Come on, man, don't bring that American League junk in here, this is Slashdot, we should be civilized! Play real baseball -- National League or nothing.
I'm inclined to agree, but I'll bet you a shiny $5 bill that the National League adopts the DH rule within the next five years. I didn't realize how soon it was going to happen until the Cubs drafted big hit/no field Kyle Schwarber. More than 2/3 of the NL owners are pushing for the DH, is what I hear.
I wish it wasn't so, but I really believe it's happening.
Total waste of time. They only pay attention to the ones they want to, and from what I saw a couple weeks back, about half of the petitions would be unconstitutional.
Oh, that's almost certainly true. I just wanted to counter the argument that nobody pays attention to any of these petitions.
Overall, the entire thing is definitely a joke, but on rare occasions they have had the desired effect, even if for the wrong reasons.
I tell my wife, if she's going to have an affair, at least make sure they guy is rich.
I'm much more reasonable. I tell my wife that if she's going to have an affair, at least make sure the guy plays Sonic & All-Stars Racing so I have someone to play split-screen with.
So, it's the processor vibrating in the audible range? I remember having crystals in really old computers make this noise, but I haven't encountered it in a while.
And how exactly does one set about proving this assertion?
The same way you prove most things: empirically.
Try it yourself.
It's very very hard to have self-awareness when it comes to advertising, and advertisers make use of this phenomenon. The only way to subvert the effects of advertising is to examine yourself and then consciously act. Be a mindful consumer. It's not impossible, but it has to start by accepting the extreme power that the advertising industry has over our lives.
How exactly do the advertisers manage to design ads that will get through to GP who "doesn't watch broadcast television"? If GP doesn't see as many ads, he'll be less influenced by them, no?
Advertising is ubiquitous and advertisers figured out a long time ago that you don't need someone's full attention to influence behavior.
Forget websites. Forget television. You are affected by ads when you drive down the street or watching your kids playing a sporting event.
I'm telling you, if you scratch the surface of someone who claims to be completely unaffected by advertising, you're going to find someone who's making a lot more subconscious purchasing decisions than you would expect.
Marketing is by the College Textbook definition, the act of communicating that you provide something that meets someone's wants and needs and provide utility.
Neuromarketing is an emerging field that bridges the study of consumer behavior with neuroscience. Controversial when it first emerged in 2002, the field is gaining rapid credibility and adoption among advertising and marketing professionals. Each year, over 400 billion dollars is invested in advertising campaigns. Yet, conventional methods for testing and predicting the effectiveness of those investments have generally failed because they depend on consumers’ willingness and competency to describe how they feel when they are exposed to an advertisement. Neuromarketing offers cutting edge methods for directly probing minds without requiring demanding cognitive or conscious participation.
That would be crazy. I have a Wii connected to it so that I can watch Netflix. It is kind of a horrible thing to use for that purpose, but I don't have to spend any additional money to use it. It does occasionally hang while playing a video and make a noise like a fire alarm until you pull the power cord out of its asshole...
Wait, it does what now? The TV hangs or the Wii? And what's making the fire alarm noise? Have you by some chance been playing an indie game called "Smoke Detector Chronicles 2"?
Yes to #1, take your TV, throw it out the window. Tune your radio to NPR, install Ad Block, Flash Block, uBlock, Ghostery, etc. on your web browser. You will be shocked - SHOCKED - to find out from your friends when the latest summer blockbuster movies are coming out.
You cannot avoid advertising unless you spend your life in an isolation tank.
I just thought of a few more. The one for student loan relief (capped after 20 yrs) and the one about Westboro Baptist being required to stand 300 ft from funerals.
I don't pay any attention to advertising at all unless I am proactively seeking a product in a store, virtual or otherwise, and then only to specific instances that are relevant.
I don't watch broadcast television, I don't read billboards, I completely ignore banners and side-column ads
Modern marketing techniques are designed for people like you. They're specifically made for people who don't pay attention to ads.
Nobody who lives in any community more dense than the human population of Kobuk Valley National Park is immune from the impact of modern marketing techniques. And I find it's the people who believe they are immune from advertising who are least prepared to defend themselves from its effects.
