And coins work much easier in vending machines.
Canadians use $1 (“loonies”) and $2 (“toonies”) coins routinely, their purchasing power is nearly the same as American equivalents, so I don’t think there’s really any practical obstacle.
Americans just don’t like to admit the dollar is small change now. It’s a pretty big psychological barrier. (Although there were still silver dollars as late as the early twentieth century … )
She also notoriously starred in the, er, Notorious Bettie Page.
What?
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Remember the whole Rave scene? No way could it have lasted forever, nothing does – but it’s interesting that it seems to have just faded away, instead of mutating into something else. Meanwhile, the Goth scene is still going strong. Go figure.
My high school physics teacher predicted that by the time we had kids of high school age, the internal combustion automobile engine would be obsolete, replaced by either the electric car or, more likely, the gas turbine. Didn’t happen. Our great grandkids’ kids, maybe.
The Love Paradewas still going on until last year. The tragedy at that year’s event was partially due to a huge crowds who turned up, the venue wasn’t adequate for the numbers.
About a year ago someone was supposed to call me on Skype. She called me about 15 minute ahead of time, on my land line, to ask if we could move our call to 15 minutes later. It was because she had to do her hair.
So yeah, it happened.
Bubble memory was a hot new thing for a while.
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Bubble memory is a type of non-volatile computer memory that uses a thin film of a magnetic material to hold small magnetized areas, known as bubbles or domains, each of which stores one bit of data. Bubble memory started out as a promising technology in the 1970s, but failed commercially as hard disk prices fell rapidly in the 1980s.
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Also, IBM’s OS/2 — almost universally predicted to crush Microsoft Windows when it was new, but never even came close.
Diet Coke is the third best selling soda in the US, behind Coke itself, and Pepsi. That’s pretty big.
Remember “reality shows”? They were touted as the first new concept in TV entertainment since the sitcom, but they kinda just fizzled out.
(Yes, I know. This is the timeline I prefer to live in, thank you very much.)
And what ever happened to “optical computers”? (Using only light.) They were supposed to be the next quantum leap after the silicon chip. Haven’t heard anything about them since before Y2K.
Actually, DC is #2.
Hey, the Stealers Wheel featured Gerry “Baker Street” Rafferty. It should have become a much bigger group.
They’ve been replaced by “quantum computers”, whatever they hell those are.
Katie Couric
WUPHF
And weren’t we supposed to be getting a new type of president? One who would inspire the nation to new heights with his dynamic personality and his new mode of non-partisan leadership? I remember reading about that a couple of years ago.
Perhaps because it’s healthier to be a teenager dressed in black, wearing dramatic makeup, and being all emo, writing depressing poetry ? Instead of loading up on brain-damaging drugs and ‘dancing’ in some barn for 6 hours straight until you drop dead from exhaustion and dehydration?
No, not that. No scene outlasts another because it’s healthier. Somehow the less-healthy one can always find recruits to replace the dead. Look how long Punk lasted. Look how long Rap has lasted!
unwashed brain, my apologies. I was going to write a more careful post, but I accidentally hit the “Submit Reply” button before I was finished. I tried to fix the post up at that point, but it took more than five minutes, leaving me stuck with a post that was rather messed up. Let me try this again. Here is the average attendance per game at the professional team sports in the U.S.:
NFL 68,240
MLB 30,201
NBA 17,520
NHL 17,460
MLS 16,675
So the NHL is very close to the NBA, and MLS isn’t very far behind. Clearly MLB is distinctly ahead, and the NFL is even further ahead. If you’re going to claim that NHL and MLS are too far behind to be significant, you’d have to say the same thing for the NBA.
There is no comparison. The NBA play way more games a year so the annual attendance is way higher. Also, the NBA plays in arenas and the MLS in stadiums. The average NBA game probably fills well over 80% of the venue and the MLS might be around 20%.
The number attending each game is interesting, but what is more telling is the revenue generated per game, both in terms of ticket sales and broacast rights. The leagues keep those figures close to the vest, but I’m guessing the MSL lags far behind the other four.