Comment: Re:Want. Now. (Score 1) 4
Couple these with the Google butt-plug, and Sergey will have covered all the exits!
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Couple these with the Google butt-plug, and Sergey will have covered all the exits!
Even on topic and related. - No subscriber preview.
http://entertainment.slashdot.org/story/12/05/30/2115211/do-headphones-help-or-hurt-productivity
http://tech.slashdot.org/story/12/05/30/2231246/sergey-brin-demos-google-glasses-prototype
Would you have preferred as a first post, that I introduced you to the marvelous properties exhibited by Clean My PC?
This is a picture of Uncle Ted on the side of the house, but you can still see a part of the front of the house.
Two of the most glamorous names in global finance are linking up, with the Rothschild banking dynasty agreeing to buy a stake in the Rockefeller group's wealth and asset management business to get a long-sought foothold in the United States, Reuters reported.
It doesn't even make sense to them. That's why they are so anxious to spend other people's money instead.
"Ghetto Blaster"
or
"Boom Box"
if you prefer, cracker.
Yes, they might spend 15% more time on the cheap digital entertainment and 15% less time on the tennis court.
Perhaps people of a lower social status feel the need to escape more so than people who have an easier life? If you live in a crappy environment, are you surprised that you want to spend 10 hours a day pretending you're a valiant knight in Skyrim or being swept up in "Adventure Time" where anything can happen?
Other possible answers include that better off families are more likely to do other things that cost more money. Or that better off parents are more likely to have a day off to take the kids out somewhere (possibly somewhere educational, possibly not)..
It might even be that better schools in wealthier neighborhoods have more worthwhile extracurricular activities.
The thing about digital entertainment is that once you have the media, it costs no more money to spend another hour with it.
Do I REALLY need to stick "smileys" in every damn comment?
Get it? twist on "Papers".
Subtle wordplay dies, when subjected to explanation.
What is irritating about love is that it is a crime that requires an accomplice. -- Charles Baudelaire