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Unless you have a large volume of targetted traffic (where you can back this up with demographics)...you simply wont get any value by displaying big horrible ads around what could have been a perfectly good site :)
Sponsored text links and affiliate programs are IMO the least intrusive, least annoying and valuable method of getting a return from a content or commercial site
but ads are good...here and there, but not everywhere :)