The same goes for off-the-shelf products you buy at places such well known computer stores.
Quite a few supermarket items, too. They do it on impulse items like chips and pop, and on brand-competitive items like just about everything in the Cosmetics and Health aisles. Once in a while you'll see a person wandering the aisles and touch-typing on a belt-hung keyboard; he's an independent auditor hired to assure the distributors they're getting the display space they pay for.
Also common in mall stores, especially record stores. That's why you see all those "Not Sold In Stores" commercials: it's an alternative marketing channel for products that don't produce enough volume to pay their way in a high-traffic retail spot.
You don't even need your name attached to the card, at least in the Denver area. If you don't have a card, the checkout clerk will be glad to give you one, with a form to fill out. I never return it, and the card works just fine.
What I liked was the array of survivalist products offered to get us through the economic collapse. People were buying 100-lb sacks of grain, stacks of 2x4s, jerrycans, all manner of weaponry...but my favorite was -- I am not making this up -- the Y2K Blowgun. Just cinch up your loincloth, climb a tree, and put squirrel on the table.
There's no real intent to increase the revenue stream from illegal activites,
Not necessarily. When I was stationed in Ohio, it was common practice for bars and poolrooms to operate illegal gambling machines (some had slot machines; others paid off on pinball). They would buy federal gambling stamps, pay the income tax, bribe the local cops, and everyone was satisfied.
BTW is it just me, or does it seem in poor taste for News outlets like FOX and CNN to focus on possible American casualties when these kind of natural disasters happen?
Perhaps you would see it differently if you had a friend or relative traveling in the region.
6.2 The Glacier Express Railway. 8.5 M/V Esperanza. 9.5 Mt. Brandon (St. Brendan the Navigator, said to have discovered North America). 10.6 Einstein. 10.7 Orson Welles (Citizen Kane) 11.3 The burning of Rome (Nero). 11.10 The Chicago Fire. 14.7 John Brown ('s Body Lies a-Moldering...). 14.10 German WW1 storm troops, later the Nazi SA. 15.4 The time zone of the Republic of Kiribati. 15.8 A cherry picker. 17.5 Look before you leap.
Great, if you have the hours. But if you're on camera and some soldier has just asked you why the hell he doesn't have any armor, and one of your flunkies is typing your excuse in real time, this setup could come in pretty handy.
Movie producers have been reducing SF and fantasy to mindless drivel at least since "The Wizard of Oz," with only a handful of glowing exceptions. If a writer is willing to sell screen rights without some defense written into the contract, one can only assume that they'd rather have their work defaced than do without the money.
(1) Everyone's viewpoint tends to get reflected, even it's just plain wrong. For instance, look at the entry on the Children's Crusade of 1212 [wikipedia.org] -- it presents three versions of what happened, but only one (the last one) is "right", meaning that it's the version backed by modern research.
I'm gonna have to call "missing the point" on that one. I'd say the text quite clearly favors the third version, and gives it the last word. You can't very well debunk without telling what you're debunking...
The Bibliotheque National in Paris has a photograph made in 1825, and I'll have to render a verdict of anal on the camera obscura -- since it requires a human operator inside with a paintbrush. "Camera" has one meaning in Latin and another in English.
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The sharp kind.
So after throwing away my bloody shirt and healing, I put some cardboard down
Knee protectors are $9.95 at the Home Despot.
rj
Vendor stocking of pop and chips was the subject of a nasty union-management fight here in the Denver area. Management won...
rj
Quite a few supermarket items, too. They do it on impulse items like chips and pop, and on brand-competitive items like just about everything in the Cosmetics and Health aisles. Once in a while you'll see a person wandering the aisles and touch-typing on a belt-hung keyboard; he's an independent auditor hired to assure the distributors they're getting the display space they pay for.
Also common in mall stores, especially record stores. That's why you see all those "Not Sold In Stores" commercials: it's an alternative marketing channel for products that don't produce enough volume to pay their way in a high-traffic retail spot.
rj
Somewhere between .22 and BB, I'd say...
rj
You don't even need your name attached to the card, at least in the Denver area. If you don't have a card, the checkout clerk will be glad to give you one, with a form to fill out. I never return it, and the card works just fine.
rj
So what unit conversion will go wrong this time...beetles to cubic feet or stories to meters?
rj
What I liked was the array of survivalist products offered to get us through the economic collapse. People were buying 100-lb sacks of grain, stacks of 2x4s, jerrycans, all manner of weaponry...but my favorite was -- I am not making this up -- the Y2K Blowgun. Just cinch up your loincloth, climb a tree, and put squirrel on the table.
rj
Not necessarily. When I was stationed in Ohio, it was common practice for bars and poolrooms to operate illegal gambling machines (some had slot machines; others paid off on pinball). They would buy federal gambling stamps, pay the income tax, bribe the local cops, and everyone was satisfied.
rj
Tell that to the IRS. Illegal income is subject to income tax.
rj
Right...and if there's a tsunami coming and you decide to stay at the beach, it's your time.
rj
...is missing a really great opportunity to improve its public image.
rj
Perhaps you would see it differently if you had a friend or relative traveling in the region.
rj
No you didn't...but you may have spent 7 hours on a ramp or taxiway.
rj
Well, y'know, there wouldn't be a lot of sleazy lawyers if there weren't sleazy clients to pay their bills.
rj
OK, Google cleared that up, but 15.4 would seem to be valid only for certain values of "decree"...seems pretty unilateral on Teburoro's part.
rj
6.2 The Glacier Express Railway.
8.5 M/V Esperanza.
9.5 Mt. Brandon (St. Brendan the Navigator, said to have discovered North America).
10.6 Einstein.
10.7 Orson Welles (Citizen Kane)
11.3 The burning of Rome (Nero).
11.10 The Chicago Fire.
14.7 John Brown ('s Body Lies a-Moldering...).
14.10 German WW1 storm troops, later the Nazi SA.
15.4 The time zone of the Republic of Kiribati.
15.8 A cherry picker.
17.5 Look before you leap.
rj
Does it include breathing?
rj
Sure. Okay, folks, everybody out of Asia, move along now, don't crowd.
rj
Well, yeah, but it's going to take until 2030 to reroute all that power.
rj
Great, if you have the hours. But if you're on camera and some soldier has just asked you why the hell he doesn't have any armor, and one of your flunkies is typing your excuse in real time, this setup could come in pretty handy.
rj
Whooossshhhhh.....
rj
Movie producers have been reducing SF and fantasy to mindless drivel at least since "The Wizard of Oz," with only a handful of glowing exceptions. If a writer is willing to sell screen rights without some defense written into the contract, one can only assume that they'd rather have their work defaced than do without the money.
rj
I'm gonna have to call "missing the point" on that one. I'd say the text quite clearly favors the third version, and gives it the last word. You can't very well debunk without telling what you're debunking...
rj
OK...
http://www.theanswerbank.co.uk/Article3161.html
rj
The Bibliotheque National in Paris has a photograph made in 1825, and I'll have to render a verdict of anal on the camera obscura -- since it requires a human operator inside with a paintbrush. "Camera" has one meaning in Latin and another in English.
rj