If ABC were bound by this it would be in violation, but under exemptions in the document it states:
The following acts or practices are exempt from this Rule:
(c) Telephone calls in which the sale of goods or services is not completed, and payment or authorization of payment is not required, until after a face-to-face sales presentation by the seller;
Since ABC is definitly not selling the callee anything (they're selling viewers to advertisers) I don't belive this applies to their calls.
Also ABC's plan doesn't quite fit the documents definition of telemarketing:
(u) Telemarketing means a plan, program, or campaign which is conducted to induce the purchase of goods or services by use of one or more telephones and which involves more than one interstate telephone call. The term does not include the solicitation of sales through the mailing of a catalog which: contains a written description or illustration of the goods or services offered for sale; includes the business address of the seller; includes multiple pages of written material or illustrations; and has been issued not less frequently than once a year, when the person making the solicitation does not solicit customers by telephone but only receives calls initiated by customers in response to the catalog and during those calls takes orders only without further solicitation. For purposes of the previous sentence, the term "further solicitation" does not include providing the customer with information about, or attempting to sell, any other item included in the same catalog which prompted the customer's call or in a substantially similar catalog.
ABC is not selling anything, and the calls would have to be interstate if ABC were to be bound by this, and just looking at cost ABC would probably set up call centers in the cities in question and get around this.
If there is a federal law that would stop ABC this is not it.
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Am I the only one who noted the Stirling Engine Scooter Power Supply picture? That's pretty cool and fits in with a lot of the original "IT" rumors.
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
int main(void)
{
int c, i, j;
char seq[4];
char message[1024];
seq[3] = '\0';
i = j = 0;
while ((c = getchar()) != EOF) {
if (i == 3) {
i = 0;
message[j++] = strtol(seq, NULL, 4) + 'a' - 1;
}
if (c >= '0' && c <= '3')
seq[i++] = c;
else if (c == '/')
continue;
else
message[j++] = c;
}
message[j] = '\0';
printf("%s", message);
}
The answer is 500000500000.
Microsoft can't meet their launch date, and this was the easiest way to buy time/press
This contest is performed over the internet. Read the page. The prize is free registration for the conference.
If ABC were bound by this it would be in violation, but under exemptions in the document it states:
Since ABC is definitly not selling the callee anything (they're selling viewers to advertisers) I don't belive this applies to their calls.
Also ABC's plan doesn't quite fit the documents definition of telemarketing:
ABC is not selling anything, and the calls would have to be interstate if ABC were to be bound by this, and just looking at cost ABC would probably set up call centers in the cities in question and get around this.
If there is a federal law that would stop ABC this is not it.