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#he just also has hundreds of people depending on him so he cant just shut down
sunsetzer · 5 months
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As someone who gets migraines especially from stress, I have started to hc Edgar as someone who gets stress migraines as well, because he's been running a kingdom by himself for ten years, and he had to deal with an alliance he Did Not want with the empire that totally killed his dad while also secretly helping a rebellion against said empire and also maintaining a persona to make the empire think he's too young and stupid to be doing that- *inhale*
AND THEN he breaks the alliance, and he's actively fighting the empire but he still has Figaro to think about constantly, and then the world ends and the castle gets trapped underground and he has to become a gang boss to find a way back in so he can save everyone before they suffocate- *inhale*
AND THEN they have to go find all their friends, and fight horrible nightmare monsters, and kill god, and finally try to rebuild the world that got destroyed post-game, and after all that now he's the leader of like... the only surviving nation after the apocalypse.
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"So what are these pills called again"? Antonio asked about this new drug on the street. It already had forty overdoses under its belt and growing.
"Pez". You replied, handing him a sample of the product that you got off a dead guy.
"Like the pez candy"?
"Yeah, it even comes with it's own pez dispenser and everything. Makes it popular with the kids". You tell him as you went to put the last two overdoses on the board. They were thirteen and sixteen that had a bright future before them.
"That's Eva's and Diegos age". Antonio sighed.
"From what we know, the dealer is a strip club owner named Marco Stewart. He has connections to strip clubs, porn studios and apparently schools as well. He has a record longer than my arm. Mostly drug charges and a few DUI's, assault with a deadly weapon and a breaking and entering". You tell Antonio and the others as they started to come in.
"A model citizen". Jay chuckled.
"Yeah, his club has been shut down for redecorating and looking for new talent. So if it's alright with Voight. I was thinking I could go apply and someone else". You looked at Voight who was noddling his in approval.
"I'll go. I can go be a bartender or something". Antonio volunteered.
"They're looking for dancers and a bouncer". You tell Antonio. He lifted a eyebrow.
"Alright set it up. You sure you're cool with this, Y/N"? Voight asked.
"Yeah. I want this guy off the streets. Parents will sleep better at night". You smiled and went to get your coat.
"A stripper? Of all undercover missions I have to miss is, Y/N being a stripper. That hurts". Adam held his chest dramatically.
"Eat your heart out". You laughed as you walked past him. Antonio snickered as he followed.
Adam playfully dropped on his desk dead. Kevin and the other laughed. You were taking this serious.
"So what's your name"? Marco Stewart asked, looking you up and down. A toothpick sticking from his mouth.
"Heaven. I'm a little piece of Heaven". You batted your eyes and flirted with him.
"More like a big piece of Heaven". Marco chuckled, his eyes went to your breast.
"Oh you're so funny". You playfully hit his arm.
"You're hired. So what about your boyfriend"? Marco watched Antonio out of the corner of his eye. Antonio was looking at the stage in the club.
"His names Johnny. Just got out of the pen. Had five years but did three for good behavior". You smiled.
"What was he in for"?
"Possession of a controlled substance". Antonio turned to talk to Marco. "That's what the asshole cop said once he planted it on me". Antonio looked between you and Marco than laughed. Marco laughed as well.
"You use to deal"? Marco asked intrigued.
"Yeah back in Brooklyn. I dealed for nine years and nothing but they catch me picking up a ounce of weed for my moms and I'm in prison before I can bat my eyes. It was bullshit". Antonio put on a thick Brooklyn accent.
"Alright. You're hired too. Both you be here Friday night, six o'clock. I got something for you two do before you go on".
"Wow, thanks. I cant wait to show you my moves. I promise it'll be amazing". You gushed, hugging Antonio and planting a kiss to his cheek. "We got the job, baby".
"Let's go home and celebrate". Antonio growled and picked you up carrying you out of the club.
Antonio put you down and headed to the car. "That was easy".
"Yeah. Now we have to figure out what he wants us to do". You say as you and Antonio drove to the station.
"Heaven? You chose Heaven as a stage name"? Adam scoffed.
"Yes, I'm a little piece of Heaven". You seductively purred.
"Yes, yes, you are". Adam smiled like a fool. Antonio rolled his eyes.
"Do you think he wants us selling drugs for him"? Antonio asked.
"Maybe. We could get a few undercovers in there as customers. Give us a better chance at catching him with the drugs". You suggested.
"We can do that. But we dont want to spook him. Since theres two new faces in the club and then add more. He'll know somethings up". Voight replied.
"Yeah. You're right. We go in tomorrow at six".
"Alright. Make sure you two are ready and prepared for this. I dont want it going bad and someone getting hurt. No dealer will go down nicely". Voight reassured.
"Yes, sir". You say. Antonio and you had a rough night sleeping. Your minds raced.  Tomorrow was a big job, a lot was depending on you two. You couldn't screw it up.
"My little piece of Heaven". Marco greeted you as you came into the club his arms open for a hug.
"Good even, sir". You purred in his ear.
"Oh, sir. I like that". Marco laughed. "Come on, I got something for you guys". He waved you and Antonio into the back room.
"So tonight is going to be big. Huge! We have Heaven here making her debut and everyones coming. Everyone. So I need you two to be selling some of our delicious product. It taste just like candy". Marco chuckled as he opened a box that had about five hundred pills inside. Enough to kill a whole school of kids.
"I've heard about this drug. It's supposed to make sex even more amazing". You wrapped your arms around Antonio's waist and started kissing his neck. Antonio went along and grabbed your face deepening the kiss to your lips.
"Fuck yes"! Marco cheered.
Antonio pulled away panting, you licked your lips. This was the first time you two let your sexual tension free on each other. It was there but you two kept it bottled up.
"I like you two. This is going to be a great partnership". Marco grinned.
Around seven, people started arriving. Each person got a pez and a pat down from Johnny the bouncer. Antonio was taking his job seriously. You were going around getting drinks for the customers until you were called to the stage.
"Baby, why dont you take this fifty and we go back to the back and play"? A creepy older guy slapped your ass as you sat his drink down on the table.
