Genesis 4:8. And Cain talked with Abel his brother: and it came to pass, when they were in the field, that Cain rose up against Abel his brother, and slew him.
Genesis 4:9. And the LORD said unto Cain, Where [is] Abel thy brother? And he said, I know not: [Am] I my brother's keeper?
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Genesis 27:41. And Esau hated Jacob because of the blessing wherewith his father blessed him: and Esau said in his heart, The days of mourning for my father are at hand; then will I slay my brother Jacob.
This is the name of the corporation specialized in making you see the ads fit for you that I mentioned yesterday. Google, as other search engines companies, probably do the same by themselves.
Now the funny ads disappeared -- I wonder if Mark had a chance to see them. If not, he could conclude that I am definetely paranoid -- which would not bother me in the least.
What I see advertised at the top of our MusclePower? Solutions for personality disorders.... lithium itself! Well, min Mark, we can be sure: someone has been "reading" us someway.
I wonder: do you, when you access the page, see the same I see?
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I closed the page and went back to it. In a sec the text had changed
a bit. Now, in the place where lithium was mentioned, I read:
"Catherine Dochy explains how to overcome your paranoia for a
better life" -- isn't this awfully funny? Who can be this clairvoyant Catherine Dochy?
The "related site" is the same - "mental disorders"
Now I have an extra motivation to open our blog: what will be proposed
to us each time?
Ah, now I read it better!
The ad is from Google. Those kind people are just offering us
free information about any mental disturbance we happen to have.
This is an unespected advantage of keeping a
public correspondence!
You have just to mention a problem and gentle people will appear, offering you tons of pages with information about it.
Not even Big Brother himself would be more perceptive and solicitous!
An idea: let's begin to talk about computacional chemistry, jobs, unemployment etc? Who knows? Those kind people can again overhear us, and come to gently offer you a position ;-)
In fact, I've translated part of a book by the creator of the device who enables advisers to insert their ads exactly on the screens of "interested" people. I don't remember now the name of the tecnological company he founded. It's all, if I got a right understanding of the thing, basically a question of scanning pages and then distributing cookies appropriately among the Earth's computers.
Advisers don't lose a cent of the money they spend with their ads. (Well, with me they do lose.)
This is why I'm curious to know if the ads you see are the same I see. In general, what we see advertised on the pages we visit is in fact related to all our history of navigation on the web. Tell me, please, about the ads you see adorning Muscle Power on your screen.
Brave new world!
I quite enjoyed your posting from Thursday. Many of the nominally-sane people running about our streets can be seen as having aspects of the defined illnesses, but so long as they can switch about and cope they are not viewed clinically as being ill. Of course, I am seeing this from the viewpoint of a person who is stuck, really stuck, and not able to adapt to current circumstances. I take something of a behavioralist stance with regard to myself: I want to set up a system of actions and rewards, actions that I can do without hysterical efforts that returns rewards that are truly rewarding. In my scheme, small steps lead to bigger steps which lead in the end to enormous strides that circle the globe.
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