I think that you're right about this - a new trend in commercials is to use a freeze frame of the the last scene in an ad instead of complete black so that the end point is not detected...
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This doesn't have anything to do with China's manned space mission, does it?
Why not? Competition is a good thing - competing with the USSR helped the US get to the moon in less than a decade. Competition from Craig Venter/Celera pushed the NIH to finish sequencing the human genome in half the projected time.
Without competition, the government will just lumber along, chewing up money and then maybe or maybe not get to a useful endpoint. External competition helps government agencies become much more goal-oriented.
I agree with you that the faces had sort of a surreal "airbrushed" look to them. Although probably no worse than most magazine covers and centerfolds. Might be interesting if they played around with things like beautymark placement...
They may have been required to use the warning by the soybean seed producers, especially if the seed was modified to be resistant to pesticides. This could be part of a legal measure to prevent farmers from illegally using seed produced on their own farms as opposed to having to buy new seed every year. Sort of the agribusiness version of music piracy...
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That's iPod's dirty secret - a little guerilla action which probably helped encourage Apple to actually allow battery replacement ...
I think that you're right about this - a new trend in commercials is to use a freeze frame of the the last scene in an ad instead of complete black so that the end point is not detected ...
This is why I stay up all night and sleep through work ...
The work was published in PNAS - not exactly a minor publication.
SPAM Broccoli Ring - It's absolutely delicious!
Right click and "save target as" work wonders ....
Why not? Competition is a good thing - competing with the USSR helped the US get to the moon in less than a decade. Competition from Craig Venter/Celera pushed the NIH to finish sequencing the human genome in half the projected time.
Without competition, the government will just lumber along, chewing up money and then maybe or maybe not get to a useful endpoint. External competition helps government agencies become much more goal-oriented.
Still, you gotta like the heavily weathered body armor ...
It's not a series, but I consider the animated Boba Fett to be a major Star Wars Character ...
I always preferred Curly to Shmem, myself ...
I agree with you that the faces had sort of a surreal "airbrushed" look to them. Although probably no worse than most magazine covers and centerfolds. Might be interesting if they played around with things like beautymark placement ...
Actually, the average girl would be extremely attractive.
Or they could pay for it outright for 50 years or so ... that'd cost maybe $ 1-2 K per domain name.
Here is a recent review from John Fried who compared the different sites head-to-head
Although Swimming Cockroach Robots are already in the works, I'm actually much more worried about terrorists developing this.
It's fucking raining on almost the entire US East Coast ... maybe there will be a remnant tomorrow ...
In case you were wondering, Carrot Top has one ugly web site ...
All I know is that beans are good for your heart ... oh well ...
only if it was said by an alien cow ...
Google + IANAL + I'm feeling lucky
whatever ...
They may have been required to use the warning by the soybean seed producers, especially if the seed was modified to be resistant to pesticides. This could be part of a legal measure to prevent farmers from illegally using seed produced on their own farms as opposed to having to buy new seed every year. Sort of the agribusiness version of music piracy ...
340 billion billion billion billion = 3.4 x 10^38 ...
John Dalton and John Lennon.