Look how well this is working!!! Like it was...by DESIGN or something *wink* by chrisisall

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Look how well this is working!!! Like it was...by DESIGN or something *wink*

POSTED BY: CHRISISALL
UPDATED: Saturday, October 9, 2010 15:45
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Friday, October 8, 2010 12:07 PM

Most "city-type" jobs are in big companies. Many times, you either sit in a cubicle, or take orders from some old fart that wants no boat-rocking. No joking around! Follow the rules! A small infraction will result in TERMINATION!
In short- indivualism gets sorta crushed at work.

*BUT THEN*

You get out of work and step into your really cool car!

You take off those work clothes, and throw on that designer jacket & boots! You go home to your big TV to watch the Football game & cheer your team! You text you friends on YOUR PLAN!
You are an INDIVIDUAL!!! And you manifest this by what you BUY.

Watch the ads on TV.

They've co-opted individualism. And the need to express it is greater now than ever.

That is so win/win, eh?

Almost like...

...a conspiracy...

The suspicious & laughing Chrisisall

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Friday, October 8, 2010 12:31 PM

AURAPTOR

America loves a winner!

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chrisisall wrote:
Friday, October 08, 2010 12:07
Most jobs are in big companies.

I'm pretty sure most folks are employed by small business, not big corporations, Chrissy.

"The modern definition of 'racist' is someone who is winning an argument with a liberal."

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Friday, October 8, 2010 12:33 PM

CHRISISALL

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Originally posted by AURaptor:
I'm pretty sure most folks are employed by small business, not big corporations, Chrissy.

I'm referring to civlization, not sticksville.

The laughing Chrisisall

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Friday, October 8, 2010 12:40 PM

AURAPTOR

America loves a winner!

Quote:
Originally posted by chrisisall:
Quote:
Originally posted by AURaptor:
I'm pretty sure most folks are employed by small business, not big corporations, Chrissy.

I'm referring to civlization, not sticksville.

Just making sure.

"The modern definition of 'racist' is someone who is winning an argument with a liberal."

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Friday, October 8, 2010 12:45 PM

CHRISISALL

Quote:
Originally posted by AURaptor:
Just making sure.

So, do you get to be YOU at work? Or do you own a new Mustang to offset your 8 hours a day being a cog?

The laughing Chrisisall

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Friday, October 8, 2010 12:59 PM

AURAPTOR

America loves a winner!

I'm Malcolm Reynolds, with out the trappings of a hot 1st mate, space travel, or a crew.

"The modern definition of 'racist' is someone who is winning an argument with a liberal."

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Friday, October 8, 2010 1:02 PM

FREMDFIRMA

You'll laugh at this one, Chris...

I have prettymuch wound up relegated to exclusively covering site three, since yanno, I live there, and being the nightwatch in a neighborhood where the local crooks are pants-wetting terrified of me, there's almost a comic-book aspect about it these days - shit, I could probably get AWAY with a cape, I wanted to, cause the residents are so pleased to have the place this well protected they don't seem to care that I am vaguely evil and borderline crazy.

Hell, imma dress up as a damn Nazgul for halloween night, that'll be hi-larious.

And since it's my company, no cog, and no need to answer to anyone - just do the job, collect the money, and when you love the job and are given a completely free hand in how you do it, well, it's a blessing few share.

The money sucks though, but hey, it's enough to live on, and I get to do it MY way, so it's all good.

-Frem

I do not serve the Blind God.

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Friday, October 8, 2010 1:08 PM

CHRISISALL

I make dick where I am, but I do get to be mostly me (They don't let me pummel the abusive dopes, buy hey, ya can't have everything).

The laughing Chrisisall

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Friday, October 8, 2010 1:12 PM

AURAPTOR

America loves a winner!

I plan on not even wearing a tie at my own funeral.

You think I'm gonna tolerate one now ?

* instert laugh track *

"The modern definition of 'racist' is someone who is winning an argument with a liberal."

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Friday, October 8, 2010 1:13 PM

CHRISISALL

Quote:
Originally posted by AURaptor:
I'm Malcolm Reynolds, with out the trappings of a hot 1st mate, space travel, or a crew.

Sounds like a good gig.
Besides lacking a hot 1st mate, that is...

The laughing Chrisisall

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Friday, October 8, 2010 1:14 PM

WHOZIT

This is a stupid thread, it would get you fired at CNN.

Those arn't boobs, they're lies! - Stewie Griffin

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Friday, October 8, 2010 1:16 PM

CHRISISALL

That was almost funny, Whozit!

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Friday, October 8, 2010 4:31 PM

DREAMTROVE

Rap is right, most jobs are for small corporations everywhere, but an increasing number are for the govt.

However, that doesn't invalidate Chris' point, that consumer-marketed individuality is a sham, and one that helps us bury ourselves in debt.

Remember when having an online blog was being you.com, and now it's "I have all my personal information tracked on facebook!"

Yes, things definitely not moving in our direction at the moment.

Rap, you're Jubal Early. You think you're Mal Reynolds, but you're really an agent of the machine ;)

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Saturday, October 9, 2010 1:53 AM

AURAPTOR

America loves a winner!

DT -

One doesn't have to watch Mad Men to realize that advertising doesn't exist to serve our best interests. To the contrary, often it's set up to do the exact opposite. Fleece us of our heard earned $$, and make the few folks who pay the ad companies a lot of $$ for themselves.

