I route my personal and business (multiple numbers all routed to me via my cell) calls thru Google Voice and let their system handle it.
- If you are in my approved contact list, it rings thru to me directly. (whitelist)
- If they have identified you as a spammer you get a message that the number you have reached is not in service. (blacklist)
- If none of the above applies, the system answers, asks you to identify yourself, and then puts you on hold while it rings me to ask if I want to take your call or not... If I don't take the call, it records a voicemail, converts it to text, and texts me the message (with an attached audio file).
An automated assistant calling a business to make a reservation is not a robocall.
Per the FCC:
Robocalls are unsolicited prerecorded telemarketing calls to landline home telephones, and all autodialed or prerecorded calls or text messages to wireless numbers, emergency numbers, and patient rooms at health care facilities.
The key here is the "unsolicited" part. As the business has published their telephone number for the purpose of customers making reservation inquiries, they have solicited the call.
The whole issue here is that the USPS is subsidizing Amazon delivery, by charging rates lower than what it actually costs to ship things. Other mail fees are subsidizing Amazon, how is that right???
Economic analysis of anti-global warming programs invariably demonstrates that even if the baseline assumptions of global warming alarmists are true, the best course is to not slow down the world economy now, but instead to use the increased wealth as a result in the future to mitigate whatever negative effects are imagined as a result of not limiting CO2 emissions.
You are saying we should kick the can down the road and let future generations deal with it. That is bad environmental/economic planning.
Every merchant supports it for debit transactions. It uses the same piece of hardware (card reader) whether you use pin or signature. It makes no difference to the merchant whether you punch in a pin, or scribble on the receipt, or wave your phone at the reader -we just want to get paid.
So, why don't we use chip-and-pin for credit transactions?
Because the card issuers/payment processors don't want us to.
Raises the question of what these guys think we should do when the killbots show up (which they will; can't stop every place on earth from developing them).
Well, since killbots have a preset kill limit, we can send wave after wave of men at them until they reach their limit and shut down... It worked for Captain Brannigan!
Existing laws cover such behavior. Expect charges ranging from Malicious Mischief to Vandalism to Terrorism depending on how vindictive the prosecutor feels.
The whole reference to paying for "tiers" regarding email, video, streaming was a fiction. It didn't happen before NN rules went into place, and nobody has announced such a pricing structure now that they are removed. We can make up all kinds of horror scenarios, but doing that is a really bad basis for laws.
Not entirely true.
In the bad old days of AOL, CompuServe, etc. there was the basic fee for X hours of service, plus additional fees to access Usenet, WWW, and internet mail.
Competition caused these access fees to go away, but without viable competition among providers, we can expect new and exciting predatory practices to become the norm.
You are splitting hairs. Obama used Facebook in literally the same way CA did. The only difference was that Facebook knew they were using the data and didn't care. (Although there's pretty strong evidence they knew CA was, too.)
Beyond that the data accessed and the data mining done with it were practically identical.
The difference is between asking for something (and receiving it) versus stealing it. Both end up with the thing, so it is the same?
You should do some research and maybe you can do a better job at anti-electric trolling. The only people who will believe the shit you are spewing are already convinced electric vehicles are the devils creation.
"The study found that most of the Bay's coastline is sinking at a rate of less than 2 millimeters a year -- and while that may not sound like a lot, the millimeters can add up fast."
So, in 100 years the coastline will have sunk less than 8 inches. Not quite the runaway train they make it out to be.
Your math skills suck.
2mm / year is less than 2 inches per century. Over 50 years, it is about the width of your thumb.
You are talking about the USA capturing Chinese ships and going to war with Europe.
The parent was talking about protecting the freighters carrying e.g. Chinese goods to Europe from pirates and privateers -and the effects on global trade if the USA stopped doing that job.
As I've pointed out elsewhere, posting material on Twitter already gives Twitter a wide license to distribute that material.
That doesn't matter if the person posting the material doesn't own the copyright and therefore doesn't have the right to grant Twitter that license.
