revolution Gives Rise To Social Radio [View article]
Just be careful...Mar 4, 2013. 01:42 PM | 9 Likes |Link to Comment
Sirius XM Customer Dis-Service [View article]
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Say "customer service" and boom... done. No hold, and this is exactly what I have experienced every single time I have called over the years I have been a subscriber.Dec 31, 2012. 05:46 PM | 9 Likes |Link to Comment
Sirius XM: Reflections For The Weekend [View article]
Forward contract, strike price $2.15, on top of which they pay fees. The fees are unknown, so it is only fair to say they are paying $2.15 per share for 302 million shares. They have also purchased shares on average price of around $2.13 immediately after they announced the first forward contract. This data is all readily available in their public announcements as well as the SEC form 4 data for their acquisitions.
You can dig for their announcemnts. At this point they have been discussed all over the place, so there are tons of sources. Unless the share price of SIRI is over $2.15 when they close on 7/6, the fact is quite simple... they will be paying "above share price."
"They DID say that they would not pay more than 2.15 ergo, a CAP."
No, they absolutely did not state this. There is 'speculation' about this, and some authors / writers use this as a "fact" in their articles, but neither the company nor a representative of the company has ever stated this. Other people's articles are not sources. You, Me... we're "guys down the street" and certainly can be quoted for opinion but these blogs and opinion pieces are NOT a credible source to quote from as "fact." I will happily place a gentleman's bet with you on this one. I'll dye my hair orange and change it to my profile picture (for three days) if I am wrong, as well as posting an article around the statement with an admission of "wrong" linking to you and your article. If you're wrong, you merely admit it and post a link to my article, no orange hair. Fair? To be clear, I am saying they did NOT state / say, etc., that they would not pay more than $2.15 a share for Sirius XM. I also maintain that since their forward contract has a strike of $2.15 per share, and closes on July 6th, and because that $2.15 strike has added fees, that they are actually set to pay MORE than $2.15 per share for Sirius XM in the coming weeks. You in on this? Keep in mind the burden of proof would be on you, and we can give it a week for you to come up with said proof.
It's unfortunate, Regarded Solutions, that you have taken so much offense to my questioning some of your reasoning in a recent article of yours, that you have decided to lower yourself to comments such as the one above, among others. There's absolutely no reason to be hostile on here. I'll gladly answer questions, comments, etc, and I'm happy to engage in discussion.
Also, I can't dump SIRI. I'm in cash, and I have never shorted a stock in my life (and likely never will)... I don't hold SIRI at the moment, though you can be sure I will be following them, and adding when and if I am comfortable.Jun 29, 2012. 05:26 PM | 9 Likes |Link to Comment
The Kool-Aid Is Evaporating For Sirius And Pandora [View article]
You have been carrying short since Aug 1st at $3.30 on SIRI. Not sure of your short point on P. SIRI trade is up 4% in 10 weeks. Considering you say SIRI is stil a short at $3.17, I would assume you are looking for a much lower price?
Always good to understand the opposite trade :) For me it's a strong buy in this area, but would be a sell in the higher $4's.
I can't argue with a short P position.Oct 10, 2014. 08:18 PM | 8 Likes |Link to Comment
Sirius XM: A Strong Sell [View article]
It's good to see the perspectives of those who do, though, to understand how the stock may look to the passer by :)
I feel like most of these types of articles come out as a stock drags low, and at some of the best buy points. Similarly you'll see a lot of "drive by buys" when a stock is topping out.Jul 14, 2014. 09:10 PM | 8 Likes |Link to Comment
Sirius XM: A Strong Sell [View article]
I think a revisit to last year's highs is a pretty sure bet, though.Jul 14, 2014. 09:06 PM | 8 Likes |Link to Comment
Sirius XM: Caught Between Apple, Google, Amazon And A Hard Place [View article]
SIRI paid it in almost exact amounts so LMCA could purchase the remaining shares it needed to go to control. There were a few articles on it. Think Spencer had one. Be good reading material for you! :)
Blue chip dividends. Ok then buy blue chip dividend paying stocks? Why the heck would I want SIRI to go that route?
"Yeah, you're not a fan of paychecks, either."
I'm a fan of MY paycheck... probably not yours lol.
I do see beyond Q2! That's why I haven't advocated that people sell! It's why I don't shift my price targets based on the current price of the company... You had a $5 target for 2013 and then said to short it back when it was down near $3! My goodness...
I have a good multi year history with this stock at this point :) You... not so much... under this name or your previous ones. =/Jun 30, 2014. 05:07 PM | 8 Likes |Link to Comment
Sirius XM: $4 Per Share Will Depend On Q2 Report [View article]Jun 27, 2014. 01:47 PM | 8 Likes |Link to Comment
Sirius CFO Discusses Subscribers And ARPU - What Are The Implications? [View article]
What was P/E when you had a $5 target last year? What was it when you said dump the stock down to $1.65 in 2012? What would P/E be at your current target of $3.50? Why do you believe P/E of.... 60? Should go higher from here? What would it have been when you wrote SIRI is an attractive short a few weeks prior with a price target of $3?
Perhaps you can shed light on why you chose to focus on enterprise value and EBITDA when you presented a bullish case for SIRI but choose P/E when bearish?Jun 9, 2014. 09:20 AM | 8 Likes |Link to Comment
Sirius XM Holdings Is A Worthwhile Speculation [View article]May 19, 2014. 03:54 PM | 8 Likes |Link to Comment
Why You Should Buy Sirius XM's Dip [View article]
(I can't find it as I don't know which one of your other names you posted that one under...? Perhaps you can supply a link? If you used P/E there then I will have to eat my comment ! :) )May 12, 2014. 07:06 PM | 8 Likes |Link to Comment
Why You Should Buy Sirius XM [View article]Feb 27, 2014. 10:12 AM | 8 Likes |Link to Comment
A Persistent Short Squeeze For Sirius XM But Not For Pandora [View article]
How do you know around 270 million of these positions are hedged vs. the notes? That would mean that end of October and mid November there were only around, say, 1 to 10 million actual shorts on SIRI, or like 0.016% to 0.16% short. That would be outstanding for any stock out there.
I'm always surprised how some relative veteran commenters on SA wade into commenting about .... oh nevermind :P I may not agree with Leah's articles but good lord, if you're going to use the know it all tone make sure you know it all :) lol
I've always said much of that position is hedged but there's no way to know the exact number. One can only make assumptions and I think to make assumptions that nearly the full amount of hedged vs. those notes is wrong.
We'll find out in a year I guess.Dec 22, 2013. 12:55 PM | 8 Likes |Link to Comment
Sirius XM: Forever Ad-Free Music Channel Strategy - Good For Business? [View article]
1) Cancel my service.
