Ask your doctor about Claritor. Be sure to tell him if you run Windows or might ever run Windows. Side effects, while rare, may include adware, spyware and putting a foot through your monitor.
Every new technology has the same acceptance hurdle to get over: television, color television, brakes on ski bindings, computers, mice, cellphones...if you've never had one, you're obviously managing without it. So what are the corresponding numbers for people who go back?
You're not willing to sell your mule and buy a tractor...OK, no big surprise, especially if you've fallen for crackpot schemes before. You're willing to sell your tractor and buy a mule? That would be news.
It completely ignored the I, Robot screenplay that Harlan Ellison wrote for Asimov, and ultimately published as a paperback when nobody would produce it...Hollywood opted for killer-robot crap instead.
I'm told that while murder and suicide rates vary widely across cultures, the sum of the murder and suicide rate is remarkably constant at around 22 deaths per 100K population per year. Presumably it suggests that we all resort to ultimate measures with about the same probability, but cultural differences determine who takes the bullet.
Point is, he did keep the full rewards, by starting over for himself. The newspaper assigned another employee to draw Terry and the Pirates, and quickly found out that it was Caniff's own creativity, and not just one static piece of IP, that powered the strip. Steve Canyon was Terry in everything but name (even the Dragon Lady was reincarnated as Copper Calhoon), and Caniff drew it for over forty years after Terry fizzled out.
Caniff loved to make fun of liberals, and that knocked Steve Canyon out of quite a few newspapers in the Vietnam years, but he died a wealthy man. As I said, very much a mirror of the Mickey/Oswald story.
Much like another celebrated cartoon pair. Milton Caniff was working for the NY Daily News when he created Terry and the Pirates. It was wildly successful in syndication; the paper netted millions and Caniff got a ten percent raise.
Caniff went to the editor and said he thought he was entitled to a piece of the action. The editor pointed out that he was only an employee, the paper owned the copyright, and he could have a nicer desk if he liked. Caniff said OK, best of luck with your comic strip, walked out and reincarnated Terry as Steve Canyon...Terry quickly went tits-up.
There are pay toilets everywhere in Europe. They have a bad rep in the States, but over there you get what you pay for: the johns are sparkling clean. The free ones are not, especially in France.
Of course, your average male Yank tourist has a bit of trouble getting used to finding a woman mopping around his feet...and having women come in to use the Messieurs when the Mesdames gets full may get a bit uncomfortable too.
There are self-cleaning toilet seats in Autobahn gas stations in Germany. You drop a 1-euro coin in a slot to enter. When you get off the crapper it flushes itself, then a mechanical arm swings down with a brush and sprayer on it. The sprayer sprays, the brush spins, and the seat rotates 360 degrees...then as you leave, the coin mechanism spits out a coupon you can use to get your money back if you buy anything.
The IRS loves to pull that maneuver. They find a $50 mistake some sweet old grandma made, throw the book at her, and boast about it around the first of March.
Matter of fact, WU used to have a poster in my local supermarket advertising a rate discount on money transfers to Nigeria. Now this was in the Denver area, no atypical concentration of Nigerian immigrants...and the discount was specifically for that country. If you wanted to send money to Burkina Faso or Liberia, or anywhere else in Africa, you paid full price.
And the fine print said that you would not get the prevailing exchange rate, and they would keep the difference. Guess that's called knowing your customer base.
Telegrams were often referred to, years ago, as "yellow death" -- especially in 1941-45, but you would just as likely hear of Aunt Martha's passing that way. The sender could even specify that the telegram be delivered in a black-bordered envelope.
Hot gas from the leaking O-ring burned through a structural member,which caused a partial structural collapse, which caused the spacecraft to yaw violently, which caused it to disintegrate under aerodynamic loads. The main fuel tank ruptured and the contents burned, while the solid rocket boosters continued to climb by themselves. The orbiter, with crew inside, fell to the surface mostly in one piece.
It was not an explosion in the literal sense of the word...it would have been merciful for the crew if it were.
...occurred at Fry's on Black Friday. They were moving several items as "free," with rebates that added up to the purchase price -- but you still paid sales tax on the full amount.
Aha...Tadrith's post explains why CompUSA went to the online deal: they got in trouble with the FTC over sleazoid fulfillment practices. And here I thought they'd had an epiphany of altruism...I'm shocked, I tell you, shocked.
