For me telemarketing falls just into the same rotten category as spam. It's unwanted and it's an intrusion. The only advantage over email spam is, that you can actually give the favour right back to where it came from, and that is at least somewhat satisfying.

And the argument about people who need the job is just laughable in my opinion. No job opportunity justifies annoying other people in that nasty way. And yes; I really don't care at all about marketing companies and the people that work there. I've seen too many ads being forced down my throat against my will and will do ANYthing to sabotage them...

Yeah; land of the free...

Don't all you US guys get the feeling that there is something utterly wrong? Or do only people from "the outside" realise that such things are terribly off limits?

@ Camille0

I'm glad to see at least one other european that is freaked out over this decision. I am Swiss and be asured that we both will take the heat here.

Firstly let me say that we are NOT talking about WW2 here. That has nothin to do with this discussion at all.

I really feel bad for all those US citicens who have to fear for their lives everytime they approach a public street. Or even in their homes! Yikes!
I heard they cannot longer let their children go to school alone. How awful.
I remember my childhood. When I was six. My first day in school. My father accompanied me to school because I didn't know the way. He did so for a few days. Then the parents organised us into a group of four to go to school together. It worked out perfectly. We were taught how to avoid cars and certainly not to go with strangers. It all worked out. Fine. We were allowed to go to the forest. Do whatever we wanted to do. And you know what? Nothing bad happened. And you know why? Because our parents taught us the way. Were there for us. Taught us the basics in a natural way. By being there for us. And by doing so raised us into NORMAL AND DECENT people. All my childhood long I have never seen a firearm. All the time I never had ANY whatsoever contact with a gun. So did the chaps around me. Most of them had their first gun handed over to them when they were drawn into the military. They were at least 18 years old back then.

Well; this is the general story of most people here. And the statistics speak for themselves: We (Switzerland) are amongst those countries that have a very high rate of firearm per person. Every soldier has to keep his (SIG 550 or for the officers his SIG 75)gun along with a sealed package of ammo at home.

Yet, with a neglectable amount of exceptions, we have no shootings around here.

I can say that I am probably one of the very lucky ones that have never come into contact with firearms. That might be the reason why I am so utterly alienated by the idea of everyone being allowed to carry a gun.

Furthermore I want to add that I totally agree to weapons as sporting or hunting equipment. No complaints about that at all. I consider joining a sports club myself. I think It might be fun afterall.

But if I had to consider buying a weapon for my protection - I would prefer to change country...

@ Tim:

That is EXACTLY what I am talking about. Did you even think a split second about what you were writing?

Ach dammit; all you gun wearing maniacs sicken me. And you really believe what you're spewing around. You really do believe it. I am deeply saddened by the lack of autonomous thinking ability displayed in the US nowadays.

Wow. How depressing.

Truly a very sad day again in recent US history.

I am with Aaron here; but the thought of there really being radium in it is really a bit scary ain't it?

Uhhh my...how creepy. But in a strangely beautiful way. *shivers*

Definitely a PR stunt in my opinion.

Seeing things like this makes me really sick and angry. I'm glad I don't live in the land of the freedom.

Am I the only one thinking that this is a pretty stupid record? and reuters is making a headline out of it. I feel sad now.

Anyhow. There are some stats missing. Without averages and deviances this is pretty useless...

I wonder if the sequences are random... Anyone?

Totally inconsistet result on my side; I am pretty sure I only concentrated on the gun and that the color of the skin did not make any difference. I am quite good at abstracting, and concentrating, though.

Some places in Switzerland tried this device. Fortunately this was only a very short lived experiment.