2) Immediately sell my investment in Sirius XM and move on.Dec 6, 2013. 08:36 AM | 8 Likes |Link to Comment
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I run to the bathroom to rinse my crazily bleeding nose. I rinse as I sniff the water in and then let it out. I grab my hand towel and hold it against my nostrils not caring if I ruin the cloth with blood. I walk out of the bathroom and look at the mess I made in the past 30 minutes. A smile crept my face as I remember virats diary entry. Omg jeevika! I have to tell her this! I jump over the couch and dodge the bed and run like a ninja to my side table and get my phone. I text her right away:" sos!"
"What? I was at work!" she yells as she enters my bedroom door. I turn around as I was busy cleaning my cupboard. I look at her with a big smile and again like a ninja run towards her and grab her in a big bear hug scaring her a little. "YOU ARE HERE???!!!!" I yell in excitement. "ya antie let me in ub bataoo ..." . "VIRAT LIKES ME!" I yell with all my voice interrupting her sentence. Jeevika jumps and holds my mouth tight which was totally out of my expectation as I thought she would freak or be shocked but she's holding my jaw like this? Like W*F? "sshhh stupid! Pagal do you want your parents to hear this? Loser!" she scolds me while hitting my head and then jumping on my bed. "Oh ya "I say realizing I would be in so much trouble if my parents found out. "Why aren't you surprised?" I ask with a curious expression, slowly walking towards her. "I am surprised it's just that I don't know I guess I kinda knew that this was meant to be." She says sounding so serious. "HEH?matab?" was all I could say at the moment."uff matlab it was always so obvious so I'm not as much shocked as you." She says calmly and picks up my phone from the bed and unlocks it and starts going through it. "lekin why wasn't it obvious to me? Virat always acted angry and stuff how could you have known." I say with a dry mouth. Jeevikas eyes look up towards me from the phone screen. "abha yar dekho it wasn't that obvious from virat the thing was we all knew virat was an awesome guy but he was a big fat jerk in front of you . It was so fishy everyone knew something was up and obviously like a kinder gardener he was picking on you just because he liked you." I deeply think about her statement and nod but then my mind shifts towards virats fake behavior. "NOOO NOOO he wasn't picking on me he was pretending because apparently he was hiding some kind of secret" I say with worry all over my face. Jeevika looks at me with curious eyes. I knowing she would ask what I meant, without saying anything hand her the ipad and point towards the diary app. She gives me a funny glare and then started reading. While reading she gave a few omgs and then after she finished she was staring at the blank wall with an open mouth. I was staring at her for a while trying to find any movements in her body but unfortunately I couldn't she was as still as a statue.
"Hello? Earth to jeevika?" I say while waiving my hand in front of her eyes. "OH MY GOD!!!" she screams suddenly and jumps on me and we both fall on the bed. "Now I get everything!" she yells in excitement. "What?" I ask curiously. "virat wants to you know with you" she says with a naughty expression while giving me elbow strikes. "heh?" I asked as I was super confused. "Duffer he wants to sleep with you!" she says with the most mischievous face ever. I right away bend my face down and blush like crazy as a reaction to her statement."oye hoye" she says in excitement. "Shut up! kuch bhi? Gandi! "I say and push her off the bed and she falls on the ground. "What's ganda about it?" she asks casually. "You are seriously asking me that question?" I ask. "Fine first marry him then toh ok na?" she asks with a annoyed expression. "haan" I say in a cute town with the silliest expression to which jeevika laughs and I then realize what I said. "Wait no!NO!" I yell. "Fine then sahddi sa pehla?" "NO!" I yell. "NO SHADDI SA PEHLA AND NO SHADDI KA BAAD?" she asks.. "Wow that will be a pointless relationship!" she says. "CAN YOU STOP THINKING ABOUT *** FOR A MOMENT? I MEAN THAT HE IS HIDING SOMETHING. THERE IS SOMETHING THAT IS HOLDING HIM BACK. WE CAN NEVER BE TOGETHER "I yell and then burst in tears and hug her in a jerk. "aww I'm sorry phir one night stand challa ga?" she asks as I weep on her shoulder. I look up towards her with the deadliest and anger filled expression ever. "GET OUT!" I yell and push her off the bed again. "haha" she bursts out laughing and literally rolls on the floor laughing and I just start to cry more. She looks at me silently for a while and I look back at her then she bursts out laughing again. I make a sad face and just hide my face in the pillow and let out a loud growl. "acha baba im sorry" she says as she sits beside me and pats my head. I don't reply I was too angry. She was being so annoying."yar please let it go already don't we have to find out what virat is hiding?" she says while rubbing my back. I get up and sit on my tip toes. "Fine" I say while wiping my moist eyes with my hands.
"Have you tried talking to him?" jeevika asks as she quickly brushes her hair with her fingers. "No" I say in a low tone. "Come with me!" she says and suddenly drags me off the bed and towards the door. "Wait what?" I ask in confusion while pulling my hand back. "uff just trust me" she says. I raise my eyebrows in confusion and look at her suspiciously. "We need to get you a makeover and make you and virat meet face to face" she says and this time with more force drags me out of my bedroom, through the living room and out of my apartment within a minute. I couldn't grasp what happened and when I started thinking I was already in jeevikas car. "Wait jeevika , mummy!" I yell realizing she started the engine. "kya mummy?". "I have to tell mummy I'm going out with you" I say as I am not allowed to go anywhere without informing my parents. "uff ok" she says and takes out her new 5s(iphone) and dials a number. "Hello. Haan antie mein or manvi neecha ha hum thori shopping ka liya jaraha ha ok? Ji theek ha. Don't worry ill drive safe" she says and throws her phone vigorously and it lands on the back seat and she starts the engine in a millisecond and we drove off.
Me and jeevika went to this fancy mall where I never had been but jeevika always talked about it. I had to say the mall was less of a mall and more of a banquet hall it was so big and luxurious. I felt so weird wearing a yellowish brownish sweat shirt and khaki bell bottom pants. Whereas jeevika was wearing a sexy purple studded half top and low denim shorts that were along her crotch. She was looking hot I had to say today she was showing a little too much skin. She dragged me in a boutique and just acted like she owned the place. I pulled her back from picking up the clothes off the rack." Jeevs I can't afford these clothes" I whisper in her ear trying to control her excitement. "Don't worry it's on the house" she says and starts looking at the dresses while I just stand there all confused. Gosh jeevika is crazy. She picked a sexy pink dress that was strapless and was really short. Like it was so gorgeous but I don't wear clothes like that. "jeevs you know I don't wear dresses like this" I say calmly. "Please manvi one time won't hurt!" she pleads. "NO!" I yell dragging all the attention towards us. "Fine" she says sadly. Then she made the cutest puppy dog face ever. I give her a look. "UGH fine butt! I will wear leggings so my legs don't show and an over coat so I am not sleeveless." I say firmly. "Ugh fine "she says and drags me into the dressing room.
