I have to say this is a bad example, since Apple seems to have a cult following that are going to buy Apple products no matter what. Kind of like Amiga had back in the day, you know the type that would just go ON AND ON about how wonderful their Amiga was. Thing is, I think the Amiga was much more to the PC market than what Apple is today. Ahh, but there's a skinny guy in the same old jeans and turtleneck, and you get white apple stickers when you buy the product, and all their products are instantly recognizable. Since they are top of the line (prices), they really know how to go after the show-off/jealousy factor.
No, Apple is never about the product. It's the branding.
You're missing the point - it's not about the food, it's about them thinking they can silence any criticism by suing. Whether or not you like Benihana, taste is subjective and opinions are usually protected speech in countries that still believe in free speech. He doesn't have to like Benihana, and he sure is allowed to tell the whole world that he doesn't like it - whether Benihana likes it or not.
One would expect a chain with a halfway decent customer service/PR department to try and address the issues, not launch lawsuits. IN MY OPINION Benihana behaved foolishly, and I certainly will never eat there because of this. There are plenty of other, less pretentious restaurants. I'm sure this will cost them far, far more than $15,000 worldwide.
And yet people have put their market cap at 300 billion.
There's a reason that bubbles are called bubbles. I think it's so funny how the stock keeps going up and up, as if there is no limit. Especially when the company isn't even in the top 100 revenue generators. Enjoy the ride while it lasts - 2008 is already 3 years away. The next crash is coming. No one knows how soon, but $100/bbl oil does not help "consumer spending" at all.
What's there to be safe or unsafe about? It's a GAMING console
It's also on the "good" side of your router, doesn't have a firewall, and in theory has access to your entire home network. It is most certainly a security risk.
And yes, IAAB (biologist), and I do have some virology training.
And I'm a physician and I have medical training. Dengue can be transmitted vertically from mosquito to mosquito without the need of humans at all. Therefore we are merely a reservoir for the virus, not a vector. At no time is a human necessary for viral replication if mosquitoes are available - this differentiates dengue from all other mosquito borne parasites/viruses. This is what I meant by "not a human disease". Of course it affects humans, and we consider it to be a disease which we suffer. But dengue is different on a fundamental level and this must be understood. Solutions for malaria or yellow fever will simply not work for dengue. Nothing short of the complete eradication of infected mosquito colonies will do.
So why bother building a bridge in the first place, if you don't want people to cross it?
will plan their trip using an alternate route.
So instead of using an efficient, short route, you are saying the government is consciously scheming to make people choose a longer, inefficient route that increases congestion on alternate roads in already overcrowded population centers, and wastes fuel. While I would certainly not put your points beyond the reach of government's ability to waste resources and inconvenience people as much as possible, I suspect that the simplest answer is true: it has nothing to do with what you are saying, and you are incorrect.
I suspect that you are partly right, demand has something to do with it. But what government is trying to capture is the inelasticity of demand. They realize that people are willing to pay quite a bit to save that 25 minutes, the wear and tear on vehicles, the fuel, and the wasted productivity, so they will charge as much as possible. Why? Because they are bankrupt, cash starved spendthrifts who are constantly on the verge of bankruptcy. They have no choice. But it's not, as you say, to "prevent" people from crossing. They will charge as much as they can. If people stop using it at all, they will drop the rates very quickly. Maintaining those alternate roads is not much more expensive than maintaining the bridge, when you subtract the toll.
Which is why I just looked into buying stock in the various rental companies that have large presences in California.
Yeah because this is going to affect their bottom line more than a handful of people saying "yes" to the loss damage waiver on the spur of the moment...
Dengue is not a human disease. It is a mosquito disease that affects humans. An infected mosquito transmits the virus to her offspring, so it doesn't matter how fast the "turnover" of the colony is, you will still have dengue carrying mosquitoes if the infected parent is allowed to lay eggs. I am assuming that these mosquitoes do survive to lay eggs, otherwise what would be the point of "releasing them" in the first place?
In fact if anything, this could speed up the spread of dengue throughout humans (and mosquitoes) by increasing the amount of eggs laid/time due to the shorter life cycle and thus the population of dengue-infected mosquitoes. Someone hasn't thought this through. If you're going to play god, at least make sure you've considered all the possibilities (including the ones you don't like) first.
Ah you're right - the article is not talking about the "flash crash". My bad. Also funny to think that it all conveniently just after 2:30pm, when the "circuit breakers" to shut down the market in a move like this were off. But I'm off topic.
It has already happened - people were paying money for a "ride". Someone miscalculated a customer's weight and he landed a few dozen feet short of the safety net that was there to catch him. The owners of the catapult went to jail for manslaughter.
