Google of course is also trying to create a layer between it's obvious privacy invasiveness and hiding it behind someone else's name and application. So whilst the end user thinks they are avoiding googles privacy invasive policies by using someone else, in reality somewhere buried in the fine print, it is googles 'right?' to own their private lives.
Google is starting to feel the pressure of the shift in the general public's perception of digital privacy rights and is basically looking for ways to squirm around it. Like, hiding behind hosting an ISP's email service (so the ISP) gives away your emails and your privacy, or in this case, hiding behind a whole range of other unknown company names and applications.
However you have to appreciate that a lot of damage can be done by a fake profile and poorly monitored social networks. Now you can separate between the two basic types of social sites, for profit and not for profit.
Now the for profit ones are using the end users to create a profit and when they fail to take due care to ensure the validity of the information because it costs to much and will limit profit margins and prevent billion dollar returns, then they should basically have to pay the full penalty for their greed. For profit, then use those profits with due regard to the harm those web sites can cause. These types of sites are in reality no different to a newspaper or television show and should be held to the same civil requirements and penalties.
Of course not for profit, social group type web sites are a completely different category, and should not be treated the same, oddly enough, this is less of an issue, as they are usually far better moderated and controlled by a extensive group of volunteers. Perhaps a legislation is required to clarify between the different types of sites for profit and not for profit, how they are controlled, ownership and revenue basis, so that the legal requirements and of course liabilities can be clarified.
Any pseudo notebook manufacturer that actually uses ODMs is stuck with that sort of price. The ODM certainly can produce competitive school notebooks but, sticking that shiny 2 cent badge on ends up costing hundreds of dollars. So HP, Apple, Dell etc. a stuck. Intel sneaks in by supplying a chip set with the ODM basically selling direct.
As the whole school notebook market progresses, it should start to shift to a open specification tender process. Where the government, the community and industry work together to create a base school notebook specification, that manufacturers can tender upon including base software. As for the software, obviously for the future, an OS that is open, can be defined by a standard and that is freely available and accessible by government, industry and individuals, is the logical choice, regardless of it's name or original 'source'.
A proprietary dead end solution for the OS in an open specification open tender process would of course be nuts. Especially as any company should be able to tender for software support and service upon an equal basis and a proprietary OS naturally blocks that.
11. Cutting you work force by 10% allows you to raise the salaries of the executive team by 10% as well as board member remuneration.
Now, I know that they should really be cutting the executive salaries and board member remuneration due to their obvious failure to perform and, as a bonus it often saves more money that cutting the work force by that amount all without affecting productivity.
In reality, what executive team is going to put that idea forward and what group of board members will vote for it, certainly not your typical 20th century sociopath corporate executive type, they are simple out to screw everyone they can, for as much as they can and, for as long as they can, starting with the shareholders;).
More to the point, once there are tens of millions of low cost school notebooks out there, you can pretty well guarantee that there will be a huge number of games available to load on those notebooks regardless of school policies.
HP first attempt at a school note book to be honest seems much more like the pork variety, where a team of lobbyist will ensure high profit margins, and that wont even touch the locked in compulsory after market gear and maintenance costs.
HP, nice try, but they can go back to school before making another attempt.
For schools, a secured usb key data transfer for loading programs (you pretty tightly lock down installs on Linux), as for file transfers, simple audits upon connection to the school network, but let's not get to nuts about it.
A bit cheeky dumping all those European countries into in to one lump, especially when some European countries have far better access. If you are going to bend the truth all out of shape, why not just go all the way, the US is number 1 and the whole rest of the world averaged including a whole bunch of third world countries is number 2, woo hoo;D.
The problem will eventually resolve itself. With the switch to IPv6, dirt cheap appliance servers and free open source software, everyone will be running their own email server. The net result of that is, the default will be to block all free web mail messages and only allow known ones in.
Until then ISP's are going to have real problems with free web mail services, for the end user of course the solution is simply block them, and wait for an alternate form of communication to let you know an address to allow in.
A real internet safety program for children, is simply a separate school-net just for children, which would be supervised and controlled, to ensure relatively safe interaction as well as acceptable content, a combination leisure and education network. In reality the greatest danger to children is and always will be other children, they oddly enough seem to lack the maturity and wisdom to be self supervising.
There is simply no way that you can make the wild wild web, safe and suitable for access by unsupervised children.
Perhaps you should have read the article, not all introverts are shy or passive but can be just as effectively aggressive as extroverts, but just prefer not to be that way. It is like the difference between computer geeks and computer nerds, just think of geeks as the ones quite willing to fight back.
