That's NOTHING compared to what beach-front property owners do. The beaches may be public property, but private developers are allowed to buy up miles and miles of land, and refuse to allow anyone to park nearby, or even walk through to the beach. It's not strictly illegal, and it's a clear-cut case of public lands being stolen and locked-up for private use by the wealthy.
Nokia's Here.com for Android (beta) is free and has offline maps for most of the world. It's better than many expensive paid offline map apps: http://here.com/beta/android/
I remember the absolutely worthless commercials for Fight Club on TV... It was basically the line "How much can you know about yourself if you've never been in a fight?" followed by a super close-up of a pink bar of soap with "Fight Club" engraved into it... It was utterly worthless except to put the name out there with no context. I had no interest in seeing the film after seeing the commercial repeated hundreds of times, which is regrettable, because I consider it a great film.
I expect lousy advertising is the #1 problem across the board... Studio execs don't WANT to make a commercial that will tell you whether you want to see a film... They arrogantly take the target audience for granted, and meanwhile focus advertising on attracting those who will NOT like the movie, to get them to buy a ticket regardless. It makes a certain type of cynical sense, but over the longer term has made people skeptical of movie advertisements, and the feedback loop has driven us to the proliferation of formulaic and awful films we have today.
I've noticed that many actors on the show did double-duty.
John Hoyt was Ross (the Martian) in "Will the Real Martian Please Stand Up?", and also the father who built himself a robot daughter in "The Lateness of the Hour".
Barney Phillips was the diner's cook in "Will the Real Martian Please Stand Up?" as well as Capt. Gunther in "The Purple Testament", the TV Repairman (one of just 3 people) in "A Thing about Machines", and Diemel in "Miniature" opposite Robert Duvall.
Burgess Meredith (ie. Rocky's coach), Jack Klugman, John Anderson and Cyril Delevanti tied with him for 4 episodes.
Vaughn Taylor (Psycho) just beats everyone else out, though, having significant roles in 5 different episodes.
This gets exaggerated far too much. Most important measurements (speedometers, foods, etc.) are dual-labeled. And the US isn't alone... The British remain dedicated to imperial measures, but somehow it's not as trendy to mock the UK.
* 8. Return Policy
All of Europe has far better return policies than the US... A product can be returned years later, if it was poorly designed and unsuitable for the purpose.
* "It is easy to find obese people in USA"
Mexico is worse than the US, and the UK is only just barely any better the US in the obesity epidemic. Most 1st world countries have the problem to varying degrees. That said, the US is a big place, and I can see how a foreigner that gets off the plane and walks into a Walmart in Paducah, Kentucky would think the entire US consists of a herd of thundering man-blubber propelled onward by rascal scooters...
"The aches and pains we associate with a long day of work or a touch of the flu couldn’t be quelled by popping an aspirin"
You should strictly avoid giving aspirin to anyone under 19 when having flu-like symptoms, or even within a few weeks of any viral infection. Reyes syndrome is nothing to scoff at. They stuck that warning on the label because hundreds of children were dying every year. It's a wonderful drug, otherwise.
It's perfectly legal to buy an item at a store, take it home to modify and repackage it, then take it back to the store and leave it on the shelf. And there's really no way around it.
That's how we end up with dolls saying heavy-handed political things, barbies that sound like GI Joes, etc., etc. It's an easy and legal prank to pull, and store owners have no practical way to stop it.
I'm sure using actual roaches is only a very short-term stop-gap measure, until robotics catches-up and can make mechanical roaches in large numbers, dirt cheap. A few more years and this will be moot.
Remember, the world's first "guided" bombs were guided by PIGEONS. But it only took a short while before radio control was ready to go and birds were removed from the loop:
The interview is very long, simplistic, gets tedious, and goes nowhere... I'd rate it just so-so, okay to kill some time. That's a Stephen King original, all-right!
"I mean, The Tommyknockers is an awful book." "I don't like Dreamcatcher very much." -Stephen King
http://www.walmart.com/ip/Mainstays-Microfiber-2-Pk-Pillow-White-Standard/14123148
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eh6mw0FVjrI
I expect lousy advertising is the #1 problem across the board... Studio execs don't WANT to make a commercial that will tell you whether you want to see a film... They arrogantly take the target audience for granted, and meanwhile focus advertising on attracting those who will NOT like the movie, to get them to buy a ticket regardless. It makes a certain type of cynical sense, but over the longer term has made people skeptical of movie advertisements, and the feedback loop has driven us to the proliferation of formulaic and awful films we have today.
John Hoyt was Ross (the Martian) in "Will the Real Martian Please Stand Up?", and also the father who built himself a robot daughter in "The Lateness of the Hour".
Barney Phillips was the diner's cook in "Will the Real Martian Please Stand Up?" as well as Capt. Gunther in "The Purple Testament", the TV Repairman (one of just 3 people) in "A Thing about Machines", and Diemel in "Miniature" opposite Robert Duvall.
Burgess Meredith (ie. Rocky's coach), Jack Klugman, John Anderson and Cyril Delevanti tied with him for 4 episodes.
Vaughn Taylor (Psycho) just beats everyone else out, though, having significant roles in 5 different episodes.
http://www.businessinsider.com/foreigners-share-what-they-cant-believe-about-america-2013-11
* 6. The Non-Metric System
This gets exaggerated far too much. Most important measurements (speedometers, foods, etc.) are dual-labeled. And the US isn't alone... The British remain dedicated to imperial measures, but somehow it's not as trendy to mock the UK.
* 8. Return Policy
All of Europe has far better return policies than the US... A product can be returned years later, if it was poorly designed and unsuitable for the purpose.
* "It is easy to find obese people in USA"
Mexico is worse than the US, and the UK is only just barely any better the US in the obesity epidemic. Most 1st world countries have the problem to varying degrees. That said, the US is a big place, and I can see how a foreigner that gets off the plane and walks into a Walmart in Paducah, Kentucky would think the entire US consists of a herd of thundering man-blubber propelled onward by rascal scooters...
Eh, sexy lady!
Op, op, op, op
http://youtu.be/pMWFcWOeaps
You should strictly avoid giving aspirin to anyone under 19 when having flu-like symptoms, or even within a few weeks of any viral infection. Reyes syndrome is nothing to scoff at. They stuck that warning on the label because hundreds of children were dying every year. It's a wonderful drug, otherwise.
That's how we end up with dolls saying heavy-handed political things, barbies that sound like GI Joes, etc., etc. It's an easy and legal prank to pull, and store owners have no practical way to stop it.
Remember, the world's first "guided" bombs were guided by PIGEONS. But it only took a short while before radio control was ready to go and birds were removed from the loop:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Pigeon
"I mean, The Tommyknockers is an awful book."
"I don't like Dreamcatcher very much." -Stephen King