Perhaps you meant his son Senator 'Rand' Paul?
. . . or father John Paul II . . . ?
. . . or former Texas Senator H. Ron Peron . . . ?
. . . or even, . . . stretching it . . . , L. Ron Hubbard . . . ?
"Well, you’re obviously being totally naive of course", said the girl, "When you’ve been in marketing as long as I have, you'll know that before any new product can be developed it has to be properly researched. We’ve got to find out what people want from fire, how they relate to it, what sort of image it has for them." The crowd were tense. They were expecting something wonderful from Ford.
"Stick it up your nose," he said.
"Which is precisely the sort of thing we need to know," insisted the girl, "Do people want fire that can be fitted nasally?"
"And the wheel," said the Captain, "What about this wheel thingy? It sounds a terribly interesting project."
"Ah," said the marketing girl, "Well, we're having a little difficulty there."
"Difficulty?" exclaimed Ford. "Difficulty? What do you mean, difficulty? It's the single simplest machine in the entire Universe!"
The marketing girl soured him with a look.
"Alright, Mr. Wiseguy," she said, "if you're so clever, you tell us what colour it should be."
. . . I don't know who they are.
So why choose some of the world's most expensive real estate?
Because rich folks live there, with more money than brains. If you note what they said:
where our backers can of course pay us a visit.
So it seems they are going after rich investors, who want to go by a see a prototype of the toy that they are helping to build. Maybe even sit in the cockpit/driver's seat! So it is more of an entertainment expense, as opposed to a serious investment.
As a non-rich, non-investor, not living in Silicon Valley, all I have to say is . . . have fun.
on the moon?
Actually, Putin has been watching western propaganda films, and has other intentions there: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N...
Honestly, the article was published in a WAZ group newspaper. They are conservative and opposed to this learning concept.
+1 Informative. I read the article, and it to a swipe at "children of immigrants" who are part of the problem.
Go figure.
I'll fix that for you:
Nein.
See? Our German is slipping already here on Slashdot!
There is a massive cache of existing technology which can be repurposed to rebuild society. Whos gonna do it if not Slasdotters?
There was a Discovery show about this scenario: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T...
One of the most interesting challenges was finding new uses for all the old technology laying around. Like, fixing it up to do something new, that was necessary for survival.
Millions of college students writing empty 500-word essays
Students don't write anymore . . . they cut & paste from the Web . . .
They are a school for the rich, by the rich.
Which makes me wonder where the "Why is this on Slashdot!?" crowds are. This is about some political posturing by some rich folks, like: "Heidi Klum refuses to wear fur from cute dead animals!". This is TMZ stuff. Rich folks can afford to do some very strange things with their money. What do I care if George Clooney invests in Beanie Babies or Bitcoins, and divests of companies selling sweet, sugary, fattening drinks?
Also, what it the point of divesting in oil companies? They see themselves as "energy" companies anyway. You can bet your hairy ass that Exxon is working on alternative sources of energy income for the time when oil runs out. Those Big Oil folks will find another way to grab us by the balls. We'll be charging our cars at their service stations in the future.
Unfortunately, all these political posing hissy fits seem to drown out the actual science and serious discussion about what to do about climate change. Whenever a climate change topic gets posted to Slashdot, it degenerates into a political baboon shit-slinging festival:
"U R Denier!"
"U R Tree Hugger!"
. . . etc.
seven of nine
She was always "38 of D" to me . . .
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