At 10:23 PM -0800 2/10/00, Lizard wrote:
>Can anyone tell me, precisely, why it is so very scary to imagine that
>somewhere in a corporate database is a notation that you like to buy Coca
>Cola? Corporations don't scare me -- they want me to be alive, free, and
>earning money so that I can buy their products. Corpses and prisoners make
>lousy consumers.
>
>I'm just curious as to the source of this fear of corporate 'spying', at
>least as regards public habits like what you buy. If they were tracking
>union membership or the like, I'd be more scared -- that's information that
>they could use to wreck your life.
Devil's advocate: It could be determined from your shopping habits that you look for
the union label-- which at best makes you a union sympathizer.
Going on: you tend to shop and eat in the more, shall we say, flamboyant parts of
Greenwich Village. (Don't try and deny it-- I have records of your dinner exploits
while you were in NYC. Every Thursday night, with a bunch of "free thinkers".
Obviously, you're a troublemaker.)
Best-- Glenn Hauman, BiblioBytes
http://www.bb.com/
