Chill!

JohnB · Post by **JohnB** » 26 Dec 2010, 11:35

contadino wrote:I must be doing something right, as the advert spaces are just grey boxes.

Mine is white with the word "Advertisement" in it! I installed NoScript to stop all this advertising and other rubbish downloading over my painfully slow internet connection when I was travelling. Now it protects me from being seduced by consumerism

.

hardworkinghippy · Post by **hardworkinghippy** » 26 Dec 2010, 12:40

This is all very well but it had an advert for a SUV next to it Shocked !!

The ads are determined by the cookies stored in your computer !

You've been looking for a new car haven't you ?

It's bloody freezing here and there are power cuts all over the place but not in this house if I get out to clear the snow from the panels early enough.

RenewableCandy · Post by **RenewableCandy** » 26 Dec 2010, 16:46

hardworkinghippy wrote:
This is all very well but it had an advert for a SUV next to it Shocked !!
The ads are determined by the cookies stored in your computer !

You've been looking for a new car haven't you ?

I have a "wipe all cookies at the end of each sesh" order on my bruiser. Either it's not working or else I look at too many news-type sites (ever noticed how many car adverts there are on the News on telly? Or is it different in France?).

Anyway, given that I have neither income nor "permis", they're on a loser there

snow hope · Post by **snow hope** » 29 Dec 2010, 00:07

Coldest December ever recorded in Ireland according to Met Eirann.

This is an interesting interview if you can spare the the time and are prepared to listen with an unbiased mind. The interviewee used to be an AGW proponent.

http://itsrainmakingtime.com/2009/climate-part1/

UndercoverElephant · Post by **UndercoverElephant** » 29 Dec 2010, 15:58

snow hope wrote:Coldest December ever recorded in Ireland according to Met Eirann.

This is an interesting interview if you can spare the the time and are prepared to listen with an unbiased mind. The interviewee used to be an AGW proponent.

http://itsrainmakingtime.com/2009/climate-part1/

And now he's a proponent of pseudoscientific claptrap. The current run of cold winters in Europe has nothing to do with AGW. "Our" warm atlantic air has not vanished; it has just gone somewhere else (southern europe and the greenland arctic.) This is actually likely to exacerbate the effects of AGW, because it means that when the next period of melting comes next year, the Greenland icesheet will start from a warmer temperature and it will therefore need less heating before it starts melting.

emordnilap · Post by **emordnilap** » 18 Jan 2011, 16:30

The psychology of denial is neatly unwrapped in three short videos (about 20 minutes in total) by George Marshall.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NOsl5-AU ... r_embedded

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Da1zW3dG ... re=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wb5Zu_YG ... re=related

He makes some undeniable points. Very good, don't you think MacG?

Andy Hunt · Post by **Andy Hunt** » 18 Jan 2011, 19:14

Excellent, thanks for posting, we had George in Manchester once and he was similarly excellent.

emordnilap · Post by **emordnilap** » 18 Jan 2011, 21:11

Yes, he crams in a lot of information into that short time. Worth watching a couple of times.

hardworkinghippy · Post by **hardworkinghippy** » 18 Jan 2011, 21:28

Brilliant, thanks emordnilap.

UndercoverElephant · Post by **UndercoverElephant** » 18 Jan 2011, 21:52

emordnilap wrote:The psychology of denial is neatly unwrapped in three short videos (about 20 minutes in total) by George Marshall.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NOsl5-AU ... r_embedded

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Da1zW3dG ... re=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wb5Zu_YG ... re=related

Bang on the money.

He makes some undeniable points. Very good, don't you think MacG?

I doubt we will be hearing much more from MacG.

RenewableCandy · Post by **RenewableCandy** » 19 Jan 2011, 00:04

That sounds suspicious

emordnilap · Post by **emordnilap** » 19 Jan 2011, 20:23

UndercoverElephant wrote:
emordnilap wrote:The psychology of denial is neatly unwrapped in three short videos (about 20 minutes in total) by George Marshall.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NOsl5-AU ... r_embedded

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Da1zW3dG ... re=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wb5Zu_YG ... re=related
Bang on the money.

He makes some undeniable points. Very good, don't you think MacG?
I doubt we will be hearing much more from MacG.

We do have 'hidden' members occasionally.

RenewableCandy · Post by **RenewableCandy** » 15 Dec 2011, 22:49

Snow's back! (in Wales, at least).

Post by **kenneal - lagger** » 16 Dec 2011, 02:35

We're due some in Berkshire for the morning rush hour.

emordnilap · Post by **emordnilap** » 15 Sep 2017, 14:37

JohnB wrote:
contadino wrote:I must be doing something right, as the advert spaces are just grey boxes.
Mine is white with the word "Advertisement" in it! I installed NoScript to stop all this advertising and other rubbish downloading over my painfully slow internet connection when I was travelling. Now it protects me from being seduced by consumerism .

This article chimes well with my thoughts about advertising.

What advertisers who are shaking themselves out of the online-advert trance are discovering is that the data-mining advert Emperor has no clothes. The industry as it stands can't identify which clicks are fraudulent or accidental, which ads actually trigger a sale, or which ads actually alienate potential customers.

My advice: totally ignore all advertising, use cash whenever possible.

Also, the more something's advertised, the worse it must be.