i'm curious, HOW DID businesses survive before pervasive advertising, newspapers, magazines, teevee ? ? ? i mean, since businesses (according to you) simply CAN NOT survive without advertising, HOW did ANY business manage to EXIST before advertising ? ? ?
you aren't making sense...
the problem isn't that AN INDUSTRY CAN'T survive without advertising, the problem is that there are 100 versions of XYZ Corp in that industry vying for the SAME slice of pie, THAT is what advertising is doing: pushing the money to a particular company in that industry, the industry would STILL be necessary (presumably), and would not wither and die if there was no advertising, ONLY THE 'extra' production of some companies would wither and die...
(which is how so-called free-market capitalism is supposed to work...)
what i propose in general, is taking back control of 'our' lives (collectively)...
for example, i am about 100% FOR banning roadway billboards, ESPECIALLY now that they are getting more obnoxious with animations, rolling text thingies, etc, VERY distracting... ...and ugly, our world is UGLY, have you noticed ? ? ? (not the 'natural' world -what is left- but the world we nekkid apes build...) ads do NOT contribute to ANY sort of 'beautification' of our built environment, they simply don't... i'm tired of an ugly world, ugly on the outside, and ugly on the inside...
(as someone who works in the A/E industry, i know it comes down to this 90-99% of the time: architect and owner have a initial desire to design/build something 'nice' (NOT a full blown artistic endeavor, but 'nice'); but through the process, ALL the 'artistic'/'nice' crap gets thrown by the wayside, because it costs moolah... so we end up with blah to ugly buildings because the HIGHEST 'value' is cost per square foot, NOT will this building make our world uglier...)
we HAVE managed to either ban or limit billboards in some areas, and i know my eyes just go 'ahhhh-h-h-h' because it feels good when they STOP hitting me over the head... (to mix metaphors)...
so, it IS possible to limit advertising in that fashion, and it should be done where we can do so... just because we CAN carpet 'our' (sic) world from edge to edge with billboards, vinyl car/bus signage, times square type building lights and blinking signs, and ads laid in the floor of the grocery store, on the shelves, in our eyes, in our ears, in our faces, EVERY-fucking-WHERE, does it follow we MUST do that ? ? ?
well, if we allow advertisers free reign, YES, they WILL do that: it will NOT be tasteful and measured and scarce, it will be a cacophony of a million voices imploring us to buy this or that stupid shit 24/7/365... at this point, the advertisers have SUPERIOR free speech rights, because they can plaster ads just about EVERYWHERE, i have no similar 'right' for my pitiful free speech...
JUST LIKE (so-called) free speech for mere human beans is increasingly limited (if not shoved into a 'free speech zone'); but we CAN'T limit 'commercial' speech of fictitious korporate personages (as an INFERIOR subset of 'free speech') ? ? ?
IF so, that is not right... we are living in a world being optimized for fictitious legal entities called korporations, NOT for the actual human beans who LIVE HERE... that is not right...
um, because THAT approach/defense inexorably leads to the dystopian futures where ads are FUCKING EVERYWHERE, and you can NOT avoid them...
while it looks real gritty and cool in a new scifi movie, it would SUCK in real life... (AS IT DOES to the extent it exists now...)
IT IS SUCKING already: pervasive, inescapable, MADE TO BE annoying, 'targeted', and demanding -not just of observing- of interacting...
no, JUST BECAUSE it is possible to spam zillions of people with email doesn't mean it is either necessary nor desired... just because it is possible to blanket web pages from edge to edge with craptastic ads, DOES NOT make it imperative we do so... just because we will either have or adopt holographic tech that allows the sci fi projections, etc, DOES NOT mean we have to stand for such visual pollution to exist...
THE ONLY reason it does to the extent it does now, is we have lost control of the commons...
