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"President Bush on Tuesday signed legislation creating a national 'do-not-call' list intended to help consumers block unwanted telemarketing calls."
Freedom from pests
Only one slight problem: "Charities, surveys and calls on behalf of politicians would be exempt."
Dontcha just know, every sales call will start out as a "survey" now. And the alumni association will still be pounding on you.
Death To Telemarketers!
long national nightmare ends
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machinehead 
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Posted 11 March 2003 - 02:46 PM
"GOLD -- it's not just for misers anymore."
"Dollahs -- fire-starters for the K-wave winter." - Drano
"Three humps and a dump." - anotherone, 21 SEP 2004
"No gold was harmed in the making of this movie." - Bizarro Greenspan
[i]"Da Track. Da place where Morons bet on Animals Controlled by Criminals." - our jickiss
"Dollahs -- fire-starters for the K-wave winter." - Drano
"Three humps and a dump." - anotherone, 21 SEP 2004
"No gold was harmed in the making of this movie." - Bizarro Greenspan
[i]"Da Track. Da place where Morons bet on Animals Controlled by Criminals." - our jickiss
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Posted 11 March 2003 - 03:35 PM
I for one I'm glad to turn over a database of all consumer calls to the government. They've always been so trustyworthy with following the letter and spirit of Congress's intent. Take Social Security, for instance. Prohibited by congress from using the SS# for anything except Social Security, the government promptly used the numbers to geographically tag all its citizens.
"WE ARE BEING KEPT ALIVE by the Entropic movement of Dark Matter(Sino-Nippo-dollar purchasing of $UST)---as soon as there is a ringing sound,a sign of an clogged artriosclerotic wormhole on the emergency fiat-meter it will end--dynamic equilibrium,will have been achieved;better known as death" -- beardrech (Mar 15 2006, 01:17 AM)
"There's a good chance he was drunk or drugged. Only an idiot would jump into the bear cage." -- Belgrade Zoo Director Vuk Bojovic (August 20, 2007).
It's like you're dreamin' about Gorgonzola cheese when it's clearly Brie time, baby. -- Hitchhiker (S.A.M. 1998)
Mar 28 2003: July 2003 is the time I have identified as the low of the bear move...then the first leg of the bear is over ...many will be caught by surprise to see the market near it's all time high again within 3-4 years [2007] ..."depression" similar to 1932 doesn't come until 2010. -- blackbelt (Mar 28 2003, 10:05 PM)
"There's a good chance he was drunk or drugged. Only an idiot would jump into the bear cage." -- Belgrade Zoo Director Vuk Bojovic (August 20, 2007).
It's like you're dreamin' about Gorgonzola cheese when it's clearly Brie time, baby. -- Hitchhiker (S.A.M. 1998)
Mar 28 2003: July 2003 is the time I have identified as the low of the bear move...then the first leg of the bear is over ...many will be caught by surprise to see the market near it's all time high again within 3-4 years [2007] ..."depression" similar to 1932 doesn't come until 2010. -- blackbelt (Mar 28 2003, 10:05 PM)
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Posted 11 March 2003 - 05:45 PM
Only a sucker would add their info to that list, or any list for that matter. Anonymity is the greatest of all freedoms.