...is doing it now. I bought a disk drive there on Dec. 26, and just had to log onto their site and type in the receipt number. It confirmed what I bought and said the check would be mailed "after" (but not how long after) the 21-day free-return period expired, which would be Jan. 16. I just checked the status on the site and it said the check would go out "on or about" Feb. 4. We'll see what happens.
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Ask your doctor about Claritor. Be sure to tell him if you run Windows or might ever run Windows. Side effects, while rare, may include adware, spyware and putting a foot through your monitor.
rj
...and the letter counts in "Ronald Wilson Reagan".
rj
Only a miracle could make that happen.
rj
--Ambrose Bierce
rj
On April 15, it's YOUR problem.
rj
Perfectly sensible concept...except we have a non-negotiable constraint that if you go broke, I have to feed and house you.
rj
Take your Kaypro and handset modem along...slots use cards now. There are a few coin-op machines left, but you'll have to hurry.
rj
You're not willing to sell your mule and buy a tractor...OK, no big surprise, especially if you've fallen for crackpot schemes before. You're willing to sell your tractor and buy a mule? That would be news.
rj
rj
rj
Caniff loved to make fun of liberals, and that knocked Steve Canyon out of quite a few newspapers in the Vietnam years, but he died a wealthy man. As I said, very much a mirror of the Mickey/Oswald story.
rj
Caniff went to the editor and said he thought he was entitled to a piece of the action. The editor pointed out that he was only an employee, the paper owned the copyright, and he could have a nicer desk if he liked. Caniff said OK, best of luck with your comic strip, walked out and reincarnated Terry as Steve Canyon...Terry quickly went tits-up.
rj
There are pay toilets everywhere in Europe. They have a bad rep in the States, but over there you get what you pay for: the johns are sparkling clean. The free ones are not, especially in France.
Of course, your average male Yank tourist has a bit of trouble getting used to finding a woman mopping around his feet...and having women come in to use the Messieurs when the Mesdames gets full may get a bit uncomfortable too.
There are self-cleaning toilet seats in Autobahn gas stations in Germany. You drop a 1-euro coin in a slot to enter. When you get off the crapper it flushes itself, then a mechanical arm swings down with a brush and sprayer on it. The sprayer sprays, the brush spins, and the seat rotates 360 degrees...then as you leave, the coin mechanism spits out a coupon you can use to get your money back if you buy anything.
rj
...would be a 20mm cannon. That way when the cop misses the fugitive car and hits a pedestrian, the pedestrian won't be around to file the lawsuit.
rj
Only if I were innocent.
rj
The IRS loves to pull that maneuver. They find a $50 mistake some sweet old grandma made, throw the book at her, and boast about it around the first of March.
rj
"just fine"? Grammar Nazi? Looks more like a grammar humanitarian to me.
rj
Matter of fact, WU used to have a poster in my local supermarket advertising a rate discount on money transfers to Nigeria. Now this was in the Denver area, no atypical concentration of Nigerian immigrants...and the discount was specifically for that country. If you wanted to send money to Burkina Faso or Liberia, or anywhere else in Africa, you paid full price.
And the fine print said that you would not get the prevailing exchange rate, and they would keep the difference. Guess that's called knowing your customer base.
rj
Telegrams were often referred to, years ago, as "yellow death" -- especially in 1941-45, but you would just as likely hear of Aunt Martha's passing that way. The sender could even specify that the telegram be delivered in a black-bordered envelope.
rj
Hot gas from the leaking O-ring burned through a structural member,which caused a partial structural collapse, which caused the spacecraft to yaw violently, which caused it to disintegrate under aerodynamic loads. The main fuel tank ruptured and the contents burned, while the solid rocket boosters continued to climb by themselves. The orbiter, with crew inside, fell to the surface mostly in one piece.
It was not an explosion in the literal sense of the word...it would have been merciful for the crew if it were.
rj
rj
...occurred at Fry's on Black Friday. They were moving several items as "free," with rebates that added up to the purchase price -- but you still paid sales tax on the full amount.
rj
Aha...Tadrith's post explains why CompUSA went to the online deal: they got in trouble with the FTC over sleazoid fulfillment practices. And here I thought they'd had an epiphany of altruism...I'm shocked, I tell you, shocked.
rj
Looks like they sold out all their calculators.
rj
...is doing it now. I bought a disk drive there on Dec. 26, and just had to log onto their site and type in the receipt number. It confirmed what I bought and said the check would be mailed "after" (but not how long after) the 21-day free-return period expired, which would be Jan. 16. I just checked the status on the site and it said the check would go out "on or about" Feb. 4. We'll see what happens.
rj