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·Well there is the shared experience with the line standing. The disney lines, are actually engineered to get strangers to talk to each other. I remember how it was to stand in line for an event like Star Wars. I was the last person in line for ESB. The manager stood behind me. We became friends. I even as a film student got a pre-aprintiship at Sprocket systems.
There was an article about one of the high end purse (bag makers) being accused of Monoply restriction. I think this was Hermés. The parent company insisted bags can only be shown to a 'select' few who have to make unnessisary purchaces, to even see the product.
Omega which is a symbol can not be trademarked in the US. Swatch can. So there is no wonder the protected mark can be pushed more than the unprotected one.
The watch industry is a curious thing. It collapsed completely in the 1970s. Some economic theories also have this collapse contributing to the Oil crisis, which may have been partly engineered by economists. Peek oil had been predicted in the 1950 for the 1970s, so it was easy to make the prophesies self fulfilling.
There is probably a difference between sharp business practice and the law. Some probably feel the latter is more of a guideline, than anything else.
I have never tolerated television advertising. My dad had the volume up yesterday. He is 92 and the hearing aid batteries wear down. Baseball here in the Bay Area has become totally crooked. The Vegas gambling interest are in control. Anyway the adverts are all for BIG ADVENTUROUS SUV tanks. Stuff that is not good for society or much of the future. But we still want it.
Most who are being targeted by these adverts, probably do not even have the physical stamina to even use the products shown.
Sure back in the 1960s we had a Toyota land Cruzer and would go off roading through abandon gold mines in the sierra. The 1950s population was exponentially smaller then. We stopped when someone fired a warning shot over the hood. This in the 1970s. Probably too close to someones pot farm, my dad said.
Unlike the the cousins, we could not put a vacation shack in the land. Has water power, but no sewer. Nimbys from the city came into the foothills and urbanized it. All ironically in the name of 'Preserving Nature.' Sure preserving it for their own selfish uses.
None of this is new. And I still want an OMEGA snoopy at a price I can afford. (even if it means not purchasing rat-watch parts for a few months.)
(Sometime I should post photos of the DIckens magazines from the 1850s. About 1/4 of the pages are adverts. Often for hair tonics and liver pills and corsets. Nothing ever changes.)
There was an article about one of the high end purse (bag makers) being accused of Monoply restriction. I think this was Hermés. The parent company insisted bags can only be shown to a 'select' few who have to make unnessisary purchaces, to even see the product.
Omega which is a symbol can not be trademarked in the US. Swatch can. So there is no wonder the protected mark can be pushed more than the unprotected one.
The watch industry is a curious thing. It collapsed completely in the 1970s. Some economic theories also have this collapse contributing to the Oil crisis, which may have been partly engineered by economists. Peek oil had been predicted in the 1950 for the 1970s, so it was easy to make the prophesies self fulfilling.
There is probably a difference between sharp business practice and the law. Some probably feel the latter is more of a guideline, than anything else.
I have never tolerated television advertising. My dad had the volume up yesterday. He is 92 and the hearing aid batteries wear down. Baseball here in the Bay Area has become totally crooked. The Vegas gambling interest are in control. Anyway the adverts are all for BIG ADVENTUROUS SUV tanks. Stuff that is not good for society or much of the future. But we still want it.
Most who are being targeted by these adverts, probably do not even have the physical stamina to even use the products shown.
Sure back in the 1960s we had a Toyota land Cruzer and would go off roading through abandon gold mines in the sierra. The 1950s population was exponentially smaller then. We stopped when someone fired a warning shot over the hood. This in the 1970s. Probably too close to someones pot farm, my dad said.
Unlike the the cousins, we could not put a vacation shack in the land. Has water power, but no sewer. Nimbys from the city came into the foothills and urbanized it. All ironically in the name of 'Preserving Nature.' Sure preserving it for their own selfish uses.
None of this is new. And I still want an OMEGA snoopy at a price I can afford. (even if it means not purchasing rat-watch parts for a few months.)
(Sometime I should post photos of the DIckens magazines from the 1850s. About 1/4 of the pages are adverts. Often for hair tonics and liver pills and corsets. Nothing ever changes.)
K store sold out of sourdough the other week befor 10am…
