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rather ironic given that http://www.billhicks.com/ is covered with ads and looks so poorly designed that he could use a marketing person to clean it up.

Thought you were dead, Mr. Hicks.

Give credit where it's due - don't try to pass off dead comedians' material as your own.

http://www.billhicks.com/

To that end: My iPod has replaced my radio, my homebrew PVR automatically strips out all commercials from my few favorite TV programs, and when web-browsing at home, I block all internet ads using Firefox and Adblock.

So you say that will lead to the end of "free" content on the internet? Good, I say. I would rather pay outright for information and entertainment I consider valuable, rather than rely on some dodgy click-for-profit advertising scheme that is quickly proving itself intractable anyway.

And to Doubleclick and all those who make a living from advertising: I won't go as far as Bill Hicks, who semi-seriously suggested such people shoot themselves, but I will urge you to reconsider your career choice. Make something or do something that contributes to society, rather than trying to sell us crap we don't need, can't afford, or probably aren't interested in anyway.

An excellent peice, but isn't he... you know... pretty much marketing suicide?

Not only that, he's posthumously marketing t-shirts on his web site, the irony of which is fantastic.

What a hoot! Funny. Really.

It's so cool that Bill was able to make a living without anything he did or produced having to be actually sold or otherwise introduced to the people who actually paid his way. I find it so wonderfully delicious that his memorial web site, which quotes an MP's motion to recognize that Hick's talent was a "...bullet in the heart of consumerism, capitalism..." pitches t-shirts as a come-on for donations. Why, that's almost... marketing.

Spam for free movie tickets (yes, I worked for the company that did that!)...

You worked for a spammer?

Bill Hicks had some career advice for you...

Since when does using drugs equal being addicted to them?

Neither are all hard drugs very harmful or addictive for you. Though some are. We're mostly following the party line on what substances to put on the list of hard drugs.

You'd better get a healthy dose of Bill Hicks, KamuSan.

I wish we would just legalize the whole shebang and make a nice economic market out of it. However, that would severely cut into the profits of certain organizations and fuck up the agenda's of certain people (though the terrorism/safety-line is pretty popular these days to get one's way).

(courtesy of Bill Hicks, lest he be forgotten)

Why does this remind me of the infamous quote :
"By the way if anyone here is in advertising or marketing... kill yourself" (Bill Hicks) You can read the whole rant here.

I really cannot believe this. This doesn't concern me as a censorship issue (doesn't appear as if censorship is built into the router itself... but without details on exactly how this parental control works, don't really know). It concerns me as a pure *annoyance* issue. I would absolutely flip out if my router dared to do this!

Everyone at Belkin should be ashamed of themselves. How could an engineer do this? He should be flogged with a cat-o-nine tails of twisted pair wire... this is evil, evil, evil.

Oh, and to the Belkin Marketing Department: Kill yourselves. Suck a tailpipe, hang yourself, borrow a gun... rid the world of your evil machinations. [ Just planting seeds ]

Close. You look for the Hooligans...

"I'd hate to be a dustbin in Shaftsbury tonight!"

Yeah well, the Hare Krishnas are the sixth largest army in the world and they've already got our airports[1].

Just putting the numbers in perspective for your audience.

[1] with respects to Bill Hicks

[1] with credits to Mister Bill Hicks. America's greatest comedian. Remember him!

Bill Hicks

Mod me up, bitches, and educate the world.

Instead of buying a single Kenmore 15,100 BTU Room Air Conditioner for $US380 (39.7 BTUs per dollar) why not buy three Kenmore 5,250 BTU Room Air Conditioners for US$99 each (53.0 BTUs per dollar)? Install each of the three units in different sections of the house or appartment. Some of the benifits of this solution are as follows:

-> More uniform distribtion of power leads to greater effiency
-> Slightly lower equipment cost
-> Multipule "zones" (at night, or whenever you sleep only one "zone" needs to be cooled)
-> Smaller units are usually quieter leading to a quieter "zone"
-> A few more BTUs total
Just a thought.

--adam


"Go back to bed America... your government is in control." --Bill Hicks

I don't "hate the US". I dislike US foreign policy. I have no problems with the majority of Americans. I have a pen-friend coming over from there in the New Year, and I hope to visit later next year.

