From: rick_s on
On 6/29/2010 20:27, rick_s wrote:

> Anyone who the public trusts from some TV show can be used to sell things.
>
> And maybe in the past, a smooth talking type salesman, snakeoil AI can
> really hustle some serious dough.
>
> So the public has to be protected from that to some degree.

You see the personal holographic snakeoil AI pitch in teh privacy of
your own home, doesn't have to look like the pitch on TV.

Telemarketers have been known to make serious dough. Imagine what might
happen if you could get a client list of rich compulsive gamblers....
And you could print your own lottery tickets or you sold confusing
foreign Chinese or Korean lottery certificates signed by the
Generalisimo himself.

Amway/Avon/ please don't burn my pancakes /VS calling. This shade is
perfect for you because when you watch this swinging penduluum and
listen to my voice.... "getting a bit dizzy...can't seem
to...focus...yes...yes I, I see, I see now. We are all one with
Landru/Zorg/clucking like a chicken now/getting the credit cards..."

And maybe someone is merely skinning their Gozer with some trusted face
from All Our Children.

And the money pouring into a bank in the Caribbean in untold amounts.