[Modernman]

Telemarketing, the way that it has been done in the past ten years or so, IS HARASSMENT.

American industry never seems to learn this basic lesson: either regulate yourself, or government will end up doing it for you. The second alternative always ends up being worse for the industry (lawyers and doctors are smart- they've always been very good at regulating their own professions).

[Hemingway's Ghost]

American industry never seems to learn this basic lesson: either regulate yourself, or government will end up doing it for you. The second alternative always ends up being worse for the industry

Extremely well put.