I know we've talked about advertizing before

[roguejuror]

I'm a tiny bit hopeful that the information age will lead advertising to be more and more targeted to the point that, combined with the fact that consumers can more easily find their own information about products, will lead to blanket advertising becoming cost-ineffective. Probably wishful thinking.

That's even more scarier than wide blanket advertising. It's more harmful to people because it comes at the cost of privacy.

 

[reno cool]

I''m just glad we have a thread with many responses that doesn't center around IAG's cat.

But to me the biggest problem with advertising is that it is a waste of energy and resources with negative consequences to culture and environment. This industry doesn't create anything, it is mostly propaganda machine designed to instill an artificial need.

 

[FairWarning]

I''m just glad we have a thread with many responses that doesn't center around IAG's cat.

But to me the biggest problem with advertising is that it is a waste of energy and resources with negative consequences to culture and environment. This industry doesn't create anything, it is mostly propaganda machine designed to instill an artificial need.

It depends on the product. It is far from a waste of energy and resources, basically this whole comment is laughable. We'll agree to disagree.

 

[IAG]

, basically this whole comment is laughable. .

Yeah. Don't bring Pogocat's name into this.

 

[Cougar Bait]

I guess I am never a fan of someone telling me what is or isn't good for me.

I'll decide.

Saying advertising is or isn't good is completely subjective so that's a pointless statement.

 

[Matty]

It all depends.

 

[Cougar Bait]

Statism just makes me laugh is all.

The fact that any person would buy into such a controlling economic/social policy is lunacy.

 

[IAG]

I think everyone should take the time to read "What the social classes owe to each other" by William Graham Sumner today. Makes great compare/contrast reading with the Communist Manifesto. Good stuff.

 

[Matty]

Statism just makes me laugh is all.

I'm with you man. My vote goes to the Libertarians. The other type of lunacy.

 

[IAG]

 

[FairWarning]

God bless the Tea Party, the only one with a clue.

 

[Cougar Bait]

I'm with you man. My vote goes to the Libertarians. The other type of lunacy.

I'm for less government control of a person's daily life regardless of the label.

 

[IAG]

I'm telling you....read Sumner...it will change your life.

 

[betplom]

I guess I am never a fan of someone telling me what is or isn't good for me.

Yeah, like doctors.

What the fuck do they know about whats good for us.

 

[Cougar Bait]

Yeah, like doctors.

What the fuck do they know about whats good for us.

If you believe everything a doctor tells you, then you're a fucking idiot.

 

[IAG]

I need to find that Mexican dentist.

 

[betplom]

If you believe everything a doctor tells you, then you're a fucking idiot.

I hear you pal, when I need health advice I'm gonna consult a calculator or an abacus.

 

[Cougar Bait]

Just don't be the guy that thinks some peer review study saying coffee is good for you makes it so. Keep believing peer review is the end all be all, I have a best friend who is a PHD and a huge liberal and he says it is ALL bull shit, every bit of it. They are forced to write papers and set-up their experiments based on the "consensus opinion" for such things.

His words:

I haven't had a chance to look at that PDF yet. What I did see was
"peer reviewed", and it reminded me that a journal editor told me this
morning that a paper of mine will be accepted if and only if the
reviewer, and, critically, the author of the paper we are refuting,
gives it his blessing.

Corrupt? You be the judge.