That's as may be, and you probably know as well as I do that if "artificial" Dasani is chemically identical to a natural mineral water then one's no better from the other, but Joe Public thinks that if minerals are put there by Mother Nature, they're better for you than if they're put there by man. Furthermore, the myth of detox is pretty prevalent this side of the pond, and artificially reconstituted water doesn't sound very purifying to the average dumbass.
No, it was more the fact that they were trying to pass off tap water with additives as a premium product. They completely misjudged the market, which is driven by the perception that bottled water is purer and more natural and better for you. They seemed to think that people just wanted it to taste nice, and that the way to make it taste the way they wanted was to mass-produce it with minerals added in artificially to keep the taste consistent. I've never seen such embarrassingly negative launch publicity for anything, and I'm counting the Segway in that.
Then less than a month after it launched, just when we'd all stopped laughing, they had to withdraw it from sale because of abnormal levels of some toxic chemical or other. It never came back.
Still, I'm sure it'll provide marketing textbook authors with case study material for decades to come.
Actually, there's nothing obliging them to accept them at all. Technically, they're not legal tender, and they're only accepted as such by convention, as far as I know.
That's there for a reason. Back when coins were actually made of gold, those mottos were put there to stop people filing flakes of gold off before using them again. It's warning them not to deface the currency or they'll get bitch-slapped. How they'd have got found out I don't know, but still...
Only less so, because when you've got countless billions in the bank, you've got more money than you could ever possibly need, so if you give it away you really won't miss it at all. If you've only got a small amount of money, and you give the same proportion away, you might feel the pinch.
Let's face it, when you get to Gates levels of wealth, it's just numbers. The only reasonable thing to do is put it to some practical use for the good of humanity, whether that's eradicating disease, building libraries or whatever. I commend him for this, but I really don't see what else he could spend it on, anyway.
There's nothing wrong with "English cuisine" - who doesn't enjoy a good shepherd's pie or a full Sunday roast? Supermarket stuff in the UK is much better than in the US, but it's still total shit, and what isn't total shit is hugely overpriced and sold to people as something special, whereas it's really just made to the standards you should expect. If you want proper tasty meat, buy it from your local butcher. The supermarkets have brainwashed everybody into thinking food should be how they sell it. They're full of shit.
It's grown without using artificial fertilisers. Or if it's meat, its feed is grown without using artificial fertilisers. And I'm really not too sure what the grandparent's on about, we only really started using manufactured fertilisers in the last century.
It's an LG phone, and it's really good - big screen, good user interface (and that's coming from a professional UI designer), decent camera, 32MB memory. Only thing it doesn't have is Bluetooth. Battery life's much like any other phone unless you start using video and stuff, which hammers it, and it's not monstrously big like earlier handsets. I don't know what the plan's called - have a look around on mobileshop for more details.
Funny you should say that - Edinburgh's the only place I've ever witnessed a pizza theft. I was walking across the Meadows with two friends having had a few ales, my mate was carrying a pizza home, and some scamp just whipped it out of his hands and legged it. Mugged for a pizza. It'd drive a man to write to the Daily Mail, it really would.
I take your point, but I'm a bit surprised that there's nothing available wherever you are that fits the bill for you. I'm pretty sure dead basic Nokias and what-have-you are still on sale here in the UK, with just annual cosmetic tweaks to keep them looking fresh. I'm not sure how many contracts offer them, though, because I suppose the market's pretty small - everybody seems to want to be able to show off the latest gadget-laden phones, not just teenagers and geeks.
As fot toughened phones, maybe there just isn't much of a market for them? Nokia definitely had one out a couple of years ago - it had a moulded-rubber case which could resist falling down the toilet or whatever - but I'm not sure what happened to it.
It's like those old Vidal Sassoon adverts. "Take two bottles into the shower? Not me. Now I have a crappy shampoo and a crappy conditioner in one! Just watch me flick my shiny hair from side to side, and imagine I haven't spent the last two hours in a stylist's chair!"
If you really want to cart around a phone, an MP3 player and a camera at all times, go ahead. Right now your phone might not be able to do a job as good as all three, but it's good enough for some, and by the looks of what Samsung are up to, it won't be long before they're good enough for a lot of people. I mean, Casio have a phone out in Japan with autofocus.
