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From: mvale…@ruido-visual.pt (Mario Valente)
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Subject: 10(+2) Reasons Why 1987 Was Best Year Ever in Music
Date: Sun, 16 Sep 07 22:03:21 GMT

If you can find any other year with a list of top 10
albums that are better than the ones below, then you were
born around or after 1987 and you dont know what you’re
talking about…

Complete YouTube playlist:
http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=E9ABA097518A6CAE

Aerosmith – Permanent Vacation
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Permanent_Vacation_%28album%29
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GbsBJmx-m2s

Cult – Electric
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electric_%28The_Cult_album%29
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-sdlweykhy4

Def Leppard – Hysteria
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hysteria_%28album%29
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9R2GLQDLFtM

Guns n Roses – Appetite for Destruction
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appetite_for_Destruction
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ysFhDfGwbys

INXS – Kick
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kick_%28album%29
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OMUILorWSMM

Marillion – Clutching at Straws
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clutching_at_Straws
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kIPrJmzG7Ss

Motley Crue – Girls, Girls, Girls
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Girls%2C_Girls%2C_Girls
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OJrSyFpK3iQ

Michael Jackson – Bad
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bad_%28album%29
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xhu9PChNlH4

Whitesnake – 1987
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whitesnake_%28album%29
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lqb5EcU65IQ

Bon Jovi – Slippery When Wet
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slippery_When_Wet
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GccfzxHIXaY

Those are the top 10 reasons. Now for the +2:

Joe Satriani’s Surfing with the Alien was the 1st Top 40 intrumental album
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surfing_With_the_Alien
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dyNjZrIquvQ

Headbangers Ball started airing on MTV
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Headbangers_Ball
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=soLJc5hL5-0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J-XVgBvwcWE

— MV

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From: mvale…@ruido-visual.pt (Mario Valente)
Newsgroups: mv
Subject: Next Week
Date: Sun, 16 Sep 07 19:13:21 GMT

Probably no posts during next week.

Mon/Tue: Consilium EJustice Workgroup
http://www.consilium.europa.eu/cms3_applications/applications/meetings/getdailyMeeting.asp?lang=en&cmsID=368&date=9/18/2007

Wed/Thu/Fri: EGovernment Conference

http://www.megovconf-lisbon.gov.pt/

— MV

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From: mvale…@ruido-visual.pt (Mario Valente)
Newsgroups: mv
Subject: Publicidade Dunkin Donuts
Date: Sat, 15 Sep 07 19:56:21 GMT

Sou fa do Ace Frehley (KISS) e dos Dunkin Donuts (porque
raio nao existe em Portugal?).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ace_Frehley
https://www.dunkindonuts.com/

Acresce que o meu nick mais usual e Ace e tenho uma
Gibson Les Paul Cherry Sunburst Ace Frehley edition
(igual a que vao ver a seguir).

http://www.gibson.com/products/gibson/LesPaul/AceFrehley.html

Nao admira que cada vez que vejo este anuncio me parta a rir
ate as lagrimas:

Ace Frehley Dunkin Donuts Commercial
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sOYmLj2wVk4

“- Beautiful Ace. But what about the P&L statement?
– I’ll give you the P&L statement!!”

(“- Lindo Ace. Mas e a demonstracao de resultados?
– Eu ja te dou a demonstracao de resultados!!”

TRAU!!! Full blast pyrotechnics and Marshall powered shred at 11…

LOLOLOLOLOL!!! :-) Todos os anuncios deviam ser assim!

So me consigo imaginar a fazer o mesmo em algumas reunioes
onde as vezes estou presente! LOLOLOLOLOL!!! :-)

— MV

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From: mvale…@ruido-visual.pt (Mario Valente)
Newsgroups: mv
Subject: No Posts
Date: Sat, 15 Sep 07 01:40:21 GMT

No posts for the week because:

a) I woz here http://mv.asterisco.pt/Files/Image022.jpg
b) came back and a full scan of the weeks feeds resulted
in zero interesting links. Its either the end of the
Intarweb or the end of my interest in it. GIF at 11

Of note: “Start Your Business Week by Week” and “Game Plan”
are total utter crap. Dont buy them.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Start-Your-Business-Week/dp/0273694472/ref=sr_1_1/202-5458231-3704658
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Game-Plan-Insiders-Breaking-Succeeding/dp/0312275048/ref=sr_1_7/202-5458231-3704658

Quote of the week, after re-reading “The Innovators Solution”:

“On the other hand, disruptive innovations occur so intermitently
that no company has a practiced process for handling them.
Furthermore, because disruptive products tipically promise
lower gross profit dollars per unit sold and cannot be used by
the best customers, disruptions are inconsistent with the
leading companies’ values. Established companies have the
resources required to succeed at both sustaining and disruptive
technologies. But their processes and values constitute
disabilities in their efforts to succeed at innovation.

In contrast, smaller, disruptive companies are actually more
capable of pursuing emerging growth markets. They lack resources,
but that doesnt constrain them. Their values can embrace small
markets, and their cost structures can accomodate lower margins
per unit sold. Their less formal market research and resource
allocation processes allow managers to proceed intuitively rather
that having to be backed up by careful research and analysis.
All of these advantages add up to enormous opportunity or
looming disaster, depending on your perspective”

Personal insight of the week: the traditional equation Y =f(K, L)
in economics regarding theories of production, represents more
than the tradeoff between capital and labor; it represents the
tradeoff between technology and people+processes; it thus has a
huge problem because the “processes” component is usually not
accounted for and is hard if not impossible to quantize; its also
the hardest part to substitute for capital/technology; it follows
that the Leontief isoquants are a lot much trickier that they
might appear.

http://cepa.newschool.edu/het/essays/product/technol.htm

— MV

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From: mvale…@ruido-visual.pt (Mario Valente)
Newsgroups: mv
Subject: End of Summer Songs
Date: Sat, 08 Sep 07 18:11:21 GMT

With the end of summer approaching fast, nostalgia set in
and I remembered some songs that bring memories of a summer
20 years ago. Memories of friends, family and innocence…

Cock Robin-The Promise You Made
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hCfZbEZWAJA

Cock Robin-Just Around The Corner
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=de7q3vJZYGw

Cock Robin-Thought You Were On My Side
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mJVTlILNLbI

— MV