The only way they'll actually get my attention is with a sexy lady, and as the industry's kowtowing to political correctness has caused them to divest themselves of that particular tool
I don't watch broadcast television, I don't read billboards, I completely ignore banners and side-column ads, I don't open mail that isn't from a lawyer, a utility or some faction of the government, and I neither care what people want to put in ads nor am I affected by said content.
Then how the fuck would you know about the "industry's kowtowing to political correctness" causing them to divest themselves of sexy women in ads? Were you lying then or are you lying now?
Did you even know that Ridged Tools still publishes it's calendar of sexy ladies every year? Sports Illustrated still makes with the camel toe every February. I just watched a few minutes of the British Open on CBS and there was an ad for Mercedes with an entire line of supermodels in skimpy outfits.
Friend, instead of imagining what the "PC Police" are doing to your eye-candy, you might want to take some time out to evaluate your strategy for "ignoring" advertising, because the people who are involved with modern advertising techniques are smarter than you and me and Neil Degrasse Tyson when it comes to getting people who "don't watch broadcast TV" to respond to their campaigns. They know what they're doing and they know that it works.
You'd be better off accepting the effect that advertising is having on you, being aware of it, and actively subverting it. Adbusters is a good place to start. Otherwise, you'll still be reaching for the brand name and not knowing why.
"Crying man-babies":-) You gotta love what some of you nutters come up with
Hey, it's been weeks and you're still crying.
You simpering beta. You should be ashamed of yourself.
Did you seriously just compare a well respected egalitarian who fought for equal rights to people like yourself who rant on about MRA conspiracy theories?
"MRA" is the punchline to a joke, not a conspiracy. There's not enough brain-power in the entire Men's Rights Movement to hatch a conspiracy.
From my perspective, there isn't anything truly innovative here. It's more like a business process that shouldn't be patentable. Banks already do some of this within their environments with targeted programs based on their customer's level of credit worthiness.
Because that's a big part of the purpose of having banks.
Don’t worry, this service is opt-in so if the idea of a giant snooping around your bank makes you uneasy, you don’t have to comply.
See ? Not that bad.
When you say "you don't have to comply", what you're really saying is you don't have to buy an iPhone.
It’s worth noting that this is just a patent, it’s unclear when or if Apple will bring this service into the market or if the actual service will reflect the suggested wording within said patent.
And it's actually a wild speculation.
"Wild speculation" that a company that has filed a patent for a technology has some intention on monetizing that technology.
I have to say, I'm really shocked about insensivity towards the disabled seen in this thread. This further entrenches my opinion that the people defending Uber care nothing for others, and do nothing to appreciate the situation that others find themselves in. We don't have much of a society if we turn our backs on the weakest among us.
"Turning our backs on the weakest among us" is bullet point #2 on the technobro-libertarian agenda, didn't you know that?
They also don't want power-generating windmills near their homes. Is that because they cause cancer? And water treatment plants are generally not built in wealthy neighborhoods. Is this due to leukemia clusters? And they don't want adult video stores near their homes. Because of increased risk of polio?
"Adult video stores"? Do they still have those?
Perhaps the NIMBY effect is slipshod and broad brushed against any disruption of the neighborhood, whether rationional or not.
And perhaps they know that living near fracking sites is unhealthy.
Exactly. The oil was found and drilling started in 1895 before their were rich people there. But no fracking on the Beverly Hills Oil Field in 2015, even though 2/3 of the oil underneath will require it.
And that's because the people who live there have the means to prevent it. You will also note that the oil rigs are hidden behind soundproof walls.
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I'm inclined to agree, but I'll bet you a shiny $5 bill that the National League adopts the DH rule within the next five years. I didn't realize how soon it was going to happen until the Cubs drafted big hit/no field Kyle Schwarber. More than 2/3 of the NL owners are pushing for the DH, is what I hear.
I wish it wasn't so, but I really believe it's happening.
I can't imagine the pain of losing a child. My heart goes out to you.
In capitalist US, money spends you.
Oh, that's almost certainly true. I just wanted to counter the argument that nobody pays attention to any of these petitions.
Overall, the entire thing is definitely a joke, but on rare occasions they have had the desired effect, even if for the wrong reasons.
I'm much more reasonable. I tell my wife that if she's going to have an affair, at least make sure the guy plays Sonic & All-Stars Racing so I have someone to play split-screen with.
