Well, I think that the most exciting a wine label should look like is this. This is even better. But nobody should be allowed to do this or this.
I can't find any pictures of novelty bottles, but I do have one downstairs that my girlfriend (bless her heart, but she is a comlete wine pleb) bought because she liked the bottle!. Picture a normal burgundy style bottle that looks like it has been heated to point where the glass began to droop. Then it had fine sand or something sprinkled on it to make it look like it has a permanent coating of dust. Add to this a lable that is fraid around the edges and you get a true abomination. I'm sure some marketing firm somewhere is still telling people about the amazing wine bottle they designed.
Though my vision problems usually occur while drinking the wine, not when buying it.:)
But seriously, as a wine lover I really don't like these new-fangled labels the wine makers are coming up with. Give me something classic, you know, something with fonts that take a while decipher. And don't get me started on artificial corks. They might be better in all ways, but they are still wrong! And the next guy who tries to sell wine in a novelty bottle is going to need help from a proctologist to remove that bottle from his person.
OK, so that was completely off-topic and doesn't address your question at all, but at least it'll give you an idea of the level of logic you can expect from your target audience.
Likewise capsacin, that can be used as a topical anesthesia.
Personally I want to know what bright spark thought up that idea.
I once pulled a groin muscle playing raquetball. Went to the drugstore and of all the analgesic creams the capsicum based one was the most expensive. I figured that being the most expensive it obviously had to be the most effective as well.
I learned two things that day.
First, capsicum applied topically behaves the same as when you ingest it. At first you don't feel a thing. So you try a bit more. Still nothing. So you try even more. Then, when you have passed the point of no return, the burn starts. And gets worse. And worse. And worse...
Second, capsicum and the groin are two things that simply should not be combined. You can figure out the details for yourself.
I mean, it worked. I completely forgot about the muscle pain. I had much more interesing pains to worry about for the next few hours.
Actually this is pretty close to what we experience every day. What people forget is that the only difference between Clippy and HAL9000 is that Clippy makes you want to kill yourself while HAL9000 does the job for you.
Freesco.org? Is it just me or is that an unfortunate domain name to have in this day and age?
Darl McBride: FreeSCO? We have IP rights to three of the letters in that domain. Sue them!
Linux Geek: FreeSCO? Darl must have seen freemikehawash.org and is planning ahead for when IBM's lawyers are through with him. Now where did I put that DoS script I was saving for something like this?
Beyond advocating change through violence, this kid was also advocating hate and rasicm. Now while I am all for change and advocacy, this kid is a jerk and belongs in jail for a little while for being a script kiddie, being an advocate for violence and racism and hate, and being criminally stupid.
Wow, except for being a "script kiddie" this guy could be the US president.:)
I know someone who died "on the table" and came back, she is not a donor, but if she was, she wouldn't be alive today.
OK, so her heart probably stopped for a short while. She wasn't really dead. No doctor would ever consider harvesting organs from a body that isn't brain dead.
Paranoid idiots like you are responsible for a lot of people going to their graves when a donor organ could have saved them.
A computer will never be truely user freindly until it under stands plain spoke words and gives us what we want, not what we asked for.
Dude, you just described my relationship with my ex-girlfriend! I thought we were incompatible, but now I realize she just wasn't user friendly enough!
People drivers aren't perfect. But its easy to counter their imperfections. When driving, a good driver is aware of everything around them and can tell when someone is not in command of their vehicle. You cant tell when some automagic sensor is about to fail.
But machines are better at a lot of things than humans are. According to your logic you should never have ABS in a car because the driver will be better than ABS at keeping the car under control during heavy breaking. This might be true for really good drivers, but is definately not the norm.
And if good drivers are always better than machines why do they ban traction control and ABS racing? If traction control can help Michael Schumacher then it is sure as hell going to make a difference to my driving.
Uhm, get used to Americans making stupid statements like that. My favourite "clueless Yank" story is told by a South African friend of mine. Conversation goes something like this:
Clueless Yank: So where are you from?
South African: I'm from South Africa.
Clueless Yank: Weird. I travel a lot and I've never heard of it. What state is it in?
South African: (stunned silence)
And it's not like this kind of thing is unusual. I've personally had to explain to somebody that Nigerians and South Africans are actually different nationalities. Even worse is that I find myself correcting them on US geography...
But hey, as long as your cruise missiles can identify a country, does it really matter if your citizens can't?
The most frightening part of this whole story is that the people expressing shock (SHOCK!) at the amount of damage a piece of foam can do at 500+ MPH are actual Rocket Scientists. Is a basic grasp of physics not required for an advanced degree in Aerospace Engineering?
So in essence you are saying that these days you don't have to be a rocket scientist to be a rocket scientist?:)
The problem is that they are removing the ability of the public to use what is normally a freely available online resource. These 'jamcams' are used by the public to view traffic conditions in London. Go here for an example.
