Nuggets & bites.TELEMARKETER: "UAT See user acceptance test. UAT - User Acceptance Testing is the only [telephone company] taking a stand against same-sex marriage and hard-core child pornography Child pornography is the visual representation of minors under the age of 18 engaged in sexual activity or the visual representation of minors engaging in lewd or erotic behavior designed to arouse the viewer's sexual interest. ..." COMEDIAN [PLAYING ALONG]: "AT&T sponsors child pornography?" TELEMARKETER: "No, no, that's MCI (1) (Media Control Interface) A high-level programming interface from Microsoft and IBM for controlling multimedia devices. It provides commands and functions to open, play and close the device. (2) (Microwave Communications Inc. .... They have a pedophile pedophile Forensic psychiatry A person with pedophilia; there are an estimated 500,000 pedophiles in the world. See Child prostitution, Megan's law, Pedophilia. Web site for men who love boys...." COMEDIAN [ENDING CONVERSATION]: "It was a real pleasure to meet you. And together you and I will destroy the gays." TELEMARKETER: "Exactly." --A conversation between comedian Eugene Mirman and an actual telemarketer selling the services of United American Technologies United American Technologies is an Oklahoma-based telephone service and Internet Service Provider which is popular with many conservative families across America. UAT has become the center of a controversy concerning its telemarketing techniques, which includes a concern about , a "Christian-based telephone company," posted as a sound file on the German Web site Spiegel Online. May 13 LARRY KRAMER: "Washington gays have always been the most docile--" FRANK KAMENY [CUTTING HIM OFF]: "That is certainly not the case. Washington, D.C., is the political success story of the gay movement.... Don't say that we have been docile." KRAMER: "So why don't we have more rights?" KAMENY: "We certainly are very much farther as a people than we were [30 or 40 years ago], and we're moving ahead...." KRAMER: "I guess I just don't agree with that." KAMENY: "Then you're wrong." --A conversation between pioneering gay activists Larry Kramer, 70, of New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of and Frank Kameny, 80, of Washington, D.C., as reported in the Washington Post, May 9 |
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