Jeevika bombarded me with dresses one after the other while I was in the dressing room and she threw the dresses from over the curtains. " ooo manvi I got something hot to help you with these dresses" she says and flings a bra from over the curtains and it lands on my face. I hold it in my hands and look at it for a second. It had a thick layer of padding, really thick. "You got to be kidding me "I say with an annoyed expression. "Oh just try it, trust me on this" she says. I hear a dialing tone from a phone nearby but before I knew it jeevika barged in my dressing room and gestured me to look towards her phone. She was calling virat! She called virat while I was trying on a bra? How convenient! Jeevika puts it on speaker and places the phone on the chair in the dressing room. "Hello" virat says. "hellow virattt it's me jeevika ! How are you?" jeevika says with excitement while she gestures me to try on another dress. I strip out of the dress I was wearing and try the next one but this time I had so much extra padding thanks to jeevika. "Nothing much you tell what's up?" he says in his deep manly voice which sent a shiver down my spine which jeevika obviously noticed and giggled. "virat I need some help" she says as she looks at me in the dress with a concentrating look. " ya shoot!" he says. Jeevika nods a no and pulls out another bra from the pie of clothes in her hand " yar yeh walla bra pehno" she says out loud and I look at her in shock and she bites her tongue. "Bra pehno? Excuse me?" virat asks. "Shit no no not you!" she says tensed. "Are you with someone? Is this a bad time to talk?" virat asks. "NO! No it's the perfect time to talk. Can you just meet me at caf chocolaty at 7?" she asks. "aa ok " he says. "And dress formal please, I'll explain it to you latter. K?" she says while helping me zip up my dress. "Ok I guess bye". She says and cuts the call and sighs in relief.
"Stupid you almost ruined everything!" I yell at her. "Don't worry anyways damn you look hot in this red dress please just wear this forget the over coat and shit" she says pulling the dress a little down to show a little cleavage. I pull it back up in anger." NO! You agreed with me!" I say. "Ugh fine but shaddi ka baad esa kero gi toh virat bhag jae ga "she says annoyingly. "Obviously I won't do that then loser!" I say and then end up blushing." Oye hoye" jeevika says in a flirting tone and I blush more. "Omg you know what if today it works out then tonight you can wear this" she says and holds up a two piece really hot lingerie. I open my eyes wide in shock and push her hard. "You know what you should wear this tonight when you are going to be with viren." I yell in anger.
Ok im done n lol I made jeevik a little kokko in this update but ya please comment please? Please?
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It has not been tested so I cannot for sure.
This is a gorgeous theme. Thank you for all your work on it, but there are some really annoying bugs on it that I can't seem to figure out. The first issue I'm having is problems with activation accounts and resetting passwords. When an account is created it sends an email with a link to activate the account. When you click that link it loads a page and tells you to enter the activation key. However, there is no activation key that is sent in the email. Also when you go to reset the password, the password reset link it emails you loads a page that says invalid key. I've noticed that the password reset error only happens when using the lightbox. Is it possible to have the lightbox use the standard WordPress registration and password reset method because I'm assuming the errors are due to using another method.
Another other annoying error I'm having with this theme is the profile page. Under a logged in BuddyPress user, when you go to settings -> profile, it should load a page that lets the user set or reset an avatar. However the page that loads is completely blank. It doesn't even have the BuddyPress menu.
The last error I'm having is the dropdown BuddyPress menu under My Account. For some reason the text isn't aligned properly behind the dropdown menu.
I have done a lot of troubleshooting with these errors. I've tested them on several installations only to get the same error. I've even disabled all my plugins except BuddyPress and I still get the errors, so I know the problem lies with the theme somewhere.
Thank you for all your help.
Jamrizzi, thank you for your input. I am developing an update to the theme that will address these issues. I hope it to be out early next week. Thanks!
This CSS code fixed the My Account dropdown menu for me. Maybe it will help someone else who is having the same problem or help the author for the next theme update.
body #sub-header ul#menu a{ height: auto; line-height: normal; padding: 10px 10px; }
body #sub-header ul#menu ul li{ height: auto; line-height: 16px; }
Also one more problem I'm having is that when I use the friends widget at the top of the widget panel, it shows the Newest | Active | Popular links at the very top right of the page, not even on the sidebar. Again, I fixed that with this css code.
position: relative; }
position: relative; }
Hmmm it's not showing u the css code I used
"#friends-list-options{ position: relative; }"
there it's that, but take away the quotes
Also the settings -> profile page isn't what changes the users avatar, but that page still isn't displaying. Thank you for all your hard work in fixing these errors.
Great looking theme.
I have some pre-sales questions:
1. There was mention of an update coming soon. When will it be released and what will it cover?
2. Is support for WooCommerce planned?
3. Could you share a screenshot to show how the BuddyPress Private Messaging Inbox looks under his theme?
Hi there,
I'm also encountering some of the issues user jamrizzi outlined, in particular the settings => profile page which is displaying blank at the moment.
Where are you at with the latest update?
Thank you in advance
hi how to find the page:Recover password? I got email as a user from the theme I set my server. It said "visit the following address" but there is nothing below.
Please fix the bugs in this theme. You'll make a LOT more sales and I'll actually get to use what I paid for. Everyone reads the comments before buying. I purchased a long time ago. Now I want to finally start using it and see that people have found all kinds of problems so I can't.
I have released an update to the theme that should be approved by TF shortly. Will make an announcement when the update is approved and live. Thanks and Cheers.
Hi, I have just bought this theme too and it doesn't seem to be working like the live preview. I've sent you a message with the web address its installed on. Can you please have a look as soon as possible, I need to finish this site between today & tomorrow!
I am still awaiting a response from LayerUnion on this please!
Please resend that email if you are interested, I cannot find it. I have released an update to the theme that should be approved soon. Hopefully this will fix your issues.
I am still awaiting a response on my previous messages please!
Please resend that email if you are interested, I cannot find it. I have released an update to the theme that should be approved soon. Hopefully this will fix your issues.
Hi – setting the page up and clicking Add Group sends me to a "Page Not Found" any ideas on how to fix this?
Also is it possible to edit the welcome page layout at all so the Groups/groups forums aren't showing and reorder it – ideally I would want to show Members, Forums, Blog and that's it.
Fixed the Page not found issue was that I hadn't ticked anyone can register in WP>settings>General
In response to your second question, you can remove lines 38-65 from the front-page.php to accomplish your desired look.
Hi One quick question am sure it's simple but it's driving me nuts!
I want to make a changer so in the sub heading of the blog page reads News not blog.
