<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:11pt"> </span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><div lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:11pt">Ja, what I had in mind is machine-designed advertisement. That is a ways off, but consider that most annoying internet ad, the one that starts out with Ten…Nine…Eight… and so forth, oy vey. It was funny the first time, but I have suffered it perhaps 50 times and I still don’t know what they were selling. Energy drinks? Which one? Fail. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">OK so imagine we still are forced to view ads for content, but someone figures out a way to make a new clever ad each time. Hell if someone took all the SuperBowl ads and put them end to end with no football or advertising in it… Wait, back up… Took all the Superbowl ads and cut out all the football, I would probably view that just for fun.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">If someone created a good ad-bot, I would probably view that.<span class=""><font color="#888888"><u></u><u></u></font></span></span></p><span class=""><font color="#888888"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">spike</span></p></font></span></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0);display:inline">Unless something monumental is happening, I watch no live TV. For sports, I record everything, and I know who wins before I watch it. Then I just erase it if I don't care to watch that person or team winning. Not that I care much anymore who wins anything. My alma moter, U of Alabama, has won four of the last five, I think, nat'l championships and I just can't seem to get excited about it. (As per our discussions a while back, if Odysseus were alive today he'd be playing pro ball, not raiding villages.)</div></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0);display:inline"><br></div></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0);display:inline">As for ads, why watch any of them? Fast forward. I notice that what is being advertised has nothing whatsoever to do with what I buy (have not bought a new car since 1968). They are not losing any money on me by my not watching the ads. </div></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0);display:inline"><br></div></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0);display:inline"> I did invent a little scheme around 1974 where I noted which ads I really liked and was impressed by, (</div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif">when I was thinking of moving into marketing<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0);display:inline">)</div></span><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);display:inline"> and followed those stocks. There was some good correlations there. Not a bad plan at all for buying stocks - better than monkeys and darts. I would now be rich if I had had the money to invest. Supporting two wives and three kids will eat a professor's check pdq.</div></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);display:inline"><br></div></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);display:inline"> bill w</div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><div lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple"><span class=""><font color="#888888"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></p></font></span></div><br>_______________________________________________<br>
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