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FCC Proposes Fining AT&T Over DNC Violation

Iphtashu Fitz writes "The FCC has just announced a proposed $780,000 fine against AT&T for violating the recently enacted Do Not Call telemarketing rules. The FCC charges that AT&T marketers called 29 consumers on 78 different occasions after those consumers had signed up on the Do Not Call list. The FCC has posted a press release (pdf) to this effect on their web site."

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  1. Don't call... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    my ass... I want a don't spam list.

    1. Re:Don't call... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      Do you mean like this?

    2. Re:Don't call... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      Actually, YOU aren't OT. The AC you replied to (me) is. Since you remained on either the original story or the parent post's topic, you aren't OT. You're actually informative (not a karma whore - you're AC). (Actually, I knew about it, but the government can't do jack shit about spammers - I was thinking a deflector list that DDoSes spammers that are junk according to a bayesian filter, and notifies the ISP and the ISP's backbone maintainer. BTW, I know of something that notifies the ISP - I just forget the name)

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  4. More DNC scams by stinkydog · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I got a telemarketing call "from a 501 3c" who was offering me a loan at "a great rate". As this particular "charity" was not listed with the IRS, I reported them for both a DNC violation (calling me) and a fraud violation (claiming to be a charity but not). I hope those a-holes fry.

    SD

    --
    âoeWho knew something as harmless as willful ignorance could end up having real consequences?â
  5. When I get a telemarketers call, by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I think of Ike Thomas and when I think about Ike I get a hard-on that won't quit.

    Sixty years ago, I worked in what was once my Grandfather's Greenhouses. Gramps had died a year earlier and Grandma, now in her seventies had been forced to sell to the competition. I got a job with the new owners and mostly worked the range by myself. That summer, they hired a man to help me get the benches ready for the fall planting.

    Ike always looked like he was three days from a shave and his whiskers were dirty white, shaded by the brim of his battered felt fedora.

    He did not chew tobacco but the corners of his mouth turned down in a way that, at any moment, I expected a trickle of thin, brown juice to creep down his chin. His bushy, brown eyebrows shaded pale, gray eyes.

    The old-timer extended his hand, lifted his leg like a dog about to mark a bush and let go the loudest fart I ever heard. The old fellow then winked at me, "Ike Thomas is the name and playing pecker's my game."

    I thought he said, "Checkers." I was nineteen, green as grass. I said, "I was never much good at that game."

    "Now me," said Ike, "I just love jumping men . . ."

    "I'll bet you do."

    ". . . and grabbing on to their peckers," said Ike.

    "I though we were talking about . . ."

    "You like jumping old men's peckers?"

    I shook my head.

    "I reckon we'll have to remedy that." Ike lifted his right leg and let go another tremendous fart. "He said, "We best be getting to work."

    That summer of 1941 was a more innocent time. I learned most of the sex I knew from those little eight pager cartoon booklets of comic-page characters going at it. Young men read them in the privacy of an outside john, played with themselves, by themselves and didn't brag about it. Sometimes, we got off with a trusted friend and helped each other out.

    Under the greenhouse glass, the temperature some times climbed over the hundred degree mark. I had worked stripped to the waist since April and was as brown as a berry. On only his second day on the job and in the middle of August, Ike wore old fashioned overalls. Those and socks in his high-top work shoes was every stitch he wore. When he bent forward, the bib front billowed out and I could see the white curly hairs on his chest and belly.

    "Me? I just love to eat pussy!" Ike licked his lips from corner to corner then sticking his tongue out far enough that the tip could touch the end of his nose. He said, A man's not a man till he knows first hand, the flavor of a lady's pussy."

    "People do that?"

    He winked. "Of course the taste of a hard cock ain't to be sneezed at neither. Now you answer me, yes or no. Does a man's cock taste salty or not?"

    "I never . . ."

    "Well, old Ike's willing to let you find out."

    "No way."

    "Just teasing," said Ike. "But don't give me no sass or I'll show you my ass." He winked. "Might show it to you anyway, if you was to ask."

    "Why would I do that?"

    "Curiosity, maybe. I'm guessing you never had a good piece of man ass."

    "I'm no queer."

    "Now don't be getting judgmental. Enjoying what's at hand ain't being queer. It's taking pleasure where you find it with anybody willing." Ike slipped a hand into the side slit of his overalls and I could tell he was fondling and straightening out his cock. "Now I admit I got me a hole that satisfied a few guys."

    I swallowed, hard.

    Ike winked. "Care to be asshole buddies?"

    ***

    We worked steadily until noon. Ike drew a worn pocket watch from the bib pocket of his loose overalls and croaked, "Bean time. But first its time to reel out our limber hoses and make with the golden arches before lunch."

    I followed Ike to the end of the greenhouse where he stopped at the outside wall of the potting shed. He opened his fly, fished inside, and finger-hooked a soft white penis with a pouting fore

  6. But consider this similar viloation of the list: by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Captain's Log: My Anus is too Fucking Tight

    One day Captain Kirk was maiming his cock with a horseshoe when suddenly Mr. Spock ran up to him and shoved his pointy ear up his butt. "What is this for!" the fag captain said. "FAGS FOR YOU AALL!L!!!" the ancient alien howled as suddenly he farted and Captain Kirk twirled around in a daze and his foreskin twisted and his kidney stones turned into wooden beads. He pulled out his pistol and shot lasers at his chastity belt and suddenly he hurdled his dick into Captain Kirk"s bellybutton and it tore his flesh while Spock fucked his stomach. Kirk hollered out loud and Mr. Spock threw his shoes to the floor and wrinkled his penis until Kirk bellowed out to make it stop. A maelstom of shit whizzed around the ship and suddenly a giant fag appeared out side and the U.S.S. Enterprise went up his butt. "Oh what the hell have you gotten us into NOW!" Captain Kirk said as he oozed a condom back on his dick and put his panties back on. "OOH!H!!!!!!" Mr. Spock started fucking him again and shoved his phazer up his butt. He dissolved his glands and exploded his turds and finally a queer klingon hurdled through the door and smashed Kirk with his butt hairs. A maniac sucked his dick and suddenly Mr. Spock fagged Kirk so hard that his intestines burst open and he died.

  7. Whew! by theendlessnow · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I thought they had attacked the RNC.

  8. Mod +1, "Give them their Just Deserts" by Courageous · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    This is a test; this is only a test; if this were actual text, it would have contained content explaining where to go and what to do. Beeeeeeeep.

  9. Re:Protect Personal Privacy! by Pig+Hogger · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    I mostly support you on this, but not quite completely. I am the owner of two small businesses, and a small business finds it very hard to get the word out about its existence. If you don't know it's out there, you won't go looking for it.
    This is **YOUR** problem. Don't make it our problem. You're a scumbag the moment you step into my very private life against my will.
  10. Re:Protect Personal Privacy! by Dalroth · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Did you ever hear of flyers or bulletin boards or advertising on the sides of busses or advertising on Taxi cabs?

    Seriously, there are a LOT of ways you can get your word out without violating other people's privacy.

    Why not have a group of actors go down to the lakefront (or whatever the equivalent is in your city) and do some free Shakespear performances during lunch? Pass out some flyers when you're done!

    There's SO much you could possibly do, and some of it (free Shakespear in the park) is very positive. If all you can do is rely on "calling" people at home during dinner, you're hardly doing yourselves justice and you're certainly not doing us a favor. I sure as hell won't go see ANY performance troup that has the gall to disturb me by calling me at home, that's for sure.

    Bryan