I agree. I was trading that day and notice the Japanese Yen plummeting long before the market collapsed. IMO there was an astounding move out of the US dollar towards the Japanese yen which was the setup for the crash. The yen hit bottom about 10-15 minutes before the Dow and S&P 500 slid off the scale. I just couldn't stop laughing at all the excuses that were put forward the next day to "explain" it, none of which even mentioned Forex. Funnily enough we're still at 83 yen/dollar (from 93) over a year later - not because the yen is so good, but because the dollar is losing value like crazy (and the Euro along with it).
But hey, blame it on "computer error" or "jp morgan" or whomever. Either way the magic bubble keeps inflating more and more - we broke 12,000 this week thanks to the Fed's money printing policy. So we'll have real nice stock prices, but in a few years Americans won't be able to afford to import anything or travel overseas. One way or another this abscess will find a way to drain - just don't be standing next to it when it does.
Gang-"like" behavior? Because there are no gangs in prison? Or because the court would rather the inmate join a real gang than a D&D party? Is there a ban on team sports in jail too, because that's gang-like behavior too...
I said mass market. 3% is not mass market. I hated you then, and I hate you now. There's only one thing worse than an apple fanboy and that's an Amiga owner - so you can take your fancy pants graphics card and sound card and shove them! EGA forever!:)
I'm sure that if it wasn't for my gaming quite a few hours a day I would already have built a doomsday weapon to annihilate the human race, because you fuckers all deserve to die... oh wait Shogun 2 is coming out?
Yes I remember Windows, and yes it came long before OS2. However it was nothing like what it is today. OS/2 was actually the first multi-tasking OS for the mass market, and OS/2 was certainly available before Windows 3 (the first multi-tasking Windows version). The big problem with OS/2 was the price - IBM wanted a couple hundred dollars for it at the time, so everyone went with the far cheaper Windows 3 or DOS.
Of course a good lawyer would claim that the EULA does not apply to someone mentally handicapped to the point of not being able to understand a EULA. In that case a good judge would take his xbox away, ending the problem.
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Ahh, so you want all of the benefits of being associated with a brand name, and none of the problems. Where was this fantasy world again?
I have to say this is a bad example, since Apple seems to have a cult following that are going to buy Apple products no matter what. Kind of like Amiga had back in the day, you know the type that would just go ON AND ON about how wonderful their Amiga was. Thing is, I think the Amiga was much more to the PC market than what Apple is today. Ahh, but there's a skinny guy in the same old jeans and turtleneck, and you get white apple stickers when you buy the product, and all their products are instantly recognizable. Since they are top of the line (prices), they really know how to go after the show-off/jealousy factor. No, Apple is never about the product. It's the branding.
This only goes to show that you can't fix some problems just by throwing more chairs at it.
You're missing the point - it's not about the food, it's about them thinking they can silence any criticism by suing. Whether or not you like Benihana, taste is subjective and opinions are usually protected speech in countries that still believe in free speech. He doesn't have to like Benihana, and he sure is allowed to tell the whole world that he doesn't like it - whether Benihana likes it or not. One would expect a chain with a halfway decent customer service/PR department to try and address the issues, not launch lawsuits. IN MY OPINION Benihana behaved foolishly, and I certainly will never eat there because of this. There are plenty of other, less pretentious restaurants. I'm sure this will cost them far, far more than $15,000 worldwide.
Thus obtaining an "American" education. I frankly don't see what the problem is.
There's a reason that bubbles are called bubbles. I think it's so funny how the stock keeps going up and up, as if there is no limit. Especially when the company isn't even in the top 100 revenue generators. Enjoy the ride while it lasts - 2008 is already 3 years away. The next crash is coming. No one knows how soon, but $100/bbl oil does not help "consumer spending" at all.
What's there to be safe or unsafe about? It's a GAMING console It's also on the "good" side of your router, doesn't have a firewall, and in theory has access to your entire home network. It is most certainly a security risk.
Yeah it's not like any useful information gets exchanged over IRC.
Yes, they learned it was SO cheap that it's worth doing in all Sony products.
And I'm a physician and I have medical training. Dengue can be transmitted vertically from mosquito to mosquito without the need of humans at all. Therefore we are merely a reservoir for the virus, not a vector. At no time is a human necessary for viral replication if mosquitoes are available - this differentiates dengue from all other mosquito borne parasites/viruses. This is what I meant by "not a human disease". Of course it affects humans, and we consider it to be a disease which we suffer. But dengue is different on a fundamental level and this must be understood. Solutions for malaria or yellow fever will simply not work for dengue. Nothing short of the complete eradication of infected mosquito colonies will do.
