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Auerbach on Internet Cruft
Captain Beefheart writes "Karl Auerbach has a story on CircleID in which he declares '...Between spam, anti-spam blacklists, rogue packets, never-forgetting search engines, viruses, old machines, bad regulatory bodies, and bad implementations, I fear that the open Internet is going to die sooner than I would have expected.' The Balkanization of the 'Net appears to be upon us."
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This is a betrayal of the worst kind.
I think what I'd like to see one of these columnists talk about is the state of the advertising industry today. Why is it that some companies feel the need to advertise is such obviously offensive manners such as spam, junk mail or telemarketing? Whatever happened to producing a quality product, advertising in responsible ways and having sales generated based on a great idea or product? Is this kind of "traditional" advertising not working any more?
I think in some ways, the old ways aren't working as well as they used to. People already feel like they're being over advertised to and we tend to tune out tv ads, just flip over magazine ads, ignore banners. But that's not our fault, it's the fault of the industry for shoving it down our throats at every turn.
But at the same time if the ads are for a product that people generally like we do notice the ads, like say for the Lord of the Rings movie or Apple. Too many companies seem to not understand that advertising a product very few people want is going to make your product better. Not every product is worthy of advertising.
So it seems to me that companies with shitty products look at their crappy sales and think they need to go ballistic with Spam, and just through basic odds they'll get some responses and people buying their products. But do they not realize they may be getting a small amount of sales and a much larger amount of customers never to buy their product because they pissed them off with their spam?
Excuse me, but how can someone who posts AC be a karma whore? Dimwit.
Yeah... that time they dumped formula AD into MAE-West realllly messed things up over here. *sigh* ;)
that's right. J. Public et AL has yet to become involved in open/honest 'net communications/commerce in a meaningful way. that's mostly due to the MiSinformation suppLIEd buy phonIE ?pr? ?firm?/stock markup FraUD execrable, etc...
.asp on that. when the lights come up, there'll be no going back, & no where to hide.
truth is, there's no better/more affordable/effective way that we know of, for J. to reach other J.'s &/or their respective markets.
the recipe is:
consult with/trust in yOUR creator. vote with yOUR wallet. more breathing. seek others of non-agressive intentions/behaviours. that's the spirit.
use key words/indexing to identify yourself/your products.
the overbullowned greed/fear based phonIE marketeers are self eliminating by their owned greed/fear/ego based evile MiSintentions. they must deny the existence of the power that is dissolving their ability to continue their self-centered evile behaviours.
as the lights continue to come up, you'll see what we mean. meanwhile, there are plenty of challenges, not the least of which is the planet/population rescue (from the corepirate nazi/walking dead contingent) initiative.
EVERYTHING is going to change, despite the lameNT of the evile wons. you can bet your
we weren't planted here to facilitate/perpetuate the excesses of a handful of Godless felons. you already know that? yOUR ONLY purpose here is to help one another. any other pretense is totally false.
pay attention (to yOUR environment, for example). that's quite affordable, & leads to insights on preserving life as it should/could/will be again. everything's ALL about yOUR motives.
take care, we're here for you.
as for va lairIE/robbIE et AL, & their disgusting need to suck up to their corepirate nazi sponsors buy use of manipulation/censorship. they are their owned reward eye gas.
mr auerbach seems like a decent sort. icann see how he would be somewhat discouraged.
You see, we've got a couple problems.
:P), then sports, weather, mabye something about bush getting an anal exam, and thats all. No politically minded discussion, no thinking, bullshit.
Around 90% of the news media in the usa is owned by 6 or so tightly intertwined media congolmerates. Books, including schoolbooks, newspapers, television, radio, etc are all owned by companies trying to make a profit who are also heavily heavily bribing politicans to pass ever more horrifying bills. So, to put it shortly, we've got a problem with the dissemination if information. You don't hear non-corperate friendly news, you only get right wing vs ultra-right wing or how GM's nuke plants in france are so enviromently friendly. No left wing, no independants. no news about how GM is dumping nuclear waste near villages in china. All we get today is sports, some young bastard getting killed in a horriffic way so as to frighten us, then zoloft with it's happy fields telling you about how you may have a depression problem and how to cure it (wonder why
When it comes to politics, we're promised better better better by both parties and when we try to remember good reasons to vote about them, we draw up blanks so we don't vote. Our views on the world are determined by ricki lake and oprah, or cnn and are just as simple. Sure bush went to war with iraq, and liberated the people while keeping losses at a minimum (which there is proof he's lieing). He hasn't rebuilt anything and the news networks are getting on him for that. You don't see news about important things anymore, just slander slander slander, and mabye some praise mixed inbetween.
After this, we've got a complacent society. People don't seem to care, or they think they're somehow invincible from the wraith of ever more constrictive laws. Or, they're missled to believing that by giving up all their rights unkle sam will take care of them and they are made fearful from all the apparent crime in the world, so much so they buy an ever increasing number of guns, alarms, etc every year then fear eachother because thet may be a terrorist, making it even more difficult to organize and educate. The fear I blame on tv, where a kid can want things they'll never get and watch all the violence they'd ever want to the point they are so desentisized they become antisocial. The complacency I blame on our sham of an education system.
People are, at a very early age, imprisoned in a building and force-fed information which is mostly false and taught to be complacent. If they aren't complacent, they are punished. If you don't shut up when the teacher tells you to, you'll be given a detention. If you don't do what they say, as for example, intake and excrete information on demand, they hold you back a grade or won't graduate you out of highschool, thus labelling you as subversive or lazy for the rest of your life and closing many many oppertunities to you. I was lucky to goto a highschool that let the students keep their subversiveness and encouraged thinking while keeping punishments as mild as the state would allow, but I know in other places you'll get probation for being late to class to many times. Unfortunatly, people fight against this system in the entirely wrong way by avoiding books and education, as their idea of education is similar to the militarys way of training soldiers.
Then you've got the poisoning of the food supply. Exitotoxins which break down your brain to the point you get bad diseases like altimers at an early age, floride in the water which is actually a powerful toxin that causes cancer and weakens bones(which is concentrated into soda in addition to exitotoxins btw), MSG, Nutrasweet, all lovely packaged under the consumer-friendly terms such as "artifical flavoring" or "natural flavoring" thanks to corperations bribing the FDA. This in addition to foods rich in everything but what the body needs. I take vitamins, good $50 a bottle ones everyday to ensure my body gets what it needs and I
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...Auerbach Kellers you!
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(I just couldn't resist the opportunity to post a Soviet Russia hommage for all those germans out there
(1) who is the mature lady in the Microsoft(R) ad? ... yOu kNow ... neKkiD!
(2) where can i geT piCtUres of Her? i mean
(3) (sorry, this is on topic) i Thenk iT'S goOd tHat tHe InterneT Is dYIng, bEcaUSe it's Just NerDs eVeryWHeRe YOu lOoK.
So get to mastering, will ya!? HAGLUAGHALGUAGH (H0MPH H0MPH NEXT)
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