YOUR 'neo-golden age of advertising' is fools gold, based on mere technology annoying greater numbers with less effort... *that* is not a future (or present) i want: where we are ALL fair game for advertisers to annoy us 24/7/365/OUR WHOLE FUCKING LIVES, in nearly every corner of our existence...
not to mention this TOTALLY BULLSHIT 'argument' of 'but, no, guys, listen, ads can *really* be creative and interesting and fun, Fun, FUN! ! !'... that is LESS THAN 1% of all ads, tell me WHY that is going to change in this precious snowflake of a trade, when sturgeon's law is a universal constant ? ? ? NO, there will NOT be an unending carnivale of uplifting ads which inspire and amuse us to no end; it WILL BE the same shit, only more of it, and more intrusive...
no chance at work to look at the podcast to see what rationalizations are used (i'm sure if i wasted some time, i could think of a few, too), but that does NOT negate the FACT that advertising IS NOT measured, and tasteful, and useful, and non-irritating... sorry, for every example anyone can give of 'good' advertising, i bet any of us can come up with a MILLION counter examples; simply saying advertsing *COULD*, CONCEIVABLY be done 'well', IGNORES that 99.99% of the time, it is done shittily... the bottom line for me (most?): advertising IS a form of visual and aural pollution, irritating if not enraging, and of LITTLE TO NO VALUE... SERIOUSLY, there have been *MAYBE* a couple of times IN MY WHOLE LIFE when advertising just happened to coincide with some prospective purchase, etc... BUT, i PROBABLY would have found out what i wanted to WITHOUT the ads which gave me a teeny tiny headstart on my esearch... it is not like the ads had really difficult to find info or whatever; IT IS ALL puffery and bullshit, NOT salient information that i need...
THE ONLY VALUE i can see from ads, is when the store/whatever is running a sale of limited duration, etc; THAT is useful INFORMATION, but not really 'advertising' in the fashion it is presented today...
here is the thing: EVEN IF ALL ads were 'good' (however *that* is defined), I STILL DON'T want them in my face/ears all the time, NO MATTER HOW GOOD THEY ARE... the sheer volume of them is 'bad' REGARDLESS of 'quality'...
someone has an ox they are trying to keep from being gored, and it ain't to the benefit of us 99%...
i will just say i did a search on my work computer, and appeared to have come up with the EXACT same search results as shown in this article... *however*, as in the results shown here, gizmodo *does* have what appears to be a *very* interesting article of 'how to pirate' ! ! !
i'm with you, the harms done under the name of copyright are born by us all, but the benefits ONLY accrue to (mostly) korporate personages... on balance, be BETTER OFF with ZERO copyright laws...
will repeat what i saw on a comment elsewhere: okay, bigshot korporate copy maximalists, let us adopt YOUR VALUES/MEANINGS, and make 'intellectual property' a real thing... NOW, let us TAX IP at some reasonable rate and find out how loud you squeal that 'intellectual property' isn't 'property' after all... slime balls, all of them...
actually, in a sense, they were: they used a production run of guns that were specifically and secretly made WITHOUT SERIAL numbers, for the express use of being distributed by our alphabet agencies to be 'untraceable'...
so, as per usual, actions which are ABSOLUTELY illegal for us 99%, are just fine when our 'superiors' do it...
1. WHO KNOWS IF 'we' have actually ended torture ? ? ? you don't, i don't, and i bet no one is telling now... ('cause *they* don't want to be manning'ed or kiriakou'ed; so you see, torture OF OUR OWN, DOES 'work'...)
2. oh, wait: i KNOW we have NOT ended torture, because we have a bunch of poor schmucks the country over who are in solitary confinement, some for years on end... THAT is TORTURE, plain and simple...
3. i will only report again, that which has been stated and re-stated by those who know: THE MOST insidious and harmful forms of torture are the so-called 'no-touch', 'psychological' forms of torture... no marks on the body, just a destroyed mind...
4. the whole lot needs to be rolled up and put in jail; that it won't happen is how far we have fallen...
here is the point which *is* applicable for work-for-hire scenario: JUST LIKE a -say- graphic artist is hired to do a logo/whatever for a korporation, they bring THEIR own style, interpretation, variation, and individual expression to the graphic(s) they produce for the korporation, too, JUST LIKE ACTORS...
so-o-o-o, does that mean these DEFINITELY work-for-hire graphics are under the hiree's copyright BECAUSE they applied their originality/style to the korporation's graphic task ? ? ? it would seem obviously 'no', but i guess actors are speshul...
exactly, it has gotten to the point there is ZERO 'trust' in just about ANY large institution, but ESPECIALLY lying korporate slime... THUS, the rule of thumb: IF scumbag extortion artists are for something, best to be against it; IF they are against something, almost certainly better to be for it...
