12-13-2005, 10:05 PM
eppie,Dec 13 2005, 01:53 AM Wrote:Tricking the world in buying 10 milion copies of the latest album of britney spears is theft.
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Snort, good effort on the joke, :D but it isn't theft. Sales of junk for money is applying PT Barnum's maxim to its fullest: there is a sucker born every minute, and two to take him.
Whoever spent the money on Spears' stuff was either happy with the purchase (rubes IMO) or was dumb enough to be sheared by any huckster. :P
Did you ever read Fritz Lieber's "Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser" stories? There was a good story in one of the early collections wholse plot lampooned the selling of junk advertised as treasure. I think the evil monsters were called Consumers or something like that.
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In War, the outcome is never final. --Carl von Clausewitz--
Igitur qui desiderat pacem, praeparet bellum
John 11:35 - consider why.
In Memory of Pete