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08-27-2009, 07:56 PM
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Intergalactic Badass
Drixxx is online now
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Government Regulation Out of Control!
This is a First Amendment issue! I want the government out of my life! The nanny state gone berserk! Anti-business regulation once again attacks the nation!
Starting Tuesday, most robocalls — those annoying recorded sales pitches — will be banned, the Federal Trade Commission announced today.
Telemarketers must first get written permission that you want to receive such calls. Penalties can be up to $16,000 per call.
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08-27-2009, 08:01 PM
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Cunnilingus Ergo Sum
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It's an attack on our very way of life!
Obama's socialist agenda rolls on!
Who will save our poor phone pit con men?
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08-27-2009, 08:16 PM
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I know you know better
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Drixxx
This is a First Amendment issue! I want the government out of my life! The nanny state gone berserk! Anti-business regulation once again attacks the nation!
Starting Tuesday, most robocalls — those annoying recorded sales pitches — will be banned, the Federal Trade Commission announced today.
Telemarketers must first get written permission that you want to receive such calls. Penalties can be up to $16,000 per call.
http://blogs.usatoday.com/ondeadline...ermission.html |
Did you, by any chance, happen to read the list of exceptions to the rule in your own link?
Politicians.
Surveys.
Banks.
Debt collectors.
Most charitable organizations.
Telephone carriers.
Utility companies.
Prescription refill notices and certain other health care messages.
"Informational" recordings such as flight cancellations, delivery notifications or school openings and closings. Tell me that list doesn't already account for 95% of the god damned calls to begin with.
Enjoy your new-found, Obama-enhanced phone privacy.  |
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08-27-2009, 08:21 PM
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Push and Pull
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Colonel Hogan
Did you, by any chance, happen to read the list of exceptions to the rule in your own link?
Politicians.
Surveys.
Banks.
Debt collectors.
Most charitable organizations.
Telephone carriers.
Utility companies.
Prescription refill notices and certain other health care messages.
"Informational" recordings such as flight cancellations, delivery notifications or school openings and closings. Tell me that list doesn't already account for 95% of the god damned calls to begin with.
Enjoy your new-found, Obama-enhanced phone privacy. |
Some of those I want. However, the ones I receive on my cell wanting to fix my mortgage rate need to go.
The other thing I would really like stopped is the papers delivered at the door: I get all kinds of flyers that I have to recycle and I do not look at them...What a waste. One was left in a plastic bag on the middle of my front walk. A hazard! Maybe I should go outside, slip on it and then sue them for dumping their trash on my private walk!
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08-27-2009, 08:24 PM
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Intergalactic Badass
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Colonel Hogan
Did you, by any chance, happen to read the list of exceptions to the rule in your own link?
Debt collectors.
Tell me that list doesn't already account for 95% of the god damned calls to begin with.
Enjoy your new-found, Obama-enhanced phone privacy. |
Try paying bills once in a while and you won't be bothered. |
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08-27-2009, 08:26 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Colonel Hogan
Did you, by any chance, happen to read the list of exceptions to the rule in your own link?
Politicians.
Surveys.
Banks.
Debt collectors.
Most charitable organizations.
Telephone carriers.
Utility companies.
Prescription refill notices and certain other health care messages.
"Informational" recordings such as flight cancellations, delivery notifications or school openings and closings. Tell me that list doesn't already account for 95% of the god damned calls to begin with.
Enjoy your new-found, Obama-enhanced phone privacy. |
It's the American way! Someone comes up with a good idea, then the lobbyists buy exemptions.
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08-27-2009, 08:34 PM
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Super Sweet Fucks
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NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!
I want the right to ignore these useless and unnecessary calls on my own! I don't need the Government intruding into my life and making them obsolete!
They're taking away the jobs necessary to create these robotic, no-human-required systems that take away the humans that could fill in these positions in the first place!
Mother fucking muslim-socialist-marxist-COMMUNISTS!!!  |
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08-27-2009, 08:38 PM
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Intergalactic Badass
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Originally Posted by IrezumiKiss
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!
I want the right to ignore these useless and unnecessary calls on my own! I don't need the Government intruding into my life and making them obsolete!
They're taking away the jobs necessary to create these robotic, no-human-required systems that take away the humans that could fill in these positions in the first place!
Mother fucking muslim-socialist-marxist-COMMUNISTS!!! |
Good paying American jobs! |
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08-27-2009, 08:42 PM
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Push and Pull
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Too bad the only way I get my right to privacy is through legislation...I pay for something and people think they have the right to abuse it. Damn.
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08-27-2009, 08:46 PM
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Super Sweet Fucks
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Originally Posted by Drixxx
Good paying American jobs!
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Remember the good ol' days when if you couldn't get the good paying job with benefits that you went to school for because some rich elite brown-nosed his way into a position you were clearly more qualified than him for, you had to do your time in the trenches and schelp-whore yourself out at a telemarketer's office for lousy coins? That sucked major donkey balls to demean yourself and your parents' hard-earned-money-spent college diploma to do it, but it was the American Way!
Now these damn ROBOTS are taking away our lousy demeaning rote jobs! If killing Granny in those Death Panels isn't enough for them!
When is someone going to water the tree of Liberty once again? |
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08-27-2009, 08:57 PM
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Intergalactic Badass
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Well let me tell you I'm not going to stand for the government takeover of my telephone! I've been stockpiling spam and shot gun shells just in case something like this happened. They are going to have to pry my robocalls from my cold dead hands.
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08-27-2009, 10:30 PM
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Literotica Guru
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I don't get recorded calls. I feel left out.
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08-27-2009, 10:34 PM
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Bite me, Alex
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What will the robots do NOW??
This is all part of a grand conspiracy by Obama to make the robots EAT OLD PEOPLE!!!
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08-27-2009, 10:38 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by TurdFergeson
What will the robots do NOW??
This is all part of a grand conspiracy by Obama to make the robots EAT OLD PEOPLE!!!
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Pissing off robots is never a good idea.
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"Attempted murder, I ask you, what is that? Do they give a Nobel Prize for attempted chemistry?"
-Sideshow Bob
"Early in life I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose the former and have seen no reason to change"
"An architect's most useful tools are an eraser at the drafting board, and a wrecking bar at the site"
-Frank Lloyd Wright
CAN (Cure Autism Now)
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08-27-2009, 10:42 PM
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Intergalactic Badass
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Quote:
Originally Posted by KRCummings
Pissing off robots is never a good idea.
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You can say that again.
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