Well, even though the price per episode varies wildly in the TV show DVD market, $1/episode is very reasonable given that there's no extra cost of DVD production, packaging, distribution, retail, etc.
Prices for 1/2 hour sitcoms are generally a bit more than $1/episode
For example, prices from amazon:
The Simpsons Season 5 - $32.50 - $1.61/episode The Simpsons Season 4 - $37.50 - $1.70/episode Friends Season 9 - $30 - $1.30/episode
A lot of Indian (East Indian, nothern India specifically) sweets have flakes of silver on them. Pretty harmless I'm sure. Just goes through your system and out the back door. But the real concern is aluminium. That stuff in some form or another is everywhere from baking soda to deoderant. And there have been some (very inconclusive) links to Alzheimer's with aluminium, but I can't remember the source.
1. Indian textbooks are of significantly lesser quality. They are softcover and will fall apart easily. Usually British textbooks are equivalent to US books. In fact, most of the time they are printed in the US, and then shipped to England.
2. You have to wait a long time and pay a lot in shipping. And don't expect a generous return policy.
I once bought a Boca Modem (which is no longer in business) a few years back, and applied for a rebate. I took awhile, but eventually sent it in. They sent it back saying that I sent it in too late; at which point I realized they were trying to weasel out of paying me (and it was only $5). I immediately replied stating that nowhere on the official terms did it say that I had to send it in within a set period of time (their period was unreasonbly short) - which was true - there was nothing about it at all. Needless to say, a few weeks later I recieved a check.
My lesson was to never trust rebates again. They'r e just a sham.
The thing is, nine weeks after sending in a rebate, many people forget, and companies bet on that by conveniently 'forgetting' to send it your check.
Dude.. 45 countries have supported us. thats three TIMES the number who would have had to vote positive in the UN. Of those who dont, only a handful really matter. get the facts straight. (And realize several of them are the neighboring states..w hich brings us to... )
Ok, there are 180+ countries in the UN. The last time I checked, the "Coalition of the Willing" consisted of about 30-35 countries that included Eritrea and Georgia. Have you heard of them? These are countries that "don't count," they can only offer moral support. A UN GA vote requires 50% + 1 votes (i.e. about 90). A Security Council vote requires 9 (out of 15), and the 5 permanent members may not vote no. So your 3x quote is meaningless.
Economically, its already helping. Looked at the stock exchange lately? The International Diplomatic Ties basically mean we are the enforcement arm of the UN when they want us, but god forbid they take our feeligns into acount when their cushy oil deals with Iraq may go up in smoke. Where were all these protestors when Clinton got us into Bosnia? For far fewer crimes against humanity than Hussein has racked up, we are over there to this day!.
Just because the Stock market is up doesn't mean the economy is doing well. Tell that to the 2 million people that lost their jobs over the last couple years, or the 200,000 alone in February 2003.
We are not supposed to be the "enforcement arm of the UN." We just happen to give a majority of the support. When a peacekeeping (note, this is not a peacekeeing operation) is sanctioned by the UN, there are a significant number of troops from outside the U.S. We are over in Bosnia to this day, because that was a multilateral operation with support from NATO & the UN. The US, when acting alone, is notorious for doing their operation and fleeing - leaving a country in shambles.
I was thinking - this is pretty cool. Then I saw it connects to your computer via usb 1.1. Who in their right mind would develop a new product with a 20GB harddrive and stick a measly USB 1.1 connection on it? There's no way that's going to work without frustrating every user
my question is how exactly does it take multiple people 5 years to create a program to calculate pi. Granted, I have no experience in doing things like this - in fact I have no idea how to go about calculating pi to 30 digits nonetheless 1.3 trillion, but maybe 5 years seems excessively long.
I was flying into Roswell, NM this summer occasionally. Damn airport is huge. Basically used as a junkyard, since it is dry and there are large amounts concrete. Since it used to be a old air force base, it has a really long runway - somewhere in the top 5 longest in the US. It's funny seeing all these large 747's in a town of 50,000 people.
Because a flying vehicle and a car already exist, imagining a flying car is hardly innovative just as easily as I could imagine a submarine-helicopter. But to imagine something far before its time can be extraordinary. For example, da Vinci planning helicopters centuries ago. But here, we're really talking about theoretical ideas rather than physical inventions.
Well, look at it this way. Say a big nationwide bank decides to drop its clearance by 5" for drive up tellers on all new branches being built now and in the future. Well, problem is that there are a couple brands of big SUVs that will not fit under the clearance. Fortunately, those customers that own such vehicles only compromise about ~.5% of their customer base and the bank will save millions in construction costs every year. Sucks for those car owners. Guess they have to walk into the building with much shorter hours because they CHOSE to buy those big gas-guzzling SUVs.
I don't think so. People would go apeshit or for something like that or similar. Just because it is your choice doesn't necessarily make it any different.
with all the linux versions, it does not count as 37. It's the same OS. Instead he missed some easily accessable OSes like EROS succsessor to KeyKOS. It's even mostly GPLed.
