CNN Places an X over the VP

[BleakFuture]

Heh, now all we need is for the tv to suck information out of your head. C'mon tone, you must've heard about this somewhere.

[K2Grey]

Before talking about subliminal messages, please first get a basic familiarization with this effect and psych studies on it. IIRC, while there are limited effects that can be caused, you cannot make it detailed (i.e. English sentences aren't effective), which greatly limits what you can do. I don't think a black X is going to have much if any effect. Psych majors please correct anything I said wrong :P

[Superted]

Channel 4 use subliminal (an advert on for the briefest of seconds) advertising for Big Brother.

[DoTheFandango]

Channel 4 use subliminal (an advert on for the briefest of seconds) advertising for Big Brother.

That's hysterically ironic.

[ConcreteSchlyrd]

Not to mention that it looks suprisingly like a color/picture calibration overlay for broadcasting. Hmmm... a broadcasting overlay on a broadcasted station? Obviously there are foul deeds afoot! Someone notify Interpol!

[Tone]

Before talking about subliminal messages, please first get a basic familiarization with this effect and psych studies on it. IIRC, while there are limited effects that can be caused, you cannot make it detailed (i.e. English sentences aren't effective), which greatly limits what you can do. I don't think a black X is going to have much if any effect. Psych majors please correct anything I said wrong :P

Cooper, Joel and Cooper, Grant. Journal of Applied Social Psychology. 2002. Subliminal Motivation: A Story Revisted. (32)11: pp. 2213-2227.

"So was Vicary correct after all? Can we be prompted to think that we are thirsty not because of the time since our last drink, the state of our taste receptors, or the fluid needs of our tissues, but solely because of a word or scene that has been processed nonconsciously? ...our findings, along with the growing body of research in social cognition, suggest that there might be some truth to the suggestion that our motivational states are affected - and might even be caused - by preconsciously perceived stimuli."

[BleakFuture]

Not to mention that it looks suprisingly like a color/picture calibration overlay for broadcasting. Hmmm... a broadcasting overlay on a broadcasted station? Obviously there are foul deeds afoot! Someone notify Interpol!

I'm gonna need a phone number. I'm afraid I dont have them on my phone list... :fear:

[Bioture]

it means Dick Cheney, like George Bush, doesn't care about black people.

Edit: Thanks Kanye. Your Touch the Sky concert was the bomb.

[Ephemeral]

K2 is correct, subliminal messages, at best, may be able to 'suggest' certain things to people. K2, it is exactly as you said, repeated flashing of a juicy burger just below the threshold of visual perception may induce hunger in some people.

So what gives?
- Is it the left wing media adopting the right wing’s dirty conspiracy tactics, and both sides of the political scale are out to get us all?
- Is it that this was just a ‘red herring’ attempt by the right wing to smear the left wing news media?
- Or was it that sometimes, given the endless 24/7/365 stream of video, sound, and other media coming at us each and every day, that some guy in a control booth made a mistake and hit the wrong button?

Gee, I think I will go off the rest of the day to ponder Bayes’ probability theorem to determine which event above is the most likely. Oh wait, I first guess I should go dig out my old college psych books and bone up on subliminal messaging. Oh shit, wait. I forgot about the 4-5 Windows applications out there that you can intentionally send subliminal messages to your screen to help yourself stop smoking, lose weight, or get smarter. Given the overwhelming and hugely successful nature of those applications, I can’t believe that that I can’t remember their names.
It’s right on the tip of my tongue. Hell, I even bought one for here at my company and installed it on everyone’s PC with the message, ‘work harder’. I can’t believe I don’t remember those application names, I mean the companies that developed them are making more money than Microsoft.

[DoTheFandango]

What happened was they were told to queue up a piece of stock footage (I think it was the CNN logo), to start where that X was, but there was no footage to go to, so it errored.

[brookus]

Tone, I have to wonder. Why are you even on the computer? You do know that the government is tracking your every move, right? By posting stuff like this, you're just putting yourself higher on the list of people that need to be dealt with. You should probably hunker down in your bedroom and not come out until after the asteroid hits.

Being skeptical of things is great, but like anything when you take it to the extreme you ruin it.

llater,
Tony

[Troll King]

The truth is that T0ne has already convinced us all and we're all denying it so that we wouldn't attract Big Brother.

I've said too much.

[PH]

Been nice knowing you, TK.

[BleakFuture]

What exactly does Big Brother look like. The name suggests things, but has anyone ever REALLY met him?

[Theif of Time]

This is obviously fake or else we would have already heard about it from Tone.

http://forums.trenchwars.org/showthr...673#post414673

Just click the linkie....

What exactly does Big Brother look like. The name suggests things, but has anyone ever REALLY met him?

TK will know, soon enough.