"No thanks". You smiled and went on your way. You had to breath cause if you didnt you would have taken the drink tray and popped him up side the head with it.
"Heaven, baby. It's almost time". Marco pointed to his wrist and you nodded. You went back to the dressing room and changed into a diamond bralette that didnt hide anything and a pair of black cut up booty shorts. It wasnt your taste but Marco wanted you to wear it. You splashed on some glitter and perfume before you heard your song come on.
"Ladies and Gentlemen, we have a new comer here that has blessed us with her beauty. Please give it up for a little piece of Heaven". Marco introduced you to the cheering crowd. You walked on stage and put your hand on his shoulder.
"We also have a special guest to share the stage with her, our own bouncer Johnny Boy". Marco put the spot light on Antonio which caught both you and him off guard. You didnt know his was in your performance.
Marco waved Johnny on stage, Antonio gulped and went up. Marco had a chair for Antonio to sit in as you danced.
"Show em what you got baby doll". Marco slapped your ass.
You smiled at Antonio, he looked nervous. The combination of spot light, the men sitting around watching and the part where he liked you this was a bit to much for him to stand.
The music was flowing through your veins. You swayed your hips to the music in between Antonio's legs. Your hands on his knees, your ass on his lap. Antonio licked his lips, he got the courage to put his hands on your hips and guide you along.
You smirked, rolling your hips. This was all work but you could throw in some play as well. The crowd of cheering men disappeared when you turned around and straddled Antonio's lap. Your hand wrapped around Antonio's neck as you grinded on him. He looked into your eyes as he helped you move your body.
Your eyes wondered over his face, his eyes sparked in the lights, he had a slight smirk on his face and you could see Marco deal out a baggy of Pez.
"Now". You said and Voight and the team busted in. You got off of Antonio and went after Marco, Antonio followed your lead.
Marco didnt run, he had his hands up and ready for cuffs.
"For a dealer, you went easily". You told Marco as you handed him off to Jay.
"I'm just the bottom of the food chain, baby. I'll get a slap on the wrist". Marco laughed as he was taken away.
"Great job, you two". Voight nodded and walked away.
"You look absolutely beautiful". Adam smiled like a bigger fool as he came over. You looked down and covered yourself up.
"I'm going to go change". You hurried to the back.
Antonio slapped Adam on the back of his head. "Watch it". He pointed at Adam. Adam stood there confused. 
You got dressed quickly and headed out front. Suddenly all eyes were on you.
"What"? You looked down at your outfit. You had tight red pants on with a red jacket and a black see through corset. You may have taken it from Marcos wardrobe.
"You look good, Y/L/N". Jay chuckled along with Adam and Kevin.
"Thank you". You giggled.
Antonio came by your side. "You do. You look really good. Um, you wanna get coffee"? Antonio rubbed the back of his neck.
"Are you asking me on a date"?
"A coffee date".
"Oh". You were kinda sad that that was it.
"Just for now. I'm kinda tired so coffee will hold you over until Friday night". Antonio sent you a wink.
"Yeah. I'd like that".
"Great". Antonio held out his arm for you and you wrapped yours around his. "Where did you learn to dance like that"?
You laughed. "Believe it or not there was a time I wasnt a detective. But that's for another time".
Antonio smirked as he lead you to his car and you were off on your first date.
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the-firebird69 · 3 years
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bja left high and dry his run into chasms.  and he is weak.  so grabbe this just now and prepares to fire on selected targets. and is mean.  means to hit here nearby...and we cant have it. nope and he is off and this is it he dies now.  fully  if we can.  his top generals all there. all will die. and  he begins the countdown...and is counting silently  and he hits death stars and hits ships and curascant and his are there and trumps but mostly trump.  and they agreed no said he was is a blaspheme. and they fire on him shorlty he let loose one great beam and he is not dead did not jump.  and then re arm target that area. and nobody will and he screams it..and they push him into the cravass. he falls and they are fried nope.   says reload they do.  and for real he wishes to target punta gorda and fort meyers and sarasota to clear t and kidnap him.  use him as a hostage.  and he says this round signals it.  we hear ti warm and fire.  he is out. and it is not bg who fired...no it is.  we say this bg knew it was his threat but that is not why he says he is our freind i defend him and moves in shortly..though the controls are fried he wishes to go to manual and yeh to hit nearby  him and they are nuts and lost it. right down the line really macs too try for it.  but no. it is down he fried the controls but....the controls are also in the channels and are secure too. and under the stone.  it is repowering. and yes Gort is there and the Female Gort and more. tons more. of us.  and they are aghast send over fleets cork is up out shortly and bg is fighitng rey his sister and others fight sebastian is ther efighting rey for it.  hue lots of them die and infighting...and it is a sick mess.  he says this is why trump did it..and they agree.and try. and then this no you dont and the empire hits them and blwos up the woods.  and yes makes a cravas no that is other but yeh a huge explosion.  and it is on they yell hey. and are out no the cruiser is macs he hit too cork and others fried them all yu fers suk so badly you hit all our stuff not one target on my list.  and now my fleets.  firing like mad now te star killer is up and aremed hits all targts.  blasts curuscant and takes out huge lasers and hits reflectors it doesnt control tons about five k thusfar  and only a few more thousand and now out none there. and they are slow dimwitted people.  and other planetoids act.  no sit.  and they are now engaging another palnetoud gamemede and it is designed to cut throuhg the layer and it is miels thick and vaboom in and hits and baboom and more and tons of times huge lasers up in smoke tons see it and it hits rapidly.  and tommy a is not out  ok fell sees i t passes out from pain.  then this we get you caa and from here and oh we get ou now ok idiots. and we hit here and we htyou you idiot. oh.  and now we see they are dumb.  rebels targeted nope.  tons of empire targets are hit and yes reflectors move over to curascant. now too and fast and he is empire trump cork is but not that mch and mac wnts trump out but loses death stars.  is in truolbe .  we fire on tons of targets at Gamemede adn the  cool helps immensely we than him he is proud. and boom targets blow.  and more hits now.  andout now you two you sie w empire ok we see.  enough.  