...A declining spenglerian carnival of Colossaalism united with Inflation where the numbers one through 10 are forever banished as worthless arithmetical detritus from a bygone age... - Beardrech
Naturally we believe the govt numbers... and Boobus Americanus sleepwalks off the edge of the energy-crisis cliff clutching his shares of "Crisco", Yoohoo and GooGah munching on his Yum Yums and Ho Hos. Future historians will have a hell of a time figuring out what the hell Americanus neanderthalus was thinking and exactly what brought on his sudden demise... - Henny Penny
Well, good night everyone. I gotta go lube up for tomorrow's regular end-of-week Gold Slapdown and Stock Index Bear Punishment Rally Weekend Greenprint. ...Probably another Shock-and-Awe Gap-Up-Open and Wire-to-Wire Meltup Runaway Bull Charge Mo-Mo Spike to Fresh New All-Time Lifetime Highs, culminating in a 4:15 yelping scalded dog runoff with panic short-covering and legal not-held bad double fills due to fast market conditions, plus quote system freeze-ups and trading platform lock-outs along the way. *yawn* typical gov't Friday. - Shorty
Naturally we believe the govt numbers... and Boobus Americanus sleepwalks off the edge of the energy-crisis cliff clutching his shares of "Crisco", Yoohoo and GooGah munching on his Yum Yums and Ho Hos. Future historians will have a hell of a time figuring out what the hell Americanus neanderthalus was thinking and exactly what brought on his sudden demise... - Henny Penny
Well, good night everyone. I gotta go lube up for tomorrow's regular end-of-week Gold Slapdown and Stock Index Bear Punishment Rally Weekend Greenprint. ...Probably another Shock-and-Awe Gap-Up-Open and Wire-to-Wire Meltup Runaway Bull Charge Mo-Mo Spike to Fresh New All-Time Lifetime Highs, culminating in a 4:15 yelping scalded dog runoff with panic short-covering and legal not-held bad double fills due to fast market conditions, plus quote system freeze-ups and trading platform lock-outs along the way. *yawn* typical gov't Friday. - Shorty
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Posted 11 March 2003 - 06:09 PM
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Only a sucker would add their info to that list, or any list for that matter. Anonymity is the greatest of all freedoms.
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Only a sucker would add their info to that list, or any list for that matter. Anonymity is the greatest of all freedoms.
I guess that rules out Benetton clothes for you! (Link)
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Tuesday March 11, 3:49 pm ET
By Jim Krane, AP Technology Writer
Benetton Clothing to Carry Tiny Tracking Transmitters for Inventory Control
NEW YORK (AP) -- Clothes sold at Benetton stores will soon contain microchip transmitters that allow the Italian retailer to track its garments from their point of manufacture to the moment they're sold in any of its 5,000 shops. ...
In a scenario reminiscent of the personalized advertising seen in the movie "Minority Report," an RFID tag could be programmed to store information about, say, the person who bought a garment. It could allow a retail chain to take note each time that garment was worn into a store, said Ted Zwibel of Psion Teklogix, a British maker of supply chain software involved in the Benetton system.
For instance, a sales clerk might be tipped that a person in a pair of RFID-tagged slacks is a frequent customer. The salesperson could give that customer priority, and make sales suggestions based on the company's idea of clothes that match the slacks, Zwibel said.
By Jim Krane, AP Technology Writer
Benetton Clothing to Carry Tiny Tracking Transmitters for Inventory Control
NEW YORK (AP) -- Clothes sold at Benetton stores will soon contain microchip transmitters that allow the Italian retailer to track its garments from their point of manufacture to the moment they're sold in any of its 5,000 shops. ...
In a scenario reminiscent of the personalized advertising seen in the movie "Minority Report," an RFID tag could be programmed to store information about, say, the person who bought a garment. It could allow a retail chain to take note each time that garment was worn into a store, said Ted Zwibel of Psion Teklogix, a British maker of supply chain software involved in the Benetton system.
For instance, a sales clerk might be tipped that a person in a pair of RFID-tagged slacks is a frequent customer. The salesperson could give that customer priority, and make sales suggestions based on the company's idea of clothes that match the slacks, Zwibel said.
I find this disturbing. Very. It's like telemarketing but SuperSized!
[Future vision: "Mr. Sphinxter, howareyoutonightgood, we noted today that you lingered near the women's undergarments for 12.3 minutes in store 714 and wondered if we could interest you in a timeshare opportunity with some friends of Merciless...Oh, you're married...well we have an opportunity for 'couples' too..."]
Hey, maybe this won't be so bad afterall.....
