Come on, man, don't bring that American League junk in here, this is Slashdot, we should be civilized!
Play real baseball -- National League or nothing.

I'm inclined to agree, but I'll bet you a shiny $5 bill that the National League adopts the DH rule within the next five years. I didn't realize how soon it was going to happen until the Cubs drafted big hit/no field Kyle Schwarber. More than 2/3 of the NL owners are pushing for the DH, is what I hear.

I wish it wasn't so, but I really believe it's happening.

I can't imagine the pain of losing a child. My heart goes out to you.

Finally some Russian billionaire who puts his money to good use. (No, I'm not joking.)

In capitalist US, money spends you.

Total waste of time. They only pay attention to the ones they want to, and from what I saw a couple weeks back, about half of the petitions would be unconstitutional.

Oh, that's almost certainly true. I just wanted to counter the argument that nobody pays attention to any of these petitions.

Overall, the entire thing is definitely a joke, but on rare occasions they have had the desired effect, even if for the wrong reasons.

I tell my wife, if she's going to have an affair, at least make sure they guy is rich.

I'm much more reasonable. I tell my wife that if she's going to have an affair, at least make sure the guy plays Sonic & All-Stars Racing so I have someone to play split-screen with.

it was a blackmail scheme but now those rotten hackers have ruined it for me!

that word doesn't mean what you think it means.

So, it's the processor vibrating in the audible range? I remember having crystals in really old computers make this noise, but I haven't encountered it in a while.

And how exactly does one set about proving this assertion?

The same way you prove most things: empirically.

Try it yourself.

It's very very hard to have self-awareness when it comes to advertising, and advertisers make use of this phenomenon. The only way to subvert the effects of advertising is to examine yourself and then consciously act. Be a mindful consumer. It's not impossible, but it has to start by accepting the extreme power that the advertising industry has over our lives.

one serious problem that western society has is the overuse of sugar in our foods. it's lead to the fat american and has already infected europe. if these technologies can actually take the sugar out of our blood before it hits the liver, that would be great. however, seeing as how people are going to start dying off in droves from diabetes, i think there will be a correction in the food market before this technology is mature enough to be useful for general use.

And most players are right-handed, so it's generally better to pitch right and bat left.

No, it's better to pitch right and have a left-handed DH.

Don't nobody want to see a pitcher bat.

Guess it's going to be interesting to see if the court allows Sling box to insert advertising on streams it doesn't actually own or pay to have rebroadcast rights.

If they are not broadcasting the original commercials and are adding their own into them, then it's sounds to me like that would be illegal. Wonder if this decision will have ramifications on how advertising is handled via hardware makers that are not content producers.

How exactly do the advertisers manage to design ads that will get through to GP who "doesn't watch broadcast television"? If GP doesn't see as many ads, he'll be less influenced by them, no?

Advertising is ubiquitous and advertisers figured out a long time ago that you don't need someone's full attention to influence behavior.

Forget websites. Forget television. You are affected by ads when you drive down the street or watching your kids playing a sporting event.

I'm telling you, if you scratch the surface of someone who claims to be completely unaffected by advertising, you're going to find someone who's making a lot more subconscious purchasing decisions than you would expect.

Marketing is by the College Textbook definition, the act of communicating that you provide something that meets someone's wants and needs and provide utility.

Your college textbook is way out of date.

http://link.springer.com/artic...

Neuromarketing is an emerging field that bridges the study of consumer behavior with neuroscience. Controversial when it first emerged in 2002, the field is gaining rapid credibility and adoption among advertising and marketing professionals. Each year, over 400 billion dollars is invested in advertising campaigns. Yet, conventional methods for testing and predicting the effectiveness of those investments have generally failed because they depend on consumers’ willingness and competency to describe how they feel when they are exposed to an advertisement. Neuromarketing offers cutting edge methods for directly probing minds without requiring demanding cognitive or conscious participation.

That would be crazy. I have a Wii connected to it so that I can watch Netflix. It is kind of a horrible thing to use for that purpose, but I don't have to spend any additional money to use it. It does occasionally hang while playing a video and make a noise like a fire alarm until you pull the power cord out of its asshole...

Wait, it does what now? The TV hangs or the Wii? And what's making the fire alarm noise? Have you by some chance been playing an indie game called "Smoke Detector Chronicles 2"?