Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain -
If the conscious mind--the part you consider to be you--is just the tip of the iceberg, what is the rest doing?
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Friday, 2 June 2017
quote [ Companies are arguing to FCC that since the phone never actually rings that their ringless voicemails shouldn't be regulated. ]
My public comment:
I pay for the service of having voicemail recorded for me. If that voicemail is clogged up with ringless robocalls, then I am being deprived of the service I pay for, against my will and consent. That is THEFT. I refuse to spend my time cleaning up garbage that someone else is forcing on me. It could also result in missing important messages I actually do want to receive, or it could make it difficult or impossible for someone to get a voicemail message to me (if, for example, the robocalls fill up my inbox). The first time someone misses a message about an emergency or a loved one dying or the like, you can expect a CLASS ACTION LAWSUIT. Robocalls should be ILLEGAL. And ringless voicemail robocalls? HELL NO.
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C18H27NO3 said @ 8:50pm GMT on 2nd June
Why do we even acknowledge junk mail as something we just have to "put up with?" We've been culturally conditioned to accept this but scream bloody murder when it makes me delete emails.
Bulk mail rates just enables corporations to litter us and the environment with crap, yet we're all up in arms with outrage over VM inboxes? How much paper and carbon is used up in delivering refuse that goes straight into a recycle bin? I routinely clean up my vestibule from garbage in the name of "marketing" and "isn't capitalism grand."
Don't get me wrong, I despise the idea of advertisements going directly to my mobile phone inbox, but why isn't everybody running around with their hair on fire over call marketers leaving VM messages on your home phone? They can find terrorists and have them on watch lists using all kinds of technology, yet I get two calls a day from bullshit fishing schemes and marketing, and law enforcement says we can't find them when they use proxies. Do Not Call registry's are a joke, but hey. Don't fuck with my social media and communication platforms. . .
I understand the difference, but fundamentally it's the same goddam thing. I guess quality of life is subject to interpretation. It's a technology thing, I guess. /shrug
C18H27NO3 said @ 2:47pm GMT on 4th June
Why do we even acknowledge junk mail as something we just have to "put up with?" We've been culturally conditioned to accept this but scream bloody murder when we have to delete emails.
Bulk mail rates just enables corporations to litter us and the environment with crap, yet we're all up in arms with outrage over VM inboxes? How much paper and carbon is used up in delivering refuse that goes straight into a recycle bin? I routinely clean up my vestibule from garbage in the name of "marketing" and "isn't capitalism grand."
Don't get me wrong, I despise the idea of advertisements going directly to my mobile phone inbox, but why isn't everybody running around with their hair on fire over call marketers leaving VM messages on your home phone? They can find terrorists and have them on watch lists using all kinds of technology, yet I get two calls a day from bullshit fishing schemes and marketing, and law enforcement says we can't find them when they use proxies. Do Not Call registry's are a joke, but hey. Don't fuck with my social media and communication platforms. . .
I understand the difference, but fundamentally it's the same goddam thing. I guess quality of life is subject to interpretation. It's a technology thing, I guess. /shrug
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C18H27NO3 said @ 8:50pm GMT on 2nd June [Score:1 Insightful]
Why do we even acknowledge junk mail as something we just have to "put up with?" We've been culturally conditioned to accept this but scream bloody murder when we have to delete emails.
Bulk mail rates just enables corporations to litter us and the environment with crap, yet we're all up in arms with outrage over VM inboxes? How much paper and carbon is used up in delivering refuse that goes straight into a recycle bin? I routinely clean up my vestibule from garbage in the name of "marketing" and "isn't capitalism grand."
Don't get me wrong, I despise the idea of advertisements going directly to my mobile phone inbox, but why isn't everybody running around with their hair on fire over call marketers leaving VM messages on your home phone? They can find terrorists and have them on watch lists using all kinds of technology, yet I get two calls a day from bullshit fishing schemes and marketing, and law enforcement says we can't find them when they use proxies. Do Not Call registry's are a joke, but hey. Don't fuck with my social media and communication platforms. . .
I understand the difference, but fundamentally it's the same goddam thing. I guess quality of life is subject to interpretation. It's a technology thing, I guess. /shrug
FUCK THIS NOISE.