OK, so Joe Schmo gets a bunch of investors interested in a harebrained plan, scoops up millions of dollars from them, and then loses the money.
Where did it go? SOMEONE must have gotten rich off of the dot-com craze and subsequent bust... was it hardware manufacturers who provided all of the infrastructure for the failed-from-the start companies? Or was it the grocery store down the street, where all of the free (for employees) food and soda was bought? Who was the final filter point for all of the dot-com money?
Kozmo.com was an internet delivery thing in San Fran, I think... You would log on, and order food and movie rentals, and they'd deliver to your door.
When they folded (what, you mean they were supposed to MAKE!?!?! money), all of the rental DVDs got scooped up by Hastings, and sent all over the country to sell as pre-viewed. I picked up a couple cheap movies that way.
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A WalMart truck needs at least state approval to drive on the highways.
A FedEx airplane needs federal approval to fly over US airspace, and to land at a US airport.
If you put anything into space, you need approval from the host nation, and verify that your flight pattern won't connect with something else (say... hubble, ISS, or any GPS sats...
Then there is the fact that most of what you pay at the theatre and at the video store does NOT go to the film company...it goes to the movie theatre or the video store
I can't vouch for video stores, but I do know that most (more than 75%) of ticket sales on first run movies does in fact go to the studios. Soda and popcorn is so expensive because that's where the theater makes it's money.
Making finished fiber cables isn't really that tough. I can make a fiber cable almost as fast as I can make a cat-5 cable... the extra time involved comes around when you have to polish the fiber end, so it gets a really good signal through. That can take a looooong time to do a good job, whereas the cat-5 cable is done the instant you crimp it down.
Pigs aren't big enough to make more than a couple dozen cans of Spam... so now they're making Spam out of Banthas? I hope the Sand People don't find out... they'd probably get upset.
Oh, and just because all Spam posts need a haiku:
Bantha: Shaggy beast with big horns, on Tatooine now in small tin cans
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Trolls post here all the time. (:
Yes, it's horrible when people reply to your sig, as if they have no comment having anything to do with the discussion at hand.
I would change my sig often too, if people kept replying to it. (:
Keep your friends close, and your enemies... on the payroll!
I figured it might get at MOST a +1 funny. I wasn't expecting it to get up to a 5 of anything. heh.
I guess people just weren't used to a first post that has something vaguely related to the story.
is that the mirror site, http://www.alltooflat.com/geeky/elgoog/, is blocked by the copy of Websense used on my network. Heh.
The MPAA, RIAA, and Microsoft all misread it as a "Piracy" bill, and lobbied against it, and of course spent more money than the opposition.
Whoops.
OK, so Joe Schmo gets a bunch of investors interested in a harebrained plan, scoops up millions of dollars from them, and then loses the money.
Where did it go? SOMEONE must have gotten rich off of the dot-com craze and subsequent bust... was it hardware manufacturers who provided all of the infrastructure for the failed-from-the start companies? Or was it the grocery store down the street, where all of the free (for employees) food and soda was bought? Who was the final filter point for all of the dot-com money?
Kozmo.com was an internet delivery thing in San Fran, I think... You would log on, and order food and movie rentals, and they'd deliver to your door.
When they folded (what, you mean they were supposed to MAKE!?!?! money), all of the rental DVDs got scooped up by Hastings, and sent all over the country to sell as pre-viewed. I picked up a couple cheap movies that way.
As a matter of fact, yes.
Not all atoms are the same size. Remember what you learned about atomic weights?
"If you can read this, you're WAAAY too close!"
With that rule, shouldn't it be "annuaversary" anyways?
That's pretty good. (:
Nah, it's that one AC, posting OVER AND OVER, that I'm embarrased to share a country with.
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2 : the celebration of an anniversary
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Philo, the resident mad scientist of U-62, in Weird Al's movie "UHF" was named after the inventor of the electronic television.
Oh come on. With a nickname like "Unicron" you should have come up with a quote that fits...
"Your bargaining posture is highly dubious."
You've been watching too much South Park. (: That was one of the jokes in the Babs/Triangle episode. Roshambo *is* rock-paper-scissors.
Oh sure, just spoil the episode for me... sheesh!
Next you're gonna say that the Lone Gunmen are dead.
Not if you do it at work, and are getting paid for looking for the warez! (:
A WalMart truck needs at least state approval to drive on the highways.
A FedEx airplane needs federal approval to fly over US airspace, and to land at a US airport.
If you put anything into space, you need approval from the host nation, and verify that your flight pattern won't connect with something else (say... hubble, ISS, or any GPS sats...
I can't vouch for video stores, but I do know that most (more than 75%) of ticket sales on first run movies does in fact go to the studios. Soda and popcorn is so expensive because that's where the theater makes it's money.
Making finished fiber cables isn't really that tough. I can make a fiber cable almost as fast as I can make a cat-5 cable... the extra time involved comes around when you have to polish the fiber end, so it gets a really good signal through. That can take a looooong time to do a good job, whereas the cat-5 cable is done the instant you crimp it down.
Pigs aren't big enough to make more than a couple dozen cans of Spam... so now they're making Spam out of Banthas? I hope the Sand People don't find out... they'd probably get upset.
Oh, and just because all Spam posts need a haiku:
Bantha: Shaggy beast
with big horns, on Tatooine
now in small tin cans
Off topic, so sue me...
But your sig is from probably one of the funniest commercials in recent history... Gave me a good laugh. (:
As someone around here has as their sig...
"You have freedom of speech, but I expect you to use your own printing press".
Don't use MY resources and try to hide behind the first ammendment.