I wish someone would do that here. What a freaking waste of trees.

Hooray for book banning!

the last one i got sat in the rain outside the front door until it turn to mush.

Every city should do this. Every 6 months I get one of these things, I take it from my doorstep and dump it straight into the trash or recycling. What a waste of time and resources.

The HERO tag would have been appropriate.

Janusdog: I wish someone would do that here. What a freaking waste of trees.

Waste of trees, space, recycle bin, etc.

good for kindling, and "strong man" side shows.

/work for the phone company.

I need them to drive :(

This is clearly another example of how Amurica is becoming the communist, book-burning nation that them dumbocrats want. It starts with the Yellow Pages, and what next? The Bible.
HUrrrr

muck4doo: Hooray for book banning!

Next to the Bible it is the most owned book that no one reads.

All2morrowsparTs: Janusdog: I wish someone would do that here. What a freaking waste of trees.

Waste of trees, space, recycle bin, etc.

good for kindling, and "strong man" side shows.

/work for the phone company.

And, if movies are to be believed, silencing gunfire and convincing perps to talk.

what am i gonna use for toilet paper?

Making everything electronic without some sort of analog back-up is stupid. Whaddaya gonna do when the EMP strikes?

All2morrowsparTs: muck4doo: Hooray for book banning!

Next to the Bible it is the most owned book that no one reads.

I use mine for emergency rolling papers.

After four years, I still don't know what I think about living here, but I do like these types of perks.

Under the proposal, phone companies and other distributors and publishers of Yellow Pages phone books would be barred from leaving them on doorsteps and in lobbies without receiving advance permission.

I realize this is commercial speech and not as protected, but there may be a First Amendment issue here.

Compare, for example to a ban on handing out pamphlets.

I'm okay with this; those that really want a hard copy business advertising book can still get one for free by request.

Get (your books) off my lawn!

If someone really wants to send me a book, let them pay first class postage. I'll grant a right of easement to the letter carrier, but not to any random third party.

Wouldn't it be a ban on littering?

If you drop off that thing on my private property, how is it not illegal littering or dumping? If I took some random garbage and went and dropped it off on all of my neighbor's front doorstep, I'd get at least some sort of fine / citation.

ne2d: Under the proposal, phone companies and other distributors and publishers of Yellow Pages phone books would be barred from leaving them on doorsteps and in lobbies without receiving advance permission.

I realize this is commercial speech and not as protected, but there may be a First Amendment issue here.

Compare, for example to a ban on handing out pamphlets.

You can hand out pamphlets but you can't litter them on the ground like phone books.

drongozone: Making everything electronic without some sort of analog back-up is stupid. Whaddaya gonna do when the EMP strikes?

nothing is going to make an emp big enough to disable all electronics on earth without also killing everything on it. I'm not too worried

This is a good first step SF.

Next ban unsolicited SF examiners.

http://www.yellowpagesoptout.com/

Oh, San Francisco. Is there anything you won't ban?

I had a gig 17 years ago delivering these things which basically involved my friend and I driving around smoking weed and tossing them from the back of a truck.

So they shouldn't ban them at a time when the least skilled and productive of our citizens need jobs.

All2morrowsparTs: ne2d: Under the proposal, phone companies and other distributors and publishers of Yellow Pages phone books would be barred from leaving them on doorsteps and in lobbies without receiving advance permission.

I realize this is commercial speech and not as protected, but there may be a First Amendment issue here.

Compare, for example to a ban on handing out pamphlets.

You can hand out pamphlets but you can't litter them on the ground like phone books.

You can stick them under windshield wipers, hang them on doorknobs, etc. I don't know if anyone's tried to ban that and if they were able to.

HerpaDerpaDoo: and what next? The Bible.
HUrrrr

I'd call that a good start.

drongozone: Making everything electronic without some sort of analog back-up is stupid. Whaddaya gonna do when the EMP strikes?

Call information? (If the phones still work.)

drongozone: Making everything electronic without some sort of analog back-up is stupid. Whaddaya gonna do when the EMP strikes?

