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07-06-2012, 07:41 AM
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Re: What The Heck...How?
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Originally Posted by CC1
I am amazed by the sophistication of the cookies they have these days. I can be doing a google search for something and for the next day or two advertisements for those items will appear all over the place while I am on google and other sites.
It is spooky almost as if they are reading your mind.
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Well, basically they are. But they are just reading what your typing, which just so happens to be whats on your mind. 
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You can't reach the world with your talents. People are sick and tired of religious talents. People need a Holy Ghost annointed church with real fruits to reach out and touch their lives. ~ Pastor Burrell Crabtree
In fact I think that the insinuation of "hateful" Pentecostals is coming mostly from the fertile imaginations of bitter, backslidden ex Apostolics who are constantly trying to find a way to justify their actions. ~ strait shooter
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07-06-2012, 08:03 AM
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Re: What The Heck...How?
A pefect example happened just now. I clicked on a link on the drudge report that took me to a news article at The Daily Mail, a UK newspaper.
While reading the article on that site I noticed advertisements on both sides of the page for some of the gelato makers I was looking at on Amazon the other day. The ads were for Amazon so Amazon must have a cookie doing this.
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"I think some people love spiritual bondage just the way some people love physical bondage. It makes them feel secure. In the end though it is not healthy for the one who is lost over it or the one who is lives under the oppression even if by their own choice"
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"We did not wear uniforms. The lady workers dressed in the current fashions of the day, ...silks...satins...jewels or whatever they happened to possess. They were very smartly turned out, so that they made an impressive appearance on the streets where a large part of our work was conducted in the early years.
"It was not until long after, when former Holiness preachers had become part of us, that strict plainness of dress began to be taught.
"Although Entire Sanctification was preached at the beginning of the Movement, it was from a Wesleyan viewpoint, and had in it very little of the later Holiness Movement characteristics. Nothing was ever said about apparel, for everyone was so taken up with the Lord that mode of dress seemingly never occurred to any of us."
Quote from Ethel Goss (widow of 1st UPC Gen Supt. Howard Goss) book "The Winds of God"
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07-06-2012, 08:32 AM
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Re: What The Heck...How?
I googled for growing hemp. I found that it was all imported and thought maybe it would make a good cash crop for the farm... alas, it is illegal even if no THC is produced...
No ads were generated by that search 
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07-06-2012, 10:15 AM
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Re: What The Heck...How?
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I googled for growing hemp. I found that it was all imported and thought maybe it would make a good cash crop for the farm... alas, it is illegal even if no THC is produced...
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Really?!? I figured High Times magazine would be knockin yer door down. 
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You can't reach the world with your talents. People are sick and tired of religious talents. People need a Holy Ghost annointed church with real fruits to reach out and touch their lives. ~ Pastor Burrell Crabtree
In fact I think that the insinuation of "hateful" Pentecostals is coming mostly from the fertile imaginations of bitter, backslidden ex Apostolics who are constantly trying to find a way to justify their actions. ~ strait shooter
www.scottysweb.com
www.chrisscottonline.com
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07-06-2012, 10:19 AM
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Re: What The Heck...How?
Makes me want to go and delete every cookie off my computer! I don't know that it would do any good though....
It's not a good thought to know you're being followed everywhere you go in internet land. What kind of database do they have to keep up with every single person on the internet?
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07-06-2012, 10:54 AM
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Re: What The Heck...How?
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Originally Posted by scotty
Really?!? I figured High Times magazine would be knockin yer door down.
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ROFL... no... and Don vetoed my hemp for textiles idea anyway... He says he does not want to have to keep up with the tresspassers who are too stoned to understand the signs that say you can't get high on hemp.
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07-06-2012, 10:55 AM
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Re: What The Heck...How?
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Originally Posted by KeptByTheWord
Makes me want to go and delete every cookie off my computer! I don't know that it would do any good though....
It's not a good thought to know you're being followed everywhere you go in internet land. What kind of database do they have to keep up with every single person on the internet?
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A big one?
My kid says that FB is not only tracking us buy has facial recognition capabilities too...
Ever wonder what all the 'red light' cameras are really about?
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07-06-2012, 11:21 AM
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Re: What The Heck...How?
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Originally Posted by KeptByTheWord
Makes me want to go and delete every cookie off my computer! I don't know that it would do any good though....
It's not a good thought to know you're being followed everywhere you go in internet land. What kind of database do they have to keep up with every single person on the internet?
