As I continue down the long pathway of life, meandering here and there, never knowing what might be around the next bend, I can take pleasure and comfort in knowing that - somewhere out there - there is an anomymous coward that is not a Google shill. Perhaps I shall pass this bit of arcania on to my children - and then to their children in turn - until at some point in the far distant future it becomes a family legend. Thank you, anonymous coward, thank you.
"If we can get enough exposure and get in the top 40 by the end of the week, do we necessarily need a large label?"
No - if you've got $25-$50K laying around to get a few thousand cd's printed, and have a marketing team ready to burn shoe-leather talking the stores into putting the cd's on their shelves, and a management & accounting firm to press the retailers for your receipts.
Or - hire some grunts to run a print-on-demand setup, and a flunky to run a website and take orders paid by paypal while you cut tracks for a 2nd cd.
After meeting or exceeding all of our yearly company goals and setting a new profit level, each of us salaried folks received a bonus envelope with 25 brand-new,consecutively-numbered one-dollar bills in it.
I still have it, 8 years later. I'm no longer with the company though.
The US consumes nearly 25% of the worlds energy though it has only 5 % of the worlds population...
Our overall productivity is roughly twice that of the rest of the world, so the real question is "why does it take the rest of the world 3x the energy to produce half what the US does?"
...I read it somewhere a long time ago and been telling folks this for years - whenever the subject came up.
Now that its been officially reported in/., I can triumphantly wave the printout in peoples' faces and scream, "See! This proves it! Its right here in.....uh...uh..."
I can spend $200 on an more-difficult-to-pick lock (or more)....I can also hire a 24 hour-a-day guard! Most folks don't.
Given that the vast majority of locks - and lock purchasers - do not fall in your more exotic scenario, all of my statements are quite true and accurate.
And - as another post'er pointed out - no lock (including your fancy one) will withstand a crowbar or cutting torch or (in the final analysis) dynamite. If they want in, they'll get in.
Years ago I was at a tech flea market and - on a childish whim - bought a fairly nice set of lock picks (which are legal to sell in that state, unlike some). FYI - I am of the "Man from UNCLE", "T.H.E CAT", "The Prisoner", and "007" generation so I always wanted to be able to pick locks like the spies.
I even bought a lockpicking book ("Lock-picking Made Easy" by Lenny the Wire) I always liked that name.
I soon found out how incredibly easy it is! After picking my first lock (a random key lock I had laying around) I went to Home Depot and bought about a dozen key locks of various mfgrs and proceeded to pick 'em! I then did all the locks on all the doors on my house. Then I worked on my suitcases. I even did the lock on the li'l box I stored my 5 1/2 PC diskettes in. Then I did both cars.
What I learned was:
"No key lock is really secure. None are pick-proof." "Most are ridiculously easy to pick. Even those circular-key vending machine ones." "The bigger they are, the easier they are to open." "Car locks are a lot harder."
The "skill" I developed has come in handy once or twice, but that's not the real virtue of it. It teaches you that locks are jokes. They keep out the already-honest, and the occasional lazy thief.
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...what color dark matter is? God, I hope its not beige.
Ia! Ia! AlGore! AlGore!
..."The possibility of regenerating lost parts is growing."
...says it all.
You deserve mod points. That was good.
That's truly nice to know, Anonymous Coward.
As I continue down the long pathway of life, meandering here and there, never knowing what might be around the next bend, I can take pleasure and comfort in knowing that - somewhere out there - there is an anomymous coward that is not a Google shill. Perhaps I shall pass this bit of arcania on to my children - and then to their children in turn - until at some point in the far distant future it becomes a family legend. Thank you, anonymous coward, thank you.
"Staying with imperial measurements has only served to handicap American industry and economy."
Seen the US industry, economy, and market performance lately? Seen theirs? I rest my case.
I wholeheartedly agree that we US'ers should go metric. But not for the reason stated.
"If we can get enough exposure and get in the top 40 by the end of the week, do we necessarily need a large label?"
No - if you've got $25-$50K laying around to get a few thousand cd's printed, and have a marketing team ready to burn shoe-leather talking the stores into putting the cd's on their shelves, and a management & accounting firm to press the retailers for your receipts.
Or - hire some grunts to run a print-on-demand setup, and a flunky to run a website and take orders paid by paypal while you cut tracks for a 2nd cd.
"...No damage was reported..."
Well, duh! It's Wyoming, fer christsake.
"...of bosses, and NONE of them ever lied to me!"
(signed), your boss
....but...
Its not like he was in any real danger...?
Its not like he was in any real danger...!!
Spheres.
Mighty spheres.
Especially the first time!
I don't care how many plan B's they had.
After meeting or exceeding all of our yearly company goals and setting a new profit level, each of us salaried folks received a bonus envelope with 25 brand-new,consecutively-numbered one-dollar bills in it.
I still have it, 8 years later. I'm no longer with the company though.
...with our nose!
That's nothing to sniff at.
...but we adults call this "public service" and praise it. I think it's called something like "moral integrity'.
The US consumes nearly 25% of the worlds energy though it has only 5 % of the worlds population...
Our overall productivity is roughly twice that of the rest of the world, so the real question is "why does it take the rest of the world 3x the energy to produce half what the US does?"
...I read it somewhere a long time ago and been telling folks this for years - whenever the subject came up.
/., I can triumphantly wave the printout in peoples' faces and scream, "See! This proves it! Its right here in.....uh...uh..."
Now that its been officially reported in
Hmm. Never mind.
Problem is, this requires surgery so it is not a DIY project.
Uh-oh.
Now you tell me.
Mod this one insightful, please. ...or,....uh...obvious. They're sometimes the same.
...is much, much worse. Be glad it was just a Dell.
...be doin' the ol' seppuka belly-slash in the near future?
You pick miniscule nits - if I may jest a bit.
I can spend $200 on an more-difficult-to-pick lock (or more)....I can also hire a 24 hour-a-day guard! Most folks don't.
Given that the vast majority of locks - and lock purchasers - do not fall in your more exotic scenario, all of my statements are quite true and accurate.
And - as another post'er pointed out - no lock (including your fancy one) will withstand a crowbar or cutting torch or (in the final analysis) dynamite. If they want in, they'll get in.
...than picking 'em.
Years ago I was at a tech flea market and - on a childish whim - bought a fairly nice set of lock picks (which are legal to sell in that state, unlike some). FYI - I am of the "Man from UNCLE", "T.H.E CAT", "The Prisoner", and "007" generation so I always wanted to be able to pick locks like the spies.
I even bought a lockpicking book ("Lock-picking Made Easy" by Lenny the Wire) I always liked that name.
I soon found out how incredibly easy it is! After picking my first lock (a random key lock I had laying around) I went to Home Depot and bought about a dozen key locks of various mfgrs and proceeded to pick 'em! I then did all the locks on all the doors on my house. Then I worked on my suitcases. I even did the lock on the li'l box I stored my 5 1/2 PC diskettes in. Then I did both cars.
What I learned was:
"No key lock is really secure. None are pick-proof."
"Most are ridiculously easy to pick. Even those circular-key vending machine ones."
"The bigger they are, the easier they are to open."
"Car locks are a lot harder."
The "skill" I developed has come in handy once or twice, but that's not the real virtue of it. It teaches you that locks are jokes. They keep out the already-honest, and the occasional lazy thief.
carbon spontaneously forms many different shapes, not the least of which are C60, nanotubes, and graphite
There's also that obscure form called diamond.
Scientists still hope it will find the edge of the solar system and get into interstellar space.
Just keep going straight out with the sun at your back - you'll get there.
...to (possibly) reduce traveler crabbiness?