Not use the Yellow Pages since the phone will be dead. That's what.

Every few months when they do this our HOA has to go to the foreclosed homes, pick up the books and throw them in the recycle bin (no charge to residents, we just do it so it's not obvious the homes are empty).

The people they hire to distribute these have no clue if anyone lives there so they just dump the books on the doorstep

And more than one group seems to print these darn things. I got two last week and came home last night to find ANOTHER one (different company) on my doorstep. All went in the recycle bin.

I don't recall the last time I even used a phone book.

Interestingly when I ask clients how they found me the answer is almost always "Phone Book" and I ask if they mean the physical yellow pages or yellowpages.com/google and they mean physical phone book.

So I am against this. People still use it a lot.

I still use 'em... to impress my friends that I can tear them in half.

Good. I wish my city would do the same.

narocroc: This is stupid. They have their actual uses. Places of business, poor people, firewood...

Don't forget short people. When your 4'9" aunt comes over for Thanksgiving, she's got to sit on something to be able to reach the cranberry sauce.

Barakku: nothing is going to make an emp big enough to disable all electronics on earth without also killing everything on it. I'm not too worried

1859 (new window) would like a word with you.

/yeah, I know, local effects and all, but day-em!

Obama's Left Nut: Interestingly when I ask clients how they found me the answer is almost always "Phone Book" and I ask if they mean the physical yellow pages or yellowpages.com/google and they mean physical phone book.

So I am against this. People still use it a lot.

They can give permission to receive them.

Obama's Left Nut: Interestingly when I ask clients how they found me the answer is almost always "Phone Book" and I ask if they mean the physical yellow pages or yellowpages.com/google and they mean physical phone book.

So I am against this. People still use it a lot.

Unfortunately for you, plenty of people are in favor of banning books as long as they don't like them.

All of them including the six different marketing firms that dump these pieces of trash in my driveway four time per year?

Can I get an amen! on banning advertising circulars posing as newspapers too?

This is obviously a liberal conspiracy to gain a legal precedence to ban a book based on 'environmental factors'. Next they'll use this to ban the Gideons from leaving unsolicited Bibles in hotel rooms and next they'll try to ban the Bible altogether!!

WE'RE ON TO YOUR SOCIALIST AGENDA, HIPPIES!!!

pudding7: drongozone: Making everything electronic without some sort of analog back-up is stupid. Whaddaya gonna do when the EMP strikes?

When the EMP strikes, what phone are you going to use to call anyone listed in the yellow pages, and what service do you expect them to provide at that point?

Escorts excluded, of course. They machinery will still work. But you'll have to pay them in canned food.

I was speaking in general terms, not about using phones, per se. I am reminded of Edward G. Robinson's "Soylent Green" character, called "The Book."

Hippies finally got something right.

jigger: Oh, San Francisco. Is there anything you won't ban?

ha!

We used the same phone book to prop up a wonky leg on our beirut table in college for about two years, so there's always a brief pause for silent reflection and gratitude when I grab the latest one flung onto our doorstep, before pitching it in the recycling bin.

BTW, I keep forgetting to opt-out, so this thread will finally (hopefully) remind me to do so.

Sounds like a pretty targeted restriction on commercial speech. The inevitable constitutional challenge to this one ought to be interesting.

ne2d: Obama's Left Nut: Interestingly when I ask clients how they found me the answer is almost always "Phone Book" and I ask if they mean the physical yellow pages or yellowpages.com/google and they mean physical phone book.

So I am against this. People still use it a lot.

Unfortunately for you, plenty of people are in favor of banning books as long as they don't like them.

just becuase it is on paper and bound doesn't exactly mean there is an ideology in the phone book that you are trying to oppress. So I'm going to call you on false equivelency.

Obama's Left Nut: Interestingly when I ask clients how they found me the answer is almost always "Phone Book" and I ask if they mean the physical yellow pages or yellowpages.com/google and they mean physical phone book.

So I am against this. People still use it a lot.

And do you live in SF? Nobody here reads the Yellow Pages. NOBODY.