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Originally posted by InfaRedMan
reply to post by themystic123
It's called "taking the piss"... a bit of fun! Marketing that makes people talk and have a giggle. Politicians aren't the only subjects of satire. So are people - and in this case, paranoid people.
"Oh look at those lousy NWO elitists, rubbing our noses in it. This means it MUST be true!"
Cue: Theremin Music
IRM
en.wikipedia.org...
Hulu is a joint venture of NBC Universal and News Corp, with funding by Providence Equity Partners, which made a USD$100 million equity investment and holds a 10% stake.
en.wikipedia.org...
Providence Equity Partners is a private equity firm headquartered in Providence, Rhode Island that focuses on investments in media and telecommunications. It is one of the largest private investment firms specializing in equity investments in media and communications companies, managing around $21 billion in equity capital.
The following is a list of some of the most significant leveraged buyout and growth capital investments completed by Providence to date:
* VoiceStream Wireless
* Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
* Warner Music Group
* Freedom Communications
* PanAmSat
* AT&T Canada
* eircom
* Ziggo
* NexTag
* Kabel Deutschland
* Telcordia Technologies
* Language Line
* F&W Publications
* USIS
* ProSiebenSat.1 (DE)
* Bresnan Broadband Holdings
* The Phones 4U Group (UK)
* Idea Cellular
* CanalDigitaal (NL)
* TV Vlaanderen (BE) and
* Bell Canada.
Freedom Communications, Inc., . . ., owns more than 75 publications newspapers in the US. . .
Warner Music Group (WMG) is the third-largest of the big four major record labels. . .
The former PanAmSat Corporation. . . was a satellite service provider [operating] a fleet of communications satellites used by the entertainment industry, news agencies, internet service providers, government agencies, and telecommunication companies. . .
Eircom Group plc is the largest telecommunications operator in the Republic of Ireland. . .
Ziggo is the largest cable television company, Internet service provider and Digital TV provider in the Netherlands. . .
Kabel Deutschland was founded in January 1999 by the former German telecom monopolist Deutsche Telekom in order to spin off its entire cable TV business as required by regulatory terms. . . According to IFRS rules, in fiscal 2005 / 2006 revenues amounted to €1.012 billion, the EBITDA amounted to €401.3 million.
US Investigation Services USIS was formerly a US government agency that was privatized in 1996 as an employee owned stock company, now owned by Providence Equity Partners.
ProSiebenSat.1 Media AG is a European media conglomerate, operating commercial television, premium pay channels, radio stations and related print businesses. . . ProSieben bought SBS Broadcasting for the total sum of €3.3 billion. SBS was also owned by Permira/KKR. . .
Idea Cellular is a leading GSM mobile service operator with pan India licenses. With a customer base of over 36 million in 15 service areas, operations are soon expected to start in Orissa and Tamil Nadu-the first steps in providing pan India services covering over 90% of India's telephony potential. . .
Canal Digitaal Satelliet [Netherlands] and it's Belgian cousin TV Vlaanderen Digitaal are owned by Airbridge Investments and Providence Equity Partners. The latter has a controlling majority investment. . .
TV Vlaanderen Digitaal is a provider of digital television via satellite for the Belgian market. . .
Bell Canada currently services over 13 million phone lines. . .
Originally posted by sir_chancealot
Just remember...
It appears to be a spiritual law that they have to tell you what they are going to do to you, before they do it. Even if presented in such a way as you think it is humor, or fiction, or even a lie.
Originally posted by -NewSense-
Originally posted by sir_chancealot
Just remember...
It appears to be a spiritual law that they have to tell you what they are going to do to you, before they do it. Even if presented in such a way as you think it is humor, or fiction, or even a lie.
I'm glad someone mentioned that. They're laughin at us in our faces. But it's ok, you can always change the chanell, right?....
Originally posted by NightSkyeB4Dawn
...I see that you don't understand how advertising works.
I guess you don't think that Google sells anything or even ATS for that matter. Look around more closely. There are advertisement dollars being spent by the boat loads.
Just because they don't scream at you to pay up front does not mean that you don't end up forking out for those advertising dollars in the long run.
Originally posted by cogburn
Somewhere an executive at Hulu that is also a subscriber to this website is sitting in his office, reading this thread, and laughing.
You guys are the best.
Originally posted by Aeons
Yes he did. He bought a house in BC, Canada and moved there.
Originally posted by Alxandro
That's what happens to liars.
Baldwin said he was leaving the US if Bush was elected President a few years back.
Well he never left.
Alec Baldwin insists he never said that he would leave the country if George W. Bush were elected president. The German magazine Focus insists that his wife, Kim Basinger, said in an interview that Baldwin did utter such a promise. Yada yada yada.
What makes the episode interesting is that it has turned into something of a cat fight between New York gossip columnists.
The New York Post's Richard Johnson accuses Mitchell Fink, of the rival Daily News, of being a dupe by backing up Baldwin's denial.
Baldwin, Johnson says, "frantically tried to back off his bombastic promise (to leave the country) with a statement planted yesterday in Mitchell Fink's gullible column."
A bit belatedly, Fink has Baldwin acknowledging that Basinger spoke to Focus. "But my wife and I never said unequivocally that we would leave the country if Bush won. Never," he quotes Baldwin as saying.
Originally posted by sir_chancealot
Originally posted by NightSkyeB4Dawn
...I see that you don't understand how advertising works.
The purpose of advertising is to get people to buy goods and/or services.
I guess you don't think that Google sells anything or even ATS for that matter. Look around more closely. There are advertisement dollars being spent by the boat loads.
Really? And you base the assumption that I "don't think that google sells anything" on what?
Just because they don't scream at you to pay up front does not mean that you don't end up forking out for those advertising dollars in the long run.
What the flaming hockey pucks does "don't scream at you to pay up front" have to do with anything?
I iterate my stance again. What product or service does this commercial advertise? Based on this commercial, why should I buy this product/service? What want or need does this product/service fulfill?
The fact of the matter is that NO ONE can tell what this product or service actually IS. The only way to know is to ALREADY know what this product/service is, because you won't learn a single thing from the commercial.
Since the purpose of avertising is to sell goods and services, don't you think it a little odd that they don't even let the consumer know what goods/services are for sale? You don't find that strange at all?
[edit on 3-2-2009 by sir_chancealot]
Originally posted by Karlhungis
reply to post by NightSkyeB4Dawn
As much as I love the conspiracy angle of this subject, the rational side of me thinks that it has a lot more to do with advertising dollars than it has to do with mind control.
In all reality, it could probably argued that it is a combination of the two. In the end though, I think it still comes down to the (formerly)all mighty dollar.