It absolutely does.
Twitter acted in good faith, believing that they have been granted a license.
People commonly post photographs that they have taken to twitter. They had no reason to believe that the person posting this image did not have the right to do so.
Now it's acceptable to sign people up for services they were never requesting and take money for them as long as they don't 'catch you'. What a wonderful new world we're headed for.
It's never been acceptable to commit fraud and that's precisely what that is. You go to federal pound me in the you know where prison and always have gone there if you commit such an act. That's where Bernie Madoff is right now and will be there until he dies.
And yet... that is exactly what happened in this case, and no bankers are going to jail.
Making repair and electronic instructional videos on youtube;).
Not that I ever made much money on it, but I gain about a 10-100 subs a month and the hope was that it would get a bit bigger and be a decent secondary income for me.
two criteria: at least 1,000 subscribers; and more than 4,000 hours of their content viewed by others within the past 12 months.
Why? If you are growing at the rate you state (and are as interesting as that rate implies) then you should qualify for advertising revenue in a matter of months.
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Yeah, and...?
Seriously, who cares if it is cheaper? This is about what is right (for French school children), not about what is cheap.
Trump's taking such personal efforts to save ZTE is curious to say the least [...]
Not really. It is pretty much the way the world works. One big man asks another big man for something, and so the world turns to make it happen.
First of all, it is a chance to show off how powerful Trump is.
Second it is a favor. Trump did a favor for Xi. Someday Xi may do a favor for Trump.
Third, refusal to do a favor is an insult. Insulting Xi (and China) would be bad for international relations.
This is how business (and politics) works.
I route my personal and business (multiple numbers all routed to me via my cell) calls thru Google Voice and let their system handle it.
- If you are in my approved contact list, it rings thru to me directly. (whitelist)
- If they have identified you as a spammer you get a message that the number you have reached is not in service. (blacklist)
- If none of the above applies, the system answers, asks you to identify yourself, and then puts you on hold while it rings me to ask if I want to take your call or not... If I don't take the call, it records a voicemail, converts it to text, and texts me the message (with an attached audio file).
It works pretty well.
Keep moving those goalposts man!
I get your point, but we have food to spare so that is what we offer.
Just like the guys begging on the street with a sign saying "hungry". I will share my food with you, but I am not giving you my money.
An automated assistant calling a business to make a reservation is not a robocall.
Per the FCC:
Robocalls are unsolicited prerecorded telemarketing calls to landline home telephones, and all autodialed or prerecorded calls or text messages to wireless numbers, emergency numbers, and patient rooms at health care facilities.
The key here is the "unsolicited" part. As the business has published their telephone number for the purpose of customers making reservation inquiries, they have solicited the call.
The whole issue here is that the USPS is subsidizing Amazon delivery, by charging rates lower than what it actually costs to ship things. Other mail fees are subsidizing Amazon, how is that right???
That is a lie.
USPS financial report
Whataboutism.
But why would the driver stop of he/she bought the car so that the car does it for them?
Why wouldn't you eat your own feces?
Answer to both: Because that would be stupid.
Economic analysis of anti-global warming programs invariably demonstrates that even if the baseline assumptions of global warming alarmists are true, the best course is to not slow down the world economy now, but instead to use the increased wealth as a result in the future to mitigate whatever negative effects are imagined as a result of not limiting CO2 emissions.
You are saying we should kick the can down the road and let future generations deal with it. That is bad environmental/economic planning.
We have chip-and-pin.
Every merchant supports it for debit transactions. It uses the same piece of hardware (card reader) whether you use pin or signature. It makes no difference to the merchant whether you punch in a pin, or scribble on the receipt, or wave your phone at the reader -we just want to get paid.
So, why don't we use chip-and-pin for credit transactions?
Because the card issuers/payment processors don't want us to.
Raises the question of what these guys think we should do when the killbots show up (which they will; can't stop every place on earth from developing them).
