I'm the last person who would advocate increased surveillance over this. However. As marketing goes it's a bit dense.
In Texas they have a law saying that if you drive your car into high water when the road is clearly marked "closed" then you are liable for the costs of rescuing you. This does come up a couple times a year, from what I understand. Something of the kind may be in order. How much got spent on this incident? I bet that if they forfeited a good part of their marketing fee to reimburse the city of Boston, they'd find a way to do guerrilla marketing without involving the bomb squad. I mean, in this day and age anyone could imagine that improvised-looking devices involving wires might trigger some security measures. Da a On 1/31/07, Denshtizzy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 1/31/07, Bruce Sorge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Here is the part that gets me. These things have apparently been hanging > > around for over two weeks now, and they were "just noticed?" I suspect > > that > > those in on this "marketing" gimmick made the calls and had they not done > > this no one would have ever thought twice about these things. This just > > goes to show how easy it really could be to do something bad to us. No one > > notices anything (at least those in large cities) out of the ordinary. > > Since > > > And this is the whole kit and caboodle. Personally, I think it might be > violating > some advertising laws, but we're too dumb-- it takes SOMETHING THAT LOOKS > LIKE A BOMB for people to call, get all panicked (heh, where'd the k for > panick > come from?), etc. Give me a break. Any terrorist worth his salt isn't > going to > be using crap like this. Well, /foreign/ terrorist, I guess. Local > yokels-- sure. > > But we've never really been concerned for "our" terrorists like we are > "them". > A monopoly on terror, I tell you what. Ohh, phear something over here, > while > my right hand picks yer pocket. > > we are inundated with neon signs and LED signs, we just assume these lit up > > > See, that gets me. Who would look at that and think it was terror-ific? > "Oh no! They figured it out! If they make them look like space invaders..." > > things were supposed to be there. If terrorists happen to be reading the > > same news that we are (and we know they do), then this just gives them > > another idea. I know that they have LOTS of ideas how to attack us on > > U.Ssoil, but we really do not need to give them any assistance. > > > You'd have to be brain dead not to be able to think of ways to "get us" > > That's why this whole "give us power to make you safe" is such a load > of BS. we will never be "safe". Ok? NEVER! And if you think trading > your freedom and liberty and peace of mind for an un-fullfillable wish... > Bah. We should know better. *sigh* > What we need to focus on [probably] is response times, crap like that. > Hell, I saw in a movie where this dude used birds to muck up an > airplane. Lets get rid of birds. Yup. Totally doable. =P > > So basically, all this hubbub about a marketing campaign is silly. > > They were obviously like those mario cubes that were the last > big "oh no, look, it's something strange, it must be a bomb!" > type deals. Lets be sure we throw the book at anyone who > would think that we were maybe still in a free country or some > such, just to deter a [would have to be retarded], hypothetical terrorist. > > Oh wait, it's to deter US from shouting FIRE in a crowded theater! > Now I get it! Duh! > > Hmmmmm... Oh, wait, that's more like shouting WATER in > a crowded theater. Hmmmm... Or maybe just shouting... > > What's the big deal? > > post directed@ everyone who seems so upset about this, not specifically > you Bruce. But feel free to respond. =] > > I'll warn anyone tho-- if you propose* lots of video cameras, and people > being watched all the time-- please don't. > *as a solution to terrror. the watched society is the politer one, neh? > The armed society is polite too, I've heard... > > --ps I /love/ marketing campaigns like this. But I love to be like /WTF/ > is /that/!, which I think we seem to have lost here in the big ol' US of A. > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Upgrade to Adobe ColdFusion MX7 Experience Flex 2 & MX7 integration & create powerful cross-platform RIAs http:http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;56760587;14748456;a?http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion/flex2/?sdid=LVNU Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:226421 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