seriously, you almost do NOT have to do ANY legwork to figure this shit out and unravel all the rules and asterisks and bullshit figures from all sides: just see what the lying, thieving, scumbag korporations are asking for, and try to get the opposite...
yes, you've hit another nail on the head: NOT just the annoyance of them existing at all, but HOW they screw up the pages loading and rendering, such that pictures, links, headlines are flipping up and down and rearranging for a half minute(+) until you can select something on the page...
have adblock/etc on computers at work and home, surfing is great; then when i do some on either the phone or tablet (where i have not blocked stuff), it is a fucking nightmare to look at and wait to finish loading, pieces/parts of webpages flipping around, etc... yuck, i HATE *that* inertnet...
TOTALLY different and FAR crappier experience web surfing without adblock/etc...
yes, ads suck, period; there are VERY FEW that are actually 'entertaining' in some fashion or another (ESPN commercials come to mind), and i do NOT want to sit through 100 ads to get one 'gem' that is not anything special anyway...
that is a general statement, whether it is teevee (more on that), magazines, billboards, movies, whatever; ADS SUCK, FUCK YOU ADVERTISERS...
(NO, i will NOT sit still for the LIES of 'well, ads perform a very important role in our society blah blah blah...'... BULLSHIT, they do not, shut up with that happy horseshit... we ALL -EXCEPT FOR ADVERTISERS AND USELESS MARKETING DROIDS- could have ALL ads disappear tomorrow and it would be a BETTER , PRETTIER WORLD and no one would die as a result...)
what i'm hating on now, is the trend of having a big site title banner thingy with idiotic tweet/farcebook/etc icons JAMMED into my face, especially the ones which drop down and obscure the page... USELESS SPACE WASTING...
and about teevee: hate, Hate, HATE the bugs those jerks put on OUR screens... AND i can prove with one factoid how the purported 'reason' they 'have to' put bugs on the screen is a lie, because we po' po' widdle teevee watchers won't know what channel we are on... A. that's really a problem ? (no, it isn't) B. IF that is the intention, then WHY aren't the bugs onscreen during THE ONE TIME THEY ARE REALLY NECESSARY: during commercials ? ? ? i know why, you know why, but the teevee droids are STILL going to piss on our legs, and not only tell us it is raining, BUT INSIST YOUR LEG IS NOT WET AT ALL...
further, it is bad enough when they have the little ghost bugs of their channel logo/whatever in the corner; but they also have the relatively HUGE animated/video adlets which overwrite OUR SCREEN with bullshit advertising their next shitty show we don't want to watch OVER TOP THE SHOW WE ARE WATCHING...
totally blotted out some translated language subtitles for a show i was watching the other day... fuckers, couldn't follow what was going on in the show because the subtitles were obscured...
this has NOTHING to do with what we PAYING CUSTOMERS want, and EVERYTHING to do with wringing every last penny out of us they can... AND DESTROYING their OWN product in the process ! ! !
wait, i don't get it: "self-policing" works great for police and politicians and the military and wall street (so they tell us); why don't WE get to 'self-police', i mean, if it works so great for all the masters of the universe, why not us mere serfs ? ? ?
Re: Re: WOW must be some real bad crap you yankies did
no need: OUR body count is actually higher than hitler's at this point... unfortunately, too many sheeple do NOT know the sordid side of our continuing oppression of brown people the world over, WE -you know, 'the good guys'- are directly and indirectly responsible for the deaths of MANY MILLIONS... hell, that's just in the phillipines/indonesia...
uh duh, *at least* half the reason for having smart phones is the coolness factor, wrist straps aren't cool... practical, but not cool... kind of like pocket protectors, very practical, but not cool...
think it is sort of amusing we buy these ultra-hip, super-duper, thinner-is-better smart phones, then glob them up with a gronky case...
i've done the same, went about a week with sleek smart phone purchased against my will (SWMBO handles that stuff), and nearly dropped it a dozen times, it was as slippery as a bar of soap, AND a PITA to hold to use it... so, got gronky green cover that makes it about two+ times thicker, but i can hold the grippy rubber, and does act as a shock absorber when dropped... hate carrying it in my pocket, though, and old cellyphone holster won't fit this little-over 3/4" thick not-so-smart phone, now... why don't they just make them with a rubber case to start with, then we wouldn't have to make them thicker...
