yet another reason the CRTC is laughable
The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission, in an 'effort' to help Canadians avoid unwanted telephone calls from telemarketers, created the National Do Not Call List last year. I am so glad I didn't sign up. Global News is reporting a major flaw with the list: it is ridiculously easy to pretend to be a compliant telemarketer, pay $50, obtain the list, and start bombarding people on the list with calls.
What a fucking joke. I've been pissed at the CRTC ever since the early 1980s, when my isolated northwestern Ontario town finally received two extra tv channels from a private company. Granted, the service was outside the law, but when you're a kid and you only get one tv station, you don't care about legality. You're forever scarred because all the cool shows you were watching on WGN Chicago and a major movie network are yanked away from you... and you're back to Three's Company reruns on CBC.
Seriously, are monkeys running this stupid government bureaucracy?
What a fucking joke. I've been pissed at the CRTC ever since the early 1980s, when my isolated northwestern Ontario town finally received two extra tv channels from a private company. Granted, the service was outside the law, but when you're a kid and you only get one tv station, you don't care about legality. You're forever scarred because all the cool shows you were watching on WGN Chicago and a major movie network are yanked away from you... and you're back to Three's Company reruns on CBC.
Seriously, are monkeys running this stupid government bureaucracy?
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Air Farce was terrible but I like Corner Gas.
Lately I'm finding the worst offenders (the ones that pester me the most) are the companies I already deal with, or have recently.
Btw, that one channel thing must have sucked.
The amount of tv you watch is inversely correlated to the amount of channels you have to choose from, imho.
I don't know though, it seems like we're getting way fewer calls now.
YEAH.