They hated us for our way of life (rightly or wrongly.. doesn't matter at this point)
This is a fallacy created so the real reason terrorism exists, America's heavy-handed-holier-than-thou foreign policy, doesn't come to light. If we would treat other nations and their populations with something resembling respect, terrorism would recede to mere background noise. Then maybe we could start focusing on stuff that matters, but talk like that doesn't get any votes.
A friend of mine in university got in a bit of trouble when he spoofed the reply address in a joke email. The IT dept wasn't happy they had to explain to a student that they didn't really get an email from god@heaven.com.
As far as I know, fire/cooking predates farming. Most estimates place the origins of farming 10,000 years ago, and according to the summary, cooking developed 200,000 years ago. So while humans may have been cooking wild plants, I imagine a major advantage of cooking was allowing you to store meat much longer.
You're right about civilization being based on high calorie domesticated agriculture, but your timing is a little off.
I, too, am in Japan, and I find the basic grammar to be quite easy to grasp and word order is flexible (like Latin). The hard part is the $"!#$ Chinese characters. There about 1000 you need to learn for everyday life, and most have two or more ways to be read. The meanings tend to be the same though, and I sometimes find I can understand a sentence, but can't pronounce it.
From a business perspective, it doesn't matter if the curtains actually provide enough electricity to validate their use, but that purchasers THINK they're "going green" by buying them. The company making these curtains only really cares about the marketability of their product.
The truth is, you'd be much better off plastering these curtains to the roof or side of your house than hanging them up as curtains, but any product that requires real effort to "go green" isn't going to be as marketable as easy, haphazard solutions.
There's already law on the books saying that presidential email are public record and need to be preserved. However, the current administration seems to have *forgotten* this little fact.
I also imagine some spots would be be more popular than others.
Bereaved Widow: I want my husband to buried here. Is this spot taken? Salesperson: This spot? (On top a hill next to a tall oak tree, over looking a beautiful landscape) I promise none of the hundreds of customers have picked this spot prime before. Your husband's spirit will be very comfortable here.
If the major record labels do fall, that would great for broadcast radio.
There was an alternative rock radio station that started up in my hometown when I was in high school that was owned by the same media group that owned the major classic rock station. For the first month or so, this new station had no airtime sold, so they played no commercials, and they played great mixes all month. After word had gotten out that there was a cool new radio station, they started selling air time. Fast forward a few years, and they became completely unlistenable. They played the same handful of songs on heavy rotation and completely destroyed any loyalty I had to them from when the stationed first started.
Without major labels pushing they're "new discoveries", the station might actually be free to play a good mix again. Same goes for all stations playing new music. There will still be a market for radio, but the stations might actually be able to choose their own mix to play. And if a station feels it's niche is playing music that's generic enough for everyone, then so be it, but at least there won't be a hidden agenda for the station to push shi**y music to sell more records.
You're right in that a service was provided by these gatekeepers, but now that archaic corporate model needs to change. There will still be gatekeepers, but the new gatekeepers will be bloggers and other online communities that promote music they've heard and appreciate. People who then in turn like the music being promoted from one source, or "gatekeeper" will come back to them for further recommendations.
Some of my favorite bands have never been on the radio. I've heard about them through friends or through reading online. This new promotion style will more closely mirror this "organic" model of promotion.
The clerk isn't always responsible for a short till. I worked at a place in college where if your till was short, the manager would be upset, but nothing more would happen. They figured it was a simple mistake, like giving a $10 back instead of a $5. But if it happens with any regularity, you'd get canned. Not sure if it's even legal to dock your pay for a short till, unless they can prove you took the money.
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They hated us for our way of life (rightly or wrongly.. doesn't matter at this point)
This is a fallacy created so the real reason terrorism exists, America's heavy-handed-holier-than-thou foreign policy, doesn't come to light. If we would treat other nations and their populations with something resembling respect, terrorism would recede to mere background noise. Then maybe we could start focusing on stuff that matters, but talk like that doesn't get any votes.
A friend of mine in university got in a bit of trouble when he spoofed the reply address in a joke email. The IT dept wasn't happy they had to explain to a student that they didn't really get an email from god@heaven.com.
As far as I know, fire/cooking predates farming. Most estimates place the origins of farming 10,000 years ago, and according to the summary, cooking developed 200,000 years ago. So while humans may have been cooking wild plants, I imagine a major advantage of cooking was allowing you to store meat much longer.
You're right about civilization being based on high calorie domesticated agriculture, but your timing is a little off.
I, too, am in Japan, and I find the basic grammar to be quite easy to grasp and word order is flexible (like Latin). The hard part is the $"!#$ Chinese characters. There about 1000 you need to learn for everyday life, and most have two or more ways to be read. The meanings tend to be the same though, and I sometimes find I can understand a sentence, but can't pronounce it.
From a business perspective, it doesn't matter if the curtains actually provide enough electricity to validate their use, but that purchasers THINK they're "going green" by buying them. The company making these curtains only really cares about the marketability of their product.
The truth is, you'd be much better off plastering these curtains to the roof or side of your house than hanging them up as curtains, but any product that requires real effort to "go green" isn't going to be as marketable as easy, haphazard solutions.
"I don't want to repeat my innocence. I want the pleasure of losing it again." - F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise
"The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." -- Thomas Jefferson
Hmmm, after rereading it, I can see the subtle sarcasm now. Sorry I missed it the first time...
There's already law on the books saying that presidential email are public record and need to be preserved. However, the current administration seems to have *forgotten* this little fact.
I also imagine some spots would be be more popular than others.
Bereaved Widow: I want my husband to buried here. Is this spot taken?
Salesperson: This spot? (On top a hill next to a tall oak tree, over looking a beautiful landscape) I promise none of the hundreds of customers have picked this spot prime before. Your husband's spirit will be very comfortable here.
If the major record labels do fall, that would great for broadcast radio.
There was an alternative rock radio station that started up in my hometown when I was in high school that was owned by the same media group that owned the major classic rock station. For the first month or so, this new station had no airtime sold, so they played no commercials, and they played great mixes all month. After word had gotten out that there was a cool new radio station, they started selling air time. Fast forward a few years, and they became completely unlistenable. They played the same handful of songs on heavy rotation and completely destroyed any loyalty I had to them from when the stationed first started.
Without major labels pushing they're "new discoveries", the station might actually be free to play a good mix again. Same goes for all stations playing new music. There will still be a market for radio, but the stations might actually be able to choose their own mix to play. And if a station feels it's niche is playing music that's generic enough for everyone, then so be it, but at least there won't be a hidden agenda for the station to push shi**y music to sell more records.
You're right in that a service was provided by these gatekeepers, but now that archaic corporate model needs to change. There will still be gatekeepers, but the new gatekeepers will be bloggers and other online communities that promote music they've heard and appreciate. People who then in turn like the music being promoted from one source, or "gatekeeper" will come back to them for further recommendations.
Some of my favorite bands have never been on the radio. I've heard about them through friends or through reading online. This new promotion style will more closely mirror this "organic" model of promotion.
According to TFA, the ship was trying to moor during "bad weather." So it WAS a storm that caused it, indirectly.
Does this mean that in the west we wipe the toilet?
pac-man anyone?
The clerk isn't always responsible for a short till. I worked at a place in college where if your till was short, the manager would be upset, but nothing more would happen. They figured it was a simple mistake, like giving a $10 back instead of a $5. But if it happens with any regularity, you'd get canned. Not sure if it's even legal to dock your pay for a short till, unless they can prove you took the money.