got to the part about drafting korporate persons, and had to open up my yap... 1. hell, The They(tm) don't draft mere *real* persons any longer, it is all 'volunteer' (meaning: can't find any other job, might as well murder brown people for Empire)... a 'bad' economy is *great* for a 'volunteer' army... (or if you *are* one of those furrin brown people, we can gladly pay you tuesday, for murdering *other* brown people today... part of the deal being a promise of citizenship if you survive... yeah, we're the most civilizedest EVAH ! ! !
2. speaking of volunteer, WHO are the number one fans of wars and such? KORPORATIONS ! ! ! it's one of the most lucrative scams there are... (see: military-industrial-kongressional komplex) draft 'em ? hell, they are volunteering (for a small fee) for EVERY WAR...
3. lastly, most of our Emperors, er, presidents *have* 'drafted' various industries into producing armaments, etc for just about every war we have fought... now its all 'privatized'... (meaning, private profits, public losses)...
the new world odor, kampers, get used to the stench...
Empire must fall. the sooner the fall, the gentler for all...
Re: Re: Re: Re: Body Cameras Correctly Implemented
wasn't a month or so ago, that this and other sites reported about the ladykop who basically ran down a suspect, TURNED OFF her body cam, then shot him... see what happens to her...
here is my main retort: NO MATTER our efforts to hold Empire and her mercenary goons accountable, laws will only be enforced to the detriment of the 99%...
i am fairly certain there are all kinds of 'laws' against ALL the illegal, immoral, eee-vil shit the goons with a gun and a badge actually do (NO MATTER you 'believe' it is 1% or 100% of kops who are 'bad'); BUT, WHO is going to 'investigate' this shit ? WHO is going to speak up against it ? WHO is going to make a 'federal' case of it ? WHO is going to judge it ? WHO is going to enforce it ? WHO is going to ? NO FUCKING ONE who is part of The System, part of The Problem: depending on changing a corrupt and broken system by using the processes of the corrupt and broken system, is a fool's errand... as long as the 1% have their claws on the levers of power, any/all such laws prohibiting and proscribing various behaviors, WILL BE enforced against the 99%, and will be (mostly) ignored against the 1% and their eee-vil minions of doom... based on a true story...
but, i am absolutely certain that ALL the seized assets and cash are ALL cataloged, etc and turned in to the evidence lockers... i am absolutely certain of that... so, okay, yeah, maybe 'The System' has been perversely corrupted in a manner which rewards legalized shakedowns; but i am absolutely certain, that ALL the seized assets and cash are ALL accounted for and in custody of The State... pretty certain... has to be, right ? ? ? i mean, the alternative, well, um, that's not so good, so better to not think about that...
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Re: Re: Defending the indefensible
i mean, since businesses (according to you) simply CAN NOT survive without advertising, HOW did ANY business manage to EXIST before advertising ? ? ?
you aren't making sense...
the problem isn't that AN INDUSTRY CAN'T survive without advertising, the problem is that there are 100 versions of XYZ Corp in that industry vying for the SAME slice of pie, THAT is what advertising is doing: pushing the money to a particular company in that industry, the industry would STILL be necessary (presumably), and would not wither and die if there was no advertising, ONLY THE 'extra' production of some companies would wither and die...
(which is how so-called free-market capitalism is supposed to work...)
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Re: Re: Re: Re: Defending the indefensible
for example, i am about 100% FOR banning roadway billboards, ESPECIALLY now that they are getting more obnoxious with animations, rolling text thingies, etc, VERY distracting...
...and ugly, our world is UGLY, have you noticed ? ? ? (not the 'natural' world -what is left- but the world we nekkid apes build...) ads do NOT contribute to ANY sort of 'beautification' of our built environment, they simply don't... i'm tired of an ugly world, ugly on the outside, and ugly on the inside...
