...a good way to get rid of a bunch of Joe Adventurer Yahoo types.
In no way do I advocate the plundering of these historical treasures. At the same time, I can't help but think the cubicle-dweller who said this needs to shut the hell up about people who are out there trying to do stuff instead of keeping the blinds drawn and the flourescent lights over their desk turned off.
I agree with the earlier-stated opinion that modern disney is really putting out garbage compared to some of their earlier classic works.
This snow dogs movie is a good example... except that the more I thought about it, I started to remember all those real weak Disney live-action movies featuring Kurt Russell. Then they had those shaggy da movies. You might remember. They basically would crank out these movies based on an absurd premise and then have some character running around freaking out with trying to manage this absurd situation.
The thing I guess I'm criticizing is that their big animation films also seem weak compared to their previous animated big-seller classics. Like what's up with that new one with the pirate ship that travels through space? Ninja, please!
Considering that the product is coming out of Italy, where scooters are wildly popular within cities, I have the feeling this vest is primarily going to be sold to the scooter crowd. According to this BBC
article,
"scooters and motorcycles are the principal cause of death in Italy among youths aged 19 to 24"
Speaking in general terms, the accidents that scooter users suffer in Italian cities are likely to be less extreme than motorcyclists in the US. There are probably fewer collisions with automobiles compared to the overall number of scooter spills due to other mishaps such as leaning out too far to grab a woman's ass (I have personally witnessed this maneuver in Rome). In such circumstances, this vest will probably decrease the impact of a low-speed tumble.
Though statistics show a lot of Italian deaths caused by scooter accidents, that doesn't mean scooter riding itself is so dangerous that injuries can't be mitigated by products like this. It means that there are a LOT of people tooling around on scooters in Italy. If you go there, you'll notice that right away.
Some of these boxes could be removed from the diagram if instead of having a link to the aeffro website, Joe put a.sig in his e-mail that said, "If you appreciated this help, donate to XYZ."
That the director may have misplaced the only copy within the cave he lives. A Hobbit could have stumbled into the cave and found the precious movie lying on the ground....
I got confused. I thought those were totals for each week. Instead, they're cummulative totals. My point was that derivative works often sell in excess of the original works.
Look at Scary Movie. That is a satire of several other movies and it made $156 million. Many of the famous movies it's referencing made far less but they are famous enough to give the derivative work traction in the market..
They might make their money back. Austin Powers 2 made way more than AP 1 and cost a lot more, too.
Consider Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back. That made over $100 million, and it was based on characters introduced in a movie that made far less (CLerks).
I have a hard time stomaching the third movie in this series. I hope the fourth gets some quality directing and scripting. The fabled prequel would be awesome. I just hope there are no kids in this and it's rated R.
According to the newly-released Mad Max DVD (I highly recommend it), the first one only cost $400k (AUS). It said they had a costume budget for the entire cast of only $3k, so they couldn't put everyone in real leather. Only Mel Gibson has real leather clothes. Everyone else is wearing "the finest vinyl" they could find.
The networks hate PVR technology. It defeats their current ad-based business model. It is highly unlikely the networks will assist in the development of PVR systems. The cable and satellite providers are offering PVRs because their business is subscription-based.
If zap2it is banning the ip of your screen scraper, not a problem. Run it through a proxy like those found on freely-available lists like
this. Or, just have your friend set up a proxy for you on her own computer elsewhere on the net. Since you'll be scraping from a remote IP, they'll never know which visitor is your screen scraper.
Of course, they could deal with you by breaking up their format of the data... in that case, things get more tricky.
I fully agree that there is a lot of unnecessary hysteria about the risks of transporting radioactive cargo into space. However, this was the 80s and we had some leaders proposing some pretty radical ideas about how to get ahead in the cold war. There is really no telling what went up in those secret military launches. So in this respect, I give the exaggerators the benefit of the doubt.
I checked out that link you provided to the trial-lawyer site. The data supports your observation that more people are injured in the construction industry than in space travel. If you look at the purpose of that page, though, it's to entice people to engage these lawyers to sue the construction companies for negligence. The philosophy promoted by liability law is that human life should not be traded as a "cost of doing business".
Space flight requires some very intelligent people. These people are able to discern whether or not a project has sound engineering principles behind it and whether or not flying in a craft is going to put their lives at great risk. If you are going to change the dynamic such that the space travellers must accept that there is a strong likelyhood that they will not return from their trip, then you are going to significantly change the demograph of willing participants in the program. Instead of the best and brightest, you will field the dimmest and looniest flight crews aboard your missions. For work as important and technically sophisticated as this, that demograph is less than ideal.
Now if there was some moral imperitive that would motivate the best and brightest to put their lives at risk to save humanity / preserve freedom / {insert propaganda here}, that would work a whole lot better than "hey, we want to go to mars, but the budget is sort of cut and most of this stuff isn't tested. Are you in or out?"
No one is demanding compensation for damages due to the annoyance caused by these banner ads. It's the deception as described by an earlier
post that these lawyers are attacking.
I find your comment a little shortsighted. This is not about the freedom to innovate... By your comment, I suppose you would advocate these marketing methods as well:
A TV commercial which broadcasts fuzz for a minute and a half, then a green menu like many TV's have that indicates it is in a diagnostic mode and suggests a 1-800 number that can be called to get the TV 'fixed'.
Or how about a man who drives around town in a truck that says "City of {insert appropriate city name}" and knocks on doors telling people their pipes are leaking?
