You ever spent much time in the South? The average wal-mart in the US has 4 to 8 of those electric carts for the disabled. 970 in Picayune, MS has 40, and each one of them is in use by someone weighing 400 to 800 lbs to the point where sometimes a genuinely crippled person has to wait. I've never been to europe, but I can not possibly imagine a place where there are as many morbidly obese people than Mississippi.
Last I heard there are 3 confirmed informant names, 1 dead beforehand, one was a double agent for the taliban and the status of the last one is unknown.
An old buddy of mine works at the FBI. He says that these demanding letters come in all shapes and forms, are frequently quite illegitimate, and are becoming more and more widely spread.
Basically, the FBI is doing what the MAFIAA do--they know that they're the big boys with power and money and will go against you whether you're right or wrong because nearly no one will fight.
So, TrisexualPuppy... How is Hoover these days? Still in ladies undergarments?
Shareholder satisfaction is measured in profit. In the US all publicly traded companies are legally required to try to maximize profit for their shareholders.
Sadly incorrect. I wish the constitution had any power left in it in the US. But unfortunately our last 2 presidents have seen fit to use it as toilet paper.
Hydrogen storage is a real problem though. Liquid hydrogen has a ridiculous energy cost for refrigeration and compressed hydrogen gas has crap for energy density when you count the weight of the pressure vessel. The only way hydrogen can become viable as a portable energy store is with some miraculous chemistry that produces an easily reversible chemical process that binds hydrogen to some other material.
I got rather annoyed when History channel went through its recent paranormal 24/7 phase, right after its OMG! Jesus! Davinci Code! 24/7 phase, right after its Mayan Calender/Nostradamus predicts the apocalypse 24/7 phase.
Thankfully I don't pay for my cable, it is included in my rent.
Good luck deflecting asteroids without a major manned manufacturing center in space. Without a presence in space, deflecting asteroids will not be feasible because we just can't launch enough fuel out of this gravity well.
In my experience the vast majority of pirates will pirate almost everything they hear about and buy virtually nothing, ever.
Consider this thought experiment:
There is a community of 10,000 gamers, half of them only buy games, half only pirate.
There is a pool of 100 games for these guys to choose from.
Each paying customer buys about 5 games per year.
Each paying customer has a ~5.1% chance of buying your game for an average of ~255 sales.
We will pretend the unrepentant pirates will pirate half the games out there.
That is ~2500 pirates for your game.
Or about 90% of your player base.
This is all completely unsubstantiated conjecture.
But it might help put things in perspective.
Even if every unrepentant pirate would buy games if they could not be bought, that wouldn't mean that you would get 10 times more paying customers, it would mean that at best your would get 2 times with these numbers.
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fios is only available to what? 10%? of the population in the US.
Most places have a choice between the local cable monopoly, the local telephone/DSL monopoly and dial-up.
What the hell is wrong with X = Y = Z?
There are three expressions, all of them equal.
X > Y > Z is a perfectly valid expression meaning: there are 3 expressions, X is greater than Y and Y is greater than Z.
You ever spent much time in the South? The average wal-mart in the US has 4 to 8 of those electric carts for the disabled. 970 in Picayune, MS has 40, and each one of them is in use by someone weighing 400 to 800 lbs to the point where sometimes a genuinely crippled person has to wait. I've never been to europe, but I can not possibly imagine a place where there are as many morbidly obese people than Mississippi.
That is rational and reasonable.
It will never happen.
It saddens me to see what my country is turning into.
Last I heard there are 3 confirmed informant names, 1 dead beforehand, one was a double agent for the taliban and the status of the last one is unknown.
He isn't a US citizen and therefore can not commit treason against us.
An old buddy of mine works at the FBI. He says that these demanding letters come in all shapes and forms, are frequently quite illegitimate, and are becoming more and more widely spread.
Basically, the FBI is doing what the MAFIAA do--they know that they're the big boys with power and money and will go against you whether you're right or wrong because nearly no one will fight.
So, TrisexualPuppy... How is Hoover these days? Still in ladies undergarments?
The constitution.
Every dollar not spent on bad movies and pop music is one more dollar that can be spent on productive industry.
Unlimited oversight by the people.
I voted Cthulhu, if you have to vote for evil, who choose the lesser?
Only if slave trading were legal.
A publicly traded company may be required to seek a profit, but that does not give them license to break other laws to do so.
This is why they pay so much money to buy new laws. So they can have more profit without running the risks involved in breaking the law.
Shareholder satisfaction is measured in profit. In the US all publicly traded companies are legally required to try to maximize profit for their shareholders.
Sadly incorrect. I wish the constitution had any power left in it in the US. But unfortunately our last 2 presidents have seen fit to use it as toilet paper.
totally right. order by significant digits.
I would hope not. Anvils have an even higher iron content than spinach.
Spinach is my preferred salad green, but I can not stand it cooked.
Because the bulk cable package cost spread over 100 households is a tiny, tiny fraction of the $70 it would have cost me to pay for the same.
Europeans also tend to drive cars with tiny little diesel engines that are more efficient than hybrids anyway.
Hydrogen storage is a real problem though. Liquid hydrogen has a ridiculous energy cost for refrigeration and compressed hydrogen gas has crap for energy density when you count the weight of the pressure vessel. The only way hydrogen can become viable as a portable energy store is with some miraculous chemistry that produces an easily reversible chemical process that binds hydrogen to some other material.
I got rather annoyed when History channel went through its recent paranormal 24/7 phase, right after its OMG! Jesus! Davinci Code! 24/7 phase, right after its Mayan Calender/Nostradamus predicts the apocalypse 24/7 phase.
Thankfully I don't pay for my cable, it is included in my rent.
Yo dawg. I heard you like to pirate. So I put a server on a ship so you can pirate while you pirate.
Sometimes they like to be told what to do.
This only applies in the bedroom.
In all other circumstances they prefer to be the one telling you what to do.
Good luck deflecting asteroids without a major manned manufacturing center in space. Without a presence in space, deflecting asteroids will not be feasible because we just can't launch enough fuel out of this gravity well.
In my experience the vast majority of pirates will pirate almost everything they hear about and buy virtually nothing, ever.
Consider this thought experiment:
There is a community of 10,000 gamers, half of them only buy games, half only pirate.
There is a pool of 100 games for these guys to choose from.
Each paying customer buys about 5 games per year.
Each paying customer has a ~5.1% chance of buying your game for an average of ~255 sales.
We will pretend the unrepentant pirates will pirate half the games out there.
That is ~2500 pirates for your game.
Or about 90% of your player base.
This is all completely unsubstantiated conjecture.
But it might help put things in perspective.
Even if every unrepentant pirate would buy games if they could not be bought, that wouldn't mean that you would get 10 times more paying customers, it would mean that at best your would get 2 times with these numbers.