>> that's right, someone lifted a desktop machine out of a lecture hall >> in the middle of the day on a crowded campus
Actually, it is easier to steal something when you are in the open about it. Do it in front of everybody's eyes and they don't think anything of it.
I did this myself once. I liked the fancy desk chairs in the computer lab of my university and decided that I would take one. So, around noon on a Monday, with people walking everywhere, I wheeled that chair across the middle of campus to my dorm room. A friend of mine asked what I was doing. My reply: "I'm stealing this chair." His response: "You crazy practical joker. Get outta here!"
(I did return it at the end of the semester. I'm not a thief. I just like comfy chairs for studying in.)
>>Our (human) pyramids are only 6000 years old, and their outer surface is gone
Actually, the reason that the outer surface is gone is not attributable to erosion but rather to human theft.
The Giza Pyramids, built during the Fourth Dynasty, were constructed of stone with polished limestone casings. The limestone blocks were later used to construct buildings in Cairo.
(http://www.touregypt.net/featurestories/giza.htm)
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>>I say no, advertisers begin putting in more product placement
>>I sell my TV and my Tivo and read books and play video ges instead
And then the Ad Agencies put commercials in the video games.
There are already driving games with real billboards in them. How long until your Sims develop a taste for certain colas, your Civilization advisors recommend a trade pact with Japan to ease the price on Sony TVs, a Call of Duty soldier pines for getting home and taking his girl on a date in his new Ford, or your Nintendogs poop less if you give them PurinaPlusCyberChow(TM)?
As for books, many are just plugs for other products? (Diet books especially)
Looking at this line-up shows how many more Autobots there were than Decepticons. Yet, the two sides always seemed evenly matched. This leads me to believe that the Decepticons were so much more Bad-Ass!
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>> that's right, someone lifted a desktop machine out of a lecture hall
>> in the middle of the day on a crowded campus
Actually, it is easier to steal something when you are in the open about it.
Do it in front of everybody's eyes and they don't think anything of it.
I did this myself once. I liked the fancy desk chairs in the computer lab of my university and decided that I would take one. So, around noon on a Monday, with people walking everywhere, I wheeled that chair across the middle of campus to my dorm room. A friend of mine asked what I was doing. My reply: "I'm stealing this chair."
His response: "You crazy practical joker. Get outta here!"
(I did return it at the end of the semester. I'm not a thief. I just like comfy chairs for studying in.)
>>Our (human) pyramids are only 6000 years old, and their outer surface is gone)
Actually, the reason that the outer surface is gone is not attributable to erosion but rather to human theft.
The Giza Pyramids, built during the Fourth Dynasty, were constructed of stone with polished limestone casings. The limestone blocks were later used to construct buildings in Cairo.
(http://www.touregypt.net/featurestories/giza.htm
Quite a shame.
>>....
>>I say no, advertisers begin putting in more product placement
>>I sell my TV and my Tivo and read books and play video ges instead
And then the Ad Agencies put commercials in the video games.
There are already driving games with real billboards in them. How long until your Sims develop a taste for certain colas, your Civilization advisors recommend a trade pact with Japan to ease the price on Sony TVs, a Call of Duty soldier pines for getting home and taking his girl on a date in his new Ford, or your Nintendogs poop less if you give them PurinaPlusCyberChow(TM)?
As for books, many are just plugs for other products? (Diet books especially)
Looking at this line-up shows how many more Autobots there were than Decepticons. Yet, the two sides always seemed evenly matched. This leads me to believe that the Decepticons were so much more Bad-Ass!