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Does anyone know of any company or site that will build a robot (like one on robot wars) or remote controlled toy to your specific liking or ideas? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.120.226.236 ( talk) 00:36, 20 February 2008 (UTC)
What is the best online newspaper for a socialist? —Preceding unsigned comment added by E-mail (optional): Allows ( talk • contribs) 01:13, 20 February 2008 (UTC)
A quick search on google showed this website http://www.themilitant.com/index.shtml-- Dlo2012 ( talk) 02:01, 20 February 2008 (UTC)
Also see The Morning Star Willy turner ( talk) 02:11, 24 February 2008 (UTC)
In the US, when electing people to congress, each person is elected individually. Are there any countries where people in the equivalent of congress are elected all at once--what I mean is that citizens would vote for a party and then whatever percent of the vote a party gets determines how many representatives they get? —Preceding unsigned comment added by E-mail (optional): Allows ( talk • contribs) 01:17, 20 February 2008 (UTC)
How exactly do websites make money? I know that wikipedia uses donations, and some other websites use ads, but how do other websites make money? Does it depend on the number of visits per day?-- Dlo2012 ( talk) 02:00, 20 February 2008 (UTC)
key reasons for importing? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 202.1.52.45 ( talk) 05:56, 20 February 2008 (UTC)
In the second episode of "Stewie Griffan: the Untold Story" there is a short song played just after stewie steals the winabego. I caught maybe 85% of the lyrics of the song, and was hoping maybe someone could ID it for me. The lyrics (to the best of my ability) are as follows: "He’s bound up, Loaded up and trucking; Were going to do what they say can’t be done." Any help would be apreciated. Thanks in advance. TomStar81 ( Talk) 08:00, 20 February 2008 (UTC)
It seems to be hard to avoid advertisements these days - they're plastered pretty much everywhere you look. But it occurred to me today that one place you never see them is on cars. You get them on taxis, and obviously traders and companies have their logos on the sides of their vans, but never on private cars. Now, if I owned a car, and some company (especially a cool one like Apple) offered me money to carry their logo on the side of it, I might say yes. Is this just something that has never occurred to marketing departments? Or is there some other reason why it doesn't happen? -- Richardrj talk email 09:03, 20 February 2008 (UTC)
(reset indent) As a student in France in the early 80s, I didn't have a car. Those students who did, however, were offered the chance to earn some money by having a large (maybe 2ft/60cm square) bright yellow sticker on each side of their vehicle. I *think* it was advertising an offer related to train travel, but that has faded rather. The year was 1983, I think, maybe May or June, and the place was Compiègne in the Oise. SaundersW ( talk) 09:46, 21 February 2008 (UTC)
I want to explain to a teenager that if they use marijuana and get caught, then they will, because of the arrest, automatically have lost a "____"% of jobs.
For example: I want to tell them that they lost about 80% of the jobs that they would have been eligiable for, had they not been arrested for a drug related crime. (They lost the opprotunity for Military/Government jobs, hospital jobs, mechanic jobs with an automaker, etc.) I'm looking for the PRECENTAGE of jobs and I cannot find anything close. Maybe you could just tell me what %you think they will have lost. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.225.133.60 ( talk) 10:33, 20 February 2008 (UTC)
Unfrotunately, you are mistaken in your basic premise (unstated) that getting caught with marijuana will be bad for their future. It's just not true. —Preceding
unsigned comment added by
79.122.42.134 (
talk)
10:19, 21 February 2008 (UTC)
i got a 24, is that good? Some people say it is but im not sure. the juggreserection IstKrieg! 16:42, 20 February 2008 (UTC)
<edit conflict>:If you scored 24 playing for ACT, not only is it good, but you're notable. If by any chance you're not a rugby player, which ACT did you mean? It's quite a popular acronym. -- Dweller ( talk) 16:48, 20 February 2008 (UTC)
There's a series of TV ads here for AAMI (Australian Associated Motor Insurers Limited); they do home and contents as well. Currently, they're saying something to the effect of "If you buy this AAMI product, you'll save xxx per cent". That gets the listener's attention. It's only when one asks "compared to what?" does the problem appear. The ad makes it clear (albeit in fine print that's visible for only 2-3 seconds) that the comparison is not between the product on offer and another company's product, but between the AAMI product on offer and another AAMI product. There's no information on how much the price compares with any other company's products. I'll state for the record that I consider the "you'll save xxx %" message misleading, but I don't want to get into a debate about it because that's a legal minefield and we don't do that here. I'm just making that point because, if I consider it misleading, surely others do too, and surely it's come to the notice of regulators. What I want to know is whether this marketing "trick" is widespread elsewhere, and what the attitude of government regulators to it is. If their attitude is negative, what sorts of actions have they taken? -- JackofOz ( talk) 22:46, 20 February 2008 (UTC)
