Stories like this make me want a Tesla Roadster somewhat less than I did before. It's powered by 6,800 Li-ion cells.
Ahhhhhh, but it's based on the Lotus Elise. Starting to feel a bit better?
Flames are great. ..
And about $30,000 of the price is for batteries that don't blow up and a computer monitored liquid cooling system, all mounted in a shockproof housing.
If only they didn't have a 5 year shelf life (resulting in an approximately 90% depreciation of the car value), weigh half a ton even when "empty" and typically burn dirtier fuel than a petrol car I'd be thinking about it.
I work in a huge new and used bookstore (powells.com) and have done so long before Amazon existed.
Oddly enough my favorite, local independent opened the same years as Powell's. I've been their customer since the first day the door opened. I certainly don't order online from them (although I could) since I can just walk over to the store.
If I'm after a best seller I can grab it there, any other bookstore, or even the supermarket. I don't buy that sort of book online unless I already happen to be online shopping. People, by and large, buy them where they happen to be when the mood takes them to buy (which might be online or off).
But I just looked up one of my favorite, obscure, out of print titles at Powell's and drew a blank.
Looking up the same title at Amazon I can choose between the English or American printings at a variety of prices, because Amazon is not a bookseller, it is a bookseller's market. I do not buy the book from Amazon, I buy it from an independent through Amazon.
Ahhhhhhhhhhhh, I actually miss Jon. At least he gave us something real to talk about. Ya know, stuff that mattered. Sometimes it takes a fucktard to do that.
9. amazon.com, 1. eBay.com, 15. easyjet.com (Budget airline) - Online commerce is important, but there were many pioneers.
The importance of Amazon and eBay is not that they do online commerce, but that they link small sellers to the international market through a single, searchable site.
Amazon changed the world of used books, not the world of the latest best seller.
eBay changed the world of collectibles and small craftsmen.
Seriously, what teeth does this have considering recent history?
None.
Nor do I believe the developers believe it has teeth.
What they've done is the equivilent of making a movie, to win an Oscar, to make a political speech when accepting the award, to get people talking about their "issue."
Looks like it's working, even if it is a doofyass way of going about things.
. ..the perfect convergence is the addition of a claw onto a hammer, way back when. ..
The hammer part being used to concuss the armoured knight, the claw part to pierce his helmet and kill him once you had him down.
Who knew they'd be useful for nails?
KFG
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. ..the number of writers who started out writing media fanfic who went on to actually produce professional original works of fantasy and science fiction is vanishingly small.
You're looking through the wrong end of the telescope.
I've had measles. ..twice. I guess that means I'm in the club.
The measles didn't bother me much, but I have to worry a good deal about the flu, or even the common cold. Due to other medical conditions they can be fatal for me. At the very least a cold can knock me out for months, rather than the normal week.
My best strategy would be to avoid all people, never use doorknobs or handle money without wearing latex gloves and disinfecting afterward, etc. This would reduce my risk of infection to very low levels.
I might also just as well be dead in the first place.
To be fair the RIAA hires some of theirs as well. They don't have lawyers licensed in every state and there is an advantage in having a "front" man who knows the local judiciary, but he's "run" by the home office, which is also where all the drudge work is done.
The MPAA has house lawyers as well, but you don't see them as much as the RIAA lawyers. Congressmen do.
I gather from the tone of your reply that I may have offended you.
No, not at all. Really.
I feel strongly about this issue and I went a bit overboard.
I have no idea how many songs and instrumentals I know "by heart." It's well beyond any concept of counting them. I'm not looking forward to having my brain sucked out and agree I with Beethoven's observation about the music "biz."
If I seem to be coming from some other space it's just that I guess I feel strongly about people understanding that written music is a record of the music. The "Jeez, it's not like it's a CD or something" was getting to me. I'm a musician. I play. I write. It's the "stuff in a can" that's the "fake."
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No, but the blanket was new, although I assume they didn't use their own identity to charge it, so I'm not sure that scored major points on karma.
KFG
Stories like this make me want a Tesla Roadster somewhat less than I did before. It's powered by 6,800 Li-ion cells.
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Ahhhhhh, but it's based on the Lotus Elise. Starting to feel a bit better?
Flames are great. .
And about $30,000 of the price is for batteries that don't blow up and a computer monitored liquid cooling system, all mounted in a shockproof housing.
If only they didn't have a 5 year shelf life (resulting in an approximately 90% depreciation of the car value), weigh half a ton even when "empty" and typically burn dirtier fuel than a petrol car I'd be thinking about it.
KFG
I work in a huge new and used bookstore (powells.com) and have done so long before Amazon existed.
Oddly enough my favorite, local independent opened the same years as Powell's. I've been their customer since the first day the door opened. I certainly don't order online from them (although I could) since I can just walk over to the store.
If I'm after a best seller I can grab it there, any other bookstore, or even the supermarket. I don't buy that sort of book online unless I already happen to be online shopping. People, by and large, buy them where they happen to be when the mood takes them to buy (which might be online or off).