Should these 'innovative' marketing techniques be legally valid?
For starters, the space shuttle was originally intended for a lot more military-related missions. The risks being balanced by its original designers weren't just the loss of a few passengers. This craft was
ferrying plutonium-laden cargo in the 80s for secret military projects. The wrong mishap on one of those missions could have left millions of people dying of cancer.
It is easy to romanticize the gamble of life for the conquest of some goal... but it's morally suspect to really sit down and construct an organizational plan that prioritizes progress over human life. Your reference to the risks taken by the moonwalkers of the late sixties ignores the propagandization of the space race. At the time, it seemed as though getting to the moon was going to save the earth from communism, which was very motivational for Americans to want to sit in a potentially sketchy rocket. We don't have that motivation now.
Can you imagine having to deliver this speech to your team: "Men. This is going to be a risky mission. Our taxpayers don't want to pay a lot these days, so we've ignored some safety precautions. But nothing's going to stop us from getting up there to fix that satellite so cellphone users won't be inconvenienced by network outages!" Imagine having to tell the daughter and wife of a dead astronaut that you appreciate their father's / husband's contributions. Getting that girder up to the space station wasn't going to be cheap, but the death of this astronaut enabled them to bring it up under budget.
The family of a dead person doesn't get too excited about the nebulous value of "move beyond this gigantic blue marble of ours".
I once saw an awesome documentary about the Russian space program called "Whispers from Space". It details precisely the approach you're advocating. After seeing the torturous conditions those cosmonauts suffer through training in order to get the chance to visit space, you could hardly be proud of having a similar program in the US. Seriously, some of them end up in mental institutions. With such a process of weeding out anyone sane, I suspect that the Mir wasn't far from being an orbiting nuthouse.
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I did read the article. Relative to other settlements in lawsuits of this scale, the states that are currently settling are walking away calling it a draw. If West Virginia pursues this to the end, they could receive a whopping multi-billion dollar settlement like Texas received from the Tobacco industry. Getting a few million is not going to help the state balance its budget. It's a gamble that West Virginia is obviously willing to take.
Thanks for elucidating with these great examples of how competition has been in the interest of the consumers.
Who knows what West Va.'s intentions are- protect its consumers or balance its budget with a big payoff.. In any event, the stated goal is to reclaim some amount of compensation for the crap endured by its citizens while Microsoft was unfairly using its monopoly in operating systems to stifle competition in the browser (and other) market(s).
I had a hard time reading and comprehending your post due to all the gramatical errors. So forgive me for not delving into the point you were making.
I would like to correct the misconception your post is based on, however
...bikes from that era are collector items.
Since you don't specifically identify the era you're talking about, I can only imagine you're referring to the seventies due to the poor quality reputation seventies HDs carry. Those bikes are no more collectible than DVD titles with 5 different cases emblazoned with the text "Collect all 5!" If you look at the used prices of these bikes, even when totally restored, they don't fetch nearly the price of a brand-new HD. Of course, certain models from any year will have a higher demand associated with them due to some eccentric aspect...
The actual name of the game is "which eyeballs". Ad targetting is where profit is made for content producers. Per-impression charges rise dramatically when you can tie the ad to a particular demograph.
Time Warner is positioned to really tie those impressions. Through intelligent proxy-mining, when an AOL user visits Time Magazine online, they'll already know what other websites the user frequents. They'll know if the user has been shopping for digital cameras on Ebay or performing searches on Google for "skateboarding". As the user accesses the Time page, the user will be greeted by targeted ads for digital cameras @ buy.com or the Tony Hawk Pro Skater video game on PS2.
Sure, privacy enthusiasts would go nuts about such tracking taking place. But wouldn't it be a nicer alternative to the popup hell suffered by IE users? Or how about an acceptable salvation for sites like Salon who would otherwise go bankrupt?
Could someone who has read the books tell those of us who haven't if the two towers resist the attack of the 747s in the movie, or do they come crashing down?
Let's send our pedofiles to these third-world countries. Let them mentally scar for life the children in those countries where "
there is no money. There is nothing to do."
Our nation is rich. Our children should not be susceptible to the environmental dangers of pedofiles assraping them. Let's export our child assrapings to the third world. Sure, some kids are going to be real screwed up, but at least they won't be as poor. ahem. Ok. So their parents won't be as poor.
Wait. I just remembered. This is already happening. We just don't have the major corporations to blame for victimizing the economically disadvantaged. That's how this analogy is slightly off.
Since most of us can only imagine what it must be like to hang out in Beverly Hills and pal around with big celebrities, perhaps you could shed some insight on the experience(s) you've had in this area.
Specifically, I'd like to know about the hot-tub orgies hosted at Eazy-E's (RIP) house. Were the women attractive? Was there free coccaine? Did you get yourself tested after he announced he had contracted AIDS?
Microsoft may well be able to eat into Sony's market, since both depend so heavily on third parties
The key obstacle for this to happen is the number of tltles released for a console by third-party developers is based on the number of console units sold. Since xBOx hasn't sold as many consoles as PS2, developers are resistant to dedicating resources to porting their upcoming titles to xBOx. It's a snowballing effect because consumers don't want to buy the console that has fewer titles available. Microsoft has had to take the expensive route of buying companies (Bungie) in order to get killer-app titles like Halo released for its system. The fact that GTA: Vice City just came out for Ps2, but isn't available for xBOx pretty much cut off the air supply for xBOx this holiday season.
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Excellent analogy. Point well-made.