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One of those moments arrived recently, in the shape of an eight-page, tightly-kerned, ten-point slab-style American tract: The kind of writing that suffocates you: it permits no breath, there being no punctuation nor artful use of space to break up the diatribe: girded-about with the weaponry of mistrust — indemnities, the mutual contemplation of equitable injunctions, covenants to destroy information utterly and salt the barren Earth. | One of those moments arrived recently, in the shape of an eight-page, tightly-kerned, ten-point slab-style American tract: The kind of writing that suffocates you: it permits no breath, there being no punctuation nor artful use of space to break up the diatribe: girded-about with the weaponry of mistrust — indemnities, the mutual contemplation of equitable injunctions, covenants to destroy information utterly and salt the barren Earth. | ||
It was a confidentiality agreement — the saucier parts of financial servery have not yet made their peace with [[OneNDA]], so this does still happen, tiresome though it is — but what gave the game away was not the weaponry and ordnance with which it was armed, but its purpose: not a client list, sensitive KYC material, a sample trade portfolio or trade secrets, but a ''newsletter''. | It was a confidentiality agreement — the saucier parts of financial servery have not yet made their peace with [[OneNDA]], so this does still happen, tiresome though it is — but what gave the game away was not the weaponry and ordnance with which it was armed, but its purpose: not a client list, sensitive KYC material, a sample trade portfolio or trade secrets, but for a ''newsletter''. | ||
When subscribers to a news periodical sign up on conditions of secrecy, we have reached a pretty pass. | |||
===The JC’s ever-so-occasional newsletter=== | ===The JC’s ever-so-occasional newsletter=== | ||
We gave up on doing our own desk-top published Newsletter, which took months and use now sub-stack, which also takes months. | We gave up on doing our own desk-top published Newsletter, which took months and use now sub-stack, which also takes months. It’s here: https://jollycontrarian.substack.com/. | ||
There are no conditions of secrecy. If you sign up as paid subscriber, you get the premium JC for free into the bargain. Sweet, huh? | |||
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*[[Game For A Laugh]] | *[[Game For A Laugh]] | ||
*[[Something for the weekend, sir?]] | |||
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