Fucking telemarketers and Fucking Judges
 

OK, who has this judge's home number?

Fucking telemarketers and Fucking Judges
 

OK. What about the consumers' privacy rights not to be disturbed in their own homes, jackass? So the fucking annoying telemarketers have a right to set off a noisemaker in our homes even though we affirmatively tell them we don't want them to?

It's dumbass judges like this that make me not so upset that they are grossly underpaid...

7 bucks and a pack of smokes
 

Sure. Try to back-peddle. We'll all humor you. Of course, seven bucks for a ten-dollar handjob still counts as a discount, the sort one gives to a premium customer. Should I send you Wonk Monster's old Math Blaster program? He outgrew it last year, so if you work real hard and double your dosage it should be about your speed.

7 bucks and a pack of smokes
 

I thought she meant 7 bucks for a $3.50 handjob...

Fucking telemarketers and Fucking Judges
 

I'm sure it will come out soon.

First OK then Denver - what is it with the non-coastal states?

Fucking telemarketers and Fucking Judges
 

Despite the fact that the ruling is INSANE, it has also been set up by the Supremes over the years. There has been an ongoing expansion of the first amendment protection for commercial speech. And you see where this craziness leads...

I say amend the Constitution and eliminate the First Amendment.

Fucking telemarketers and Fucking Judges
 

You'll have to tangle with Larry Flynt on that one. He spent years and his ability to walk on that one.

Fucking telemarketers and Fucking Judges
 

That particular judge is well-known for scheduling hearings on motions he does not like for early in the morning -- e.g., 6:00 a.m.

Fucking telemarketers and Fucking Judges
 

Hey, is this really such a big deal? Can't we just treat people who come to your door or call on the phone as people, give them the courtesy of a hello, I'm sorry, I'm not interested, and leave it at that? We don't have to pick up the phone, do we (though I admit it would be rude not to answer the door)?

(Edited to add, we all have our unpopular causes, don't we? If we don't want government telling us what we can and can't do in the bedroom, why should government tell us who we can or can't call on the telephone or drop by to see?)

Fucking telemarketers and Fucking Judges
 

I am informed and believe that the telephone number in Judge Nottingham's chambers is (303) 844-5018. But I personally would not call that number. I just think it follows logically from his decision that you have a First Amendment right to know what that number is and to use it, even if he does not want to be called.

Eaten Out (of Business)
 

The President of Red Lobster restaurants was sacked this week and shares of the chain's parent company fell after an "All You Can Eat Crab for $20" promotion went awry. Underestimating the ability of the American public to stuff their collective pieholes, the company saw people ordering 3rd and 4th helpings of crab while crab prices soared...

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmp.../red_lobster_1

Nicolas Coppolla
 

Now there's a girl who's trying to cement her reputation as a beard.

Nicolas Coppolla
 

What's a beard?

Nicolas Coppolla
 

It's a form of male facial hair, but that's not important right now...

Favorite Magazines?
 

Come to LA! But please say that you and barely are not ruling out cunnilingus, too?

Fucking telemarketers and Fucking Judges
 

No. I normally do not answer the door when I am home alone. shit happens. However, you do not have caller id on your door and so must drop whatever you're doing, physically walk to the door to see who it is. And when it's a guy selling alarms and you have an obvious alarm sticker on your door, that's annoying.
Especially when it's every day (when you move into a new neighborhood). Understanding that when you're at home, you're doing one of 2 things - relaxing, or household chores (cooking, cleaning, fixing) and what's worse, is when you do open the door these people will not leave in a timely manner. They are trained that no does not mean no.
That said, sometimes you can't always know if it's a neighbor. Some people live blocks away. A woman who I didn't know came to the door asking if I'd seen her daughter (4 years old) who had "disappeared." I don't mind this - or the cop who came with her picture later. But I do mind the neighbor who came to my door and wanted me to sign a freakin petition so that she could break the CC&R's to run a business out of her house.

You do that a few times a day when you're right in the middle of whatever you're doing and it irritates people. But what would you know - you're a sock and why do I always get sucked into talking to socks?

Nicolas Coppolla
 

It is when a gay person has someone of the opposite sex go out with them for the purpose of pretending em is straight. The beard is the person the gay person brings. Sometimes it is a gay man and a lesbian and they are each others beards.

Fucking telemarketers and Fucking Judges
 

So even assuming I'm a sock, I think (and I'm pretty sure I'm readying you right here) you'll defend my right to sock but not my right to knock on your door. Isn't socking annoying?

Nicolas Coppolla
 

Thank you.

And I thank Aloha, too, for filling me in on the other meaning.