I've changed the Page title and the menu but for the life of me can't work out where to changer the text in the sub-header
Please help!
Sorry one other thing… in the My Account menu there are a few issues.
The styling is a bit off so not all the drop downs have a white background – which makes the text hard to read, plus the pointer doesn't line up great it can be pretty frustrating getting to the section you want and finally in the group section there was no create group section.
Currently I've got around this by disabling the drop down menu so users will have to use the native WP/BP menu which works fine (and has the option to create groups in it) however this means having the WP dashboard links to and although I've restricted the back end it just doesn't look good aesthetically.
Any chance of some fixes around the Menu?
Question #1: Change line 93 in the header.php where it says "Blog" to "News".
I have released an update that should be approved shortly that fixes the menu issue!
Thanks Layer Union – appreciate your hardwork – will the update also fix the issue around the registration process as well? Is a good theme at the minute and will be a great theme once these few little bugs are ironed out! Looking forward to the update. Thanks again!
Sorry me again – i've got another issue…
There seems to be a bug with the registration process. Some registrants are getting an issue with the link for the activation taking them to a page which requests and activation code but they don't receive anything in the email.
Those who get this are registered so it seems to be just an erroneous link being sent out. I see from the notes someone else had this problem before – is there a fix for this?
Hello, I'm interested in buying this template but how do I check the landing page after log in so as to see other pages like user profiles and others? And if I need some help with customization, will you be of help? I'm willing to pay for that.
I want to add another section to the home page for my featured classifieds listings. I'm using buddypress with AWPCP BuddyPress Listings and the Another Wordpress Classifieds Plugin with AWPCP Featured Ads Premium Module.http://ywgforum.com/


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A method for processing an incoming message in a handportable cellular telephone comprises looking up an identification of a sender of the message in a user-defined white list or black list before making the message available to the user of the telephone. The method thus allows for setting up a user-administrated spam filter for, e.g., SMS messages, e-mails, ringing tone or network setting messages. Access to the user-defined list may be password-protected, so as to prevent a user, such as a child, from amending the list, such amending being exclusively restricted to a person, such as a parent, administrating the phone. If the sender is not found in a user-defined white list, or if the sender is found in a user-defined black list, the message is discarded.
1. A handportable cellular telephone adapted to receive incoming messages, and comprising a processor configured to:
store a first user-defined list of potential senders of messages;
identify a sender of an incoming message upon receipt of the message;
look up the sender in the first list, and:
if the sender appears in the first list: process the message according to a first predetermined procedure;
if the sender does not appear in the first list: process the message according to a second predetermined procedure.
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store a user-defined list of telephone numbers and associated identifiers of persons or entities, and
include entries in the list of telephone numbers in said first list.
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store the incoming message immediately upon receipt thereof if the sender appears in the first list; and
if the sender of the message also appears in the second list: cause the notifying means of the telephone to emit said notification signal.
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store at least one criterion to be fulfilled by a code contained in the incoming message;
derive the code from the incoming message;
perform a check to establish whether the code fulfils said criterion;
cause the first predetermined procedure to make the message available to the user if the code fulfils the criterion; and
cause the first predetermined procedure to discard the message if the code does not fulfil the criterion.
12. A method for processing incoming messages in a handportable cellular telephone, comprising:
identifying a sender of an incoming message upon receipt of the message;
looking up the sender in a first user-defined list of potential senders of messages, and:
if the sender appears in the first list: processing the message according to a first predetermined procedure;
if the sender does not appear in the first list: processing the message according to a second predetermined procedure.
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storing the incoming message immediately upon receipt thereof if the sender appears in the first list; and
if the sender of the message also appears in a second user-defined list of potential senders: cause the notifying means of the telephone to emit said notification signal.
19. A method according to
The present invention relates to the field of handportable cellular telephones, in particular to the field of processing of messages in such telephones.
Most state-of-the-art handportable telephones are configured to send and receive short text messages, i.e. so-called SMS (Short Message System) messages. While such short messages are popular for various private purposes, the still increasing prevalence of handportable cellular telephones has led to an increase in dissemination of spam messages. Accordingly, one of Europe's largest network providers has proposed a white listing system, in which approved parties are entered on a white list and senders of spam messages are entered on a black list, so that spam providers are identifiable by the recipients of the messages.
It is a general object of preferred embodiments of the present invention to provide a system and a method with improved flexibility in the processing of incoming messages in a handportable cellular telephone, including but not limited to SMS messages. More particularly, preferred embodiments of the present invention aim at facilitating the setting-up of spam filters for incoming messages.
Accordingly, the invention provides a handportable cellular telephone adapted to receive incoming messages, and comprising a processor configured to:
The invention also provides a method for processing incoming messages in a handportable cellular telephone, comprising:
In the present context, the term �handportable cellular telephone� should be understood to comprise a hand-held, portable radio telephone which may, at least intermittently, be powered by one or more batteries or battery cells, including any mass-produced GSM- or UMTS-based mobile telephone. The phone preferably comprises a memory which may include an insertable chip card, such as a SIM card, or a memory module which is permanently integrated in the telephone. In addition to the memory of the telephone, a telecommunications network provider may designate a certain amount of memory in a data processing centre to a particular telephone or telephone number. For example, the contents of incoming messages may be stored in such a data processing centre, whereas the memory of the telephone may be adapted to store only identifiers and/or sender's information associated with incoming messages.
The potential senders comprised in the first list may preferably be identified by their telephone numbers, the telephone number of a sender of a message being usually transmitted by the telecommunications network provider along with the message itself. The list may also include an entry indicating to the processor of the telephone that messages sent from unlisted or non-disclosed numbers should be processed according to the first predetermined procedure.
A message may comprise an SMS message, an MMS message (Multimedia Messaging System), an alarm or reminder message and/or a message containing a ringing tone, one or more network settings for the telephone, an entry for a calendar system of the telephone, or any other message which is not a call which, when appropriately responded to by the user or a voice mail or voice message system, establishes a communication line between the caller and the user or between the caller and voice mail or message system. A message may for example also comprise an e-mail message which may contain file attachments. A typical size of a message is 1 kilobyte or less. However, it should be understood that also larger messages fall within the term message, such as messages of a size in the range of 1 kilobyte to 1 megabyte or even larger messages, the size being limited only by the capacity of the telephone and the telecommunications network in which the telephone is operated.
In a preferred embodiment of the invention, the first predetermined procedure makes the message available to a user of the telephone, whereas the second predetermined procedure discards the message without having made it available to a user of the telephone. In other words, the first list may be considered a white list or a trust list. Thus, any message originating from a sender whose identity does not appear in the first list may be discarded. Alternatively, the first list may be a so-called black list in which identities of senders are stored, messages from whom should be discarded, whereas messages from non-black-listed senders should be made available to the user. In both aforementioned embodiments, the processor may be configured to indicate to the user, via a user interface, that an incoming message has been discarded. There may for example also be provided a counter which counts the number of incoming discarded messages. If the identity of a sender of a discarded message has been provided along with the message, such an identity may be made available to the user.
