perhaps the *real* news is that there is no real news.
yummm. crappy irony.
Re:Doesn't it say something about society?
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Yes, I think its absolutely ridiculous that advertisements have become a form of entertainment. Of course,/. appeals to the yuppie generation, where materialism means a lot, and hence, advertisment becomes an inherent part of their life.
People here at/. complain about web banners, popups, popunders, etc. but they go giddy when they get to watch TV commericials. Some are willing to pay money to watch advertisements. How does that make any sense? Of course that's not that surprising when you can see t-shirts everywhere advertising nike, armani, ck, etc, for 20-30 bucks a pop. Simply calling a form of advertisement by a different name - fashion - and people are willing to pay.
Check out adbusters for some good critical views on advertisments and over-commercialization.
isn't this more or less just like another optical illusion. Our brains are "wired" or just merely used to seeing things one way, so when something suddenly goes wrong, our brain simply pretends everything's normal. Internal gravity mechanism? hmmph, just call it millions of years living on a planet with constant gravity.
I don't know where you got that number. It must be way outdated. Don't you remember a couple years back when there was the whole 6 billion celebration? The Kill everyone project puts the population at just over 6.2 billion. That means barely 8% of the world uses the internet - a far cry from 10%. 8% is not very much at all.
Of course no company can exempt themselves from personal liability. For example, if Windows caused me to die (who knows), then my family could sue M$ on my behalf and would likely win. If Windows caused my computer to start on fire and burned downed my house, I'm SOL and a house.
In the Last Crusade, since Indy drank water out of the Holy Grail, didn't he become immortal? If so, then how can there really be another Indiana Jones, it's no fun watching a 70 year old that can't die.
A friend of a friend of mine or something line that has two driver's licenses from two different states. And she's not even a US citizen! It shows its not hard at all to create fake/bogus identification.
A lot of people forget that there are many americans that don't celebrate christmans. For example, my family. Coming from a Hindu background, we don't celebrate christmas or Thanksgiving. And hence, my dad being a physician often works today without a second thought.
I'm currently a college student, and hence don't work. But when I do get into the job market, It doesn't matter what particular days I get off, just as long as I get some vacation time.
What's got to suck are the pilots/flight attendants/airport employees that are helping my mom come home today and they can't celebrate holidays even if they wanted to.
Good point. Windows 2000 was pissing me off so much, so I wanted to upgrade to XP and see if that was better. But then there was this activation I didn't want to deal with, so I decided I'd just learn Linux, and move to that completely. But now that there are easy ways to obtain XP free (as if I'd ever pay for it), I'm not sure what I'd do. Anti Piracy measures for Windows products would be better for Linux
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perhaps the *real* news is that there is no real news.
yummm. crappy irony.
Yes, I think its absolutely ridiculous that advertisements have become a form of entertainment. Of course, /. appeals to the yuppie generation, where materialism means a lot, and hence, advertisment becomes an inherent part of their life.
/. complain about web banners, popups, popunders, etc. but they go giddy when they get to watch TV commericials. Some are willing to pay money to watch advertisements. How does that make any sense? Of course that's not that surprising when you can see t-shirts everywhere advertising nike, armani, ck, etc, for 20-30 bucks a pop. Simply calling a form of advertisement by a different name - fashion - and people are willing to pay.
People here at
Check out adbusters for some good critical views on advertisments and over-commercialization.
isn't this more or less just like another optical illusion. Our brains are "wired" or just merely used to seeing things one way, so when something suddenly goes wrong, our brain simply pretends everything's normal. Internal gravity mechanism? hmmph, just call it millions of years living on a planet with constant gravity.
With the current population 5,995,544,836
I don't know where you got that number. It must be way outdated. Don't you remember a couple years back when there was the whole 6 billion celebration? The Kill everyone project puts the population at just over 6.2 billion. That means barely 8% of the world uses the internet - a far cry from 10%. 8% is not very much at all.
Of course no company can exempt themselves from personal liability. For example, if Windows caused me to die (who knows), then my family could sue M$ on my behalf and would likely win. If Windows caused my computer to start on fire and burned downed my house, I'm SOL and a house.
In the Last Crusade, since Indy drank water out of the Holy Grail, didn't he become immortal? If so, then how can there really be another Indiana Jones, it's no fun watching a 70 year old that can't die.
A friend of a friend of mine or something line that has two driver's licenses from two different states. And she's not even a US citizen! It shows its not hard at all to create fake/bogus identification.
A lot of people forget that there are many americans that don't celebrate christmans. For example, my family. Coming from a Hindu background, we don't celebrate christmas or Thanksgiving. And hence, my dad being a physician often works today without a second thought.
I'm currently a college student, and hence don't work. But when I do get into the job market, It doesn't matter what particular days I get off, just as long as I get some vacation time.
What's got to suck are the pilots/flight attendants/airport employees that are helping my mom come home today and they can't celebrate holidays even if they wanted to.
Yeah, the PS2 sucks as a DVD player. And $300, forget it.
Good point. Windows 2000 was pissing me off so much, so I wanted to upgrade to XP and see if that was better. But then there was this activation I didn't want to deal with, so I decided I'd just learn Linux, and move to that completely. But now that there are easy ways to obtain XP free (as if I'd ever pay for it), I'm not sure what I'd do. Anti Piracy measures for Windows products would be better for Linux
if only there were a service like this for junk snail mail.
As much as the towers are symbols of America.
They were owned by a Japanese Corporation.