The USGovt and some other entities count Sept/Oct as the turn of the fiscal year, or they used to. Apparently it's drifted, or different industries use different measuring sticks.
If you know anyone working at a pawn shop, go ask them to tell you some stories about their customers. You'll be amazed at the amount of cash people spend and what they buy.
Remember, they're not _all_ poor because they don't *earn* much money, quite a few of em are poor because they *spend* all they get as soon as they get it... which is why companies like Free-PC are/were willing to take a gamble on an advertising-based venture.
A little bit of money management would go a long way toward reducing the number of 'poor' people in America.. course, it would also mean the death of home shopping networks, pawn shops, and ad-based businesses =)
Nah, you didn't get one cos 3 billion other people also signed up for one, and the odds for payout got slim in a hurry... (well, mebbe not that many, but it seemed like it =)
I didn't get one either.. oh well, probably wouldn't have lasted, being a Compaq!
Seven passes is what the US Goveernment and Military *claim* to be sufficient. Do you really think they stop at seven, though?
If I were the type to handle info like that, I'd probably set a file wiper program for at least 21 passes.. but the only sure way to permanently bury it would be to melt down the platters. Depends on how paranoid you are, I guess =)
Um. Because: they get three sets of signals a day, *each* of which takes 18 hours to sift through. Thats 54 hours worth of searching collected every 24 hours.
Do I need to point out that they're falling behind in the signal processing? Going thru the trouble of setting up a distributed effort would be WELL worth it.
Try reading the article next time. And also a smack inna head to the moron who moderated your post as 'insightful'.
Sure, they're obviously different - when you put them side by side. Trouble is, that would rarely happen on a website or any other medium. The design elements (rectangular yellow border, green circle, white lettering of 'GO', hell, the font is the EXACT same) are such that Disney's version could indeed cause confusion, if only one logo is seen.
People rarely consciously 'see' advertising anymore (what ad banners have you seen during your current surfing session? Name them all, the companies and products they're pitching, please. See?) - it's all taken in as vague patterns, and used to recognise or remember a certain item later when it's seen again. Guaranteed, if you walked past 30 billboards in a day, each with one or the other of those logos in the corner, at the end of the day, you would *not* be able to tell how many of each there were - all you would remember would be a square border, green circle, and something about 'GO' in it... and the associations you make with the logo and the content of the boards may not be something that GoTo.com wants you to make.
That's what all this is about. Consider - it wouldn't be any different from the GoTo/Disney situation if I came up with a logo that had a very realistic-looking burger bun surrounding the words 'Burger Town' in the Burger King colors and font. I'd get my ass sued off, and rightfully so.
1) Your nick: 'Columbine dropout' (oh yeah, -that's- a great way to show sympathy) 2) Your angry, holier-than-thou attitude 3) Your relatively young age (it -does- make a difference in how you view life, altho nothing anyone can say right now will convince you of that) 4) Your insistence on being empathically tuned in to every human death (which, by the way, will turn you into an exhausted, wrung-out, stressed shell of a person. Everyone dies sooner or later, and lots of people die in natural disasters, every day.)
These things gave him the right to assume (correctly) that you don't really understand what you're railing against.
Me? I think yer a troll. But I'm a cynic that way.
Yes, I think they -did- try to get away with it: until very recently, they've been writing for sheep who don't question what ZD tells them. Must be a tough habit to break...
Yow, what a weak analogy... an unlicensed motorist either doesn't know how to drive, or has done something bad to get that license revoked (DUI)... someone could actually, really get hurt under those conditions. But with software, there's no chance for physical damage.. unless someone shoves the CD sideways up into one of your 'dark places'.
Guess they fear lots of people getting run over by drunken employees at the wheel of Powerpoint or something...
I'm rather glad I haven't heard those radio spots yet =)
Yep. I'm just barely old enough to remember how we were headed into the 'next Ice Age' during the 70s. Guess they had to keep our minds off the oil crisis somehow. I'll join this project tho, if it means a chance to more accurately predict the weather either way.
'Twould be supreme arrogance and presumptiveness to assume humankind could possibly effect such a huge change in only 150 years of Industrialism. Not that we've ever really been lacking in either one...
Carlin has it right - the planet is fine... we're the ones who're fucked.
Brickhouse appears to be a program that assumes the duties of telnetd, httpd, and quite a few other systems. Not exactly 'modified Linux', even though their test machine may be running Red Hat.
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The USGovt and some other entities count Sept/Oct as the turn of the fiscal year, or they used to. Apparently it's drifted, or different industries use different measuring sticks.
They give us permission to do that, so let's kick it up.. and watch em try to shut them ALL down.
The fellow is saying that the question of 'should or should not' is irrelevant. It *will* happen, which neatly puts 'should' out of business.
Well done Microsoft, you are like a shining beacon to Marketers everywhere, of the potential that the science of Marketing has to improve our lives.
You've got to be kidding... Microsoft is a shameful example of how lying and cheating can get people to choose inferior products.
These two statements say exactly the same thing. Hehe, what did you think marketing was?
The confusing point may be that when he says it will 'improve our lives', he means improving marketers' lives, not yours or mine.
If you know anyone working at a pawn shop, go ask them to tell you some stories about their customers. You'll be amazed at the amount of cash people spend and what they buy.
