It doesn't matter if you're on the DNC or not. It's flat out illegal for telemarketers to call your cell phone with autodialers and prerecorded messages thanks to the Telephone Consumer Protection Act of 1991.
Almost every time I've asked to be removed from a telemarketer's list, I get hung up on. I've had a few of the 'charity' callers tell me they aren't required to remove me and continue to try to push whatever crap they're trying to get my money for.
I don't feel bad in the slightest about telemarketers getting abused by the people they bother. I almost feel bad for the charities that are wasting money on these assholes, but then I get over it because they hired these assholes.
I guarantee that all the loophole groups (charities, political groups, etc.) do that. Before signing up for the DNC, I almost never got called by them. Now I get several calls a day from them. And that's in addition to the "dead line" calls I now get.
...with the new book being announced to come out this year.
No it hasn't.
Martin has made promises the last couple of years that he would focus and get it finished, but has instead published 4 books in the Wild Card series and edited/coauthored several other works. The last formal update on his site was another "I'll get it done this year" dated January 2008. Informally, he's stated on LiveJournal several times that he's hoping to complete various chapters "soon."
There's a lot of places with Cable that are also out of range of DSL. Even in the densely populated Northeastern US, I've lived in several places where I could get service from the local cable company, but not DSL. Right now, I'm about 15 miles outside of Washington, DC and, until they brought FiOS out here, Verizon would not offer DSL. Now that I have FiOS, I'm getting junk mail every other week offering "High-speed DSL." You'd think they'd be smart enough to not send those mailings to people who are already customers of their superior product..
Quite frankly, I didn't want Verizon's DSL service, but the cable company (Comcrap in this instance) needs some level of competition or they become the overpriced customer service nightmare that they were for me.
I'm counting these local papers separate from the 'Advertising Section' that the Washington Post has dumped in my mailbox every week and a few other items like it.
At least one of these has a 'crime blotter' and local school sports and the like, but they're all a minumum of 2/3 advertising. The only time I've ever found them slightly useful is around election season as one source of info about local ballot items.
One of them (Ashburn Today), I've also seen in those dispensers in front of grocery stores right along side the apartment/home/car buyers guides. As if anyone needs another copy.
Despite the fact that the postal worker won't not stick it in my mailbox, whenever I have my mail held at the post office (for a long business trip or whatever), they, along with all the pure advertising junk, are not included with the mail I pick up. I'm sure it's because they're not actually addressed to me (they're not addressed to anyone, even 'current resident'), which is probably also why they won't not include them in my regular mail delivery.
If they mean 'local papers' the way I think, then I'd be happy to see them gone. I get three local papers, one of them twice a week, simply because they have the postal service stuff them in every single mailbox. They go straight into the recycle bin.
I tried reading a couple when I first started getting them (at the time it was just 2 once a week), and it was approx 4 pages of 'news' printed on 20-30 pages and filled with ads. Given their lack of actual reporting, a vast majority of their cost is printing and distribution. Those costs only go up since they're basically carpet bombing one of the fastest growing counties in the country.
A friend of mine in Florida had a 1990 Toyota Camry back around Y2K. Despite having a V6, the A/C was such a drain on the power that everyone referred to the 'A/C' button as the 'Turbo' button. There was a significant difference in available power when the button was toggled. He claimed it had been like that even when he first got it (when it was only 2 or 3 years old).
I fly monthly for business.. I haven't been on a plane with a 'business class' in about a decade. Even the last 747 flight I was on only had 'first class' and 'economy class.' Most planes only have a small (6 or 7 rows) 'first class' and everyone else is crammed into economy (I'll leave the gripes about that section for another day).
In addition to your latch and contacts, there's also the internal structure to contain said removable battery and the case of the removable battery. By having a non-removable battery, they save on both of these.
...(both sides did run negative campaigns to a degree)...
To a degree?
I don't know about where you live, but here in northern Virginia, the only campaigning I saw or heard was negative. McCain's seemed to be primarily fear-mongering and Obama's seemed to be primarily "McCain is bad because he's just like Bush." But that's typical of campaigning here. It's extraordinarily rare to see anything but smear campaigns here.
