Posts by Teiwaz

Re: Meh - CA is an advertising agency

@Voland's Right Hand

We have forgotten that. We have forgotten that there is no more powerful weapon, but the truth.

As a result people stopped believing anything the rulers told them. It was the total mistrust of everyone (regardless of their political views) which made the Eastern Block fold so easily.

Excellent points.

I wish I could upvote you more..

Re: Curious

* People are often reported as leaving in a huff.

And if that's too soon, they leave in a minute and a huff.*

* Three Stooges by way of Wyrd Sisters

Re: "actually using that to produce a strategy that worked"

and that, like advertising, knows very well how to take advantage of people's weak sides.

The main thing advertising has forgotten is that over saturation desensitises.

Over eager to have the client pay for more, or the client wanting more, they lay it on too thick, too often and the same campaign for too long. People tune it out.

As I don't watch TV any more, when I do pass an advert on the TV, I find myself caught by it, the 'callouses' I'd grown when viewing regularly have grown thin with lack of 'abrasion'.

If, however you are feeding a message people want to hear, or welcome, it's a different matter. They will seek it out. Identifying certain cliques and the leavers to manipulate them is hardly new, and doesn't need big data - people have been doing it for centuries to whip up mobs for their own advancement.

Nobody wants another career politician for President."

Meh, it's not as if he's the first blow-in from another career...

He was just the wrong man, in the right place at the right time with the right 'up yours' attitude. People voted, ever hopeful, in the expectation that he would shake things up a good bit....

Most of the money spent on election is wasted, people vote on the personality. Trump has personality (even if it is mostly objectionable), Clinton never really shone.

Re: unwarranted triumphalism

Every Society needs a release valve - if every society is three meals from anarchy, what'll it be if the small sexual light snack is denied or made difficult?

Might not be revolution or anarchy, but I think certain portions of the population might get meaner.

The late Sir Pterry mentions in 'Men at Arms' that humans are not naturally paid up members of the race - he suggests they need socialising to complete the subscription....

I suggest that for many, porn delivers some of that in lieu of how people today are either no longer close to others, or cannot meet their needs without imposing* on others.

* either aggressively or merely connecting.

Re: @unwarranted triumphalism

Telling the truth is not a popularity contest. Doesn't help when you lot deliberately misquote me, but I guess it's just an occupational hazard.

If your believe you are telling the truth, you are deluded.

If your occupational therapy isn't helping....

Re: A lot of you are *very* keen on protecting your access to smut

Bollocks.

Shocking, children might see that....

Re: ID codes and hashes

Not that tired old canard again. Only wrongdoers need fear correct identification.

Not that tired old line again.

It's not the access to wanton excess people are concerned about, nor fear of the practical and legitimate uses of identification.

But the potential for scope creep these entail.

Once these sorts of measures have been introduced and become the norm, even for the welfare of a part of the population, it is much easier to add other activities to the list of requiring valid id, and the use for which it was presented.

Before you know it, you could be needing to present it for other activities the authorities think are unhealthy - alcohol purchases will be next, followed by salt or maybe even sugar - child obesity and all that - there could be kids hanging around corner stores in the future, interacting with strangers trying to get them to buy sweets for them, it's happened occasionally over alcohol after all.

For those mature supposedly mature enough to make our own decisions, it's a short stop for the government being able to identify your ID being used for risky behaviour to being harassed about taking therapy or having your usage declined....

Re: Look on the bright side ...

Didn't they exempt themselves for 'research' or some other weak excuse

Aka the "Chris Langham Defense"

That guy from The Who offered the same reason I believe....

If that's correct, that's two - maybe it's true...

Re: Paying for porn?

With the amount of free porn on the net I'm surprised that anyone still pays for it.

Free (beer-wise) Not for much longer, certainly not for citizens subjects of the United Puritanical.

Free (speech-wise) Restricted availability is the first step toward a creeping ban.

Re: Look on the bright side ...

What on earth leads you to believe that these laws will apply to our lords and masters?

Didn't they exempt themselves for 'research' or some other weak excuse - or am I thinking of some other woefully ignorant, badly thought out piece of legislation.

Re: "The problem is that the police has access to it."

So, you don't trust police. Buy an AR-15 and hide in the woods. then. *

Well, if that's not a sure-fire way of getting their attention, I don't know what is.

* Might work in the US as long as the authorities think you are just a lone nut hermit and not some Cult, but try it in one the tame forest parks in the UK. You'd end up 'Brazilianed' even if it were a plastic AR-15.

Re: Unbelievable

We don't want the wrong lizards in power.

Too late....we may vote politicians into positions of authority, but that's just deciding who gets to be degrees of magnitude manipulated like a cheap willing rent-boy by big-business.

Re: Unbelievable

Hell no. The last people we want in politics are people like Bill Gates and whatsisname Zuckerberg..

Wut? Those two are flim-flam merchants from the school of make-it-up-as-go-along or buy-it-in-and-rebrand.

A proper Technocracy would have to include a rigorous peer-review....

The term was coined in 1919 after all, I don't think they considered todays '...on a computer' patent tea-baggers and advertising snake-oil salesmen.

Facebook and Google are Ad companies, and Microsfot is getting toward a digital U-Store.

Re: Unbelievable

Unless, here is a thought. How about starting a political party?

Or maybe it's time for a Technocracy.

Wut? He's real?

I thought Armstrong was a character from a Reeves and Mortimer sketch...

Us "I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed, or numbered! My life is my own!"

They'll not debrief me, I went commando...

Re: Not useful

"That's a bad thing how exactly?"

If we all lived like the Amish, most Reg readers would be unemployed.

There'd be all those barns to be built...

Apparently a lot of IT people now work in data warehouses' (bit like a barn) or server farms - they'd fit right in...

"business case"?

head case!!

We have Libreoffice and Thunderbird which are fundamentally very good, but are beginning to look a little dated.

Not used Libreoffice in quite a few releases then? Or is it just 'cause it doesn't have a ribbon? (at least yet).

I've always been a little doubtful of all the different UI centric spins myself, but I think it gives more freedom to the different spins to include what they feel is appropriate rather than each spin being merely a package selection on install, but yes I think it presents a confusing mass of choices to newbies.

As to the why of windowing systems...? I can't imagine using a system that expects me to stick to one barely configurable interface, it'd be like going to a restaurant and getting a uniform bowl of casserole with minimal condiments or a shoe store with only regulation office brogues for sale.

Re: Closed black box firmware

but Intel's cheaper

Thanks for stopping by from your strange parallel universe...

Re: Or as they say in London...

have many tiny trains each carrying a few people who are all going to the same place

kind of sounds how the black taxies operate in 'Derry,,,

Re: Heh

"[...] is how long and how vigorously [...]"

A recent report suggested it should take as long as singing one verse of "God Save the Queen".

Wut?

It'll be cold day that I do anything vigorously for the length of 'God Save the Queen' (even one verse).

Re: Obligatory inflamatory Brexit comment

Okay, I suppose we could open something similar in Hull, and employ the ex-trawlermen to fish the rubber balloons out of the swimming pools.

Hull?

Are you mad?..... the cold, wind and rain would strip the out layer of skin off you in minutes...

......Hmm, might work if it was a BDSM swingers place.