Very misleading title. It should be 'the high cost of surviving potential Rabies exposure.' Once you get Rabies the chance of survival is approximately zero.
My company does a lot of philanthropy with Children's Hospital in LA, and they are having a major shortage. I would gladly buy them from you to donate there if you haven't found somewhere to take them yet.
Painting is much easier for rooftop ads than vinyl. Difficulty installing anchor hardware without puncturing the roof surface, high winds, etc make it much easier and cheaper to use paint. The rooftop ads my company does are typically 50,000 square feet or more so using vinyl sheets that size (it usually comes printed in strips 6-10 ft wide) is impractical. I'm not sure how large these QR codes are but based on prices I've seen for rooftop ads in the past $8,500 is not surprising when you consider cost of paint, labor, and a reasonable profit margin.
I own a company that does this, and most advertisers do prefer to put an ad image instead of a QR code. We focus primarily on sites near flight paths at major airports and the Google Earth/Maps aspect is more of just an added bonus for us so there is some difference in target audience but our clients resoundingly prefer actual ads to QR codes. We've tried selling the idea of rooftop QR codes because they are so much easier to paint than e.g. a photorealistic person who is 250ft tall but haven't had any interest from clients so far.
Could not agree more. Having lived and worked in Singapore (and Zurich) I can honestly say that for the vast majority of people it is a great place to live. Singaporeans and expats all acknowledge that yes, it is more strict than the US or Australia, but unless you enjoy things like vandalizing cars, selling drugs, or stealing street signs you can live exactly how you like, with the added peace of mind of knowing that you have a near zero chance of being the victim of violent crime.
I am guessing (perhaps incorrectly) that most of the people who talk about what is "wrong" with Singapore have either only been there once for a few days or have never been and only base their opinion of the place on the story about the American kid who got caned.
I like it. I am one of those crazy people as well and have been kicking around the idea of making something like this. I keep quotes in a google doc and I have a ton of them so I'd love the ability to import a list of many quotes from a text file. Also would like the ability to edit quotes after I submit them. I included the quotation marks in my quote so the result has \" in it.
A couple of other notes: the export link seems to be broken, and when I click on the star the quote disappears. Using Chrome on OS X.
I have thougth about automatic import, but this requires all imported quotes to be in one uniform format, doesn't it? And to adjust the existing quotes would require a manual work which might be as hard as just adding the quotes one by one to quoterio?
I also have though about editing, but didn't like the idea because since your quote might be added by many users it would not be good, if your changes would affect all of them right? So in this cases I should duplicate the quote object for every user... But maybe I can let users edit quotes as long as they are not favorited by others... Thanks for this point. Until now you can just unmark the quote and create a new one, I'll take care about the rest.
> the export link seems to be broken
I'm quite sure it is broken by the quotation marks in your imported quote :) Thank you as well, I'll fix it.
> and when I click on the star the quote disappears.
That's true, because if you click on the gray star on your 'home' page, you unmark a quote and it disappears. This is a good point and makes it clear, that this behaviour is not obvious at all. Thanks for this. My idea was, that all you can do on the site is mark or unmark quotes. All marked quotes appear in "My quotations". All unmarked disappears. All inserted quotes are automatically marked as favorites. Probably, I have to rethink this.
A few business cards, various papers, glass of water, mug of pens/pencils etc., postcard received from a friend visiting Amsterdam, small buddha statue kind of like this: http://bit.ly/iO2Iy5