Well, since killbots have a preset kill limit, we can send wave after wave of men at them until they reach their limit and shut down... It worked for Captain Brannigan!
Existing laws cover such behavior. Expect charges ranging from Malicious Mischief to Vandalism to Terrorism depending on how vindictive the prosecutor feels.
The whole reference to paying for "tiers" regarding email, video, streaming was a fiction. It didn't happen before NN rules went into place, and nobody has announced such a pricing structure now that they are removed. We can make up all kinds of horror scenarios, but doing that is a really bad basis for laws.
Not entirely true.
In the bad old days of AOL, CompuServe, etc. there was the basic fee for X hours of service, plus additional fees to access Usenet, WWW, and internet mail.
Competition caused these access fees to go away, but without viable competition among providers, we can expect new and exciting predatory practices to become the norm.
You are splitting hairs. Obama used Facebook in literally the same way CA did. The only difference was that Facebook knew they were using the data and didn't care. (Although there's pretty strong evidence they knew CA was, too.)
Beyond that the data accessed and the data mining done with it were practically identical.
The difference is between asking for something (and receiving it) versus stealing it. Both end up with the thing, so it is the same?
There is a big difference.
Dude your straw-man is getting pretty threadbare.
You should do some research and maybe you can do a better job at anti-electric trolling. The only people who will believe the shit you are spewing are already convinced electric vehicles are the devils creation.
Damn it... MY math skills suck.
8 inches is the correct approximation.
I'll show myself out now...
"The study found that most of the Bay's coastline is sinking at a rate of less than 2 millimeters a year -- and while that may not sound like a lot, the millimeters can add up fast."
So, in 100 years the coastline will have sunk less than 8 inches. Not quite the runaway train they make it out to be.
Your math skills suck.
2mm / year is less than 2 inches per century. Over 50 years, it is about the width of your thumb.
WTF?
You are talking about the USA capturing Chinese ships and going to war with Europe.
The parent was talking about protecting the freighters carrying e.g. Chinese goods to Europe from pirates and privateers -and the effects on global trade if the USA stopped doing that job.
As I've pointed out elsewhere, posting material on Twitter already gives Twitter a wide license to distribute that material.
That doesn't matter if the person posting the material doesn't own the copyright and therefore doesn't have the right to grant Twitter that license.
It absolutely does.
Twitter acted in good faith, believing that they have been granted a license.
People commonly post photographs that they have taken to twitter. They had no reason to believe that the person posting this image did not have the right to do so.
This is a distinction without a difference:
The wastewater is created as part of the fracking process.
The wastewater is disposed of by injecting it into the earth.
The wastewater injection is causing the earthquakes.
Therefore the cause of the earthquakes is fracking.
Now it's acceptable to sign people up for services they were never requesting and take money for them as long as they don't 'catch you'. What a wonderful new world we're headed for.
It's never been acceptable to commit fraud and that's precisely what that is. You go to federal pound me in the you know where prison and always have gone there if you commit such an act. That's where Bernie Madoff is right now and will be there until he dies.
And yet... that is exactly what happened in this case, and no bankers are going to jail.
Every time I log in, most of the screen is taken up by this huge video that auto plays.
Weird. That does not happen to me. Not on the Roku, or on the web browser interface.
It wont be long before some idiot decides it would be a cool thing to autoplay all the icons to create "visual appeal" and interest.
They already do - on my Roku, Netflix starts playing a preview if you pause on an item for more than a few seconds.
odd - this does not happen on either of my Roku's. I have an old Roku 3 and a brand new one we got at Christmas.
Making repair and electronic instructional videos on youtube ;).
Not that I ever made much money on it, but I gain about a 10-100 subs a month and the hope was that it would get a bit bigger and be a decent secondary income for me.
two criteria: at least 1,000 subscribers; and more than 4,000 hours of their content viewed by others within the past 12 months.
Why? If you are growing at the rate you state (and are as interesting as that rate implies) then you should qualify for advertising revenue in a matter of months.