and trumps ships not hit yet.  the ground forces were are. and his ships move to attack Hoth and positionnow heat warm and the star Killer hits.  destroys one utterly the others flee.  it is powerful and doped well. tons of doping. and they go now to brazil or near it and collect.  and tons of the ruby red.  and we hit.  they are out soon....and finally they blab there. this is it huge hits and all over..ins pace will b.  and ok that is all no but we see.  mostly planetooids.   adn it is huge though.  massithve hits. and cork is out now. and flies out. and mac fled saw it heat and aim at him. he said adios. adn left adn the fleets move in.  and are terrorized by it goes wide flattens them all and in wide areas out..or on fire depending on armor. bills and wills are not armored as well and were thick many feet.  and they burn. alight lots see them...and rutguer hower says it later..i have seen this stuff and yu say these words to me.....mac its mac.  and he looks i think. and tells you o no and fired on cork and smiles saw it too. huge battles..massive bright balls. impressive yes.  and to him yes.  a culmination of all his lifes work and mine. and it is a sight....huge epiteths no are having fun and a rebel party well ok and we see Hera goes up and starts it off...some empire costumes. and they have drinks adn setup streets and more and says ok and then this is it safe and they say ok  we cahnge it if need be fast.  the streets look like china vendors all over and stores and food and fun tons of rebel stuff and rebel drinks and from far away and we needed this we are in and told  her and yes.  and what is it a huge rebel party and good and we hae them too and it is on we are here. michael Keegan says..and not his real name prob like Hawas yes it is similar like Hawan no lol ahhaah Hawain no damnt and fun costumes sabers and makin them buy sell cosply and tons of realistic ones.  used and new hug elots and garth is htere sells the towable for Sim and hitch mount installs real fast.  bolts on. can do it onsite and setup a shop...tons see it.  has  a dyno too.  we u se it now and garth is pleased sees  he is respected. the star killer fires..and fires and fires and then this we hit now and macs are grouping nearby and the rebels see it and are on alert as they are called away to arty and up now and at them hard real fightersnow and it is mean angry  and the star killer hits death stars. and thre are real rebels at it.  firing. tons cant see who. it is not obvious.   then they land some big ones and hit. the empire does on rebel bases say stop and nope.  and at it again. and then this. we hit youru hometown of missorui and meaninghere and so the middle and we hit you and blam they are hit. out too. other shps move near and try blam and are hit and we move in hit them all and out they go.  giant empire ships hit.  huge ones. and out.  and we fire madly.  now. too. tons try for death stars no good.   we hit now. and trump circled back and he is out   sticks it out and loses. and then this we are not hit by monsters. nope. and then this again who is sauing that and us. ok.  and it fires. hits the ships are out and damaged two done and one escapes.  and trump is slwo forgetshow to fire. and he has a few ships left well about nine.they say oh number nine.  and then this you shut up. and we see. and curascant was his now it iwanes and so was gamemed and hoth no more are out soon. well it has commencced.  fighitng. and tons of it. huge lots in. huge.  tons of them.  gigantic ships hit of empire and rebel and the low lifes  and tons done and trump is less three ships well two adn a half i t limps back he is not happy, breaks radio silence says who. cork suppoedly mac hit him...and they laugh mac did he  is there.  firing on his. and then this who is no im here hes there. and it is skinny the man here tommy f who is not my son anymore. ok.  you oaf. your not letting me succeed he says. we see. tons fire now. huge huge lots.  and at the star killer and we see it will fall shortly, are out momentarily.  but first we use it on a lower setting ad spray them all hits and they are disabled and we hit large groupoings.  firing rapidly and it fires fst and is poerful again. then they retort and hit part of i t. slows it to half speed still fast. adn firing in ten seconds.  and soon...warms an wamo they hit most of th e attackers the rest flee. out now.  warms and fires out.  tons of reloading.    a huge huge fleet about ten nonillion good sized cruisers ten to fifteen miles upt to five  hundred and then trummps three mega ships all beat by us.  and all empire hmm and then this who the hell is firing that thing they are proficient. and we see him nope.  then this.  who.  and nobody can say and it warms now. slowly hums.  finally it is up and runs.  hits the remainingships adn out soon. we fire to exhustion and reload no but close. now reloading on the fly need it.  tons of it in tosn out.  fast too. and between hits  it is on here we fire on you s.  and they balk ok. and fire back and laugh.  not really. and then this we are sitting ducks and they say prove it. seastian will and hit us lol.and ok dummy Sebastian says.  weher  and when.  this planet and you alone with your gear...ok ok i can not alone. and you bring a crew.  so e do this ok.  and we fire tons on them and reload.  tons.  fster adn yes we see Thor Freya Zues Hera mac daddy
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Hello and let me thank you in advance. Age: 19 Location: las vegas nevada Length of driving experience: permit at age 17, drivers license at 18, am 19 atm. Clean record no tickets no incidents, no dui's nothing. I am a collage student and i hold a 4.0 gpa Im 19 years old and have purchased my own vehicle 3 months ago Vehicle type: 2005 dodge stratus sxt 4 cylinders ( clean title, only one incident which was a fender bender.) Has had 3 owners, i am the 4th Car had 100k miles its at 105k miles and still prefect have taken good care of it. My current car insurance is Geico, which is the cheapest rate i could find. MY rate is $222.05 ( more then liability) I was wondering if anyone has had children and how did they handle car insurance for them, did you find a better rate, or if your my age how much do they charge you. (i do know that location is a big part as well.) if you can specify location will be much appreciated. If anyone knows a website that can help me lower the cost of car insurance, but has to be more then liability. Thank you for your help.""
Can you report someone for driving without car insurance?
i know this person and i was just wondering if you could turn them in for not having car insurance without them knowing who turned them in. I want to prevent someone from getting hurt and not getting there part of the insurance claim or whatever.....anything will help..THANKS!!!!
Looking for a job with cancer patient?