Instant messaging for introverts is pointless as it takes away any sense of solitude. I used to loathe being a slave to the land line at work and actively and successfully fought off getting a mobile phone (don't you know it cooks you brain and basically doubles your chances of getting a brain tumour, true or not it effectively kills of a work mobile phone).
Besides the new ego trip is not having to carry a mobile phone and not having to be on call or in the case of instant messaging, being able to provide answer when it suits you, sometime in the next week or so. For introverts their only job is to convince extroverts why they should be on call and ready to provide replies 24/7 some body has to answer all those messages.
When a manual system is established and firmly entrenched your problems really do not exist in that high a degree. Volunteers from all political parties attend the voting booths, provide voting assistance and count the votes (there are paid elections officials but they just monitor the volunteers). How are they all available, simply the elections are held on a Saturday so most people are not at work and are available.
Then in a manual system to corrupt the vote you have to corrupt nearly every polling station in front of tens of thousands of witnesses, in an electronic system, no witnesses and a single point of entry to every vote.
Elections are about people and as such should be completely open and managed, run and counted by people. It is pretty obvious by now that electronic voting was all about corrupting the election process and bloating the profit margins of a few shockingly corrupt corporations.
There seems to be a real gap in your under standing of the broader values of humanity. For most people in free and democratic societies it is difficult to enjoy life when others are suffering around you. When they are starving, abused, oppressed and denied basic human values, it is and should be difficult to ignore.
There is also the self protection route, we know full well the arse holes that exploit people in some other country would have absolutely no qualms about exporting that exploitation to where ever they can. So quite simply it is safer to tackle the problem and endeavour to eliminate the autocratic scum, before they become a local problem, the last century was a major lesson in that regard.
Those mentally defective individuals who derive pleasure from controlling other peoples lives, lording it over the, making them suffer, do not take other countries boundaries at all seriously, ah yeah being emperor of the world whilst it is a joke for us, it is a seriously sick desire for them.
That silly stuff about the Chinese being incapable of running a free and democratic country, now that is nasty racist stuff, and would that be anything like the Germans (Ex-Nazis) being unable to have a democratic country or the Russians (ex-soviets) to have a democratic country or the rest of Europe (ex-monarchists), or dare I say it, the Taiwanese and the Tibetans from being able to run their own free and democratic societies.
That is nearly as bad as the lie, about there being a difference between western and eastern democracies, which in reality was all about hiding corrupt autocratic governments. So, no, you do not wait for your country to be perfect (it will never happen) before you start spreading freedom, democracy and knowledge around and, ensuring that is does grow and flourish in your neighbours. You never know, your own government might fuck up and become a bunch of sick neocon fascists, and those people you helped will be in a position to return the favour.
Why celebrate the marionettes, the puppets, surely the writers, directors, camera men, set designers , costume designers etc. all have far more to do with telling the story. Being a really skilled liar ie. being able to present a completely false impression of your emotional state, thoughts and intents, and remebering a few lines is not really all that much of a big deal.
Surely you do realise, that all the hype, mass media bull shit and the created PR image, is all to do with selling the content the actors are in, or the crap products they are trying to sell, rather than any real redeeming values of the person as an individual.
From my under standing the way children play will reflect in the kind of adults they become. Good sportsmanship ahead of winning, I know it's so terribly old fashioned in mass media and modern marketing, but it is true they way people play reflect the kind of people they are.
Certainly a high risk of harm to others gene really does put an odd slant on genetic testing. Think of all those sociopath corporate types who want genetic testing to exclude people from health insurance or employment, now they might have pause to rethink that whole idea when it would be aimed at them.
Really interesting though, a political gene, short and limp, your a republican and long and firm your a social democrat. Now that certainly does explain a few things.
The interesting thing is of course laws covering that kind of behaviour were created for telephone calls. ADSL is still telecommunications over a telephone line and although digitised and not spoken conversation, no company has been given authorisation to intercept and record what are basically very long phone calls.
So on some networks BT might not have broken the law, but on telecommunications that also carried voice calls, it seems more likely that they did in fact break the law and should be prosecuted for having done so.
Then again the whole thing boils down to contracts, contracts between the student and the university and the university and the lecturers and then in turn the indirect contract between the student and the lecturer.
Clarify the contracts and ensure the lecture is properly accessible in their employment contract and students should be able to ensure they have full and clear access to that lecture material.
Clearly this issue reflects greed taking over from any kind of moral justification.
