[Osx-nutters] Dumb shits..

[Chuck Bennett]

On Oct 11, 2006, at 4:36 PM, Google Kreme wrote:

>
> On 10 Oct 2006, at 13:02 , Chuck Bennett wrote:
>
>>
>> First look at this.
>>
>> <http://littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/? 
>> entry=22868_Democratic_Party_Fauxtoshops_Veteran&only>
>>
>>
>> Later they replaced the CANADIAN soldier  (fuck wits, don't even  
>> know the difference.)  with an American flag on their site. . here.
>>
>> <http://www.democrats.org/a/communities/ 
>> veterans_and_military_families/>
>
> Er... They got stock images from a company that provides stock  
> images.  That company provided the image sans insignia because  
> their policy specifically forbids insignia.  And?
>
> Everyone uses stock photos.  That's why stock photo companies EXIST.
>
>> First, they don't even know what our own soldiers look like ( or  
>> perhaps they do..  they DID photoshop out the badge on his beret  
>> after all)
>
> No they didn't.

Granted.

>
>> and second, they can't even find an actual crowd of people to  
>> photograph showing support...
>
> Finding and actual crowd to photograph and then making that  
> photograph work with your design takes time and money.  This is why  
> you buy stock photos.
>
> This is no different than Microsoft using stock photos of what was  
> quite obviously someone using a iBook on a page talking about  
> Windows XP.
>


Still.   If you want to make it a point of saying that you support  
your soldiers, it would be a good idea to actually use a picture of  
soldiers from your own country.

Not knowing the difference doesn't reflect so much on the folks that  
designed the site, since I'm sure their instructions was A) get a  
crowd.  B)  get a soldier.

OTOH, the folks that payed for the message should have noticed that  
the soldier wasn't one of the one's they 'support'



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