I just graudate 2 week ago in AAS for medical insurance and billing and I would like to work for cancer patient and cancer center. I want to do some medical insurance for cancer patient and other thing. Is there website that I can find some career opportunity?
AAA auto Insurance policy ?
I'm currently having auto insurance with AAA and my bro is going to get his car soon. If I can get both of our cars insured under 1 plan, would that be cheaper ? thanks""
What are the requirements to become a licensed insurance agent in Texas?
I have applied at GEICO and I want to know what the state of Texas requires, besides taking the exam, to become a licensed insurance agent.""
Do I need to be on both my parents car insurance?
my parent are divorced and I live with my mom, but i go to my dads every weekend. I am under my moms car insurance (state farm). I was wanting to know, does my dad have to insure me to drive his car? I am only 16 by the way.""
Does anyone know of an affordable insurance company for an individual (major insur. companies preferrably)?
I am an individual contractor and in need of a health and dental insurance. There are so many to choose from and I don't know which ones I should be focusing on. Lower deductibles and higher copay better? What's an ideal payment each month? $200? $150? I need help.
Car and home insurance together...?
I recently purchased a new car and will close on a home in 2 weeks. I am looking for auto and home insurance in NJ. I called Geico today - got a decent quote. But they dont have home insurance in the area. All State gave me a quote for their platinum one and told me they'll give me the other packages in a minute - put me on hold for 25 mins and I hung up (again they dont have home insurance in my area). Anyone has any experience with TWG insurance? My car dealer gave me their info. I searched for reviews in NJ - nothing, They're TX based and have both home and auto...not sure if it is good for NJ. This is my first car and home. Any advise on what to look for esp for my car. What are the grey areas that they can con you? What are the most important points to look for? Any suggestions on good plans in NJ?""
How Accurate Is The Progressive Auto Insurance Website Quote's?
How Accurate Is The Progressive Auto Insurance Website Quote's?
EMPLOYER INSURANCE VS OUTSIDE INSURANCE?
I work for a company that provides insurance through Health-net. Since the rates aren't that great (ya, what a surprise for Hyundai) I was wondering if could I deny the company insurance and just go with an outside provider? Or if I half to take what ever my company provides me.""
Do I need to buy additional car insurance when renting a car?
I have full coverage with State Farm but I wasn't sure if I had to purchase additional insurance when I rent the car or does my policy handle renting a car? I have full coverage right now and I will only need the car for the weekend.
Switching Car Insurance?
Next year when I get married my fiance and I are going to start a new car insurance policy. However - I currently have co-signed the car I own with my mom. She is the primary owner, but my name is on everything too and I make all the payments myself. How will that work with the car insurance? Does it matter that I am not the primary owner? Does it need to be insured under her name?""
""Can you help me-insurance, cars, and money?""
Okay, I'm planning on buying a car soon. My family is in a very deep hole financially, so I'm going to ask my grandparents to help me, because they are doing fine. I need a car to get to school, get to my current job on time, and have another job (along with 2 AP classes and babysitting!) I never ask them for anything, not that I've ever wanted to, so I'm really scared to ask them for this huge favor. I'm planning on paying them back for every single penny I borrow plus interest. So I want to know an idea of how much money I'm going to need to borrow. Okay, for insurance...I'm planning on buying a toyota yaris, matrix, or camry. Or a honda civic (perferrably hatchback). Or a volkswagon beetle. But right now, anything will do as long as its reliable. For a 16 year old, A average grades, living in KY, about how much would monthly insurance be? For payments, I know about 2000 for down would be good. But how much (about) would interest be on monthly payments? I'm planning on finding a car that is about 7000-8000 dollars. And lastly, how should I ask!? They know I'm mature and responsible, but I don't think they are willing to help me out. I absolutely hate asking for things from people, but I really need help so that I can help my family. So how should I do it? Thank you so much! :) I'll choose best answer!!!""
Ticket for no insurance while riding my motorcycle in california?
I got pulled over for speeding. i have no insurance but i have my motorcycle permit and my driving license. when he pulled me over he asked for my license and of course, i didnt have it. it was in my jacket and i didnt wear it. i had my permit for my bike though. gave him that and my registration. he asked for my insurance, and i knew i didnt have it. but i looked through my backpack and under the rear seat. so when he gave me the ticket he said that the no insurance and license was just a fix it ticket and to take it into the court and show them and they will sign it of and the other is speeding. when i looked at the ticket when i got home, in the part where they rite down if it can be corrected or not the license says yes and the insurance says no. my question is, if i buy insurance now and go in and show them that with the license will they sign it off. or what will they do if i dont have insurance? also the reason i dont have insurance is i dont have the funds to buy it. i just want an answer to my question please not a lecture. thank you""
What is the cheapest car insurance you can get for young drivers?
What is the cheapest car insurance you can get for young drivers?
Insurance for 17 year old female?
Hello, I wanted to know what the price would be ranging between for a car that probably would have been made in the year 2000. I haven't started lessons yet but i will be by october and wanted to get a rough idea. Also i heard that there is a insurance that you can get that is cheap but you're not allowed to go out after 11pm at night or something. Is this true? if so what would the price be roughly?""
Is car insurance in America cheaper?
I have a Honda civic 2007 (nothing special) sedan and pay $280/month cause I live in Canada, clean record too""
Would it be a good economic decision to lower my limits of liability on my car insurance?
I'm looking at my bills, and trying to cut costs, would it be wise to lower the limits of liability on our older (2004) car. I currently do not have comprehensive coverage on it... we only have that on the newer one. Here's what I have now: Bodily Injury - 25,000 / 50,000 Property Damage - 50,000 Personal Injury - 10,000 Uninsured Motor Vehicle - 25,000 Bodily Injury (non-stacked) - 50,000 Really, my husband only uses this car to go to work and back. We use the newer car for everything else. What would you recommend lowering our limits to, or would you recommend lowering them at all? Thanks!!! I know nothing about this... I just have what the insurance agent told me to get.""
How much  is a few lessons + cbt & motorcycle test for a 125cc moped ?
also how much would be tax and insurance and hidden costs of running a moped if passed the test ?
