Yech. Look what automatically assaulted me during my purchase today of a flash drive. Click to see full size – note red arrow.
And here’s the web page for this intrusive organization ACE aka the Alliance for Climate Education. The programs appear to be free for high school students, so the pitch isn’t exactly forthcoming.
Looks like they are doing education with superhero costumes and rap music. Yeah, sure, I wanna donate to “climate education” like that.
Looks like NOAA is partly pushing this outfit, looky who is on the science board.
And badges, they need lots of stinkin badges!
Here’s the video pitch (warning, air sickness bag recommended)
Shame on Ebay for promoting this dreck.
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It’s called eBay AdChoice They use information they have about you to make sure that the ads you see, on the eBay site or elsewhere, are relevant to you, therefore if you study or search for topics surrounding “Climate” you will be shown random ads related to “Climate”.
“Ebay Ad Scheme – Default Setting is Opted In!
eBay AdChoice
We may use information we have about you to make sure that the ads you see, on the eBay site or elsewhere, are as relevant to you as we can make them.
We think these relevant AdChoice ads will personalize and improve your eBay experience. (Ha! what a load!!)
Any information we use for AdChoice follows the eBay Privacy Policy.
We may work with other companies, like website operators and ad networks, to show these ads to you. We do not share any information with other website operators and our ad network partners have access only to some anonymous information about you (like eBay search terms, demographics and categories of interest), which they use to select the proper ads to display. We don’t share your personal information with any of these companies, and we have controls in place designed to keep them from identifying you.
You have choices about whether we use your information in this way. You can tell us not to share any of your anonymous information with our ad network partners and you can tell us not to use your information to show you relevant eBay ads on other websites. Anywhere you see the advertising link, you can click on it to control how your information is used. If you opt out of AdChoice, you’ll still see ads, they just won’t be tailored to your interests.”
(What this doesn’t tell you is that It only takes one time for you to opt-in knowingly or not for their network partners to gain access to your anonymous information that they will use to supply you ads with based on that information.)
It’s time to go on the offensive against all these ad partners that are ruining the online experience for everyone with their useless advertisements and waste of bandwidth.
These unscrupulous advertising agencies would promote the sale of your granny if you paid them to!
I don’t receive any ad’s what so ever besides those that I allow, my setup blocks thousands of ads per-week! so it is possible. I believe we all have the right to block all the unwanted advertising from our networks, we pay enough for our equipment and Bandwidth without being bombarded with junk!
davidmhoffer (June 4, 2011 @ur momisugly 11:50 pm), I agree with you!
I have a relationship to the whole similar to yours. My mother is from Finland (Finland-Swedish) and she came to Sweden as a refugee, at the beginning of World War II. Unconsciously she initialized my interest in this “scientific area”, as she described that she recognized the pattern of the AGW movement’s propaganda, as it reminded strongly of the one practiced before and during World War II …
Although the consequence of my (technical) education gave me early signs that things were not right. (Ex. To submit a laboratory report with such vague grounds, in line with many “research” produced by “climate scientists”, it would have rendered the comment “REDO! GET IT RIGHT!” written in red, and we got only one extra chance to do it correct …!)
The response Stark Dickflüssig left, is something that we in Scandinavia relates to Jante Law (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jante_Law) … Something very common here …
Alexander Feht, you are saying banning things because of company policies is not the right path, and I agree if you look carefully at my message, though maybe I was too subtle. Some skeptics are painting themselves into a corner with these bans, and I was warning them of that as you should. If skeptics refuse to buy Apple or Microsoft products, just because of their pro-AGW policies, this site will start to suffer in its number of hits, perhaps.
The intro states: …to create a future safe from climate change…”
The only constant in nature is change. How is it possible to create a ‘climate change free’ future?
Being a product of the most thoroughly assaulted by bad science generations, I have this to say: Please tell your children that when you were their age they told you we would be in a catastrophic situation caused by warming, and they were wrong. I am thankful for having a very scientific minded mother who new the difference between hypothesis and theory even if she never recieved the formal education.
