d@n

i'm d@n shick. i'm a system administrator and writer in san francisco, and this is my medium-sized blog, for when i'm too lazy to write in the big one and too hyper to write in the little one.

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6:19

Just in the first three months of 2008, recent lobbyist disclosure statements reveal that AT&T spent $5.2 million in lobbyist fees (putting it well ahead of its 2007 pace, when it spent just over $17 million). … “To put this into perspective, AT&T’s spending for three months on lobbying alone is significantly more than the entire EFF budget for a whole year, from attorneys to sys admins, pencils to bandwidth.”

— How telecoms are attempting to buy amnesty from Congress

:: read & make remarks ::