OK, let's think a second about how you would actually go about catching advertisers in lies. Outright lies might be easy to catch. But, this viral marketing stuff is in that fuzzy area, very much like celebrity endorsements.
Fair enough. You've covered the evils of advertising. The other side of the story is that advertising is how we find out about what goods and services are available to us; advertising is sometimes very entertaining; and advertising pays for a lot of stuff that we all get for "free".
High school students are taught how to bisect an angle, but nobody has ever come up with a way to trisect an angle using nothing but a pair of compasses and a straightedge.
I'm not sure, but I don't think there's a known way to the other odd-numbered divisions of an angle, either.
Can't Microsoft just rename the language option "Mooboo", then add a bunch of new words and grammatical constructs to the language? That's what they do with everything else.
"...could care less about God and Jesus, but only keep faith because they're scared of going to Hell."
From what I've seen, it's not the hell thing. It's fear of disapproval or rejection by their family or community. The atheist/gays analogy is pretty spot on in that regard.
You and your ID-believing Latin American brethren should be banned from Slashdot. The nerve! Solving a problem without using servo motors, embedded processors, and blinkenlights!
Umm. If there is a cause and effect relationship here, isn't it likely it is the other way around?
I've seen an autistic kid zone out in front of a TV before, when it wasn't even turned on. And another autistic kid completely obsessed with playing the same Styx song over and over again on his record player.
Wal-Mart's pay and benefits are comparable to other retailers in their sector, like Target. Wal-Mart gets singled out for criticism because they are the biggest. And because the unions are trying to bust them.
I dunno if this is such a good idea. We're talking a huge collision in image between Apple and Wal-Mart. Apple's image is hip, liberal, urban. Wal-Mart's is working-class, conservative, and rural.
So, THEY have come up with this new type of sticker just when grocers have figured out how to replace sticky product labels with barcodes burnt into the fruit with lasers:
The Cato Institute is often accused of being a conservative think tank. A lot of that has to do with positions they've taken on global warming.
But, this statement makes it clear that isn't exactly what they are about. They are more like somewhere along the spectrum between libertarian and conservative.
With every other sense, humans (or human culture) have evolved to consider some pleasant and others unpleasant. Good tastes, bad tastes, etc. Would there be pleasant and unpleasant magnetic fields?
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"Futures researchers"?! What research?! Maybe "futures extrapolators" or "futures visionaries" or "futures imaginers".
OK, let's think a second about how you would actually go about catching advertisers in lies. Outright lies might be easy to catch. But, this viral marketing stuff is in that fuzzy area, very much like celebrity endorsements.
I wish my company would copy Google's example.
I had always assumed, because no company had ever done it before, that it was illegal to make employee stock options tradable.
Fair enough. You've covered the evils of advertising. The other side of the story is that advertising is how we find out about what goods and services are available to us; advertising is sometimes very entertaining; and advertising pays for a lot of stuff that we all get for "free".
I'm a grown-up. I don't need the Federal government to protect me from viral advertising.
For my entire life, I've been exposed to celebrity endorsements, and the only effect has been to fine tune my bullshit filter.
Please refund the portion of my taxes that is going to paying these guys salaries.
High school students are taught how to bisect an angle, but nobody has ever come up with a way to trisect an angle using nothing but a pair of compasses and a straightedge.
I'm not sure, but I don't think there's a known way to the other odd-numbered divisions of an angle, either.
Can't Microsoft just rename the language option "Mooboo", then add a bunch of new words and grammatical constructs to the language? That's what they do with everything else.
"...could care less about God and Jesus, but only keep faith because they're scared of going to Hell."
From what I've seen, it's not the hell thing. It's fear of disapproval or rejection by their family or community. The atheist/gays analogy is pretty spot on in that regard.
You and your ID-believing Latin American brethren should be banned from Slashdot. The nerve! Solving a problem without using servo motors, embedded processors, and blinkenlights!
Yeah, I know. I so wanted it not to work, but had to admit that three blades actually did give a better shave.
There's a very good web site and magazine, EscapeArtist, with lots of information about becoming an American expat:
http://www.escapeartist.com/
I was considering getting out, but decided I belong where I am. I'm gonna stay and do whatever I can to oppose the creeping fascism.
Umm. If there is a cause and effect relationship here, isn't it likely it is the other way around?
I've seen an autistic kid zone out in front of a TV before, when it wasn't even turned on. And another autistic kid completely obsessed with playing the same Styx song over and over again on his record player.
"Changes in Earths' Orbit Linked to Extinctions" -- Congratulations on writing a wonderfully confusing headline!
What about Phil Collins?!
Wal-Mart's pay and benefits are comparable to other retailers in their sector, like Target. Wal-Mart gets singled out for criticism because they are the biggest. And because the unions are trying to bust them.
I dunno if this is such a good idea. We're talking a huge collision in image between Apple and Wal-Mart. Apple's image is hip, liberal, urban. Wal-Mart's is working-class, conservative, and rural.
Ooh. Ooh. Can they make it so that the car picks up Power Pellets that are lying in the road?!
Because they would suck.
... right after I check out the latest topics at Google News.
So, THEY have come up with this new type of sticker just when grocers have figured out how to replace sticky product labels with barcodes burnt into the fruit with lasers:
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http://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/19/dining/19fruit.
THEY must be in cahoots with the sticky label industry.
I'm sorry, but aren't you just posting a Slashdot article summarizing another Slashdot article and its comments?
This sucks. I was hoping someone would start a Dirtyflix...
The Cato Institute is often accused of being a conservative think tank. A lot of that has to do with positions they've taken on global warming.
But, this statement makes it clear that isn't exactly what they are about. They are more like somewhere along the spectrum between libertarian and conservative.
With every other sense, humans (or human culture) have evolved to consider some pleasant and others unpleasant. Good tastes, bad tastes, etc. Would there be pleasant and unpleasant magnetic fields?
Maybe if we can find ways to increase the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, it will protect the cable from oxygen damage.