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Sony-Ericsson Starts US$5M Astroturf Campaign
lairdb writes "The WSJ reports today (31Jul02) that Sony Ericsson will be marketing their new T68i cellphone/camera combo unit via "shills" to create a grassroots buzz. Specific tactics will include fake tourist couples at popular attractions asking bystanders to take their picture, and "leaners": pairs of women ("actresses and female models") at bars playing interactive Battleship with each other from opposite ends of the bar.
"[T]he company has gone to considerable lengths to train it's actors to avoid detection [as Ericsson spokespeople.]""
sh00perz, it's "sentences", not "sentances"
Fuck the homeless. They are smelly, dirty, scary, weird, perverted people. They are usually drug addicts and/or alcoholics. They go to the shelters for the free food, but they hardly ever take advantage of the services offered to help them clean themselves up and get a job. The single mother who lost her job and lives on the street for two nights before getting helped by one of the public service groups is a tiny tiny minority of the homeless population.
Most homeless people aren't interested in getting themselves cleaned up, getting jobs, and joining the blue-collar lower-middle-class. They think, "why work hard and live a poor life when I can do nothing and be handed a poor life for free?"
My other first post is car post.
Fuck you. You're a bigoted, stereotypical asshole. You think you can sit in your parents house in suburbia driving a $15,000 car your parents bought for you and pass judgment on people who you only see through the tinted windows of your import sedan. I live in Austin, TX and the homeless there are actually very nice, personable people. Yes, they're a bit odd, but we all have our quirks. Most homeless people aren't there because they want a "free ride." They often have mental conditions which prevent them from living amongst society (advanced schizophrenia is very common amongst the homeless.)
Get off your high horse and out of your parents basement and see what the real world is like before you start passing your holy word off on others. You pass stereotypical assumptions off as fact, when your assumptions are very far from it.