The discussion of those two really reflect why, AD&D score sheets really do not reflect reality. Both of them really should have negative numbers in wisdom and intelligence, not because of their of their own necessarily, but because they seem to exist in a vacuum of intelligence and wisdom that drains away the wisdom and intelligence everybody that associates with or even just comes in close proximity to them.
Their whole expression of their public existence and acceptance speaks volumes of an appalling lack of intelligence and wisdom in the general public.
What is really interesting is this whole off topic twitter discussion is strangely enough reflective of the whole mass media B$ marketing style. Is any end user really opposed to open source software or is it really just a mass media PR=B$ campaign, you take our advertising money, so you will write stories that reflect our ideology while making sure those stories do not look like adds.
Millions of troll post marketing one thing or another, millions of other posts attacking one idea or another. Like that whole twitter thing, there obviously seems to be far more going on in the background than is reflected in the posts. Those posting squabbles, whilst attacking and promoting ideas and people often do seek to hide what is really going on and create a false impression of the underlying reality reality.
I will always remember the microtrolls who haunted Linux forums and attacked newbies attempting to drive them away while pretending to be peguinistas. Gartners take on the issue is reflected in the word it choose to use, a stealth takeover, somehow sneaking up on the customers with out the customers choice, an attempt to create a negative out of a positive and extend the life of proprietary monopoly extortion.
The reality is FOSS is out and completely in the public, it's direction is driven by it's users, it is naturally forced in the direction they prefer, else it lacks users and contributors. FOSS simply makes clear economic sence, in the case of windows and M$ office, it simply means that those revenues will remain with the end user and not get siphoned off and wasted, and much more importantly costs associated with the unrequested upgrades, retraining, free beta testing often 10 to 100 times the cost of using poorly implemented proprietary software will largely be eliminated.
Perhaps a slashdot poll on the whole 'twitter' issue might bring to light some interesting and humorous stories.
Now for the reality of a M$ deep pockets take over. If M$ wanted they could have simply announced the takeover bid and simply started buying shares. The big catch with that is, as it works in the current market, share price is a supply and demand, M$ in the buyout attempt creates an artificially high demand, how high will they go double, triple current values.
So a lot of investor start buying Yahoo stock in competition to M$ in hopes of selling to M$ at an even higher price. The more M$ invest, the more pressure is on them to complete the transaction, otherwise they end up selling at a loss (demand collapses) when the buyout fails.
What makes this buyout far more interesting is it all boils down the the bloated ego of Ballmer, how high a price can he be forced to pay in order to save face, will he go storming of in some drunken temper tantrum because nobody wants him running their company and pull out of the bid at the last moment. Of course there can be the crushing reality, should the EU block the takeover in Europe due to M$ already being a convicted monopolist and this would make the situation far worse.
I myself would find the buyout interesting, just to see how quickly M$ could destroy Yahoo's market share once the takeover, how quickly Ballmer will convert a profit making Yahoo into a loss making MSN. You can bet one thing for certain, none of Yahoo's or MSN's, competitors will be protesting the takeover, Google, Ask, AOL, will all be rubbing their hands together as they expect a surge of new customers and quality employees, who will jump ship to get away from ballmer and M$.
The answer is patience. Suck it up, there is always an awkward, uncomfortable, inconvenient, transition times between OS's. Applications that you would like to use are unavailable because the companies don't want to invest additional resources (although in an major OS swap there are lots of applications that need to get replaced).
So in the big swap from M$ to Linux there are going to be a lot of delays and a lot of hassles. People will just stretch out the old stale piss (and yo will it get stale) for as long as they can, as they stop investing (throwing away) money into windows.
So basically you stop buying or upgrading applications unless they are Linux variants and you get used to dual booting, windows the toy OS for play and Linux for work and the web. M$ with their consistent lies and customers abuse have forced the situation, Linux didn't create the alternate OS market M$ did.
For the PC games companies, Linux will be a huge bonus, as all the old windows boxen die, all those games will have to be replaced, all the way back to win98, literally a market of hundreds of millions of games.
2008 needs exactly the same OS that 2000 provided, a means by which applications communicate with hardware. A clear easy to follow interface for end user to launch those applications as well as to find files created by those applications.
On top of that it needs to be actually secure, table and reliable. It would also be nice that it be readily repairable and not self destruct at random intervals.
The only real difference between 2000 and 2008, it should have the latest drivers properly implemented.
