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Pop Up Ads in Space
modder writes "A Russian inventor has patented
ads in space.
Shouldn't this violate some sort of
International Space Law?" Remember the first time your dad took you out at 1am into the backyard with a telescope? With Your kids the conversation will be something like "Follow the Swoosh to Arcturus, Drive a Spike to the AT&T Logo"
To paraphrase Lois Lane, I will *personally* lead the army that wipes space ads out of the sky.
--- Ban humanity.
One foul up and we could all end up being told to "go stick your head in a pig"
Can't Chairface Chippendale claim prior art on space ads?
===== Murphy's Law is recursive. =====
I wonder to what extent the patent is attributable to the numerous examples of this kind of behaviour in traditional science-fiction and popular media such as Futurama?
Ph-nglui mglw'nafh Gates M'dna wgah'nagl fhtagn.
By Pampered Chef, only $19.99.
I hate grammar Nazi's.
Did he just point to a Coke can and say "Like this, but big!"
Haven't you heard of a Ferengi Emporium class porn server relay station before?
Antisatellite weapon have some uses.
Fine, I'm filing the provisional patent application for space based laser to be used to block these pop-up adds. There is no property law that applies to space. Therefore, if he put's an ad up there we should blow it up.
Throw that system up there! I can't wait to hack THAT Jumbotron and put MY message across the whole sky!
Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced. - Geek's corollary to Clarke's law
Now AT&T can have finally have a Death Star circling the planet!
8==8 Bones 8==8
I mean, we're nerds, isnt it? Nerds just dont go much outside. And now they call that "News for nerds" !? Sheesh!
"...a generation of kids has grown up thinking Trance is the shittiest music since country and western." - Paul van Dyk
OT III documents + advert visible to entire world = several very pissed off $cientologists
That's no moon! That's a space station!!!
A republic cannot succeed till it contains a certain body of men imbued with the principles of justice and honour.
Imagine the rainbow effect you'd get if the refresh rate wasn't high enough; launch a new ad campaign, and half the planet calls in sick with a blinding headache.
Heh.
Speaking as someone who lives in a big city (London), I can hardly even remember what stars look like. A combination of light-pollution, smog and good, old-fashioned English weather mean that they are hardly ever visible.
So neither will the adverts be.
Cool: a use for pollution! As an ad-blocker.
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What short sigs we have -
One hundred and twenty chars!
Too short for haiku.
Marketing drones - "We've perfected a technology that would allow us to put a giant billboard into space. Picture it, Dick: your advertisement would be seen by everyone in the entire world! Of course, there would be catastrophic tidal waves, but the upside: kids love to surf!"
Suit - "That would be a choice demographic..."
Dick - "Gentlemen....surf's up!"
In Corporate America you see Space in Ads...
/. community!!. It's community, not communism!
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about the Son of Star Wars program favored by GW Bush is that at the very least, it WILL have one use:
Shooting down space spam.
(probably not, but it's fun to imagine it)
At the Whitehouse:
--Mr Nixon, Mr Nixon, the Russians painted the moon red, in honor of communism. What should we do?
--Don't worry, Henry, our boys will think of something.
Next morning at the Kremlin:
--Comrade Brezhnev, Comrade Brezhnev, the Americans painted "Coca Cola" on top.
It would make one HECK of a Bat Signal!!!
www.slightlycrewed.com - Because aren't we all?
This won't bother me. I've installed Google atmosphere, which contains space popup blocking.
Don't blame Durga. I voted for Centauri.
With this story's new development, being a mountain cabin recluse still isn't enough. You've gotta live in a cave.
And Osama gets the last laugh after all...
That's no moon, that's a space station!
I can't shake this mental image of the International Space Station with a giant Drink Coke logo scrawled across the side... (Come to think of it, private funding for such projects isn't such a bad idea: "This launch brought to you by Levitra - if we can get a rocket up, imagine what we can do for you!")
:wq
Leela: Didn't you have ads in the 20th century?
Fry: Well sure, but not in our dreams. Only on TV and radio. And in magazines...and movies...and at ball games and on buses and milk cartons and t-shirts and written in the sky. But not in dreams. No siree!
Whoa. Deja vu.
DJMD - The fourth man - Planetary
There will be a South-Westerly breeze of 12 mph...
Pepsi-rise will be at 6:14am and Nike-set will be at 8:48pm...
Gentoo Linux - another day, another USE flag.
This was the ship that Lister and Cat found on an asteroid/moon with Kryten waiting in it (and also the one that Kryten caused to crash by "washing" the computer).
As Bill Hicks put it:
"By the way, if anyone here is in marketing or advertising, Kill Yourself. Just planting seeds, that's all I'm doing. No joke here. Really, Seriously, Kill Yourself. There is no rationalization for what you do. You are Satan's little helpers. Kill Yourself, Kill Yourself, Kill Yourself Now. I know some of you are thinking there's going to be a joke coming up...There's no fucking joke. Suck a tailpipe, hang yourself, borrow a pistol from an NRA buddy - do something to rid the world of your evil fucking presence. Okay, back to the show..."
I don't think any more needs to be said on this
Americans, by and large, have bought hook-line-and-sinker the idea of perceived value. With an entire nation of walking Gap ads, chatting up their "peeps" on a Nokia cell-shackle, how else can you arbitrate but with quality of marketing?
Trendster: Check it, Kiki. I got me an nGage.
Kiki: Eeew.
Trendster: Whatever.
[two weeks later]Trendster: Yo, Kiki. I got me an iPod.
Kiki: Marry me.
Trendster: Solid.
CASSIUS
The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars,
But in ourselves, that we are underlings.
BRUTUS
But yonder stars tell me wonderous Enzyte shall make us underlings no longer!
If Slashdot were chemistry it would look like this:Cadaverine
...and just think how much more captivating it would be with the words "Enjoy Coca Cola!" slowly orbiting overhead.
*shudders and vows to claw out his eyeballs if it should ever come to this*
Turn your Little Dipper into a Big Dipper.
But why is the rum gone?
Either that or you're about to be killed by a meteor.