When Coke realizes that nobody's watching their commercials, it may get expensive to watch Heroes. The heroes will simply start drinking more coke, talk standing in front of more coke machines and coke billboards, buy more new cars, shop in particular stores because of their low prices and good quality, etc.
if you watch closely there are clues; on a couple of my favourite shows I have noticed that anytime a character is using a computer it is a ****, and since noticing this I have come to realise that a good clean shot of the **** logo occurs at least once per episode. Ok, so you only recently noticed the common practice of product placement. But please, don't be their bitch, stop giving them free advertising by spreading the trademarked brand name.
Unless you're willfully giving them free advertising to reward their sponsorship of the show you enjoy, in which case you'd have a legitimate reason to act this way. Most people, however, just unwittingly participate in viral marketing for no good reason whatsoever.
I'm from Uruguay (the country that has actually gone out and bought the XOs), and... it's not at all like you imagine it.
We have electricity and running water everywhere Sounds messy and dangerous! We keep our wanter and electricity in pipes and wires, it's much more orderly;-)
No, the rudeness is not criminal. A cell phone jammer takes away a person's right to be a loud, annoying, inconsiderate idiot. Rudeness is a person exercising their right to be a loud, annoying, inconsiderate idiot. Quite insightful. In the spirit of having rights, I offer these two words to deal with loud, annoying people: AIRHORN!!!!
more dangerous than a gun or a knife. Having one with you could kill tens or even hundreds of people (think shy scrapers and such). I'm thinking skyscrapers and such... I have no idea how denial of cell service could possibly kill hundreds of people. What, the fire alarms have all been replaced with "in case of emergency, use your cell" signs or something??
Just what I was thinking. I like most of Whedon's projects, but the guy sure knows how to whine. I mean, I wish Firefly hadn't been canceled too, but c'mon, it cost a million bucks an episode to make and it was unpopular It wasn't unpopular, it wasn't aired when it was supposed to. "Firefly, fridays at 8", nope, it's baseball. Worse, it's baseball with an ad at 8:15 for firefly at 8. I kept fox on mute all night while I surfed the web... you know when firefly came on? Me neither, but it was after midnight, because I checked at midnight, and at around 12:10 I realized it was on. The next week, it wasn't on yet at 12:10, but it came on later (mute, web). They claim they canceled it because it got bad ratings, but they killed it. On purpose (showed the episodes out of order, including "to be continued" episodes, aired the first episode last, skipped weeks, changed the airtime without any notice, etc.). So fuck you and your willingness to accept the official story, hook, line and sinker.
I think I'll fool with Guitar Hero III instead of watching the tube tonight. I don't mean to rain on your parade, but what do you plug your console into, if not the tube?:)
Captain America and the super-soldier serum. Yup. Maybe no one wants hyper aggressive athletes, but lean, mean, killing machines? There's a market for that.
Why is it unethical? If you could save thousands of lives by curing a disease, but curing the disease required potentially deadly experiments on a few people, wouldn't it be unethical NOT to proceed with the research? You first.
Are you sure it was it _really_ your dad's boss this happened to? Or are you just shortening the chain to make it easier to tell Fuck you, and stop calling me a liar, you filthy piece of shit.
For all of you arm-chair political pundits out there who think Colbert and "the people" are being ripped off: His candidacy would be illegal (check the FEC rules) due to his corporate sponsorships -doritos and comedy channel. It would be illegal if he spent more than 5 thousand dollars on the campaign. Which is why he didn't spend the 35k to try to get on the Republican ballot.
I hope Colbert's candidacy and its high level of support serve a large clue-stick to the entrenched political parties. A large number of people are so sick and tired of politics as usual that they are willing to support anyone who is unusual. So? Only the two parties can get on the ballot. What, exactly, should they have to worry about?
I'm sure people who jumped ship to OSX thinking that the mac is virusproof are going to run anything and everything they come across on the internet thinking their safe. That's the thing about straw men: No brains
A trojan is a program that does or claims to do something useful, which gets you to install it. Once installed, it does something else in addition to or instead of what you installed it for. Amazingly, that sentence still works if you replace "program" with "rubber tube".
Also, for 1 dollar a week you are buying a mild emotional high when checking the numbers and a mild emotional low when you find out that math pwned you again.
Yes, but for less than one dollar a day (that's less than the cost of a cup of coffee), you can help change a child's life. Imagine the feeling of joy you'll get when you receive a personalized card in the mail from the child you sponsor. Call the number on your screen right now to make a donation. My dad's old boss went to visit his sponsored child for his vacation once. Turned out the kid had been dead for years. Someone kept collecting the money, though, and wrote letters.
Hmm... a jet ski sized robot attempting to observe and engage in the open ocean.. I wonder if any of these guys have actually been in the open ocean?
