Jay Lee is one of the hosts of Technology Bytes, a program broadcast by KPFT.

If you employ some one, they will allow you to match the funds that your employee gives to the station. A contradiction in advertising, because KPFT works diligently to promote themselves as a radio broadcaster that gets most of their money from listener sponsors. KPFT management contends that they don't have to tell the public who gave them how much money and for what.

I must assume that the employer and the employee can both enjoy a tax deduction.

On top of that they get two hours of free radio advertising a week promoting the goods and services they make money on every day. In an area like Houston, 2 hours of radio advertising is worth a bundle. Jay Lee's employer might as well pay him for his volunteer work at the station.

And now the icing on the cake. Jay Lee, his employer, and other anonymous persons get to invest in common stock if they want to. They can say GOOGLE search 40 times a month without sounding very repetitious just on that one show.

Yesterday, Jay Lee claimed that he and his panel of GEEKS make no money whatsoever by broadcasting the show. Not from my perspective.

Apparently this has been going on for nine years. I only discovered it about 3 years ago. I assumed the donar list was a matter of public information until recently. If it was, then KPFT could easily discredit any accusation of this sort by allowing the list of donars to be inspected and scrutinized. Each major donor, especially the ones that donate to the Tech Bytes show, could have their finances scrutinized to assure the public that KPFT was acting in good faith.

They can't do it. They probably don't have the records or they just destroyed them.

KPFT also makes many deceptive claims indicating that the evil right wing would like to silence them forever, thereby attempting to legitimize secret activities. It seems to me that if the right wing really wanted to play hard ball with KPFT, the radio station would already be out of business and the board members in jail. KPFT virtually has their pants pulled down and asking for the right wing to screw them anally.

KPFT is very critical of the government and others for covert activities.

Like every one else in the mass media business, they only criticize who they want to, like the FCC.

The FCC has some regulatory authority over fraudsters who pose as community radio stations to line their own pockets.

KPFT has other symbiotic business relationships, but they all concern the liberal arts, or sports. These activities are allowed to be promoted by KPFT based on their citizens agreements. As a charity broadcaster, this is the only thing KPFT is allowed to promote commercially and within certain restrictions.

Technology Bytes does not concern liberal arts or industrial arts. They simply advocate consumerism in the computer and software business, offer software support, fraudware, advertise products and services, and generally economically benefit from every aspect of the show.

Over the last few years, PR confidence men, like Jay Lee and Duane Bradley, have taken the public for about 4 million dollars.

The last time I questioned Duane Bradley, General Manager, about the show, he said it was funny. According to Duane Bradley and other paid staff members of KPFT, all programing decisions are made by Otis Mclay.

Also over the last few years, Microsoft, Jay Lee, and KPFT, have been stealing more intellectual property, mostly from the GNU project, from me, and any one else who tries to compete with the Microsoft cartel.

Jay Lee keeps stealing my ideas about how to make the show legal and incorporating them without giving me the credit for it.

I published this computer science fact. The only way to fix the many problems associated with Windows is to make the software more like Linux. They published Windows XP. Some of the best features seem to have been purchased, or stolen from the KDE project. Who knows?

Based on the science of mathematics, there are only one or two good ways to do anything with a computer. Everything else in the programming code is decorations, buttons, wallpaper and stuff like that. This makes the MICROSOFT END USER LICENSE AGREEMENT very impractical.

KPFT would violate the MICROSOFT END USER LICENSE AGREEMENT every time they broadcast the program called TECHNOLOGY BYTES based on the thou shalt not reverse engineer the software clause, if they ever provided a realistic explanation of a computer problem. Instead they just repeat industrial propaganda.

None of these organizations are innocent until proven guilty. Only people are innocent until proven guilty. That is the intent of the law, no matter how it gets defined.

KPFT has suckered me out of some money in the past, but from now on, I am going to be a non paying member of their organization. They need one.

As a matter of fact, if KPFT doesn't want to make the donor list public information they might as well get out there checkbook and start paying me for the damages they did and give back the money I donated.

That comes out to about $150,000 dollars.

KPFT does not own a radio transmitter. The charitable organization that operates the broadcasting license known as KPFT does not own the broadcasting license as far as I know.

It is accurate to say that KPFT is a charity that primarily benefits a rather small group of activists that control every aspect of the radio station and constantly bicker over governance.

They may as well put up one of those old familiar signs on the front of the radio station saying MICROSOFT CERTIFIED BUSINESS PARTNER.

If this group of unprofessional confidence schemers applies for a broadcasting license in your neighborhood, my advice is to petition against it.

They provide no information or music that cannot be suppllied by some one else.

by Albert Kada
from THEM AMERICAN BLASPHEMER http://www.io.com/~davecom/

I fail to see how this pertains to Indymedia LA.

Please take your conjured gripes to your own local indymedia site.

LA Resident

I think it's very pertinent when the guy who does the "computer show" happens to work for THE RICHEST MAN ON EARTH, a big supporter of the Republicans, and the main foe of the Free Software movement.

The Free Software movement is a radical movement that seeks to challenge the established corporate ideas of intellectual property. Indymedia is like a synthesis of the free software and independent media movements.

It's relevant to KPFK, because there's a show on there called the Car Show. It's a pretty good show. At least one host works or worked for Petersen Publishing, the publishers of Hot Rod magazine.

It's not *that* big a deal, and they've been okay in my book, but the hosts need to be encouraged or pressured into giving some time to alternative fuels and alternative transit options. I haven't heard them do a series on using CNG, or converting your old polluting car to CNG, for example. (Then again, I don't listen every week.)

In the same vein, are the computer show hosts on KPFT, who work for Microsoft, going to be enthusiastic about major developments in Free Software? Will they encourage users to try out Linux, BSD, or alternatives to Word and Excel? What about promoting the idea that intellectual property should expire and become part of the commons after several years? What about challenging WIPO?

Hell, what about supporting the development of high tech worker's unions? Microsoft is a well known employer of temps who work at MS for years. They create a second class employee within their company.

(Note, I'm not talking about Global Village on KPFK. This is about the computer show on KPFT. The Global Village has only gotten better over the years. I hated them when they started, but, in the post-Schubb years, they've gotten good. They have a lot of civil rights news on there.)

There are some huge factual inaccuracies at work in Albert Kada's (AKA Dave Barnet) piece. No one on the show works for Microsoft or any other company that has ever received mention on the show. Once a month, the hosts have what they call a "Geek Gathering" where they invite listeners to come out and meet them to talk about technology, past shows, really whatever is on their minds. I've met them all and I know for a fact that none of them work for Microsoft. Three of them carry Apple laptops. One of them is a linux enthusiast and founded the organization HoustonWireless.org. Only one of them carries a Windows laptop as his main piece of portable gear.

As far as vocation, one works in support, one for a legal services firm, one in the medical field (IT), one as an engineering contractor for NASA, and one as a consultant. None of their employers make products that are available to the general consumer. None of these people promote their companies on or off air in the context of the show.

Albert Kada has some sort of grudge against these people and feels the need to attack them in places where they are unlikely to be able to defend themselves.

Please consider the source before you buy into what Albert Kada is trying to sell you. Here's an example of the kind of community backlash he experienced when posting stuff to his own home indymedia site:

http://houston.indymedia.org/news/2004/10/33518_comment.php

My message to Albert Kada: Get Over It and find something more constructive to do with your time. My suggestion: try reading up on computers and work hard at getting a good firm grip on the obvious.

A Houston Technology Bytes Listener