One born every minute!
 

I've subscribed to New Scientist for years, but I notice recently that it comes with more and more postal inclusions. Some of them are charity appeals and I don't object to those, but nowadays you get dubious ads as well. I have just this minute opened an ad from a (purported) financial advisor, which contained the following bait:
Bear in mind that every New Scientist subscriber this week will have received one of these letters. That's how "carefully" they select their customers. And yet they know that I am "personally successful" and "astute".

What have I ever done to be taken for this kind of fool!

The first thing I ever do with magazines these days is to take hold by the staple edge and shake all the rubbish out. That goes straight in the recycling bin.

However, I might have to rethink that. I'm depriving myself of an opportunity to give everyone here at LQ a good laugh (or at least a wry grin).

I gave up on New Scientist some years ago when it turned too political for my liking. Not to say I don't respect it but I found the politics was watering down the science and technology. I did, a few months ago, subscribe to Scientific American (we used to call it Oxymoron Magazine, in good humour, I assure everyone) and, while I have yet to actually read much I tend to prefer the style nowadays.
Sorry about that, but it's always good to see another NS reader despite the above. :)
I do worry, generally, about the advertisers that companies allow into their space -- be that a Flash ad on the website or a printed advert for some con artist in their physical pages.

Have to admit I like posts by hazel as she reminds me of my mother and how everything I know about how to keep safe on computers is based upon her telling me how to keep safe generally.

Remember that such inclusions are sources of revenue to the publication. I know they are annoying, but, considering the difficulties facing print media these days, I am quite willing to tolerate them in the publications to which I subscribe.

Heck, my local newspaper, which tries very hard to do a good job, just went through another force reduction.