If the goddammed yankees (and the comment is the same - although a bit mitigated
- for the limeys) didn't have their fucking heads so far up their arses, they'd
see that not everyone else in the world is as brain-fuckedly-dead as they are,
see there are ***ACTUALLY*** cases where State-Owned entreprises can vastly
outperform private industry. Heck, in many respects, the USA is no better than
many goat-fucking turd-world countries in many sectors such as air-transport,
telecommunications and power distribution.
Sad that people who spend years on an MBA degree that presumably includes
a course on Spotting The Obvious 101 can't, well, spot the obvious.
Has it occured to you that the whole idea behind a MBA is is NOT ABOUT SPOTTING
THE OBVIOUS??? That's left for underlings whose opinions are discarded anyways
(if not the underling itself).
What's the idea behind a MBA is greed, greed, greed and more GREED.
MBAs are about extremely short-sighted profit-maximizing though any means possible,
including disreputable, unethical, slimy and illegal ones.
Interfered with somebody's ability to make a living? Since when is that a right? If I've got a business model of strangling small children (or something legal thats equally offensive)
There's just over a year to go before the 2004 presidential election, and everybody in the nation is extremely excited. Except of course the public. The public, shrewdly, pays no attention to presidential politics until all of the peripheral dorks have been weeded out, and it's finally time to make a selection between the two main dorks left over.
So what does the public care about right now? Telemarketers. The public hates them. It hates them even more than it hates France, low-flow toilets or ''customer service.''
We know this because recently the Federal Trade Commission, implementing the most popular federal concept since the Elvis stamp, created the National Do Not Call Registry. The way it works is, if you are a member of that select group of people (defined as ''people with phones'') who do not wish to receive unsolicited calls from telemarketers, you can go to www.donotcall.gov and register your phone number. Starting Oct. 1, any telemarketer who calls you will be locked in a tiny room with a large, insatiable man who will force the telemarketer, repeatedly, at all hours of the day and night, to change his long-distance provider.
No, sorry, that was the original concept. But the law is pretty strict: For each call to a registered number, telemarketers face an $11,000 fine. This program is a huge hit with the public. Already 30 million American households have registered; this figure would be even higher if it included all the Florida residents who tried to register but accidentally voted for Patrick Buchanan instead.
And how has the telemarketing industry responded to this tidal wave of public hostility? It has issued this statement: ''Gosh, if these people really don't want us to call them, then there's no point in our calling them! We'd only be making them hate us more, and that's just plain stupid! We'll try to come up with a less offensive way to do business.''
No, wait, that's what the telemarketers would say in Bizarro World, where everything is backward, and Superman is bad, and telemarketers contain human DNA. Here on Earth, the telemarketers are claiming they have a constitutional right to call people who do not want to be called. They base this claim on Article VX, Section iii, row 5, seat 2, of the U.S. Constitution, which states: ''If anybody ever invents the telephone, Congress shall pass no law prohibiting salespeople from using it to interrupt dinner.''
Leading the charge for the telemarketing industry is the American Teleservices Association (suggested motto: 'Some Day, We Will Get a Dictionary and Look Up 'Services' ''). This group argues that, if its members are prohibited from calling people who do not want to be called, then two million telemarketers will lose their jobs. Of course, you could use pretty much the same reasoning to argue that laws against mugging cause unemployment among muggers. But that would be unfair. Muggers rarely intrude into your home.
So what's the answer? Is there a constitutional way that we telephone customers can have our peace, without inconveniencing the people whose livelihoods depend on keeping their legal right to inconvenience us? Maybe we could pay the telemarketing industry not to call us, kind of like paying ''protection money'' to organized crime. Or maybe we could actually hire organized crime to explain our position to telemarketing-industry executives, who would then be given a fair opportunity to respond, while the cement was hardening.
I'm just thinking out loud here. I'm sure you have a better idea for how we can resolve our differences with the telemarketing industry. If you do, call me. No, wait, I have a better idea: Call the American Teleservices Association, toll-free, at 1-877-779-3974, and tell them what you think. I'm sure they'd love to hear your constitutionally protected views! Be sure to wipe your mouthpiece afterward.
In closing, here's an:
IMPORTANT REMINDER -- Mark your calendar with a big ''X'' on Sept. 19, which is the second annual National Talk Like A Pi
Oh come on here. I can see the immediate appeal of this kind of puerile action, but in the end you're just sinking to the telemarketers' level.
Dave has interfered with these people's ability to make a living. Indeed, he may well have cost a number of jobs with this article! At the end of the day, the innocent collateral damage is going to mean that many people don't eat because Dave went after another cheap laugh and went on the attack.
... Have you accepted Jesus as your Lord and Savior?
Here is another proof that religion warps mercilessly someone's brain.
Whenever you have an internet presence through a domain, you have a public presence. And there is no reason why there should be no traceability towards your domain.
Right now, there are thousands of spamming scum who post bogus information in their domain registration in order to foil the wrath of spamfighters.
