In 1992, a Hong Kong soap opera The Greed of Man caused a 10+% drop in the Hang Seng Index. Ever since, the stock market there drops whenever the star of that soap is in anything on TV, completing that probably self-fulfilling prophecy.
I especially like the part where he talks about accompanying Reagan to Red Square, and the KGB agents posing as tourists come up and ask tough questions about American democracy and freedom and somesuch. The punchline, of course, is that one of these "tourists" captured on film happened to be Vladimir Putin.
Here's a piece of advice. No woman will mate with you or live with you at your current thermostat setting. At the very least, turn it up to about 70 for about half an hour during the deed.
Some women can be pretty downright frugal, but I know none in modern times who will live with a 45-degree thermostat setting. FFS, not even poor peasants in rural China will tolerate that.
I agree with your assessment. The recordings are fulfilling in the curious or completist sense, and cannot convey any of the dynamics of the performance.
There are several CDs available of player rolls of Rachmaninoff pieces played by Rachmaninoff himself. The recordings also have pieces by other composers as well.
One of my family members manages construction projects at the Dept of Transportation in Oregon (ODOT). Due to voter demands, the department has outsourced most work to private contractors. The costs under private contractors, after adjusting for inflation, have tripled. But to hire back the people they laid off (who some have since gone over to the private sector) would cost just as much.
It goes quite a long ways past just torture. According to this recent article, the US-backed South Korean regime murdered at least 100,000 leftist sympathizers and put them into newly-discovered mass graves.
Depending on how bricked your iPhone/Touch is, a full restore may be your only recourse. There is no other way that I'm aware of to retrieve your data (I got the dreaded 160x errors). I couldn't find a way to get the PC to recognize the iPhone/Touch as a USB thumb drive-like device, as that would give me access to the settings data before restoring the device. Even plugging it into a Mac with the "Geniuses" at the Apple Store didn't resuscitate it. At least iTunes still has a copy of all the music and applications so I put them back on afterwards.
Mine has bricked for both updates 2.1 and 2.2 (the last two latest ones). The trick is to hold the "home" button while you plug it into the USB. This will put it into recovery mode and allow you to put the update in.
Of course, this will also erase all your existing settings. This is the first and last Apple product I'll ever buy.
Well, it is a Christian school after all...
I remember that when I visited my female friend at Seattle Pacific University, they post a male "guard" at the door during your visit to the female dorm room, with the door opened. The bed was placed strategically (about a foot) underneath a bookcase that was nailed to the wall, so that only one person can realistically sleep on the bed comfortably. And this was just about 10 years ago.
At a previous conglomerate that I worked at, our Bangalore subsidiary had a guy get promoted to the head honcho. I found a copy of his resume in the printer, and it said he graduated from "IIT" (India's premiere educational institute on par with MIT).
A quick Googling found him struggling with homework questions on a web forum attached to an evening class at the Illinois Institute of Technology.
What if McCain was a former president of the Harvard Law Review?
What if Obama finished fifth from the bottom of his graduating class?
What if McCain was still married to the first woman he said 'I do' to?
What if Obama was the candidate who left his first wife after she no longer measured up to his standards?
What if Obama was a member of the Keating-5?
What if McCain was a charismatic, eloquent speaker?
If these questions reflected reality, do you really believe the election numbers would be as close as they are? Obama's had to overcome quite a lot of preconceptions out there to get to where he is.
I have lots of family in Canada (6 families - 2-3 children each) between the ages of 10 to 87. Some are healthy, some have chronic health problems. No one's ever had to be denied health care or had to wait long enough that they come down to the States for care (yes - they had the financial resources to do so if they wanted to). In fact, my 87-year-old great aunt had a government social worker come and basically perform the duties of an American $6000/month nursing home after her stroke without any significant delay.
Not saying it's a perfect system - but I'm guessing it's like high-tech product reviews - the ones who get the lemons complain the loudest.
If you're Asian, and you're not Japanese - the Japanese workplace can be downright hostile. (Not from personal experience, but from what I've heard from people who've worked there as foreigners).
Now if you're Caucasian - you can get away with working less than your Japanese counterparts and getting paid more than double their salary. Plus the women there worship the average Slashdotter like a rockstar if they happen to be Caucasian.
Taiwan may be less xenophobic than Japan, but they'll work you 26 hours a day just like in Japan.
For years, Republicans have been winning by pretending to be Democrats, and Democrats have been winning by pretending to be Republicans. That's the secret 11-herbs-and-spices recipe.
Of course, it's also a rather expensive car. Used models are quite a good buy, but that of course leaves quite a few years before us normal folks can get our hands on an Audi TDI, should they ever actually import one.
They're a good buy because the major service intervals are expensive. 60k service (or when the car is 4 years old) can be as much as $4,000. Most people dump their Audis before the big ticket maintenance is due.
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I agree. Nothing can ever replace TV as a medium of communication of emergency warnings and such.
Now if someone can invent a small, portable device which can receive such warnings by simply extending a small antenna...
In 1992, a Hong Kong soap opera The Greed of Man caused a 10+% drop in the Hang Seng Index. Ever since, the stock market there drops whenever the star of that soap is in anything on TV, completing that probably self-fulfilling prophecy.
By MS "improving software", you really mean "copying the competition and releasing it 5 years later."