Pensacola Florida Cheap car insurance quotes zip 32501
Pensacola Florida Cheap car insurance quotes zip 32501
Doi have to provide cell phone and car insurance?
I live in georgia. My wife has asked for a divorce and has asked me to move out. We have two boys 1 and 3. I'm trying to settle things and save our marriage which prob will not happen. My ? Is...do I have to furnish her with cell phone service (in my name) and car insurance? We are both on title for car, I don't mind if I must as long as the bill is split equally...but am I required to provide her with cell phone services if she indeed wants to divorce and the phones are in my name? She has a home phone which she can conduct her business with....no money for lawyer but I'm not going to give her cell service if its what she wants?""
Do I need my own insurance to rent a car?
I am a US citizen but I live outside the country. I'll be coming to the US for about two weeks over Thanksgiving and will need a rental car to get about and between the two places I'll be staying. Since I live outside the country, I don't have my own personal car insurance, as the country I live in doesn't require any. I have a PA driver's license, so I'm fine in that department. I just want to know - since the rental car companies don't explain anything - whether or not I need to have a my own insurance to take the car off the lot...OR, since the rental car companies are required by law to have liability coverage, which is the PA state minimum, am I able to just drive the car off the lot without ever giving proof of insurance. As far as I've been told, the last part is generally the standard - with the caveat that if I were to get into an accident, I would be responsible to all damage done to the vehicle itself, as well as myself. But I just want to make sure with anyone who's in the know.""
Affordable health insurance??
I asked before but i am looking for a health insurance that covers meds, eye checks, dentist, womens problems, in the united states.""
If you switch from one auto insurance company to another does it look bad?
I never had insurance before and am getting insurance from one company for a month and then switching. Does that look bad on some kind of record (meaning it will affect my rates in the future?)?
How much is it to insure a replica car ?
Im looking to buy a replica lamborghini Aventador but was wondering if the insurance would be to high to handle. I live in Ontario, Canada Thanks""
Looking for affordable health insurance for the sefl employed?
i cannot find any affordable insurance and i need assistance
Car insurance for a 16 year old?
How much would car insurance be for a 16 year old male? The car is a 2010 Ford mustang V6 Premium. If it matters, im a straight A student. Would the car being a convertible change the price, if so by how much? Thanks!""
""Im an 18yr old girl, and can not find car insurance for under 2000, help?!?""
The car i'm trying to insure is a 1.1 Citreon Saxo, it has no modifications. The cheapest insurance i've found is with Tesco but this is still just shy of 2000. The comparison sites have all been useless, all coming out at over 3500. Any ideas would be appriciated?""
Are there different types of car insurance?
What are the different kinds?
Health Insurance Question?
I currently have Crohn's Disease and I'm taking daily medications. When I turn 21 my insurance will not be in effect (CCS insurance I believe?) and I will not be able to afford medication and health insurance. My parents don't make enough money to buy health insurance..Does anyone have any idea on how to approach this?
Cheapest way to get car insurance?
we know of a family that is going through tough times. Mom works 3 jobs, daughter (18 y.o. works 2 jobs and goes to school full time) while the dad has two DUIs on him. Of course the daughter can't get insurance(because its too expensive). Around $2k a year. Know of any other viable options?? Its in California. Thanks!""
My Florida driver's license is suspended due to insurance reasons?
I got in a car accident about 2 years ago, and as a result I stopped paying my insurance and couldn't turn in my tag. My license was suspended as a result. I haven't gone to the DMV yet, and was wondering if anyone knows what I'd need in order to get my license back? According to the Florida DMV website, my license will be reinstated once I show proof of insurance...but I don't even own that car anymore, let alone pay insurance on it. I don't want to waste three hours at the DMV just to be told I need a certain form or paperwork...does anyone have experience in this matter?""
Where to get pregnancy insurance?
Please can someone tell me where to get pregnancy insurance? I am a UK citizen and will be spending the whole of 2010 in America (Boston). Thanks
Mobile Home Insurance in Florida?
I am having a LOT of difficulty finding Mobile Home insurance in Florida (nobody will insure us at a reasonable rate due to hurricanes). They are brand new Mobile Homes.... Original Premium was $1138.00 a year. We are having issues with this company & are getting quotes well over $2,000 now! That is a HUGE difference! Does anybody else know where else we can get insurance???""
HEALTH INSURANCE PAYMENTS?
I went to the doctor. The cost was $164. My insurance was expected to pay $115. I paid $49. Later i found out that my insurance actually paid $131. I had no prior balance, what is the balance after my insurance payment was received?""
California speeding and no proof of insurance ticket?
It was dark and raining. I just came off the bay bridge in SF and am positive I was driving below 40 on the bridge and between 40-60 when I got off the bridge. The cop was on 80E past fremont exit. He said I was at 67 in a 50 zone and also did not give me enough time to look for my proof of insurance. He said lets make this easy and quick and cited me for speeding and for no insurance and not no proof of insurance. He cited both as non-correctable. It this accurate? I don't think his radar reading isaccurate. How can Ichallenge this?
Can anyone tell me any health insurance companies that cover fertility treatments ?
i haven't started fertility treatments yet so i have no prob going to a new endocrinologist, gyno or clinic ect - because they will be new either way ! of coarse a insurance that covers the most fertility treatments would be best but just tell me the name and what treatments if any that you know they cover ( thanks in advance)""
Isn't Ameriplan Insurance The Same Scam as Obama Care/Affordable Health?
All They did was Steal Other people's Identifying Information and the Insurance once called Ameriplan, never netted any gains for the holders of those plans. Just Wondering?""
Imported motorcycle insurance?
Does anyone know of any companies that tend to do cheap imported bike insurance? Iv wrang around a few now and the best quote i can get for third party only is 305 pounds from adrien flux. The bike in question is a Honda storm SDH 2006 import. I know that as an imported bike it is going to be a little more expensive but it shares most of its parts with the Honda CG, will telling them this help the quote at all, and do you know any good insurers?""
Allstate auto insurance/full coverage - rental car?
