On Feb 2, 2005, at 2:42 PM, Kevin Street wrote:
Warren Ockrassa quoted:
"It wasn't 15 minutes after that phone was in before a telemarketer calledme," Edwards said. "But that wasn't really a problem. I just told him I wasn't interested andhung up."'
You've got to love modern life, because some things are so reassuringly constant. Built it and they will come... ;-)
I thought it was pretty amusing myself. "I just got the phone ... and now I have to get on the 'do not call' list..."
Yii-ee.
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On Feb 2, 2005, at 3:23 PM, Dave Land wrote:
I suppose there are those who would argue that this merely demonstrates the proper functioning of a free-market economy.
I might be inclined to argue that myself. ;) Sure, advertising has its place and its merits, and sure a free-market economy's a good thing. What I really like is the irony.
But I'm also leery of too much. You ever watch _Futurama_? There was an episode wherein Fry was having dreams about a particular brand of underwear. Turns out they were being beamed into his head as advertising.
Now you and I both know that somewhere, some creepy slimy advertising type saw that episode and damn near soiled his own underwear with lust. That kind of idea is something those kinds of idiots would gladly develop, and it makes me very happy to know that it'll probably never, ever be able to happen -- not because of legal reasons (of all the legal fictions ever invented, corporate free speech has to be among the most egregiously Luciferian), but because of physiological ones.
Anyway, there's such a thing as too much advertising. Telemarketing the same day a town gets brand new phone service is right on the edge, IMO. It'll be over the line if they keep calling again and again.
-- Warren Ockrassa, Publisher/Editor, nightwares Books http://books.nightwares.com/ Current work in progress "The Seven-Year Mirror" http://www.nightwares.com/books/ockrassa/Flat_Out.pdf
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