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MehGerbil wrote: 1: Who do you suppose is banning a video from the internet?
Copyright owners.
MehGerbil wrote: 2: How would you ban a video from the internet?
Copyright violation. Look on youtube.com for examples.
MehGerbil wrote: That ad should track IP addresses and people who clicked on it should themselves be banned from the internet. We'd all be a great deal safer that way.
Okay, there's a second method.
QED
I'm retired. There's a nap for that...
- Harvey
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All you hate is marketing.
And that is perfectly normal.
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This.
I don't think I need to explain myself further 
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What I find despicable are those popup ads that read something like "sign up to get the wall street journal news to your email" with a button that then says "No thank, I want to stay uniformed and in the dark."
I kid you not. Degrading, that's what I call those ads.
Marc
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Well, what do you expect from the Wall Street Journal, intelligent or decent behaviour?
If you do, there must be two Wall Streets.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Don't take it personally. They are trying to bait you.
Once you lose your pride the rest is easy.
In the end, only three things matter: how much you loved, how gently you lived, and how gracefully you let go of things not meant for you. – Buddha
Simply Elegant Designs Jim<</xml>
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I used to feel the same way, but at some point, it stopped bothering me & it is with some satisfaction and glee that I now click the supposedly demeaning button - I know the truth about me, and button was worded like that due to some marketing drone's cod psychological thinking.
Rise above it 
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It's at times like this I'm reminded of the old saying - the world isn't run by logic, but instead by emotions.
I've noticed those particular ads in the last couple of weeks and absolutely can't stand them.
I refuse to click on their insulting button, instead resorting to the element-inspector and deleting the appropriate node of the document. - The first time I saw one, I closed the tab without reading the article.
"When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down 'happy'. They told me I didn't understand the assignment, and I told them they didn't understand life." - John Lennon
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enhzflep wrote: instead resorting to the element-inspector and deleting the appropriate node of the document. -
What a great idea -- I'll have to try that.
enhzflep wrote: The first time I saw one, I closed the tab without reading the article.
Funny, but that's exactly what I did too. I refused to be insulted like that.
Marc
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"...hate humanity"
If these are the worst wrongs of humanity I would say that we are pretty good shape!
Life is too shor
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cannot ban a video!!! try posting a video of a F1 race and see how long it stays up
You cant outrun the world, but there is no harm in getting a head start
Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time.
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You are not allowed to post that character combination without paying an elephanting lot of money. Pay now or be crucified within 50 seconds.
Life is too shor
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too late I now owe Bernie 97.25% of my earnings for the next 20 years, why didn't you warn me earlier
I also understand that Chris has received a takedown notice for this thread
You cant outrun the world, but there is no harm in getting a head start
Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time.
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97.25% ? Wow you got off pretty easy didntcha? Old Bernie is getting soft.
Remember that guy who had this cool site with detailed live graphics, just graphics of who had overtaken whom in which lap etc, of every race? He got elephanted in his elephant rather badly too...
Life is too shor
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Chuck Norris can ban anything
In code we trust !
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Nguyen.H.H.Dang wrote: Chuck Norris can ban anything
Chuck Norris gives it the Chuck Norris look and ...poof, it's gone, withering and whimpering.
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This[^] seems to sum it up nicely. 
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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MehGerbil wrote: That ad should track IP addresses and people who clicked on it should themselves be banned from the internet
1: Who do you suppose is banning a video these people from the internet?
2: How would you ban a video these people from the internet?
I sense a flaw in this plan...
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...that make this site so awesome[^].
Actually, the rest as well.
~RaGE();
I think words like 'destiny' are a way of trying to find order where none exists. - Christian Graus
Entropy isn't what it used to.
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Now if we can get the Supermodel Phone Lookup add-in sorted out then the site will be perfect! 
veni bibi saltavi
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Along with Live Chat.. 
Your time will come, if you let it be right.
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The two of you REALLY have lost touch with reality! 
Life is like a s**t sandwich; the more bread you have, the less s**t you eat.
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I'll talk to the Hrlpouts[^] guys.
No promises.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Every now and then I receive a survey from a vendor/institution/etc. asking me if I would please fill out a survey for them. On occasion, I'm in a benevolent mood and follow their link.
My advice to the people who pay for the survey (and by proxy, to those who create them):
If you ask a question, allow for the user to not answer - either explicitly, such as a radio button with "no answer" or "not applicable" or allow blanks or whatever it takes to let the user continue and not disclose whatever it is they don't want to disclose.
Two reasons why this is useful:
- For you, it reduces the number of junk-answers where a selection or ranking is given that has no relevance to the user's experience with the product. If you actually intended to do a good job then you don't want surreptitious answers.
- People just close the window and the survey's left incomplete (if any data were saved) or
undone (a commission lost?).
There's alsothe possibility the survey's true purpose is to find out what fraction of users that start actually finish, and where the decide their disgusted enough to quit.
| "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein | | "As far as we know, our computer has never had an undetected error." - Weisert | | "If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you are seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010 |
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I've stopped taking surveys... for anyone (particularly political ones).
I feel like they try to lead me to say that either option A or option B is the right choice...
In reality, they are so far off the mark, neither option is any good and I will not reinforce their behavior regardless of they choice they want to make.
People (and businesses) need to display their values to me, not take a survey (followed by creating talking points to attract my business). If I don't know their values, I don't do business with them.
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