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Product Placement in Online Gaming
ceejayoz writes "MSNBC/Reuters has an article about product placement in 'The Sims Online'. EA has made a multimillion dollar deal with Intel and McDonalds to include 'Intel's familiar jingle, its product logo, and computers using its Pentium 4 processor' and 'a McDonald's kiosk and ... the company's branded food' in the game."
Can I download a pizza from my laptop?
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Well, AMD once put the Intel Jingle on a board... Oh wait...
FYI: They don't wash the lettuce. It comes pre-washed and pre-cut in sealed plastic bags. All they do in the back is pull it out of the bag and spread it on the bun. Likewise all the other junk they put on the product. (It's the same at all of the fast food franchise spots.)
Sorry.
You have to admit, it can be pretty hard around here telling the difference between the sarcastic (usually me), the stupid and the trolls.
War crimes, torture, lies, illegal spying... Would someone give Bush a blowjob, already, so he can be impeached?
>I don't know about you, but I know from personal experiance, that spilling normal (~140 F) liquid in my lap, while uncomfortable and hot, will not cause major burns, maybe reddening of the skin, but that is about it.
"Bad" (I assume bad enough for a hospital visit) burning of the skin occurs in under 6 seconds with hot water at 140 degrees.
Don't be fooled by a fool (not you, the McDs lady) -- if you're dumb enough to hold a coffee cup between your legs, you're dumb enough not to jump when it starts to burn.
But, I have discussed this point with others before. After hearing about the temperature of McDs coffee, I totally agree people using it properly (as in drinking it) who were burned by it getting compensation, but complete morons (by choice) simply don't deserve money for anything.
>Bottom line, if the coffee was at a normal how hold temp (145 F), the spill while painful would not have caused the damage it did.
Any liquid can burn at any reasonably high temperature (145 F is high enough) if its left there long enough. Anyone stupid enough to keep coffee so near their reproductive area would have left the "cooler" coffee there long enough to cause such bad burns as the short time she had the 180 F coffee there anyways.
Next thing you know people will be suing ViewSonic for making monitors that carry enough voltage inside to knock you off your feet, rather than just cause you a heart attack.
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