If there were enough viewers to have the end cost to the consumer small enough, then I'd vote for that. However, the cost would go the way of taxes. Once the system was in place the 'tax' would raise according to the network's perceived/real cost to air a show.
Ads I want to see - won't work as the point of advertising and a free market is to place all products in front of the viewers. The ones that make it have validity in the market place. We could be passing on inventive products that nobody would select to see as they don't know they exist. This would destroy progressing invention.
Commercials that catch our eye burden the advertiser to create and maintain effective ads. If we watch and buy, then the ad did it's job. Even bad products are represented by great advertising. Power of the dollar usually gets that particular product off the market.
Leave well enough alone. Keep the commercials coming.
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If there were enough viewers to have the end cost to the consumer small
enough, then I'd vote for that. However, the cost would go the way of
taxes. Once the system was in place the 'tax' would raise according to the
network's perceived/real cost to air a show.
Ads I want to see - won't work as the point of advertising and a free market
is to place all products in front of the viewers. The ones that make it
have validity in the market place. We could be passing on inventive
products that nobody would select to see as they don't know they exist.
This would destroy progressing invention.
Commercials that catch our eye burden the advertiser to create and maintain
effective ads. If we watch and buy, then the ad did it's job. Even bad
products are represented by great advertising. Power of the dollar usually
gets that particular product off the market.
Leave well enough alone. Keep the commercials coming.
the 3.5" is good for:
Sony Mavica "film"
NFS installing Linux
Clandestine install of Linux at work
Reclaiming Linux install after reloading Windows
However, the 3.5 has been removed from all the Sun boxes and my file server...