Yea, right. Because advertising is what brought about the Enlightenment, the Renaissance, the Age of Reason, Newtonian and Einsteinian physics, Darwinism, Shakespeare, Goethe, Mozart (maybe!) and Ken Rockwell.
Bob > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of PN Stenquist > Sent: 26 November 2008 18:47 > To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List > Subject: Re: OT - Canadian Meteor > > What a wonderful world this would be if there were no > advertising, no > commerce. We'd all be dirt farmers living off the land. > Hmmm. I'll pass. > > On Nov 26, 2008, at 1:32 PM, Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote: > > > > > On Nov 26, 2008, at 10:26 AM, Mark Roberts wrote: > > > >> Doug Franklin wrote: > >>> Maybe Bob W and I could start a crusade to rid the world > of those > >>> pinheaded little know-it-alls developing web pages out there who > >>> set the font sizes in exact numbers of pixels, because, > of course, > >>> they know exactly how big that will end up on /my/ screen. > >> > >> Count me in on that crusade! > >> (All students in my web development course are *required* to > >> specify font sizes in relative measurements, not fixed sizes.) > > > > I'll join you in this crusade as long as you also join me in > > visiting every eatery and SMASHING the television screens > that adorn > > half the wall space so I can't sit and eat a meal, have a > > conversation, enjoy a drink without a STUPID pile of television > > advertising in my face constantly. > > > > I no longer frequent any establishment that does this kind > of crap. > > If there's only one television at a pub, fine ... I pick a > seat from > > which I cannot see it. > > > > G > > > > -- > > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > > [email protected] > > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above > > and follow the directions. > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly > above and follow the directions. > > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
