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p4 weekender june 5 1993 f i numbers at right v stop telephone invasion even without c62 hello how would you like to get rich and stay home sound like the onesided con versation you had with a robot last night on the phone telephone solicitation is annoying even when speak ing with an actual live per son but when the solicitor is a taped message the nui sance factor escalates when the calls are repeated after youve hung up ifs intolera ble recent technology such as automatic dialing and announcing devices adas have created havoc with our home and office environ ments the public is being abused by commercial solicitation and the telephone companies viewpoint jo ann stevenson say they are at a loss to stop these unwanted unwelcome invasions the canadian radiotelevi sion and telecommunications commission crtc says its clout would be strengthened by bill c62 which it hopes will pass soon the federal bill would give telephone companies permission to cut off service to customers who break the rules but existing rules arent giving us any relief restric tions of adas already exist telephones and faxes must not be used for sequential or random dialing they must be disconnected within ten sec onds after the party hangs up and they can operate only within specific time periods weekdays till 8 pm satur day till 5 pm and sundays noon to 5 pm telephone companies have been directed to discontinue service to contravening indi viduals or companies so why are we who complain about the frequent anct blatant dis respect for these rules being told by bell canada to call crtc and told by crtc to complain to our mp how are we to believe that radar program needed hut costly dear editor andrew mairs article in the may 22nd issue of the week ender big brother radar system is badly flawed is completely indicative of how journalists in canada for the most part have become conditioned to pounce on every government policy or pro posal in sight without giving due consideration or analysis mr mair asserts that a photo graphic radar system being dis cussed to catch speeding drivers is going to inevitably lead to increased costs for car rentals company bankruptcies and even ah array of layoffs this is of course going to occur because the companies will no doubt have to absorb any tickets that may be issued as a result of the radar system to drivers renting the cars from car rentals or so mr mair thinks what is forgotten in this jour nalists analysis is that in order to rent a car anywhere in this province the renter is obliged to give hisher credit card number if we believe that for one moment the car rental compa nies are going to refrain from sending those tickets right back to the customers who are responsible for them then we have stopped thinking all together speeding drivers are a prob lem and they pose a danger to all of us the real dilemma however is not the issue of lay offs or bankruptcies instead it is whether the ndp government can given the financial constraints of the time afford to establish such a pro gram mr mair would be advised to get the issues right and give us some compelling commentary shinan govani milliken mills the atlluck of wto vmsiw home chkultwwfy makvcuasw-at- 45 ewvtmssr bill c62 is going to end this nightmare when telephone companies are not making use of the clout they already have whether individual or cor porate customers we deserve to have our wishes respected in the use of our telephones and faxes abuse is a direct invasion of our privacy to complain call bell canadas business office and crtc which takes collect calls at 819 9970272 markham economist and sun stouffville tribune uxbridge tribune weekender edition a metroland community newspaper panuciapappaspubusher jo ann stevenson editorinchief paula cr0well editor andrew mair editor debraweller director of advertising barry goodyear director of distribution vivian cne1x business manager pamela nichols operations manager markham 2942200 sales 7987624 classi fied 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must be easy work when he portrays that ne-er-do- well rogue san francisco detec tive harry callaghan all clint has to do is squint a lot adjust his sunglasses from time to time and blow away bad guys with his 44 magnum i cant say that im surprised either that dirty harry movies continue to be box office dyna mite they flog the same com modity offered by the death wish movies charles bronson sleepwalks through every couple of years simple old testa ment solutions to modern prob- lems in the world of death wish and dirty harry the lesson is always cut and dried and the bad guys are always badder than bad theyre scum ergo gun them down would that real life were so simple would that modern jus tice were even in the ball park the other day on my tv oprah was interviewing a prison inmate who had just been sentenced for dealing heroin what did the judge give you asked oprah eighteen years said the pris oner and when do you get out pursued oprah im eligible for parole next summer said the prisoner and the tv audience laughed thats how cynical weve become about the courts and justice thats why a little cheer leaps unbidden to the back of our throat when we see dirty harry short circuit a legal system thats constipated to the point of immo bility hooray here comes sim ple monosyllabic harry dispens ing instant justice in lethal lead capsules its stupid its fantasy but it works and the news we get from the courts doesnt seem calculated to make six gun justice any less attractive some time ago i wrote about the despondent new yorker who tried to kill himself by jumping in front of a subway train he lived albeit as a quadrapalegic when he recov ered sufficiently the wouldbe suiride suedthenewyorktjarw w authority f million tsol- basic black arthur black lars claiming the authority had failed to protect him he won too last month a woman sued the chicago rapid transit system over the death of her husband and how had he died exactly well while waiting for his train he urinated over the tracks right on the electrified rail the wife sued for neglect claiming 15 million would go a long way towards allaying her grief she won too ah but every so often the uni verse unfolds the way it ought to i give you the tale of dwight cov- erson wouldbe mississippi rapist one night dwight broke into a house in jackson and found himself in the bedroom of a 50 year old unprotected woman perfect dwight jumped on the woman slapped around cursed her and when he had her thoroughly frightened took off his clothes which is when the woman grabbed him in what would have been an intimate embrace if it hadnt been quite so energetic there are no names in jiu jitsu for the hold the woman put on the man you wont see it employed by members of the world wrestling federation suffice it to say its twohanded vicelike and extremely painful please please whimpered dwight youre killing me die then said the woman woman you got me suffering moaned dwight have you thought about how you were going to leave me suf fering she replied with a twist dwight coverson eventually managed to break free and get away but he wasnt hard to find police just followed the crawl marks in the dirt they led right to coversons house police found him in bed in great pain i dont know how dirty harry oalfelelabtnt astory like that sure makes my day