Some folks from the Port of Long Beach stopped by this afternoon as part of an East Coast PR kick. They threw some pretty interesting stats my way, including this one: over a 24-hour period, a single cargo ship sitting at Long Beach with its engines running throws off more emissions than all the passenger [...]
Like most run-of-the-mill consumers, I did a little jig this morning when I read that the FTC would be banning prerecorded sales calls. I don’t care if advances in call-center telephony boost American productivity, picking up the receiver and being confronted with a prerecorded message is annoying. Sure, there are exceptions, the same exceptions there [...]
