Well, I knew that.
Oct. 29th, 2007 09:21 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ltmurnauYour Aspie score: 130 of 200
Your neurotypical (non-autistic) score: 82 of 200
You are very likely an Aspie
More later. Busy day today.
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More, Part One:
Now this is interesting, especially the links that break down the numbers:
http://www.cbc.ca/news/background/arming-the-world/
Mostly armored fighting vehicles (those wheeled LAVs are popular), and of course parts and munitions - it's one thing to sell the system, but the real money is in keeping that system working and supplied.
What could we have sold to Libya that was worth only one dollar?
http://www.cbc.ca/news/background/arming-the-world/list-exports-by-country.html
Especially when placed against this:
http://www.canada.com/victoriatimescolonist/news/story.html?id=86280c29-4db5-4c0c-91b1-49e0d209238e&k=11193
"OTTAWA -- Twelve military equipment projects totalling $7.3 billion are considered "high risk" and have gone over budget and are at least two years behind schedule, according to a Defence Department review."
Guess it's OK to go late and over-budget when you're supplying your own government.
More, Part Two:
Has anyone seen the new commercial for the new Dell laptop, with the models in red/white/black dresses cranking wrenches and pushing buttons? The soundtrack is by Devo, their first new music in years.
See it here (actually, it's the full length video, not the commercial itself): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GyGRZBbxjeY
I so wanted to see them this fall in Puyallup (!), but it was not to be. Maybe if they return to Seattle.
But I have been noticing more and more the use of "old" popular music in commercials. Yes, Devo's "Whip It" was used in both a Swiffer commercial and a Taco Bell, The Clash's "Pressure Drop" in some car commercial, and Dennis Hopper, posed somewhere in the Black Rock Desert or something that looks like it, tells me not to sell out my dreams to The Man to the tune of something from the 60s I can't identify by title. Contrast this with the practice in Japan of musical groups hitting the big time after they score commercials, e.g. Pizzicato Five (well, that's the only one I can think of right now).
