Re: OT- telemarketing

On Thu, 17 Apr 2008 21:08:33 -0400, Julia Altshuler
<jaltshuler@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Handsome "Jack" Morrison wrote:

Lia, for the same reason that internet marketers send out spam,
(because enough people make it worth their while to do so), apparently
enough people make it worth while for telemarketers to telephone
people at home, too (whether they want to be called or not).

If people would stop making it worth their while, they'd stop.

Ah, but how?

I wasn't so much trying to offer a solution, but an illustration of
why they do what they do.

All that any of us can probably really do is to control our *own*
behavior, environment, etc.

And there are means available to do that.

The first thing anyone thinks of is convincing every individual not to
buy from telemarketers, but you'd have to get to every one. If one
idiot buys, the whole plan falls apart.

Not necessarily. There's a critical mass there somewhere, that if
enough people stopped buying stuff via spam, telemarketing, etc., it
would cease to be profitable for them to continue along those lines.

But it's probably like squeezing a balloon. Squeeze one part, and it
pops out again somewhere else, in an entirely different form.

Next idea is to make it expensive for the telemarketers somehow. Tax
them or make the equipment expensive.

What we don't need, IMO, is for the government to get involved.

I just want them to leave me alone.

The idea I like best is to make it illegal. People would still do it,
but they'd be evading the law, and if they were caught, they'd be paying
expensive fines. Granted, it would be almost impossible to enforce.

Then why pass yet another unenforceable law? Eventually people will
totally lose respect for the law altogether when they see that it
isn't being enforced, or is being enforced selectively.

Citizens already have the means to control their own environments, and
without infringing on the rights of those people who apparently enjoy
being pestered or solicited.

Anyway, that's my opinion, and I'm sticking to it.

--
Handsome "Jack" Morrison

Something you don't see very often. No, it wasn't photoshopped.
http://picasaweb.google.com/handsomejackmorrison/GoCardinals

Barack Obama: A Living Lie.
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2008/04/a_living_lie.html

Another really good video regarding how to adjust your mirrors *correctly*:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0EqglmE0r3o&feature=related

Canadian Human Rights Commission official: "Freedom of speech is an American concept, so I don't give it any value."
http://www.classicalvalues.com/archives/2008/04/it_cant_happen_3.html

Well, that didn't take long. Los Angeles considers "global warming" tax.
http://www.desertdispatch.com/opinion/global_3006___article.html/warming_tax.html

A book that every American should read (and NYT #1 bestseller): Liberal Fascism, by Jonah Goldberg
http://www.amazon.com/Liberal-Fascism-American-Mussolini-Politics/dp/0385511841
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