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Hmmm... well, since this is coming from Dior, I guess they'd have to sell you a full accessory kit with 15 different clips for the various widths of belts that you will certainly be wearing to remain fashionable...
"Fashion: a form of design so horrible that we have to change it every six months." (After Dark screen saver module c.1991.)
If I sign up to get mail from Amazon, I most certainly did not give my permission to hear from Books-A-Million. Once that list is sold or traded, the messages coming from the new list owner are spam, plain and simple, because I never asked to hear from them.
Unless, of course, Amazon buries in subsection 45 of article III of their 5.2 megabyte privacy policy that you agree, by opting-in to their email list, that you would also like to receive email from "select Amazon business partners." There are so many ways to cover an ass nowadays, that I just shrug and hit delete. It is enlightening, however, to see exactly which companies sold my name.
I suspect that most "Opt-In" mailing lists are derived from people who click through an online service agreement without reading the whole thing or the privacy policy.
The real trouble comes when trying to determine which of the spam that says I can opt-out actually means it, and which of the spam is just harvesting/validating my address.
Thankfully, most of the web sites I use only send me their own spam (which I generally don't mind, especially if I can tell them to stop) but occasionally I get one site that sold my name to a list and voila... instant opt-in on a technicality.
That's why I normally make a new email alias when providing my address to a new site so I can at least attempt to see who sold my name in the first place.
Seems like it would be more accurate to say that Siberia is drifting northward and North America is drifting southward.
WE HAVE TO STOP THIS NOW! At this rate, North America will be South America, environmentalists will be warning about the dangers we face when the Jamaican ice sheets collapse, and Australia will be located somewhere near the moon.
That or they'll come up with something incredibly cool, price it very affordably, and end up with it backordered for six months because they underestimated demand and couldn't get production ramped up quickly enough!
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Hmmm... well, since this is coming from Dior, I guess they'd have to sell you a full accessory kit with 15 different clips for the various widths of belts that you will certainly be wearing to remain fashionable...
"Fashion: a form of design so horrible that we have to change it every six months."
(After Dark screen saver module c.1991.)
Unless, of course, Amazon buries in subsection 45 of article III of their 5.2 megabyte privacy policy that you agree, by opting-in to their email list, that you would also like to receive email from "select Amazon business partners." There are so many ways to cover an ass nowadays, that I just shrug and hit delete. It is enlightening, however, to see exactly which companies sold my name.
No, it was entirely tongue in cheek, but thanks for posting the clarification.
I suspect that most "Opt-In" mailing lists are derived from people who click through an online service agreement without reading the whole thing or the privacy policy.
The real trouble comes when trying to determine which of the spam that says I can opt-out actually means it, and which of the spam is just harvesting/validating my address.
Thankfully, most of the web sites I use only send me their own spam (which I generally don't mind, especially if I can tell them to stop) but occasionally I get one site that sold my name to a list and voila... instant opt-in on a technicality.
That's why I normally make a new email alias when providing my address to a new site so I can at least attempt to see who sold my name in the first place.
How, exactly, can the North Pole drift northward?
Seems like it would be more accurate to say that Siberia is drifting northward and North America is drifting southward.
WE HAVE TO STOP THIS NOW! At this rate, North America will be South America, environmentalists will be warning about the dangers we face when the Jamaican ice sheets collapse, and Australia will be located somewhere near the moon.
That or they'll come up with something incredibly cool, price it very affordably, and end up with it backordered for six months because they underestimated demand and couldn't get production ramped up quickly enough!