During American football (background noise for me, I call it handegg).
I was thinking, rather than advertising the features of the phone, they should push it as an "exciting" purchase, with the key question being: Will it explode?
One would think, after a total recall, that all product related activities would stop immediately. I understand advertising contracts and such, but swap out the content with a warning and notice of the recall, rather than continuing to push the product.
This makes sense, especially seen as an attempt to prevent the movie from becoming a self-fulfilling prophecy.
Transformers: Age of Extinction is about the final days of the desktop OS "transformation", with Microsoft Windows permanently losing the desktop war to Linux.
The last Windows users move to the moon and are banished from Earth, effectively becoming "extinct" from Earth's perspective.
So, in order to ensure this doesn't happen, they associate Linux distros with the movie, utilizing the DMCA as a preventative tool.
I can't think of an industry that has such wild changes in capital investments and wild contractions of the same assets.
When oil was $140+ shale and old wells were very profitable and built or started back up en mass.
Now at sub $50, all of that investment is shut down. It's still mostly available later, but the investments are expensive (and companies pay much higher interest rates than the government).
Coal companies are bankrupting as well, and they have always provided the fuel for the cheapest energy (natural gas is a big problem for them).
I've wondered this myself and thought about it a bit.
My conclusions were: 1.a. People like to decorate their phones as they see fit (proper armor would make cases that much larger) 1.b. The ability to decorate a phone using after market cases is important to the phone manufacturer since more people are likely to buy a phone if they can dress it up as they would like. 2. Aftermarket products have varying levels of protection, the consumer can choose what suits them (a woman with her phone in her purse all of the time has different needs than myself, I carry my phone in a pants pocket).
So they focus on thin phones of various rectangular sizes.
It seems like this approach would just let the counterfeit products completely control the Amazon market for their type of product.
I wonder if Birkenstock is aware of a website called Aliexpress.com... A quick search shows that $20 off retail is much more than one needs to pay for a counterfeit version of their shoes.
I'm not sure about other games, but, we have all of the NES/SNES/Nintendo 64 Mario games on our original Wii (they are the only games my wife plays, and she's very good at them).
There is a version of Minecraft called Story Mode, and from what I've seen of my son playing it, it seems in the vein of Indiana Jones.
And it has a story.
The original director dropped out because he wanted to do a Goonies style story. That would have probably worked, especially if it was targeted at younger children through early teens (the ones playing Minecraft Story Mode).
Spoiler Alert for Lego Movie: Shoot, Lego made a fantastic film about Krazy Glue.
There's a good book of the same title by Naomi Klein.
It's a simple concept,. and the summary summarizes it for this situation: exploit a mass shooting in order to expand the government's digital spying powers.
Here's what we know: 1. Born in the US, thus a US citizen (child of immigrants, but most all of us are) 2. Had two wives (and one divorce) and a small child 3. Worked in security (where they carry guns) 4. Was investigated twice by the FBI (someone he attended religious things with had reported him) 5. Was legally able to purchase firearms
I'm sorry government of the United States, you weren't going to stop this guy. Except, he had been investigated and vetted as not a threat. THAT IS WHERE THE SYSTEM FAILED!
Could the system have been successful? We will probably never know. But: * Him researching guns wouldn't have raised any eyes (it shouldn't have anyway). * is father was rather wordy and seemed supportive of some "bad" groups (him searching for such things could have easily been painted as "know thy enemy" or simple curiosity).
He's basically Timothy McVeigh but against the gay community rather than the Federal government (and also no where near as deadly as Timothy).
I have a cavity. I pump energy into it, in the form of some small bits of food (chewing would be a better term than pumping). This energy is trapped, but it sticks rather than bouncing around.
Eventually it finds its way out, via a dentist, in some coherent way. The cavity is also filled.
Please, dear god, please don't let there be lasers involved!
Finish Breaking Bad. Best show ever. I watched all 5 seasons in two weeks once, using my time very effectively and to good use (the end is perfect, as is the song at the end).
Best show ever. I never expected the father in Malcolm in the Middle to be that good of an actor.
Would a concrete wall (at around 100mph) followed by a tree count? With the fronts wheels completely sheared off? Driver walked away. There was a fire (after the driver exited), but the body blocked it from the passenger compartment.
We believe these changes will also help prevent a fire resulting from an extremely high speed impact that tears the wheels off the car, like the other Model S impact fire, which occurred last year in Mexico. This happened after the vehicle impacted a roundabout at 110 mph, shearing off 15 feet of concrete curbwall and tearing off the left front wheel, then smashing through an eight foot tall buttressed concrete wall on the other side of the road and tearing off the right front wheel, before crashing into a tree. The driver stepped out and walked away with no permanent injuries and a fire, again limited to the front section of the vehicle, started several minutes later. The underbody shields will help prevent a fire even in such a scenario.