Why are they removing access if they don't have anything to hide?
This is like the VOD, a pipe dream, the bandwidth isn't there, and why would the customer front the bill for it anyways?
Bugger. So the movie I have paused on my TV at the moment is a pipe dream? Jeez, I don't even remember smoking anything...:)
But seriously, I really enjoy using the VOD provided by my cable company (Cablevision). It is convenient enough that I really don't mind paying the extra $10 a month they want for the service. Hell, considering the money I have saved by not having to pay late fees to Blockbusters every time I forget to return a movie, I'm probably ahead of the game.
I have no idea about their bandwitdh usage, but I have never noticed any degredation in either the cable feed or my internet access (which comes over the same cable). Looks like they have the bandwidth to handle it.
Uhm... no... not that kind of grip. I meant a grip on reality.
You do realise that sex can be an interactive experience? It's not just something you see on the internet...
For $1700 you don't need porn. For $1700 you wine and dine just about any girl into bed. Alternatively, if even getting her drunk isn't going to get you laid (this is/. after all), then you can allways use the money to buy sex. That's what prostitution was invented for.:)
Uhm... no. This is because the economy tanked and will hopefully recover over the next few years.
You personally will be better off if all those talented Indian programmers decide to move to the US rather than stay in India. If they stay in India they are in direct competition with you, but can afford to bid 50% of what you do on a job and still have a very nice lifestyle. If they move to the California they will want to have the same lifestyle, but due to their Californian cost of living they won't be able to bid lower than you on the same job.
Remember that as a lot of those Indian tech workers go home with an address book full of contacts in the US software industry and the knowledge that they can hire programmers in India that will allow them to bid on US contracts for much less than their former co-workers could. Better to keep them in the US, wanting US salaries and paying US taxes.
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Personally I think everyone should learn English. A lot of problems will be solved if everyone uses the same language. It will be a lot cheaper in the long run and remove many of the problems inherent in international commerce.
This is one case where I say "Fuck cultural diversity". The benefits of a global language are just too great to ignore.
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Yeah. And then realise that your kid ain't going to college after the bill arrives for your excess bandwith usage.
Well, I think that the most exciting a wine label should look like is this. This is even better. But nobody should be allowed to do this or this.
I can't find any pictures of novelty bottles, but I do have one downstairs that my girlfriend (bless her heart, but she is a comlete wine pleb) bought because she liked the bottle!. Picture a normal burgundy style bottle that looks like it has been heated to point where the glass began to droop. Then it had fine sand or something sprinkled on it to make it look like it has a permanent coating of dust. Add to this a lable that is fraid around the edges and you get a true abomination. I'm sure some marketing firm somewhere is still telling people about the amazing wine bottle they designed.
Though my vision problems usually occur while drinking the wine, not when buying it. :)
But seriously, as a wine lover I really don't like these new-fangled labels the wine makers are coming up with. Give me something classic, you know, something with fonts that take a while decipher. And don't get me started on artificial corks. They might be better in all ways, but they are still wrong! And the next guy who tries to sell wine in a novelty bottle is going to need help from a proctologist to remove that bottle from his person.
OK, so that was completely off-topic and doesn't address your question at all, but at least it'll give you an idea of the level of logic you can expect from your target audience.
Likewise capsacin, that can be used as a topical anesthesia.
Personally I want to know what bright spark thought up that idea.
I once pulled a groin muscle playing raquetball. Went to the drugstore and of all the analgesic creams the capsicum based one was the most expensive. I figured that being the most expensive it obviously had to be the most effective as well.
I learned two things that day.
First, capsicum applied topically behaves the same as when you ingest it. At first you don't feel a thing. So you try a bit more. Still nothing. So you try even more. Then, when you have passed the point of no return, the burn starts. And gets worse. And worse. And worse...
Second, capsicum and the groin are two things that simply should not be combined. You can figure out the details for yourself.
I mean, it worked. I completely forgot about the muscle pain. I had much more interesing pains to worry about for the next few hours.
Actually this is pretty close to what we experience every day. What people forget is that the only difference between Clippy and HAL9000 is that Clippy makes you want to kill yourself while HAL9000 does the job for you.
Yes. And it uses real stupidity as marketing tool. :)
Freesco.org? Is it just me or is that an unfortunate domain name to have in this day and age?
Darl McBride: FreeSCO? We have IP rights to three of the letters in that domain. Sue them!
Linux Geek: FreeSCO? Darl must have seen freemikehawash.org and is planning ahead for when IBM's lawyers are through with him. Now where did I put that DoS script I was saving for something like this?
Mmmhhh... So which pill do I take again?
Beyond advocating change through violence, this kid was also advocating hate and rasicm. Now while I am all for change and advocacy, this kid is a jerk and belongs in jail for a little while for being a script kiddie, being an advocate for violence and racism and hate, and being criminally stupid.
