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...intrusive. Not everyone wants to be talked to by a billboard. "If somebody starts pinging phones, there's going to be consumer backlash," says Tom Burgess, CEO of Third Screen Media, a mobile-marketing and software consultant. For that reason, the newest high-tech outdoor campaigns invite consumers to opt in, say, by sending a text message. For example, Nationwide, the insurance and financial-services company, encourages visitors on Times Square's Reuters billboard to send in snapshots via a company website. Each afternoon it posts selected photos on the 23-story sign. Up the street, Walt Disney World advertises...
...voice their resentment. The protests have put the authorities in a bind. True to the dogma of communism, the regime is making incessant efforts to clamp down on websites and blogs, hoping that dissent will not burst into a wildfire. When the demonstrations get ugly, the government may opt for bloody suppression and further fuel the people's outrage, leading to tragic anarchy. For the sake of the future of more than 1 billion people, let's hope Beijing finds an amicable solution to the farmers' grievances. Venn Tzu Singapore time's reporting proves that the Chinese farmers are afraid...
...Negotiators from the United Auto Workers seem to believe the most militant UAW members will opt for retirement rather than a confrontation over likely future wage cuts at Delphi, which is also covered under the buyout agreement. The buyouts give the union a little more room for bargaining on future concessions, says McAlinden. With the buyout agreement in place, representatives from the UAW and Delphi Corp. are slated to resume discussions on rewriting the bankrupt company's existing contract with the union. GM representatives also are expected to participate in the talks, suggesting that GM plans to keep a close...
...don’t have a problem with opt-in co-ed housing, that young men and women might live together in the same dorm room. Co-ed housing is but a minor blip in the unstoppable progressive march to further realms of modernity. And, as a practical matter, it’s already been widely implemented by live-in couples, with the hushed complicity of a University that has largely abrogated its role as a stand-in for absent parents.What bothers me about the issue is not co-ed housing but the inflated rhetoric and sense of entitlement employed...
...proposal made its way through the Department of Education policy chain to establish a government database to keep track of everything from academic records to sports teams. Supposedly designed to better track students’ progress and help improve educational developments, the plan included no way for students to opt out of being tracked. With the renewal of the Patriot Act, citizens must be forewarned. The passage of this legislation makes way for less privacy and more for overly intrusive probing of private citizens’ everyday activities. The Patriot Act, as written, may leave us feeling less worried about...