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That's a great (interesting) story.
You'd think he'd have sold because as soon as you hear the idea, it becomes a commodity -- a (seemingly) easy thing to reproduce by any large company. Is the idea of a vending machine that sells first-aid kits even patentable? Not sure.
I see he has already sold 100 units to (on spec) to Six-Flags and his vending machine design is very simple (which is perfect and totally necessary for his product). But it still feels like a large company will come along and "borrow" the idea.
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raddevus wrote: still feels like a large company will come along and "borrow" the idea.
That's why I'd take the 30 million and run. There are many companies with resources that could beat him to market with a better product. I hope not for his sake.
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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Now his family could turn potential spies.
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Next year, he'll discover girls, and end up with nothing.
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Mark_Wallace wrote: Next year, he'll discover girls,
If he had taken the $30 million then girls would have discovered him now. 
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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An undeniable fact.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Hurt my left pectoral doing dumbell inclines Monday night. 4th set of 1st exercise. Of course I finished the rest of the routine.
Hurting worse today so go to Doctor.
He's sent me to the hospital and I'm now connected to an ECG Machine.
Michael Martin
Australia
"I controlled my laughter and simple said "No,I am very busy,so I can't write any code for you". The moment they heard this all the smiling face turned into a sad looking face and one of them farted. So I had to leave the place as soon as possible."
- Mr.Prakash One Fine Saturday. 24/04/2004
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Sounds like the perfect excuse to spend a week at home on the couch in front of the telly with the wife bringing cold beers... I'd go for that option if I were you... 
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
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I'd just like a chance to prove that money can't make me happy.
Me, all the time
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I can't afford the time off.
Last day of short term contract tomorrow.
Anyone want to catch up for a drink tomorrow evening after work in Sydney CBD?
Michael Martin
Australia
"I controlled my laughter and simple said "No,I am very busy,so I can't write any code for you". The moment they heard this all the smiling face turned into a sad looking face and one of them farted. So I had to leave the place as soon as possible."
- Mr.Prakash One Fine Saturday. 24/04/2004
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Michael Martin wrote: ECG Machine
I know you Aussies live upside down all your lives but I didn't know your muscles were in different places too!
I am not a number. I am a ... no, wait!
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He's probably on a good insurance policy so they use all the fancy stuff they can to squeeze out some extra bucks.
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Hope you feel better and get mended soon !
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«There is a spectrum, from "clearly desirable behaviour," to "possibly dodgy behavior that still makes some sense," to "clearly undesirable behavior." We try to make the latter into warnings or, better, errors. But stuff that is in the middle category you don’t want to restrict unless there is a clear way to work around it.» Eric Lippert, May 14, 2008
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Hope you feel better and you get a sponge bath of the XX kind!
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Shouldn't that be XXXX? 
I am not a number. I am a ... no, wait!
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Unless each X is XX, then it would be XXXXXX.
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Sounds like delayed onset muscle soreness[^].
I strained the muscles in my back once, and ended up in the emergency room two days later when it was hard to breathe, the pain was so bad. I thought I'd detached a rib or something.
Good luck, Mick.
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Nobuo Uematsu - Swing De Chocobo[^]
So I'm a big fan of the Final Fantasy games (well, up to X at least) 
What's great about them is pretty much everything, including the music!
This week's SOTW is an orchestration of the FFX chocobo theme because we had some pretty sunny days that just screamed for some happy swinging tunes!
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Still not got the handle on the meaning of 'song' then? And muzak much? 
I am not a number. I am a ... no, wait!
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I guess it should be called Music of the Week, but then people will complain about the definition of music.
I say f*** what everybody says, I'm calling it whatever I want 
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So they've converted it into yet another rip-off of Sing, Sing, Sing with a swing.
Tres creative, cher.
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Yeah, because all swing is a rip-off of that song 
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No, only the tunes that are a rip off.
Frank Sinatra never did a rip-off of it, nor did Duke Ellington, nor Count Basie, nor Glenn Miller, nor any of the hundreds of other swingers in the swing era.
Nowadays, though, if someone wants to swing a tune, the first thing they do is play Sing, Sing, Sing a dozen times, while taking notes.
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