It is completely illegal for telemarketers or organizations to make sales calls to a cell phone. Since you pay by the minute, they are not allowed to make that call. I have only gotten one of these calls, and when I told the guy it was my cell phone he apologized profusely and hung up.
Oh come on. That was just one's opinion, even if it was narrow-minded. Isn't most everything in print or on TV just "inane soap opera mass-produced crap" to some group of people out there? And the other groups love the stuff! Friends, Star Trek, Baywatch, Seinfeld, Stargate, Arrested Development, etc, etc, etc. You can make the same argument about all of it.
BTW: Why bother mentioning the fact that manga is misspelled?!? Dont you think it was likely fat fingered mis-typing? If you kicked everyone off the web that misspelled something in a forum somewhere, there would be like 8 people left on the internet.
This seems like a pretty vicious email, so why haven't the cops visited the guy yet? Better yet, why not visit the perpetrator in person and educate him as to how some folks feel about this? According to the Peoplepages Phone Directory at http://directory.superpages.com he lives just east of Nashville, TN and mapquest will give you a map to his front door. Any slashdot folks in Nashville want to pay him a visit? The rest of us could just phone him at 3:00 in the morning.
Yes, maybe Jim went a bit too far, but you cannot truly blame him.
Here he has invested big bucks and a lot of time doing something for the greater computer community and asks for nothing in return. As payment he receives a letter threatening legal action.
Actually here is the nutshell version:
CorpLikeEntity notes use of their brand new trademark by User#1. They further note that User#1 is not on their list of OKusers. So CorpLikeEntity jumps to some conclusion and calls their lawyer(s) and have User#1 sent a not-so-nice letter.
If you would have read the "rant", this is really an issue about common courtesy and professional responsibility. Unfortunately these days, most folks only seem to think about their rights and the laws that back these rights.(ie: I have rights, but I'm only as responsible as my lawyer says I am!)
The comon courtesy approach would have been to call Jim and work out some sort of a mutually beneficial agreement. But that did not happen.
So do I blame Jim for the knee-jerk reaction?
Not for a minute!
PS: In Jim's place, I probably would have pulled the PCI verbage and sent PCI-ORG a bill for services rendered for the last several years. But I'm probably not as nice as Jim.
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So its okay to die on a Sunday then?
Of course! Sunday IS the day of rest, ya know.
How about teaching the kids a new-and-improved theory: "Evolution is The God's greatest Creation."
It is completely illegal for telemarketers or organizations to make sales calls to a cell phone. Since you pay by the minute, they are not allowed to make that call. I have only gotten one of these calls, and when I told the guy it was my cell phone he apologized profusely and hung up.
Oh come on. That was just one's opinion, even if it was narrow-minded. Isn't most everything in print or on TV just "inane soap opera mass-produced crap" to some group of people out there? And the other groups love the stuff! Friends, Star Trek, Baywatch, Seinfeld, Stargate, Arrested Development, etc, etc, etc. You can make the same argument about all of it. BTW: Why bother mentioning the fact that manga is misspelled?!? Dont you think it was likely fat fingered mis-typing? If you kicked everyone off the web that misspelled something in a forum somewhere, there would be like 8 people left on the internet.
This seems like a pretty vicious email, so why haven't the cops visited the guy yet?
Better yet, why not visit the perpetrator in person and educate him as to how some folks feel about this? According to the Peoplepages Phone Directory at http://directory.superpages.com he lives just east of Nashville, TN and mapquest will give you a map to his front door. Any slashdot folks in Nashville want to pay him a visit?
The rest of us could just phone him at 3:00 in the morning.
Yes, maybe Jim went a bit too far, but you cannot truly blame him. Here he has invested big bucks and a lot of time doing something for the greater computer community and asks for nothing in return. As payment he receives a letter threatening legal action. Actually here is the nutshell version: CorpLikeEntity notes use of their brand new trademark by User#1. They further note that User#1 is not on their list of OKusers. So CorpLikeEntity jumps to some conclusion and calls their lawyer(s) and have User#1 sent a not-so-nice letter. If you would have read the "rant", this is really an issue about common courtesy and professional responsibility. Unfortunately these days, most folks only seem to think about their rights and the laws that back these rights.(ie: I have rights, but I'm only as responsible as my lawyer says I am!) The comon courtesy approach would have been to call Jim and work out some sort of a mutually beneficial agreement. But that did not happen. So do I blame Jim for the knee-jerk reaction? Not for a minute! PS: In Jim's place, I probably would have pulled the PCI verbage and sent PCI-ORG a bill for services rendered for the last several years. But I'm probably not as nice as Jim.