So why bother building a bridge in the first place, if you don't want people to cross it?
So instead of using an efficient, short route, you are saying the government is consciously scheming to make people choose a longer, inefficient route that increases congestion on alternate roads in already overcrowded population centers, and wastes fuel. While I would certainly not put your points beyond the reach of government's ability to waste resources and inconvenience people as much as possible, I suspect that the simplest answer is true: it has nothing to do with what you are saying, and you are incorrect. I suspect that you are partly right, demand has something to do with it. But what government is trying to capture is the inelasticity of demand. They realize that people are willing to pay quite a bit to save that 25 minutes, the wear and tear on vehicles, the fuel, and the wasted productivity, so they will charge as much as possible. Why? Because they are bankrupt, cash starved spendthrifts who are constantly on the verge of bankruptcy. They have no choice. But it's not, as you say, to "prevent" people from crossing. They will charge as much as they can. If people stop using it at all, they will drop the rates very quickly. Maintaining those alternate roads is not much more expensive than maintaining the bridge, when you subtract the toll.
Yeah because this is going to affect their bottom line more than a handful of people saying "yes" to the loss damage waiver on the spur of the moment...
Dengue is not a human disease. It is a mosquito disease that affects humans. An infected mosquito transmits the virus to her offspring, so it doesn't matter how fast the "turnover" of the colony is, you will still have dengue carrying mosquitoes if the infected parent is allowed to lay eggs. I am assuming that these mosquitoes do survive to lay eggs, otherwise what would be the point of "releasing them" in the first place? In fact if anything, this could speed up the spread of dengue throughout humans (and mosquitoes) by increasing the amount of eggs laid/time due to the shorter life cycle and thus the population of dengue-infected mosquitoes. Someone hasn't thought this through. If you're going to play god, at least make sure you've considered all the possibilities (including the ones you don't like) first.
So is my Windows box
Ah you're right - the article is not talking about the "flash crash". My bad. Also funny to think that it all conveniently just after 2:30pm, when the "circuit breakers" to shut down the market in a move like this were off. But I'm off topic.
So you're on the side of the Taliban, then. Good to know...
It has already happened - people were paying money for a "ride". Someone miscalculated a customer's weight and he landed a few dozen feet short of the safety net that was there to catch him. The owners of the catapult went to jail for manslaughter.
I agree. I was trading that day and notice the Japanese Yen plummeting long before the market collapsed. IMO there was an astounding move out of the US dollar towards the Japanese yen which was the setup for the crash. The yen hit bottom about 10-15 minutes before the Dow and S&P 500 slid off the scale. I just couldn't stop laughing at all the excuses that were put forward the next day to "explain" it, none of which even mentioned Forex. Funnily enough we're still at 83 yen/dollar (from 93) over a year later - not because the yen is so good, but because the dollar is losing value like crazy (and the Euro along with it). But hey, blame it on "computer error" or "jp morgan" or whomever. Either way the magic bubble keeps inflating more and more - we broke 12,000 this week thanks to the Fed's money printing policy. So we'll have real nice stock prices, but in a few years Americans won't be able to afford to import anything or travel overseas. One way or another this abscess will find a way to drain - just don't be standing next to it when it does.
Gang-"like" behavior? Because there are no gangs in prison? Or because the court would rather the inmate join a real gang than a D&D party? Is there a ban on team sports in jail too, because that's gang-like behavior too...
I said mass market. 3% is not mass market. I hated you then, and I hate you now. There's only one thing worse than an apple fanboy and that's an Amiga owner - so you can take your fancy pants graphics card and sound card and shove them! EGA forever! :)
Ahh but can you whistle 300 baud?
I'm sure that if it wasn't for my gaming quite a few hours a day I would already have built a doomsday weapon to annihilate the human race, because you fuckers all deserve to die... oh wait Shogun 2 is coming out?
Yes I remember Windows, and yes it came long before OS2. However it was nothing like what it is today. OS/2 was actually the first multi-tasking OS for the mass market, and OS/2 was certainly available before Windows 3 (the first multi-tasking Windows version). The big problem with OS/2 was the price - IBM wanted a couple hundred dollars for it at the time, so everyone went with the far cheaper Windows 3 or DOS.
Of course a good lawyer would claim that the EULA does not apply to someone mentally handicapped to the point of not being able to understand a EULA. In that case a good judge would take his xbox away, ending the problem.
So please explain how Wikipedia raised $16 million last year, despite offering a totally free service?