They did, to some degree. But usually new players are better at capitalizing on emerging technologies. Kodak did invest in digital photography, and Nokia in smartphones, to give some examples.
Shell had a solar division which they sold in 2006. (It has since taken some stakes in solar and wind projects.)
People complaining about the time and date format, and not the equal sign for an approximation…
Quitting gambling would be a good start.
Aside from that, just finish your studies and take it from there.
“I open up my wallet, and it’s full of blood.”
I make it a point of principle to never be dogmatic, and nothing can change my mind.
Rule 5, though quitting gambling is generally sound advice.
To add to this, in Western Europe the name order was formalized by decree during the Napoleonic era. The Napoleonic reforms had long-lasting influence and impact, and it became the established standard in western Europe.
Yeah, they used to be far more common before the advent of modern central banking policy in the 1970s and 1980s, even though you’d actually expect the opposite to happen, all else being equal, because of the way recessions are defined. By only looking at GDP growth, it ignores population growth.
On the other hand, GDP, even on a per capita basis, has become increasingly less useful for defining recessions since productive capacity isn’t really what is lacking in any modern developed economy.
Both use the same font, but have the stroke on top facing different directions indicating they are from different languages.
Languages using the Latin alphabet use varying sets of diacritics, often to introduce ways to express sounds that may not have been present in (Vulgar) Latin. A particular diacritic or diacritic-letter combination can generally not be associated with any specific Latin-script-based language, of which there are many hundreds if not thousands (depending on where one draws the line between language and dialect). An interesting example is Vietnamese, a tonal language using the Latin alphabet, which uses a large number of diacritics to express tonality.
What’s funny is that Jimmy Wales, who has described himself as an objectivist, is far from “leftist” or “liberal” himself. But unlike this asshole, he is principled.
Farmhands warn of tractor automation as dark farmland future looms.
This isn’t even any kind of gotcha-moment. In UK politics, the presence of these joke candidates is well-known. If Count Binface does become Prime Minister, no one will make a big deal out of him being in a picture with Andy Burnham.
Whatever is in the picture doesn’t even look like cheap OJ from concentrate. Isn’t it just a corn syrup solution with orange colouring, like your version of Fanta?
Four years is a lot by Norwegian standards (even Anders Breivik didn’t receive a life sentence), whose system by the way has one of the lowest reoffending rates in the world.
A gift-based economy does feature reciprocity, but it is very different from one based on bartering. In a gift economy it is implicit that those that lack the ability to contribute as much are also not expected to reciprocate to the same degree.
any advice welcome
Norway exports far more than they use, and petrol prices there are among the highest in the world.
Your idea is to not have insurance. This makes sense for expenses you can cover from your own savings. It makes less sense for expenses you can’t cover from savings. This is why insurance was created, it is a way to pool catastrophic risks where the majority who won’t need it (as much) cover the costs of the minority that does.
For health insurance specifically, it doesn’t make economic sense to not cover the entire population, which is why top economies implement such a system in various ways.
To be fair, for most of the applications of oil it’s not so much that it “relies” on oil, just that it’s the cheaper method (for now).
You can make a plastic bag starting from water and carbon dioxide (or some other source of carbon), plus electricity.