publicity

To give some context, I did this as a publicity stunt for SDF and the Tor project.

A Twitter message is a publicity stunt, not a sincere offer for help.

He lost the match, but got rights to the phrase anyways, and both companies got a lot of good publicity out of the match.

They'd had some publicity before, but it was after their highly upvoted post on HN that their growth really took off.

I mean, he could have dropped a piano on it, or set it on fire...I suspect Tesla are just in the need for some publicity at the moment.

Penny Arcade apparently went too far and is getting some bad publicity, but usually there are no repercussions.

Would certainly cost Comcast a fair amount in customer support calls, bad publicity, and properly bring the debate to the general public.

Of course, it is possible that a lawyer may be willing to take on the case, at substantial cost, just to get publicity or for some other non-monetary motive.

But to accuse Amazon of not being ready, willing, and able to devote even vast resources to the potential use of drones as part of its broader strategy - and instead to be using this as a mere publicity stunt - is, in my view, to miss the obvious.

So although a local drive may be in honor of Amit, the power of the awareness being raised by the publicity of his sickness is that there are people who have never heard of Amit Gupta that will have their lives saved by his efforts, perhaps even decades from now.

There is absolutely no question about these tracking practices being perceived as ethically unacceptable in many countries, so why provoke both negative publicity and legislation that is likely to handicap less intrusive solutions as well?