The sea is big people. The waves are big, the wind is big and the ships are big. A really small boat just barely big enough to manage to stay afloat semi-reliably in open ocean is generally 30 feet long or more. They do make them shorter, but generally only as a stunt. What is a four foot tall vehicle going to do against a vessel with steel and concrete sides that reach probably at least 10-15 feet up? These things are going to present about as much threat to the average ocean going vessel as a chihuahua attempting to pee on one's foot.
We also mentioned the sea is big. Average swell depending on area can be 8 feet on a calm day. this means a jet ski about 4 feet high is going to either spend 75% of its time inside the trough of a swell unable to see squat, or skipping along the swell tops in a way that is going to strongly resemble video froma a surfboard cam. Very splashy but not too useful.
You hear a lot of stories on sites these days about the USA turning into a police state, but I think the UK (all those CCTVs) and I guess now Germany are really kicking our butts in that department lately. Ya know, it's not supposed to be a race!
Then please, explain why Battlefield 2142 (a PC exclusive last time I checked) does this. Microsoft got into the console biz, and they're using the same tech requirements for their other platform?
While we're on the subject of stuff you can't skip, adverts at the beginning of a game (eg for NVidia, the publisher, Intel, etc) that you can't skip fuck me off something chronic too. Attention game publishing infidels - I am fully aware of you, the dev house, ATi, NVidia, Intel, and all the other people paying you to piss me off. Please stop pissing me off, or I'll stop buying your games. Ah! Those are unskipable by decree of the console manufacturer! You can't get publishing rights if they can be skipped. At least that's how it was back when I had access to technical requirement checklists. No reason to believe that's gonna change anytime soon.
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But please, don't be their bitch, stop giving them free advertising by spreading the trademarked brand name.
Unless you're willfully giving them free advertising to reward their sponsorship of the show you enjoy, in which case you'd have a legitimate reason to act this way.
Most people, however, just unwittingly participate in viral marketing for no good reason whatsoever.
We have electricity and running water everywhere Sounds messy and dangerous! We keep our wanter and electricity in pipes and wires, it's much more orderly
What, the fire alarms have all been replaced with "in case of emergency, use your cell" signs or something??
Is netflix offering censored versions only?
Because, last I checked, the other guys had policies about family values and whatnot.
"Firefly, fridays at 8", nope, it's baseball. Worse, it's baseball with an ad at 8:15 for firefly at 8. I kept fox on mute all night while I surfed the web... you know when firefly came on? Me neither, but it was after midnight, because I checked at midnight, and at around 12:10 I realized it was on.
The next week, it wasn't on yet at 12:10, but it came on later (mute, web).
They claim they canceled it because it got bad ratings, but they killed it. On purpose (showed the episodes out of order, including "to be continued" episodes, aired the first episode last, skipped weeks, changed the airtime without any notice, etc.).
So fuck you and your willingness to accept the official story, hook, line and sinker.
Which is why he didn't spend the 35k to try to get on the Republican ballot.
Yes, but for less than one dollar a day (that's less than the cost of a cup of coffee), you can help change a child's life. Imagine the feeling of joy you'll get when you receive a personalized card in the mail from the child you sponsor. Call the number on your screen right now to make a donation. My dad's old boss went to visit his sponsored child for his vacation once.
Turned out the kid had been dead for years. Someone kept collecting the money, though, and wrote letters.
The sea is big people. The waves are big, the wind is big and the ships are big. A really small boat just barely big enough to manage to stay afloat semi-reliably in open ocean is generally 30 feet long or more. They do make them shorter, but generally only as a stunt. What is a four foot tall vehicle going to do against a vessel with steel and concrete sides that reach probably at least 10-15 feet up? These things are going to present about as much threat to the average ocean going vessel as a chihuahua attempting to pee on one's foot.
We also mentioned the sea is big. Average swell depending on area can be 8 feet on a calm day. this means a jet ski about 4 feet high is going to either spend 75% of its time inside the trough of a swell unable to see squat, or skipping along the swell tops in a way that is going to strongly resemble video froma a surfboard cam. Very splashy but not too useful.
As a harbor or shore defense weapon I can see these being possibly quite useful against similarly sized vessels like dinghies and maybe cigarette boats, but anything offshore is unrealistic. http://www.greenpeace.org/international/photosvideos/photos/greenpeace-zodiac-manoeuvres-i
First it's unmanned sea vessels, then it's nuclear powered cyborg dogs who dream of flying steaks.
Or, if you prefer reality to science fiction: Robert Work, a retired Marine officer and analyst at the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments in Washington, said piracy is a "persistent threat" that the Navy has worked to address in recent years. [...] "Essentially, you don't want to use a billion dollar DDG [guided missile destroyer] to suppress pirates,"
At least that's how it was back when I had access to technical requirement checklists. No reason to believe that's gonna change anytime soon.