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= F.U.C.K. - Fucked Up College Kids - Born Jan. 24th, 1993 - F.U.C.K. =
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Rated Best Overall...
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How many of you read and believe consumer reports and treat them
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like a bible when you buy a product? If you do, you may want to reconsider
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doing this. Let me give you a scenario and a few reasons to change your
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ways.
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Magazines are out there for one reason. Money. They don't care
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who reads them, why a person reads them, or what it says, as long as it
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is making money. If they are making money, then everything is cool in their
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book. Magazines rely on the content of the articles to sell it to the
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customer, but don't make jack shit from customer subscription. All their
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money comes from the companies that pay for those glossy adds plugging
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their product. If you stop to notice, most magazines are between 50 and 75%
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advertisements, not articles.
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Scenario: A 'popular' magazine isn't doing so well. They decide
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to release a few consumer reports on a certain line of computer printers,
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or telephones, or something else. During their testing, three companies
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approach the magazine and offer to buy an extra large advertisement in
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the next issue, for three times the price normally charged. The magazine
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of course will run the ad, pocket the money, and nothing else happens...
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right? Wrong. In return for the extra funds, the panel of 'experts',
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determine that Brand X printers and Brand Y phones are the best on the
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market. Is it coincidence that they happen to be made by the same company
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that just paid for the huge ads? I think not.
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These days with the power of money, there is NO guarantee that those
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187 test were performed on those 64 brands of that product. Even if they
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sat there running through all the tests like that, do you think they
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have a good reason to waste that kind of time testing all those products
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when everyone out there will believe the results regardless? Nope.
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Another reason: Those test performed are designed for a specific
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task. Each test will determine how a unit will perform in a specific
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condition, trying to utilize a specific function, in a certain way.
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Translated, not the way you would use it. Who cares if that item can
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be used while hanging upside down, in zero gravity, on a full moon?
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For the average use, 99% of those lame test will never be utilized nor
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the conditions met, so why follow it?
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Instead of reading the report, using it as a buying bible, why
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not think of what you will be using it for. How often are you going to
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use it? Who in your family will use it? What kind of money are you looking
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to spend? Buy a product that meets THOSE needs, not the needs of some
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89 year old guy who doesn't know what the real world is like.
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If you have doubts about what I say, write the magazines and ask
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them for a list of test and the results on something they did a consumer
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report on. See if they can even send the data to you, and if they will.
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They should have no reason to hide it since the results have been published.
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If they don't send it, consider my view on it, and see if it makes more sense.
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DisordeR
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9 out of 10 Statistics are Wrong.
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= Questions, Comments, Bitches, Ideas, Rants, Death Threats, etc etc... =
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