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Capitalizing On Stupid

Revoltingest

Pragmatic Libertarian
Premium Member
Heh.
"How can my car depreciate before it's first oil change you might ask?"
Answer: ITS BECAUSE IT'S GOT A BIG HUGE FREAKIN DENT IN IT YOU MORON!!!"
*Grin*
Even before the dent, a new car you pay retail for will drop to wholesale value the minute you drive it off the lot.
What fully functioning adult is unaware of something so utterly obvious?
 

freethinker44

Well-Known Member
saw a documentary about encryption codes.
all that security we go for...so we can do things online....
and the gov is working on cracking ALL encryption in the name of national security.

so much for your laptop security
so much for spending money on keeping your stuff 'out of sight'
Just wait until we get quantum computers going. Even the best encryption will be able to be cracked in a few seconds even with brute force algorithms.

I'm not against the government doing this though, there are some situations where it is warranted. Ransomware is a prime example. The problem isn't with the government's capabilities, it's with oversight and accountability, or lack of. To me, it's perfectly fine for them to have the capability of cracking encryption, they just shouldn't be able to do it without permission or a warrant.
 

Thief

Rogue Theologian
Just wait until we get quantum computers going. Even the best encryption will be able to be cracked in a few seconds even with brute force algorithms.

I'm not against the government doing this though, there are some situations where it is warranted. Ransomware is a prime example. The problem isn't with the government's capabilities, it's with oversight and accountability, or lack of. To me, it's perfectly fine for them to have the capability of cracking encryption, they just shouldn't be able to do it without permission or a warrant.
I agree for the most part.
heard a report this day.....France has no restriction on surveillance
but that did not prevent the attack of recent days.

the problem is not the invasion of our privacy.
the problem is sorting through huge amount of info.

our gov has not created better intel
they have only made the haystack enormous.
 

Twilight Hue

Twilight, not bright nor dark, good nor bad.
How about all those car commercials that promotes extreme recklessness and speed with a tiny disclamer flash that sez, "Closed track, do not attempt."
 

Erebus

Well-Known Member
In Britain there are quite a few adverts for "short term loans" which offer loans ranging from £1 to £1000. The interest rates on these loans are enormously high. Wonga, the largest of these companies, used to charge an APR of around 5000%

Britain has faced pretty brutal austerity measures over the last few years. Income has been all but frozen, welfare has been slashed and large companies have pounced on controversial schemes that allow them to take on unpaid workers (or to avoid paying workers minimum wage). In the face of all this, people can get pretty desperate. Companies like Wonga prey on people's desperation and ignorance, putting them into a worse situation than they were when they took out the loan.
 

Thief

Rogue Theologian
health insurance....
do hospitals really need $7 for two aspirins?

just something heard

and $1500 for one bag of chemo-therapy.....
a coworker is paying out that much for his wife.....even WITH insurance
 

Nietzsche

The Last Prussian
Premium Member
Profiting from the stupid is much, much harder than it would seem to be at first glance, simply because the standards seem to keep dropping faster than you can lower your own.
 

TurkeyOnRye

Well-Known Member
So, fellow posters.....share your ads which depend upon the customer being dumb & not responsible for their own actions.

Uhh...that's pretty much all of them, right? lol Seriously though, that's marketing for ya. The goal is not to inform viewers; the goal is to get viewers to buy your product. But...

I've always had a particularly intense feeling of disdain for cleaning commercials. This one is pretty awful:

 
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Deidre

Well-Known Member
Rolaids and those types of commercials, where they show people stuffing themselves until they nearly vomit, and then Rolaids saves the day...and then, they show the next clip, of more gluttony. lol
Um, stop eating so much and you won't need Rolaids 24/7. :oops:
 

Revoltingest

Pragmatic Libertarian
Premium Member
This commercial certainly appeals to stupid.
She crashes her brand new car into a tree, & complains about her insurance rates going up?
Tai ben le!
But what's really really stupid is her shoes.
Her heels are so high that she can't bend her feet when she walks.
She looks like she's balanced on stilts.
 

4consideration

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Premium Member
This commercial certainly appeals to stupid.
She crashes her brand new car into a tree, & complains about her insurance rates going up?
Tai ben le!
But what's really really stupid is her shoes.
Her heels are so high that she can't bend her feet when she walks.
She looks like she's balanced on stilts.
I know. She's walking on grass. (Where I live if you walk on grass in that kind of shoe, the heel sinks into the grass.)

Also, she is complaining about having spent so much time on three separate spreadsheets before buying a car, but when I watch it I can't help but think she should have spent that time on driving lessons, or just practice on avoiding stationery objects.
 

Revoltingest

Pragmatic Libertarian
Premium Member
I know. She's walking on grass. (Where I live if you walk on grass in that kind of shoe, the heel sinks into the grass.)

Also, she is complaining about having spent so much time on three separate spreadsheets before buying a car, but when I watch it I can't help but think she should have spent that time on driving lessons, or just practice on avoiding stationery objects.
And what in the heckfire are "torque ratios"?
I worked in the auto industry, & no one ever used that term.
 

4consideration

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Premium Member
And what in the heckfire are "torque ratios"?
I worked in the auto industry, & no one ever used that term.
I don't know what torque ratios are, but maybe that's what she was thinking about when she took the car home and smashed it into a tree.

Although I feel like maybe I was being presumptuous and unfair to her in assuming the trees around her house remain stationery. Maybe they don't. Maybe torque ratios are what she used to figure out how to avoid the moving trees, and it just didn't work this time. Maybe she can complain about Excel coming up with wrong formulas, too.
 
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