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At the very least, you could have a suit that would blend into the background or color scheme for a theatre of conflict.
Modify a guille suit to have a coat of color changing needles and a soldier could be undetectable - even at very close distances.
Now the real trick - how to have the suit be aware of its surroundings and blend into them. Octopi and other animals seem to have mastered this trick - how hard could it be?;)
...and it was the soundtrack to a hollywood blockbuster. That's not word of mouth in the classic sense. The movie propelled the soundtrack.
True, but the point was that the CD's success was not dependent on the music industry hype and pushing through controlled channels. But it does bring up a point to consider - how tightly integrated are the movie and music industries? Does Sony Pictures only use Sony produced music?
One could leverage the RIAA's strong-arm tactics against them. The way things are now, companies wanting to include music in movies, commericals or broadcast it in public has to pay. Why not undercut them or let them use the music for free? How many people have purchased music after hearing it in a car or diamond commerical? If the RIAA is charging Border's Books music to play a CD they sell in their store, then something is wrong.
Here's the problem, if you want to make stars (like the music industry most certainly does), than you need to get them exposure. The web isn't bad for distribution, but promotion is tough. The simple reason is there is just too much out there for people to focus in on a group or two and make superstars out of them. In the music business, people are spoon-fed the next big thing; they make a selection from a limited pool of applicants.
Well, when the soundtrack for "Oh Brother, Where art thou" came out, it received little airplay because media focus groups thought it sounded 'too twangy'. Turned out that because the music was good it really didn't need radio exposure.
In fact, as good as the internet is for distribution, it would be far better for exposure. But don't take my word for it - look at how well spammers and con-artists have been leveraging the internet.
Word of mouth is usually used to sell most items. And over the net it is far more effective and efficient than the current system of using marketing groups and advertising to push music onto the populace. I have purchased far more music through trusted advice over the Internet than what I hear on the radio.
So it doesn't sound like a problem to me. Who knows - it might bring about a musical reinaissance where the emphasis is back on art and experimentation, rather than image.
To answer your question, native honeybees are doing rather poorly. Hasn't anyone else noticed nothing but yellow jackets and bumblebees at picnics?
Both wild and commercial North American beehives have been ravaged by parasites like the Varroa mite. The domesticated hives have been reduced by 70%, wild hives by 90%.
The mite is not native to the Americas. Evidently it was brought over with African bees in South America. It kills off native bees, opening a nice niche up in the ecosystem for the Africanized mixes that carry them. Nice huh?
I'm sure Mr. Canter having failed in every other pursuit would love to be immortalized as the first spammer to justify his worthless existance.
That 'honor' will have to go to "Dave Rhodes", the out-of-luck slacker that moved seedy chain letters onto the internet.
He was posting as early as 91' - and the original was lost to antiquity seeing how it predates deja.
>Everytime you speed, you run the risk of killing someone.
Studies have shown that most accidents are caused by someone going too _slow_, forcing people to make unnecessary lane changes, sudden stops, so on, so forth.
Now when people drive slow in the leftmost (passing) lane, they run the risk of killing someone.
When I speed, I save lives.
For great justice!
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At the very least, you could have a suit that would blend into the background or color scheme for a theatre of conflict.
;)
Modify a guille suit to have a coat of color changing needles and a soldier could be undetectable - even at very close distances.
Now the real trick - how to have the suit be aware of its surroundings and blend into them. Octopi and other animals seem to have mastered this trick - how hard could it be?
True, but the point was that the CD's success was not dependent on the music industry hype and pushing through controlled channels. But it does bring up a point to consider - how tightly integrated are the movie and music industries? Does Sony Pictures only use Sony produced music?
One could leverage the RIAA's strong-arm tactics against them. The way things are now, companies wanting to include music in movies, commericals or broadcast it in public has to pay. Why not undercut them or let them use the music for free? How many people have purchased music after hearing it in a car or diamond commerical? If the RIAA is charging Border's Books music to play a CD they sell in their store, then something is wrong.
Well, when the soundtrack for "Oh Brother, Where art thou" came out, it received little airplay because media focus groups thought it sounded 'too twangy'. Turned out that because the music was good it really didn't need radio exposure.
In fact, as good as the internet is for distribution, it would be far better for exposure. But don't take my word for it - look at how well spammers and con-artists have been leveraging the internet.
Word of mouth is usually used to sell most items. And over the net it is far more effective and efficient than the current system of using marketing groups and advertising to push music onto the populace. I have purchased far more music through trusted advice over the Internet than what I hear on the radio.
So it doesn't sound like a problem to me. Who knows - it might bring about a musical reinaissance where the emphasis is back on art and experimentation, rather than image.
To answer your question, native honeybees are doing rather poorly. Hasn't anyone else noticed nothing but yellow jackets and bumblebees at picnics?
Both wild and commercial North American beehives have been ravaged by parasites like the Varroa mite. The domesticated hives have been reduced by 70%, wild hives by 90%.
The mite is not native to the Americas. Evidently it was brought over with African bees in South America. It kills off native bees, opening a nice niche up in the ecosystem for the Africanized mixes that carry them. Nice huh?
As it was stated earlier, Evolution is a bitch.
That 'honor' will have to go to "Dave Rhodes", the out-of-luck slacker that moved seedy chain letters onto the internet.
He was posting as early as 91' - and the original was lost to antiquity seeing how it predates deja.
So this will have to do. MAKE MONEY FAST (for dave)
Now the real mystery is who is Dave Rhodes. Nobody ever tracked him down as I recall.
>Everytime you speed, you run the risk of killing someone. Studies have shown that most accidents are caused by someone going too _slow_, forcing people to make unnecessary lane changes, sudden stops, so on, so forth. Now when people drive slow in the leftmost (passing) lane, they run the risk of killing someone. When I speed, I save lives. For great justice!