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To be perfectly honest with you. They do have the capability to stalk you and record all kinds of information on you. By analyzing your search history and behavior over a period of time they can pretty much tell your age, sex, race, marital status, income, etc etc.
Now, here is the down low. Could they use this info for no good? Sure they can. Do they? I highly doubt it, right now anyway. Will there come a time as we move closer to the end that the powers that will be will use this info for no good, very likely.
For now, its used for nothing more than marketing. Period. As some have posted that they see ads pertaining to their search patterns, thats really what it is all about. They determine what things your looking for, what your interest are and then in turn try to supply marketing ads that may suit your interest. The companies they are marketing for pay them to do this. Its all about money and marketing, not some evil big brother, for right now anyway.
And its what the majority want. It narrows down the search results to suit you. Just like Google pulls your IP address, determines where you are located. Then when you search for Starbucks, instead of getting results from every Starbucks in the world, you will get the Starbucks that are local to your area. It uses all of your other info in the same manner. Its just about marketing.
Here is another example. I own a webdesign business. I have all of my clients websites signed up with Google Analytics. Analytics records things like how many visitors each site gets, what pages they go to, how long they are on the site, where they are located, whether they are on a computer or moble device, what browser they are using. Now, there is also a section that tells me what their most likely demographic is. I emphasize "most likely". This section tells me what is most likely their sex, race, age, income level, marrital status, number of children,etc. We in turn use these statistics to see what kind of demographics are most interested in that particular site,product, or service. When we see that, then we can emphasize or target that demographic more and/or see what we need to do to get the business of the demographics that are not coming to those sites.
Its just a marketing game, for right now anyway.
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You can't reach the world with your talents. People are sick and tired of religious talents. People need a Holy Ghost annointed church with real fruits to reach out and touch their lives. ~ Pastor Burrell Crabtree
In fact I think that the insinuation of "hateful" Pentecostals is coming mostly from the fertile imaginations of bitter, backslidden ex Apostolics who are constantly trying to find a way to justify their actions. ~ strait shooter
www.scottysweb.com
www.chrisscottonline.com
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07-06-2012, 11:57 AM
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Re: What The Heck...How?
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Originally Posted by Titus2woman
I googled for growing hemp. I found that it was all imported and thought maybe it would make a good cash crop for the farm... alas, it is illegal even if no THC is produced...
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But you may have someone knocking on your door one of these days.
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07-06-2012, 11:58 AM
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Re: What The Heck...How?
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Originally Posted by scotty
To be perfectly honest with you. They do have the capability to stalk you and record all kinds of information on you. By analyzing your search history and behavior over a period of time they can pretty much tell your age, sex, race, marital status, income, etc etc.
Now, here is the down low. Could they use this info for no good? Sure they can. Do they? I highly doubt it, right now anyway. Will there come a time as we move closer to the end that the powers that will be will use this info for no good, very likely.
For now, its used for nothing more than marketing. Period. As some have posted that they see ads pertaining to their search patterns, thats really what it is all about. They determine what things your looking for, what your interest are and then in turn try to supply marketing ads that may suit your interest. The companies they are marketing for pay them to do this. Its all about money and marketing, not some evil big brother, for right now anyway.
And its what the majority want. It narrows down the search results to suit you. Just like Google pulls your IP address, determines where you are located. Then when you search for Starbucks, instead of getting results from every Starbucks in the world, you will get the Starbucks that are local to your area. It uses all of your other info in the same manner. Its just about marketing.
Here is another example. I own a webdesign business. I have all of my clients websites signed up with Google Analytics. Analytics records things like how many visitors each site gets, what pages they go to, how long they are on the site, where they are located, whether they are on a computer or moble device, what browser they are using. Now, there is also a section that tells me what their most likely demographic is. I emphasize "most likely". This section tells me what is most likely their sex, race, age, income level, marrital status, number of children,etc. We in turn use these statistics to see what kind of demographics are most interested in that particular site,product, or service. When we see that, then we can emphasize or target that demographic more and/or see what we need to do to get the business of the demographics that are not coming to those sites.
Its just a marketing game, for right now anyway.
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So... they are measuring my weakness... And targeting me to recieve information, not about things I need but things I might buy, if only the right shiney ad pops up at a confluence of frustration, fatigue, financial plenty and fuzzy judgement... and then whammo! that comfort item is right in-your-face close, ready to buy!
Things I need I obviously remember to buy all by myself... I mean google has never had to pop up a TP ad for me to be sure it goes in the basket every month.
I'm not sure I like it... but having to search through 1.3 million Starbucks to get a latte would probably not suit me either...
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