So all I want is an OS that I will be able to use for the rest of my life, without being extorted for upgrades, without being forced to use applications I have no interest in, without being subjected to inconveniences due to ill conceived anti-piracy methods, without bugs the will never get repaired because you should buy the latest version that has those faults supposedly repaired, without having to pay more for detailed help files and, most importantly without wasting hardware performance on the OS that should be used for applications.
I gotta tell you that those 8 years have taught me one thing for sure and certain, M$ ain't the company to provide the required solution but the have certainly demonstrated time and again the problems caused when those 'withouts' are replaced by 'withs'.
It is not really society. Mass media at work, fear sells lots of copies, hence mass media will push stories like terrorism, child abuse and other crime stories. Sell more media and, you sell more advertising. Politicians then feed off the media blitz and blindly follow what is nothing more in reality than a mass media beat up. So typical modern corporate thinking of profits before any thought of the harm caused to society, besides it is a little persons problem, the nobodies who can't afford lawyers on call.
Much more likely, that people who sell child pornography will use fake or stolen credit cards to run up fraudulent sales. Especially when it is so obviously dangerous for the victim to say anything, lest the victim be considered guilty and having to prove their innocence.
Advertising provides nothing for 'free' those ads are paid for by the people buying the product. An extreme example is joggers where customers were spending more money paying for product marketing than they were for the product itself and that reflected in the actual quality of the product, which was at a wild divergence to the marketing about the quality of the product.
So in reality marketing has become a huge burden upon society well beyond the original concept of just informing potential customers about a product.
The best advertising is always targeted at the content being provide rather than at the customer, this however takes real effort in qualifying the content and aligning the adds with that content. It does not suite the budget end, the 'junk'words end of the market (of course the marketing here in reality is really targeted at the sellers not the buyers, just watch for the name that always appears in every add).
At the end of the day, the internet destroys a lot of add campaigns where public comment and review defeat B$ marketing. So the tide is shifting back to informing the customer about the company and new products, about creating a sustaining a public image not via marketing but via service and support and quality products. So quite background banner adds, which keep the product in the customers subconscious so that when it comes time to purchase they will remember and seek information about the product and the company.
They need to simply shift skills used in print magazines across to the internet, and 'add' words really only works to advertise two companies, google and yahoo, for them it currently works really well;D.
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Google is starting to feel the pressure of the shift in the general public's perception of digital privacy rights and is basically looking for ways to squirm around it. Like, hiding behind hosting an ISP's email service (so the ISP) gives away your emails and your privacy, or in this case, hiding behind a whole range of other unknown company names and applications.
Now the for profit ones are using the end users to create a profit and when they fail to take due care to ensure the validity of the information because it costs to much and will limit profit margins and prevent billion dollar returns, then they should basically have to pay the full penalty for their greed. For profit, then use those profits with due regard to the harm those web sites can cause. These types of sites are in reality no different to a newspaper or television show and should be held to the same civil requirements and penalties.
Of course not for profit, social group type web sites are a completely different category, and should not be treated the same, oddly enough, this is less of an issue, as they are usually far better moderated and controlled by a extensive group of volunteers. Perhaps a legislation is required to clarify between the different types of sites for profit and not for profit, how they are controlled, ownership and revenue basis, so that the legal requirements and of course liabilities can be clarified.
As the whole school notebook market progresses, it should start to shift to a open specification tender process. Where the government, the community and industry work together to create a base school notebook specification, that manufacturers can tender upon including base software. As for the software, obviously for the future, an OS that is open, can be defined by a standard and that is freely available and accessible by government, industry and individuals, is the logical choice, regardless of it's name or original 'source'.
A proprietary dead end solution for the OS in an open specification open tender process would of course be nuts. Especially as any company should be able to tender for software support and service upon an equal basis and a proprietary OS naturally blocks that.
Now, I know that they should really be cutting the executive salaries and board member remuneration due to their obvious failure to perform and, as a bonus it often saves more money that cutting the work force by that amount all without affecting productivity.
In reality, what executive team is going to put that idea forward and what group of board members will vote for it, certainly not your typical 20th century sociopath corporate executive type, they are simple out to screw everyone they can, for as much as they can and, for as long as they can, starting with the shareholders ;).
No, that would be the year of, TinyLimp the beast of Redmond, ps, it has already passed.
HP first attempt at a school note book to be honest seems much more like the pork variety, where a team of lobbyist will ensure high profit margins, and that wont even touch the locked in compulsory after market gear and maintenance costs.
HP, nice try, but they can go back to school before making another attempt.