As it will be understood from the above description, the user-defined list of potential senders may constitute a white list or a black list, a white list being a list of approved or accepted senders of messages, messages from who should be led through to the intended recipient, and a black list being a list of senders, messages from whom should be discarded without being led through to the intended recipient.
It will be appreciated that the provision of a user-defined list identifying potential senders, from whom messages are to be accepted or to be discarded, allows for improved flexibility and efficiency in setting up spam filters in a handportable cellular telephone. In particular, as the user of the telephone or another administrator thereof, such as a parent of a child, is not dependent from the provision of a white or black list provided and maintained by a telecommunications network provider, as in the prior art, the user or administrator may easily define new entries in the first list or remove entries from the list. Moreover, the user or administrator may choose to let messages from selected spam data sources, which have previously been regarded as spam data sources, through to the telephone, if messages from such selected spam data sources are of particular interest to the user of the telephone. Preferred embodiments accordingly allow for setting-up and maintenance of user-administrated spam filters. In the present context, the term spam message covers any unsolicited commercial message.
Multiple first lists may be provided. For example, one such list may store identities of potential senders of a first type of messages, whereas another such list may store identities of potential senders of another type of messages. Further first lists and types of messages may be provided. Thus, one filter may exist for text messages, whereas another filter may exist for alarm or reminder messages, and yet another filter may exist for messages containing pictures.
In the case of the first list being a white list, entries in that list may be derived from a phone directory stored in the memory of the phone. For example, the processor of the telephone may be configured to automatically, i.e. without user interference, store any entry in the phone directory in the first list. In one embodiment, the first list is constituted by the phone directory itself. In other embodiments, wherein two separate lists are stored, i.e. one phone directory list and one first list, the processor may be configured to prompt for user confirmation that an entry, deletion or change performed in the phone directory list should be mirrored in the first list. Also, a new entry, deletion or change in the first list may be automatically mirrored in the first list, or user confirmation of such mirroring may be required.
The method of the invention may further comprise emitting, after a predetermined delay time, a notification signal, for example a signal tone, a vibration signal or an optical notification in a display of the telephone, when a message has arrived. For example, the message may comprise a reminder or alarm signal which the sender may specify to activate after the predetermined delay or at a given hour and/or date. The reminder may be sent from one person desiring to initiate an alarm signal at an other person's cellular telephone at a given hour, for example from an adult desiring to remind a child that a given action should be performed at the time of the alarm signal. The delay time or the hour at which the notification signal should be emitted by the telephone may accordingly be comprised in or sent along with the message. The message may be sent to one single recipient, or it may be sent to a plurality of recipients at a time, for example to all children of a family. In one embodiment, a second user-defined list of potential senders may be stored, so that delayed notification of an incoming message as described above is performed only if the sender appears in the second list. For example, the second list may contain identifiers of particularly trusted potential senders, such as the parents of a child, the second list being, in one embodiment of the invention, a subset of the first list.
As an option, user accessibility for entering entries on the first and/or second list may be password protected. In those instances where the telephone is owned or administrated by a person different from the person carrying the phone, for example when the phone is administrated by an adult and carried by a child, access to the first and/or second list may be exclusively restricted to the adult. Embodiments, in which access to the first and/second list is password protected, for example by a parent administrating the telephone of a child, confer the advantage that use of messages, such as SMS messages, by the child may be reduced if the child is not able to receive messages from persons other than those positively identified by the parent.
Once a message has arrived, a prompting signal indicating to the user that confirmation is required before the message will be stored may be emitted by the telephone. The prompting signal may comprise a signal tone, a vibration signal or an optical indication in a display of the telephone. User confirmation may be provided via a user interface of the telephone, for example via a keypad, a display touchpad, or a voice recognition system.
Further protection against spam messages may be provided by discarding messages which do not contain a code, such as a password or pin-code, for example a four-letter code in the heading portion of each message. The code may be entered by the sender of the message, or it may automatically be attached to the message once it is being sent from the sender's communication device. A plurality of codes may be provided, such that there is associated one code (or password) with each sender known to and accepted by the user of the telephone. A group of potential senders, such as the parents of a child using the telephone, may share one code.
It should be understood that, though the present claims relate to processing of incoming of messages in a telephone, the present invention also relates to a similar telephone and method for processing outgoing messages. Accordingly, the present invention also relates to, in an independent aspect, a telephone and a method for processing outgoing messages in a handportable cellular telephone, comprising:
Such a method is particularly useful in case access to the first list is restricted, for example by a password or pin-code. Thus, a parent administrating the telephone of a child may efficiently prevent excessive use of SMS messages (or other messages) by the child, e.g. by positively identifying accepted recipients of messages in a white list.
Preferred embodiments of the invention will now be further described with reference to the drawings, in which:
As illustrated in
The identification may for example be constituted by a telephone number of the recipient's telephone. At step 104, at least an identification of the sender of the message is provided to the recipient's telephone by the telecommunications network. In other embodiments of the invention, the entire message may be sent to the telephone at step 104. Once a notification of the message has arrived, a processor of the telephone initiates a comparison between entries in a first, previously stored list at steps 106 and 108. The list is preferably stored in a memory module of the telephone. However, the list may alternatively be stored at a remote facility, such as at a data processing centre of a telecommunications network provider, in which case the list may be retrieved by the telephone from the data processing centre at the request of the telephone. Alternatively, the list may be transmitted along with the identification of the sender at step 104 each and every time a notification of a new message is being transmitted to the telephone. In the embodiment of
As mentioned above, the first list is a white list in the embodiment shown. In another embodiment, the first list constitutes a black list which identifies potential senders, messages from whom should be discarded, in which case a positive answer at step 108 results in the message being discarded and a negative answer results in the message being made available at the telephone.
If the identification of the sender of the message is not found in the first list at step 108, the identification of the sender may be stored at step 112 and the message discarded at step 114. The identification of the sender, if available, may subsequently be retrieved by the user, so that the user may track senders of discarded messages. Thus, if an entry has been made in the first list by mistake, the availability of the identification of a sender of an accidentally erased message may prompt the user to remove that sender from the first list. A counter may count the number of incoming messages without making the respective identifications of the senders of discarded messages available to the user. It is a further alternative that the message is simply discarded without counting the number of incoming messages or storing identifications of senders, in which case steps 112 and 116 are not performed.
The processing of incoming messages containing delay notifications is illustrated in
Yet another procedure for processing incoming messages is shown in
It should be understood that the procedures of processing incoming messages described with reference to
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ADB doesn't detect the phone.
