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Shrinkwrapped Books
NortWind writes "I just saw this in the InfoWorld paper, in the "The Gripe Line" by Ed Foster. It describes how a "...book arrived wrapped in plastic with a shrinkwrap license on the front". Just when you thought it couldn't get any worse..." I wrote an essay about this a year or two ago.
"...book arrived wrapped in plastic with a shrinkwrap license on the front"
That's how most mail-order porn mags arrive. It means the seller can accept returns that are still wrapped and be confident the pages aren't stained with jizz. Retailers of regular fiction don't suffer from this problem.
mogorific carpentry experiments
You mean Harlan Ellison has a new book out?
By opening this shrink-wrap you agree to the terms and conditions of the agreement.
To see the agreement, open the book to page 1.
For technical assistance call 724-987-1192, however, by calling this number you release us from any obligation of helping you.
Thank you and have a good day.
With my dying breath, I curse Zoidberg!
If you buy the US edition, the cover locks closed in Europe, and visa versa.
Table-ized A.I.
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According to Lumburgh, Hawaiian shirt day is on Friday. You can wear jeans if you want.
It has come to our attention that you are delinquent in paying your bill for offsite media storage service. By sending us your disks, you agreed to pay $1 per disk per day to keep this electronic data media in our storage facility. As of the last day of last month, your account has been in arrears for the sum of US$1,837.00 and is past due. Please submit payment as soon as possible or we will be forced to refer this matter to a collection agency.
Just think of the US Code as a kind of unabridged Rules of Acquisition.
One day, I get a bill in the mail, saying I owed them for the subscription, and that if I didn't pay they'd forward it to Collections.
I wrote back, informing them that
<voice font="Jim Nabors">Sur-Prize Sur-Prize Sur-Prize!</voice> I got a mail back from them saying "Uhhh, we checked our records, and we can find no evidence you ever signed up for this. Our collections is purely internal, and never would have shown up on your report. We're sorry, please don't kill us!". I figure it was the old "send them crap and bill them" scam, and when they found out that I wasn't going to play, they backpedaled faster than BillG on Palladium being DRM....
www.eFax.com are spammers
Carefully open the package, and replace the contents with a brick if it'll fit, though semi-dried cement works just as well. Reseal it, and mark it "Refused - return to sender". Put it back in the mailbox, and see how the company likes paying for sending a brick cross-country.
I don't know if this will still work, but it's worth a shot.
You can't judge a book by the way it wears its hair.
Leave it around for your cat to claw the shrinkwrap off.