Just because I like lists, and enjoy playing "ideal world", here's what I think all advertisments should have to adhere to:
1) All advertisements must: a) Clearly and distinctly state the full name of the company selling the product b) State if that company is a subsidiary, division, etc. of a larger company and that parent company's name c) Clearly identify the product being advertised d) Clearly state the function and or purpose of the product e) Clearly state any adverse risks associated with the product f) Clearly identify anyone other than the aforementioned companies involved in funding/sponsoring the advertisement g) Clearly, distinctly, and understandably state the legally required disclaimers (no fast talking, no low volume overlays, etc.) h) Present a view of the product as sold or provided (no lacquered hamburgers, no plastic french fries) i) Clearly indicate that the marketing is an advertisement
2) All advertisements must not: a) Use any form of direct or indirect sexual association to influence the viewer b) Make any statement that expresses or implies any false information c) Present themselves as being and/or representing any entity other than the company selling the product and the company(s) funding the advertisement d) Target marketing to anyone under 18 years of age (Toy manufactures and companies producing children's products may make the advertising appealing to minors, provided that the full information is also included for the adult making the purchasing decision) e) Present advertising in any form that purports to be a show or entertainment e) Attempt to make advertising invasive, obtrusive, obnoxious, annoying, or any form of public nuisance
I'm sure there are more rules available, but these are my biggest pet peeves with the "marketing" being shoved at us from every direction.
See Pole Chess, Huffdraw, Resignation, Castling, En Passant, etc.
There are many variations on the rules, but as the prior poster said, once the game begins the rules are set (except in chaos chess, where a rule can be invoked during the game and becomes part of the game from there on as long as it doesn't conflict with a prior rule).
For some reason you expect them to show remorse? This is an idea that I have never understood.
Microsoft is a corporation. It is a nonliving organizational unit composed of discrete, replaceable, organisms acting in concert. As such, the individuals who work there display a wide range of emotions. The corporation, on the other hand, is incapable of emotion, and therefore, incapable of remorse.
The whole concept of a corporation being treated as a person is a mainstay of the power the corporations wield now. When you aggregate that many people, emotions become chaotic variables in an equation, and the purpose of the equation is to maximize profit.
So no, Microsoft does not display any remorse. Microsoft employees display remorse, and Microsoft replaces them as dysfunctional units as necessary to continue performing its primary function: profiting.
Oh noes! I've found signs of sanity in government! A judge made a sane ruling in the SCO case last week! Quick, we need concrete bunkers before the concert starts!
I bet that the laws that are passed or banned by the non technical legislature and non technical judiciary will not interfere with them passing other laws that can and probably will contradict the earlier ones. See the Constitution vs. the Government for more on that one. The problem with laws in general is not that the Hammuribian system of codification is flawed, but that the people who want to be in control and make the laws are by definition greedy and power hungry, and therefore are the least qualified to do so.
As for your sig, many cyborgs, actually. Half my family has electronic implants of some kind which work in conjunction with their natural body (e.g. pacemakers, artificial cornea lenses, artificial limbs (they do gtaft them on sometimes) etc.) How many where the modifications enhance an existing faculty? None.
You may have an issue there, as I owned patents on all of the following:
-Doing -Stuff -Application of Doing to Stuff -Application of Stuff to Doing -Application of Doing to Doing -Application of Stuff to Stuff -Utilization of Either Stuff or Doing in a Doing or Stuff Environment
And have since released those patents into the Public Domain, thus presenting prior art for most uses of Doing and/or Stuff in most combinations.
And don't even think about adding Internet or Computing Device to make them unique, as Internet and Computing Device are clearly Stuff!
Can't say I'd come up clean housed either. Since my girl *is* female, and thus afflicted with the usual female cycles, I'm certain there is some of her blood around my house, and probably the passenger seat of my car (I usually drive).
And my hair and her hair all over. I, too, have a book on police procedures. A gift from my father, who is an ex cop.
Um... I'm beginning to think I should click that anonymous checkbox now... ok, bye bye...
I manage to do that all the time, and it gets easier the more I've had to drink. I can throw myself at the sky and miss with my eyes closed, even. Although, those times tend to hurt more when I hit the ground.
Throwing myself at the ground, and missing, on the third hand, still needs work.
Maybe not a vinyl record shop, but a pressed wax record shop would work, since those pressed wax record shops have a low melting temperature, and all the cool music they carry can be used to reform them at the other end of the tube. Then again, maybe I just should get some sleep now.