When all P2P software is outlawed, when CDs are unrippable, when people
aren't allowed to play the music they bought without agreeing
to spot audits of their homes/computers/person for any copyright infringing
materials, and sales figure decreases actually accelerate ...
Slashdot Mirror
Now why New-York Telephone was known as The voice with a snarl ???
If the goddammed yankees (and the comment is the same - although a bit mitigated - for the limeys) didn't have their fucking heads so far up their arses, they'd see that not everyone else in the world is as brain-fuckedly-dead as they are, see there are ***ACTUALLY*** cases where State-Owned entreprises can vastly outperform private industry. Heck, in many respects, the USA is no better than many goat-fucking turd-world countries in many sectors such as air-transport, telecommunications and power distribution.
What's the idea behind a MBA is greed, greed, greed and more GREED. MBAs are about extremely short-sighted profit-maximizing though any means possible, including disreputable, unethical, slimy and illegal ones.
There was a word written in roman script, though, which I understood.
The word was GOOGLE...
Holy smoke! The penguin thinks he can escape us into that smokescreen! Quick, Robin, give me the bat-sonar-headphones!
What part of 1/d squared don't they understand?
There's just over a year to go before the 2004 presidential election, and everybody in the nation is extremely excited. Except of course the public. The public, shrewdly, pays no attention to presidential politics until all of the peripheral dorks have been weeded out, and it's finally time to make a selection between the two main dorks left over.
So what does the public care about right now? Telemarketers. The public hates them. It hates them even more than it hates France, low-flow toilets or ''customer service.''
We know this because recently the Federal Trade Commission, implementing the most popular federal concept since the Elvis stamp, created the National Do Not Call Registry. The way it works is, if you are a member of that select group of people (defined as ''people with phones'') who do not wish to receive unsolicited calls from telemarketers, you can go to www.donotcall.gov and register your phone number. Starting Oct. 1, any telemarketer who calls you will be locked in a tiny room with a large, insatiable man who will force the telemarketer, repeatedly, at all hours of the day and night, to change his long-distance provider.
No, sorry, that was the original concept. But the law is pretty strict: For each call to a registered number, telemarketers face an $11,000 fine. This program is a huge hit with the public. Already 30 million American households have registered; this figure would be even higher if it included all the Florida residents who tried to register but accidentally voted for Patrick Buchanan instead.
And how has the telemarketing industry responded to this tidal wave of public hostility? It has issued this statement: ''Gosh, if these people really don't want us to call them, then there's no point in our calling them! We'd only be making them hate us more, and that's just plain stupid! We'll try to come up with a less offensive way to do business.''
No, wait, that's what the telemarketers would say in Bizarro World, where everything is backward, and Superman is bad, and telemarketers contain human DNA. Here on Earth, the telemarketers are claiming they have a constitutional right to call people who do not want to be called. They base this claim on Article VX, Section iii, row 5, seat 2, of the U.S. Constitution, which states: ''If anybody ever invents the telephone, Congress shall pass no law prohibiting salespeople from using it to interrupt dinner.''
Leading the charge for the telemarketing industry is the American Teleservices Association (suggested motto: 'Some Day, We Will Get a Dictionary and Look Up 'Services' ''). This group argues that, if its members are prohibited from calling people who do not want to be called, then two million telemarketers will lose their jobs. Of course, you could use pretty much the same reasoning to argue that laws against mugging cause unemployment among muggers. But that would be unfair. Muggers rarely intrude into your home.
So what's the answer? Is there a constitutional way that we telephone customers can have our peace, without inconveniencing the people whose livelihoods depend on keeping their legal right to inconvenience us? Maybe we could pay the telemarketing industry not to call us, kind of like paying ''protection money'' to organized crime. Or maybe we could actually hire organized crime to explain our position to telemarketing-industry executives, who would then be given a fair opportunity to respond, while the cement was hardening.
I'm just thinking out loud here. I'm sure you have a better idea for how we can resolve our differences with the telemarketing industry. If you do, call me. No, wait, I have a better idea: Call the American Teleservices Association, toll-free, at 1-877-779-3974, and tell them what you think. I'm sure they'd love to hear your constitutionally protected views! Be sure to wipe your mouthpiece afterward.
In closing, here's an:
IMPORTANT REMINDER -- Mark your calendar with a big ''X'' on Sept. 19, which is the second annual National Talk Like A Pi
Make sure no one do to you what you do to others...
Make sure your market is not undermined by the competition, free or otherwise.
Just in case, here is my own mirror of it.
Right now, there are thousands of spamming scum who post bogus information in their domain registration in order to foil the wrath of spamfighters.
Downloads away!!!!!
(What a fucking lame "lameness" filter; I have to put that crap line just to not have the post rejected.)
The only thing I got was a Logitech serial mouse that came with "Generic CADD", for a whopping $250.
Needless to say, I had plenty of fun with the CAD package... :)
The nice thing with it is that I can take notes without letting the mouse go...
There is no need to charge for congestion. Congestion by itself is the penalty for driving on a congested road.