I loathe dishonest advertising

[BurtWorm]

which means I loathe most advertising. So it distresses me to see an ad popping up from DU that claims I've been "selected" to participate in a test that could earn me "mega" bucks. I wasn't selected, for chrissakes, and I'm not sucker enough to think any company that advertizes on DU (gods bless it!) has mega bucks to pay me for testing their product. Sheesh! :eyes:

[redqueen]

1. Advertising is evil.

Evil!

[Deja Q]

5. Not in of itself, said the known hypnosocialist...

Advertising is okay - it incites awareness.

But misused advertising is evil. And it is predominant in the M$M and in America's culture (of life!).

[BurtWorm]

8. Somewhere advertising got way out of whack in America.

There's always been false advertizing and snake oil selling, but at some point, it became a fundamental fact of American business that millions had to be spent on pulling the wool over people's eyes to sell a product or service.

[redqueen]

9. True

I'm thinking of the ubiquitous examples of misused advertising, of course. I like the funny ads. :)

[flvegan]

2. Firefox has an awesome popup killer

It's a free dl from Firefox.com and makes IE look like...well, IE.

[BurtWorm]

3. I know about Firefox.

I tried it. I don't know why, but it made everything very slow. I was unable to access certain programs, like the Web-based Outlook e-mail program my company got suckered into using, and I even had problems logging into DU with it.

[kick-ass-bob]

6. that doesn't have anything to do with Firefox.

because I can do all that just fine.

[Deja Q]

7. I use firefox and have no trouble with msn/hotmail or DU

What settings do you use in firefox?

[BurtWorm]

11. What settings would affect those perfromance issues?

[Ravenseye]

4. Google Toolbar with Popup Blocker

it's nice cause not only does it block popups but you can enter in a google search without going to the page first.

[KurtNYC]

10. Here is what it really says in those 'dishonest' ads...

Obey - Consume - Marry and reproduce - Sleep - Watch TV
(at least according to Roddy Piper)

[BurtWorm]

12. Ain't that the truth!

But then a lot of them are also secretly saying, "Be an idiot! Buy this worthless piece of shit product!"