You forgot the part where: * the target to close the pop-up and/or video is small enough to make a marksman sweat bullets, and * the content jumps around like an over-caffeinated toddler because the ads are taking their sweet time loading in.
Instead of engaging in this particular battle, I've taken a different road - one many have taken, and many more are likely to take up.
I just won't go.
When the obtrusive ad pops up, takes over my screen, etc. - I just leave. If I see it enough, I stop following any links there (or leave the second I know where that damned Bit.ly link from twitter goes).
Done. Money/links/attention going to your smarter competitors.
Wouldn't it be nice if there were a single presidential candidate who actually understood this particular issue?
Hell, I'd settle for someone willing to admit that they don't understand... even better would be one that recognized that they don't understand, are getting some bad advice, and hired a more competent adviser.
Is this a recent article or a retrospective? I don't remember hearing this artist's name as one of the big blues guys screwed by the labels back in the 1950's...
I find it sadly ironic that it is often the plight of exploited children that gets exploited as a means to whatever regulatory ends some AGs, Lawyers, and other politicians are trying to achieve.
Unfortunately you seem to be assuming that the principle started it and/or the student was completely innocent in this and similar cases. I'm not so sure about that.
While I will agree that students with camera phones will help document the problem teachers, I also believe that its too easy to take a portion of a situation out of context and abuse the evidence so to speak.
I love how some issues end up with the majority concluding which party is the victim and which is the victimiser regardless of the full story and/or lack of evidence to come to a reasonable conclusion.
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* the target to close the pop-up and/or video is small enough to make a marksman sweat bullets, and
* the content jumps around like an over-caffeinated toddler because the ads are taking their sweet time loading in.
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On the other hand it's surely in the public domain and could be sent to their Kindle at no extra cost...
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I'll just take the other option
I just won't go.
When the obtrusive ad pops up, takes over my screen, etc. - I just leave. If I see it enough, I stop following any links there (or leave the second I know where that damned Bit.ly link from twitter goes).
Done. Money/links/attention going to your smarter competitors.
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Hell, I'd settle for someone willing to admit that they don't understand... even better would be one that recognized that they don't understand, are getting some bad advice, and hired a more competent adviser.
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Wait, I've heard this one before...
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If the AGs were always using the latter, I might see your point. The problem is that some AGs are inciting the public with half-truths and innuendo.
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Problem is
While I will agree that students with camera phones will help document the problem teachers, I also believe that its too easy to take a portion of a situation out of context and abuse the evidence so to speak.
I love how some issues end up with the majority concluding which party is the victim and which is the victimiser regardless of the full story and/or lack of evidence to come to a reasonable conclusion.
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