Path: csiph.com!3.eu.feeder.erje.net!feeder.erje.net!news-2.dfn.de!news.dfn.de!news.informatik.hu-berlin.de!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Huge Newsgroups: comp.misc Subject: Re: [Link Posting] Password expiration is dead, long live your passwords Date: 12 Jun 2019 08:52:04 GMT Organization: Piglet's Pickles & Preserves Lines: 29 Message-ID: References: Reply-To: usenet@huge.org.uk X-Trace: individual.net yqpDsaIgGmiCuoal4XM8ZQ31a5Rhq6R18x3exdTMaz73fcOONR Cancel-Lock: sha1:VNoAn99/g5Q1LatcwQDUkQaBzrU= X-No-Archive: Yes X-Clacks-Overhead: GNU Terry Pratchett User-Agent: slrn/1.0.3 (Linux) Xref: csiph.com comp.misc:18199 On 2019-06-12, Scott Dorsey wrote: > Huge wrote: >>On 2019-06-11, Sylvia Else wrote: >> >>> Perhaps that's also why I have to endure "music" at McDonalds. >>> Presumably, the received wisdom is that it improves profits. I've >>> repeatedly asked whether there's any evidence. If anyone knows, they're >>> not saying. >> >>*applause* Speaking as someone who regularly turns "music" off, or asks >>for it to be turned off, and has been known to disconnect loudspeakers, >>I couldn't agree more. > > It is there to drive you away. Just like the way the chairs at McDonalds > are designed to be uncomfortable. They want you to sit and eat Good luck with that. I sit and eat in a Mikkey D's about once a decade. > but they > don't want you to keep hanging around after you have eaten. The whole > environment is designed to get you out so someone else can come in and > pay for food. It improves profits. But a good point, nonetheless. -- Today is Pungenday, the 17th day of Confusion in the YOLD 3185 Rising above bedlam