[Strawbale] RE re re Free music : Finale

[Michael K. lough]

Mark said…


 >>Wasn't that the nature of the job (which also included a legal component 
far beyond the scope of a simple post to an email list)? There's no denying 
that some people d on't read carefully, don't have common sense, are just 
plain dense, or something else. That group might be considered the lowest 
common denominator... but I wouldn't consider them the majority, personally. 
Not by a long stretch.

Lowest common denominator you say …? Well eugenics aside It might be 
important to recognise that this list is partly devoted to the idea that 
straw bale buildings are what we should be building because they are 
superior to any other kind of energy efficient building technique but only 
really smart* people can do this well  after a long learning process? But 
still a pretty smart group of course ? Everyone here has common sense…very 
UN dense? OK I get the point …maybe its just me … That is dense…?

*Smart enough to not forget to cancel the emusic thing in 13.75 days time …? 
OK.

Perhaps you are right though and the list has nothing to learn about 
anything else. The assumption being is  that anyone on this list would jump 
at 50 free music downloads if they were told it would help in South Africa 
mmmm…have to think about this one a bit more I think…sounds like a smart 
thing to do though



>
>     If memory serves me well, I do recall  that time based offers 
>requiring a future action like cancellation or indeed the classic money 
>back guarantee on return of an item relied significantly on human frailty 
>to forget to cancel or the ability to stick the delivery box  back together 
>again.
>
>         I think most people recognize that. Most is not all. Does that 
>mean that I'm e nabling corporate bloodsuckers?

just a pawn in their game…youi know its getting tricky to find 50 musical 
items these days I couldnt live without or dont already have but I have 
recenly discovered a few young persons I quite like listening to I wonder 
what the dominant musical form for this list would be? (North American folk 
based country would be a logical guess but maybe not, Trance?Techno?  Doom? 
John Denver ? Sibelius?

>
>         Charity? No. Respect? Yes. And you're right, it's both praise and 
>blame. I was hoping people would pick up on that.

People…?? You sound like Wavy Gravy  now…
>

>
>         Right. My intuition based on received information is that most 
>people are pretty smart. And that most people think they're smarter than 
>most of the other people around t> hem, when they're not. How do I know 
>this? 'Cause I'm smarter than everyone else.

I s this another Huck Finn quote?

>


I would not for however EXPECT anyone to be aware of what I know as a form 
of respect f or them as a human being, I would far rather be the butt of 
their contempt but be consoled in knowing that I have saved one person from 
paying for something because their short term memory loss  made them forget 
to cancel the deal…
>
>         Good for you - that's a valid stance, too.

thanks…


So, if somebody with short-term memory l oss signs up, do you think they'll 
remember having read your email?

possibly not…but perhaps they will be warned by my note…to not sign up in 
the first place unless they have a back up reminder set for the future…or 
tell somone to remind them that has a memory…

Or was your intention t o warn them against signing up?

just the facts …The idea of getting something for nothing is always 
appealing but the idea of  someone giving $8.00 (or even part of it) to a 
worthy cause because you did …Is well almost too good to be true…but as long 
as you cancel  in time…  it might be true…Perhaps we could ask Dion to put a 
daily note onthis list reminding everyone to cancel the emusic thing…sooner 
or later it will be the day you need to remember…


>  Maybe your intention was full disclosure; if so, I think y ou should 
>probably have also >copied the terms and conditions from the vendor's 
>website, which contains all the legal >m inutiae you were talking about in 
>your opening to this e mail.

my little missive was largely for those that might find the idea of having 
to remember to cancel something to get something for nothing a bit 
bothersome …and something likely to be forgotten…


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>
>     I dont think its got anything to do with "intelligence" …or is that 
>intelligences…?
>
>         I do. Not in every case, but generally.

intelligence isnt knowledge, information is what intelligence if you like is 
brought to bear upon in forming an idea…Lack of information makes any amount 
of "intelligence" a strolling zebra…









>     I'm just a convulsing wad of contradictions.)
>
>might rhyme with "partly truth and partly fiction"?
>
>         Yes! I like that.

I knew you would…


Michael  Lough

A lot of its readers are of an age where they forget to cancel.
Jerry Della Femina