U.S. Court Blocks Anti-Telemarketing List 1087
DirkDaring writes "Yahoo is reporting that a U.S. court in Oklahoma has blocked the national 'do not call' list that would allow consumers to stop most unwanted telephone sales calls. With around 50 million phone numbers currently signed up this could get very messy."
Grrrrr..... (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Grrrrr..... (Score:3, Funny)
Easy answer (Score:5, Funny)
Y'know... (Score:5, Funny)
finally! (Score:3, Funny)
Comment removed (Score:5, Funny)
Talk to the Judge (Score:1, Funny)
What we really need to know .... (Score:2, Funny)
Well at least we didn't all just give our numbers to the telemarketers...
Oooo-klahoma... (Score:4, Funny)
"Where your privacy's cheap, and things that beep
"Don't stop slammers - even on their dime...."
They left a sentence out... (Score:2, Funny)
The article is erroneously missing the statement:
"Our check is in the mail, as promised."
Re:two things (Score:1, Funny)
NEXT STEP... (Score:2, Funny)
MOD PARENT +5 INSIGHTFUL!!!!! (Score:1, Funny)
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Re:Grrrrr..... (Score:5, Funny)
Sounds like a opening line to a horror movie trailer: The Night of the Telemarketers.
Re:Or something (Score:4, Funny)
Re:The List (Score:3, Funny)
My phone company just sent me a thick book yesterday filled with pages and pages of valid residential phone numbers (and even addresses!). They're in league with the telemarketers! Revolt, revolt!
Seriously, getting valid telephone numbers has never been that hard. It's not the same thing as spammers trying to gather valid email addresses.
No call 8675309 (Score:0, Funny)
Re:The pocket phrase (Score:5, Funny)
but er.. I think the way it's supposed to go is the judges end up in the pockets of the big corporations (alongside all of the politicians).
Re:That took real guts... (Score:1, Funny)
Re:Grrrrr..... (Score:3, Funny)
Obligatory Simpsons Quote (Score:2, Funny)
3:00pm? (Score:3, Funny)
I've been there (Score:3, Funny)
BWTF do I know? I live in Sitka, AK.
Re:A plan that worked once... (Score:5, Funny)
Instead of the call showing up on YOUR bill, it shows up on THEIRS.
Congratulations, you just gave them your phone number. Be sure to start practicing your "I'm happy with my long-distance service" speech right now.
Top Ten Uses for a Blocked Do-Not-Call List (Score:5, Funny)
9. Use it to pick lottery numbers.
8. Send $1 to the first person on the list, then add your name to the bottom and forward it to 10 friends.
7. Same as above, but put your name at the top of the list.
6. Tell John Ashcroft it's a list of suspected terrorists.
5. Create the ultimate uncrackable password: echo `cat donotcalllist`
4. Reduce the national deficit by selling it back to the telemarketers for a pretty penny.
3. Register every phone number as a new Internet domain (212-555-1234.com) to help thwart Verisign.
2. Filter it through the Unix command "tr aeiou eioua" and remark how everybody's names look Swedish.
1. Turn in the bastards to the RIAA.
Re:A plan that worked once... (Score:5, Funny)
she replied 'no problem, we'll be here till 5'
Re:A plan that worked once... (Score:2, Funny)
Oh the irony (Score:5, Funny)
This is just so delicious. Year 2000 USA Election Statistics [sdtars.com]
National Popular Vote for Gore: 50,996,116
National Popular Vote for Bush: 50,456,169
The question of course is WHICH 50 million was 'wrong' ;-)
Re:A plan that worked once... (Score:4, Funny)
Nah. I'll stick with my tried and true plan of talking with them, getting them to talk to me as long as they can, then getting stubborn
then sounding positive again
then stubborn once more
then positive
start to ask about options
keep them on for as long as I can, smile and joke with them, get them comfortable
Then launch into abuse. It's fun, it keeps them talking to me more and makes their call success rate lower, AND makes them feel bad. Makes me feel good, and maybe they'll go get a REAL JOB
Re:Grrrrr..... (Score:5, Funny)
Just because we don't have smog, incessant traffic, extremely dense population, and 30% higher retail prices DOESN'T mean we're backwards.
Apparently, along with smog, traffic, high population density, and high prices, Oklahomans also lack a sense of humor.
(Maybe it's because Will Rogers is gone?)
Re:Grrrrr..... (Score:3, Funny)
The court also ordered (Score:3, Funny)
Re:The pocket phrase (Score:5, Funny)
Dude, you post to Slashdot. When your "girlfriend" has her hand in your pocket, she's going for your credit card.
To see how many more minutes you can afford on the "date".
Re:Grrrrr..... (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Grrrrr..... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Or something (Score:5, Funny)
It isn't harassing, it is notifying him of some great opportunities that he might not know about. If he doesn't take my call, I will starve, as I am a single mother who is just doing this job to get by. Or some crap like that. Anyway, this judge could opt-out. In fact, he would be required to, since it is my right to call him. If I call him 5000 times, that is harassment, but if 5000 people each call him once, what is that?
Re:Grrrrr..... (Score:2, Funny)
What gives our states a bad name (of flatness?) is that the interstate is built on the flattest and straightest land they can use. Most people stay on interstate, so they automatically think the state's dead flat.
and, by the way, our states have more trees than they've ever had. Cottonwood trees spread like crazy around here.
Dave Barry (Score:5, Funny)
So how long before Dave Barry [miami.com] publishes the Oklahoma judge's phone number? ;)
Re:A plan that worked once... (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Grrrrr..... (Score:1, Funny)
I wonder why someone with your nick would happen to know that...