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absurd marketing bullshittery
free_electron:
--- Quote from: metrologist on May 26, 2022, 12:20:44 am ---[to op] In the tech industry, we may call this Specsmanship
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ah, yeas. you are right. the dreaded first page in a datasheet ...
AD9850 . can do 125MHz ... great. power on . ffff barely goes 100 ... wth ? ah , 125MHz @ 5 volt... 110 at 3.3... %$@#$%%%^##$% LIARS !
free_electron:
--- Quote from: jasonRF on May 26, 2022, 12:40:52 pm ---I wonder why you are so irritated by a company adding two words to a label?
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it's not the words. it's the size and the positioning. It's in-your-face. " Crispy and crunch. Gluten free"
It just feels ... wrong.. It's not used as a warning for the intended audience. it's used as a marketing slogan ! That's what irritates me.
I would be much more in favor of a uniform logo. Top right corner of any food/medicine packaging. A square of 1inch x 1inch depicting an ear of grain with a cross through it. mandated and regulated. easy to find, always in the same spot and targeting the audience without going for the appeal to the fad followers. you can do the same for peanuts and milk.
How easy would that be for the affected people ?
free_electron:
--- Quote from: Stray Electron on May 26, 2022, 01:54:28 am --- Just like the manufacturers that put California Proposition 65 warnings on EVERYTHING that they make.
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ah yes. another one of those turds. instead of warning us about it , why don't they remove the crap ?
wraper:
--- Quote from: free_electron on May 26, 2022, 02:40:16 pm ---
--- Quote from: Stray Electron on May 26, 2022, 01:54:28 am --- Just like the manufacturers that put California Proposition 65 warnings on EVERYTHING that they make.
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ah yes. another one of those turds. instead of warning us about it , why don't they remove the crap ?
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Because in California everything causes cancer. Including your friends, I guess. California should really ban all of those substances from entering the state and obliterate itself into middle ages.
jasonRF:
--- Quote from: free_electron on May 26, 2022, 02:39:23 pm ---
--- Quote from: jasonRF on May 26, 2022, 12:40:52 pm ---I wonder why you are so irritated by a company adding two words to a label?
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it's not the words. it's the size and the positioning. It's in-your-face. " Crispy and crunch. Gluten free"
It just feels ... wrong.. It's not used as a warning for the intended audience. it's used as a marketing slogan ! That's what irritates me.
I would be much more in favor of a uniform logo. Top right corner of any food/medicine packaging. A square of 1inch x 1inch depicting an ear of grain with a cross through it. mandated and regulated. easy to find, always in the same spot and targeting the audience without going for the appeal to the fad followers. you can do the same for peanuts and milk.
How easy would that be for the affected people ?
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That would of course be fantastic. But at least in the US we are nowhere near this kind of regulation, either for food or medicines. These kinds of things don’t easily get through congress, since industry lobbyists throw tons of money at each member to buy their votes I mean support democracy. In the mean time, I’ll take any “gluten free” label I can get. If it is large and easy to see then I am much more likely to grab that item instead of a competing item. I guess some companies believe that adding the large label will yield a net increase in profit - it’s hard to fault them for that.
There are some third-party organizations that do certification of products. So you can find items that have common “certified gluten free” symbols. We buy those whenever we can.
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