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FauxCaster
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Posted 11 March 2003 - 06:24 PM
Michelin Embeds RFID Tags in Tires
http://www.rfidjourn...leview/269/1/1/
Jan. 20, 2003 - The news that The Gillette Company plans to purchase 500 million radio frequency identification tags was widely reported around the world. One result has been a growing opposition to the use of RFID in consumer products.
http://www.rfidjourn...leview/275/1/1/
I predict opposition to RFIDs will be short and forgotten.
http://www.rfidjourn...leview/269/1/1/
Jan. 20, 2003 - The news that The Gillette Company plans to purchase 500 million radio frequency identification tags was widely reported around the world. One result has been a growing opposition to the use of RFID in consumer products.
http://www.rfidjourn...leview/275/1/1/
I predict opposition to RFIDs will be short and forgotten.
"WE ARE BEING KEPT ALIVE by the Entropic movement of Dark Matter(Sino-Nippo-dollar purchasing of $UST)---as soon as there is a ringing sound,a sign of an clogged artriosclerotic wormhole on the emergency fiat-meter it will end--dynamic equilibrium,will have been achieved;better known as death" -- beardrech (Mar 15 2006, 01:17 AM)
"There's a good chance he was drunk or drugged. Only an idiot would jump into the bear cage." -- Belgrade Zoo Director Vuk Bojovic (August 20, 2007).
It's like you're dreamin' about Gorgonzola cheese when it's clearly Brie time, baby. -- Hitchhiker (S.A.M. 1998)
Mar 28 2003: July 2003 is the time I have identified as the low of the bear move...then the first leg of the bear is over ...many will be caught by surprise to see the market near it's all time high again within 3-4 years [2007] ..."depression" similar to 1932 doesn't come until 2010. -- blackbelt (Mar 28 2003, 10:05 PM)
"There's a good chance he was drunk or drugged. Only an idiot would jump into the bear cage." -- Belgrade Zoo Director Vuk Bojovic (August 20, 2007).
It's like you're dreamin' about Gorgonzola cheese when it's clearly Brie time, baby. -- Hitchhiker (S.A.M. 1998)
Mar 28 2003: July 2003 is the time I have identified as the low of the bear move...then the first leg of the bear is over ...many will be caught by surprise to see the market near it's all time high again within 3-4 years [2007] ..."depression" similar to 1932 doesn't come until 2010. -- blackbelt (Mar 28 2003, 10:05 PM)
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Posted 11 March 2003 - 06:39 PM
Supermarket "club cards" pose a problem for the privacy-minded: Is it worth a few dollars in savings to let the store track your purchases of TV dinners and home pregnancy tests?
Rob Cockerham, a graphic designer in Sacramento, has decided that the best way to maintain his shopping privacy is to get lost in a crowd. So he has cloned his discount card and used his Web site to recruit a small army of Rob Cockerhams whom he has unleashed against the Safeway chain, which has more than 1,650 stores in the United States and Canada.
His team of about 180 card-carrying fellow travelers has used Mr. Cockerham's discount account to ring up more than $5,000 in purchases at more than 50 different Safeway stores.
The plan was hatched in December, when Mr. Cockerham printed some stickers that carefully replicated the bar code on the back of his Safeway Club card. He then sought recruits via his Web site, Cockeyed. com, where he has developed a following by documenting his wacky science experiments and pranks. "Together," he wrote on the site, "we might amass a profile of the single greatest shopper in the history of mankind."
http://www.nytimes.c...nt&position=top
Rob Cockerham, a graphic designer in Sacramento, has decided that the best way to maintain his shopping privacy is to get lost in a crowd. So he has cloned his discount card and used his Web site to recruit a small army of Rob Cockerhams whom he has unleashed against the Safeway chain, which has more than 1,650 stores in the United States and Canada.
His team of about 180 card-carrying fellow travelers has used Mr. Cockerham's discount account to ring up more than $5,000 in purchases at more than 50 different Safeway stores.