And when they get to college remind them again I am still assaulted daily with their non science.
Reminds me of UPS online shipping where you can click the box to offset the carbon emissions your shipment ‘creates.’
Maybe that’s why I never got a reply from him or his staff when, back in 2008, I wrote to him suggesting that he take the lead in combatting the ‘global warming’ hysteria and Crap and Tax in the campaign.
I have the impression that, while a nice guy, Mitt is basically a Timid Nellie, unwilling to stick his neck out and take unpopular positions. This was true when he was Governor here in Taxachusetts, and it earned him a reputation as a ‘flip-flopper’ when he attempted to court the Republican base in 2008.
Republicans need to find a Presidential candidate who is willing to take on the establishment and the ‘conventional wisdom’ on the whole issue of ‘climate change’, one who can with confidence denounce the eco-zealots as the watermelons they are, and cite the scientific evidence that CAGW will not happen.
So far, I haven’t seen any of the putative ‘candidates’ step up to that plate.
/Mr Lynn
Jimmy Haigh says:
June 4, 2011 at 11:30 pm
I managed to last 1 min 28 seconds before hitting the stop button. Can anyone beat that?
I had to give up when the presenter appeared with his ‘IQ reducer’ on at a jaunty angle.
Well I attempted to watch the video, but science intervened halfway through and made me realize something, cows reduce the ammount of methane otherwise produced from the inevitable rotting of the plant material. How by converting a rather large portion of the carbon containing compounds that would become methane into CO2 H2O and lovely tasty beef. That and the methane would be produced eventually when something else decides to eat the cattle food sources. So we can forget about regulating methane, in fact the AGW crowd should push for us to harvest the methane and convert into the much less harmful CO2.
One of the great things about teenage kids is that they are so contrarian by nature. Some propaganda outfit trying to “get down with the kids” is just going to make their lips curl. Seriously, can you imagine any of our kids giving up iPods, xBox, electric guitars, keyboards, laptops, mobile phones, summer holidays and AC/central heating for these jokers? We can’t even convince them to give up under-age sex and smoking after decades of trying.
Typo: “air sickness bag required.
Teach them by way of sticks? That’ll teach the unruly lot!
64GB on a USB 2 thumb drive??? That’s remarkable. I used to be a test engineer in the early 1980’s testing IBM 8100’s. An 8140 had, upto, 2 64MB drives, which had a 7″ diameter platter, spun by an AC motor the size of a starter motor for a gas engine and the drive enclosure weighing 85Lbs EACH!
Don’t use eBay much, 2, maybe 3 transations, one being my Nikon D700, in fact my wife uses it more, for haircare products. But I think I will be steering away from eBay more so, there are other ways.
Perhaps eBay has the same level of control on the Ads as you do…
unless you wanted to air on this very page the following ad:
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Would you like to make 42% returns?
The world next trillion $ market
Invest in Carbon Credits
(www.greeninvestmentservices.com)
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🙂
Thanks for your infomative blog!
And, as I discovered recently, I still have fragments of an IBM 3745 in my left eye.
Bye Bye Ebay !! I’m done with you………
D. King says: June 4, 2011 at 7:33 pm
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The problem is that if the major search engines (Google, Bing*, etc) all support AGW positions then how will these kids actually discover they’ve been propagandized?
*on 6/6/11 performed Bing search on “Climate Change”, first 5 pages of results were pro-ACW sites. The first non-AWG site was WUWT on the middle of page 6.
As Benjamin Disraeli said: “It has been discovered that the best way to ensure implicit obedience is to commence tyranny in the nursery”.
With the Federal government continuously violating the Constitution by funding public education, the brain-washing of young children on the subject of global warming baloney is assured indefinitely.
well, eBay has been a badly managed company for years now, PayPal deteriorated after eBay purchased it, management of Skype was botched.
A common reason that companies decline and fail is that the founders are not able to get solid values in place, and so hire “professional managers” who do not have them.
Californians beware, former CEO Meg Whitman is now a politician wannabe.