You seemed more reasonable in your last post. Previously, when you mentioned Michael Moore, you seemed to let your predjudice (that he as an extremist liberal) blind you to any possible good, or interesting, message that he may have. In his film he does not claim to have "the answer", but he suggests a few possibilities. I don't know, maybe your mind is made up, but I urge you to see it. It might be over 2 hours long, but its not all doom and gloom - some of it is laugh-out-loud funny. I just have this feeling that you, along with many other Americans, and many, many non-Americans, cannot seperate attacks on "Americans" with attacks on "American government/policy". Hardly anyone, anywhere in the world has suggested that civilians in the US deserved to die on 9/11 - rather, that that is what the US has done to others. The hate and killing isn't going to stop until people in the US refuse to condone the killing the US government does in their name, and with their money. And THAT is not going to happen until US citizens open their eyes and see what is actually being done. Hence the links I gave you, and my suggestion you watch the Moore film. I would suggest that your attitude - an ad-hominem attack on the man, instead of his arguments - is blinkered, and dangerous.

"We live in a dangerous world" says George Bush. Yeah, thanks to you, you fucker. "Iraq has incredible weapons" How do you know? "Well, er.....we looked at the receipt"
- Bill Hicks

Hicks 1
Hicks 2

And yes, for the record, even though I was doing good things (making all those pretty commercials you see on TV and all those shiny ads in the magazines), I still feel dirty sometimes =)

Good things??? I can only recommend Bill Hick's advice:

By the way, if anyone here is in advertising or marketing, kill yourself. Thank you, thank you. Just a little thought. I'm just trying to plant seeds. Maybe one day they'll take root, I don't know. You try. You do what you can. Kill yourselves. Seriously though, if you are, do. No really, there's no rationalisation for what you do, and you are Satan's little helpers, OK? Kill yourselves, seriously. You're the ruiner of all things good. Seriously, no, this is not a joke. "There's gonna be a joke coming..." There's no fucking joke coming, you are Satan's spawn, filling the world with bile and garbage, you are fucked and you are fucking us, kill yourselves, it's the only way to save your fucking soul. Kill yourself.

I know what all the marketing people are thinking right now too. "Oh, you know what Bill's doing? He's going for that anti-marketing dollar. That's a good market. He's very smart." Oh man, I am not doing that, you fucking evil scumbags.

"You know what Bill's doing now, he's going for the righteous indignation dollar, that's a big dollar, a lot of people are feeling that indignation, we've done research, huge market. He's doing a good thing." Godammit, I'm not doing that, you scumbags, quit putting a godamn dollar sign on every fucking thing on this planet.

By the way, if anyone here is in advertising or marketing, kill yourself. Thank you, thank you. Just a little thought. I'm just trying to plant seeds. Maybe one day they'll take root, I don't know. You try. You do what you can. Kill yourselves. Seriously though, if you are, do. No really, there's no rationalisation for what you do, and you are Satan's little helpers, OK? Kill yourselves, seriously. You're the ruiner of all things good. Seriously, no, this is not a joke. "There's gonna be a joke coming..." There's no fucking joke coming, you are Satan's spawn, filling the world with bile and garbage, you are fucked and you are fucking us, kill yourselves, it's the only way to save your fucking soul. Kill yourself. I know what all the marketing people are thinking right now too. "Oh, you know what Bill's doing? He's going for that anti-marketing dollar. That's a good market. He's very smart." Oh man, I am not doing that, you fucking evil scumbags. "You know what Bill's doing now, he's going for the righteous indignation dollar, that's a big dollar, a lot of people are feeling that indignation, we've done research, huge market. He's doing a good thing." Godammit, I'm not doing that, you scumbags, quit putting a godamn dollar sign on every fucking thing on this planet.

Jesus and his disciples were walking down the path when all of the sudden a BIG BRONTOSAURUS with a splinter and his paw. The disciples ran screaming 'what a big fucking lizard' but jesus was unafraid. He removed the splinter and they remained friend. From the man himself

There seems to be a slashdot mentality that all advertising is inherently wrong, and it is moral to take any steps to nullify any advertising that you may see.

By the way if anyone here is in advertising or marketing... kill yourself.

No, no, no it's just a little thought. I'm just trying to plant seeds. Maybe one day, they'll take root - I don't know. You try, you do what you can.

Kill yourself.

Seriously though, if you are, do.

Aaah, no really, there's no rationalisation for what you do and you are Satan's little helpers.