The plan was hatched in December, when Mr. Cockerham printed some stickers that carefully replicated the bar code on the back of his Safeway Club card. He then sought recruits via his Web site, Cockeyed. com, where he has developed a following by documenting his wacky science experiments and pranks. "Together," he wrote on the site, "we might amass a profile of the single greatest shopper in the history of mankind."
http://www.nytimes.c...nt&position=top
"WE ARE BEING KEPT ALIVE by the Entropic movement of Dark Matter(Sino-Nippo-dollar purchasing of $UST)---as soon as there is a ringing sound,a sign of an clogged artriosclerotic wormhole on the emergency fiat-meter it will end--dynamic equilibrium,will have been achieved;better known as death" -- beardrech (Mar 15 2006, 01:17 AM)
"There's a good chance he was drunk or drugged. Only an idiot would jump into the bear cage." -- Belgrade Zoo Director Vuk Bojovic (August 20, 2007).
It's like you're dreamin' about Gorgonzola cheese when it's clearly Brie time, baby. -- Hitchhiker (S.A.M. 1998)
Mar 28 2003: July 2003 is the time I have identified as the low of the bear move...then the first leg of the bear is over ...many will be caught by surprise to see the market near it's all time high again within 3-4 years [2007] ..."depression" similar to 1932 doesn't come until 2010. -- blackbelt (Mar 28 2003, 10:05 PM)
"There's a good chance he was drunk or drugged. Only an idiot would jump into the bear cage." -- Belgrade Zoo Director Vuk Bojovic (August 20, 2007).
It's like you're dreamin' about Gorgonzola cheese when it's clearly Brie time, baby. -- Hitchhiker (S.A.M. 1998)
Mar 28 2003: July 2003 is the time I have identified as the low of the bear move...then the first leg of the bear is over ...many will be caught by surprise to see the market near it's all time high again within 3-4 years [2007] ..."depression" similar to 1932 doesn't come until 2010. -- blackbelt (Mar 28 2003, 10:05 PM)
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Posted 11 March 2003 - 10:00 PM
When telemarketers call I have lots of fun. But only if they're rude. It's delightful.
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Posted 11 March 2003 - 10:21 PM
My tactic with Telemarketers is to interrupt the beginning of their spiel with "Excuse me, could you hold for one second?" then I just leave them hanging...and hanging.
Burn up their time holding. Make them pay.
Burn up their time holding. Make them pay.
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Posted 11 March 2003 - 10:25 PM
dumpabuck, on Mar 11 2003, 09:21 PM, said:
My tactic with Telemarketers is to interrupt the beginning of their spiel with "Excuse me, could you hold for one second?" then I just leave them hanging...and hanging.
Burn up their time holding. Make them pay.
Burn up their time holding. Make them pay.
If you switched on the sound track of a heavy-breathing porn video, you probably could get them to hold quite a bit longer.
"GOLD -- it's not just for misers anymore."
"Dollahs -- fire-starters for the K-wave winter." - Drano
"Three humps and a dump." - anotherone, 21 SEP 2004
"No gold was harmed in the making of this movie." - Bizarro Greenspan
[i]"Da Track. Da place where Morons bet on Animals Controlled by Criminals." - our jickiss
"Dollahs -- fire-starters for the K-wave winter." - Drano
"Three humps and a dump." - anotherone, 21 SEP 2004
"No gold was harmed in the making of this movie." - Bizarro Greenspan
[i]"Da Track. Da place where Morons bet on Animals Controlled by Criminals." - our jickiss
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Posted 11 March 2003 - 10:45 PM
I have caller I.D. so if it says "number unavailable," I just don't pick up and it clicks off by the 4th ring. If, by accident, I do pick up and they ask for me (and they always have that goofy cadence and tone that tells you exactly what they are), I just say in a plaintive tone,
". . . Mousey passed away." Ends pretty quickly from there.
