it's advertising to get people to pay the ridiculous live concert prices

Artists pay the radio stations play their music and pay the labels to market their albums to convince me to buy your $10 collection of songs and selling the same songs two and three times over as live versions and in greatest hits collections

women read donor profiles on those

a lot of these games are similar to slot machines in that they space small rewards on a regular basis to keep you playing for hours. Civilization and Sim City are perfect examples

being that many of them won't pass on their genes, nature will take care of it

US Military has been buying weapons from partner countries since the original M1. they still don't outsource jobs that need clearances

the last time in NYC my in'law's 2003 Acuca qualified but not the 1992 Ford

yeah, anyone who can afford $10,000 a year for season tickets is obviously dumb

10 years is about the average time people stay in a home until moving and when people buy a new home they like to buy their own stuff for it

win win

whatever my mother in law has and whatever doesn't come out of walmart

ipod had a lot of competition back in the day and had a small part of the market for the longest time. it's just that most of the other devices and music stores were crap compared to itunes

the bright colors and smiling faces tell me so

chances are your company has SQL or Cognos or Oracle or something similar and will have that functionality

that's how a lot of geeks think

don't get an apple tv or roku or something simple, build a home PC, connect to TV and make up complicated instructions to do something simple like watch a movie or netflix

US defense industry was big in california from WW2 through the end of the cold war. Lockheed had lots of smart engineers building stealth aircraft at their Skunkworks there. the US space program was the original buyer for CPU's and all kinds of tech that we use today

after the cold war ended these engineers went to work for private industry