Harassment online
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I still find it odd that we have laws with prison terms for annoying someone online, but no defense from corporations. I was just considering this when I got an automated advertisement call on my cell phone from a blocked number.
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I still find it odd that we have laws with prison terms for annoying someone online, but no defense from corporations. I was just considering this when I got an automated advertisement call on my cell phone from a blocked number.
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Annoying, aren't they? You can set most Caller ID devices to refuse incoming calls that block the source number. The problem is that when you do that, it means you can't get through when you are calling from a Hospital phone in an emergency...
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Annoying, aren't they? You can set most Caller ID devices to refuse incoming calls that block the source number. The problem is that when you do that, it means you can't get through when you are calling from a Hospital phone in an emergency...
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OriginalGriff wrote:
The problem is that when you do that, it means you can't get through when
Yeah, this is the reason I haven't considered it. I generally won't answer a number I don't know because it's almost always something like this, but that's the same thing as having it blocked.
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I still find it odd that we have laws with prison terms for annoying someone online, but no defense from corporations. I was just considering this when I got an automated advertisement call on my cell phone from a blocked number.
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Never heard of 'automated' advertisement calls. :| How do they prevent you from hanging up halfway the first sentence? Why do they think annoying people by invading their personal space helps them to sell more stuff? Has to be a lot less effective, more expensive and on a much smaller scale than regular e-mail spam. Which also isn't exactly the best way to advertise stuff, let's be honest.
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OriginalGriff wrote:
The problem is that when you do that, it means you can't get through when
Yeah, this is the reason I haven't considered it. I generally won't answer a number I don't know because it's almost always something like this, but that's the same thing as having it blocked.
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We only realised my elder brother had it on all his phones when we needed to reach him from the "family room" of Accident and Emergency Resuscitation Department, where they definitely do not appreciate the use of mobile phones... Ended up having to ring a friend, and get him to pass the bad news on X|
Ideological Purity is no substitute for being able to stick your thumb down a pipe to stop the water
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I still find it odd that we have laws with prison terms for annoying someone online, but no defense from corporations. I was just considering this when I got an automated advertisement call on my cell phone from a blocked number.
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Think of them as down votes. Pretty immaterial in the grand scheme of things, really. :)
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I still find it odd that we have laws with prison terms for annoying someone online, but no defense from corporations. I was just considering this when I got an automated advertisement call on my cell phone from a blocked number.
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What pisses me off even more is that I've entered my number 4-5 times in the National Do Not Call registry and it lasts for about 1-2 months then I start getting calls again.
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Never heard of 'automated' advertisement calls. :| How do they prevent you from hanging up halfway the first sentence? Why do they think annoying people by invading their personal space helps them to sell more stuff? Has to be a lot less effective, more expensive and on a much smaller scale than regular e-mail spam. Which also isn't exactly the best way to advertise stuff, let's be honest.
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They are "cold call" sales calls, where there is no dickhead operative available to get sworn at talk to you, so they give you an advert instead of silence - the latter being illegal in the UK.
Ideological Purity is no substitute for being able to stick your thumb down a pipe to stop the water
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What pisses me off even more is that I've entered my number 4-5 times in the National Do Not Call registry and it lasts for about 1-2 months then I start getting calls again.
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I still find it odd that we have laws with prison terms for annoying someone online, but no defense from corporations. I was just considering this when I got an automated advertisement call on my cell phone from a blocked number.
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[rant mode="on"] Advertising is way out of control in our country. Our capitalist system has a major downside and that is the ubiquitous, incessent nagging in the form of advertising that all of us must endure. I think the cynical, detached disposition of most of our children can be traced to the non-stop lying they've been exposed to since they've been old enough to stumble up to a TV screen and peer into it's vacuous depths. You aren't adequate. You aren't happy. You aren't real. ...until you buy our product. [rant mode="off"] I no longer watch network TV because of ads. I flip radio stations any time an ad comes on (or turn it off). I don't read billboards. I won't watch a video on the webnets if it's preceded by an ad. Elephant them all.
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[rant mode="on"] Advertising is way out of control in our country. Our capitalist system has a major downside and that is the ubiquitous, incessent nagging in the form of advertising that all of us must endure. I think the cynical, detached disposition of most of our children can be traced to the non-stop lying they've been exposed to since they've been old enough to stumble up to a TV screen and peer into it's vacuous depths. You aren't adequate. You aren't happy. You aren't real. ...until you buy our product. [rant mode="off"] I no longer watch network TV because of ads. I flip radio stations any time an ad comes on (or turn it off). I don't read billboards. I won't watch a video on the webnets if it's preceded by an ad. Elephant them all.
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Never heard of 'automated' advertisement calls. :| How do they prevent you from hanging up halfway the first sentence? Why do they think annoying people by invading their personal space helps them to sell more stuff? Has to be a lot less effective, more expensive and on a much smaller scale than regular e-mail spam. Which also isn't exactly the best way to advertise stuff, let's be honest.
Giraffes are not real.
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I still find it odd that we have laws with prison terms for annoying someone online, but no defense from corporations. I was just considering this when I got an automated advertisement call on my cell phone from a blocked number.
If it moves, compile it
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I still find it odd that we have laws with prison terms for annoying someone online, but no defense from corporations. I was just considering this when I got an automated advertisement call on my cell phone from a blocked number.
If it moves, compile it
I used to get spam calls too. Then I got annoyed and I threatened to report one of companies I was getting calls from. Didn't work. Then I actually reported them. Don't know what happened with my complaint, but I suddenly stopped getting calls from ALL of them.
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I just turn my phone off until I need to place a call myself. That upsets some people, but they get used to it.
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Good. I hope more people do what you've done. If I were a millionaire I'd file harassment lawsuits against shady advertisers. My goal would be to shut them down, take all of their stuff, and leave them naked, cold, and without food on an iceberg. I'd start with the interwebs. Did a Michigan Mom really discover a weird trick to save tons on auto insurance? If you cannot take me to the Michigan Mom who discovered it I'm suing. Either that, or I'd just pay gangs to beat them up. I've not decided.
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I just turn my phone off until I need to place a call myself. That upsets some people, but they get used to it.
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Good. I hope more people do what you've done. If I were a millionaire I'd file harassment lawsuits against shady advertisers. My goal would be to shut them down, take all of their stuff, and leave them naked, cold, and without food on an iceberg. I'd start with the interwebs. Did a Michigan Mom really discover a weird trick to save tons on auto insurance? If you cannot take me to the Michigan Mom who discovered it I'm suing. Either that, or I'd just pay gangs to beat them up. I've not decided.
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I used to get spam calls too. Then I got annoyed and I threatened to report one of companies I was getting calls from. Didn't work. Then I actually reported them. Don't know what happened with my complaint, but I suddenly stopped getting calls from ALL of them.
Full-fledged Java/.NET lover, full-fledged PHP hater. Full-fledged Google/Microsoft lover, full-fledged Apple hater. Full-fledged Skype lover, full-fledged YM hater.
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I still find it odd that we have laws with prison terms for annoying someone online, but no defense from corporations. I was just considering this when I got an automated advertisement call on my cell phone from a blocked number.
If it moves, compile it