I realize it's a fan site link for EVs, but it has the coverage as I remember it.
And I'm not a fan boy, I respect Elon Musk and his RESULTS. He's pretty good in the results category, and in the dream categories.
When I take my twins to a movie it goes like this: $40 for tickets $20-30 for food/drink (not counting the trip to Walgreen's for candy)
So $60-70 total (minimum actually, game room is another money sink at some theaters).
$50 to watch it at home? Shoot, I'd almost pay a higher premium.
And even if it's just my wife and I watching, it's still cheaper than the UFC (which we watch regularly - mixed martial arts if you aren't familiar with it).
My wife and I have purchased no less than six Nexus 5 phones, mostly due to her dropping them (immediately after taking off her case twice).
I have another one coming via Swappa right now as my camera and light have stopped working (due to dropping).
We also keep two functional ones with cracked screens around in case our phones fail, we can just swap the SIM can keep going until the replacement phone is purchased.
Not having a home phone makes having a replacement laying around a bit of a necessity (due to the "always connected" nature of current lifestyles).
Oh, and iTunes is terrible. Apple support is actually really good though (live human being in the US available in about 3 minutes yesterday, and with a good approach to my iPad situation).
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During American football (background noise for me, I call it handegg).
I was thinking, rather than advertising the features of the phone, they should push it as an "exciting" purchase, with the key question being: Will it explode?
One would think, after a total recall, that all product related activities would stop immediately. I understand advertising contracts and such, but swap out the content with a warning and notice of the recall, rather than continuing to push the product.
This makes sense, especially seen as an attempt to prevent the movie from becoming a self-fulfilling prophecy.
Transformers: Age of Extinction is about the final days of the desktop OS "transformation", with Microsoft Windows permanently losing the desktop war to Linux.
The last Windows users move to the moon and are banished from Earth, effectively becoming "extinct" from Earth's perspective.
So, in order to ensure this doesn't happen, they associate Linux distros with the movie, utilizing the DMCA as a preventative tool.
Wasn't a very good, or convincing movie though.
5,300 makes it a business practice, not a conspiracy.
I can't think of an industry that has such wild changes in capital investments and wild contractions of the same assets.
When oil was $140+ shale and old wells were very profitable and built or started back up en mass.
Now at sub $50, all of that investment is shut down. It's still mostly available later, but the investments are expensive (and companies pay much higher interest rates than the government).
Coal companies are bankrupting as well, and they have always provided the fuel for the cheapest energy (natural gas is a big problem for them).
Coal Problems:
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/...
Interesting dynamics.
You should also consider the flip side. Law enforcement and the private prison complex are another corollary from prohibition, and they are big money.
There's a lot of money to be made on either side of the fence with prohibition.
I would argue that both sides are cartels, and both sides seem to enjoy the war, it is very profitable.
I've wondered this myself and thought about it a bit.
My conclusions were:
1.a. People like to decorate their phones as they see fit (proper armor would make cases that much larger)
1.b. The ability to decorate a phone using after market cases is important to the phone manufacturer since more people are likely to buy a phone if they can dress it up as they would like.
2. Aftermarket products have varying levels of protection, the consumer can choose what suits them (a woman with her phone in her purse all of the time has different needs than myself, I carry my phone in a pants pocket).
So they focus on thin phones of various rectangular sizes.
It seems like this approach would just let the counterfeit products completely control the Amazon market for their type of product.
I wonder if Birkenstock is aware of a website called Aliexpress.com... A quick search shows that $20 off retail is much more than one needs to pay for a counterfeit version of their shoes.
I'm not sure about other games, but, we have all of the NES/SNES/Nintendo 64 Mario games on our original Wii (they are the only games my wife plays, and she's very good at them).
No, pretty much every platform, for example:
* Symantec Endpoint (Mac, Windows, Linux, UNIX)
I'm not sure what's missing in that example that would be in this one:
* Symantec Scan Engine (All Platforms)
Here's a good link:
http://googleprojectzero.blogs...
There is a version of Minecraft called Story Mode, and from what I've seen of my son playing it, it seems in the vein of Indiana Jones.
And it has a story.
The original director dropped out because he wanted to do a Goonies style story. That would have probably worked, especially if it was targeted at younger children through early teens (the ones playing Minecraft Story Mode).
Spoiler Alert for Lego Movie:
Shoot, Lego made a fantastic film about Krazy Glue.
Detroit is almost all out lying suburbs. It is the city itself where the situation you describe has been going on for the most part.
There's a good book of the same title by Naomi Klein.