:)
Wow, except for being a "script kiddie" this guy could be the US president.
Bugger, I can't find the +1 Paranoid mod...
I know someone who died "on the table" and came back, she is not a donor, but if she was, she wouldn't be alive today.
OK, so her heart probably stopped for a short while. She wasn't really dead. No doctor would ever consider harvesting organs from a body that isn't brain dead.
Paranoid idiots like you are responsible for a lot of people going to their graves when a donor organ could have saved them.
A computer will never be truely user freindly until it under stands plain spoke words and gives us what we want, not what we asked for.
Dude, you just described my relationship with my ex-girlfriend! I thought we were incompatible, but now I realize she just wasn't user friendly enough!
People drivers aren't perfect. But its easy to counter their imperfections. When driving, a good driver is aware of everything around them and can tell when someone is not in command of their vehicle. You cant tell when some automagic sensor is about to fail.
But machines are better at a lot of things than humans are. According to your logic you should never have ABS in a car because the driver will be better than ABS at keeping the car under control during heavy breaking. This might be true for really good drivers, but is definately not the norm.
And if good drivers are always better than machines why do they ban traction control and ABS racing? If traction control can help Michael Schumacher then it is sure as hell going to make a difference to my driving.
Uhm, get used to Americans making stupid statements like that. My favourite "clueless Yank" story is told by a South African friend of mine. Conversation goes something like this:
Clueless Yank: So where are you from?
South African: I'm from South Africa.
Clueless Yank: Weird. I travel a lot and I've never heard of it. What state is it in?
South African: (stunned silence)
And it's not like this kind of thing is unusual. I've personally had to explain to somebody that Nigerians and South Africans are actually different nationalities. Even worse is that I find myself correcting them on US geography...
But hey, as long as your cruise missiles can identify a country, does it really matter if your citizens can't?
... and it seems like caffeine might actually prevent Alzheimers.
The most frightening part of this whole story is that the people expressing shock (SHOCK!) at the amount of damage a piece of foam can do at 500+ MPH are actual Rocket Scientists. Is a basic grasp of physics not required for an advanced degree in Aerospace Engineering?
:)
So in essence you are saying that these days you don't have to be a rocket scientist to be a rocket scientist?
Grid computing is the "next big thing"
But I thought that this was the next "killer app"?
I never lose it and it's never crashed yet.
You obviously don't drink much tequila, do you?
The problem is that they are removing the ability of the public to use what is normally a freely available online resource. These 'jamcams' are used by the public to view traffic conditions in London. Go here for an example.
Why are they removing access if they don't have anything to hide?
This is like the VOD, a pipe dream, the bandwidth isn't there, and why would the customer front the bill for it anyways?
:)
Bugger. So the movie I have paused on my TV at the moment is a pipe dream? Jeez, I don't even remember smoking anything...
But seriously, I really enjoy using the VOD provided by my cable company (Cablevision). It is convenient enough that I really don't mind paying the extra $10 a month they want for the service. Hell, considering the money I have saved by not having to pay late fees to Blockbusters every time I forget to return a movie, I'm probably ahead of the game.
I have no idea about their bandwitdh usage, but I have never noticed any degredation in either the cable feed or my internet access (which comes over the same cable). Looks like they have the bandwidth to handle it.
Uhm, does this mean I have to change my bumper sticker to read "NO WAR FOR CHEESE"?
Get a grip!
/. after all), then you can allways use the money to buy sex. That's what prostitution was invented for. :)
Uhm... no... not that kind of grip. I meant a grip on reality.
You do realise that sex can be an interactive experience? It's not just something you see on the internet...
For $1700 you don't need porn. For $1700 you wine and dine just about any girl into bed. Alternatively, if even getting her drunk isn't going to get you laid (this is
Uhm... no. This is because the economy tanked and will hopefully recover over the next few years.
You personally will be better off if all those talented Indian programmers decide to move to the US rather than stay in India. If they stay in India they are in direct competition with you, but can afford to bid 50% of what you do on a job and still have a very nice lifestyle. If they move to the California they will want to have the same lifestyle, but due to their Californian cost of living they won't be able to bid lower than you on the same job.
Remember that as a lot of those Indian tech workers go home with an address book full of contacts in the US software industry and the knowledge that they can hire programmers in India that will allow them to bid on US contracts for much less than their former co-workers could. Better to keep them in the US, wanting US salaries and paying US taxes.
Now why does that idea sound familiar?
Personally I think everyone should learn English. A lot of problems will be solved if everyone uses the same language. It will be a lot cheaper in the long run and remove many of the problems inherent in international commerce.
This is one case where I say "Fuck cultural diversity". The benefits of a global language are just too great to ignore.
BTW, English is NOT my first language.