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Here's an example from The Netherlands, the cost for commercials per car per brand: http://www.rtl.nl/components/financien/rtlz/2011/weken_2011/07/0218_1115_VW_geeft_per_auto_minst_aan_reclame_uit.xml

No doubt similar happens in other developed countries, look at the top five and cry for the savings you could have had:
Infiniti € 8.293
Dodge € 3.348
Lexus € 3.337
Lancia € 3.218
Jaguar € 2.788

Find me a phone that can wash my dishes, and I'll get a 10 year contract.

Oh wait, it already exists!

Sumsing Turbo 3000 Xi Multitask!

A majority of 50.4% of the Dutch wants the government to soften the immigration policy Lots of hippies around here I guess

I'm Dutch, and I'll back him up, allong with 90% of the rest of the Dutch. 64% of the Dutch find the American attitude towards other country's frightning 71% thinks the USA exaggerates the terrorist threat for it's own interests. President Bush is a threat to world peace: 56% agrees etc. Source btw, NIPO is one of the biggest poll institutions in Holland and has a very good reputation.

Net5 (commercial station) tonight:
Providence
Friends
Possession (movie, US)
Extreme makeover vlaanderen (dutch/flemish spoken, US idea)
Friends
Queens Supreme

Veronica (commercial station) tonight:
The fresh prince
JAG
Lois and Clark
Love stinks (movie, US)
Paradise Hotel
Next!

Nederland 3 (public broadcasting)
News
BNN Cash Cab (dutch gameshow)
Catherine Tate show (UK)
Los amantes del circulo polar (ES)
News
News-Background stories

See for yourself: http://www.rtl.nl/service/gids/ ned 1,2,3 is public, RTL, SBS, Net5, Veronica and Talpa is dutch commercial TV. Talpa was just founded, only would run dutch shows, but is now running some foreign shows as well)

Oh, and Oprah is on every night.

A similar thing happened a year ago in the Netherlands, where a Dutch 'cake'-maker* (for those who know Dutch: ontbijtkoek)
actually went to court so that they wouldn't be obliged to sell to a certain supermarket** anymore... (By the way, they won!)

Roel

* Peijnenburg was the 'cake'-maker;
** Albert Hein was the supermarket store.
Link in dutch:
http://www.rtl.nl/(/financien/rtlz/nieuws/)/compon ents/financien/rtlz/2005/02_februari/02-peijnenbur g_albert_heijn_supermarktoorlog_koek_uit_schap.xml

Some months ago we had a major explosion disaster in Belgium involving a natural gas line. 23 people were killed, tens of others severely burned and still recovering.

Slideshow here, picture 8 has the fireball:
http://www.rtl.nl/(/actueel/rtlnieuws/)/components /actueel/rtlnieuws/2004/07_juli/30/buitenland/slid eshow_belgische_fabriek.xml

First investigations revealed that the gas pipeline had been damaged by construction work for a service road to a new industrial building; the investigation and the legal proceedings regarding responsibility are continuing, and expected to last for another two years.

As a result of the accident people called for better plans of the infrastructure to avoid such disasters in the future.

Security by obscurity isn't going to work in this case.

AFAWK, no terrorists were involved.

Actually, that's doubtful. RTLZ (don't bother clicking, it's in Dutch) reported today that the ECB is talking to Hitachi about ultra-small (invisible to the naked eye), ultra-lightweight (can't feel them either) chips to be embedded in notes in the future to prevent counterfeiting. However, these chips have nothing to do with RFID or any other wireless techniques or technologies -- these chips would just store an irremovable, 38-digit serial number that could be read with a special flatbed scanner (which would have to cover the bill; no remotely-operable affair).

I mean in dutch - rtlz is doing the story in dutch.

There is an emergency plan in place that would keep them running until the end of the month if customers pay their june fees in advance.

If you have a lot of money and want to have a state of the art network with REALLY dedicated people now is the time to buy!!

As for the pay per view: they tried it, but i suppose it was not that popular. the 2nd season was way less popular. (like someone said here , is it still on then?). So the pay per view will fade away.
I just expect a sort of Jerry springer alike soap. With the difference this takes 100 days.
But after 2 seasons Big Brother and 2season "de bus" (like big brother, but then in a bus) i think we all get bored by it.

As for the "for adult" thing. Wouldn't the credit card to pay the 10$ block it. Why else are all those "Adult check" Web ages asking for a credit card no to validate the age. Not that i ever go there......