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Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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I really dislike random calls. Actually, I rarely talk on the phone anymore. When I do it's a recruiter (they call quite often)
Elephant elephant elephant, sunshine sunshine sunshine
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Cool, but I have built my own server (based on Asterisk) which automatically answers all telemarketer calls and proceeds to have an annoying nonsensical conversation with them. And it is recorded and transcoded into mp3, and then emailed to me so we can all laugh at them at work. Some of them are hilarious.
I've had people argue with my server for as long as 15 minutes. It's almost 100% effective, with an average of < 1 telemarketer getting through every 2 years.
We shouldn't just be blocking telemarketers, we should be punishing them. They are committing harassment, and if the law won't deal them then I will do it myself.
I'm considering taking my numbers OFF the do not call list. They are so entertaining.
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Basildane wrote: I'm considering taking my numbers OFF the do not call list
I think they are spoofing numbers to look like local. Had an irate lady call and tell me to stop calling her. I was not even home to use the land line number.
Mongo: Mongo only pawn... in game of life.
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Yes, I've had spoofed numbers call (try to call) me too. Including my own home number calling my home.
Just more evidence that telemarketers are criminal gangs, and should be treated as such.
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Basildane wrote: Including my own home number calling my home.
That happened to me a couple of weeks ago, the missus was freaked out about it.
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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As soon as I answer a telemarketing call I say "Hey I'd like to record this. Please wait for the tone".. .then hang up.
If it's not broken, fix it until it is
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Once upon a time, I had a mobile phone plan that gave me a small amount of money for each minute of incoming calls.
At that time in the University corridors there were political inclined students who blocked the passageways asking for the phone number to invite people at Marxist-Leninist meetings. They were unorganized and divided in small groups...
The rest of the story should be already understood 
GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP. -- TNCaver
"When you have eliminated the JavaScript, whatever remains must be an empty page." -- Mike Hankey
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Quote: From each according to his ability, to each according to his need
... and you needed money to buy a few ![Beer | [beer]](https://codeproject.freetls.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/beer.gif) 's on a Friday night.
Sounds like the system was working exactly the way they thought it should. 
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Once my daughter, 3 years old, grabbed the phone before us ... it was a telemarketer; that's been great fun for 15 minutes: since then she is answering to unknown callers
'Just because nobody complains doesn't mean all parachutes are perfect.'
Benny Hill
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Well when you come home from work one day to discover your house has been resided in barbie pink, don't say you weren't warned.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Please don't mention barbie, IMHO (and in this case also not considered) there are already too many of them in my house 
In any case I keep my credit card in a very high place, just to be sure 
'Just because nobody complains doesn't mean all parachutes are perfect.'
Benny Hill
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All that means is that when you come home to a bright pink home, she'll also be in trouble for climbing on furniture.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Bookmarked! This will spread heavily 
I never finish anyth
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I hate telemarketers. When I still had a land line, when they called it was no holds barred - I cussed, threatened, and insulted their ancestry in the most disgusting terms possible. A few times it was a game to see how quickly they would hang up.
Software Zen: delete this;
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SDD Conf.[^].. I'm booking my travel.
Incidentally - London accommodation is stupidly expensive, eh?
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Duncan Edwards Jones wrote: Incidentally - London accommodation is stupidly expensive, eh?
Try Travelodge, there is one in Hounslow that is very cheap (35 £ / night for two people under Christmas in 2013) and literally ABOVE the Piccadilly Line. It's 4th zone so the tube ticket may be a bit expensive, but the accommodation is of good quality - very nice and helpful staff.
GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP. -- TNCaver
"When you have eliminated the JavaScript, whatever remains must be an empty page." -- Mike Hankey
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That's all well and good, but have you seen the dregs of humanity who live around Woking?
veni bibi saltavi
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:innocentWhistle:
veni bibi saltavi
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Duncan Edwards Jones wrote: London accommodation is stupidly expensive, eh?
London everything is stupidly expensive. You'll need to take out a second mortgage just to buy a pint of beer.
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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One doesn't travel from Dublin to London for the beer...
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