It's a simple concept,. and the summary summarizes it for this situation: exploit a mass shooting in order to expand the government's digital spying powers.
Here's what we know:
1. Born in the US, thus a US citizen (child of immigrants, but most all of us are)
2. Had two wives (and one divorce) and a small child
3. Worked in security (where they carry guns)
4. Was investigated twice by the FBI (someone he attended religious things with had reported him)
5. Was legally able to purchase firearms
I'm sorry government of the United States, you weren't going to stop this guy. Except, he had been investigated and vetted as not a threat. THAT IS WHERE THE SYSTEM FAILED!
Could the system have been successful? We will probably never know. But:
* Him researching guns wouldn't have raised any eyes (it shouldn't have anyway).
* is father was rather wordy and seemed supportive of some "bad" groups (him searching for such things could have easily been painted as "know thy enemy" or simple curiosity).
He's basically Timothy McVeigh but against the gay community rather than the Federal government (and also no where near as deadly as Timothy).
Sometimes something really classic or funny is captured, and it's worth it.
For example, last week, during a concert, Justin Beiber fell into into a large hole on stage and disappeared for a few seconds.
I'm glad there was video of that, it was fun to watch a few times.
Actually, a considerable amount of the energy I consume does come out of the other end, and thus propels me.
I have a cavity. I pump energy into it, in the form of some small bits of food (chewing would be a better term than pumping). This energy is trapped, but it sticks rather than bouncing around.
Eventually it finds its way out, via a dentist, in some coherent way. The cavity is also filled.
Please, dear god, please don't let there be lasers involved!
Anyway, I apologize, I just had to...
Finish Breaking Bad. Best show ever. I watched all 5 seasons in two weeks once, using my time very effectively and to good use (the end is perfect, as is the song at the end).
Best show ever. I never expected the father in Malcolm in the Middle to be that good of an actor.
I recall this from 30 years ago (when in middle school):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Would a concrete wall (at around 100mph) followed by a tree count? With the fronts wheels completely sheared off? Driver walked away. There was a fire (after the driver exited), but the body blocked it from the passenger compartment.
Quote below from the link (photos at link):
http://insideevs.com/tesla-rev...
We believe these changes will also help prevent a fire resulting from an extremely high speed impact that tears the wheels off the car, like the other Model S impact fire, which occurred last year in Mexico. This happened after the vehicle impacted a roundabout at 110 mph, shearing off 15 feet of concrete curbwall and tearing off the left front wheel, then smashing through an eight foot tall buttressed concrete wall on the other side of the road and tearing off the right front wheel, before crashing into a tree. The driver stepped out and walked away with no permanent injuries and a fire, again limited to the front section of the vehicle, started several minutes later. The underbody shields will help prevent a fire even in such a scenario.
I realize it's a fan site link for EVs, but it has the coverage as I remember it.
And I'm not a fan boy, I respect Elon Musk and his RESULTS. He's pretty good in the results category, and in the dream categories.
Bookbub is a good, legitimate site for cheap or free books.
Many times the authors give away one book of a series, hoping for sales of the others.
I consider this a reasonable business model (as the free books of this type that I have read were complete stories in-and-of themselves).
While it may not have an appropriate topic to land, it is rather critical to technology as it involves power.
This is because all of us use power, and the paradigm around power and energy is very much in flux these days (much more so that in recent history).
For the record, I've been following this story for a while as I live in the St. Louis area, where Peabody is headquartered.
Are you suggesting that I'm not impatient!
When I take my twins to a movie it goes like this:
$40 for tickets
$20-30 for food/drink (not counting the trip to Walgreen's for candy)
So $60-70 total (minimum actually, game room is another money sink at some theaters).
$50 to watch it at home? Shoot, I'd almost pay a higher premium.
And even if it's just my wife and I watching, it's still cheaper than the UFC (which we watch regularly - mixed martial arts if you aren't familiar with it).
That's why he can present such information in the USA, if that is before the Singapore conference.
He might have to move to Russia at some point....
Are you referring to the International Baccalaureate (IB)?
Just checking as my kids have started a French language immersion school (in the US) where the IB is the intended goal after graduation.
Here, here!
My wife and I have purchased no less than six Nexus 5 phones, mostly due to her dropping them (immediately after taking off her case twice).
I have another one coming via Swappa right now as my camera and light have stopped working (due to dropping).
We also keep two functional ones with cracked screens around in case our phones fail, we can just swap the SIM can keep going until the replacement phone is purchased.
Not having a home phone makes having a replacement laying around a bit of a necessity (due to the "always connected" nature of current lifestyles).
Oh, and iTunes is terrible. Apple support is actually really good though (live human being in the US available in about 3 minutes yesterday, and with a good approach to my iPad situation).