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Tried different cables, different computer, and verified that while it works normally on my One m8, it does not on my HOX.
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There's a simple reason that President Obama will not invoke the 14th Amendment to resolve the debt-ceiling crisis: the Supreme Court.
Yes, there is speculation that Obama is too risk averse to assert that the Constitution gives him the power to unilaterally raise the debt ceiling - and that may be true.
But Obama and his advisers know that if he bypasses Congress by using the 14th Amendment, it will immediately be challenged in the federal courts - which are loaded with partisan Republican judges - and fast tracked to the Supreme Court.
With Scalia having led a partisan majority time and time again - including his stopping of the State Supreme Court-ordered presidential recount in Florida in 2004 so as not to harm the reputation of the presumed winner, George W. Bush, (Scalia wrote in justification of his infamous opinion) - it is a given that five members of the Supreme Court have no compunction about leaving the Constitution in the dust.
As BuzzFlash has argued before, despite calling themselves "strict constructionists," the five majority votes on the Supreme Court are anything but. In fact, they often interpret the Constitution to justify their political outlook as they did in Bush v. Gore and Citizens United, and a host of other rulings that have dramatically affected the direction of this nation.
Thom Hartmann views the 5-4 majority record as being so significant that they have become a de facto arm of the Republicans in Congress. Hartmann calls the GOP majority on the court the "Five Kings."
The 14th Amendment is pretty clear when it comes to the debt ceiling: "The validity of the public debt of the United States, authorized by law, including debts incurred for payment of pensions and bounties for services in suppressing insurrection or rebellion, shall not be questioned."
That's about as strict constructionist as you can get in prohibiting Congress from limiting the debt ceiling, even though it has been their tradition to vote on increasing it - as they frequently have done under Republican and Democratic presidents alike.
But the "Supreme Court Five" aren't going to really enforce the Constitution as it is written, should Obama invoke the 14th Amendment. They will rule against presidential authority and side with the Republicans in Congress. Because their motivation in high-stakes partisan issues like this is not the law as it is written; it is scoring a victory for their political beliefs and sponsors.
That is why President Obama will ultimately not assert the 14th Amendment to resolve the debt-ceiling crisis. The "Five Kings" won't allow him, in the end, to do so.
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How Can God Be Telling Every GOP Candidate to Run for President? Maybe They're Lying
BuzzFlash read this headline and thought that it was refreshing that God was becoming more selective in his choice of Republican candidates for president: "God Urges Rick Perry Not To Run For President."
Except that it was from the satirical web site, The Onion.
Thus far, among the GOP primary candidates for the White House, we have been led to believe that God has indicated to just about all of them that they should run.
This rather promiscuous urging of several Republican candidates to run - based on their claims that God is backing them - leads one to believe that the GOP aspirants are either lying or God likes a good political donnybrook.
Back in the '60s, Bob Dylan understood the hypocritical power to do evil simply by claiming that God is on your side:
In a many dark hour
I've been thinkin' about this
That Jesus Christ
Was betrayed by a kiss
But I can't think for you
You'll have to decide
Whether Judas Iscariot
Had God on his side.
After invoking all the wars America has engaged in with "God on its side," Dylan wonders whether the great betrayer of Christ also had "God on his side."
That's something to think about when evaluating candidates who claim that they have been divinely chosen to run.
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Overfishing is the Great Environmental Disaster That People Haven't Heard About
I never thought that I might be contributing to a possible ecological implosion in our oceans because of the kinds of fish that I eat.
That is, until I saw the eye-opening documentary "The End of the Line," which dramatically details how massive industrial fishing is endangering the viability of an increasingly large number of fish species.
"Overfishing is the great environmental disaster that people haven't heard about," said the documentary's producer George Duffield. This is not merely an indictment of mercenary corporate fishing, it is also exposes how consumers choose to ignore the impact of eating endangered fish. In fact, as supplies of certain fish dwindle, they become more expensive and, therefore, more of a delicacy.
It's not just specific fish that are being depleted beyond the point of no return, but overfishing contributes to creating an ecosystem change in the oceans that will not be to the benefit of the residents of the planet. Not to mention that many people in poorer nations rely on fish to survive, but are seeing a diminishing supply because of huge fishing fleets off their shores from developed nations. They are floating factories that use high-tech tools to relentlessly sweep the oceans of endangered fish and fish that are becoming threatened.
Tea Party Conundrum: China Owns Our Butt
China is concerned about the possibility of an US default, due to a possible failure to raise our debt ceiling.
It might come as a bit of surprise to all the Tea Party members who buy Chinese manufactured products - which used to be made by American workers like themselves - that the Communist government of China is America's biggest lender.
Given the Washington, DC, procrastination over the debt ceiling, China is taking the position that a Wall Street investor would take. It wants to be assured that its loans to the US government will be paid back.
According to The Associated Press:
China, the biggest holder of U.S. Treasury debt, appealed to Washington on Wednesday to take steps to boost confidence in the dollar and protect its investors....
China held some $1.15 trillion in Treasury debt as of the end of April, according to U.S. government data. Chinese leaders have repeatedly appealed to Washington to avoid measures that might erode the value of the dollar and those holdings.
"We hope the U.S. government concretely takes responsible policy measures to increase the confidence of international financial markets and respects and safeguards investors' interests," the State Administration of Foreign Exchange said in a statement.
So, China is acting just like any capitalist lender; it just wants to protect its investment.
And wouldn't members of the Tea Party and the corporate wing of the GOP laud China for acting like any US bank that is "too big to fail" would?
After all, it's the American way. Let's just hope China doesn't start foreclosure proceedings.
Cutting Taxes Doesn't Save the Middle Class Money: They Just Pay Higher "Fees" In Another Form
Cutting taxes doesn't mean lowering expenses for the middle class and the poor.
That's because, as BuzzFlash at Truthout has pointed out before, with declining income taxes and decreased state spending, the costs that used to be covered by government pop up elsewhere. In many cases, depending upon the needs of a family, the rise in costs and "user fees" - as two examples - outweigh the middle-class income tax decreases that were extended from the Bush years.
A July 17 San Francisco Chronicle article gets to the heart of the matter:
With college tuition increasing again last week at the UC and CSU systems because of state budget cuts, many other Californians were crushed by the cumulative costs of daily life in a "no new taxes" world. CSU's $1,032 tuition increase means that a family sending a child there will see its tax windfall evaporate all at once.
"It's politics," Renwick said. "They can say we had no new taxes but we really did. They just put it in a bunch of places we don't notice."
Public transportation users are being hit with repeated fare hikes across the country, not only resulting in a hidden "user tax," but also pushing America in the wrong direction on efficient fuel use for moving people from one place to another. This "user tax" also discourages the growth of mass transportation that would reduce global warming.
