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Oh, I R O N Y. I got an e-mail today from Amazon offering me discounts on Grateful Dead downloads. I e-mailed them back with an offer for them to pay me to download them. I haven't heard back.

That's an example of their software making assumptions that a human wouldn't.
Did you buy any Doors or Jefferson Airplane recently?

No. I would understand why they might make that assumption. I have bought Grateful Dead product for friends at Christmas. I mean, god, I'm not a monster. Well....

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Oh, I R O N Y. I got an e-mail today from Amazon offering me discounts on Grateful Dead downloads. I e-mailed them back with an offer for them to pay me to download them. I haven't heard back.

That's an example of their software making assumptions that a human wouldn't.
Did you buy any Doors or Jefferson Airplane recently?

No. I would understand why they might make that assumption. I have bought Grateful Dead product for friends at Christmas. I mean, god, I'm not a monster. Well....

such displays of insecurity i have rarely witnessed...

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Oh, I R O N Y. I got an e-mail today from Amazon offering me discounts on Grateful Dead downloads. I e-mailed them back with an offer for them to pay me to download them. I haven't heard back.

That's an example of their software making assumptions that a human wouldn't.
Did you buy any Doors or Jefferson Airplane recently?

No. I would understand why they might make that assumption. I have bought Grateful Dead product for friends at Christmas. I mean, god, I'm not a monster. Well....

such displays of insecurity i have rarely witnessed...

agreed...most displays of insecurity i've heard of are completely heresay.

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Oh, I R O N Y. I got an e-mail today from Amazon offering me discounts on Grateful Dead downloads. I e-mailed them back with an offer for them to pay me to download them. I haven't heard back.

That's an example of their software making assumptions that a human wouldn't.
Did you buy any Doors or Jefferson Airplane recently?

No. I would understand why they might make that assumption. I have bought Grateful Dead product for friends at Christmas. I mean, god, I'm not a monster. Well....

such displays of insecurity i have rarely witnessed...

agreed...most displays of insecurity i've heard of are completely heresay.

theresay?

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Oh, I R O N Y. I got an e-mail today from Amazon offering me discounts on Grateful Dead downloads. I e-mailed them back with an offer for them to pay me to download them. I haven't heard back.

That's an example of their software making assumptions that a human wouldn't.
Did you buy any Doors or Jefferson Airplane recently?

No. I would understand why they might make that assumption. I have bought Grateful Dead product for friends at Christmas. I mean, god, I'm not a monster. Well....

Was it really for friends....???? it's OK come on out of the GD closet!

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Oh, I R O N Y. I got an e-mail today from Amazon offering me discounts on Grateful Dead downloads. I e-mailed them back with an offer for them to pay me to download them. I haven't heard back.

That's an example of their software making assumptions that a human wouldn't.
Did you buy any Doors or Jefferson Airplane recently?

No. I would understand why they might make that assumption. I have bought Grateful Dead product for friends at Christmas. I mean, god, I'm not a monster. Well....

Was it really for friends....???? it's OK come on out of the GD closet!

I bought a book called Grateful Dead 365. I gave it a 3 out of 5 star review on Amazon, saying I hated the group but the book was fine and your Dead Head friends should love it. The hate comments I got were hilarious. One called me a moron. One hoped a Dark Star fell on me, and then called me a loser. And it said 0 of 25 people found this review helpful. I've reviewed a number of things on Amazon and almost always got good responses from people. Which left me wondering about Dead Heads. Are they hippies with all the peace and love sucked out? What does that leave? Maybe they didn't like my comment that the Grateful Dead sound like the garage band down the street you hope isn't playing at the party you're going to.

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Oh, I R O N Y. I got an e-mail today from Amazon offering me discounts on Grateful Dead downloads. I e-mailed them back with an offer for them to pay me to download them. I haven't heard back.

That's an example of their software making assumptions that a human wouldn't.
Did you buy any Doors or Jefferson Airplane recently?

No. I would understand why they might make that assumption. I have bought Grateful Dead product for friends at Christmas. I mean, god, I'm not a monster. Well....

Was it really for friends....???? it's OK come on out of the GD closet!

I bought a book called Grateful Dead 365. I gave it a 3 out of 5 star review on Amazon, saying I hated the group but the book was fine and your Dead Head friends should love it. The hate comments I got were hilarious. One called me a moron. One hoped a Dark Star fell on me, and then called me a loser. And it said 0 of 25 people found this review helpful. I've reviewed a number of things on Amazon and almost always got good responses from people. Which left me wondering about Dead Heads. Are they hippies with all the peace and love sucked out? What does that leave? Maybe they didn't like my comment that the Grateful Dead sound like the garage band down the street you hope isn't playing at the party you're going to.

