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edited 1st Nov '12 1:23:43 PM by Qeise
Laws are made to be broken. You're next, thermodynamics.That is correct. Recipients pay for incoming text messages, whether they are solicited or not. You can get plans that include either a set limit of monthly texts or an "unlimited" texting plan, which absorbs the costs, but they are still tallied on your account.
"Pay as you go" plans typically charge you per text by deducting an amount from your prepaid minutes; my wife's phone deducts 0.3 minutes per text, which resolves to anywhere from 1 to 3 cents if I remember correctly.
"Naked" plans without any texting component may charge 10 to 20 cents per text.
edited 1st Nov '12 1:28:02 PM by Fighteer
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"Regulatory agencies have historically been very reluctant to classify unsolicited communications of any sort - email, fax, text message, etc., as fraud. An office I worked at many years ago used to get dozens of junk faxes each day despite the FCC explicitly banning them. Unsolicited phone calls are prosecuted fairly harshly since the Do Not Call registry was put into place, and it's always been illegal to place unsolicited calls to cell phones (with the typical exemptions for political polling), but they still happen. Laws preventing email spam may as well not exist.
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"You'd think. Unfortunately there is a long precedent in this country of advertisers being allowed to do pretty much whatever they want. Only recently have there been attempts to curb these practices, and mainly only when enough consumers get fed up with it that Congress and/or the FCC are forced to act for fear of losing their jobs over it.
"Do Not Call" was the end result of a massive public outcry and even then it had some teeth pulled at the last minute, with exemptions for political and charity calls. Plus, any company that you've done business with at any time in the past 6 months can call you unless you explicitly request otherwise.
We should refocus on the election, mind you.
edited 1st Nov '12 1:44:22 PM by Fighteer
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"Chrysler executive tweets that Donald Trump is 'full of @%#!' over Jeep accusation
edited 1st Nov '12 4:24:56 PM by DeviantBraeburn
Everything is Possible. But some things are more Probable than others. JEBAGEDDON 2016We may have hit rock bottom.
Everything is Possible. But some things are more Probable than others. JEBAGEDDON 2016Dude, they would have eviscerated Lincoln today over his opposition to states' rights.
Share it so that people can get into this conversation, 'cause we're not the only ones who think like this.Well, do we know that for a fact? I mean, Lincoln is a controversial figure for a reason. People have a point when they say that Lincoln had no basis for stopping the south from succeeding (the morality of slavery is immaterial). He was open in his lack of regard for blacks and only emancipated them as a weapon. Heck, even Lincoln supported succession when he was a lowly lawyer; he just changed his opinions when he saw an opportunity for unprecedented power and immortality.
In that sense, he's the ideal Republican President.
edited 1st Nov '12 4:56:12 PM by johnnyfog
I'm a skeptical squirrelWell, okay, I'm just saying that we'll never know what Lincoln's motives were (maybe he really was a saint, or just a pragmatic politician). It's not completely incongruous for him to be embraced by Republicans, even though the Libertarian wing hates him on principle.
Remember, Conservatives want a really powerful government, despite what they always say, they just don't want it looking out for the poor.
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I actually find the "I have a major revelation for black americans" part a bit...don't really know how to describe it in english...arrogant sounding.
it just feels a lot like that they are implying that african-americans are stupid...conscious or not.
edited 1st Nov '12 4:56:03 PM by 3of4
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To be fair. The average tea party republican, at least in my state, does assume anyone who votes liberal is stupid. Every time I try to debate them calmly they proceed to condescend to me.
Black people they especially tend to regard as stupid, lazy, and stuck in the projects out of their own mistakes.
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The South sent soldiers into the the territories of New Mexico, Arizona, and Oklahoma despite none of them voting to succeed from the Union.
Plus they tried to invade Kentucky despite its Declaration of Neutrality.
Lincoln's actions were justified.
edited 1st Nov '12 5:00:49 PM by DeviantBraeburn
Everything is Possible. But some things are more Probable than others. JEBAGEDDON 2016It's on now - Democrat/Independent all the way for me (a black man,btw)! Don't anyone try to sway me, either... Thank you.
edited 1st Nov '12 5:05:27 PM by LostAnarchist
This is where I, the Vampire Mistress, proudly reside: http://liberal.nationstates.net/nation=nova_nacio

A Virginia firm named CcAdvertising has been linked to a wave of anti-Obama text message spam.
This is not the first time they've been in trouble for exploiting loopholes in an FCC rule designed to prevent text messaging without the consent of the user.
Technical details: Apparently, every phone has an associated email address that can be used to send it text messages. It is not illegal to "spray and pray" by sending emails to random addresses that might possibly resolve to a live cell phone. You aren't technically sending texts, violating Do Not Call, or using an "opt-in" email list without consent.
The company is associated with a man named Jason Flanary, a previous failed GOP candidate for Virginia's state senate. He has been disavowed by several Republican groups but continues to unabashedly spam people with email-to-text messages, a trick he first used during that state senate bid.
edited 1st Nov '12 12:23:25 PM by Fighteer
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"