Thank you. Thank you very much. I just had this wonderful (soda spraying) audio visual moment of the cheat reciting this guy's answers in his usual cheat manner, complete with kerpows, clickaclickas, all while playing Halo XIXVII: Strongbadia Invasion on his fruit.
Been there! My uncle had a drive die, and his "backups" were out of date, so I finally ended up freezing the drive. It would run for about 5 minutes until it warmed up, then quit reading.
His soultion? Now that he believed in the magic of freezing, he took out the meat for dinner and we put the drive between two packages of frozen pork chops.
I, for one, think MTV might actually have something useful here for once...
Let's take Bush, Osama, and Blair and lock them in a cage for a "Live Celebrity Deathmatch" on Pay Per View (might even be able to pay off the national debt with that one). Bill it a B.O.B. Dies Tonight or something like that.
Maybe even arrange to have a "surprise" celebrity show up. He (or she) would of course be the only survivor.
I would like to subscribe to your newsletter, I find your ideas intriguing. Also, where can I get this Mac with two clones of Natalie Portman holding ice cream sundaes?
I keep reading the paranoid resons for them to block Google Earth, but has anyone thought about what size pipe a small island nation has to the rest of the world? Maybe they are having trouble with the amount of bandwidth that this is suddenly taking up, and are pressing to get Google to install a local cache so that they have more direct access to the rest of the information they need to run their enemies into the... um... maybe they just want Google to correct something on the map first. Yeah, that's it!
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Just because I like lists, and enjoy playing "ideal world", here's what I think all advertisments should have to adhere to:
1) All advertisements must:
a) Clearly and distinctly state the full name of the company selling the product
b) State if that company is a subsidiary, division, etc. of a larger company and that parent company's name
c) Clearly identify the product being advertised
d) Clearly state the function and or purpose of the product
e) Clearly state any adverse risks associated with the product
f) Clearly identify anyone other than the aforementioned companies involved in funding/sponsoring the advertisement
g) Clearly, distinctly, and understandably state the legally required disclaimers (no fast talking, no low volume overlays, etc.)
h) Present a view of the product as sold or provided (no lacquered hamburgers, no plastic french fries)
i) Clearly indicate that the marketing is an advertisement
2) All advertisements must not:
a) Use any form of direct or indirect sexual association to influence the viewer
b) Make any statement that expresses or implies any false information
c) Present themselves as being and/or representing any entity other than the company selling the product and the company(s) funding the advertisement
d) Target marketing to anyone under 18 years of age (Toy manufactures and companies producing children's products may make the advertising appealing to minors, provided that the full information is also included for the adult making the purchasing decision)
e) Present advertising in any form that purports to be a show or entertainment
e) Attempt to make advertising invasive, obtrusive, obnoxious, annoying, or any form of public nuisance
I'm sure there are more rules available, but these are my biggest pet peeves with the "marketing" being shoved at us from every direction.
Chess changes quite a bit between games.
See Pole Chess, Huffdraw, Resignation, Castling, En Passant, etc.
There are many variations on the rules, but as the prior poster said, once the game begins the rules are set (except in chaos chess, where a rule can be invoked during the game and becomes part of the game from there on as long as it doesn't conflict with a prior rule).
Pollution. Global Cooling. Artificial Reef. Shark Repellent. Recycling.
Anything but useless.
That's not altruism. That's showing off. Not that I'd know personally, mind.
Why oh why did he have to hit ignore?
UID: 1, PWD: 2, Shoe Size: 3, IQ: 4
For some reason you expect them to show remorse? This is an idea that I have never understood.
Microsoft is a corporation. It is a nonliving organizational unit composed of discrete, replaceable, organisms acting in concert. As such, the individuals who work there display a wide range of emotions. The corporation, on the other hand, is incapable of emotion, and therefore, incapable of remorse.
The whole concept of a corporation being treated as a person is a mainstay of the power the corporations wield now. When you aggregate that many people, emotions become chaotic variables in an equation, and the purpose of the equation is to maximize profit.
So no, Microsoft does not display any remorse. Microsoft employees display remorse, and Microsoft replaces them as dysfunctional units as necessary to continue performing its primary function: profiting.
5) Show a blue eyes of death, make an annoying sound, and slowly grind the jar against its forehead until rebooted
If your mouse is scheduling your exercise, and you are following that schedule, give that bugger a raise to the all organic expensive peanut butter!
