Polite in Finland is different than polite in America. Small talk comes to mind. Here it is perfectly ok to keep your mouth shut if you don't have anything to say.
iPhones are activated by Apple. They know exactly how many are activated as soon as it happens. They even know how many owners the average iPhone has over its lifetime and how many iPhones the average owner has over time. HTC and Samsung have nothing like that.
How Apple knows who owns the SIM card inserted to the phone? Or is the iPhone so tangled with iTunes (and does that need an account? And does the account need some credit card information?) that they get the information from there?
People still want films that haven't been made yet. So, in a world where you can't get people to pay for something after it's been made, pay will occur, mostly, before, rather than after production - which is how it used to be with music and theater.
Then why o why there are remakes coming from the left and right?
How long I have to wait to see the movie, not ads, not FBI warnings and other unskippable content, playable on my computer and streaming with option to save it locally in case of network problem etc. ?
Also I'd like to have all the content at available at same place, no shopping around thank you.
There is even free, though it might be illegal in some places, example available, can't the content distributors copy that?
If these items are generally better, in terms of energy consumption, and are likewise sold at a reasonable price, they OUGHT to make sense to buy. (Or make cents, as it were.) If they don't then people should be free to wait until they do.
On the inverse, if there's a law requiring they be the only kind of bulb, then they can be built without concern for energy savings, and sold at any price. After all, the law says you have to have them, so why not profit from the artificial demand.
They seem to use less energy, thus save money... on the other hand our price of electricity is about half and half, the other half being the transfer of said energy. And one engineer at a grid company has calculated that our transfer prices should go to 5-6x to cover the costs of upgrades that are needed to handle the parasitic currents and harmonics.
if the Pirate Party were to become elected within the Swedish Parliament
And as a background: They will need over 4% of the votes to get seat. They got 7,1% in the last election to European Parliament. They are third largest party if measured by members of the party.
True, true... but one wonders, why bother with this hyper-text thing, if you must anyway open new tab, google the term, get sidetracked and after few hours wonder why you are reading article about rare earth metals from wikipedia.
Actually, the Russian K36 ejection seats are no more (or less) capable than the standard Aces II seat that all US fighters use.
If one is to trust wikipedia, then they must be more capable (or US navy and air force buy their wares abroad just for shit and giggles):
Zvezda is also Russia's primary manufacturer of ejector seats for Russian fighter aircraft. The K-36 ejector seat was studied at length by the US Navy and Air Force; IBP Aircraft opened up a factory in the US to manufacture it for the F-22 Raptor and the Joint Strike Fighter.[citation needed] The US Government, however, selected the Martin-Baker seat from the United Kingdom for their new fighter jet.
Impossible. Shortest distance across Atlantic is ~2500km. If you want to cover it in ½ hour then your speed must be ~5000km/h. SR-71 has (had?) top speed of over 3500km/h... and you are suggesting of making plane that goes almost 50% faster?
And when we stopped waging wars? After both sides got good enough weapons that we wouldn't dare to start another war. So lets sell nukes to the both sides and lets see how long they dare to fight:P
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Polite in Finland is different than polite in America. Small talk comes to mind. Here it is perfectly ok to keep your mouth shut if you don't have anything to say.
This gave me a chuckle or two: http://www.juhaterho.fi/proverbiaalinen/pora/
Netflix isn't available for free. GPL vs. BSD difference pops to my mind.
of Pinball Dreams/Fantasies/Illusions fame.
iPhones are activated by Apple. They know exactly how many are activated as soon as it happens. They even know how many owners the average iPhone has over its lifetime and how many iPhones the average owner has over time. HTC and Samsung have nothing like that.
How Apple knows who owns the SIM card inserted to the phone? Or is the iPhone so tangled with iTunes (and does that need an account? And does the account need some credit card information?) that they get the information from there?
Actually in most cases the buyer takes possession of the item first.
You haven't taken any sort of legal possession of the stuff in your shopping cart.
Hmm, maybe I should just stalk the checkout and take the cart that seems to have what I came to buy....
Not to mention the tiny point that users _paid_ for product! I know, I know, sounds funny, but it is true... now get off my lawn!
How charismatic preacher and singer differ if the singer passes the hat at the shows, just like the preacher at his ceremonies?
People still want films that haven't been made yet. So, in a world where you can't get people to pay for something after it's been made, pay will occur, mostly, before, rather than after production - which is how it used to be with music and theater.
Then why o why there are remakes coming from the left and right?
How long I have to wait to see the movie, not ads, not FBI warnings and other unskippable content, playable on my computer and streaming with option to save it locally in case of network problem etc. ?
Also I'd like to have all the content at available at same place, no shopping around thank you.
There is even free, though it might be illegal in some places, example available, can't the content distributors copy that?
reproduction != sexuality
And yet none of my accounts has the same name that reads in my official papers...
So customer-retention is unimportant to you. Because you know, those who've been on Facebook for a while tend to turn it off completely.
Facebook is like Myspace, a proprietary and intrusive fad.
What I have heard and read, is that MyFace and other so called social media is not a fad, but crack, and the users that go away, tend to come back.
If these items are generally better, in terms of energy consumption, and are likewise sold at a reasonable price, they OUGHT to make sense to buy. (Or make cents, as it were.) If they don't then people should be free to wait until they do.
On the inverse, if there's a law requiring they be the only kind of bulb, then they can be built without concern for energy savings, and sold at any price. After all, the law says you have to have them, so why not profit from the artificial demand.
They seem to use less energy, thus save money... on the other hand our price of electricity is about half and half, the other half being the transfer of said energy. And one engineer at a grid company has calculated that our transfer prices should go to 5-6x to cover the costs of upgrades that are needed to handle the parasitic currents and harmonics.
I know that when I buy a BMW I'm going to get a better product than a kia, even without looking at the specs.
Here is some specs: Kia, warranty: 7 years. BMW, warranty: 2 years.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_to_roam
if the Pirate Party were to become elected within the Swedish Parliament
And as a background: They will need over 4% of the votes to get seat. They got 7,1% in the last election to European Parliament. They are third largest party if measured by members of the party.
"None of your business, piss off!"
True, true... but one wonders, why bother with this hyper-text thing, if you must anyway open new tab, google the term, get sidetracked and after few hours wonder why you are reading article about rare earth metals from wikipedia.
Can't you divorce just because you want? Do you really have to have some "reason" or "grounds" to get divorce?
Stolen, lost, what is the difference?
Actually, the Russian K36 ejection seats are no more (or less) capable than the standard Aces II seat that all US fighters use.
If one is to trust wikipedia, then they must be more capable (or US navy and air force buy their wares abroad just for shit and giggles):
Zvezda is also Russia's primary manufacturer of ejector seats for Russian fighter aircraft. The K-36 ejector seat was studied at length by the US Navy and Air Force; IBP Aircraft opened up a factory in the US to manufacture it for the F-22 Raptor and the Joint Strike Fighter.[citation needed] The US Government, however, selected the Martin-Baker seat from the United Kingdom for their new fighter jet.
How does 30 minutes to cross the Atlantic sound?
Impossible. Shortest distance across Atlantic is ~2500km. If you want to cover it in ½ hour then your speed must be ~5000km/h. SR-71 has (had?) top speed of over 3500km/h... and you are suggesting of making plane that goes almost 50% faster?
And when we stopped waging wars? After both sides got good enough weapons that we wouldn't dare to start another war. So lets sell nukes to the both sides and lets see how long they dare to fight :P