It wasn't so long ago that you'd have needed a room full of all sorts of equipment to play music, watch videos, play games, etc. Now all you need is a decent PC. That's progress.
Seems like mobile phones are about the only example of a market where Americans get a far worse deal than everybody else in the world. Here in the UK you can currently get a very good UMTS phone which does video calling and the lot for free, on a contract which gives you 500 minutes of calls to any network at any time of day, 20 minutes of video calls, 100 SMS messages, 20 MMS messages, and who knows what else, for FIVE POUNDS A MONTH. When it's that cheap, why wouldn't you want all the bells and whistles?
Not unless they're either adding or taking away characters in their names, they're not. If it's a one-for-one substitution, Beckham's definitely not in there.
.tv's pretty popular. And anyway, it's not solely for TV stations, it belongs to the island of Tuvalu, who have sensibly decided to cash in, and the money from it's been funding quite a bit of regeneration of the island.
I've been looking at these myself. One question - can it play Ogg Vorbis files gaplessly? It seems like a pretty cool device, but if it does gapless playback, that would clinch it for me.
Well,. you ARE entitled to defend yourself. But think what'll happen if this new legislation permitting use of any force just short of shooting the burglar dead comes in. Burglars'll have to start packing heat as a matter of routine, just in case, and the vast majority of home owners won't be similarly equipped. We're going to end up with a lot of very sorry have-a-go heroes, who, lest we forget, have been egged on by a government desperate to appeal to knee-jerk hang-'em-and-flog-'em Daily Mailers. There's nothing wrong with the law as it stands. Hell, Tony "I'll do ANYTHING for a vote" Blair even said as much. But it doesn't stop him going against his own convictions once again to cling on to power just a bit longer.
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You could always move to India instead of sitting about complaining.
That's as may be, and you probably know as well as I do that if "artificial" Dasani is chemically identical to a natural mineral water then one's no better from the other, but Joe Public thinks that if minerals are put there by Mother Nature, they're better for you than if they're put there by man. Furthermore, the myth of detox is pretty prevalent this side of the pond, and artificially reconstituted water doesn't sound very purifying to the average dumbass.
No, it was more the fact that they were trying to pass off tap water with additives as a premium product. They completely misjudged the market, which is driven by the perception that bottled water is purer and more natural and better for you. They seemed to think that people just wanted it to taste nice, and that the way to make it taste the way they wanted was to mass-produce it with minerals added in artificially to keep the taste consistent. I've never seen such embarrassingly negative launch publicity for anything, and I'm counting the Segway in that.
Then less than a month after it launched, just when we'd all stopped laughing, they had to withdraw it from sale because of abnormal levels of some toxic chemical or other. It never came back.
Still, I'm sure it'll provide marketing textbook authors with case study material for decades to come.
Actually, there's nothing obliging them to accept them at all. Technically, they're not legal tender, and they're only accepted as such by convention, as far as I know.
That's there for a reason. Back when coins were actually made of gold, those mottos were put there to stop people filing flakes of gold off before using them again. It's warning them not to deface the currency or they'll get bitch-slapped. How they'd have got found out I don't know, but still...
Is that like the Canyonero?
Only less so, because when you've got countless billions in the bank, you've got more money than you could ever possibly need, so if you give it away you really won't miss it at all. If you've only got a small amount of money, and you give the same proportion away, you might feel the pinch.
Let's face it, when you get to Gates levels of wealth, it's just numbers. The only reasonable thing to do is put it to some practical use for the good of humanity, whether that's eradicating disease, building libraries or whatever. I commend him for this, but I really don't see what else he could spend it on, anyway.
There's nothing wrong with "English cuisine" - who doesn't enjoy a good shepherd's pie or a full Sunday roast? Supermarket stuff in the UK is much better than in the US, but it's still total shit, and what isn't total shit is hugely overpriced and sold to people as something special, whereas it's really just made to the standards you should expect. If you want proper tasty meat, buy it from your local butcher. The supermarkets have brainwashed everybody into thinking food should be how they sell it. They're full of shit.
It's the old razors-and-razorblades model. Except this time it's like they're selling you a flat tyre, then selling you a puncture repair kit.