But I just looked up one of my favorite, obscure, out of print titles at Powell's and drew a blank.
Looking up the same title at Amazon I can choose between the English or American printings at a variety of prices, because Amazon is not a bookseller, it is a bookseller's market. I do not buy the book from Amazon, I buy it from an independent through Amazon.
KFG
Showing your kids how to use the toilet is a time of great cognative dissonance.
I know my own mom would dearly like to get her watch back.
KFG
Well I didn't say I'd want to have him over for dinner. :)
KFG
Somebody stole my identity once, but a week later I found it lying on my doorstep with a note of sympathy pinned to its blanket.
KFG
Ahhhhhhhhhhhh, I actually miss Jon. At least he gave us something real to talk about. Ya know, stuff that mattered. Sometimes it takes a fucktard to do that.
Of course sometimes you just end up with Dvorak.
I miss Jon.
KFG
Where do you think the Japanese go to find their American collectibles?
KFG
9. amazon.com, 1. eBay.com, 15. easyjet.com (Budget airline) - Online commerce is important, but there were many pioneers.
The importance of Amazon and eBay is not that they do online commerce, but that they link small sellers to the international market through a single, searchable site.
Amazon changed the world of used books, not the world of the latest best seller.
eBay changed the world of collectibles and small craftsmen.
KFG
. . .even though this is a british site, all but one of the sites mentioned is american.
.the web itself.
Two (and some of the others really have to be considered multinationals at this point, although based in the US), and then there's . .
KFG
His fault for not evolving opposable thumbs.
KFG
Seriously, what teeth does this have considering recent history?
None.
Nor do I believe the developers believe it has teeth.
What they've done is the equivilent of making a movie, to win an Oscar, to make a political speech when accepting the award, to get people talking about their "issue."
Looks like it's working, even if it is a doofyass way of going about things.
KFG
. . .Copyfarleft.
Definately a Clause Too Far.
KFG
. . .if it came down to starvation for you and your child vs eating Bambi, Bambi'd be on a stick.
Presumably Bambi found something to eat?
KFG
I take it you haven't figured out that a Pelican case, for about $300. . .
$400 for a 1660 plus another $400 for the case inside the case.
Or would you rather hand carry your violin and speak sootily to anyone that taunts you for it?
Yes. Nor is there any reason I shouldn't.
Though I guess you'd rather just leave it unprotected and demand special treatment because of your ignorance and inflexibility.
Speaking of speaking sootily. . .
KFG
. . .the perfect convergence is the addition of a claw onto a hammer, way back when. . .
The hammer part being used to concuss the armoured knight, the claw part to pierce his helmet and kill him once you had him down.
Who knew they'd be useful for nails?
KFG
. . .the number of writers who started out writing media fanfic who went on to actually produce professional original works of fantasy and science fiction is vanishingly small.
You're looking through the wrong end of the telescope.
KFG
. . .which one of you never googled their own name?
.googling my name.
Googling my own name was how I first became aware that other people were . .
It was also a bit of a shocker to find myself mentioned on vh1.com and celebrityaccess.com.
It's a Brave New World where if you've never googled yourself you might not know where you've been.
KFG
. . .without any carry-on luggage. . .
I take it you don't fly with antique violins.
KFG
I've had measles. . .twice. I guess that means I'm in the club.
The measles didn't bother me much, but I have to worry a good deal about the flu, or even the common cold. Due to other medical conditions they can be fatal for me. At the very least a cold can knock me out for months, rather than the normal week.
My best strategy would be to avoid all people, never use doorknobs or handle money without wearing latex gloves and disinfecting afterward, etc. This would reduce my risk of infection to very low levels.
I might also just as well be dead in the first place.
Life is risk.
KFG
The problem I see is lobbying for a law that requires people to license patented technology AND making the license fee expensive.
Don't worry. Lots of used saws on the market, although I would expect the price to rise a fair bit.
KFG
. . .the MPAA hires theres.
To be fair the RIAA hires some of theirs as well. They don't have lawyers licensed in every state and there is an advantage in having a "front" man who knows the local judiciary, but he's "run" by the home office, which is also where all the drudge work is done.
The MPAA has house lawyers as well, but you don't see them as much as the RIAA lawyers. Congressmen do.
KFG
I gather from the tone of your reply that I may have offended you.
No, not at all. Really.
I feel strongly about this issue and I went a bit overboard.
I have no idea how many songs and instrumentals I know "by heart." It's well beyond any concept of counting them. I'm not looking forward to having my brain sucked out and agree I with Beethoven's observation about the music "biz."
If I seem to be coming from some other space it's just that I guess I feel strongly about people understanding that written music is a record of the music. The "Jeez, it's not like it's a CD or something" was getting to me. I'm a musician. I play. I write. It's the "stuff in a can" that's the "fake."
KFG
KFG
RIAA and listeners : till death do us part. . .
.but your estate are belong to us. You have already failed to survive. Set us up the corpse for great justice. We get stay. Make your filing.
. .
KFG
The RIAA is lawyers. Representing the recording industry is their full time job.
KFG