I still maintain that we'd be living in a MUCH better world if the U.S.
Tax Code were amended to ELIMINATE the deduction of
advertising/marketing expenses for companies that gross over $10,000,000
per year.
They can still advertise, no "free speech" problems, they just wouldn't
be able to continue charging US, the U.S. taxpayers, for the bulk of the
expense!!!
Think about it. Look around. How many gargantuan companies flood our
eyeballs with this Sh*T. It's everywhere you look in a city, on nearly
every surface in view.
Even the goddamn water, gas, electric and petroleum MONOPOLIES spend
billions in "feel good" ads, ON OUR NICKLE!
And don't get me started on Golf Tournaments. They've ruined a great
game by turning golf into MASSIVE perks for corporate executive
pigs...(I told you, "don't get me started on Golf"....)
C
Bill Arnold wrote:
I absolutely hate those n-thousand-time repeated commercials that
want
to burn images into our minds.
In between the n-thousand-time repeated actual programme of
course. There have been ad skippers before, I think back in
the days when a genlock signal appeared about 30 seconds
before ad breaks you could get video recorders that would
stop for the duration of the ads. IIRC the TV companies spent
big money stamping on it - can anyone confirm this?
I've seen an article or two on this, and I think the video recorders
lost. However, they can't stop TIVO and devices like this one - or so
let's hope is the case.
The other thing that makes me want to machinegun the TV is
DVDs which have lots of unskippable ads and promos at the
start, this seems especially bad on kids' DVDs. Hello DVD
manufacturers! I'm ripping your DVDs here to get rid of your
crap! Howdja like THEM apples?
Of course if we can skip ads they'll just become even more insidious.
I think advertising belongs in a respository for that purpose, but not
pushed into our faces. It's so God-awful out of control these days that
people just take it for granted, like it has to be this way.
One better way is to give advertisers all the space on the net they want
- then we can shop there until our hearts delight, and shop we will, but
for things we're interested in, not whatever they decide to peddle.
Bill
Alan Bourke
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