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Does anyone know of any company or site that will build a robot (like one on robot wars) or remote controlled toy to your specific liking or ideas? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.120.226.236 ( talk) 00:36, 20 February 2008 (UTC)
What is the best online newspaper for a socialist? —Preceding unsigned comment added by E-mail (optional): Allows ( talk • contribs) 01:13, 20 February 2008 (UTC)
A quick search on google showed this website http://www.themilitant.com/index.shtml-- Dlo2012 ( talk) 02:01, 20 February 2008 (UTC)
Also see The Morning Star Willy turner ( talk) 02:11, 24 February 2008 (UTC)
In the US, when electing people to congress, each person is elected individually. Are there any countries where people in the equivalent of congress are elected all at once--what I mean is that citizens would vote for a party and then whatever percent of the vote a party gets determines how many representatives they get? —Preceding unsigned comment added by E-mail (optional): Allows ( talk • contribs) 01:17, 20 February 2008 (UTC)
How exactly do websites make money? I know that wikipedia uses donations, and some other websites use ads, but how do other websites make money? Does it depend on the number of visits per day?-- Dlo2012 ( talk) 02:00, 20 February 2008 (UTC)
key reasons for importing? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 202.1.52.45 ( talk) 05:56, 20 February 2008 (UTC)
In the second episode of "Stewie Griffan: the Untold Story" there is a short song played just after stewie steals the winabego. I caught maybe 85% of the lyrics of the song, and was hoping maybe someone could ID it for me. The lyrics (to the best of my ability) are as follows: "He’s bound up, Loaded up and trucking; Were going to do what they say can’t be done." Any help would be apreciated. Thanks in advance. TomStar81 ( Talk) 08:00, 20 February 2008 (UTC)
It seems to be hard to avoid advertisements these days - they're plastered pretty much everywhere you look. But it occurred to me today that one place you never see them is on cars. You get them on taxis, and obviously traders and companies have their logos on the sides of their vans, but never on private cars. Now, if I owned a car, and some company (especially a cool one like Apple) offered me money to carry their logo on the side of it, I might say yes. Is this just something that has never occurred to marketing departments? Or is there some other reason why it doesn't happen? -- Richardrj talk email 09:03, 20 February 2008 (UTC)
(reset indent) As a student in France in the early 80s, I didn't have a car. Those students who did, however, were offered the chance to earn some money by having a large (maybe 2ft/60cm square) bright yellow sticker on each side of their vehicle. I *think* it was advertising an offer related to train travel, but that has faded rather. The year was 1983, I think, maybe May or June, and the place was Compiègne in the Oise. SaundersW ( talk) 09:46, 21 February 2008 (UTC)
I want to explain to a teenager that if they use marijuana and get caught, then they will, because of the arrest, automatically have lost a "____"% of jobs.
For example: I want to tell them that they lost about 80% of the jobs that they would have been eligiable for, had they not been arrested for a drug related crime. (They lost the opprotunity for Military/Government jobs, hospital jobs, mechanic jobs with an automaker, etc.) I'm looking for the PRECENTAGE of jobs and I cannot find anything close. Maybe you could just tell me what %you think they will have lost. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.225.133.60 ( talk) 10:33, 20 February 2008 (UTC)
Unfrotunately, you are mistaken in your basic premise (unstated) that getting caught with marijuana will be bad for their future. It's just not true. —Preceding
unsigned comment added by
79.122.42.134 (
talk)
10:19, 21 February 2008 (UTC)
i got a 24, is that good? Some people say it is but im not sure. the juggreserection IstKrieg! 16:42, 20 February 2008 (UTC)
<edit conflict>:If you scored 24 playing for ACT, not only is it good, but you're notable. If by any chance you're not a rugby player, which ACT did you mean? It's quite a popular acronym. -- Dweller ( talk) 16:48, 20 February 2008 (UTC)
There's a series of TV ads here for AAMI (Australian Associated Motor Insurers Limited); they do home and contents as well. Currently, they're saying something to the effect of "If you buy this AAMI product, you'll save xxx per cent". That gets the listener's attention. It's only when one asks "compared to what?" does the problem appear. The ad makes it clear (albeit in fine print that's visible for only 2-3 seconds) that the comparison is not between the product on offer and another company's product, but between the AAMI product on offer and another AAMI product. There's no information on how much the price compares with any other company's products. I'll state for the record that I consider the "you'll save xxx %" message misleading, but I don't want to get into a debate about it because that's a legal minefield and we don't do that here. I'm just making that point because, if I consider it misleading, surely others do too, and surely it's come to the notice of regulators. What I want to know is whether this marketing "trick" is widespread elsewhere, and what the attitude of government regulators to it is. If their attitude is negative, what sorts of actions have they taken? -- JackofOz ( talk) 22:46, 20 February 2008 (UTC)