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The Bucks can’t wear cream uniforms because they interfere with digital ads

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Re: The Bucks can’t wear cream uniforms because they interfere with digital ads

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Post by codalan »

dymk wrote: post #100
eastbound wrote: post #55

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Bounties for citizenly public actions. But how do you prove it’s you? Maybe book a time slot. If the light disappears in this time slot, you get the bounty.

Spraypaint a private key (or any unique symbol, really) to prove you did it.

Would need to be an agreed-upon message encrypted with the vandal's private key.

1. Person wanting defacement would indicate the amount for the bounty, along with the message to be posted on the defaced property

2. Vandal contacts payer and agrees to conditions. He/she also gives the client their public key

3. Vandal performs defacement, then add the specified message to it, encrypted in his or her private key

4. Vandal notifies the person paying the bounty that the job is complete, sending him/her a picture of the defacement with encrypted message

4. Payer decrypts message, verifies it matches, then pays out the agreed upon bounty to the vandal

Re: The Bucks can’t wear cream uniforms because they interfere with digital ads

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Post by hypertele-Xii »

standardUser wrote: post #28
cwkoss wrote: post #25

Yet another example of how ads destroy culture. I hate that our society bends the knee to them everywhere.

Ads make the culture. Where would American sports be without ads?

It would be an ad-less culture, pedantically. Sounds like a win to me.

Re: The Bucks can’t wear cream uniforms because they interfere with digital ads

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Post by Eleison23 »

Turing_Machine wrote: post #10
kibwen wrote: post #7

How soon until we see AI-powered adblockers that filter the output of any signal to remove anything that it perceives as an ad?

I'm thinking of Carl Sagan's book _Contact_, in which one of the characters became a billionaire by developing "Adnix" (removed ads), "Preachnix" (removed televangelists) and "Jivenix" (removed politicians) technologies.

Then some guys at Bell Labs developed "Unix" and... oh dear.

Re: The Bucks can’t wear cream uniforms because they interfere with digital ads

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Post by ryandrake »

yafbum wrote: post #119
yawn wrote: post #23

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I was shocked as a non-hockey fan to see an ad of a car driving along the wall during active play. My eyes instinctively moved to the ad away from the puck. It was gross. As an NBA fan, I hate how ads keep getting crammed into every piece of equipment on the court, the jerseys, etc.

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You're getting really unfairly dunked on for a sensible point. The Purpose Of A System Is What It Does, and what televised sports unarguably does is relentlessly slather its consumers' eyes with advertisements--and also shows some sportsball every once in a while, between those ads. Saying "I like televised sports but not ads" doesn't make a lot of sense. The entire purpose of televised sports, the only reason for its existence, is to saturate you with ads. People get uncomfortable thinking of themselves as willing projection-screens for ads, and get mad at the messenger.

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Post by MereInterest »

kelnos wrote: post #117
Firmwarrior wrote: post #105

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Hey, do you have a good way to communicate this to normies? I haven't had any luck explaining to my wife that advertisements are basically a sort of cancerous meme designed to deliver misinformation and manipulate you into wasting your money on products that focus more on self-promotion than quality or value. I just sound like a jerk and she somehow takes it as a personal attack

I sometimes have trouble explaining this to others without coming off as a jerk as well. I think the thing to do is to focus on yourself rather than the person you're talking to: instead of saying to someone that ads are "designed to manipulate you ", say that they're "designed to manipulate, and I know that I'm not always strong enough to resist being swayed to want to buy something I don't actually want or need". F…

Depending on how the particular crowd, I sometimes describe it in D&D terms. I know that I took WIS as a dump stat, so why would I put myself in a position where I need to make a WIS saving throw against their CHA?

Re: The Bucks can’t wear cream uniforms because they interfere with digital ads

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Post by matheusmoreira »

MonkeyMalarky wrote: post #132
yafbum wrote: post #119

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Please drink a verification can before posting.

Let me just reach into my Doritos™ Mountain Dew™ Halo 2k19™ War Chest...

Re: The Bucks can’t wear cream uniforms because they interfere with digital ads

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Post by matheusmoreira »

ryandrake wrote: post #154
yafbum wrote: post #119

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You're getting really unfairly dunked on for a sensible point. The Purpose Of A System Is What It Does, and what televised sports unarguably does is relentlessly slather its consumers' eyes with advertisements--and also shows some sportsball every once in a while, between those ads. Saying "I like televised sports but not ads" doesn't make a lot of sense. The entire purpose of televised sports, the only reason for it…

The purpose of sports is to entertain us. One day someone smarter than me will make a machine learning thing that deletes brands and ads from video in real time. I'm going to enjoy watching them seethe about it, perhaps even more than I enjoy watching stuff.

Re: The Bucks can’t wear cream uniforms because they interfere with digital ads

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Post by matheusmoreira »

AlexandrB wrote: post #135
canucker2016 wrote: post #75

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It's even worse when the hockey players' white uniforms confuse the video effect algorithm into thinking the uniforms are part of the board and the algorithm paints the uniform with part of the ad. see https://ca.sports.yahoo.com/news/nhl-fans-are-already-fed-up...

> "Like anything else, you're going to have your people that don't like it, that think it is difficult to watch. But over time, like everything else, people will get used to it, and we're not concerned at all whatsoever," Keith Wachtel, the NHL's chief business officer and executive vice president of global partnerships, told ESPN ahead of the season. Wow. That statement is dripping with contempt for their viewers. I…

Can't wait for the day someone invents a video ad blocker. Let's see if this guy will "get used" to that.

Re: The Bucks can’t wear cream uniforms because they interfere with digital ads

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Post by yafbum »

ryandrake wrote: post #154
yafbum wrote: post #119

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You're getting really unfairly dunked on for a sensible point. The Purpose Of A System Is What It Does, and what televised sports unarguably does is relentlessly slather its consumers' eyes with advertisements--and also shows some sportsball every once in a while, between those ads. Saying "I like televised sports but not ads" doesn't make a lot of sense. The entire purpose of televised sports, the only reason for it…

Thank you for this much more eloquent version of the argument I was having trouble articulating! Proof that downvotes are useful ;-)

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Post by noasaservice »

MereInterest wrote: post #155
kelnos wrote: post #117

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I sometimes have trouble explaining this to others without coming off as a jerk as well. I think the thing to do is to focus on yourself rather than the person you're talking to: instead of saying to someone that ads are "designed to manipulate you ", say that they're "designed to manipulate, and I know that I'm not always strong enough to resist being swayed to want to buy something I don't actually want or need". F…

Depending on how the particular crowd, I sometimes describe it in D&D terms. I know that I took WIS as a dump stat, so why would I put myself in a position where I need to make a WIS saving throw against their CHA?

Cause there's a lot of bards here, and with 'pretty songs' it's easy to make yourself sound amazing...... Until the song wears off.
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