Urban Dictionary: 415 Scam →
A scheme to get investors to pour money into an unproven idea that will burn through cash at an alarming rate and probably never produce any revenue. AKA, a San Francisco start-up.
A scheme to get investors to pour money into an unproven idea that will burn through cash at an alarming rate and probably never produce any revenue. AKA, a San Francisco start-up.
instead of insta-printing an image, the ‘camera’ prints a textual description of the captured scene.”
(via cumic senz - Imgur)
Jeff Burnside was fired Friday after making an edit to tape of George Zimmerman’s 911 call before he shot Trayvon Martin, SFLTV is reporting… The edit changed Zimmerman’s words to: “This guy looks like he’s up to no good. He looks black.”
— NBC Miami reporter fired for edited Zimmerman tape that aired on “Today” show
A proposed new law in Arizona would give employers the power to request that women being prescribed birth control pills provide proof that they’re using it for non-sexual reasons. And because Arizona’s an at-will employment state, that means that bosses critical of their female employees’ sex lives could fire them as a result. If we could harness the power of the crappy ideas coming out of the state of Arizona, we could probably power a rocket ship to the moon, where there are no Mexicans or fertile wombs and everyone can be free to be as mean a cranky asshole as they want at all times! Arizona Heaven!
There’s something deeper than making money off stuff. Being a part of creating stuff for the universe is awesome.
— Ilya Zhitomirskiy