Does anyone know if Allstate will cover me in a rental car? I have a full coverage policy on my car at the moment. Just wondering if I travel and rent a car would I still be covered?
How much does it cost to insure a 2003 hyundai accent 4 door?
How much does it cost to insure a 2003 hyundai accent 4 door?
""Got my first speeding ticket, will my insurance go up?
Im 20yrs old if that matters.. And this is only my first ticket. I was going 80mph on a 70mph. Will my insurance go up? If u know please tell me. I have state farm.
Why won`t insurance companies insure Nuclear power plants?
Why don`t insurance companies insure some drivers?
Young drivers car insurance uk?
I'm having a lot of trouble with find insurance. I really need help , or advice , what am i doing wrong .. everyone around me is getting deals of around 1.200-1.800 pounds.. I've chosen a Clio which is one of the cheapest insurance cars , I also tried , adding different drivers or companies , black boxes etc -.- and the cheapest quote i got was 6.500.. which is like triple the price of the car . Anyone any ideas ? Help.""
Average motorcycle insurance cost for 17year old male ?
How much would insurance coverage cost me? I am going to take the rider safety course. I have no previous accidents and have above 3.0 GPA. I want to get a Kawasaki Ninja500 because I heard they are great for beginners and are decent bikes as well. Any tips, advice, general information would be much appreciated!""
Pensacola Florida Cheap car insurance quotes zip 32501
Pensacola Florida Cheap car insurance quotes zip 32501
Is there car insurance for people who don't own cars in Ontario?
My parents are taking me off their insurance as an occasional driver. I don't own a car and don't plan on getting one. I was wondering if I need insurance in order to drive someone else's car? I haven't had any luck finding info relevant to Ontario. Thanks!
Car insurance rates for a dependent?
I am a 20 year old male who is still living with his parents. My driving record is pretty bad with 2 moving violations within the first 3 years, but i also took a defensive driving course. Now my question is, if I were to register for my own car insurance (under my name, info, billing info, etc.) would that affect my parent's insurance rates? This is assuming i get insurance from a different company which my parents use.""
""If you work for an insurance company, would you get discounted car insurance?""
I have a 2nd interview for some insurance companies, one is at progressive and the other is at all-state. My car insurance is expensive because I'm in my early twenties even though my record is spotless. It occurred to me today that if I work at an insurance company I might get discounts. Does anyone have an idea of how much of a discount these companies offer on insurance for their employees? That is, if they even offer discounts at all. I know you obviously can't give me an exact number, I'm just interested in the benefits I could potentially have as an employee.""
Purchasing car insurance?
I want to find an online quote to see how much I may be paying for future auto insurance. But some sites ask for vehicle information. I haven't bought the car yet. But don't you need proof of insurance in order to purchase a car? I'm confused. How do I go about this?
""I've got a '74 Dodge Avco RV, how much would it cost for insurance?""
It's 28 footer. And maybe if you knew how much it would cost for tires and even a lube and tune, i would appreciate it!""
Car insurance? Insurethebox?
Can someone help me please? Im trying to get insurance quotes on a couple of cars, I tried with a Fiat Punto, and coudnt get any AT ALL. I then tried a Citroen C2, that came back at 4grand - 5 grand Fully comp. I then tried to get insured on a Peugeot 206 This also came back at 4-5 grand, fully comp. Insurethebox coudnt even give me a quote? Someone explain this to me? No years bonus, and 18, but still the insurance shoudnt be 4 grand? I would get a corsa, but to many of my friends have them, and i dont want one. I do want a peugeot 206, but i cant get insured.. am i doing something wrong? help!""
Peugeot 206 gti insurance cost?
Does anyone know roughly how much it would cost for first time insurance? I'm 18 by the way.
Should I buy insurance?
Should I get the insurance offered when I book our next cruise? What is it for?
""Insurance question, anyone know?""
I had insurance that didnt cover my pregnancy, if I get new insurance will they cover my pregnancy? Or not cuz im already pregnant....""
I need cheap car insurance?
I am a 18 year old female and i have some violations against me such as speeding, driving with a suspended license and failure to yield ticket. My parents won't put me on there insurance so i need to find my own but they are all wayyy to expensive so far, anyone got any ideas? please""
How can I make sure my car insurance will be low?
I passed my test in october 2010 and put off getting a car because I could not afford it. I'm thinking about getting a car because I have to travel alot with my placement. 1) What car should I get as my first car that will be cheap to insure? 2) do unemployed people get cheaper car insurance? 3) whats better third party or....? Any advice will be helpful
Integra to Mustang: how much will my car insurance go up?
I am currently insured with ING for my acura integra '1992 at $55 a month. I'm 23 years old with a clean driving record and the insurance is one-way (damages to my car in an accident are not covered, but damages to another car/property are covered) and is also protected from theft and attempted theft + vandalism. I am planning on switching to a 95 Mustang. Can I expect a small or significant jump in my insurance premium? I would apply the same coverage. (The car has an alarm system and I put on a steering wheel lock when I leave it parked.)""
What is the best auto insurance company?
i live in Chicago, Il and whant 2 know the best auto insurance company.""
I need full coverage for car insurance?
i need full coverage to get my new car if i go to my insurance tommorow and put full coverage on my car will i be able to pick up the car the same day? ps i live in massachusetts sooo people from there will help to
Do you know any Insurance companies that would do 6m Car Insurance?
For various reasons, I would like insurance quotes for my car for 6 months. Has anyone had any dealings with companies that have or would? It's not a money saving exercise, thanks :)""
At what point does an insurance company own your car when it is stolen?
I live in the state of California and my car was stolen. I was paid out for it by my claims adjuster, but the paperwork is still in the process of being transferred from my name to the insurance company's name. Is the car relinquished? If it gets found, am I liable for towing expenses, etc and is it legally still mine?""
Question about unemployment Insurance In california?
I have to send my form on the 12 of december. If i dont send it by that time.say about a week later will it be a problem? when is the latest i can send it through the mail? anyone know?
Can i get my MOT done without insurance?