Nicolas Coppolla
 

I've always understood that a beard for a lesbian is a merkin. But that could be an alt.showbiz.gossip term.

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So Should the Jehovah's Witnesses Call Before They Come Over?
 

Ahem, not in LA anymore.

Hell(slinking back to politics)o

Fucking telemarketers and Fucking Judges
 

Nike might argue with that.

Nicolas Coppolla
 

Well, I got this one, at least.

Nicolas Coppolla
 

I can say with honesty I never heard the word merkin until it was mentioned on this board.

So that would be a big old no.


And since I am watching Will and Grace I have to ask, what the hell were they thinking putting her in that dress that shows off her chest. Shouldn't you have a chest before you show it off?

Debra Messing's UnBreasticles
 

It is an eternal mystery why they dress her like that. I would suggest that we start a collection to buy her some cleavage, but she already has more money than me. (I know no one has more money than you). :)

7 bucks and a pack of smokes
 

Good to see not everyone in Chicago is a dumbass.

Debra Messing's UnBreasticles
 

Don't be jealous.

I'd like to add:

A. Coupling sucks

B. I love Victoria Secret Commercials.

CSI
 

How do those people get anything done with no lights in their workplaces? Is there some kind of permanent brownout situation in Las Vegas and Miami?

CSI
 

It's not just Vegas and Miami. They're following the trend set by our esteemed president pro tem, Walter Sobchak, and his immediate predecessor, Capt. Willard. You see, they're very energy-conscious in a White House not run by oil companies (i.e., a fictional one).

CSI
 

The West Wing is marginally lighter. Plus, on the West Wing they aren't examining trace evidence and stuff. Don't all those CSI people have headaches?

Maybe it's a marketing ploy by the bigger screen TV manufacturers -- convincing us all to buy bigger TVs in hopes of being able to make out what's going on.

Will I get kicked out of Texas if I put chili over macaroni? I learned it in college from the most whitebread midwestern guy I've ever met -- but it's tasty.

I almost posted the chili thing anonymously, but decided to be brave. I'll be looking out for the lynch mob tonight though.

Fucking telemarketers and Fucking Judges
 

They might pay $1.5m not to be bothered, though.

What's recockulous about this decision is that it rests on discrimination between charitable solitications and commercial solicitation. Now, why did the FTC make that distinction? Because its statute says it can't go after non-profit entities. So, can't the FTC say: okay, charities aren't exempted, but then simply not go after them because they know they would have no authority?

As a side note it seems that CNN and FOX are having a bit of fun with each other. Tucker on CNN gave out FOX's number claiming it was his own. In return, FOX posted his real phone number on their web site.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,98365,00.html

Fucking telemarketers
 

Originally posted by Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)

As if that's a deterrent to the stupid, the insane, and the judgement proof. For some, it might even be an inducement.

Fucking telemarketers
 

Remember his audience.

Fucking telemarketers
 

burger: Having been a law clerk who got to deal with harassing calls, I will submit calling this judge would not be the best career move. Unless you desire is to gain experience for your next career as the bottom in gay porn.

me: As if that's a deterrent to the stupid, the insane, and the judgement proof. For some, it might even be an inducement.

BB: Remember his audience.

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HP

Fucking telemarketers and Fucking Judges
 

Jumping in in the the middle and not having read any of the discussion before this, but whether it was Congress or the FTC made the distinction is irrelevant. It is, at least in the opinion of one judge (which on the surface appears reasonable), still a content based restriction on speech.

My recollection of First Amendment law says that's a fairly big no no..

Fucking telemarketers and Fucking Judges
 

Because Congress couldn't exempt their own political calls without throwing a bone to charities?

(Edited to say) Adder has it just right. The charity is in there because the political is in there - it's cover - but any such choice of content renders it all UC. If it banned all, it might be a valid TP&M limit.

So, do you think they'll re-pass it without charity and politics?

Fucking telemarketers and Fucking Judges
 

I've never understood the rage this issue brings out in people. Personally, I just don't get that many calls (of course, I'm usually not home during marketing hours).

But "right to set off a noisemaker?" You know you can turn the ringer off, right? You also know that you can purchase a service to block restricted numbers too, right?

It all strikes me as 1) a lot of complaining about a few rather minor (in the grand scheme of things) inconveniences and 2) in line with suing over not being warned about hot coffee. What's next, outrage over commercials on the TV and radio?

I guess I was at the tool table
 

I was going to complain last night about not being on the list of "our friends" who got the email. But to find out Paigow got it --- oh the humanity.

Fucking telemarketers and Fucking Judges
 

No.