rikko
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Formatting the hard drive wipes it of all data. You'd then have to re-install windows etc.
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Agætis Byrjun is the only Sigor Ros album i have. I like it alot.
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For £500 you can get a desktop pc that can run anygame on the market. The laptop at that cost wouldn't run the graphic intensive games.
Only buy a laptop if you need portability.
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Statoil bought Jet stations in Eire in 1996. So the email of irish origon is incorrect.
http://www.statoil.com/STATOILCOM/SVG00990...125664E004D48F9
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So the chances of a successful viral marketing campaign coming from the source directly to a recipient are slim. In fact working with the figures that this lad discusses in his email reaching fruition they're one in one hundred thousand.
Yes i'd agree with that. If it reaches a few thousand its done very well. Which is again why its not an ad. The only way it would be an ad was if as i'd said it was directed from a Viral ad company where by they would spam the hell out of whatever list they start with or if it was sent from many employees at a large company.
All the evidence points towards it being one person with grand ideas but little practical knowledge of the area.
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Viral ad is spam. Simple as. It works by initially one person/company writing and sending it. Then someone who recieved it being a gullible sod forwarding it many more people. ad infinitum. If no one forwards from the initial send(s) then it dies.
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"For the rest of this year, DON'T purchase ANY petrol from the two biggest oil companies, ESSO and Statoil. If they are not selling any petrol, they will be inclined to reduce their prices. If they reduce their prices, the other companies will have to follow suit. But to have an impact, we need to reach literally millions of Esso and Statoil petrol buyers."
yup - brilliant scheme - but basically flawed
the upstream part of EXXON & Statoil will sell the oil they're not selling through their own petrol stations to the people who you've moved to - eg BP, MURCO, Total, TESCO etc etc so no hurt there
Petrol stations make very little money - in the UK I think its about 1% - they make money on the papers, magazines, chocolate they sell - often oil companies are subsidising them anyway (they just move the profits in to the refining or upstream part of the operation - where-ever the tax is lowest)
Oil is a funny commodity - you can sell all you can produce if you sell it for 1 cent less than the market price and you can't sell a single drop at 1 cent over the market price.......................
Yep, I don't think that's the only flaw with the mail, the thing is I don't think the originator is genuine, I think it's quite plausible that this originated in some advertising agency or other. The writer is up to date enough to realise that Shell are no longer one of the big two and yet seems to show a complete lack of knowledge in Economics in general and as you've pointed out, particularly in the oil market.
I just wish people in general were this active about buyer power in general and not just when they're feeling a bit down about a minor issue. But then I'd be living in a utopia that'll probably never be.
the BIG companies - Exxon, Shell, BP, Total, Chev-Tex, AGIP, Conoco-Phillips are soooo big you can't really hurt them with a boycott in one place
But if the point of the email is just to ensure more business goes back to Shell?
But it just says leave ESSO/Statoil. Unless this was emailed to you from a Shell emplyee or a dodgy Viral marketing company, i expect its nothing more then someone annoyed at high petrol prices who doesnt know the full breakdown of the cost of petrol or indeed how selling oil happens. If it was a professional ad campaign they'd have checked this out. Its a person who thought if one company cant sell they reduce their costs so the others reduce costs and hence cheaper fuel.
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I guess my reply was more aimed at the person who wrote the email. They are targetting the wrong area, certainly in this country and expect the same is true elsewhere in europe.
I got the email from Ireland. I live in France. I'm going to take a wild guess you're living in England. Amazing t'internet isn't it?
The internet is indeed an amazing tool. And as since this board is about an english football team and about 90%+ of its users are based in england does it come as any suprise that I live in england. Did the Manchestoh in the location not give it away? Or did you think that was the one in New Hampshire?
As i said there the bulk of the cost of fuel is tax. Its 82% tax in Britain. All europe will have simliar stupidly high rates.
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I guess my reply was more aimed at the person who wrote the email. They are targetting the wrong area, certainly in this country and expect the same is true elsewhere in europe.
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You do realise that Petrol in the UK is among the cheapest in the world pre-tax. Petrol is selling at about 16p/litre the rest is tax.
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Keanu Reeves - Ted Logan.
The only part he can play well, infact he was still playing that part in the matrix and every other movie he's done...
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That was a quality show. I loved the sketch where they had all these people driving into a ferry (the pope, the queen, the old hag thatcher etc) for afew minutes. Then it cut to the other end and you saw aload of cars driving off the back of the ferry into the water... genius.
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I watched Around the world in 80 days. The steve coogan and jackie chan version.
It seems that they looked at the title of the book and then threw it away. The films watchable but nothing special.
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Seems to work a treat like. How long before this thing blows up now...
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Real player/quicktime player can play them, they just have to download a few codecs first.
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William Shatner - Common People.
Its soooo bad its good
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I used to be that they went on sale 2 weeks prior to the game, don't know if that still the case though.
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Not from a Livi fans point of view, its just as depressing in that league as it is here...
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