My car needs an MOT and right now its on a SORN because im waiting for my paycheck so I can get insurance, my question is as follows: i know that you need an MOT before you can insure your car but to get my car to its MOT I would have to have it insured? How does this work? can i drive to the garage without insurance and get away with it or is there some special policy I need to take out? Please help.""
Car insurance problem?
yesterday crashed my car into the back of a young man in an old Y reg ford escort no damage to his car just a loose exhaust which i am giving him money to get fixed. But my car Y reg Peugeot 206 1.4 quicksilver, the bonnet has gone so will have to buy a new one. if i go through insurance to get my bonnet done will it affect my annual insurance cost? at the moment it is 800 how much do you think it will go up by. by the way i am only 18 this is my first year of driving under my mothers policy.""
""I am moving soon, but my car insurance policy will be up before I leave. What do I do?""
My car insurance policy will be up in May and I am planning on moving from New York to Florida in July. How do I go about switching my car insurance so that I can maintain the same policy once I move to Florida? Can I buy a Florida policy now as long as I am up there within a certain amount of time? (I am most interested in switching to Geico, since I am a student and new driver) Since I'm moving into my Grandfather's house, can he just put me on his policy when mine ends, and if he can, will I still be able to drive my car around until I move down there?""
How can I check what is affecting my car insurance prices?
Would there be a website to do this? I am struggling to see why my car insurance is so expensive. I've checked my insurance prices on gocompare.com, it's around 4,500, so I think it would help if I could find out why it was so.""
Does the color actually make your insurance higher??
I have heard this is true...red cars make your insurance higher...I don't think it is true but my husband does. What do you all think? I have looked up quotes and none of them ask for the color of the vehicle just make/model/year...
Do you need insurance on a motorcycle in Florida?
I read online that if you own and have the title of the motorcycle you do not need insurance . But i never believe what i read on random websites so I'm asking here. The insurance companies are giving me insane premiums even though i have a clean driving record. My question is,is that accurate that i dont need insurance to ride in Florida.?Thank you everyone in advance.""
Would a Jaguar be a first car?
I want to know for my cousin who is 12. He really like the XJR from 1997-2003 .What does the insurance cost?
Car Insurance for 18 year old female?
Hiya! I am due to pass my driving test by my 18th birthday. Ive been doing some research and got quotes of minimum 6K and even one which was 12K. I don't understand how the insurance companies reckon people like me can afford that kind of money. Do you kbow any good insurers that will help me out? A maximum of 2,000 will be ideal! I have the car ready and sorted. Its a Toyota Yaris 2001 with a 1.1L engine. It is worth less than one grand. Sooooo.....""
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Tribal Council #5 - One World
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Welcome, everyone, to our one world tribal council where only the Ouani tribe can be voted out.
Eric, Blake, and Elliot, as this is your first tribal council, please dip your torches.
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AnnMarie, how important is trust in a tribal council this big? Do you trust anyone who comes to you, or are you skeptical of everyone?
I'm open to all discussions with everybody in a tribal so large. Trust is important, but easy to maintain. To me, you are innocent until proven guilty, and unless you have lied to me, I'm open to any idea you may have. No plan is good or bad, and nobody is truly good and evil in a game like this.
Blake, you had the worst score in the challenge. Do you think this will ultimately put a target on your back? Do you think the strategy is past ‘keep the tribe strong’?
Ultimately I hope my GOD awful score doesn't put a target on my back... but hey who knows they may be thinking about the merge and be like well that kid wont be any competition for individual immunity so lets keep him around. The strategy about keeping the tribe strong I don't know if that is so relevant now bc so many people have formed relationships. But if my tribe still wants a strong team then I may be on the chopping block...
Bryan, how confident are you in the game post-one world? Do you think your position on your new tribe will be solid after all of this round’s drama?
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Dani, after getting a strike in the challenge, do you think you’ll be targeted? How do you assure your fellow players that you’ll be active enough to take part in their plans?
Oh Jay... ENOUGH! Enough is ENOUGH IVE HAD IT! I feel like I’m taking CRAZY pills every time you ask me a god forsaken question... anyways. To answer your question. First of all, I didn’t understand the challenge and had no desire to understand it. Second of all, I had to volunteer all day today so I was just not for it. In other words, Yes. I AM ACTIVE ENOUGH.
Elliot, how has the tribe swap influenced game dynamics? Do you feel more solid with your new tribe or with the old? How do you think the game will have changed after this one world tribal?
The tribe swap has definitely changed the game- you get comfortable and then the tribes all swap around. While there are people I trust on both my tribe, and people I don't, for me this vote comes down to who I think has been the most genuine with me, and while that might alienate me from some people that's a risk I'm going to have to take.
Eric, congratulations on attending your first tribal council this late in the game! How do you sus out where the vote is since you don’t have prior experience with tribals? How do you maximize this opportunity to send the right person home?
Thanks for the warm welcome! haha It's kind of exciting to finally be at a tribal council, especially one where I'm immune. I guess it's important to take the time to chat with others, see how they all feel and take the time to understand what's truly going on. This is a very unique opportunity since everybody on the game is here to vote and it can create a unique voting trend.
Andreas, how much do you think old tribal lines and old alliances will influence this vote?
This vote is all about old tribal lines and old alliances. So I think, this will influence the vote for 100%.
JG, there’s no way for a majority alliance to have existed since tribes are currently smaller than the number needed for a majority, so how do votes get determined in a one world tribal? Is there a cohesive voting block, or will it be a heavily split vote?
Honestly, we won't know until tribal. There are so many strong players who want to still be here the next round and with so few people to be voted its gonna make for a interesting tribal .... I also think this has the potential to shake up any pre-existing shiz. .... oh and hi lynn
Lynn, after the drama between you and JG last round, do you think that animosity will come to a head as you’re one of the people who could potentially be eliminated?
Um the animosity is most definitely coming to a head. I mean even now everyone can obviously see JG doesn’t know how to keep my name from out of his messages to the gc so far. there’s no way you can stop people from believing what they want and JG is obviously coming after me so we’ll see what happens.
