>>>>Along these lines, what use is the capital punishment if it doesn't punish capital?
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>>>>I mean, for capital offenses like spamming and telemarketing.
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>>>I have to factor in that your childhood was spent in the socialist cocoon so you didn't develop the immunity to advertising that many of us did <bg>
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>>Au contraire, mon ami. That's when I developed the aversion. We were a socialist market economy since mid-sixties ('63 or '65, can't really remember). So worker-managed enterprises were freely competing on the market, and the larger ones have discovered advertising. You won't believe how fast I learned to despise it. And I was just at the age of 10 or so.

>And you still had your best curmudgeonly years ahead of you!

FYI, if you remember I delayed my subscription to Netflix because they inserted an ad before some video someone posted here. I never saw that video, and said I won't subscribe to Netflix until the rest of the year for that - which was about 2-3 months ahead then. Well, it's end of February, and I still haven't subscribed. They've lost about 80 bucks so far. Plus the few cents per click that seller of ad space charged them for insertion. How's that?

If not otherwise, I can always vote with my wallet.