". . . Mousey passed away." Ends pretty quickly from there.
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Posted 11 March 2003 - 10:58 PM
Sometimes I play with them, but usually I just tell them this:
"Thank you very much, but I'm not interested. Goodnight." Then hang up.
It's far more tactful than they deserve.
If it is a young woman, I may blab to them for a bit just for practice.
"Thank you very much, but I'm not interested. Goodnight." Then hang up.
It's far more tactful than they deserve.
If it is a young woman, I may blab to them for a bit just for practice.
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Posted 11 March 2003 - 11:28 PM
dumpabuck, on Mar 11 2003, 09:21 PM, said:
My tactic with Telemarketers is to interrupt the beginning of their spiel with "Excuse me, could you hold for one second?" then I just leave them hanging...and hanging.
Burn up their time holding. Make them pay.
Burn up their time holding. Make them pay.
I used to bait them into thinking i was interested in their pitch and then say "could you hold on for a second". i would then give the phone to my three year old and tell them this man/woman would like to talk to you and when your done hang up the phone. Made my kids happy as hell to talk to someone. Sometimes he'd be on the line for ten minutes before hanging up. I loved telemarketers. Gave me enough time to suck down a beer in peace.
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Posted 11 March 2003 - 11:39 PM
GregFokker, on Mar 11 2003, 05:45 PM, said:
Only a sucker would add their info to that list, or any list for that matter. Anonymity is the greatest of all freedoms.
My phone book lists me with a 'fake' name. My friends and relatives have my phone number and if anyone calls asking for the 'fake' I know that they've farmed my number from the phone book database.
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Posted 12 March 2003 - 01:06 AM
Funny! 
Speaking of heavy breathers on the phone, Mhead. I recieved an obscene phone call a couple of decades ago, while watching a movie on the telly with my mother. I don't know what possessed me, but I started laughing my head off at the absurdity of it. I said "You know this has been really great, could you call me back later, I'm watching a movie right now." My mother was horrified, but I assured her the perv would never bother us again, and he didn't.
Now rude telemarketers, you can engage them in long stories about your health problems. That works wonders.
If you get a call and the telemarketer wants to speak to your spouse, tell them, "sorry , my spouse is mute" I actually had one persist, saying "That's okay, I'll do all the talking". To which you reply. "But they're also deaf." You get to thrill to the sound of their brains blowing a gasket trying to work around this little problem.
I'm going to miss rude telemarketers, but political groups and people doing market studies and surveys are fair game too.
Speaking of heavy breathers on the phone, Mhead. I recieved an obscene phone call a couple of decades ago, while watching a movie on the telly with my mother. I don't know what possessed me, but I started laughing my head off at the absurdity of it. I said "You know this has been really great, could you call me back later, I'm watching a movie right now." My mother was horrified, but I assured her the perv would never bother us again, and he didn't.Now rude telemarketers, you can engage them in long stories about your health problems. That works wonders.
If you get a call and the telemarketer wants to speak to your spouse, tell them, "sorry , my spouse is mute" I actually had one persist, saying "That's okay, I'll do all the talking". To which you reply. "But they're also deaf." You get to thrill to the sound of their brains blowing a gasket trying to work around this little problem.
I'm going to miss rude telemarketers, but political groups and people doing market studies and surveys are fair game too.
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Posted 12 March 2003 - 01:46 AM
My favorite thing to do with telemarketers is to say, "Wait a minute, let me get him/her", put the phone down and walk away for say, a couple of hours. I figure if they are waiting for someone to pick up the phone, they aren't on the line bothering someone else. 
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Churchill
"You can fool some of the people all of the time."
Lincoln
"I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around the banks will deprive the people of all property until their children wake-up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered."
Jefferson
Churchill
"You can fool some of the people all of the time."
Lincoln
"I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around the banks will deprive the people of all property until their children wake-up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered."
Jefferson
