Everyone is suspect. Most suspect is he not seen doing anything suspicious. Suspicion is cause for arrest. Arrest is proof of guilt. Thus, everyone guilty.
Was in my late teens while in the Army and picked up one of the collection of Spider Robinson's Callahan's Crosstime Saloon stories [maybe the first: it was '77]. As griffjon says, they were not really hard science fiction: stupid stuff, really [and I mean that in a good way; a fun way]. What was neat about them, and why they stand in my memory, was that they made me laugh at a time in my life where there wasn't a whole lot to laugh about, and inspired me to start writing, myself: similarly silly, science-fictiony short stories that I shared with some of the guys in my company.
Call it market research or call it anthropology - I think it has the potential of suiting both purposes fairly well.
I was working for Nokia when the NY Times Magazine article about Chipchase's [btw: I love his name. It reminds me of an old game that used to come with Windows 3.1 - or maybe early Win95] work was published and I really wanted to reach out to this guy and see if there was any possibility of coming to work with/for him, but at that exact same time I got deeply invloved in a project that was eventually to see my small part of Nokia sold off to another company.
Certainly it can be all put down to self-serving corporate crap designed to exploit rather than learn about people and their way of life, but if you, as an individual, have your head in the right place I see real opportunity to take advantage of the benefits those corporate resources provide to really learn something and [within the parameters of corporate ethics and legality] use the knowledge aquire to the benefit of those people and others [right a book; join or start a cause, teach...].
In my view, the music is not being used for business purposes, unless you know people who choose their dentists based on the music played in their office. I don't imagine people looking in the ADA [is there a CDA?] directories for Opera Orthodontists, Piano Periodontists, or Marimba Maxillofacial Surgeons.
What about the waiting rooms of lawyer's offices? I'd like to see them go after a bunch of lawyers. That would be more of a fair fight: scumbag vs scumbag
The internet and all that is really a wonderful thing, but people are too much in love with the idea that because of it they don't need to make an effort to do anything anymore. Why do we need on-line voting? Why isn't an election important enough for people to get out of their homes or offices and go to the polls? Soon we'll be looking for a way to use the internet to go to our refrigerators and get us a beer... or maybe internet based butt wiping from our combination computer chair-toilet seats.
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Who sits there and types 4, 8, 15, 16, 23, 42 every hundred and eight minutes
Everyone is suspect.
Most suspect is he not seen doing anything suspicious.
Suspicion is cause for arrest.
Arrest is proof of guilt.
Thus, everyone guilty.
Was in my late teens while in the Army and picked up one of the collection of Spider Robinson's Callahan's Crosstime Saloon stories [maybe the first: it was '77]. As griffjon says, they were not really hard science fiction: stupid stuff, really [and I mean that in a good way; a fun way]. What was neat about them, and why they stand in my memory, was that they made me laugh at a time in my life where there wasn't a whole lot to laugh about, and inspired me to start writing, myself: similarly silly, science-fictiony short stories that I shared with some of the guys in my company.
Call it market research or call it anthropology - I think it has the potential of suiting both purposes fairly well.
I was working for Nokia when the NY Times Magazine article about Chipchase's [btw: I love his name. It reminds me of an old game that used to come with Windows 3.1 - or maybe early Win95] work was published and I really wanted to reach out to this guy and see if there was any possibility of coming to work with/for him, but at that exact same time I got deeply invloved in a project that was eventually to see my small part of Nokia sold off to another company.
Certainly it can be all put down to self-serving corporate crap designed to exploit rather than learn about people and their way of life, but if you, as an individual, have your head in the right place I see real opportunity to take advantage of the benefits those corporate resources provide to really learn something and [within the parameters of corporate ethics and legality] use the knowledge aquire to the benefit of those people and others [right a book; join or start a cause, teach...].
In my view, the music is not being used for business purposes, unless you know people who choose their dentists based on the music played in their office. I don't imagine people looking in the ADA [is there a CDA?] directories for Opera Orthodontists, Piano Periodontists, or Marimba Maxillofacial Surgeons.
What about the waiting rooms of lawyer's offices? I'd like to see them go after a bunch of lawyers. That would be more of a fair fight: scumbag vs scumbag
The internet and all that is really a wonderful thing, but people are too much in love with the idea that because of it they don't need to make an effort to do anything anymore. Why do we need on-line voting? Why isn't an election important enough for people to get out of their homes or offices and go to the polls? Soon we'll be looking for a way to use the internet to go to our refrigerators and get us a beer... or maybe internet based butt wiping from our combination computer chair-toilet seats.