Andy Rooney, CBS Newsman Tips for Handling Telemarketers & JUNK MAIL
Three Little Words That Work !! (1) The three little words are: "Hold On, Please..."
Saying this, while putting down your phone and walking off (instead of hanging-up immediately) would make each telemarketing call so much more time-consuming that boiler room sales would grind to a halt.
Then when you eventually hear the phone company's "beep-beep-beep" tone, you know it's time to go back and hang up your handset, which has efficiently completed its task.
These three little words will help eliminate telephone soliciting.
(2) Do you ever get those annoying phone calls with no one on the other end? This is a telemarketing technique where a machine makes phone calls and records the time of day when a person answers the phone.
This technique is used to determine the best time of day for a "real" sales person to call back and get someone at home.
What you can do after answering, if you notice there is no one there, is to immediately start hitting your # button on the phone, 6 or 7 times, as quickly as possible. This confuses the machine that dialed the call and it kicks your number out of their system. Gosh, what a shame not to have your name in their system any longer!!!
(3) Junk Mail Help: When you get "ads" enclosed with your phone or utility bill, return these "ads" with your payment. Let the sending companies throw their own junk mail away.
When you get those "pre-approved" letters in the mail for everything from credit cards to 2nd mortgages and similar type junk, do not throw away the return envelope.
Most of these come with postage-paid return envelopes, right? It costs them more than the regular 37 cents postage "IF" and when they receive them back.
It costs them nothing if you throw them away! The postage was around 50 cents before the last increase and it is according to the weight. In that case, why not get rid of some of your other junk mail and put it in these cool little, postage-paid return envelopes.
One of Andy Rooney's (60 minutes) ideas. Send an ad for your local chimney cleaner to American Express. Send a pizza coupon to Citibank. If you didn't get anything else that day, then just send them their blank application back!
If you want to remain anonymous, just make sure your name isn't on anything you send them.
You can even send the envelope back empty if you want to just to keep them guessing! It still costs them 37 cents.
The banks and credit card companies are currently getting a lot of their own junk back in the mail, but folks, we need to OVERWHELM them. Let's let them know what it's like to get lots of junk mail, and best of all they're paying for it...Twice!
Let's help keep our postal service busy since they are saying that e-mail is cutting into their business profits, and that's why they need to increase postage costs again. You get the idea !
If enough people follow these tips, it will work ---- I have been doing this for years, and I get very little junk mail anymore.
Hey, I know I'm off topic but it's the next step. Big corps have now the control of the following: -Transportation (gas prices!) -Water (rain included in some countries!) -Food -Seeds (These one-shot seeds that "absolutely will not cross-pollinate with other plants"(tm)) (Dumb F&^Ken $h1ts)
All thanks to the control of: Government
They don't control the following, yet: -air we breath (pollution is step one, clean air for sale is step 2) -Procreation: Once they make most people unable to have kids they will force you to rent a artificial womb and sell you sperm that will one give you a kid, not grand-kids. They'll charge you double if you get twin, too.
-You go to a concert with your MP3 player. It happens to have a feature to record sound (ie. your voice). The guards at gate notice the ear buds and call the cops. The crime: attempted copyright infringement.
-You are about to take pictures of your friends at the mall in front of an electronics store. A TV showing a movie is in the back ground. Mall security see you and call the cops. The crime: attempted copyright infringement.
Any physical format like DVD or CD is laden with DRM and makes it harder to cover to a portable format (MPG,AVI,MP3,ogg,etc.)
TV is dying due to the 20+ minutes of commercials per hour. And these are the same 4 commercials repeated throughout the same hour. Even good commercials are repeated to a point where they become annoying like the worst commercials.
When I try to explain to non-techies why DRM and copy protection is useless I give them this analogy:
The Movie and Music Cartels give you a lock (DRM'd Movie, music, etc.) and a key (DVD player, etc). They get mad when you use them in a way that they don't approve. -Anybody knows you can't keep something locked up when everybody has the keys to that lock. At this point the non-techy laughs...
-Near the end they show a guy giving testimony that he can rig elections with electronic voting machines (old news for us/.'ers) -voting makes no difference. The same elite still call the shots (and no "lobbying" required!)
-It gets worse... -Banks print money and charges the US Gov. interest. -Corp taxes ==> Military (as per constitution) -Fed Pers income taxes ==> disappears (900+Billion) -Fort Knox gold has not been audited in decades -It gets worse, still.
-Patent the obvious. -Push for MS-Favorable patent laws -Cross-license patents as ONE revenu stream -Sue into oblivion companies that create real products, as the other revenu stream.
FYI: MS bought out NTP to avoid a patent suit in 2010 and fired all their programers and support people in 2016.
I don't know too many people who use protected WMV That's easy: Trojan writers. There's this "feature" to install licenses for WMA/WMV files that permit the covert installation of Trojans, backdoors and other malware.
Stay away from.WMA/.MWV files like the plague they are!!!
RE: You should spend some time working on large (100+ pages), complex documents in Word.
You are so right. I had weird issues in word dealing images: Blurry, moving, disappearing. That last one was the last straw. I did the switch 3 years ago and haven't lost a thing yet. BTW: I was under 100 pages when I switched.
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Andy Rooney, CBS Newsman
Tips for Handling Telemarketers & JUNK MAIL
Three Little Words That Work !!
(1) The three little words are: "Hold On, Please..."
Saying this, while putting down your phone and walking off (instead of
hanging-up immediately) would make each telemarketing call so much more
time-consuming that boiler room sales would grind to a halt.
Then when you eventually hear the phone company's "beep-beep-beep" tone,
you know it's time to go back and hang up your handset, which has
efficiently completed its task.
