[Foundation-l] Mission/Vision Statement

Fri Jan 5 20:43:20 UTC 2007

On 1/5/07, Gerard Meijssen <gerard.meijssen at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hoi,
> I do not know if you observe when people watch watch television, but
> people go to the toilet when there is an advertisement break. People
> tape a program and fastforward the ads. The notion that ads provide
> information is vastly overrated. Advertisements are typically ignored.

Look. Ads obviously work. That's why so much money is spent on them.

Claiming that people just ignore ads is fatuous.

 Ads influence people. Please don't pretend otherwise.