"Or how about those Mom and Pop store? How are they suppose to compete with a giant that can buy a thousand-fold more products to lower the price, and use sophisticated logistic systems to reduce the need for warehouse"
Maybe they could lift a finger to serve their customers. The Wal-Marts open hours before the others and close hours after.
"Would it hurt that much to bring a few frozen chicken eggs on the voyage and then raise some chickens on Mars?"
You know, that was a great idea. But no one would have thought that Dr. Smith would decide that a "nice omelette would hit the spot!" halfway through the voyage.
Look before you "the hell" post. Amazon offers this book as a sound book from the Audible corporation. BK's web site does not say whether or not it is also a corporation. Chances are, it is.
"The Helium Special". Four-armed green martian basted in its own ichor. Favorite of John Carter.
"The War of the Worlds". This blobby Martian is served to you live, at which point you sneeze on it, and your Earth germs instantly render it dead...and tasty.
"If you're lucky enough to be a crew member of one of the next European Space Agency (ESA) long-term missions, you will have the choice between eleven new delicious recipes, such as 'martian bread and green tomato jam' or 'potato and tomato mille-feuilles' when it's time for dinner. In 'Ready for dinner on Mars?,' ESA says that these recipes will use fresh ingredients grown in greenhouses built on Mars colonies or other planets."
The same minds that destroyed a spacecraft because they forgot the Metric system existed will likely be involved. On the first mission, the astronauts will be told that there is no food on the spaceship. However, they have 1.25 years to fill out order forms for Martian delicacies which will be served to them by Martian robot chefs once they land. Future film adaptations of the shocking results bear such titles as "Donner Party... in SPACE!" and "Houston, could you send up some burgers?"
(Cue scene of emaciated John Malkovich being pulled from the lander saying. "The kzinti boarding party did this!")
Once you pick the antennas off, and drain all the green ichor, the stuff's pretty good! Looking forward to the first Martian fast food restaurant to open "Barsoom King", with its slogan "Take me to your eater!"
Meanwhile at Bugwarts, it looks like Steve Ballmer needs to shave. See him here. He has an inordinate fondness for worms, trojans, virii and other perilous beasties, and this has gotten him in trouble from those few on the staff concerned about security.
"He solved the problem of forgein interests by nationalizing everything the businesses owned..."
And then he gave them entire country over to control of the USSR. Great way to get out from under foreign interests: turn your country over as a territory of the ascendent empire of the era, which then runs it like a death camp.
"I'd say Cuba is actually doing very well"
Hey. Let's ask come Cubans. Heh. We know how long it will take them to respond to this. The place is so savage and backwards that it is one of the few countries that executes people for "unauthorized" Internet access (just like it has executed people for the crime of trying to escape).
Cuba avoided becoming another Hawaii, and instead became another East Germany as per 1945-1989.
"If you look at the fate of every non-comunist dictatorship in the carribean..."
By the way, most Middle American and South American dictatorships have become democracies. The dictatorship we are talking about is bucking the trend.
"Is 'whopping' really the only adjective adequate enough to describe supercomputer performance? "
The use of this dates back to the "WOPR" strategic simulations supercomputer used by the Pentagon. Most know it from the documentary film "WarGames". It looked like a locomotive, but boy could it calculate. For several years, it was the standard by which supercomputers were measured. Eventually they came out with faster computers: once twice as fast as the WOPR ran at "two wops", one three times as fas "four wops". Eventually, an H got added in, and as computers left the old WOPR in the dust, the term "whopping" came to mean "Yeah, bud, it's really fast!"
Is this to be translated as "corporations you do not like" ?
"....run by editors who do not want to report on anything truly news worthy"
Is this anything like "Project Censored"? I used to check those year by year, and was amazed that I already knew most of these "censored" stories because of reporting on CNN and other big sources.
"that might actually inform the american public is the corporate ties that Huff post does not have."
The thing is, there is nothing new under the sun. the Huff Post contains the same old litany of editorials espousing the same sort of views that are shown on the news pages and especially opinion pages (and opinion shows) of the "big corporate" mainstream media like CNN, CBS, NYT, or even Fox News. The "corrupt" editors let this stuff be published. Huff is no alternative, and no guerilla media.
"read the fucking book before you toss my claims aside. it is true and the book and this man (HE FUCKING DID THIS SHIT) are the proof."
Anyone can write an "I Am James Bond" book.
"I am a liberal, you are mixing up your conspiracies. that racist UN crap is just that."
The "corporate conspiracies" fictional stuff is almost as bad. Almost, but not quite: I commend you for not being racist like other conspiracy wacks. I've known many liberals and conservatives, but few in each camp were conspiracy True Believers (tm).
"the proof of this world empire is everywhere including"
Ah. the secret empire. No evidence of it, but we must believe!!! Believe!!! By the way, this "Hitman" book is published by.... you guessed it.... a corporation.
