Most of us have been customers of RS one time or other, but how many of us figured our data would end up like this without having a say-so about it? A while back the RS sales clerks routinely asked for our names and addresses even for cash purchases of inexpensive items. After a while I did get tired of it though and refused to oblige to the consternation of the clerk. They had no protocol how to handle it.
Part of the AMEX merchant card agreement says they can't require you to give personal info. When RS people asked I simply cited that and refused. ...Jim Thompson
"My name? Cash. Spelled C-A-S-H. You need a phone, too? 555-1212"
Was gonna say whoever wrote that article is a demented moron, then I saw his pic, and , yep, he definitely looks it:
He looks like a dweeb, but so do a lot of us..
He's way over-dressed.
Aren't dweebs just over-dressed nerds?
My wife's favorite cartoon...
...Jim Thompson
i am not even going to bother looking at that link since they spell "sell = cell".
I think they need to do better than that, if they expect people to visit.
San Francisco is the epicenter of the geek world, and you can't easily tell the techies from the street homeless people.
The tech women have a tiny hint of style; clean jeans and fancy boots. The guys are hopeless.
Lotta Python going around lately.
I was walking around the corner last week and four really big, rough looking guys were blocking the intersection. One of them was yelling and looking intense. I squirmed by and heard him saying "Dynamic resource allocation!" They were geeks.
Heck, nobody can spel any more.
Standardized spelling is a relatively new invention. Prior to roughly the 1700's, anything that sounded about right was as good as anything else.
I'm reading a book about that. More later.
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