I especially like the part where he talks about accompanying Reagan to Red Square, and the KGB agents posing as tourists come up and ask tough questions about American democracy and freedom and somesuch. The punchline, of course, is that one of these "tourists" captured on film happened to be Vladimir Putin.
So what was Marilyn Monroe's callsign during the Kennedy administration?
when I have kids
Here's a piece of advice. No woman will mate with you or live with you at your current thermostat setting. At the very least, turn it up to about 70 for about half an hour during the deed.
Some women can be pretty downright frugal, but I know none in modern times who will live with a 45-degree thermostat setting. FFS, not even poor peasants in rural China will tolerate that.
I agree with your assessment. The recordings are fulfilling in the curious or completist sense, and cannot convey any of the dynamics of the performance.
This is the result of Microsoft employees not seeing any action in years:
1 stabbed, 1 arrested in Microsoft co-workers' fight over a woman
There are several CDs available of player rolls of Rachmaninoff pieces played by Rachmaninoff himself. The recordings also have pieces by other composers as well.
I'm pretty sure I've heard that urine is mostly sterile - no more unhygienic than breast milk.
One of my family members manages construction projects at the Dept of Transportation in Oregon (ODOT). Due to voter demands, the department has outsourced most work to private contractors. The costs under private contractors, after adjusting for inflation, have tripled. But to hire back the people they laid off (who some have since gone over to the private sector) would cost just as much.
It goes quite a long ways past just torture. According to this recent article, the US-backed South Korean regime murdered at least 100,000 leftist sympathizers and put them into newly-discovered mass graves.
Depending on how bricked your iPhone/Touch is, a full restore may be your only recourse. There is no other way that I'm aware of to retrieve your data (I got the dreaded 160x errors). I couldn't find a way to get the PC to recognize the iPhone/Touch as a USB thumb drive-like device, as that would give me access to the settings data before restoring the device. Even plugging it into a Mac with the "Geniuses" at the Apple Store didn't resuscitate it. At least iTunes still has a copy of all the music and applications so I put them back on afterwards.
Mine has bricked for both updates 2.1 and 2.2 (the last two latest ones). The trick is to hold the "home" button while you plug it into the USB. This will put it into recovery mode and allow you to put the update in.
Of course, this will also erase all your existing settings. This is the first and last Apple product I'll ever buy.
Well, it is a Christian school after all... I remember that when I visited my female friend at Seattle Pacific University, they post a male "guard" at the door during your visit to the female dorm room, with the door opened. The bed was placed strategically (about a foot) underneath a bookcase that was nailed to the wall, so that only one person can realistically sleep on the bed comfortably. And this was just about 10 years ago.
An interesting NPR story I remember listening to about polygamous African-American Muslim families.
And Latin American cultures (and many other ones as well) are where mother-in-laws living in the house with you is the norm. (Shudders)
Games that defined my view of the races in my youth:
Mike Tyson's Punch-Out
Street Fighter series
As a side note - my first American television show was Dukes of Hazzard. Followed, I think, by a re-run of Jeopardy. I was confused.
At a previous conglomerate that I worked at, our Bangalore subsidiary had a guy get promoted to the head honcho. I found a copy of his resume in the printer, and it said he graduated from "IIT" (India's premiere educational institute on par with MIT).
A quick Googling found him struggling with homework questions on a web forum attached to an evening class at the Illinois Institute of Technology.
What if McCain was a former president of the Harvard Law Review?
What if Obama finished fifth from the bottom of his graduating class?
What if McCain was still married to the first woman he said 'I do' to?
What if Obama was the candidate who left his first wife after she no longer measured up to his standards?
What if Obama was a member of the Keating-5?
What if McCain was a charismatic, eloquent speaker?
If these questions reflected reality, do you really believe the election numbers would be as close as they are? Obama's had to overcome quite a lot of preconceptions out there to get to where he is.
Umm...33% tax bracket doesn't start until both you and your wife make over $200,300 (2008 numbers). How'd you get 33%?
I have lots of family in Canada (6 families - 2-3 children each) between the ages of 10 to 87. Some are healthy, some have chronic health problems. No one's ever had to be denied health care or had to wait long enough that they come down to the States for care (yes - they had the financial resources to do so if they wanted to). In fact, my 87-year-old great aunt had a government social worker come and basically perform the duties of an American $6000/month nursing home after her stroke without any significant delay.
Not saying it's a perfect system - but I'm guessing it's like high-tech product reviews - the ones who get the lemons complain the loudest.
If you're Asian, and you're not Japanese - the Japanese workplace can be downright hostile. (Not from personal experience, but from what I've heard from people who've worked there as foreigners).
Now if you're Caucasian - you can get away with working less than your Japanese counterparts and getting paid more than double their salary. Plus the women there worship the average Slashdotter like a rockstar if they happen to be Caucasian.
Taiwan may be less xenophobic than Japan, but they'll work you 26 hours a day just like in Japan.
For years, Republicans have been winning by pretending to be Democrats, and Democrats have been winning by pretending to be Republicans. That's the secret 11-herbs-and-spices recipe.
Of course, it's also a rather expensive car. Used models are quite a good buy, but that of course leaves quite a few years before us normal folks can get our hands on an Audi TDI, should they ever actually import one.
They're a good buy because the major service intervals are expensive. 60k service (or when the car is 4 years old) can be as much as $4,000. Most people dump their Audis before the big ticket maintenance is due.