Remember, they're not _all_ poor because they don't *earn* much money, quite a few of em are poor because they *spend* all they get as soon as they get it... which is why companies like Free-PC are/were willing to take a gamble on an advertising-based venture.
A little bit of money management would go a long way toward reducing the number of 'poor' people in America.. course, it would also mean the death of home shopping networks, pawn shops, and ad-based businesses =)
Nah, you didn't get one cos 3 billion other people also signed up for one, and the odds for payout got slim in a hurry... (well, mebbe not that many, but it seemed like it =)
I didn't get one either.. oh well, probably wouldn't have lasted, being a Compaq!
Hehe, you are taking this thread way too seriously. (Which is, amazingly enough, one of the reasons this topic is such a firestorm..)
Hehe, we know yas done it ya dirty rat, now come out wit yer hands up or we'll perforate yas!
Seven passes is what the US Goveernment and Military *claim* to be sufficient. Do you really think they stop at seven, though?
If I were the type to handle info like that, I'd probably set a file wiper program for at least 21 passes.. but the only sure way to permanently bury it would be to melt down the platters. Depends on how paranoid you are, I guess =)
Um. Because: they get three sets of signals a day, *each* of which takes 18 hours to sift through. Thats 54 hours worth of searching collected every 24 hours.
Do I need to point out that they're falling behind in the signal processing? Going thru the trouble of setting up a distributed effort would be WELL worth it.
Try reading the article next time. And also a smack inna head to the moron who moderated your post as 'insightful'.
Yeah well, just don't sit down on it - you'd bleed out in 30 seconds.
Guess I didnt see that one. It's well worth repeating anyway.
Nah, leave it pointing up, it gives overtones of Illuminati influence that way. =)
Dunno about that - I'd look at that and probably think, 'Ewww, looks like ol' Mickey is about to puke up his boxers..'
Both of those logos are (very slightly) reminiscent of those Mr. Poison stickers we used to get in elementary school, remember those? =)
GO (call 911!!)
GOTO (the fridge and drink lots of milk!!)
Err, well.. that's Steamboat Willie, actually =)
Sure, they're obviously different - when you put them side by side. Trouble is, that would rarely happen on a website or any other medium. The design elements (rectangular yellow border, green circle, white lettering of 'GO', hell, the font is the EXACT same) are such that Disney's version could indeed cause confusion, if only one logo is seen.
People rarely consciously 'see' advertising anymore (what ad banners have you seen during your current surfing session? Name them all, the companies and products they're pitching, please. See?) - it's all taken in as vague patterns, and used to recognise or remember a certain item later when it's seen again. Guaranteed, if you walked past 30 billboards in a day, each with one or the other of those logos in the corner, at the end of the day, you would *not* be able to tell how many of each there were - all you would remember would be a square border, green circle, and something about 'GO' in it... and the associations you make with the logo and the content of the boards may not be something that GoTo.com wants you to make.
That's what all this is about. Consider - it wouldn't be any different from the GoTo/Disney situation if I came up with a logo that had a very realistic-looking burger bun surrounding the words 'Burger Town' in the Burger King colors and font. I'd get my ass sued off, and rightfully so.
1) Your nick: 'Columbine dropout' (oh yeah, -that's- a great way to show sympathy)
2) Your angry, holier-than-thou attitude
3) Your relatively young age (it -does- make a difference in how you view life, altho nothing anyone can say right now will convince you of that)
4) Your insistence on being empathically tuned in to every human death (which, by the way, will turn you into an exhausted, wrung-out, stressed shell of a person. Everyone dies sooner or later, and lots of people die in natural disasters, every day.)
These things gave him the right to assume (correctly) that you don't really understand what you're railing against.
Me? I think yer a troll. But I'm a cynic that way.
Yes, I think they -did- try to get away with it: until very recently, they've been writing for sheep who don't question what ZD tells them. Must be a tough habit to break...
Subtle. Even had to take another look at the original just to be sure... =)
Yow, what a weak analogy... an unlicensed motorist either doesn't know how to drive, or has done something bad to get that license revoked (DUI)... someone could actually, really get hurt under those conditions. But with software, there's no chance for physical damage.. unless someone shoves the CD sideways up into one of your 'dark places'.
Guess they fear lots of people getting run over by drunken employees at the wheel of Powerpoint or something...
I'm rather glad I haven't heard those radio spots yet =)
Well.. let's not get hasty there... more likely that they couldn't get their parents to drive them out to the event. =)
Hehe, cos most people just aren't that sick. =)
Yep. I'm just barely old enough to remember how we were headed into the 'next Ice Age' during the 70s. Guess they had to keep our minds off the oil crisis somehow. I'll join this project tho, if it means a chance to more accurately predict the weather either way.
'Twould be supreme arrogance and presumptiveness to assume humankind could possibly effect such a huge change in only 150 years of Industrialism. Not that we've ever really been lacking in either one...
Carlin has it right - the planet is fine... we're the ones who're fucked.
Brickhouse appears to be a program that assumes the duties of telnetd, httpd, and quite a few other systems. Not exactly 'modified Linux', even though their test machine may be running Red Hat.
Course, I might be dead wrong too. =)
Ok, that's cool, but what you may not realise is that there are in fact a whole lot of sheep out there who do use brand names for generic nouns.
And on a side note, I bet even you do it without realising: Do you say 'spam', or do you say 'unsolicited commercial email'? =)