dpcarey
Senior Heliman
Location: Ontario, Canada
| MarkC. For goodness sake, go back and READ all my posts. You have a VERY short memory. I assure you that these are, indeed, my points.
MarkC said:
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| 1. As RC Helicopters become more and more popular, more and more people attempt to fly them in their own yards.
2. More people attempting to fly them in their front yards results in more damages/injury innocent persons/property.
3. More damages/injury to innocent persons/property results in more claims against homeowner’s insurance policies.
4. As insurance companies gather statistics they realize that at some point it would be more cost effective to spend the money feeding lobbyists to pressure state senators and state representatives and driving media campaigns targeted toward creating local laws regulating the use of RC Helis. (It is a HELL of a lot easier to get this done at the state level first, followed by a few other states and then some other states just snowball in.)
5. With laws governing the use of RC Helis on your property in place, the homeowner’s insurance policies would no longer be required to pay claims involving RC Helicopters since their use on your private property would be constituted as “illegal activity”.
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To the above, I simply added| Quote |
| With specific reference to point number#1. Do you think, just for a moment, that a video (like the one in question) featuring a brand new heli, a world class pilot, and endorsed by the Worlds`foremost heli manufacturer, could possibly encourage more and more people (to) attempt to fly them in their own yards....like a Coke commercial that causes more people to drink Coke???
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MarkC, in your attempt to refute the above, you have undeniably proved yourself to be off-of-your-rocker with this next one:| Quote |
| Research done by the CocaCola Bottling Company of America themselves sadly found that Coke commercials don't cause more people to drink Coke. New Coke drinkers are born into families that drink Coke. People don't run out and by Coke when they see a commercial or even run to the icebox to get one out. Do you?
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Have you noticed a scarcity of TV commercials theses days? I most certainly haven`t. Of course, people can, and do learn to buy products from many different sources - depending on the product. But, your larger assertion that companies of the world (like Coke) are spending countless of billions on advertising for absolutely nothing, is over-the-top rediculous. Now remember - sorry, but you need help in this regard - we are not really talking about Coke here! We are talking about whether a video with a celebrity pilot and an Align endorsement could possibly encourage any sort of imitation - especially in a young newbie - thus leading to the chain of consequences listed in our 5 points above. This has been my entire argument from the beginning.
Advertising has got to be one of the most researched fields of all time. Billions continue to be spent every day in order promote and ultimately sell everything.
Until now! MarkC has come along and pronounced the very premise of advertisment, and its` goals, to be false, bogus, nadda, dead ! And, he has "the research" to back it up too!
Wow . I believe that today you may have become the village idiot in the eyes of many members. And, I do not say that with any malice either. Your assertion regarding advertising is beyond the assessment of any further words. I can waste no more time on you. Clearly, I have already wasted too much effort in your hopeless direction. Not because you disagree with me, but rather because you do not comprehend what you read, nor can you stay focussed on the topic at a hand. You`ve actually forgotten what my argument was. Your "5 points" proved that beyond a doubt.
I believed/hoped I was engaged in a dialogue with a person of some intellegence, education and reason. Apparently, I have been a fool in this regard - perhaps it is me who is the "village idiot!".
See you later MarkC. I will leave you now with these "Coke Commercials" - I guess those guys aren`t reading their own research huh?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7wt5FiZQrgM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oWoLu_Hvbbw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g2YfUo1H4bg
In China too! But certainly NOT to actually sell Coke, right?
http://video.google.com/videoplay?d...367493081978705 |
. Yes, that is condescention you are reading. But, I just cannot resist the opportunity - "the urge" - as you so eloquently put it (but without condescention I am sure).
