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reddingofish
10/06/09

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I clicked on the link to see the uncensored pic and it wanted me to install iTunes. One nip ain't worth that.
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SigmundTheSeaMonster
10/06/09

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Since Apple imports pretty much all its hardware (Designed in California, built in China/Taiwan), why wouldn't it object to carbon tariffs.
I prefer the NO2 tariffs to impose on the DC windbags...now THAT would be a surplus!
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icelight
10/05/09

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Easy there Wilson. They're not saying that bloggers can't accept gifts. Only that they have to acknowledge them. Which most other media sources already do. They're simply bringing blogs up to the same standard as everyone else. The choice of whether to accept or not is still up to the individual.

Whether reviewers should be allowed to accept any gifts from the companies they review is an entirely different, and unaddressed here, issue.
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Wilson Rothman
10/05/09

@icelight: I understand your point, but you are actually falling into the same trap that the FTC fell into: The presumption that there is somehow a "standard" for disclosure that other media entities follow on a regular basis. In many cases it's either not there—or perhaps in print too fine for me to read.
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spannu
10/06/09

@icelight: How often do magazines or news programs mention getting provided with anything in exchange for their services? Almost all of the time it's just implied from the fact that: 1) they get paid to talk, and 2) they have tons of free stuff.

The only reason for the FTC to push this would be because of people being too stupid to realize it on their own, but people have been stupid since the dawn of time.
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smackswell
10/06/09

@Wilson Rothman: Well, now YOUR publication can set that standard. I understand when reading your blog that people send you gadgets to try out. You guys get fun stuff to play with. I'm also sure you get to keep most (if not all of) that swag. Maybe you guys CL it when you're done.

So just mention in your postings that you were sent the shit free and tell us how you feel about said shit. If they gave you a really swell box of unrelated shit, tell us about that too. If that unrelated box of shit has cash in it, I'll give you my paypal info so you can help a brother out.
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Sticks Calhoun
10/06/09

@smackswell: Most units sent out for review are just that - review units. You don't keep them and you send them back to the manufacturer after a week or so. Major daily newspapers do not disclose what they get for free.
They have set up their own systems to deal with it.
At the paper I am currently at in the Middle East, you can keep something that's worse less than $20, after that, though, it gets sold at a silent auction later in the year in the newsroom, with the proceeds going to charity.

True story: Last year during December, a government entity asked if we all wanted Gucci watches. The guy they were talking to told them we could not accept it. So we got desk calendars instead.

Woo.
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Sticks Calhoun
10/06/09

@Sticks Calhoun: I missed my edit window. That should be "worth less than $20" not "worse less".
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GitEmSteveDave_DefinesTurgid
10/06/09

@smackswell: I was at Summermodo, and I can tell you for a fact that many things WERE sent back, like the AquaSkipper I personally helped dis-assemble and re-pack.

BTW, if Aqua-Skipper asks about a missing screw that wasn't returned, I found it in my pocket when I finally did laundry three weeks later.
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Sticks Calhoun
10/06/09

@GitEmSteveDave_@Gmail.comNeedsAWaveInvite: Or was that evidence you have a screw loose? *rimshot*
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smackswell
10/09/09

@GitEmSteveDave_IsWaving: Well, right on. If they have to send it back, that's just how life goes. I absolutely appreciate that these laws are more red tape to travel through. Nonetheless, it's disclosure that helps the reader know the basis of the blogger's opinions.
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Alchemistmerlin
10/05/09

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Boobie on the front page?
Awesome.
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Wilson Rothman
10/05/09

@Alchemistmerlin: Not no more. You had to go and say something, didn't you! ;)
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Matingmonkey is a proud eMac owner
07/05/09

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I wil map it to my dick. there, I said it,I aint trying to hide stuff.
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Bloodboiler
07/05/09

@Matingmonkey is a proud eMac owner: I'm afraid there will be a minimum size for objects that can be tracked.
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Matingmonkey is a proud eMac owner
07/05/09

@Bloodboiler: The doctor said it was average.
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GitEmSteveDave_DefinesTurgid
07/05/09

@Matingmonkey is a proud eMac owner: Brody, when a doctor says it's average, it's a nice way of saying it's small.

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Nick
06/22/09

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did george lucas get on this yet? if he hasn't than i am not interested.
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Heliophage
06/22/09

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Didn't the Eye already have facial tracking? It's something common on a lot of digital cameras nowadays. It's not the same as 3D tracking and skeletal modeling, but it may not need to be.
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