Most flowering wisteria you see were grown from cuttings as well. If you grow one from seed, you have to wait ten years to see whether you bought one that blooms.
Seroiusly though, it's bad that a lot of people will be out of work because of this, but that doesn't mean that I have to let them annoy and disturb me constantly just to make a buck.
Well, of course not. I wasn't suggesting anyone should. I was merely observing how it was predictable that telemarketers would shift into different industries. It could be that the amounts of Spam, snail mail, or whatever else they come up with will increase so much as to be more annoying than the original calls were.
CNN reports that companies who heavily use telemarketing are planning to counterattack consumers with a barrage of spam and junk mail in October, when the new do-not-call registry goes into effect.
I'm interested in knowing whether anyone actually didn't see this coming. While no one likes, telemarketers, one must admit that the list will doubtlessly hurt many soon-to-be "former telemarketers." The Do Not Call list could essentially will kill an entire industry. Branching out into other areas of annoying advertising is inevitable since they naturally wouldn't want to go bankrupt. How else could they possibly continue working?
So then, was the list even a good idea in the first place? You can't stop advertizers with a law -- annoying people will always find new ways to get their message across.
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Most flowering wisteria you see were grown from cuttings as well. If you grow one from seed, you have to wait ten years to see whether you bought one that blooms.
Seroiusly though, it's bad that a lot of people will be out of work because of this, but that doesn't mean that I have to let them annoy and disturb me constantly just to make a buck.
Well, of course not. I wasn't suggesting anyone should. I was merely observing how it was predictable that telemarketers would shift into different industries. It could be that the amounts of Spam, snail mail, or whatever else they come up with will increase so much as to be more annoying than the original calls were.
CNN reports that companies who heavily use telemarketing are planning to counterattack consumers with a barrage of spam and junk mail in October, when the new do-not-call registry goes into effect.
I'm interested in knowing whether anyone actually didn't see this coming. While no one likes, telemarketers, one must admit that the list will doubtlessly hurt many soon-to-be "former telemarketers." The Do Not Call list could essentially will kill an entire industry. Branching out into other areas of annoying advertising is inevitable since they naturally wouldn't want to go bankrupt. How else could they possibly continue working?
So then, was the list even a good idea in the first place? You can't stop advertizers with a law -- annoying people will always find new ways to get their message across.