I've seen this before. But not in America. Check out Indian (as in Bollywood) movies on video and you'll see advertisements pop up on the bottom of the screen. Although, I haven't seen this recently and I'm not exactly sure how far spread it is - that is, if it occurs on Indian TV programming and in the Theatres.
The first thing most Atheists tell you when you meet them is they don't belive in God
I'm an atheist. I just finished living with my roommmate for 9 months (and he happened to be a very devout christian for that matter) and I believe he still doesn't know that I'm an atheist.
I believe you have no idea what you're are talking about.
I just recently bought a SACD player. I was all excited to test out the new capabilities. So I hooked up my the player with digital output to my reciever. And nothing. Nothing at all. I tried a CD and it worked fine. I poked around then net for a bit to find out why and then I realized that for some reason or nothey they (whoever they are), decided that it would not be a good idea for high-quality digital output. So to prevent theft they have not released a specification for the digital encoding (much like the Redbook Cd uses PCM encoding) for whatever format SACD uses (DSD or DSM or something like that). So I now I have to use analog outputs which seems to totally beat the point of having a high quality CD format.
I have to say that my elementary school had computers, and I had a one-hour "computer lab" a week since I was in first grade (about 14 years ago). Most of the time it was touch typing, but with all the years of experience it was worth it. My typing skills are considerably better than those that learned in high school. Of course I'm now switching to Dvorak and all is going to hell...
all I can say in the words of a 5th grader is: "We'll duh." Can this be any more obvious? Anyone would be pissed if people released modified versions of their software without permission.
well, there are hospitalitity taxes which tax only if you stay in a hotel/motel. that's rather specific. And cigarrette taxes. So I don't think constitutionality is a problem.
Best Buy has entered into a binding contract to sell the cards at the advertised price, and if they don't want to honor it, the people affected should take them to court (or contact their local Attorney General's office, which is what they appear to be doing).
Well, crucial.com states several times when purchasing memory that it is NOT a binding contract. I'm sure most web retailers have it in their TOS that a purchase is not a contract until it's approved or something like that - so they can't be liable in situations like this.
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Well, even though the price per episode varies wildly in the TV show DVD market, $1/episode is very reasonable given that there's no extra cost of DVD production, packaging, distribution, retail, etc.
Prices for 1/2 hour sitcoms are generally a bit more than $1/episode
For example, prices from amazon:
The Simpsons Season 5 - $32.50 - $1.61/episode
The Simpsons Season 4 - $37.50 - $1.70/episode
Friends Season 9 - $30 - $1.30/episode
The coolest part, in my opinion, is how the ice/snow of the artic and antartic make this very soft sheen with the strong reflective properties.
A lot of Indian (East Indian, nothern India specifically) sweets have flakes of silver on them. Pretty harmless I'm sure. Just goes through your system and out the back door. But the real concern is aluminium. That stuff in some form or another is everywhere from baking soda to deoderant. And there have been some (very inconclusive) links to Alzheimer's with aluminium, but I can't remember the source.
Yeah but:
1. Indian textbooks are of significantly lesser quality. They are softcover and will fall apart easily. Usually British textbooks are equivalent to US books. In fact, most of the time they are printed in the US, and then shipped to England.
2. You have to wait a long time and pay a lot in shipping. And don't expect a generous return policy.
The US should move to Austrialian Type currency.
It has translucent windows.
It's made of plastic so it's virtually indestructable.
The only thing is it costs more to make, but it lasts longer in circulation. Currently, about 95% of new US bills replace old ones.
Good point, but I assume the prusumption was that the monkeys type the letters randomly.
Besides, you don't really need an infinite number of monkeys for an infinite amount of time. You only need one monkey for an infinite amount of time.
I once bought a Boca Modem (which is no longer in business) a few years back, and applied for a rebate. I took awhile, but eventually sent it in. They sent it back saying that I sent it in too late; at which point I realized they were trying to weasel out of paying me (and it was only $5). I immediately replied stating that nowhere on the official terms did it say that I had to send it in within a set period of time (their period was unreasonbly short) - which was true - there was nothing about it at all. Needless to say, a few weeks later I recieved a check.
My lesson was to never trust rebates again. They'r e just a sham.
The thing is, nine weeks after sending in a rebate, many people forget, and companies bet on that by conveniently 'forgetting' to send it your check.
Dude.. 45 countries have supported us. thats three TIMES the number who would have had to vote positive in the UN. Of those who dont, only a handful really matter. get the facts straight. (And realize several of them are the neighboring states..w hich brings us to... )
Ok, there are 180+ countries in the UN. The last time I checked, the "Coalition of the Willing" consisted of about 30-35 countries that included Eritrea and Georgia. Have you heard of them? These are countries that "don't count," they can only offer moral support. A UN GA vote requires 50% + 1 votes (i.e. about 90). A Security Council vote requires 9 (out of 15), and the 5 permanent members may not vote no. So your 3x quote is meaningless.
Economically, its already helping. Looked at the stock exchange lately? The International Diplomatic Ties basically mean we are the enforcement arm of the UN when they want us, but god forbid they take our feeligns into acount when their cushy oil deals with Iraq may go up in smoke. Where were all these protestors when Clinton got us into Bosnia? For far fewer crimes against humanity than Hussein has racked up, we are over there to this day!.