(as someone who works in the A/E industry, i know it comes down to this 90-99% of the time: architect and owner have a initial desire to design/build something 'nice' (NOT a full blown artistic endeavor, but 'nice'); but through the process, ALL the 'artistic'/'nice' crap gets thrown by the wayside, because it costs moolah... so we end up with blah to ugly buildings because the HIGHEST 'value' is cost per square foot, NOT will this building make our world uglier...)
we HAVE managed to either ban or limit billboards in some areas, and i know my eyes just go 'ahhhh-h-h-h' because it feels good when they STOP hitting me over the head... (to mix metaphors)...
so, it IS possible to limit advertising in that fashion, and it should be done where we can do so... just because we CAN carpet 'our' (sic) world from edge to edge with billboards, vinyl car/bus signage, times square type building lights and blinking signs, and ads laid in the floor of the grocery store, on the shelves, in our eyes, in our ears, in our faces, EVERY-fucking-WHERE, does it follow we MUST do that ? ? ?
well, if we allow advertisers free reign, YES, they WILL do that: it will NOT be tasteful and measured and scarce, it will be a cacophony of a million voices imploring us to buy this or that stupid shit 24/7/365... at this point, the advertisers have SUPERIOR free speech rights, because they can plaster ads just about EVERYWHERE, i have no similar 'right' for my pitiful free speech...
JUST LIKE (so-called) free speech for mere human beans is increasingly limited (if not shoved into a 'free speech zone'); but we CAN'T limit 'commercial' speech of fictitious korporate personages (as an INFERIOR subset of 'free speech') ? ? ?
IF so, that is not right...
we are living in a world being optimized for fictitious legal entities called korporations, NOT for the actual human beans who LIVE HERE... that is not right...
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Re: Re: Defending the indefensible
while it looks real gritty and cool in a new scifi movie, it would SUCK in real life... (AS IT DOES to the extent it exists now...)
IT IS SUCKING already: pervasive, inescapable, MADE TO BE annoying, 'targeted', and demanding -not just of observing- of interacting...
no, JUST BECAUSE it is possible to spam zillions of people with email doesn't mean it is either necessary nor desired...
just because it is possible to blanket web pages from edge to edge with craptastic ads, DOES NOT make it imperative we do so...
just because we will either have or adopt holographic tech that allows the sci fi projections, etc, DOES NOT mean we have to stand for such visual pollution to exist...
THE ONLY reason it does to the extent it does now, is we have lost control of the commons...
YOUR 'neo-golden age of advertising' is fools gold, based on mere technology annoying greater numbers with less effort... *that* is not a future (or present) i want: where we are ALL fair game for advertisers to annoy us 24/7/365/OUR WHOLE FUCKING LIVES, in nearly every corner of our existence...
not to mention this TOTALLY BULLSHIT 'argument' of 'but, no, guys, listen, ads can *really* be creative and interesting and fun, Fun, FUN! ! !'...
that is LESS THAN 1% of all ads, tell me WHY that is going to change in this precious snowflake of a trade, when sturgeon's law is a universal constant ? ? ?
NO, there will NOT be an unending carnivale of uplifting ads which inspire and amuse us to no end; it WILL BE the same shit, only more of it, and more intrusive...
polishing turds results in shiny turds...
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too, um, poddy, didn't look...
sorry, for every example anyone can give of 'good' advertising, i bet any of us can come up with a MILLION counter examples; simply saying advertsing *COULD*, CONCEIVABLY be done 'well', IGNORES that 99.99% of the time, it is done shittily...
the bottom line for me (most?): advertising IS a form of visual and aural pollution, irritating if not enraging, and of LITTLE TO NO VALUE...
SERIOUSLY, there have been *MAYBE* a couple of times IN MY WHOLE LIFE when advertising just happened to coincide with some prospective purchase, etc... BUT, i PROBABLY would have found out what i wanted to WITHOUT the ads which gave me a teeny tiny headstart on my esearch... it is not like the ads had really difficult to find info or whatever; IT IS ALL puffery and bullshit, NOT salient information that i need...
THE ONLY VALUE i can see from ads, is when the store/whatever is running a sale of limited duration, etc; THAT is useful INFORMATION, but not really 'advertising' in the fashion it is presented today...
here is the thing: EVEN IF ALL ads were 'good' (however *that* is defined), I STILL DON'T want them in my face/ears all the time, NO MATTER HOW GOOD THEY ARE... the sheer volume of them is 'bad' REGARDLESS of 'quality'...
someone has an ox they are trying to keep from being gored, and it ain't to the benefit of us 99%...