Believe me...most real Dead Heads are not leaving reviews on Amazon!!!!!!!
Though your comment was obviously meant to be inflammatory as usual!



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 2012-08-12 04:34 by No Expectations.

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Oh, I R O N Y. I got an e-mail today from Amazon offering me discounts on Grateful Dead downloads. I e-mailed them back with an offer for them to pay me to download them. I haven't heard back.

That's an example of their software making assumptions that a human wouldn't.
Did you buy any Doors or Jefferson Airplane recently?

No. I would understand why they might make that assumption. I have bought Grateful Dead product for friends at Christmas. I mean, god, I'm not a monster. Well....

Was it really for friends....???? it's OK come on out of the GD closet!

I bought a book called Grateful Dead 365. I gave it a 3 out of 5 star review on Amazon, saying I hated the group but the book was fine and your Dead Head friends should love it. The hate comments I got were hilarious. One called me a moron. One hoped a Dark Star fell on me, and then called me a loser. And it said 0 of 25 people found this review helpful. I've reviewed a number of things on Amazon and almost always got good responses from people. Which left me wondering about Dead Heads. Are they hippies with all the peace and love sucked out? What does that leave? Maybe they didn't like my comment that the Grateful Dead sound like the garage band down the street you hope isn't playing at the party you're going to.

Believe me...most real Dead Heads are not leaving reviews on Amazon!!!!!!!
Though your comment was obviously meant to be inflammatory as usual!

Yeah, I know. Sorry. But I'm bored and it's been 100 degrees here in L.A. for a week. I'm baked, but not the good kind.

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we need more GD threads

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Oh, I R O N Y. I got an e-mail today from Amazon offering me discounts on Grateful Dead downloads. I e-mailed them back with an offer for them to pay me to download them. I haven't heard back.

That's an example of their software making assumptions that a human wouldn't.
Did you buy any Doors or Jefferson Airplane recently?

No. I would understand why they might make that assumption. I have bought Grateful Dead product for friends at Christmas. I mean, god, I'm not a monster. Well....

Was it really for friends....???? it's OK come on out of the GD closet!

I bought a book called Grateful Dead 365. I gave it a 3 out of 5 star review on Amazon, saying I hated the group but the book was fine and your Dead Head friends should love it. The hate comments I got were hilarious. One called me a moron. One hoped a Dark Star fell on me, and then called me a loser. And it said 0 of 25 people found this review helpful. I've reviewed a number of things on Amazon and almost always got good responses from people. Which left me wondering about Dead Heads. Are they hippies with all the peace and love sucked out? What does that leave? Maybe they didn't like my comment that the Grateful Dead sound like the garage band down the street you hope isn't playing at the party you're going to.

look...you've already proven my theory...no need to go out of your way to add more proof, ok? well done, my friend...well done.

"Dandruff is the first sign of madness..." Dr. Winston O'Boogie

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One called me a moron.

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One called me a moron.

Insightful

I know. And so classy. So, I've mentioned my friends who are Dead Heads. It's a father and son team. He's from the Bay Area and he's brought his son, now 17 up on the Dead. The kid is real talented musically and a quick study on guitar. They often head up north to Bay Area Dead related concerts around New Years. And the kid always goes to see Furthur at the Greek, always getting his tickets months in advance. (They'll be here in October). I told him about my back and forth with Dead fans and how some of them try to push a certain song or say the concert experience would change my mind. So I asked him, "Be truthful and tell me what a Dead crowd is like at a Furthur concert." He looked down at the ground and said, "A bunch of drunken idiots."

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One called me a moron.

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I know. And so classy. So, I've mentioned my friends who are Dead Heads. It's a father and son team. He's from the Bay Area and he's brought his son, now 17 up on the Dead. The kid is real talented musically and a quick study on guitar. They often head up north to Bay Area Dead related concerts around New Years. And the kid always goes to see Furthur at the Greek, always getting his tickets months in advance. (They'll be here in October). I told him about my back and forth with Dead fans and how some of them try to push a certain song or say the concert experience would change my mind. So I asked him, "Be truthful and tell me what a Dead crowd is like at a Furthur concert." He looked down at the ground and said, "A bunch of drunken idiots."

Sounds like he's also calling his father a "drunken idiot"! I guess he knows what he will be when he grows up...

Here is an interesting interview with Jerry Garcia and Elvis Costello in which they talk about the various influences on their music:

[gdead.berkeley.edu]