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Telemarketer Blows Whistle on Tape-Altering Scam
Recently, Florida-based telemarketing firm Epixtar is frequently accused of cramming an extra $30 onto phone charges of small businesses, yet has proof of legality by recording their calls. Until they laid off some people, one of whom has blown the whistle. The companies' cramming tactics become "legal" by altering those taped recordings to include a quick statement about the $30 charge. MSNBC has the article, including a short audio clip of a sample call.
Makes my head hurt.
How exactly does a business of any kind "lay" you? I've heard of getting screwed...but never getting laid.
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Seems like the ones not getting layed would be the ones to blow the whistle
Well that really depends on who was playing the "girl", the employer or the employee.
Can't even explain this one away by blaming the submitter of the story, eh, editors? I mean, seeing as you wrote it all. :)
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you're about to get laid. and by laid I mean fired.
If you mod me down the terrorists will have won
Man, I *hate* it when the people I lay, blow the whistle on me. :)
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Lawyer: (Smugly)Of course.
Boss' Lawyer: And this policy is posted at your front door?
Lawyer: Of course.
Boss' Lawyer: And next to this sign you have an armed guard who searches all persons who enter your offices?
Lawyer: No, we don't. We like to have a friendly atmosphere.
Boss' Lawyer: Then how do you know that all person's who enter your offices are unarmed?
Lawyer: My clients don't carry guns.
Boss' Lawyer: So you're 100% certain that all people who have ever entered your offices have been unarmed?
Lawyer: I can't be 100% sure.
Boss' Lawyer: Mr. Lawyer, if Ms. Employee had decided to shoot up your offices, how would your policy have prevented her from doing so?
Lawyer: I guess it couldn't.
Boss' Lawyer: And could your policy have prevented this crime from occurring at the office it did occur at? Please answer yes or no.
Lawyer: No.
Boss' Lawyer: So you're saying that neither your policy nor my client's policy could have altered the events of XX/XX?
Lawyer: ...
There is no trap so deadly as the trap you set for yourself
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It's a good thing you're modded funny at this point. It seems to me that you are more paranoid of people with guns than the people with guns. You also seem to imply that people with guns are somehow defacto incompetent.
I for one have infact carried a gun to work. I did leave it in the car. No need to push my luck. The reason I did is because I work in a town that is notorious for it's lawlessness. Also, at the time, there were some rather unstable individuals working here. One even threatened to shoot up the place. Instead of getting rid of the nut case, they just mothered him along. Since he fell into the big, dumb and stupid catagory a firearm would be the only reasonable means of self defense. I could have used the company issued box cutters, but knife wounds can be so messy.
Also, your AC status would indicate that either you are on the Left coast or in France.
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Go read your history books, just a couple of weeks before the council he had half his own family executed. He was not exactly the nicest of folk.
Constantine's objectives were purely political. He wanted to unite the empire under a single state religion. It was clear that the rule of Rome could not continue without some stronger cohesive force than the Imperium.
The deal that the church struck was that it would become the favored state religion in return for complete support for the state.
"...a year after the Council of Nicea, he (Constantine) sanctioned the confiscation and destruction of all works that challenged orthodox teachings - works by pagan authors that referred to Jesus, as well as works by "heretical" Christians. He also arranged for a fixed income to be allocated to the Church and installed the bishop of Rome in the Lateran Palace
Constantine himself was not baptised until he was on his deathbed. Before that he was a follower of Sol Invictus. The political stroke of genius lay in realising that he could merge the two religions into one. That is why we have SUNday as the holy day, it was actually the holy day of Sol Invictus first.
Other transfers from the pagan cults include the Eucharist itself which was described as one of the rites of Bachanalia 200 odd years BC. That caused some problems in the middle ages with the accepted explanation being that this was the work of the devil anticipating Christ.
We have no idea what the true new testament said. None of the documents that have survived are earlier than about 400AD. Diocletian ordered all documents destroyed in 303AD leaving the field wide open for the editors at Nicea.
But hey, why bother with the problems of 350AD when half the church still uses the Received version text which is based on Erasmus's hastily thrown together edition of 1515.
We have no basis whatsoever for any claim wrt the authority of the church or the Empire that was not manufactured by the church in colusion with the state.
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