No, shark fin soup isn't very good. I had some in Beijing (didn't actually know what it was at the time). Didn't like it.
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I've had thresher shark steak (20 years ago, apparently before they became an endangered species), and it's really good. So I'm not sure where the "shark meat doesn't taste good" thing comes from.
IANAP, but I thought that the issue with faster than light travel was that there was a point discontinuity on the curve. Things could travel slower than light, or faster than light, but couldn't actually travel the speed of light. So the problem was: how is it possible to travel faster than light without at some point…
Italy is the Florida of Europe.
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Did you know Ikea is a palindrome in Arabic? Me neither, until I went to Dubai.
Joe vs. The Volcano.
Yeah, I didn't notice you'd already done that...
I know just the man for the job.
At the same time, the nature of celebrity is that millions of people know who you are and have an interest in you, so anything like this is highly sought after. Compare that to some anonymous person who could post naked pictures of themselves all day online and nobody would care. The trade-off for being rich and…
I see an OmniTracs unit on there, too.
If it were Tijuana, it would be Club Paradiso. Anyway, I haven't been down to Revolucion in about twenty years, but I assume Tijuana Tillys, Torito, Papas & Beer, and Señor Frogs are all still there.
Anyone with physical access to any *nix machine (MacOS included) can simply start up in single user mode (which gives you a root shell) and do any damn thing they want. Actually, that goes for Windows as well, since you can just boot off of an external *nix boot device and have at the contents of the hard drive.
Oh, sure, they're not going to make people wait three months for a disk. But there's a sweet spot somewhere that is short enough that people waiting for a disk won't be pissed, and long enough that they can eke out several more days of latency from the subscriber who is sitting on the disk.
Since they probably don't care that much about how long other people have to wait for a disk in their queue, nothing is forcing them to buy more disks to meet demand.
In a really simplified way: You pay them ~$9 per month, every month. That's their revenue. They ship you disks, which costs money. That's (part of) their cost of doing business. The difference is their profit. The more disks they ship you in a month, the less of your $9 they get to keep. So they love it if you sit on…
Does it also scream "Noooooooooooo" on the hour?
"there's still money to be made in mailing shiny little frisbees to people and waiting patiently for those people to mail them back."