I'm sure that both sides had a few positive advertisements, but I never saw them. The only positive campaign message I ever saw was Obama's acceptance speech (to me it felt more like a campaign speech than an acceptance speech).
Jezza already promised that he would test out all the fast cars after Hamster's crash. Personally, I think Captain Slow should drive it. After all, he was the one to go max speed in the Bugatti.
At least we can count on the two of them not to shouting out "I am a driving god!"
Given that the whole thing is run by an auto-dialer, it probably calls far more numbers than they have of "customer service reps." If too many answer and follow through, the call is terminated instead of putting you on hold.
When I managed to get a person on one of the "debt reduction" calls, right off the bat the lady asked "What credit card do you want help with?" The instant you start asking questions, they hang up. I'm guessing that their whole scam is to find idiots willing to just hand over their account information.
I receive spoofed caller id, pre-recorded calls on my cell phone for credit card debt reduction, car warranties, and mortgages that leave no number, identify themselves only as "Bob," "Jim," or whatever and do not provide a number. They tell you to press a number to talk to a rep, but if you do, most of the time they hang up on you. If you get through to a person and either ask to be taken off their list or for any information about who they are, they hang up on you.
They do everything they can to *not* be identified because they know it's illegal.
The cell provider industry in the US is all about double-dipping. Pay to send and receive phone calls, text messages, whatever. Receiving anything should not be charged since you have ZERO control over who calls or texts you.
He's not talking about emailing from your phone. He's talking about sending an email to your phone that gets delivered as a text message. Big difference. There's no data plan involved.
Verizon will send a text message to my phone if someone sends an email to <my number>@vtext.com and happily charge me for it, even if it's spam. There's no way for them to charge the sender.
You still get the same thing at restaurants in the airport. Metal fork and crappy knife that breaks when you try to use it - assuming you don't break it trying to get it out of the plastic wrap. I went through 4 knives trying to eat my dinner in Atlanta a couple months ago before I gave up trying to cut the meat first.
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It doesn't matter if you're on the DNC or not. It's flat out illegal for telemarketers to call your cell phone with autodialers and prerecorded messages thanks to the Telephone Consumer Protection Act of 1991.
Almost every time I've asked to be removed from a telemarketer's list, I get hung up on. I've had a few of the 'charity' callers tell me they aren't required to remove me and continue to try to push whatever crap they're trying to get my money for.
I don't feel bad in the slightest about telemarketers getting abused by the people they bother. I almost feel bad for the charities that are wasting money on these assholes, but then I get over it because they hired these assholes.
I guarantee that all the loophole groups (charities, political groups, etc.) do that. Before signing up for the DNC, I almost never got called by them. Now I get several calls a day from them. And that's in addition to the "dead line" calls I now get.
...with the new book being announced to come out this year.
No it hasn't.
Martin has made promises the last couple of years that he would focus and get it finished, but has instead published 4 books in the Wild Card series and edited/coauthored several other works. The last formal update on his site was another "I'll get it done this year" dated January 2008. Informally, he's stated on LiveJournal several times that he's hoping to complete various chapters "soon."
There's a lot of places with Cable that are also out of range of DSL. Even in the densely populated Northeastern US, I've lived in several places where I could get service from the local cable company, but not DSL. Right now, I'm about 15 miles outside of Washington, DC and, until they brought FiOS out here, Verizon would not offer DSL. Now that I have FiOS, I'm getting junk mail every other week offering "High-speed DSL." You'd think they'd be smart enough to not send those mailings to people who are already customers of their superior product..
Quite frankly, I didn't want Verizon's DSL service, but the cable company (Comcrap in this instance) needs some level of competition or they become the overpriced customer service nightmare that they were for me.
Making enormous swiss cheese?
Yes.
I was thinking more along the lines of:
Sloshdat: Brews for nerds. Drinks that matter.
I'm counting these local papers separate from the 'Advertising Section' that the Washington Post has dumped in my mailbox every week and a few other items like it.
At least one of these has a 'crime blotter' and local school sports and the like, but they're all a minumum of 2/3 advertising. The only time I've ever found them slightly useful is around election season as one source of info about local ballot items.
One of them (Ashburn Today), I've also seen in those dispensers in front of grocery stores right along side the apartment/home/car buyers guides. As if anyone needs another copy.