So, it's the processor vibrating in the audible range? I remember having crystals in really old computers make this noise, but I haven't encountered it in a while.
The same way you prove most things: empirically.
Try it yourself.
It's very very hard to have self-awareness when it comes to advertising, and advertisers make use of this phenomenon. The only way to subvert the effects of advertising is to examine yourself and then consciously act. Be a mindful consumer. It's not impossible, but it has to start by accepting the extreme power that the advertising industry has over our lives.
No, it's better to pitch right and have a left-handed DH.
Don't nobody want to see a pitcher bat.
Advertising is ubiquitous and advertisers figured out a long time ago that you don't need someone's full attention to influence behavior.
Forget websites. Forget television. You are affected by ads when you drive down the street or watching your kids playing a sporting event.
I'm telling you, if you scratch the surface of someone who claims to be completely unaffected by advertising, you're going to find someone who's making a lot more subconscious purchasing decisions than you would expect.
Your college textbook is way out of date.
http://link.springer.com/artic...
Wait, it does what now? The TV hangs or the Wii? And what's making the fire alarm noise? Have you by some chance been playing an indie game called "Smoke Detector Chronicles 2"?
You cannot avoid advertising unless you spend your life in an isolation tank.
This story's a couple of years old, but here's one petition that was taken seriously:
http://www.onthemedia.org/stor...
I just thought of a few more. The one for student loan relief (capped after 20 yrs) and the one about Westboro Baptist being required to stand 300 ft from funerals.
Modern marketing techniques are designed for people like you. They're specifically made for people who don't pay attention to ads.
Nobody who lives in any community more dense than the human population of Kobuk Valley National Park is immune from the impact of modern marketing techniques. And I find it's the people who believe they are immune from advertising who are least prepared to defend themselves from its effects.
Wow, is that really what you think?
https://www.google.com/search?...
Then how the fuck would you know about the "industry's kowtowing to political correctness" causing them to divest themselves of sexy women in ads? Were you lying then or are you lying now?
Did you even know that Ridged Tools still publishes it's calendar of sexy ladies every year? Sports Illustrated still makes with the camel toe every February. I just watched a few minutes of the British Open on CBS and there was an ad for Mercedes with an entire line of supermodels in skimpy outfits.
Friend, instead of imagining what the "PC Police" are doing to your eye-candy, you might want to take some time out to evaluate your strategy for "ignoring" advertising, because the people who are involved with modern advertising techniques are smarter than you and me and Neil Degrasse Tyson when it comes to getting people who "don't watch broadcast TV" to respond to their campaigns. They know what they're doing and they know that it works.
You'd be better off accepting the effect that advertising is having on you, being aware of it, and actively subverting it. Adbusters is a good place to start. Otherwise, you'll still be reaching for the brand name and not knowing why.
Hey, it's been weeks and you're still crying.
You simpering beta. You should be ashamed of yourself.
"MRA" is the punchline to a joke, not a conspiracy. There's not enough brain-power in the entire Men's Rights Movement to hatch a conspiracy.
Because that's a big part of the purpose of having banks.
Ooh, I know this one:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
https://www.fdic.gov/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
When you say "you don't have to comply", what you're really saying is you don't have to buy an iPhone.
"Wild speculation" that a company that has filed a patent for a technology has some intention on monetizing that technology.
This strange techbro romantic notion that the Internet creates a magical world where there can be no rules.
It's going on a century now, so you might want to take another look at your calculations.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Based upon my calculations, this Silicon Valley fad ought to be over pretty soon.
"Turning our backs on the weakest among us" is bullet point #2 on the technobro-libertarian agenda, didn't you know that?
"Libertarianism...IT'S A COOKBOOK!"
Can we stop calling Uber a "ride sharing service" and just call it a taxi company?
"If"?
"Adult video stores"? Do they still have those?
And perhaps they know that living near fracking sites is unhealthy.
Exactly. The oil was found and drilling started in 1895 before their were rich people there. But no fracking on the Beverly Hills Oil Field in 2015, even though 2/3 of the oil underneath will require it.
And that's because the people who live there have the means to prevent it. You will also note that the oil rigs are hidden behind soundproof walls.
I wonder why the oil and natural gas deposits only formed under the ground where poor people live.