Consider this: I am a law abiding, gainfully employed, born in the USA citizen who, while not a big fan of Bush, supports our efforts in Iraq. I have no middle eastern blood yet I look like I could very well be middle eastern. For this reason I believe I am profiled far more than my fair share at the airport and selected for secondary inspection. I would gladly sport an implanted RFID tag that would instantly identify me as "OK". Let the tinfoil hatters stand in the security lines, I have better things to do.
NetFlix doesn't do porn. I created a website using the domain name NotNetFlix.com to capitalize on this fact. NetFlix did not appreciate this and $2,500 in attorney fees later I finally relented and had to turn the domain over to them. I sure miss that name as my new one generates only half the traffic: RentXReview.com.
Search engine costs per click are rising as more and more individuals are competing for the same key words. Thus having a unique domain name becomes relatively more valuable.
Bill Gates is and was a ruthless competitor. The two companies in the best position to usurp the rise of DOS were IBM and Apple. But they both lacked the vision and sat on their hands while the evil empire took over.
Ironically, on the same day French courts also ruled that yellow page publishers cannot place ads of competiting companies adjacent to each other. If a company has any competitors within a given category, its ad much appear on the page by itself. The purpose is to reduce the likelyhood that a consumer will realize that competitors may exist ad being viewed.
My personal version of this theory:
"The irresponsible and criminally minded are breeding faster and younger than those who are responsible and law abiding, thereby increasing their percentages in the general population's gene pool"
Aspartame by itself is heat and pH sensitive (meaning it loses its sweetness over time), the concentrated fountain syrup causes aspartame to lose its sweetness faster than it would in a finished beverage. Fountain diet drinks, therefore, are sweetened with a blend of and saccharin to assure maximum product quality.
I believe you see the big picture when you speak of the inevitable all high level life destroying asteroid.
But I cannot agree with your logic of spending billions to create some sort of extra planetary outpost of fornicating repopulators in order to expand the existence of the human species beyond its inevitable demise on earth.
The earth is ideally suited for human life because we have evolved within it over the last 200,000+ years.
Any outpost created will inevitably fall to murphy's law. I say within 50 years on the outside. Especially without base station support from mother earth.
Spend the billions on earth I say. So what if the potential for the discovery of the next "tang" is lessoned.
I am amazed that congress would vote to spend BILLIONS revisiting a SINGLE stupid rock orbiting our earth while they scoff at and cut off funding in the MILLIONS for a project that is scanning BILLIONS of solar systems for signs of intelligent life (SETI).
28FEB2003 ZDNet: "Microsoft signs pact with Chinese government allowing them to view Window's source code."
31AUG2003 Reuters: "China, Japan, Korea to develop Window's replacement."
31AUG2003 Bill Gates: "Doh!"
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Consider this: I am a law abiding, gainfully employed, born in the USA citizen who, while not a big fan of Bush, supports our efforts in Iraq. I have no middle eastern blood yet I look like I could very well be middle eastern. For this reason I believe I am profiled far more than my fair share at the airport and selected for secondary inspection. I would gladly sport an implanted RFID tag that would instantly identify me as "OK". Let the tinfoil hatters stand in the security lines, I have better things to do.
Sorry correct link: SugarDVD
Actually SugarDVD are the biggest netflix style pr0n company. Biggest selection, fast turnaround, 24hr live support, etc
NetFlix doesn't do porn. I created a website using the domain name NotNetFlix.com to capitalize on this fact. NetFlix did not appreciate this and $2,500 in attorney fees later I finally relented and had to turn the domain over to them. I sure miss that name as my new one generates only half the traffic: RentXReview.com.
I own FakeNews.com ! Havn't done anything with it yet though.
Search engine costs per click are rising as more and more individuals are competing for the same key words. Thus having a unique domain name becomes relatively more valuable.
Slashdot coulda had the scoop. I know Samy and I submitted this to them 3 days ago: http://fast.info/samy
I prefer what these guys offer: NotNetFlix.com
Bill Gates is and was a ruthless competitor. The two companies in the best position to usurp the rise of DOS were IBM and Apple. But they both lacked the vision and sat on their hands while the evil empire took over.
Join or Die
Ironically, on the same day French courts also ruled that yellow page publishers cannot place ads of competiting companies adjacent to each other. If a company has any competitors within a given category, its ad much appear on the page by itself. The purpose is to reduce the likelyhood that a consumer will realize that competitors may exist ad being viewed.
Nuclear Energy. Good enough for Springfield. Good enough for me.
Reminds me of a Dilbert cartoon from a few years back.
Guy in a restaurant as he is handing his credit card to the waitress says to his companion "I don't trust giving my credit card information online"
When he waitress comes back for his signature she is wearing a fur coat.
My personal version of this theory: "The irresponsible and criminally minded are breeding faster and younger than those who are responsible and law abiding, thereby increasing their percentages in the general population's gene pool"
From Coca Cola:
Aspartame by itself is heat and pH sensitive (meaning it loses its sweetness over time), the concentrated fountain syrup causes aspartame to lose its sweetness faster than it would in a finished beverage. Fountain diet drinks, therefore, are sweetened with a blend of and saccharin to assure maximum product quality.
I hate them because they took away Howard Stern in San Diego.
> You can't really believe this can you?
But I cannot agree with your logic of spending billions to create some sort of extra planetary outpost of fornicating repopulators in order to expand the existence of the human species beyond its inevitable demise on earth.
The earth is ideally suited for human life because we have evolved within it over the last 200,000+ years.
Any outpost created will inevitably fall to murphy's law. I say within 50 years on the outside. Especially without base station support from mother earth.
Spend the billions on earth I say. So what if the potential for the discovery of the next "tang" is lessoned.
I am amazed that congress would vote to spend BILLIONS revisiting a SINGLE stupid rock orbiting our earth while they scoff at and cut off funding in the MILLIONS for a project that is scanning BILLIONS of solar systems for signs of intelligent life (SETI).
The day I buy something from BN that will cost me less from Amazon is the day BN grows some balls and challenges Amazon's outrageous One-Click patent.
... watching a live 3D Hologram of the Super Bowl on your living room floor!
31AUG2003 Reuters: "China, Japan, Korea to develop Window's replacement."
31AUG2003 Bill Gates: "Doh!"
28FEB2003 ZDNet: "Microsoft signs pact with Chinese government allowing them to view Window's source code." 31AUG2003 Reuters: "China, Japan, Korea to develop Window's replacement." 31AUG2003 Bill Gates: "Doh!"