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It happened in reverse for instance for beer where the czech original http://www.budejovickybudvar.cz/en/index.html was copied in the US http://www.budweiser.com/ The end result is that in EU the USA one is sold as "Bud" Brand.
I think the end result will be that the italian brand will change its name with "Sup".

83% of a pint of carbonated piss.

The difference is you watch a truckload of commercials in the hopes that maybe, just maybe you will buy Pirelli tires, Gerber baby food, a few cases of Bud, some Pepsi, Doritos, throw some Orville Redenbacher in the microwave, vote for LOCAL_POLITICIAN, replace the windows in your house, drink Florida orange juice, pick up the phone and call Binder & Binder, enroll in classes at Phoenix, get a couple Sham Wows for your friends, tune in for the BIG_STORY at 6 o'clock, stay at the HI Express tonight, ... well, you probably get the idea by now.

In the US, 16x9 programming is often/usually broadcast letterboxed into a 4x3 frame; there's not even an attempt to tell the television what aspect ratio to use.

Hence, the root of the problem: The broadcasters and cable/satellite operators make it approximately impossible for this shit to work automatically. And we, fat lazy Americans, are far too lazy to learn which button it is which will change the aspect or zoom mode on the TV, so once we finally find the mode that looks biggest we just pick that and leave it alone forever. And so, thereafter, we get to watch ourselves in glorious 4x3 480i, stretched to 52" diagonal on a 16x9 1080p display, looking positively fatter than ever, in a vicious cycle I like to call Maximum Fat-Person Vision.

It's kind of gross, really, but what's worse is that displays of MFPV are slathered all over every bar and damned near every restaurant. So you're sitting there eating your spare ribs or your Big Mac or your lard-encrusted potato chips, drinking your corn syrup-filled Coke or some easily-metabolized rice beer, seeing moving pictures all over the walls of the fattest people on earth looking even fatter, all while complaining to those around you that the price of gasoline, while still cheaper than almost every other free country, is making it hard to buy groceries. (Which is obviously only a problem because if we can't buy groceries, we can't get any fatter.)

Yeah. It's that bad. Stay over there, friend. You don't want any of this shit to get on you, and it's better to watch TV on your side of the pond anyway.

You'll find that running a business is much more than having the best products.

I've always found cable to be a bizarre industry, though. Because the only differentiating product feature is "most uptime". Recent (dumb) cable TV ads have tried to promote the monopoly they have over local content (i.e. community news and school broadcast channels), but this is silly because local channels would be available (freely) over-the-air if people really wanted them. So yeah... the fundamental problem with Comcast would be their "uptime". With my personal experience, I have recently dropped Cablevision/IO in favor of over-the-air network broadcasts and borrowing wireless internet from a neighbor. Cablevision/IO is absolutely horrible... with "uptime" numbers that barely break into the 90% mark. In all seriousness, it is routine to see digital static jump in and out of the TV and to just get cut off from internet randomly during peak hours.

Maybe Comcast's goal is to be just a little bit better than Cablevision/IO.

Petroleum is a one time gift, and we are squandering it on a bunch of obese retards driving SUVs three blocks to go pick up a pack of smokes and a six pack of the piss they call beer. Every gallon of oil blown on an Escalade is a gallon that won't go to heat their grandkid's house in 30 years. Stupid myopic self-centered idiots.

Hybrid cars in 2020? What we need is NO CARS in 2020.

RS

Gearing Up For a Gaming Session
posted at 12/07/2006 10:09 PM PST
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I know I always have my usual ritual I go through before I sit down for a gaming session. Be it 1 hour or 15, I need to be prepared. It wasn't till I started hanging around more gamers, that I noticed EVERYONE has their own checklist they run through before the console is powered up. I will let you in on my ritual, and maybe you can share yours as well...

1. Food - Snacks are a MUST when gaming with me. My personal favorite has always been the Bold and Zesty Chex mix... Followed closely by Salt and Vinegar chips... MMMmmm...
[image of chex mix, with brand prominently displayed[

2. Caffeine - Any kind... Must have it! Either doing the Dew or meeting Juan Valdez for that perfect cup of coffee, There has to be caffeine around and in immediate proximity!
[image of a starbuck's brand cup of coffee, with logo prominent and a slogan (starbucks is now open in your neighborhood) in the corner]

3. Comfortable Seat - After the food and drink are covered, its off to find a nice plush palace for my ass to sit in while I am blasting away on GoW. Now, at my place, I'll kick people out of my favorite seat. At a friends place, I'll search till I find the spot and will not let it go. I'm deadly when it comes to keeping my ass comfy. I may need to get one of these...