Oh noes! I've found signs of sanity in government! A judge made a sane ruling in the SCO case last week! Quick, we need concrete bunkers before the concert starts!
I bet that the laws that are passed or banned by the non technical legislature and non technical judiciary will not interfere with them passing other laws that can and probably will contradict the earlier ones. See the Constitution vs. the Government for more on that one. The problem with laws in general is not that the Hammuribian system of codification is flawed, but that the people who want to be in control and make the laws are by definition greedy and power hungry, and therefore are the least qualified to do so.
As for your sig, many cyborgs, actually. Half my family has electronic implants of some kind which work in conjunction with their natural body (e.g. pacemakers, artificial cornea lenses, artificial limbs (they do gtaft them on sometimes) etc.) How many where the modifications enhance an existing faculty? None.
We are already compatible with Klingon porn, just do a search for knives, swords, batleth (no unicode on Slashdot working for me), etc.
For Vulcan compatibility, open your favourite raw file viewer and set it to Binary mode.
Martian porn is (apparently) covered by the Periodic Table of Elements, specifically the permutations of Illudium and Pu.
Enjoy your new worlds of entertainment!
Of course there is also a 100% probability (50% margin of error) that you are correct within a 3 sigma range about that.
Wow, maybe it does work...
A pic of G.W. got a match to Adolf... and a pic of hot grits matched to Natalie Portman.
You may have an issue there, as I owned patents on all of the following:
-Doing
-Stuff
-Application of Doing to Stuff
-Application of Stuff to Doing
-Application of Doing to Doing
-Application of Stuff to Stuff
-Utilization of Either Stuff or Doing in a Doing or Stuff Environment
And have since released those patents into the Public Domain, thus presenting prior art for most uses of Doing and/or Stuff in most combinations.
And don't even think about adding Internet or Computing Device to make them unique, as Internet and Computing Device are clearly Stuff!
Like my dad used to say, "Baby bums are padded for a reason, and that reason is not sitting."
Can't say I'd come up clean housed either. Since my girl *is* female, and thus afflicted with the usual female cycles, I'm certain there is some of her blood around my house, and probably the passenger seat of my car (I usually drive).
And my hair and her hair all over. I, too, have a book on police procedures. A gift from my father, who is an ex cop.
Um... I'm beginning to think I should click that anonymous checkbox now... ok, bye bye...
I manage to do that all the time, and it gets easier the more I've had to drink. I can throw myself at the sky and miss with my eyes closed, even. Although, those times tend to hurt more when I hit the ground.
Throwing myself at the ground, and missing, on the third hand, still needs work.
Maybe not a vinyl record shop, but a pressed wax record shop would work, since those pressed wax record shops have a low melting temperature, and all the cool music they carry can be used to reform them at the other end of the tube. Then again, maybe I just should get some sleep now.
Thank you. Thank you very much. I just had this wonderful (soda spraying) audio visual moment of the cheat reciting this guy's answers in his usual cheat manner, complete with kerpows, clickaclickas, all while playing Halo XIXVII: Strongbadia Invasion on his fruit.
Complete with Strongbad as the interviewer.
You just made my day.
Been there! My uncle had a drive die, and his "backups" were out of date, so I finally ended up freezing the drive. It would run for about 5 minutes until it warmed up, then quit reading.
His soultion? Now that he believed in the magic of freezing, he took out the meat for dinner and we put the drive between two packages of frozen pork chops.
Guess it's a good thing I like pork chops!
I, for one, think MTV might actually have something useful here for once...
Let's take Bush, Osama, and Blair and lock them in a cage for a "Live Celebrity Deathmatch" on Pay Per View (might even be able to pay off the national debt with that one). Bill it a B.O.B. Dies Tonight or something like that.
Maybe even arrange to have a "surprise" celebrity show up. He (or she) would of course be the only survivor.
We can only hope.
As a smoker, I think I have the knowledg and right to say the following:
Can I bum a joint?
Enough said.
I would like to subscribe to your newsletter, I find your ideas intriguing. Also, where can I get this Mac with two clones of Natalie Portman holding ice cream sundaes?
I keep reading the paranoid resons for them to block Google Earth, but has anyone thought about what size pipe a small island nation has to the rest of the world? Maybe they are having trouble with the amount of bandwidth that this is suddenly taking up, and are pressing to get Google to install a local cache so that they have more direct access to the rest of the information they need to run their enemies into the... um... maybe they just want Google to correct something on the map first. Yeah, that's it!