How long before scientists are going to try and create their own anti-bacterial virus, a la some Michael Crichton novel? From TFA: "We need a new way to attack bacteria once they mutate, and if we can employ phages to do our work for us, it could be a great advance for medicine."
The audacity with which power is wielded is not so much the key to success as the finesse and scale to which it is exerted. Napoleon won power by getting the army completely on his side. Hitler won power by becoming popular with the masses and then turning them against the smaller groups. Bush, Clinton, Bush Sr., and every president in the last 40 years has won power because of the money and power their party throws behind him, not his own personality.
The topics are quite different. In your example, someone is paying for a service that requires little or no effort on his part and has a set reward, that is, transportation, and he is being denied the chance to purchase said service based on a stereotype. In WoW, on the other hand, the issue is that there are players who are all equal who decide to band together to accomplish a goal. If a single player cannot communicate with the rest of the team, he cannot help accomplish the goal, and shouldn't be a part of the team. A better example would be... "Should an English-speaking callcenter be forced to hire someone who does not speak any English just to be fair and not appear racist?" Of course not, that's just stupid.
That said, I've played WoW since beta one, and the only players I have ever run into who do not speak English or claim ignorance as an excuse for their ninja looting/leeroy pulling/etc., have ALL been Chinese speakers without one exception. That's the experience that causes the stereotype. But, on the other hand, one of my good friends in my guild is a player from China who is a good team player and speaks very good English and he's always the first I'll ask to come with me on a run.
The issue here isn't RACE, it's a LANGUAGE BARRIER that presents a functional challenge. If you can't separate the two, you probably belong in Washington with the other PC-speaking talkboxes.
Actually, you CAN put a cap on the number of clicks. Or rather, on the dollars. You could set a cap of $10 per day, for example, and if you were paying a penny per click, after 1,000 hits your ad would be removed for the day.
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Yeah, iced coffee is still easy to find, but the "Classic Frappucino" (I've also heard it called the Café Frappucino) is a bit more difficult to find, at least in my region.
This is possible, however, when Starbucks created the Frappucino (later emulated by countless others with their Blended Coffee Drinks) it was appealing to the non-coffee drinking crowd speficially, which is why Frappucinos are mostly syrup and have very little actual coffee in them. It makes more sense, then, that they were seeking a Slurpee-ish drink than a true coffee variant such as Caffe Granita. A closer comparison to the Granita might be their iced coffee, or "classic" Frappucino (which is no longer served in most Starbucks, and consisted of blended coffee, ice, and milk/cream.)
I'm the exact opposite. I was still pretty young when Napster came around, and didn't have much money - what little I spent on music was spent every 3-4 months on a CD for which I paid the absurd retail price of 16 or 17 dollars. When I got Napster, which was right before it was killed, I heard artists I'd never heard before. My friend would IM me and say "Hey, check out so-and-so, they're pretty good." And I would. And I'd like them. And I would buy the CD. Same thing with Audiogalaxy, then Kazaa, then Gnutella...
Long story short, before I got into P2P sharing four or so years ago, I had about 30 CD's from 6 or 7 artists. Now, I have over 500 CD's from a couple hundred artists.
I'm poor. I don't have the money to buy CD's for kicks. I listen to them first, download a few tracks, burn a copy, whatever. Chances are, if I like it I will buy it, if I don't, I'll never listen to it anyway...
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How long before scientists are going to try and create their own anti-bacterial virus, a la some Michael Crichton novel? From TFA: "We need a new way to attack bacteria once they mutate, and if we can employ phages to do our work for us, it could be a great advance for medicine."
The audacity with which power is wielded is not so much the key to success as the finesse and scale to which it is exerted. Napoleon won power by getting the army completely on his side. Hitler won power by becoming popular with the masses and then turning them against the smaller groups. Bush, Clinton, Bush Sr., and every president in the last 40 years has won power because of the money and power their party throws behind him, not his own personality.
But Bill O'Reilly is still a bastard.
My first thought exactly. Can I get one of these whenever I get transferred a call from the Philippines?
That said, I've played WoW since beta one, and the only players I have ever run into who do not speak English or claim ignorance as an excuse for their ninja looting/leeroy pulling/etc., have ALL been Chinese speakers without one exception. That's the experience that causes the stereotype. But, on the other hand, one of my good friends in my guild is a player from China who is a good team player and speaks very good English and he's always the first I'll ask to come with me on a run.
The issue here isn't RACE, it's a LANGUAGE BARRIER that presents a functional challenge. If you can't separate the two, you probably belong in Washington with the other PC-speaking talkboxes.
The upcoming "Homezone" by SBC and Dish network delivers exactly that, and supposedly much better than "On Demand" does.
Actually, you CAN put a cap on the number of clicks. Or rather, on the dollars. You could set a cap of $10 per day, for example, and if you were paying a penny per click, after 1,000 hits your ad would be removed for the day.
Yeah, iced coffee is still easy to find, but the "Classic Frappucino" (I've also heard it called the Café Frappucino) is a bit more difficult to find, at least in my region.
This is possible, however, when Starbucks created the Frappucino (later emulated by countless others with their Blended Coffee Drinks) it was appealing to the non-coffee drinking crowd speficially, which is why Frappucinos are mostly syrup and have very little actual coffee in them. It makes more sense, then, that they were seeking a Slurpee-ish drink than a true coffee variant such as Caffe Granita. A closer comparison to the Granita might be their iced coffee, or "classic" Frappucino (which is no longer served in most Starbucks, and consisted of blended coffee, ice, and milk/cream.)
I'm the exact opposite. I was still pretty young when Napster came around, and didn't have much money - what little I spent on music was spent every 3-4 months on a CD for which I paid the absurd retail price of 16 or 17 dollars. When I got Napster, which was right before it was killed, I heard artists I'd never heard before. My friend would IM me and say "Hey, check out so-and-so, they're pretty good." And I would. And I'd like them. And I would buy the CD. Same thing with Audiogalaxy, then Kazaa, then Gnutella... Long story short, before I got into P2P sharing four or so years ago, I had about 30 CD's from 6 or 7 artists. Now, I have over 500 CD's from a couple hundred artists. I'm poor. I don't have the money to buy CD's for kicks. I listen to them first, download a few tracks, burn a copy, whatever. Chances are, if I like it I will buy it, if I don't, I'll never listen to it anyway...