"You're starting to see the anger," one analyst told the Chronicle. "You can let your roads collapse, you close fire stations or watch your library permanently shut down."
The rich will always be able to afford the higher "user fees" and flat taxes that result from declining income and corporate taxes, but many "anti-tax" crusaders in the middle class don't realize that they are biting off their noses to spite their faces.
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Is the Tea Party a Promoter of Economic Anarchy? Looks That Way
Is the Tea Party just another name for an anarchy party?
Granted, given that the Tea Party was financially turbo-charged by the Koch Brothers (Americans for Prosperity) and Dick Armey's FreedomWorks, it's a challenge to define members of the loose-knit group. It's clear, for instance, that a significant segment of the party consists of individuals who are venting their racist gripes with President Obama.
But if you look at the corporate media conventional wisdom perception of how the Tea Party impact plays out on Capitol Hill, it is an uber anti-government force that believes taxes of any kind are akin to theft.
This is not just an eccentric BuzzFlash at Truthout theory; there is indeed a school of libertarian economic theory known as anarcho-capitalism. In fact, the son of Milton Friedman - the guru of the Reagan-era school of economics, which now seems liberal compared to the Cantor/Bachmann/Tea Party theories - is one of its foremost adherents. David Friedman believes in the primacy of the individual and property, without the interference of any governmental entity, including laws.
As excerpted from "Demanding the Impossible: A History of Anarchism," by Peter Marshall, the extremity of what is being played out by the GOP Tea Party wing is a bit chilling:
Anarcho-capitalism has recently had a considerable vogue in the West where it has helped put the role of the state back on the political agenda. It has become a major ideological challenge to the dominant liberalism which sees a role for government in the protection of property. The anarcho-capitalists would like to dismantle government and allow complete laissez-faire in the economy. Its adherents propose that all public services be turned over to private entrepreneurs, even public spaces like town halls, streets and parks. Free market capitalism, they insist, is hindered not enhanced by the State....
Anarcho-capitalists, according to "A History of Anarchism," "maintain that even the minimal state is unnecessary since the defense of person and property can be carried out by private protection agencies."
The major area that anarcho-capitalists (and Ayn Rand adherents) would have a falling out with most Tea Party adherents is over social issues, in which anarcho-capitalists have no interest. For example, without a government of laws, it would be hard to legislate against gays, immigrants etc. In short, the government dreaded by the Tea Party could not be used by them to establish authoritarian, moralistic control over people.
But when it comes to economic theory, Eric Cantor, for example, certainly sounds a lot like an anarcho-capitalist.******
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Michelle Bachmann Worked for the IRS: "The Tax Collector Cometh"
"The tax collector cometh" could have been the headline for Michele Bachmann's presidential campaign launch in Waterloo, Iowa - her hometown - awhile back, but it wasn't.
Although Bachmann refers to her "experience as a tax attorney" in her official House of Representatives biography, she doesn't mention that her primary employer as a tax attorney was the Internal Revenue Service - public enemy number one of the Tea Party, after President Obama.
In a Wall Street Journal article entitled "Bachmann's Tax Attorney Job Was Collector for the IRS," it states bluntly:
"Republican presidential hopeful Michele Bachmann touts one job as her primary professional experience before entering politics. On the campaign trail, she describes it as being a "federal tax litigation attorney." Others might call it tax collector.
"Ms. Bachmann spent four years with the Internal Revenue Service district counsel office in St. Paul, Minn., from 1988 to 1992."
But such revelations have done little to dampen the enthusiasm of anti-tax crusaders for Bachmann.
That's because progressives sometimes forget that politicians today market a brand, and television is their primary vehicle for promoting their brand. And visuals are perhaps more important - as Reagan's communications team proved - than what facts come out of the "liberal press." (Although it is hard to imagine the Rupert Murdoch-owned Wall Street Journal being part of such a "leftist conspiracy.")
Murdoch is the Orwellian Vision of Our Time, a Direct Threat to the Survival of Democracy
Sometimes, we are so caught up with battles over survival issues - such as jobs, Medicare, Social Security and health insurance - that we forget that the larger frame of political conversation is being shaped elsewhere.
Rupert Murdoch's Fox "News" in America not only serves as the farm team for GOP presidential and other Republican contenders, but it is also the most powerful news force in shaping the terms of our national political debate. Through a combination of "catapulting the propaganda" (thank George W. Bush for that phrase), contributions to US politicians, and targeted media attacks on "opposition" political figures - among other nefarious strategies - Murdoch has done more to bolster the current climate of plutocracy in the US than any other individual.
Murdoch specializes in using the media to deceive a primarily white, middle and working class into hot button, emotional perceptions of reality, based on false information and disciplined message points.
In the UK, the current prime minister is calling for all sorts of investigations into Murdoch's media behemoth. But it seems a little disingenuous given that the former editor of Murdoch's now shuttered tabloid, News of the World, served as the prime minister's press secretary until recently. The former press secretary, Andy Coulson - the link between Murdoch and Prime Minister Cameron - was just arrested based on his alleged illegal conduct while editor of News of the World.
Yesterday, BuzzFlash posted a quotation from FDR that "government by organized money is just as dangerous as government by organized mob."
Murdoch is the Orwellian 1984 vision of our time, who makes a mockery of democracy by controlling the political process and conversation through the power of his discredited and dishonest media empire.
He is a direct threat to the great experiment of self-governance by a majority of the population. He has already proven that beyond a shadow of a doubt.
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FDR: "Government by Organized Money is Just as Dangerous as Government by Organized Mob"
The hacking of phones and invasion of privacy by the Rupert Murdoch tabloid press has been the subject of articles for years, but it took the unconscionable and illegal extracting and deleting of messages from the mobile phone of a dead British girl to bring the Murdoch empire to its knees.
Murdoch, it appears now, had bought off police, politicians, and who knows who else, as he swaggered across the Western world, creating a false, angry, populist worldview through a vast media empire. The sole purpose of this emotional, incendiary and deceptive narrative was to create governments that supported the plutocracy, not the "rabble" of democracy. The tool to accomplish this was the manipulation of the mass media to ignore facts and create a fictional "frame" that pushed populations toward acceptance of an authoritarian state, one that existed for the benefit of the wealthy.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt knew the danger of a Murdoch controlling, in an Orwellian fashion, the media, and the danger of the likes of the Koch Brothers financing propaganda - through lavish support of think tanks and front "activist" organizations - as well as a government run by corporate lobbyists. Whether it is ownership of the media, concentrated control of the assets of a nation by a few, or de facto corporate governance through campaign contribution leverage on Congress and the White House, Roosevelt warned:
The liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerate the growth of private power to a point where it comes stronger than their democratic state itself. That, in its essence, is fascism - ownership of government by an individual, by a group.
