On Sun, 10 Feb 2002, Tanya Clark wrote:
> Curt Sampson shared:
> > You walk in to the shop, drop
> > your money into a machine, punch buttons, recieve tickets, hand
> > them to the person behind the counter, and wait for your stuff.
>
> Yes, Japan has these (although the quality of the
> establishments attached *always* seems shabby)....
Errr....huh?!?! We're talking *MacDonalds* here! Sure, these are
inexpensive lunch places, but the ones I frequent, at least, are
miles above fast-food joints like MacD's.
As for the data collection, well, yes; my point too. Thus the
promotion campaigns that hand out personalized coupons in exchange
for finding out which advertisement you read, and so on.
cjs
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Don't you know, in this new Dark Age, we're all light. --XTC
Received on Mon Feb 11 03:41:36 2002