From: "Robert A. Rosenberg" <hal9001@panix.com>
Date: Wed, 31 Jan 1996 16:51:31 +0800
To: watson@tds.com
Subject: Re: your bogus post
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At 10:08 1/30/96, watson@tds.com wrote:

>On Tue, 30 Jan 1996, Paul Graham wrote:
>
>>...
>> A company capable of doing such irresponsible things is not one
>> that we would trust with users' money.
>> ...
>
>Some of you must have missed the superbowl ads where people and frogs
>were getting frozen to beverage cans, and movie actors moved the grand
>canyon with a horse.

I think that there is a MAJOR difference between the two types of
Marketing. The Superbowl adds are not designed with the intent to imply
that what is being shown is Reality (how many viewers would think that what
was being shown was a REAL [as opposed to symbolic] effect of the product?)
while the FV is intended to play on the technical ignorance of the
reader/audience and give a false [or at least slanted] view of reality.