I was probably posting my second comment above when you were posting yours. I'll give you the benefit of the doubt. But to be clear, I didn't say that x number was equal to the print run. And even then, if you were looking at ads, you were generally looking for a specific thing. In my case, going back years and years, my eyes would hunt for a coupon or sale price on particular soda - not naming brands. But my eyes were looking for that picture, and skipping everything else. Passing through the optic nerve is different than paying attention. I looked at sports pages too, but couldn't have told you anything that was on them because I was simply passing over them to get to something useful. And yes, I'll admit that there was perhaps some tiny percentage was retained about a brand. But I was never - oh that looks good - let's try that.

And I do agree that ad viewing has changed in print and in digital, and agree with all of your complaints about the intrusiveness of digital ads. Regardless of the causes, people's relationship to ad reading has changed. Being mad at ad blockers is simply not a rational position anymore. And the advertisers can totally blame themselves for that fact. And really, even though we hate ads in general, it is more that we hate the slowdown on the page due to serving the ads and risk in clicking on something that might be malware that we detest. Time is more valuable than the best "deal" an ad might suggest. Serve the ads in-line from your own server and take responsibility for making sure they are legit. This again goes to reputation.

I suppose it depended on the paper, but most cultural events I saw promoted were in their own arts section. That whole section is an ad and is outside the scope of what I was referring to.

The death of the classified ad section in the paper due to Strider-'s comments about Craigslist and eBay are also spot on. I was never in a position where they were particularly relevant to me, but I am probably an outlier there.

For morons, you say? Clearly you are the target audience.

It's generous to say that Trump has a potato for a brain, but he's smarter than you.

You're the only one in the world who thinks America has race-based slavery or legalized organ harvesting.

Say Iran had nuclear weapons. What would happen if Iran used them? They would get wiped out in retaliation. How does that benefit Iran? Why was North Korea allowed to develop nuclear weapons but not Iran?

Looks like low effort clickbait propaganda for morons.

So, what is your plan, General? Invade a country of 93.4 million people who have history of not buckling under to anyone? You first.

Of you could inflict some serious Christian War Crimes on them in the hopes they will buckle and won't hold a grudge for the next 100 years. Hint: look at the history of the Middle East and how long their grudges last.

Or you could bomb the rubble some more and watch Iran take out what is left of the U.S. bases in the region and destroy the region's oil economy. Frankly, it would do a world of good for global warming, so that might be a good idea....except for the number of dead people around the Gulf and beyond.

All la Presidenta has succeeded in doing is spending down our treasury and the U.S. munitions piles, and simultaneously given the Iranian regime a new lease on life. Prior to this, the Iranian people were thinking about putting the heads of Iranian leadership and their stooges (Rev. Guard, Basij) on pikes. Now, that crowd looks like it will be there for at least the next 100 years.

Is there anything el Bunko cannot bankrupt, financially and morally?

If you are talking about worlds in our solar system, then possibly. Otherwise you cannot get there from here, at least not withing several 10s of years travel time.

Or you could be one of those AI Techno-Babies who think they'll transport their consciousness into a bot and send its ass there from here. The only thing is, hardware tends to break down after roughly a few years. So unless you go way faster than we possibly can below the speed of light, you are not going anywhere you care to be.

Only if they solve the space radiation problem first. Without that anyone going there is deado.

Apparently not looking at Snap was too difficult. The company physically held these people down and forced them to look at their stuff.

If you are spending a substantial amount of your time writing boiler-plate code, you are doing something wrong. We have functions, macros, compilers, and abstractions for a reason.

Under Jobs, you wouldn't have heard about it until it was about to be released.

If they both get there and don't stop the race, then the new race will become Mars.

Yes, yes America is better. America has problems, but we try to have human rights.

Even the USSR tried to have human rights.