4. Celebration Dance - Oh yes! I actually think of a new celebration dance to do each week when I totally kick someones ass on a game. Haha! I wish you guys could have seen some of the ones in the past... Good times! (Even if there is no one around, I still do it to the screen!)

Well, that about sums it up for me. After my checklist has been satisfied, its on! Turn it on and let the games begin!

Go to http://www.budweiser.com/default.asp -- The first question you're asked is your birthday. If you're not 21 they send you a site for Anheuser-Busch theme parks instead of one about the beer.

But if you go to http://www.budweiser.co.uk/, the birthday checker only requires you to be 18. National laws don't really interact very well with an international internet.

(Why are honest under-21s not supposed even to read about beer, anyway? That's just plain silly. These birthday checks are one of the most pointless things ever invented.)

> If, as you admit, there is no reasonable way for a website to enforce minimum-age restrictions, then the law is unjust and should not be upheld.

This isn't about kids lying and saying they are 18 to view porn. This is kids saying their true age (or never being asked), and some company ignoring privacy and marketing and rules that limit how they can track and market to young children.

Go to http://www.budweiser.com/default.asp -- The first question you're asked is your birthday. If you're not 21 they send you a site for Anheuser-Busch theme parks instead of one about the beer.

Go to http://www.nickjr.com/ -- A popup will (try to) appear for a survey -- If you say you're under 13, the survey ends and the popup closes.

I know. Look at how much money is made from selling bottled water. That's a commodity if I ever saw one.

It's quite unbelievable really. And the US has to be one of the worst cases. I mean consider how much is made by some major purveyors of bottled water in the US.

Jedidiah.

Its obviously good, because even though it is overhyped and overexposed, people are still buying it.

Which Budweiser, this one or this one?

They recently announced deals with Budweiser and Klipsch where the best-rated music is syndicated in the form of top-10 lists or (in the case of Budweiser) radio players. With the size of their music library (including the former MP3.com archive ) it is a good system already, whether for musicians or consumers. Definitely something to keep an eye on!

"Blues"? Bah. Everyone knows the number one beer in Canada is the King of Beers.

As for the initial comment of 32-35 degrees for the blanket, I'm sure it would have a temperature control to choose your desired tempature. Who will this be marked to? The Frat boys who want to swill lots of cheap beer and tempature is secondary, or the beer snobs who want to keep their kegs at the proper tempature?

Your Friendly Beer Snob^h^h^h^h Advocate.

Budweiser, the king of rice beers.

(It's a flash page, so I can't link to the ingredients directly. Make up an age over 21, click on the Beer menu item, then "All About the Beer" at the bottom, then the "Making It" choice on the top left, then Ingredients.)

How can wood be made pliable enough to form into loudspeaker cones? That question stumped engineers for decades until Satoshi Imamura discovered the answer: rice wine.

Of course, some beers are more like dishwater than others.

.. with this + this with a lot of that

I just wish the Earth would have a Born On Date like fine beers do.

Anyway, I checked it out and you're right. They have miscategorized Brewnix as an MP3 site. I've submitted a request that it be reclassified as a Drug site, along with Budweiser, Miller, and Samuel Adams.

I've been [ADV: Enjoy Coca Cola!] making a decent [ADV: You'll Love the New Lexus LS430'] living for six months now just by posting [ADV: WASSUUUUPPP!!!!???] micro-ads on public forums.

It'll certainly give new meaning to "Watching the game, havin' a Bud..."

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Oh man, I am really not looking forward to the Wasszup/Wassabi! posts.

It really has to be Frank or Louie.

>>$750 / month for a split-level second floor 2 bedroom apartment in a really nice complex


I'm in St Louis. I'm paying $700/month in MORTGAGE on my 1800 ft^2, 3 bdrm, all brick, ranch house with hardwood floors and fully finished basement. I've got it really good.

Here in St Louis, we also have
Forest Park (site of the 1904 worlds fair)
which includes The Science Center (which is free) and The Zoo (which is also free)
The Gateway Arch
Budweiser
Laclede's Landing which is arguably the coolest place to drink some of that Budweiser

>>$750 / month for a split-level second floor 2 bedroom apartment in a really nice complex


I'm in St Louis. I'm paying $700/month in MORTGAGE on my 1800 ft^2, 3 bdrm, all brick, ranch house with hardwood floors and fully finished basement. I've got it really good.

Here in St Louis, we also have
Forest Park (site of the 1904 worlds fair)
which includes The Science Center (which is free) and The Zoo (which is also free)
The Gateway Arch
Budweiser
Laclede's Landing which is arguably the coolest place to drink some of that Budweiser

Oh wait... You probably mean those impersonators, not the real thing.

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