"news" tag (sorted by SiNergy)

“In a unanimous ruling, the Iowa Supreme court struck down the state's gay-marriage ban”- have we entered the Twilight Zone?! I’m completely amazed and delighted that Iowa will start letting gay couple marry April 24th.

There has been a lot of hoopla lately over Pope Benedict XVI stance on condoms. The Pope believes that distributing condoms is not the answer to curbing the spread of HIV in Africa and that it actually may be escalating the problem. He also believes that placing a bible over an erect penis before intercourse is the only guaranteed way to prevent the spread of Aids. What a fucking lunatic!

Major ISP’s have reportedly made deals with the Recording Industry Association of America to address piracy concerns. ISPs such as AT&T, Cox, Comcast and Verizon have started sending out notices to users, which could result in possible disconnection.

Starting Oct 1st, Wisconsin is implementing a 4% sales tax on all digital down loads to help the state fill its drained reserves. Legislators are hoping the new tax will generate $11 million over a period of 2 years. However, not everyone is excited about the new bill and it’s not even the consumers getting taxed that's doing the complaining.

Like many other CA businesses, Kink.com took advantage of a state program that pays to train California employees. Kink used the program to have its employees trained in areas like video shoots, editing and Photoshop. However, once the California Employment Training Panel found out Kink was part of the adult entertainment industry, they were immediately dropped from the program.

There’s a rumor is going around that porn hedge fund management company AdultVest Inc. is fraud. A former employee and a former investor are alleging that Founder Frances Koenig is stealing from the fund to pay for personal luxuries.

Okay, so maybe my headline is childish, but this proposed bill is pretty lame. It’s probably not surprising that it was Republicans that purposed the ISAFETY bill that would require all ISPs & anyone else with Wi-Fi access points and wired routers using DHCP to keep records about users for 2 years.

Its official, the Democrats have taken of the DOJ. The U.S. Senate confirmed the nominations of David Ogden to be Deputy Attorney General and Thomas Perrelli to be associate attorney general, making Perrelli the 3rd highest-ranking official at the DOJ. Both candidates have had their share of controversy and had conservative groups up in arms over their nominations.

Police raided the homes of Theodor Reppe, owner of wikileaks.de, after Wikileaks published a list of banned websites. Wikileaks has been publicizing censorship lists from Australia, Denmark and other countries, exposing hidden government agendas.

Apple is cracking down on all those iPhone users who are cracking the operating system. In fact, if Apple gets their way people could be looking at a $2,500 fine and possible jail time. Apparently cracked iPhones and unauthorized apps, or rather adult apps, soil the iPhone's precious "ecosystem".