Do you mean they are actually going to try to target me with products I might actually want to buy, rather than things I have no interest in whatsoever?
I'll start getting ads for stuff like computer hardware and stop getting ads for orthopedic underwear?!? Whatever shall I do?!?
C'mon people! Being on the right mailing lists is the key to getting *less* junk mail, because if it is an ad for something you might actually want to purchase, it *isn't junk*. And no, I don't work for any sort of marketer. I just realize that reading advertising is often the best way for me to find the best price on the items I wish to purchase.
Maybe it'll mean those morons from "the internet's safest casino" or whatever they call it will stop e-mailing me just because I elect to use a hotmail mailbox.
"Wake up! Our schools are engaged in an intensive effort to weed out geeks and outcasts. Our politicians are shouting for additional controls and monitoring of us. All eyes are on us. We are under attack!"
AND SOME OF US ARE BORDERLINE PARANOID! EVERYBODY PANIC!
Your fiance' is in elementary school? Man, you *do* have social problems...
Actually, I experienced kind of the opposite. I was put into a "gifted" class. We were given the opportunity to learn French, German, and Spanish, as well as music theory, as well as one "personal project." We spent one day a week on each. I was the kid who was an outcast in the group. Why? I couldn't give a flying flip about the crap they were teaching. I had a Commodore VIC-20 at home and spent my class time handwriting programs to type in after school. The school, of course, did not have a single computer, and "didn't see the value of computers in education."
I guess I should have figured out how useless the American school system was when they wanted to hold me back in kindergarten because I couldn't tie my shoes... Never mind that I could do long division, at that age, it was shoelace tying that was important.
But I got mine... I'd like those teachers to look at the difference in their earnings and mine.
Yeah. Right. If you did a random sampling survey and asked the question "Do you know who Alec Guiness is?" and if the answer to that question was "yes" the follow up question was "What is he famous for?" and eliminated the answers that had something to do with a book of world records, the overwhelming majority of the answers would have "Star Wars" prominently featured in them. Star Wars *is* his claim to fame. It wasn't always that way, but it *is now*. (I'm not saying that it should be... Just that it is.)
Congratulations. You have the most brilliant and perceptive children ever born. All the other parents are sure to be positively green with envy, and their classmates are going to hate them.
Slashdot Mirror
Do you mean they are actually going to try to target me with products I might actually want to buy, rather than things I have no interest in whatsoever?
I'll start getting ads for stuff like computer hardware and stop getting ads for orthopedic underwear?!? Whatever shall I do?!?
C'mon people! Being on the right mailing lists is the key to getting *less* junk mail, because if it is an ad for something you might actually want to purchase, it *isn't junk*. And no, I don't work for any sort of marketer. I just realize that reading advertising is often the best way for me to find the best price on the items I wish to purchase.
Maybe it'll mean those morons from "the internet's safest casino" or whatever they call it will stop e-mailing me just because I elect to use a hotmail mailbox.
"Wake up! Our schools are engaged in an intensive effort to weed out geeks and outcasts. Our politicians are shouting for additional controls and monitoring of us. All eyes are on us. We are under attack!"
AND SOME OF US ARE BORDERLINE PARANOID! EVERYBODY PANIC!
Your fiance' is in elementary school? Man, you *do* have social problems...
Actually, I experienced kind of the opposite. I was put into a "gifted" class. We were given the opportunity to learn French, German, and Spanish, as well as music theory, as well as one "personal project." We spent one day a week on each. I was the kid who was an outcast in the group. Why? I couldn't give a flying flip about the crap they were teaching. I had a Commodore VIC-20 at home and spent my class time handwriting programs to type in after school. The school, of course, did not have a single computer, and "didn't see the value of computers in education."
I guess I should have figured out how useless the American school system was when they wanted to hold me back in kindergarten because I couldn't tie my shoes... Never mind that I could do long division, at that age, it was shoelace tying that was important.
But I got mine... I'd like those teachers to look at the difference in their earnings and mine.
Yeah. Right.
If you did a random sampling survey and asked the question "Do you know who Alec Guiness is?" and if the answer to that question was "yes" the follow up question was "What is he famous for?" and eliminated the answers that had something to do with a book of world records, the overwhelming majority of the answers would have "Star Wars" prominently featured in them.
Star Wars *is* his claim to fame. It wasn't always that way, but it *is now*. (I'm not saying that it should be... Just that it is.)
Congratulations. You have the most brilliant and perceptive children ever born. All the other parents are sure to be positively green with envy, and their classmates are going to hate them.
Don't Kill Me.
Eric
Yes, you do pay for roads. That is what TAXES are for.