> So you think the reason the Soviet union was less colourful was because there wasn't ads?
I think it can have been a contributory but not a determinative factor. Mainly, I was just relaying an interesting observation, about the impact of advertising on public spaces, that I hadn't heard elsewhere, or previously, which prompted me to think that eradicating advertising probably isn't an optimum solution.
I recall watching, some years ago, a documentary about the making of Tetris in which one of the contributors noted how much less colourful public spaces were in the advertising-free Soviet Union compared to the West.
Which isn't to say that a better balance couldn't be struck (in the West and elsewhere) now, but 'cancer' is the sort of thing you want to eradicate rather than moderate.
ys1010 is (accurately) describing the marginal rate which effectively applies to all income above a threshold (although the different taxes/charges have different thresholds). It’s quite the thing when it kicks in.
As such, the software which makes up "Android" resembles OS X to me: open source in parts (even large parts), but the bit which most people (including developers) use is closed source and restricted to running only on sanctioned hardware.
It would have been better for aspirant attendees to have been able to put the price of the tickets into an escrow attached to Google Wallet and/or pre-authorise the transaction with their payment provider.
It's a quasi-random lottery. If the client-side code is similar to last year's, then the Javascript on the holding page polls the server at random intervals for an "available" ticket, which are released at random intervals and/or as orders fail to go through (e.g. payment times out, etc).
I've had a Microsoft Ergonomic 4000 keyboard for a couple of years, now. Apart from the (relative) comfort, it's a well-built, sturdy (i.e. heavy) peripheral, which in itself improves the typing experience, I think.
If you are thinking of switching to one, then be prepared to spend some time adapting to it. I'm a ~100wpm touch typist, and while at university had used the 4000's predecessor, but it still took me nearly three months to get back up to speed after switching to the 4000.
But, having made the switch, I don't find my ability to type on non-ergonomic keyboards affected in the least; I routinely switch back and forth between my desktop and Macbook.
The nominal value of public debt is an unreliable measure. Ireland's national debt was €30bn in 1987 and €36bn in 2002. But in the same period it went from around 128% of GDP to 32% of GDP.
The protesters are trusting that the process by which the pills are prepared doesn't introduce some other substance which is toxic when consumed in relatively large quantities.
And Woods alone attracts a not-inconsiderable portion of the audience: TV ratings for this year's US PGA Championship were around 50% higher than for the same tournament last year, the principal difference being Woods' absence in 2008 due to injury.
I presume he means that you should have up-to-date contact details for all existing investors, and that they should be contactable - e.g. they don't throw down the phone when you ring them - and ready to sell.
I know of a mid-sized company which sold to a multinational a few years ago, and it took them a few weeks to round up all the shareholders and get written consent to the deal, even though all the shareholders were in the same country, on good terms and none of them objected to the take over.