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Just an FYI:
Nicolas Maduro, president of Venezuela is in Russia right now. He flies not the national presidential airplane but a cuban plane.
Rumor has it, he visited Russia with the intention of giving Snowden a ride back to Venezuela.
We'll see.
Can I quote you? :)
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I went to the psy and their telling me I have ADD symptoms and are depressed to.
Her approach is to treat the depression first then the ADD. I'm frustrated since Is now going to take longer to treat my focus and everything related to the ADD.
Any thoughts on this treating depression first than the ADD?
And just to show you the creativity of these criminals
Instead of actually kidnaping you, this is what they do:
They present them selfs as serious businesses and strike (legitimate) deals with independent movie theaters. The movie theater agrees to let them place a stand on the outside to promote product "X".
When you are about to go in, they tell you if you would like a free sample or something like that. If you agree all you have to do is give out your name and your mobile number and your home phone number. They make the process seem very standard.
Once you go inside the movie theater you are constantly reminded to either turn of your cell phone or to put it in silence or vibrator mode for the movie, most people do.
After the movie starts, the criminals, start calling to your house and tell anyone that picks up the phone, that they have kidnapped you (they know your name, what you look like, what you were wearing, who you were with, etc) and that the family has one hour to deliver an small amount of cash if they want the person to be released. Most of the time, the families call the "victim" but since they are in the movies, generally people don't pick up the phone. So the family immediately assumes the call is for real.
You would not believe the amount of people that have been scammed like that. Is truly amazing.
Hi jdileo,
Get out of the valley and start hitting the south: Mexico, Panama, Colombia, Venezuela, Brazil, Bolivia, Argentina.
There you will find your target market, specially if your focus is abduction.
Kidnapping rates are soaring high and there is need for something like this.
I'm currently working on something similar. I've been a victim of crime several times. I can appreciate the value of what you are trying to accomplish (that's my motivator for doing something like it)
I don't know if you are aware of the Express Kidnapping modality:
They kidnap you for several hours, ask for smaller amounts and hopefully will let you go. They do this several times a day. Some bands have large places (sometimes high end apartments, were they hold the people while the family pay the ransom. Maybe 30 or 40 people at a time. You have all sorts of amenities like Wii, Xbox, etc. But most of the time you are tied up and blindfolded)
Get out of the valley, but be careful. If you are not from around it can be tough.
Drop me a line if you like. I live in South America and we can chat a bit if you are interested.
That's supposing everyone has an Iphone or Ipod Touch. You guys need to get out of the valley, heck, even take a trip out of the USA.
I love the idea, love the product. But will they kill the business card? Not in 10 years...not even 20.
I do see it happening if they become the standard. Not clear on how that can happen.
You obviously don't get out much (no offense). But mobile growth in third world countries is huge. Being able to make a diagnosis with a simple phone instead of with expensive medical equipment (which third world countries don't have) is a fascinating idea. This is really a game changer.
@satyajit yes these are my website stats.
@makecheck yes IE6 is a big part of my revenue (ads impressions, checkout, etc)
I've been hearing all this non-sense about killing IE6 and how is making the web a terrible place.
I understand how time consuming IE6 and how every time I do a project I see my budget suffer because of IE6. I hear my developers complain about web standards and how evil Microsoft is.
But then, we look at the analytics. Analytics don't lie. They are the pulse of your business. And at the end is all about revenue. Hard cold cash. And when my site, has 19.000.000 IE6 visits, I couldn't care less about web standards. I just can't make them change their browsers. Most of them can't.
And I can't afford to not serve them.