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Supreme Court Backs Do-Not-Call List
The Ghetto Imp writes "According to CNN Money, the Supreme Court has rejected the appeal of telemarketing companies, which were claiming that the do-not-call list violated their free speech rights. "
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Violation of free speech? Excuse me? They think that they have a RIGHT to interrupt my dinner, sex life, or gaming? Or, even more importantly, Slashdotting? I THINK NOT
"What I cary in this box is your utter subjugation."
You are in a dark place. Everyone is laughing at your FP failure. You are likely to be eaten a grue.
In related headlines, robbers worldwide have begun arguing that they don't like it when their victims carry guns.
This really seems like an argument from desparation.
I know I can't be the only one who is simply amazed at the success people have gained through activities that simply annoy most people.
After giving this some careful thought I have been developing a marketting plan that will exploit other things that annoy people as a means of marketting.
Given that many of the most popular foods served in the U.S. often result in halitosis and/or flatulation (which are both annoyances) I have decided to develop this as a marketting scheme that not only benefits the hungry and homeless out there (an important public service) but also spreads the word about any given human consumable food or drink on the market, present and future.
My scheme, known as "Fartketting," consists of hiring low-cost employees and volunteers to consume only the food or drink of any given campaign and then either talk to people about it in close-in, poorly ventilated areas or simply emitting the natural effects of said products either in the form of flatulation or other gastric anomoly. This can be thought of as serving samples to the unsoliciting public.
I believe that if current marketting trends are effective, then this too should be an effective way of spreading the word about products and services to the public.
This method of marketting is currently patent pending, so don't get any wise ideas! This baby is ALL MINE!
How about next we ban companies from asking for your phone number every single chance they get?
The DNC list definitely makes it possible to opt-in by giving your phone number out and signing a contract (read the fine print). So what I do is give out real numbers that do not belong to me. For example, the police department in Lakewood, Ohio, 44107, is 216-521-1234. Stores all over the east coast have that number in their databases. I list it publically in my Yahoo profile and I think on my web site. I had an old high school friend IM me asking why a policeman picked up the phone when he called me. I am evil :-)
Anyway, as long as companies try to take away my freedom not to be interrupted with spam email, spam paper mail, and spam phone calls, I will exercise my freedom to fuck with their databases.
24 beers in a case, 24 hours in a day. Coincidence? I think not!
They do in Texas - you can shoot trespassers there. If only there was a similar harsh penalty for telemarketers :)
A fine is a tax you pay for doing wrong and a tax is a fine you pay for doing all right.
competency, conflicting goals, and uneven beneviolence (emphasis mine)
so is this a simple typo on "benevolence," a freudian slip, or a clever play on "beneficial violence?"
Most clerks are too stupid to know that all 555 numbers are invalid.
They'll probably ask if you're from Hollywood.
If you are not allowed to question your government then the government has answered your question.
...the Right of Free Speech does not mean the right to force yourself to be heard.
By their logic, I should be able to go cap a few telemarketers, and it would be legal because of my right to Bear Arms.
By their logic...
You are in a maze of twisty little passages, all alike.