Okay - kill yourself - seriously. You are the ruiner of all things good, seriously. No this is not a joke, you're going, "there's going to be a joke coming," there's no fucking joke coming.

You are Satan's spawn filling the world with bile and garbage. You are fucked and you are fucking us. Kill yourself. It's the only way to save your fucking soul, kill yourself.

Planting seeds. I know all the marketing people are going, "he's doing a joke... there's no joke here whatsoever. Suck a tail-pipe, fucking hang yourself, borrow a gun from a Yank friend - I don't care how you do it. Rid the world of your evil fucking makinations. Machi... Whatever, you know what I mean.

I know what all the marketing people are thinking right now too,

"Oh, you know what Bill's doing, he's going for that anti-marketing dollar. That's a good market, he's very smart."

Oh man, I am not doing that. You fucking evil scumbags!

"Ooh, you know what Bill's doing now, he's going for the righteous indignation dollar. That's a big dollar. A lot of people are feeling that indignation. We've done research - huge market. He's doing a good thing."

Godammit, I'm not doing that, you scum-bags!

Quit putting a godamm dollar sign on every fucking thing on this planet!

"Ooh, the anger dollar. Huge. Huge in times of recession. Giant market, Bill's very bright to do that."

God, I'm just caught in a fucking web.

"Ooh the trapped dollar, big dollar, huge dollar. Good market - look at our research. We see that many people feel trapped. If we play to that and then separate them into the trapped dollar..."

How do you live like that? And I bet you sleep like fucking babies at night, don't you?"

"What didya do today honey?"

"Oh, we made ah, we made ah arsenic a childhood food now, goodnight." [snores] "Yeah we just said you know is your baby really too loud? You know," [snores] "Yeah, you know the mums will love it." [snores]

Sleep like fucking children, don't ya, this is your world isn't it?

I think that this is not correct. I think that advertising is fundamental to the way that the internet has grown during the previous few years

Tom Swiss | the infamous tms | http://www.infamous.net/

And they have re-released the Bill Hicks collection.
For those of you unaware, Bill Hicks was a comedian, and he said a lot of funny stuff. He also had a really, really, really interesting outlook on the musicians of his time (Vanilla Ice, Motley Crue, you know, late 80's-early 90's).
Sorry, I just felt the need to point that out.

...is a quote from the late Bill Hicks, probably the most revolutionary comedian of the 90s... I beleive it's off Rant in E Minor, but I'm not sure. and actually, now that I think about it it's a combination of two different parts..
"I'm sick of this whole back-slapping our humanity bullshit.. we're a virus with shoes, ladies and gentlemen" .. and later "People suck, that's my contention, I can prove it on a scratch of paper and a pen, gimme a fuckin etch-a-sketch, I'll show my work, the proof, the fact, the factorum.."

anyway.. check out Bill Hicks. He is brilliant.

//Phizzy

Also see Adbusters: Culture Jammers; I don't always care for their view of Economics and Money as Evil, and I do believe advertising can be art; but they have a very nice response to the incessant klaxon blare of Don't Worry, Be Happy (and insecure) that mainstream media seems to want to shove down our throats.

"Go back to bed, America! Here, watch American Gladiators. Here's 57 channels of American Gladiators. Watch these drooling, pituitary retards thrash each other's skulls open. Go back to bed, America! You are free! Free, to do as we tell you!"

Sony is a business and they are out to make a buck. If the bands don't like it they can go to another label. There are lots of labels that don't try to fsck over the bands that they sign. (esp. the electronic music labels) You probably haven't heard about them because they make good music that just doesn't get radio play. Go to Sony Music and browse through the list of bands that they have signed. I think you will notice many of the worst bands in existance. You know the ones (Bill Hicks talks about them all the time. Who is Bill Hicks? Only the wisest man to ever live.) that really suck! They make trite soundbites and pass them off as music. Anyways, back to the point before I get moderated down... A lot of these bands suck. They know it so they take any contract they can get. The good artists go elsewhere. Most of them will be at coachella. (That concert will have the best bands ever! Buy your ticket quick.)

So my point is this: what do we care? Let them get screwed over. These bands will do anything for their 5 minutes of fame. I for one will keep the radio off and the CD player blaring lots of music that does not contain the word "sony" anywhere on the disk. (Except for all my Pink Floyd CD's but they signed with sony a long time ago.)

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