OT - No-Call list

[minipol]

Originally posted by geoschmo:
Unsolicited telemarketting calls should be illegal by default. If telelmarketers want to use my phone to make me offers I did not ask for then they should pay my phone bill.

Here here! I fully agree. They almost render the phone service unusable. Like someone else said, if they want to offer something, buy time somewhere and place adds there. Not on a service a lot of people use every day. We didn't ask to be harassed.

[DavidG]

Anyone every heard the sound clip "one angry brit" on www.heavy.com? I'd post a link if I could. Very funny clip on one guys reaction to a unsolicited phone call. hehe

[Suicide Junkie]

I buy cable and I get lots of ad free channels.

Woah! I'd like some of that! Where do I sign up?

[Thermodyne]

Geo hit the nail on the head. I have a phone for my use, not some bunch of el-cheepo phone
bank scum to use for their income tools. If the pizza shop just used your car to deliver your
pizza, wouldn’t that piss you off? And what if you didn’t ask for a pizza? They just used your
car to drive up and tell you that there was a sale?

I have made call after call to have my name removed from lists. I have spent hours trying to get a word in so that I could ask them not to call me. Actually asking them about their sexual limits will usually get them to hang up I am glad that with a few key strokes, I can now stop most of them.

[ July 11, 2003, 01:59: Message edited by: Thermodyne ]

[Mathias_Ice]

Don't get me wrong, telemarketers are a pain in the arse I could live without! I have one from ATT (one of the exempt companies) who I have politely told not to call, rudely told not to call and done some of the various fun things to do to telemarketers, yet she keeps calling. I think next on the list will be one of those marine emergency airhorns sitting next to the phone, quietly waiting. Maybe a burst eardrum will solve the problem. (All right maybe that's a little too viscous.)

Originally posted by Thermodyne:
The space between the two lines would indicate two statements. The second made no mention
of the constitution. American law is based on precedent, which has its power rooted firmly
within the supreme court. And the court usually leans towards the will of the people as opposed
to the will of business.

So what is the second statement based on? Where do you derive this "right to privacy?"

American law (as created by our Founding Fathers) is based on English common law and Judaeo/Christian morals. The Supreme Court has historically and not unfrequently disregarded not only precedent but also original intent when passing judgement on various cases.

Originally posted by Thermodyne:
By the way, how does this grow the Feds? They will have a net loss if the system works. Do
you have any idea how many complaints they have to field about phone solicitations? I guess its
back to the 1-900 scams for the phone banks now

If only this were true. Unfortunatley, once a Federal government job is created, it's next to impossible to get rid of it. New jobs will be made to handle/maintain/enforce this list and the old jobs that handled phone solicitation complaints will not be down sized . And the American people will be paying for yet another unconstitutional program.

Mathias Ice

[geoschmo]

Krsqk, what right do they have to take 1 second of my day, much less 30 seconds. It's my thirty seconds! I'll do what ever the heck I want to with them, and I won't appoloigize for it. And I won't ask their permission to use them, and I won't be harrased into turning off the phone that I paid my own damn money for to buy in the first place. And I shuldn't have to spend another thirty seconds getting on a do not call list that won't really do any good anyway. It's not the amount of time that's the question, it's the principle.

Geoschmo

[General Woundwort]

Originally posted by DavidG:
Anyone every heard the sound clip "one angry brit" on www.heavy.com? I'd post a link if I could. Very funny clip on one guys reaction to a unsolicited phone call. hehe

Or, try this one (the only real use for telemarketing as far as I'm concerned...)

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