Apple loves stealing names. Look at what they did to "Apple Records" and "McIntosh Audio" (which they still print a disclaimer about in all their documentation).
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So you have no problem that by the time kids finish high school, they've spent more time in front of a TV than with a teacher?
Or that the tube is the baby-sitter of choice for most of the country's pre-schoolers? Or that it's the #1 thing kids do as soon as they get home from school?
Here are the facts, courtesy of PBS (ironic, ain't it:-)
The average American watches 3,000 ads per day on TV
Kids watch 28 hours of TV each week
The #1 after-school activity for kids 6-17 is... watching TV
The AMA says that the average teenager will have seen 18,000 murders and 200,000 violent acts on TV by the time they turn 18. (but no responsible sex - showing kids that people should use a condom to help prevent the spread of diseases and unwanted pregnancies is harmful to their little minds)
The more TV your kids watch, the more likely they are to be obese, into drugs, and sexually active.
Planned Parenthood - these same kids get to see over 14,000 references to sex every year, but less than 175 where the people are behaving responsibly. The message kids are getting - it's okay to have sex, as long as it wasn't "planned" - and you don't need to protect yourself, because adults don't.
If you think all this isn't having a negative effect on people, you're the one who's fucked up. Or brainwashed. Probably from watching too much TV. Bet you didn't even notice they've gone to 10-second commercials, cramming 12 of them into a 2-minute break, and that they've "sped up" the shows by dropping frames, so as to grab another 3 minutes of commercial time to sell. You can now sit through up to 100 full-screen ads per hour, plus hundreds more "product placements", and "encrustations", "split-screens" while the credits are rolling, voice-over ads, crawlers, etc. 500 ads per fucking hour! And I'll bet you didn't even notice it was anywhere near that high. Why? Because you've grown used to it, and accept it as "normal." You're a good little consumer. So when the next version of DRM'd TV comes out, and you can't skip the commercials, and they run for 2 minutes, then 2 minutes of TV (framed by ads), then another 2 minutes of commercials, you'll happily bend over and take it like a man, because that's what you've been trained to do. You welcome your commercial-sponsoring overlords.
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Apple loves stealing names. Look at what they did to "Apple Records" and "McIntosh Audio" (which they still print a disclaimer about in all their documentation).
Best Buy can have you arrested
Or that the tube is the baby-sitter of choice for most of the country's pre-schoolers? Or that it's the #1 thing kids do as soon as they get home from school?
Here are the facts, courtesy of PBS (ironic, ain't it :-)
If you think all this isn't having a negative effect on people, you're the one who's fucked up. Or brainwashed. Probably from watching too much TV. Bet you didn't even notice they've gone to 10-second commercials, cramming 12 of them into a 2-minute break, and that they've "sped up" the shows by dropping frames, so as to grab another 3 minutes of commercial time to sell. You can now sit through up to 100 full-screen ads per hour, plus hundreds more "product placements", and "encrustations", "split-screens" while the credits are rolling, voice-over ads, crawlers, etc. 500 ads per fucking hour! And I'll bet you didn't even notice it was anywhere near that high. Why? Because you've grown used to it, and accept it as "normal." You're a good little consumer. So when the next version of DRM'd TV comes out, and you can't skip the commercials, and they run for 2 minutes, then 2 minutes of TV (framed by ads), then another 2 minutes of commercials, you'll happily bend over and take it like a man, because that's what you've been trained to do. You welcome your commercial-sponsoring overlords.
Here, take the test (now that you've gotten some of the answers) http://www.pbs.org/kcet/senioryear/reachout/quiz.h tml
TV - the big open cesspool. As they said - you'll never go broke underestimating the intelligence of the American public.