Well, based on events in related industries, I'll bet TV folks are trying to figure out how to construe our watching as having signed a contract. And I think based on an analogy with the post office (the sender has paid for the ticket)(and your only real defense is not to have an address) that spammers could indeed make a case. But of course the answer is the same: you can throw it away. When I used to deliver mail I could see in the rear view mirror folks taking stuff out of their mailboxes and dropping it directly into their (well-positioned) recycling tubs. As for TV commercials, I'm sure I see them all the time but I'll be damned if I can actually recall any (good internal cicuitry).
In my experience, the first thing a graduate learns after getting a job in his/her field is how little the college work resembles the actual work. And I've heard this from many others. So why would knowlege gained elsewhere than at school necessarily be inferior? I grant you, certs can be misleading, but so can diplomas.
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Well, based on events in related industries, I'll bet TV folks are trying to figure out how to construe our watching as having signed a contract. And I think based on an analogy with the post office (the sender has paid for the ticket)(and your only real defense is not to have an address) that spammers could indeed make a case. But of course the answer is the same: you can throw it away. When I used to deliver mail I could see in the rear view mirror folks taking stuff out of their mailboxes and dropping it directly into their (well-positioned) recycling tubs. As for TV commercials, I'm sure I see them all the time but I'll be damned if I can actually recall any (good internal cicuitry).
In my experience, the first thing a graduate learns after getting a job in his/her field is how little the college work resembles the actual work. And I've heard this from many others. So why would knowlege gained elsewhere than at school necessarily be inferior? I grant you, certs can be misleading, but so can diplomas.