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They say that Louis XIV had the inscription Ultima Ratio Regum cast into all the cannon of the French Army. It means “The Ultimate Argument of Kings,” and that always struck me as one of the most honest and up-front things any ruler or would-be ruler ever said. “We can dress it up prettier than this, but when it comes down to the unvarnished truth this is what it’s about: You’ll do as I say or I’ll send my goons to kill you.”
I thought about that for a long time. If there’s an ultimate argument, it seems only logical that there must be an ultimate answer. For years I thought the ultimate answer must be the bullets in my rifle, but it never seemed quite right. I’ve got bullets – he’s got frigging Cannon Balls. I mean, if there were three hundred million rifles throwing bullets at him, then maybe. But we all know that’s not going to happen. So if there’s an ultimate answer to his ultimate argument, it sure as hell ain’t bullets.
It finally came to me – and that’s when I abandoned the city and most of my stuff, and gave all that was behind me a good stiff Randian Shrug.
The ultimate answer to kings is not a bullet, but a belly laugh.
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That’s the truth. I ordered an ax blade angle gauge on Sunday and received 5 follow up emails by Tuesday morning, not counting the two in reference to my order.
Best to avoid Blade HQ from now on.
I call this the Hotel California* marketing technique. I’ve ordered stuff from companies where they have kept sending me offers for years. In these instances, I’ve had to set things up so anything from these websites automatically goes into the spam folder for deletion. I’m convinced that the unsubscribe button is there only to make a person feel good.
* “Relax,” said the night man, “We are programmed to receive… You can check-out any time you like, but you can never leave!” – Hotel California
When ordering on-line you have to look carefully before you hit the submit button for a place to uncheck-mark so you do not receive promotional e-mails. Sometimes it takes a while of reading fine print to see it, but I’m getting better at finding it.
And, some outfits are dedicated to compounding their intrusiveness by adding USPS spam in the form of ads and catalogs; order something from them and they’ll bury you in paper trash. I’m not a customer of theirs but I’ve been getting paper trash in my mailbox 2-3X month from Almost a Telephone or Telegraph company for years and there doesn’t seem to be any way to stop it.
More than once I’ve decided against ordering something from certain outfits because I didn’t want my mailbox filling up with their trash. I run Invisible Hand and it frequently displays better pricing elsewhere, but I usually still order from Amazon because all their communication is electronic and goes to an inbox on an email account I haven’t looked at since I created it years ago.
Funnily enough, as much as I enjoy bashing Amazon’s propensity for takink over ze vorld, they’re not at all bad about spamming my inbox. Unlike Midwayusa, Amputee Store, Quadratec, etc…
RockAuto sends out a newsletter once a month. Usually at least one interesting item therein…