Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: Notesfiles $Revision: 1.7.0.10 $; site uiucdcs Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!inuxc!pur-ee!uiucdcs!mcewan From: mcewan@uiucdcs.CS.UIUC.EDU Newsgroups: net.consumers Subject: Re: Telephone mailing lists (flame) Message-ID: <44000033@uiucdcs> Date: Thu, 5-Dec-85 15:34:00 EST Article-I.D.: uiucdcs.44000033 Posted: Thu Dec 5 15:34:00 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 7-Dec-85 04:57:18 EST References: <218@ur-tut.UUCP> Lines: 71 Nf-ID: #R:ur-tut.UUCP:218:uiucdcs:44000033:000:3173 Nf-From: uiucdcs.CS.UIUC.EDU!mcewan Dec 5 14:34:00 1985 >>> I have the right to call any telephone number in the phone book. (That's >>> why their is a phone book). You have the right to hang up on me. >> >>Fine(as long as you define a "right" as anything you can get away with without >>fear of being arrested). So what's your problem? I have the right to tell you >>to go to hell and to slam the phone down, right? What's that? You demand that > > You sure do have the right to tell me to go to hell and slam the phone down. > And maybe after recess the teacher will give you milk and cookies. > God your going to have fun when you get to the second grade. How would you know? Judging from your spelling and punctuation, you haven't gotten that far yet. > What do you do when a commerical comes on tv during your favorite show? > Hmmmm lets see. (screams at tv) " What! how dare you invade my privacy > with ads for worthless shit I don't need. (grabs tv and does a Darrel > Dawkins slam, just like the phone, "Take that, invade my privacy will you". Well, even if I did watch commercial television other than by tape-delay, this is hardly an accurate analogy. The television does not invade my privacy because *I* choose when to turn it on and whether to subject myself to commercials. This is like comparing armed robbery to a voluntary contribution. >> I be "polite"? You want me to say "Sorry I took so long to answer the phone, >> but I was asleep. I'm afraid I don't want any of the worthless shit you're >> selling. I'm sorry I wasted your valuable time." Sorry, Bob, you can't have >> everything you want. > > Who said I can have everything I want? Nobody, but I assume that's what you're aiming for, since you're the one who started this argument by demanding that people be "polite" when your wife makes one of these annoying phone calls. >>> If you >>> don't want your privacy invaded, a.Dont have a phone b.Unplug it when you >>> don't use it. >> >> I see. You admit that it's an invasion, but say "Hey, that's your problem. > > I guess it's because I learned how to read. I never said it was an invasion > of privacy everybody else did. Amazing. Someone who's reading comprehension is so poor that he can't even understand what he himself has written. Or do you mean that when you wrote "If you don't want to have your privacy invaded", you were simply inserting a totally irrelevant comment into the middle of your message, and were talking about, say, peeping toms? If this is the case then why is unplugging the phone a solution? > I also conceded the point about a and b. > If your not to busy ranting and raving you would have seen it. I did see it, after I wrote my response. I afraid that some of us aren't precognitive, Bob, so we can only respond to messages we've already seen and have to wait for the ones that will come through later. By the way, why haven't you responded to this message yet? > (Yes when > I think I'm proven wrong, I concede the point. It is called 'learning'. > Try it sometime Scott. I have. Not everyone's wrong as often as you are, though, so we don't learn at as rapid a rate. Scott McEwan {ihnp4,pur-ee}!uiucdcs!mcewan "Listen! You smell something?"