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Current Events => The DUmpster => Topic started by: franksolich on February 12, 2015, 08:55:05 AM
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http://www.democraticunderground.com/10026215218
Oh my.
TreasonousBastard (24,695 posts) Thu Feb 12, 2015, 06:15 AM
Popup ads on TV? Like we don't have enough...
commercials on TV already.
http://www.cnet.com/videos/pop-up-ads-on-tvs-say-it-aint-so/
Ichingcarpenter (32,543 posts) Thu Feb 12, 2015, 06:46 AM
1. warning............. link starts a video without your permission
and steals your bandwidth........I hate that but
yeah popup ads suck anywhere.
Banksy on advertising
They butt into your life, take a cheap shot at you and then disappear. They leer at you from tall buildings and make you feel small. They make flippant comments from buses that imply you’re not sexy enough and that all the fun is happening somewhere else. They are on TV making your girlfriend feel inadequate.
They have access to the most sophisticated technology the world has ever seen and they bully you with it. They are The Advertisers and they are laughing at you. You, however, are forbidden to touch them. Trademarks, intellectual property rights and copyright law mean advertisers can say what they like wherever they like with total impunity.
**** that. Any advert in a public space that gives you no choice whether you see it or not is yours. It’s yours to take, re-arrange and re-use. You can do whatever you like with it. Asking for permission is like asking to keep a rock someone just threw at your head. You owe the companies nothing. Less than nothing, you especially don’t owe them any courtesy.
They owe you. They have re-arranged the world to put themselves in front of you. They never asked for your permission, don’t even start asking for theirs.
<<<haven't paid attention to the itching carpenter primitive lately; he's shown promise for being a Top DUmmie in the past.
Anyway.
This pop-up stuff must be something new.
Last week, for two nights in a row, I was elsewhere doing something, and out of curiosity had the big-screen television there turned on, to the NBC affiliate in Sioux City, Iowa.
The newscasters, the sportscasters, the weathermen, &c., &c., &c. all seemed as if high-resolution cartoons, not real at all. At least to me. And two-dimensional.
They used to look more real.
And the middle-of-the-night shows were mostly half-hour or hour-long commercials.
People pay for this crap?
[disclosure: franksolich grew up without television, and never really had one, excepting for keeping house guests placated from time to time, over the years.
<<<does not currently own a television, and doesn't expect to, for rest of life.]
<<<probably has saved a fortune, never having cable television.
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The newscasters, the sportscasters, the weathermen, &c., &c., &c. all seemed as if high-resolution cartoons, not real at all. At least to me. And two-dimensional.
They used to look more real.
You briefly slipped into the Real World and saw what most people do not see.