The women who value me for my advice are usually just sponges who offer nothing back, and who refuse to listen to MY problems. Also, I don't enjoy being around women who see me as a eunuch.
I do have female friends, but they are damn well worth my time and energy.
We didn't evolve in a democratic, technological society, and neither did our sexual instincts. We evolved in a world more akin to a Mad Max world than a modern one (minus the cars and guns).
Our base desires haven't caught up to modern times, and likely never will.
The first was that I filled the quota of 'male friends who are not trying to get into my pants'. This is key. This means that you now have a stable, non-insane (read non-female) influence in your life. These are the people I go to when I need actual advice, not just a sounding board to bitch at. If they were trying to get me into bed, I couldn't trust their opinion.
And I do my absolute best to never, ever, become one of these men - I will not give women advice, I will not listen to their romantic problems. I am not Captain Free Therapist.
In other words, we literally need to plan our communities to look more European. Any help convincing Americans to do that is much appreciated.
Not only that, you've got to convince quite a lot of people to tear down their homes, apartment buildings, stores, etc. to fix the problem. Good luck with that.
If there was as large a shortage as many companies contend, the GP would be getting calls from recruiters every day with offers for much better salaries. Companies would seek him out.
It seems that the average or, in this case, below average, US citizen doesn't want to spend 8 hours a day bent over in a field or mopping up blood for minimum wage and no benefits.
There are some large scale issues that require a cooperative effort on a very large scale. Sure, bright, educated people can take the lead on most of these issues. But society will advance much quicker if the average man on the street can grasp the implications of the problem and the possible solutions. If smart people could spend more time thinking up solutions and less time explaining to the "dumb" people why and how to implement those solutions, society could advance more quickly.
Of course, if you're trying to push society in a direction that is good for you and your friends, but bad for the public in general, it helps if they can't figure that out and are swayed by emotion instead of facts.
First point: Sign up on the list, problem solved. Otherwise, can't help ya.
Already have. Problem most definitely not solved.
Second point: Don't lump us in with the criminals, you can't argue your logic against my points when you are using them as a go-between.
Sure I can. Like another poster mentioned, the effectiveness of your results does not excuse your methods. I used the example of criminals to illustrate that. If you'd prefer, I can compare you to the corrupt politician, who quite likely gets by purely by legal means. Feel better?
Sure, no one calls a telemarketer and asks them to call back - that logic fails when you are talking about an industry that thrives on cold calling.
I believe many of us would submit that if your industry thrives on cold calling, your industry is not legitimate.
I guess you could say that the management is evil, they are the ones forcing this poor people into making these calls. But lets speak to your point made in your post; telemarketing simply works.
So does extortion and panhandling, but we don't approve of those either.
Mail:
Response rate is, on average, 1.5% and we mail 10,000 addresses a month. I've tried to communicate to those higher than me on the totem poll that, yes, we are getting orders from this method, but it is a huge waste of money. The cost per order is sometimes as high as $25.
Phones:
The closing rate is anywhere from 5%-15% depending on the type of calling campaign (sequential numbers, targeted Prizm lists, new movers, etc). This means that in ~300 calling hours we would net ~475 orders. That's in just one week. Our voluntary sign up rate is the only one that is higher for new orders. The cost per order by the way: $2 - $7 depending on the week, how many calling hours, orders, and other costs.
Which would you employ?
You seem to think that our primary concern is keeping you in business. Let me assure you that this is not the case, and that we would rather that you do neither of these things.
The question then must be asked; why do you think that people don't want to be called and sold to? Yes, you don't, and many others don't, but plenty of people do.
Then call them and stop calling me and those of us who don't want to be called.
In fact, the best thing that could have happened to the telemarketing industry (overall) is the National Do Not Call Registry - it helps us avoid people who would verbally abuse a phone rep when a simple "no" or "place me on your do not call list" would suffice.
This argument falls flat when we continue to get telemarketing calls from companies who bypass the DNC list with loopholes.
Isn't just about every government in possession and in charge of maintaining part of one of those fat underwater cables that brings and sends the data to other countries? Why should they only let ISPs, universities and other government organizations feed off the teet?
Because ISPs bribe, er, give campaign contributions to important politicians.
The healthcare problems of this country are hurting our ability to generate new businesses.
Exactly. Health insurance is a big hurdle for anyone considering starting a business. Entrepreneurship is already quite risky, and this cost just makes it that much harder.
Similarly, changing jobs is hindered by the same hurdle, and companies are hiring more and more part time employees simply so they don't have to pay health insurance. These situations are just making the market less efficient and hurting our economy.
In California, only one party to a phone call need be informed that it is being recorded. As I read the law (obviously IANAL, whee) this may or may not apply to your employer listening in on your calls, but it does seem to indicate that at least in this state you can record a phone call without notifying the other party.
Just make sure that your employees don't call anyone in any other states. If they call someone in one of the states that requires all parties to be informed, guess what! You've just committed a crime.
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The women who value me for my advice are usually just sponges who offer nothing back, and who refuse to listen to MY problems. Also, I don't enjoy being around women who see me as a eunuch.
I do have female friends, but they are damn well worth my time and energy.
We didn't evolve in a democratic, technological society, and neither did our sexual instincts. We evolved in a world more akin to a Mad Max world than a modern one (minus the cars and guns).
Our base desires haven't caught up to modern times, and likely never will.
In other words, the "tough but fair" strategy, which has been shown to be both simple and effective in the iterated Prisoner's Dilemma variation.
I think you missed the part where he said we invented the idea of eternal punishment.
Then you can't store as much hydrogen, and can't go as far on a single tank.
Storing the oxygen takes another tank, making the car larger. Meanwhile, air is all around you.
No, your example is not theft.
It's fraud.
Sending McCain's supporters into the DailyKos is like sending lambs to the slaughter.
I have only one objection to your post.
Um... puppy mill? Is that a place where they mill puppies, like a grain mill?
If so, it sounds horrific. I hope I never encounter such a place.
If there was as large a shortage as many companies contend, the GP would be getting calls from recruiters every day with offers for much better salaries. Companies would seek him out.
Hence the problem with politics and education.
I suppose Brownback won't lose any political points by railing against the freedom-suppressing Chinese government.
People tend to be much more inclined to take risk when it's someone else doing the risking.
Let's say you make stealing these drugs that the person will die without a capital offense.
Tell me how that is a deterrent.
Similarly, changing jobs is hindered by the same hurdle, and companies are hiring more and more part time employees simply so they don't have to pay health insurance. These situations are just making the market less efficient and hurting our economy.