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Re: Not necessarily
*however*, as in the results shown here, gizmodo *does* have what appears to be a *very* interesting article of 'how to pirate' ! ! !
cool, thanks senator whitehorse's ass ! ! !
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Re: Re: Re:
on balance, be BETTER OFF with ZERO copyright laws...
will repeat what i saw on a comment elsewhere: okay, bigshot korporate copy maximalists, let us adopt YOUR VALUES/MEANINGS, and make 'intellectual property' a real thing...
NOW, let us TAX IP at some reasonable rate and find out how loud you squeal that 'intellectual property' isn't 'property' after all...
slime balls, all of them...
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Re: Re: Re: Re: Error
so, as per usual, actions which are ABSOLUTELY illegal for us 99%, are just fine when our 'superiors' do it...
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Re:
you don't, i don't, and i bet no one is telling now...
('cause *they* don't want to be manning'ed or kiriakou'ed; so you see, torture OF OUR OWN, DOES 'work'...)
2. oh, wait: i KNOW we have NOT ended torture, because we have a bunch of poor schmucks the country over who are in solitary confinement, some for years on end...
THAT is TORTURE, plain and simple...
3. i will only report again, that which has been stated and re-stated by those who know: THE MOST insidious and harmful forms of torture are the so-called 'no-touch', 'psychological' forms of torture...
no marks on the body, just a destroyed mind...
4. the whole lot needs to be rolled up and put in jail; that it won't happen is how far we have fallen...
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Re: Re:
so-o-o-o, does that mean these DEFINITELY work-for-hire graphics are under the hiree's copyright BECAUSE they applied their originality/style to the korporation's graphic task ? ? ?
it would seem obviously 'no', but i guess actors are speshul...
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Re:
shear my ass, bitch...
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Re:
THUS, the rule of thumb: IF scumbag extortion artists are for something, best to be against it; IF they are against something, almost certainly better to be for it...
seriously, you almost do NOT have to do ANY legwork to figure this shit out and unravel all the rules and asterisks and bullshit figures from all sides: just see what the lying, thieving, scumbag korporations are asking for, and try to get the opposite...
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Re:
have adblock/etc on computers at work and home, surfing is great; then when i do some on either the phone or tablet (where i have not blocked stuff), it is a fucking nightmare to look at and wait to finish loading, pieces/parts of webpages flipping around, etc... yuck, i HATE *that* inertnet...
TOTALLY different and FAR crappier experience web surfing without adblock/etc...
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Re: Acceptable Ads
that is a general statement, whether it is teevee (more on that), magazines, billboards, movies, whatever; ADS SUCK, FUCK YOU ADVERTISERS...
(NO, i will NOT sit still for the LIES of 'well, ads perform a very important role in our society blah blah blah...'... BULLSHIT, they do not, shut up with that happy horseshit... we ALL -EXCEPT FOR ADVERTISERS AND USELESS MARKETING DROIDS- could have ALL ads disappear tomorrow and it would be a BETTER , PRETTIER WORLD and no one would die as a result...)
what i'm hating on now, is the trend of having a big site title banner thingy with idiotic tweet/farcebook/etc icons JAMMED into my face, especially the ones which drop down and obscure the page... USELESS SPACE WASTING...
and about teevee: hate, Hate, HATE the bugs those jerks put on OUR screens... AND i can prove with one factoid how the purported 'reason' they 'have to' put bugs on the screen is a lie, because we po' po' widdle teevee watchers won't know what channel we are on...
A. that's really a problem ? (no, it isn't)
B. IF that is the intention, then WHY aren't the bugs onscreen during THE ONE TIME THEY ARE REALLY NECESSARY: during commercials ? ? ?
i know why, you know why, but the teevee droids are STILL going to piss on our legs, and not only tell us it is raining, BUT INSIST YOUR LEG IS NOT WET AT ALL...
further, it is bad enough when they have the little ghost bugs of their channel logo/whatever in the corner; but they also have the relatively HUGE animated/video adlets which overwrite OUR SCREEN with bullshit advertising their next shitty show we don't want to watch OVER TOP THE SHOW WE ARE WATCHING...
totally blotted out some translated language subtitles for a show i was watching the other day... fuckers, couldn't follow what was going on in the show because the subtitles were obscured...
this has NOTHING to do with what we PAYING CUSTOMERS want, and EVERYTHING to do with wringing every last penny out of us they can... AND DESTROYING their OWN product in the process ! ! !