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Maybe they could lift a finger to serve their customers. The Wal-Marts open hours before the others and close hours after.
"I'm no commie, but monopolies sucks"
You have yet to name a company that is one.
My hackles go up when anyone says that. If you want to limit your own choices, fine.
Never mind that if there is competition, there is no monopoly.
You know, that was a great idea. But no one would have thought that Dr. Smith would decide that a "nice omelette would hit the spot!" halfway through the voyage.
That is indeed interesting. It just might be possible to terraform this planet!
Look before you "the hell" post. Amazon offers this book as a sound book from the Audible corporation. BK's web site does not say whether or not it is also a corporation. Chances are, it is.
I once ran down a cephalapoid on foot. But then he blinked the wrong eyelids and jumped off the Guggenheim Museum.
"The Helium Special". Four-armed green martian basted in its own ichor. Favorite of John Carter.
"The War of the Worlds". This blobby Martian is served to you live, at which point you sneeze on it, and your Earth germs instantly render it dead...and tasty.
The same minds that destroyed a spacecraft because they forgot the Metric system existed will likely be involved. On the first mission, the astronauts will be told that there is no food on the spaceship. However, they have 1.25 years to fill out order forms for Martian delicacies which will be served to them by Martian robot chefs once they land. Future film adaptations of the shocking results bear such titles as "Donner Party... in SPACE!" and "Houston, could you send up some burgers?"
(Cue scene of emaciated John Malkovich being pulled from the lander saying. "The kzinti boarding party did this!")
Didn't you hear? "Mars is the new France".
Once you pick the antennas off, and drain all the green ichor, the stuff's pretty good! Looking forward to the first Martian fast food restaurant to open "Barsoom King", with its slogan "Take me to your eater!"
Never expected to see Ron Jeremy on the page! here!
"Screwts! Screwts! Screwts!"
The scroll wheel was always an annoyance: most of them were too tall, and I kept bumping my finger on them reaching across to the left mouse button.
The Amazon listing mentioned it as an a book from Audible Inc..
That explains why Bill Gates just stepped on my church.
Damn him and his stupid time machine.
Otherwise known as the Bugwarts Express. To find the boarding platform, run your luggage cart full tilt into that blue screen.
And then he gave them entire country over to control of the USSR. Great way to get out from under foreign interests: turn your country over as a territory of the ascendent empire of the era, which then runs it like a death camp.
"I'd say Cuba is actually doing very well"
Hey. Let's ask come Cubans. Heh. We know how long it will take them to respond to this. The place is so savage and backwards that it is one of the few countries that executes people for "unauthorized" Internet access (just like it has executed people for the crime of trying to escape).
Cuba avoided becoming another Hawaii, and instead became another East Germany as per 1945-1989.
"If you look at the fate of every non-comunist dictatorship in the carribean..."
By the way, most Middle American and South American dictatorships have become democracies. The dictatorship we are talking about is bucking the trend.
The use of this dates back to the "WOPR" strategic simulations supercomputer used by the Pentagon. Most know it from the documentary film "WarGames". It looked like a locomotive, but boy could it calculate. For several years, it was the standard by which supercomputers were measured. Eventually they came out with faster computers: once twice as fast as the WOPR ran at "two wops", one three times as fas "four wops". Eventually, an H got added in, and as computers left the old WOPR in the dust, the term "whopping" came to mean "Yeah, bud, it's really fast!"
Want to play a game, Professor Falken?
I know what you mean. Ever more, we are losing the guaranteed by our.
Compared to the Milliard Gargantubrain in my garage, this thing is a mere abacus. Consider it not.
Is this to be translated as "corporations you do not like" ?
"....run by editors who do not want to report on anything truly news worthy"
Is this anything like "Project Censored"? I used to check those year by year, and was amazed that I already knew most of these "censored" stories because of reporting on CNN and other big sources.
"that might actually inform the american public is the corporate ties that Huff post does not have."
The thing is, there is nothing new under the sun. the Huff Post contains the same old litany of editorials espousing the same sort of views that are shown on the news pages and especially opinion pages (and opinion shows) of the "big corporate" mainstream media like CNN, CBS, NYT, or even Fox News. The "corrupt" editors let this stuff be published. Huff is no alternative, and no guerilla media.
Anyone can write an "I Am James Bond" book.
"I am a liberal, you are mixing up your conspiracies. that racist UN crap is just that."
The "corporate conspiracies" fictional stuff is almost as bad. Almost, but not quite: I commend you for not being racist like other conspiracy wacks. I've known many liberals and conservatives, but few in each camp were conspiracy True Believers (tm).
"the proof of this world empire is everywhere including"
Ah. the secret empire. No evidence of it, but we must believe!!! Believe!!! By the way, this "Hitman" book is published by.... you guessed it.... a corporation.
It is run by an LLC, which is a quasi-corporate type of business.