For schools, a secured usb key data transfer for loading programs (you pretty tightly lock down installs on Linux), as for file transfers, simple audits upon connection to the school network, but let's not get to nuts about it.
A bit cheeky dumping all those European countries into in to one lump, especially when some European countries have far better access. If you are going to bend the truth all out of shape, why not just go all the way, the US is number 1 and the whole rest of the world averaged including a whole bunch of third world countries is number 2, woo hoo ;D.
Until then ISP's are going to have real problems with free web mail services, for the end user of course the solution is simply block them, and wait for an alternate form of communication to let you know an address to allow in.
There is simply no way that you can make the wild wild web, safe and suitable for access by unsupervised children.
Instant messaging for introverts is pointless as it takes away any sense of solitude. I used to loathe being a slave to the land line at work and actively and successfully fought off getting a mobile phone (don't you know it cooks you brain and basically doubles your chances of getting a brain tumour, true or not it effectively kills of a work mobile phone).
Besides the new ego trip is not having to carry a mobile phone and not having to be on call or in the case of instant messaging, being able to provide answer when it suits you, sometime in the next week or so. For introverts their only job is to convince extroverts why they should be on call and ready to provide replies 24/7 some body has to answer all those messages.
Then in a manual system to corrupt the vote you have to corrupt nearly every polling station in front of tens of thousands of witnesses, in an electronic system, no witnesses and a single point of entry to every vote.
Elections are about people and as such should be completely open and managed, run and counted by people. It is pretty obvious by now that electronic voting was all about corrupting the election process and bloating the profit margins of a few shockingly corrupt corporations.
There is also the self protection route, we know full well the arse holes that exploit people in some other country would have absolutely no qualms about exporting that exploitation to where ever they can. So quite simply it is safer to tackle the problem and endeavour to eliminate the autocratic scum, before they become a local problem, the last century was a major lesson in that regard.
Those mentally defective individuals who derive pleasure from controlling other peoples lives, lording it over the, making them suffer, do not take other countries boundaries at all seriously, ah yeah being emperor of the world whilst it is a joke for us, it is a seriously sick desire for them.
That silly stuff about the Chinese being incapable of running a free and democratic country, now that is nasty racist stuff, and would that be anything like the Germans (Ex-Nazis) being unable to have a democratic country or the Russians (ex-soviets) to have a democratic country or the rest of Europe (ex-monarchists), or dare I say it, the Taiwanese and the Tibetans from being able to run their own free and democratic societies.
That is nearly as bad as the lie, about there being a difference between western and eastern democracies, which in reality was all about hiding corrupt autocratic governments. So, no, you do not wait for your country to be perfect (it will never happen) before you start spreading freedom, democracy and knowledge around and, ensuring that is does grow and flourish in your neighbours. You never know, your own government might fuck up and become a bunch of sick neocon fascists, and those people you helped will be in a position to return the favour.
Surely you do realise, that all the hype, mass media bull shit and the created PR image, is all to do with selling the content the actors are in, or the crap products they are trying to sell, rather than any real redeeming values of the person as an individual.
Certainly a high risk of harm to others gene really does put an odd slant on genetic testing. Think of all those sociopath corporate types who want genetic testing to exclude people from health insurance or employment, now they might have pause to rethink that whole idea when it would be aimed at them.
Really interesting though, a political gene, short and limp, your a republican and long and firm your a social democrat. Now that certainly does explain a few things.
So on some networks BT might not have broken the law, but on telecommunications that also carried voice calls, it seems more likely that they did in fact break the law and should be prosecuted for having done so.
Clarify the contracts and ensure the lecture is properly accessible in their employment contract and students should be able to ensure they have full and clear access to that lecture material.
Clearly this issue reflects greed taking over from any kind of moral justification.
Their whole expression of their public existence and acceptance speaks volumes of an appalling lack of intelligence and wisdom in the general public.
Millions of troll post marketing one thing or another, millions of other posts attacking one idea or another. Like that whole twitter thing, there obviously seems to be far more going on in the background than is reflected in the posts. Those posting squabbles, whilst attacking and promoting ideas and people often do seek to hide what is really going on and create a false impression of the underlying reality reality.
I will always remember the microtrolls who haunted Linux forums and attacked newbies attempting to drive them away while pretending to be peguinistas. Gartners take on the issue is reflected in the word it choose to use, a stealth takeover, somehow sneaking up on the customers with out the customers choice, an attempt to create a negative out of a positive and extend the life of proprietary monopoly extortion.