But we are given the power of choice. Some use it wisely, others....not so much.

"The modern definition of 'racist' is someone who is winning an argument with a liberal."

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Saturday, October 9, 2010 4:09 AM

DREAMTROVE

Rap,

A friend of mine recently came up with an interesting theory: I gave a group of people a set of financial figures related to advertising (I used to do this sort of analysis for a job) And highlighted the anomalies in television and radio advertising. I said "on the level, it seems like the increase in sales for many of these large corporations would never merit the advertising expenditure. I can't assume their idiots, so I have to figure something else is going on, but can't figure out what.

After a few days thinking about it, various people from various walks of life came up with various explanations, such as "they're promoting the corporate image" or "their so disorganized they don't know they're losing money.

I discounted the first because while some ad campaigns do this, some hurt the companies image, and other clearly have no effect. Most must be doing something else. I discounted the second for a similar reason: This could be true of someone, but not everyone.

One housewife came up with this interesting hypothesis: she said "It's not intended to. It's a form of influence peddling. The directors of these corporations have some interest in influencing the content of the programming, be it news, entertainment or educational/informational programming.

What bothers me about ads is actually not that they influence the stupid, but that they waste my time. On television, 1/4 of all time is spend on ads, which means I have to set aside a larger block of time. Now that information pollution is creeping into the internet. Advertising is like time-taxation. Any amount of taxation in the system is going to decrease efficiency and cause decay.

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Saturday, October 9, 2010 7:19 AM

FREMDFIRMA

Mozilla Firefox.

AdBlock Plus.
Flashblock.
Scriptblock.

Problem pretty much solved - even if you don't start with a pre-set blacklist, you'll figure out the primary offenders pretty quickly.

As for any whining about depriving sites of income, those sites and advertisers brought it upon themselves with their own conduct, not least of which is their cozy little relationship with Malware - but also in that making the assumption that they have a right to run THEIR code on YOUR hardware against your will is kind of offensive to a thinking person.

And we won't even go there about overlays, flashy-spinny, ads that SCREAM AT YOU on mouseover, and pages and pages of "content" which consists of a paragraph not much bigger than a postage stamp, surrounded by auto-refreshing, flashyspinny adverts, so the user dredges through piles and piles of crap by the page, to read a single article which would have easily fit on a single plaintext page in the correct font.

It's your hardware, your bandwidth - hell, it's your eyes and brain, and you got every right to decide what they are subjected to, regardless of law or someone elses morals cause a natural right exists in a place beyond law and morality.

But only if you are willing to ENFORCE it.

-Frem

I do not serve the Blind God.

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Saturday, October 9, 2010 7:28 AM

NIKI2

Gettin' old, but still a hippie at heart...

The term "Most "city-type" jobs" should have been clear in what it stated, and it's true, most large-city jobs are exactly what you described and work in exactly the same manner.

I tend to watch the few shows I do via our "On Demand" feature, wherein the only advertising is one ad per break and only advertising other shows. It's a wonderful alternative. I used to tape them, so I could fast forward through the commercials, and still do the shows that aren't carried On Demand. Then too, there's TIVO (which I don't have but also lets one ignore advertising, I believe?).

Bear in mind that in advertising, an offensive ad is considered as effective as any other; name recognition is achieved either way. And I was aghast that when I went to the movies recently (which I almost never do), advertising was creeping in THERE as well! We PAY for the tickets, dammit, that should excempt us from the offensiveness of Madison Avenue!

I agree with your original post, Chris, and it sickens me

Hippie Operative Nikovich Nikita Nicovna Talibani,
Contracted Agent of Veritas Oilspillus, code name “Nike”,
signing off

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Saturday, October 9, 2010 7:31 AM

KWICKO

"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." -- William Casey, Reagan's presidential campaign manager & CIA Director (from first staff meeting in 1981)

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Originally posted by Fremdfirma:

Mozilla Firefox.

AdBlock Plus.
Flashblock.
Scriptblock.

Problem pretty much solved - even if you don't start with a pre-set blacklist, you'll figure out the primary offenders pretty quickly.

As for any whining about depriving sites of income, those sites and advertisers brought it upon themselves with their own conduct, not least of which is their cozy little relationship with Malware - but also in that making the assumption that they have a right to run THEIR code on YOUR hardware against your will is kind of offensive to a thinking person.

And we won't even go there about overlays, flashy-spinny, ads that SCREAM AT YOU on mouseover, and pages and pages of "content" which consists of a paragraph not much bigger than a postage stamp, surrounded by auto-refreshing, flashyspinny adverts, so the user dredges through piles and piles of crap by the page, to read a single article which would have easily fit on a single plaintext page in the correct font.

It's your hardware, your bandwidth - hell, it's your eyes and brain, and you got every right to decide what they are subjected to, regardless of law or someone elses morals cause a natural right exists in a place beyond law and morality.

But only if you are willing to ENFORCE it.

-Frem

I do not serve the Blind God.

But whatcha got for us Mac users?

Firefox, of course. But what else?

The modern definition of "socialist" is anyone who's winning an argument against a tea-bagger.

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Fuck you, you cock sucking community activist piece of shit.
... go fuck yourself, Mr. President.

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Saturday, October 9, 2010 3:45 PM

FREMDFIRMA

Mac gets open source, which is way cooler, but of course, more work.

-F

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