Just because the Stock market is up doesn't mean the economy is doing well. Tell that to the 2 million people that lost their jobs over the last couple years, or the 200,000 alone in February 2003.
We are not supposed to be the "enforcement arm of the UN." We just happen to give a majority of the support. When a peacekeeping (note, this is not a peacekeeing operation) is sanctioned by the UN, there are a significant number of troops from outside the U.S. We are over in Bosnia to this day, because that was a multilateral operation with support from NATO & the UN. The US, when acting alone, is notorious for doing their operation and fleeing - leaving a country in shambles.
I find my complete irrelevance to the universe to be entirely invigorating.
That's funny, because most people despair to be in such a situation.
I was thinking - this is pretty cool. Then I saw it connects to your computer via usb 1.1. Who in their right mind would develop a new product with a 20GB harddrive and stick a measly USB 1.1 connection on it? There's no way that's going to work without frustrating every user
my question is how exactly does it take multiple people 5 years to create a program to calculate pi. Granted, I have no experience in doing things like this - in fact I have no idea how to go about calculating pi to 30 digits nonetheless 1.3 trillion, but maybe 5 years seems excessively long.
This was from the cnn article.
definately a duplicate
I was flying into Roswell, NM this summer occasionally. Damn airport is huge. Basically used as a junkyard, since it is dry and there are large amounts concrete. Since it used to be a old air force base, it has a really long runway - somewhere in the top 5 longest in the US. It's funny seeing all these large 747's in a town of 50,000 people.
Because a flying vehicle and a car already exist, imagining a flying car is hardly innovative just as easily as I could imagine a submarine-helicopter. But to imagine something far before its time can be extraordinary. For example, da Vinci planning helicopters centuries ago. But here, we're really talking about theoretical ideas rather than physical inventions.
Well, look at it this way. Say a big nationwide bank decides to drop its clearance by 5" for drive up tellers on all new branches being built now and in the future. Well, problem is that there are a couple brands of big SUVs that will not fit under the clearance. Fortunately, those customers that own such vehicles only compromise about ~.5% of their customer base and the bank will save millions in construction costs every year. Sucks for those car owners. Guess they have to walk into the building with much shorter hours because they CHOSE to buy those big gas-guzzling SUVs.
I don't think so. People would go apeshit or for something like that or similar. Just because it is your choice doesn't necessarily make it any different.
with all the linux versions, it does not count as 37. It's the same OS. Instead he missed some easily accessable OSes like EROS succsessor to KeyKOS. It's even mostly GPLed.
I've seen this before. But not in America. Check out Indian (as in Bollywood) movies on video and you'll see advertisements pop up on the bottom of the screen. Although, I haven't seen this recently and I'm not exactly sure how far spread it is - that is, if it occurs on Indian TV programming and in the Theatres.
The first thing most Atheists tell you when you meet them is they don't belive in God
I'm an atheist. I just finished living with my roommmate for 9 months (and he happened to be a very devout christian for that matter) and I believe he still doesn't know that I'm an atheist.
I believe you have no idea what you're are talking about.
I just recently bought a SACD player. I was all excited to test out the new capabilities. So I hooked up my the player with digital output to my reciever. And nothing. Nothing at all. I tried a CD and it worked fine. I poked around then net for a bit to find out why and then I realized that for some reason or nothey they (whoever they are), decided that it would not be a good idea for high-quality digital output. So to prevent theft they have not released a specification for the digital encoding (much like the Redbook Cd uses PCM encoding) for whatever format SACD uses (DSD or DSM or something like that). So I now I have to use analog outputs which seems to totally beat the point of having a high quality CD format.
So, I unchecked the boxes, and guess what error popped up:
.NET Passport registration. Please type a different lastname.
Your lastname contains a word or phrase that has been reserved or is prohibited for
What the hell is that supposed to mean? How the hell can my last name be prohibited?
I have to say that my elementary school had computers, and I had a one-hour "computer lab" a week since I was in first grade (about 14 years ago). Most of the time it was touch typing, but with all the years of experience it was worth it. My typing skills are considerably better than those that learned in high school. Of course I'm now switching to Dvorak and all is going to hell...
all I can say in the words of a 5th grader is: "We'll duh." Can this be any more obvious? Anyone would be pissed if people released modified versions of their software without permission.
well, there are hospitalitity taxes which tax only if you stay in a hotel/motel. that's rather specific. And cigarrette taxes. So I don't think constitutionality is a problem.
Best Buy has entered into a binding contract to sell the cards at the advertised price, and if they don't want to honor it, the people affected should take them to court (or contact their local Attorney General's office, which is what they appear to be doing).
Well, crucial.com states several times when purchasing memory that it is NOT a binding contract. I'm sure most web retailers have it in their TOS that a purchase is not a contract until it's approved or something like that - so they can't be liable in situations like this.
here's a quick article giving a few examples from sony and apple about price increases:
Sony Pushes PC Prices Higher