The reality is FOSS is out and completely in the public, it's direction is driven by it's users, it is naturally forced in the direction they prefer, else it lacks users and contributors. FOSS simply makes clear economic sence, in the case of windows and M$ office, it simply means that those revenues will remain with the end user and not get siphoned off and wasted, and much more importantly costs associated with the unrequested upgrades, retraining, free beta testing often 10 to 100 times the cost of using poorly implemented proprietary software will largely be eliminated.
Perhaps a slashdot poll on the whole 'twitter' issue might bring to light some interesting and humorous stories.
Google didn't want to buy anything, it simply was a dirt cheap fell good marketing campaign, where the news sites carried google advertising for free.
So a lot of investor start buying Yahoo stock in competition to M$ in hopes of selling to M$ at an even higher price. The more M$ invest, the more pressure is on them to complete the transaction, otherwise they end up selling at a loss (demand collapses) when the buyout fails.
What makes this buyout far more interesting is it all boils down the the bloated ego of Ballmer, how high a price can he be forced to pay in order to save face, will he go storming of in some drunken temper tantrum because nobody wants him running their company and pull out of the bid at the last moment. Of course there can be the crushing reality, should the EU block the takeover in Europe due to M$ already being a convicted monopolist and this would make the situation far worse.
I myself would find the buyout interesting, just to see how quickly M$ could destroy Yahoo's market share once the takeover, how quickly Ballmer will convert a profit making Yahoo into a loss making MSN. You can bet one thing for certain, none of Yahoo's or MSN's, competitors will be protesting the takeover, Google, Ask, AOL, will all be rubbing their hands together as they expect a surge of new customers and quality employees, who will jump ship to get away from ballmer and M$.
So in the big swap from M$ to Linux there are going to be a lot of delays and a lot of hassles. People will just stretch out the old stale piss (and yo will it get stale) for as long as they can, as they stop investing (throwing away) money into windows.
So basically you stop buying or upgrading applications unless they are Linux variants and you get used to dual booting, windows the toy OS for play and Linux for work and the web. M$ with their consistent lies and customers abuse have forced the situation, Linux didn't create the alternate OS market M$ did.
For the PC games companies, Linux will be a huge bonus, as all the old windows boxen die, all those games will have to be replaced, all the way back to win98, literally a market of hundreds of millions of games.
On top of that it needs to be actually secure, table and reliable. It would also be nice that it be readily repairable and not self destruct at random intervals.
The only real difference between 2000 and 2008, it should have the latest drivers properly implemented.
So all I want is an OS that I will be able to use for the rest of my life, without being extorted for upgrades, without being forced to use applications I have no interest in, without being subjected to inconveniences due to ill conceived anti-piracy methods, without bugs the will never get repaired because you should buy the latest version that has those faults supposedly repaired, without having to pay more for detailed help files and, most importantly without wasting hardware performance on the OS that should be used for applications.
I gotta tell you that those 8 years have taught me one thing for sure and certain, M$ ain't the company to provide the required solution but the have certainly demonstrated time and again the problems caused when those 'withouts' are replaced by 'withs'.
It is not really society. Mass media at work, fear sells lots of copies, hence mass media will push stories like terrorism, child abuse and other crime stories. Sell more media and, you sell more advertising. Politicians then feed off the media blitz and blindly follow what is nothing more in reality than a mass media beat up. So typical modern corporate thinking of profits before any thought of the harm caused to society, besides it is a little persons problem, the nobodies who can't afford lawyers on call.
Much more likely, that people who sell child pornography will use fake or stolen credit cards to run up fraudulent sales. Especially when it is so obviously dangerous for the victim to say anything, lest the victim be considered guilty and having to prove their innocence.
So in reality marketing has become a huge burden upon society well beyond the original concept of just informing potential customers about a product.
The best advertising is always targeted at the content being provide rather than at the customer, this however takes real effort in qualifying the content and aligning the adds with that content. It does not suite the budget end, the 'junk'words end of the market (of course the marketing here in reality is really targeted at the sellers not the buyers, just watch for the name that always appears in every add).
At the end of the day, the internet destroys a lot of add campaigns where public comment and review defeat B$ marketing. So the tide is shifting back to informing the customer about the company and new products, about creating a sustaining a public image not via marketing but via service and support and quality products. So quite background banner adds, which keep the product in the customers subconscious so that when it comes time to purchase they will remember and seek information about the product and the company.
They need to simply shift skills used in print magazines across to the internet, and 'add' words really only works to advertise two companies, google and yahoo, for them it currently works really well ;D.