Despite the fact that the postal worker won't not stick it in my mailbox, whenever I have my mail held at the post office (for a long business trip or whatever), they, along with all the pure advertising junk, are not included with the mail I pick up. I'm sure it's because they're not actually addressed to me (they're not addressed to anyone, even 'current resident'), which is probably also why they won't not include them in my regular mail delivery.
If they mean 'local papers' the way I think, then I'd be happy to see them gone. I get three local papers, one of them twice a week, simply because they have the postal service stuff them in every single mailbox. They go straight into the recycle bin.
I tried reading a couple when I first started getting them (at the time it was just 2 once a week), and it was approx 4 pages of 'news' printed on 20-30 pages and filled with ads. Given their lack of actual reporting, a vast majority of their cost is printing and distribution. Those costs only go up since they're basically carpet bombing one of the fastest growing counties in the country.
A friend of mine in Florida had a 1990 Toyota Camry back around Y2K. Despite having a V6, the A/C was such a drain on the power that everyone referred to the 'A/C' button as the 'Turbo' button. There was a significant difference in available power when the button was toggled. He claimed it had been like that even when he first got it (when it was only 2 or 3 years old).
I fly monthly for business.. I haven't been on a plane with a 'business class' in about a decade. Even the last 747 flight I was on only had 'first class' and 'economy class.' Most planes only have a small (6 or 7 rows) 'first class' and everyone else is crammed into economy (I'll leave the gripes about that section for another day).
In addition to your latch and contacts, there's also the internal structure to contain said removable battery and the case of the removable battery. By having a non-removable battery, they save on both of these.
You're off by a decade. Snow Crash was released in 1992. I read it as part of a college course (Science Fiction and Virtual Reality) in 1995.
...(both sides did run negative campaigns to a degree)...
To a degree?
I don't know about where you live, but here in northern Virginia, the only campaigning I saw or heard was negative. McCain's seemed to be primarily fear-mongering and Obama's seemed to be primarily "McCain is bad because he's just like Bush." But that's typical of campaigning here. It's extraordinarily rare to see anything but smear campaigns here.
I'm sure that both sides had a few positive advertisements, but I never saw them. The only positive campaign message I ever saw was Obama's acceptance speech (to me it felt more like a campaign speech than an acceptance speech).
Jezza already promised that he would test out all the fast cars after Hamster's crash. Personally, I think Captain Slow should drive it. After all, he was the one to go max speed in the Bugatti.
At least we can count on the two of them not to shouting out "I am a driving god!"
Given that the whole thing is run by an auto-dialer, it probably calls far more numbers than they have of "customer service reps." If too many answer and follow through, the call is terminated instead of putting you on hold.
When I managed to get a person on one of the "debt reduction" calls, right off the bat the lady asked "What credit card do you want help with?" The instant you start asking questions, they hang up. I'm guessing that their whole scam is to find idiots willing to just hand over their account information.
I receive spoofed caller id, pre-recorded calls on my cell phone for credit card debt reduction, car warranties, and mortgages that leave no number, identify themselves only as "Bob," "Jim," or whatever and do not provide a number. They tell you to press a number to talk to a rep, but if you do, most of the time they hang up on you. If you get through to a person and either ask to be taken off their list or for any information about who they are, they hang up on you.
They do everything they can to *not* be identified because they know it's illegal.
Same goes with any official political call, unless it's a slimy call to start with...
It's a political call. What would it be aside from slimy?
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The cell provider industry in the US is all about double-dipping. Pay to send and receive phone calls, text messages, whatever. Receiving anything should not be charged since you have ZERO control over who calls or texts you.
He's not talking about emailing from your phone. He's talking about sending an email to your phone that gets delivered as a text message. Big difference. There's no data plan involved.
Verizon will send a text message to my phone if someone sends an email to <my number>@vtext.com and happily charge me for it, even if it's spam. There's no way for them to charge the sender.
You still get the same thing at restaurants in the airport. Metal fork and crappy knife that breaks when you try to use it - assuming you don't break it trying to get it out of the plastic wrap. I went through 4 knives trying to eat my dinner in Atlanta a couple months ago before I gave up trying to cut the meat first.
You plan on giving them Wonder Woman's plane?