Actually, if you check the latest issue of the Oxford English Dictionary, you'll find the definition of irony is:
"David Blunkett losing his job as a result of intrusions into his private life"
See also: "Proof that God has a sense of humour"
It's grown without using artificial fertilisers. Or if it's meat, its feed is grown without using artificial fertilisers. And I'm really not too sure what the grandparent's on about, we only really started using manufactured fertilisers in the last century.
It's an LG phone, and it's really good - big screen, good user interface (and that's coming from a professional UI designer), decent camera, 32MB memory. Only thing it doesn't have is Bluetooth. Battery life's much like any other phone unless you start using video and stuff, which hammers it, and it's not monstrously big like earlier handsets. I don't know what the plan's called - have a look around on mobileshop for more details.
Funny you should say that - Edinburgh's the only place I've ever witnessed a pizza theft. I was walking across the Meadows with two friends having had a few ales, my mate was carrying a pizza home, and some scamp just whipped it out of his hands and legged it. Mugged for a pizza. It'd drive a man to write to the Daily Mail, it really would.
I take your point, but I'm a bit surprised that there's nothing available wherever you are that fits the bill for you. I'm pretty sure dead basic Nokias and what-have-you are still on sale here in the UK, with just annual cosmetic tweaks to keep them looking fresh. I'm not sure how many contracts offer them, though, because I suppose the market's pretty small - everybody seems to want to be able to show off the latest gadget-laden phones, not just teenagers and geeks.
As fot toughened phones, maybe there just isn't much of a market for them? Nokia definitely had one out a couple of years ago - it had a moulded-rubber case which could resist falling down the toilet or whatever - but I'm not sure what happened to it.
It's like those old Vidal Sassoon adverts. "Take two bottles into the shower? Not me. Now I have a crappy shampoo and a crappy conditioner in one! Just watch me flick my shiny hair from side to side, and imagine I haven't spent the last two hours in a stylist's chair!"
If you really want to cart around a phone, an MP3 player and a camera at all times, go ahead. Right now your phone might not be able to do a job as good as all three, but it's good enough for some, and by the looks of what Samsung are up to, it won't be long before they're good enough for a lot of people. I mean, Casio have a phone out in Japan with autofocus.
It wasn't so long ago that you'd have needed a room full of all sorts of equipment to play music, watch videos, play games, etc. Now all you need is a decent PC. That's progress.
Seems like mobile phones are about the only example of a market where Americans get a far worse deal than everybody else in the world. Here in the UK you can currently get a very good UMTS phone which does video calling and the lot for free, on a contract which gives you 500 minutes of calls to any network at any time of day, 20 minutes of video calls, 100 SMS messages, 20 MMS messages, and who knows what else, for FIVE POUNDS A MONTH. When it's that cheap, why wouldn't you want all the bells and whistles?
Erm, yeah, and the line before it is...
"I beg your pardon"
I'm wasted here, y'know...
I beg your pardon?
Not unless they're either adding or taking away characters in their names, they're not. If it's a one-for-one substitution, Beckham's definitely not in there.
Aren't these just ordinary Polish names?
.tv's pretty popular. And anyway, it's not solely for TV stations, it belongs to the island of Tuvalu, who have sensibly decided to cash in, and the money from it's been funding quite a bit of regeneration of the island.
Wow. I never even knew that existed. Cool.
I've been looking at these myself. One question - can it play Ogg Vorbis files gaplessly? It seems like a pretty cool device, but if it does gapless playback, that would clinch it for me.
Well,. you ARE entitled to defend yourself. But think what'll happen if this new legislation permitting use of any force just short of shooting the burglar dead comes in. Burglars'll have to start packing heat as a matter of routine, just in case, and the vast majority of home owners won't be similarly equipped. We're going to end up with a lot of very sorry have-a-go heroes, who, lest we forget, have been egged on by a government desperate to appeal to knee-jerk hang-'em-and-flog-'em Daily Mailers. There's nothing wrong with the law as it stands. Hell, Tony "I'll do ANYTHING for a vote" Blair even said as much. But it doesn't stop him going against his own convictions once again to cling on to power just a bit longer.
It's bad news.
Actually, since the UK joined the Common Market, this old Imperial unit of measurement has been superseded by its metric equivalent, the Belgium.