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There has arisen on the Internet an insidious form of advertisement. It is a form of and very effective.
The advertisements are blended so smoothly and effectively into the content of the website as to render their intention virtually invisible. Colors, backgrounds, fonts, layout, indistinguishable from one another. Again, very effective.
Though we would not classify it as dishonest , it is certainly distasteful. Where can it lead ... intellectually? To some higher level of thinking? "Not in this space-time continuum."--- Quark, Deep Space 9
And yet there is another issue.
The
But first, we attempt to encourage our visitors to stay and learn for as long as they would like and as long as we have something of interest to them. Only when they are done, would we like them to spend money and leave, and when they leave, then hopefully to one of our advertisers to spend more.
The beauty to our solution of these issues is that we can simultaneously fulfill our motivations and our mission by providing the user, you, a service which every internet surfer needs but no one has provided here to date.
On the left most portion of your screen is vertical frame
One such group of user-useful information is the
Bear in mind, generally the user has two options, each suggesting that it might be better to do the other, because each has a possible undesirable consequence. They are as follows:
If one clicks as soon as he sees an interesting ad, that will interrupt and most likely terminate his activities here, including even a thorough examination of the remaining ads and their content information.
On the other hand, if one decides now to click later, then later he may simply forget
But with the
Yes, at
And we do something which we must brag is quite clever. We place the OK button directly above the link that has just been clicked. So all one has to do is click again!
This is a double example of the backward progress of society. And if you click the link that we shall present shortly, it will be placed in the
Because this is a demonstration you will not be allowed to go directly to the link. We want to control the direction of this lesson. In normal usage you would be given the choice as well as numerous options in the
Click the link at the end of this sentence now to learn later about the
"double example backward progress of society." (
Que-it Or Do-it?
Ok, if you clicked the double-example-backward-progress-of-society link at the end of the last sentence of the previous paragraph, a small window should have popped up which asked the question:
"Que-it or Do-it?"
Naturally it defaulted to Que-it otherwise it would defeat the purpose of the que. Of course, there was a radio button that allows you to link immediately if you so choose.
And there are user preferences/ defaults available at both the user preferences change page and the
Now, look again at the left most portion of your screen in the first vertical frame
The
Also in the
Level 4 Active Members are critical to you, not just, us because they provide much of the content, the information we just mentioned, as well as other goods and services available at the
Even something as simple as a hobby contains imformation and techniques, tips and tid-bits of interest to thousands of people through out the world.
Please seriously think about becomming a Level 4 Active Member yourself. There is no fee or cost to you. That's right, no fee. So you too could be shairing and profiting from your life's experiences.
Profiting? Of course! You receive a portion of the revenue from any purchases from other surfers and members who originally visited the
This Member Levels link is not provided right here, as would be customary in most web sites, because that would distract you from the vital learning that you are engaging in right now. It is important that you read and study all the links in the
But first, finish reading this page, then go back to the
Now to finish this discussion. The Que-it that you performed earlier should have inserted a link in
When fully implemented, you will be given convenient options and settings for deleting items from the ques after you read them. Currently the ques are static. When we have updated the functionality of the