In his second inaugural speech FDR declared:
We had to struggle with the old enemies of peace - business and financial monopoly, speculation, reckless banking, class antagonism, sectionalism, war profiteering.
They had begun to consider the Government of the United States as a mere appendage to their own affairs. We know now that Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob.
Never before in all our history have these forces been so united against one candidate as they stand today. They are unanimous in their hate for me - and I welcome their hatred.
How little has changed since those remarks were made in 1936, except there is no FDR in the White House to champion the cause of democracy for those 99 percent of Americans who are not part of "organized money."
Tax Subsidies (or Loopholes) for Corporations Are the Middle American's Tax Burden
One American's tax subsidy (or loophole) is another American's tax burden.
Take the money out of the middle-class taxpayers' pockets and put it into the super wealthy hands of the oil companies or hedge fund managers, for example.
In essence, people of limited means who work by the hour are paying higher taxes in order to make wealthy people wealthier. Why? Because someone has to pay taxes for the services provided by the government.
ThinkProgress noted this in terms of the tax subsidy we all pay to hedge fund managers:
The top 25 hedge fund managers in the United States collectively earned $22 billion last year, and yet they have their own cushy set of tax rules. If they operated under the same rules that apply to other people - police officers, for example, or teachers - the country could cut its national deficit by as much as $44 billion in the next ten years.
So, you and I are taxed at a higher rate than hedge fund managers for their personal gain on behalf of customers. Middle-income earners are subsidizing billionaires.
Of course, taxpayers also subsidize oil companies that have been making record profits, including ExxonMobil, which recorded the highest corporate quarterly profit in history awhile back. As the Center for American Progress reports, the middle class is paying indirect taxes to the oil companies: "In effect, U.S. taxpayers wrote a collective $7 billion bonus check to the oil industry when they filed their taxes last month [for 2010]."
Mainstream media euphemistically calls these taxpayer-subsidized profits by hedge fund managers and oil companies "loopholes."
That's like a pickpocket saying that he didn't steal a wallet, it just jumped into his hand.


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Macho man? Shave that hair, dude
Gillette ads pose some uncomfortable questions
Pouty supermodel No. 1 says she likes a man with a little hair on his chest, "but definitely not on his back."
Pouty supermodel No. 2 likes a man with a smooth stomach "to show off his six-pack," according to the unidentified narrator who apparently speaks for her. She winks in agreement.
And pouty supermodel No. 3 says she prefers a man without any hair at all. She doesn't think that's weird? Narrator Dude asks. "I don't," she confirms, with a purr. She doesn't?
Gillette, the razor giant, wants men to take it all, or at least much of it, off. In an ad campaign featuring ubiquitous blond babe Kate Upton (she's pouty supermodel No. 1), the company touts its ProGlide Styler as the device for the full-body treatment.
What's remarkable about the Upton TV commercial is not just its basic message -- guys, you should be shaving down there -- but who's delivering the message. In the spot, set amid a pool party that suggests the last days of ancient Rome, women are set up as the arbiters of what it means to be manly, a role women rarely play in TV commercials. In this case, the women want what men demanded of women long ago -- that they become hairless.
Advertisers have reduced men to hunks and beefcakes before. The most famous ad in this vein may have been a Diet Coke commercial in the mid-1990s that featured a model named Lucky Vanous stripping off his shirt at a construction site as a group of young women watched with lascivious delight from their office window.
And advertisers have also long instructed men about what machismo is supposed to look like. Sunday afternoon football games are packed with TV commercials for pickup trucks, beer, tires, sports drinks and other products that stress strength, toughness, sweat and other supposedly male traits. Marketers have been defining manhood long before a popular Rolling Stones song immortalized the phenomenon: "When I'm watchin' my TV, and a man comes on and tells me how white my shirts can be / But he can't be a man 'cause he doesn't smoke, the same cigarettes as me."
But men telling men to man up is one thing. Using women to do so is more unusual. Indeed, Gillette says the Upton campaign, called "What Women Want," is the first in its 112-year history in which women take the lead in promoting a product for men.
The unusual approach reflected some culturally tricky terrain, says Susan Oguche, a company spokeswoman. So-called manscaping -- Gillette prefers the term "body grooming" -- was popular among bodybuilders and gay men before it began gaining mainstream acceptance more recently. Still, the notion of male hairlessness goes against traditional western cultural norms, she acknowledges.
"It's not a topic guys talk to one another about," Oguche said. "So we felt this was a non-confrontational way to talk to guys about something that's pretty sensitive. We wanted to open up a conversation in a way that would take away the 'ick' factor."
Gillette's approach has engendered intrigue -- and some discomfort -- among cultural observers.
The ad reflects "changes in the way we view masculinity and femininity," says Scott Lukas, an anthropology professor who maintains the Gender Ads Project, a website devoted to analyzing gender images. It plays into notions of male fastidiousness, he said, invoking the contemporary term metrosexuality.
Even so, the ad plays off some stereotypes and traditions, he said. "The underlying message is that men are slobs, men are grotesque, men have hairy backs, and they need women to civilize them," he said.
Jean Kilbourne, the creator of a film series called Killing Us Softly: Advertising's Image of Women, says the ad is unusual because "it turns the tables by having women doing the objectifying" of the opposite sex. "But I'm not sure that makes it any better. The women are pretty objectified, anyway."
Kilbourne notes Upton and the two other women in the commercial (models Genesis Rodriguez and Hannah Simone) barely get to express themselves; they mainly nod in agreement with statements attributed to them by a man, the narrator. "I guess this was intended to soften them," she said. "It would seem brazen and unseemly" for the women to express their preferences directly, without "a male voice of authority" to approve of them.
What's more, when it comes to cultural attitudes toward grooming, men and women will never be equal, says Kilbourne, the author of Can't Buy My Love: How Advertising Changes the Way We Think and Feel. "A rich, hairy man will never have a problem," she says. "For women, it's a requirement. No matter what else women do or accomplish, perfect grooming has to go along with it. For men... it's an option," or in Gillette's case, a sexual fantasy.
But Bob Garfield, the former critic at Advertising Age magazine, says the Gillette ad is an equal-opportunity offender.
"What's bad for the goose is bad for the gander," says Garfield, the author of Can't Buy Me Like, a recent book about social-media marketing. "But in a weird way, I welcome this particular adver-trocity. It is so repugnant that hitherto oblivious men will finally understand what it feels like to be told you aren't good enough, or attractive enough, or sexy enough the way you are."
Gillette won't talk in detail about consumer reaction to its campaign. But its actions suggest Garfield may be on the right track. Come fall, the pouty supermodels will be gone. New ads for the body razor will feature those old macho standbys -- NFL players.
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