These three little words will help eliminate telephone soliciting.
(2) Do you ever get those annoying phone calls with no one on the other end?
This is a telemarketing technique where a machine makes phone calls and
records the time of day when a person answers the phone.
This technique is used to determine the best time of day for a "real"
sales person to call back and get someone at home.
What you can do after answering, if you notice there is no one there, is
to immediately start hitting your # button on the phone, 6 or 7 times, as
quickly as possible. This confuses the machine that dialed the call and it
kicks your number out of their system. Gosh, what a shame not to have your
name in their system any longer!!!
(3) Junk Mail Help:
When you get "ads" enclosed with your phone or utility bill, return these
"ads" with your payment. Let the sending companies throw their own junk mail away.
When you get those "pre-approved" letters in the mail for everything from
credit cards to 2nd mortgages and similar type junk, do not throw away the
return envelope.
Most of these come with postage-paid return envelopes, right? It costs
them more than the regular 37 cents postage "IF" and when they receive them back.
It costs them nothing if you throw them away! The postage was around 50
cents before the last increase and it is according to the weight. In that
case, why not get rid of some of your other junk mail and put it in these
cool little, postage-paid return envelopes.
One of Andy Rooney's (60 minutes) ideas.
Send an ad for your local chimney cleaner to American Express. Send a
pizza coupon to Citibank. If you didn't get anything else that day, then
just send them their blank application back!
If you want to remain anonymous, just make sure your name isn't on
anything you send them.
You can even send the envelope back empty if you want to just to keep
them guessing! It still costs them 37 cents.
The banks and credit card companies are currently getting a lot of their
own junk back in the mail, but folks, we need to OVERWHELM them. Let's let
them know what it's like to get lots of junk mail, and best of all they're
paying for it...Twice!
Let's help keep our postal service busy since they are saying that e-mail
is cutting into their business profits, and that's why they need to
increase postage costs again. You get the idea !
If enough people follow these tips, it will work ---- I have been doing
this for years, and I get very little junk mail anymore.
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Hey, I know I'm off topic but it's the next step.
Big corps have now the control of the following:
-Transportation (gas prices!)
-Water (rain included in some countries!)
-Food
-Seeds (These one-shot seeds that "absolutely will not cross-pollinate with other plants"(tm)) (Dumb F&^Ken $h1ts)
All thanks to the control of: Government
They don't control the following, yet:
-air we breath (pollution is step one, clean air for sale is step 2)
-Procreation:
Once they make most people unable to have kids they will force you to rent a artificial womb and sell you sperm that will one give you a kid, not grand-kids. They'll charge you double if you get twin, too.
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The movie industry doesn't have a "Piracy" problem.
They have a "Security" problem.
How else can you explain "DVD rips" of a movie WEEKS before it comes out?
I took a leap in adding an S for the plural for of "ENTWICKLER"
So how do you differentiate between one vs. many in German?
Like Hitler's speech, ballmer's speech is just like a good and beautifoul music but with crappy lyrics...
"ENTWICKLERS, ENTWICKLERS, ENTWICKLERS, ENTWICKLERS"
-You go to a concert with your MP3 player. It happens to have a feature to record sound (ie. your voice). The guards at gate notice the ear buds and call the cops. The crime: attempted copyright infringement.
-You are about to take pictures of your friends at the mall in front of an electronics store. A TV showing a movie is in the back ground. Mall security see you and call the cops. The crime: attempted copyright infringement.
I'm sure you can figure out some more.
We have the internet, memory cards, etc.
Any physical format like DVD or CD is laden with DRM and makes it harder to cover to a portable format (MPG,AVI,MP3,ogg,etc.)
TV is dying due to the 20+ minutes of commercials per hour.
And these are the same 4 commercials repeated throughout the same hour.
Even good commercials are repeated to a point where they become annoying like the worst commercials.
When I try to explain to non-techies why DRM and copy protection is useless I give them this analogy:
The Movie and Music Cartels give you a lock (DRM'd Movie, music, etc.) and a key (DVD player, etc). They get mad when you use them in a way that they don't approve.
-Anybody knows you can't keep something locked up when everybody has the keys to that lock.
At this point the non-techy laughs...
Why not setup your own "Private Internet", instead.
That way the University wouldn't suffer from the bandwidth crunch.
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http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-43127302
-Near the end they show a guy giving testimony that he can rig elections with electronic voting machines (old news for us
-voting makes no difference. The same elite still call the shots (and no "lobbying" required!)
-It gets worse...
-Banks print money and charges the US Gov. interest.
-Corp taxes ==> Military (as per constitution)
-Fed Pers income taxes ==> disappears (900+Billion)
-Fort Knox gold has not been audited in decades
-It gets worse, still.
And what if the "danger zone" orbits the galaxy just like our sun is?
-Patent the obvious.
-Push for MS-Favorable patent laws
-Cross-license patents as ONE revenu stream
-Sue into oblivion companies that create real products, as the other revenu stream.
FYI: MS bought out NTP to avoid a patent suit in 2010 and fired all their programers and support people in 2016.
That's because it has no good contact management.
Therefore the information has nowhere to go!
So, I'm stuck in OLK land.
I don't know too many people who use protected WMV
.WMA/.MWV files like the plague they are!!!
That's easy: Trojan writers.
There's this "feature" to install licenses for WMA/WMV files that permit the covert installation of Trojans, backdoors and other malware.
Stay away from
RE: You should spend some time working on large (100+ pages), complex documents in Word.
You are so right.
I had weird issues in word dealing images: Blurry, moving, disappearing.
That last one was the last straw.
I did the switch 3 years ago and haven't lost a thing yet.
BTW: I was under 100 pages when I switched.
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