"I'm sorry, Dave, but you're drunk and I won't allow you to start operating a heavy metal object which could kill many people if you're not alert." Not quite as catchy, I suppose.
Believe it or not, sober people drive dangerously as well, and kill many thousands of people. So do people who are tired, angry, or just careless. When will these people be banned from driving?
They should only be allowed to clamp down on drunk driving when public transport is actually reliable and useful and the streets aren't full of crime.
I don't care how drunk I am, if the government cannot provide me with safety with other methods of transports due to their own incompetency, then they have no right to tell me I can't drive home.
Bush won a second term, I'm sure Martha Steward and AOL are still loaded, and I'm not sure how the problems with any of the rest are related to bad publicity.
Maybe the old menu idea is broken, ever though of that?
Or maybe there was nothing wrong with it, they just changed it arbitrarily to make it look like a new product when it's just the old one with a couple of tweaks, ever thought of that?
I have a question: Why the hell is bittorrent so slow? I have a 8MB connection and it downloads slower than I used to get on 56k over non-bittorrent.
Rather than worrying about leeches, why not concentrate on speed?
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So do you sleep with a night-light or do you resurrect every morning?
No I sleep in the night. However I don't watch TV in my sleep.
That source of light would be the projector, selectively illuminating the screen so that the black parts of the image don't get lit, thus remaining black.
Why it may illuminate the screen, it would not do much for the rest of the house really. And as this is no longer the second world war I have no facilities to black out my windows anyway.
People used to go to coffee shops because they looked different? Funny I thought they went for the coffee. Most of the old ones looked the same anyway, i.e. red and white chequed curtains, plastic chairs, ugly old boot behind the counter.
1) Promote conformity by putting a Starbucks on every corner and making each one look the same
Why would they make them all look different? I don't think you quite understand the franchise system.
2) Promote Brand loyalty by pushing Gift Cards thereby forcing even non-customers to occasionally consume Starbucks
Of course, getting a gift card forces you go to there. And what's stopping their rivals from doing the same? And what is wrong with promoting brand loyalty anyway? Sounds like good business sense. People wouldn't go back if they didn't like it.
4) Reduce the number of artistic venues by putting small coffee shops out of business with our pre-packaged experience
They don't put anyone out of business. If inferior coffee shops go bust it's their own problem. Before Starbucks came along the quality of coffee sold was abysmal, most of them deserved to go to the wall. If anything Starbucks have raised the bar. Unless you want to go back to the good old days of greasy spoons...
I don't know how a coffee shops counts as an 'artistic venue' either. There are still independent coffee shops around, but they're the better ones.
5) Raise the prices on our addictive substance every six months
Coffee is not an essential product so there is nothing wrong at all in raising the price. And there are so many suppliers that its addictiveness is irrelevant. Any 'addict' is free to go and buy a jar of cheap instant coffee. Or just, not buy any at all. It is a luxury product.
Last I looked my local high street wasn't lined with 'local roasteries'. I can't speak for America, but in Britain before Starbucks all we had were grotty little cafes serving vile tea and coffee alongside greasy bacon sandwiches.
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Well, as someone who isn't a bat, a cockroach or a worm, I don't live in pitch black conditions. In fact in order to see things I generally need some sort of light source to illuminate my surroundings.
That's funny because I have 8MB and never have to pause, and I'm all the way over in England. I had a spell about a month back where it kept pausing, but since then it's been flawless.
Now if only people would stop uploading the same videos over and over again... or uploading other people's clips, editing with some shitty song played over the top.
The effect wouldn't be that great. All the companies and banks etc in those cities could just relocate somewhere higher. It's not like there is much serious infrastructure there, it's just office buildings.
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Calling a cab isn't safe either, you can be attacked whilst waiting for them. Walking is competely unsafe also.
But they drive manual also...
It's simple - Don't pirate music. It's not hard to understand. It's the law. There is no excuse.
How can manual transmission be elitest when most people use it? Only the old, disabled and American use automatic transmission.
Believe it or not, sober people drive dangerously as well, and kill many thousands of people. So do people who are tired, angry, or just careless. When will these people be banned from driving?
They should only be allowed to clamp down on drunk driving when public transport is actually reliable and useful and the streets aren't full of crime.
I don't care how drunk I am, if the government cannot provide me with safety with other methods of transports due to their own incompetency, then they have no right to tell me I can't drive home.
Bush won a second term, I'm sure Martha Steward and AOL are still loaded, and I'm not sure how the problems with any of the rest are related to bad publicity.
Or maybe there was nothing wrong with it, they just changed it arbitrarily to make it look like a new product when it's just the old one with a couple of tweaks, ever thought of that?
If it's that fragile I don't want to be flying it anyway.
That sounds horribly complicated.
Bring back napster! Much easier, and faster even on 56k!
I have a question: Why the hell is bittorrent so slow? I have a 8MB connection and it downloads slower than I used to get on 56k over non-bittorrent.
Rather than worrying about leeches, why not concentrate on speed?
Why it may illuminate the screen, it would not do much for the rest of the house really. And as this is no longer the second world war I have no facilities to black out my windows anyway.
20oz? How could you drink a pint of coffee? It would be cold before you got to the end of it.
People used to go to coffee shops because they looked different? Funny I thought they went for the coffee. Most of the old ones looked the same anyway, i.e. red and white chequed curtains, plastic chairs, ugly old boot behind the counter.
Of course, getting a gift card forces you go to there. And what's stopping their rivals from doing the same? And what is wrong with promoting brand loyalty anyway? Sounds like good business sense. People wouldn't go back if they didn't like it.
They don't put anyone out of business. If inferior coffee shops go bust it's their own problem. Before Starbucks came along the quality of coffee sold was abysmal, most of them deserved to go to the wall. If anything Starbucks have raised the bar. Unless you want to go back to the good old days of greasy spoons...
I don't know how a coffee shops counts as an 'artistic venue' either. There are still independent coffee shops around, but they're the better ones.
Coffee is not an essential product so there is nothing wrong at all in raising the price. And there are so many suppliers that its addictiveness is irrelevant. Any 'addict' is free to go and buy a jar of cheap instant coffee. Or just, not buy any at all. It is a luxury product.
Last I looked my local high street wasn't lined with 'local roasteries'. I can't speak for America, but in Britain before Starbucks all we had were grotty little cafes serving vile tea and coffee alongside greasy bacon sandwiches.
Well, as someone who isn't a bat, a cockroach or a worm, I don't live in pitch black conditions. In fact in order to see things I generally need some sort of light source to illuminate my surroundings.
The same thing that makes the telephone, or even those old 'conversations' so great. Being able to have a conversation with people.
If you need to ask the value of that, then I pity you.
So if an employee comes in to drive a fork-lift truck, but his eyes are glazed over and he stinks of weed, and you going to let him do his job?
Yeah, if it wasn't for us the whole universe would just be frozen still, so all you colonials should be grateful.
The irony is that the green pig would probably be the least artificial thing on McDonald's menu.
Tell that to Christians at Easter.
That's funny because I have 8MB and never have to pause, and I'm all the way over in England. I had a spell about a month back where it kept pausing, but since then it's been flawless.
Now if only people would stop uploading the same videos over and over again... or uploading other people's clips, editing with some shitty song played over the top.
The effect wouldn't be that great. All the companies and banks etc in those cities could just relocate somewhere higher. It's not like there is much serious infrastructure there, it's just office buildings.
What the hell is a 'rhode' island?