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Re:
"self-policing" works great for police and politicians and the military and wall street (so they tell us); why don't WE get to 'self-police', i mean, if it works so great for all the masters of the universe, why not us mere serfs ? ? ?
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Re: Not composed of criminals?
you misrepresenting their his story ? ? ?
now, go back to clutching your pearls...
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Re: Re: WOW must be some real bad crap you yankies did
unfortunately, too many sheeple do NOT know the sordid side of our continuing oppression of brown people the world over, WE -you know, 'the good guys'- are directly and indirectly responsible for the deaths of MANY MILLIONS...
hell, that's just in the phillipines/indonesia...
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Re:
kind of like pocket protectors, very practical, but not cool...
think it is sort of amusing we buy these ultra-hip, super-duper, thinner-is-better smart phones, then glob them up with a gronky case...
i've done the same, went about a week with sleek smart phone purchased against my will (SWMBO handles that stuff), and nearly dropped it a dozen times, it was as slippery as a bar of soap, AND a PITA to hold to use it...
so, got gronky green cover that makes it about two+ times thicker, but i can hold the grippy rubber, and does act as a shock absorber when dropped...
hate carrying it in my pocket, though, and old cellyphone holster won't fit this little-over 3/4" thick not-so-smart phone, now...
why don't they just make them with a rubber case to start with, then we wouldn't have to make them thicker...
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Re: To go along with the Title II idea...
got to the part about drafting korporate persons, and had to open up my yap...
1. hell, The They(tm) don't draft mere *real* persons any longer, it is all 'volunteer' (meaning: can't find any
other job, might as well murder brown people for Empire)...
a 'bad' economy is *great* for a 'volunteer' army...
(or if you *are* one of those furrin brown people, we can gladly pay you tuesday, for murdering *other* brown people today... part of the deal being a promise of citizenship if you survive...
yeah, we're the most civilizedest EVAH ! ! !
2. speaking of volunteer, WHO are the number one fans of wars and such? KORPORATIONS ! ! !
it's one of the most lucrative scams there are...
(see: military-industrial-kongressional komplex)
draft 'em ?
hell, they are volunteering (for a small fee) for EVERY WAR...
3. lastly, most of our Emperors, er, presidents *have* 'drafted' various industries into producing armaments, etc for just about every war we have fought...
now its all 'privatized'...
(meaning, private profits, public losses)...
the new world odor, kampers, get used to the stench...
Empire must fall.
the sooner the fall,
the gentler for all...
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see what happens to her...
here is my main retort: NO MATTER our efforts to hold Empire and her mercenary goons accountable, laws will only be enforced to the detriment of the 99%...
i am fairly certain there are all kinds of 'laws' against ALL the illegal, immoral, eee-vil shit the goons with a gun and a badge actually do (NO MATTER you 'believe' it is 1% or 100% of kops who are 'bad'); BUT, WHO is going to 'investigate' this shit ?
WHO is going to speak up against it ?
WHO is going to make a 'federal' case of it ?
WHO is going to judge it ?
WHO is going to enforce it ?
WHO is going to ?
NO FUCKING ONE who is part of The System, part of The Problem: depending on changing a corrupt and broken system by using the processes of the corrupt and broken system, is a fool's errand...
as long as the 1% have their claws on the levers of power, any/all such laws prohibiting and proscribing various behaviors, WILL BE enforced against the 99%, and will be (mostly) ignored against the 1% and their eee-vil minions of doom...
based on a true story...
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i am absolutely certain of that...
so, okay, yeah, maybe 'The System' has been perversely corrupted in a manner which rewards legalized shakedowns; but i am absolutely certain, that ALL the seized assets and cash are ALL accounted for and in custody of The State...
pretty certain...
has to be, right ? ? ?
i mean, the alternative, well, um, that's not so good, so better to not think about that...
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