Back in 2012 Congress forced the Army to buy $431 million worth of tanks it didn't need or want just so the local senators/representatives could keep the plant where they were made open.
The Army had prior to this said it had no plans to purchase new tanks until at least 2017.
I stopped going to the site about two years ago due to an ad related incident when trying to watch an episode of Zero Punctuation.
I clicked on the video and tabbed over to a forum to read a thread while the pre-roll ad played.
After a couple of minutes I realized that the episode never started playing. When I tabbed back instead of the video I wanted to watch there was a text entry box where I had to enter the name of the item that had been advertised (A Toyota RAV-4) before the ad would go away.
I closed the window and have not gone back to the website since.
I'm a reasonable person and i understand that they are a business and advertising is how they stay in operation. I normally don't mind having to deal with a pre-roll ad. But requiring me to take a quiz about your commercial before I can see your content crosses the line for intrusive and obnoxious.
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KFC discontinued the boneless chicken in the first quarter of this year.
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Back in 2012 Congress forced the Army to buy $431 million worth of tanks it didn't need or want just so the local senators/representatives could keep the plant where they were made open.
The Army had prior to this said it had no plans to purchase new tanks until at least 2017.
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I have long maintained when asked that violent video games are what keep me from going on chainsaw rampages through shopping malls.
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I stopped going to the site about two years ago due to an ad related incident when trying to watch an episode of Zero Punctuation.
I clicked on the video and tabbed over to a forum to read a thread while the pre-roll ad played.
After a couple of minutes I realized that the episode never started playing. When I tabbed back instead of the video I wanted to watch there was a text entry box where I had to enter the name of the item that had been advertised (A Toyota RAV-4) before the ad would go away.
I closed the window and have not gone back to the website since.
I'm a reasonable person and i understand that they are a business and advertising is how they stay in operation. I normally don't mind having to deal with a pre-roll ad. But requiring me to take a quiz about your commercial before I can see your content crosses the line for intrusive and obnoxious.