Phoenix, what do you think of Tara’s decision to make one world happen?
I mean, I know she was in a rush and people wanted it to happen, so it happened. I don't blame her or anything haha
Raffy, as the numbers dwindle down, how do you set yourself up to be in a good position for the merge?
You be social and hope to god people are being truthful. I want to trust people, but this is Survivor. Trust only goes as far as the things backing up that trust. When people vote together, you trust them. However, things can shift dramatically within the span of one tribal. I don't know how to set myself up for merge, but I pray to god that I am doing all that I can
Richie, my question to you is as simple as it is classic: what will you be basing your vote on tonight?
what will i be basing my vote on tonight???? well i'm safe and so is everyone on our tribe so my stake in this vote is hopefully going to make a proactive move that will help make the next vote i'm not safe at a little bit more manageable?????????
Tara, let us in on the logic behind putting the one world tribal in place. Do you think this will help you seem MORE or LESS trustworthy long term?
umm i honestly was just like walking down a rly busy corridor and i was stressing bcos i had to answer quick bcos i had already kept ppl waiting like 20 minutes so i asked in the tribe chat what ppl wanted n ya here we are. umm i honestly don't know what ppl will think of this! i hope they take the time to make new friends and have fun and not stress too much.
Tim, on a scale of 1-10, how rat-like/snake-like is this game? Do you feel you’re playing with trustworthy people, or are you constantly watching your back?
On a scale of one to 10 I'd have to rate the game as of now as a 6. There ARE snakes somewhere because they are inevitable. However, there are different types. You have your garden snake, small and sneaky but common and mostly harmless when they bite. Your Phythons, the big bad snakes who think they're running the show but their fangs hold no venom. They are only deadly one you've came within their ever so "trusting" grip, but from a distance, they are spottable if you know what you are looking for. Finally you have your Black Mambas. NOW these snakes... are deadly asf. You may not even see them coming but once they bite your life in the game is up. I'd advise that you stay as far away as possible from this breed but their camoflage leaves you unable to know who or where they are.
I feel as though everyone is trustworthy but the extent at which they are varies depending on the context of the situation as well as your previous trust.
I’ll read the votes.
First Vote: Bryan
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Second Vote: Blake
you did not speak to me. you tried to do something way beyond your ability. you were messy. good bye.
Third Vote: Bryan:
Under his eye
Fourth Vote: Blake
That’s two votes Bryan, two votes Blake, 10 votes left.
Fifth Vote: Bryan
Out! OUT! GET OUT!
Sixth Vote: Blake
sorry I have to stick to my guns ....
That’s three votes Bryan, three votes Blake, 8 votes left.
Seventh Vote: Bryan
in tears uh, hey everyone… karma got its kiss for me! puckers lips uh i cant go to JONATHAN’S right now because i got a…. a ticket because apparently you’resupposedtopulloverforanemergencyvehicle and i didn’t know laughs listen, my life is extremely going downhill cause im getting acne, and im getting fat and im blading right here if you cant see the whole triangle there like a piece of hair, im balding IM BALDING i’m turning ugly and my face is going to be fat for the rest of the day and i cant even SHOWER BEFORE WORK because im not going to be home on time! and that fat ass indiana cries the fat ass indiana cop…. gave me a ticket…. and he’s like “do you know about this law?” i didn’t so i said “no”… because i didnt talking through tears and it’s so much money and i only have FOURTY SEVEN DOLLARS and im not even supposed to go under fifty and im going to get fined by my bank
try not to hold-
SHUT UUUUUUUUUUUUUUP!! im going to get fined by my bank for having under fifty dollars ♫ and i already owe my parents four hundred something dollars and i owe my friend’s mom eighty and i cant get a job now but everything’s fine cough and im oKAY and my parents are really mad at me and my life is going downhiiiill ♫ so if anyone wants to be like a nice person laughs through tears and give me money to pay for this fucking ticket because i dont have it inhales i’mgoingtoleavemypaypal link but like winks thats me winking BUT MY EYES ARE TOO SWOLLEN TO WINK cries and i called to see if i could serve jail time instead of paying but no one answered so i left a voicemail asking if it were an option for me to serve jail time instead of paying inhales you’re going to get arrested for that they’re going to be like this dumbest bitch then they’re going to arrest you crying isn’t that the point that’s what he wants and my friends are laughing while i’m having an emotional breakdown crying SHOW ME SUPPOOOOOOORT crying laughing screams into pillow
Eighth Vote: Bryan
it's hard to not take an opportunity like this to vote out a very strong and experienced player. I wish you the best!
Ninth Vote: Bryan
It sucks that you have to go home but sometimes it be like that
Tenth vote, and the next person voted out of Survivor Athena Moheli: Bryan
Lol sorry bud
The remaining votes were also for Bryan.
Eleventh Vote: Bryan
You're a really nice dude, it just has to be done
Twelfth Vote: Bryan
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Thirteenth Vote: Bryan
Fourteenth vote:
Bryan, you will have a few moments to send any last words before everyone is removed from this chat.
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The Circle Review (spoilers)
SO I finished reading the Circle by Dave Eggers. I liked the booked alright. This is not something I would usually read but I was at the movies and the trailer for this came up and I was like damn that looks great. OH! and even better it is a book. Gotta read it. I ordered it off of amazon after the movie, thank you Dad for having prime! So at first I was a little bored but the men she encountered was interesting, like who is this mysterious man Kalden that shows up every 200 hundred pages? Oh and I had a great laugh at Mr. Only-Can-Last-A-Short-Paragraph. Poor girl! But this whole thing of the Circle being the main company for everything! At first I was like oh cool, that would be awesome to have all our information stored at one place where any one can see it. I work in the healthcare field as a medical assistant and let me tell ya. I HATE WITH A PASSION, trying to get medical records from other offices, ESPECIALLY when we are the primary care provider. Like HELLOOO this information is at most times very much needed ASAP. Good old Banner Health is great as in they have many specialties and use one system. So say you see your oncologist today and you need to follow up with your primary asap to coordinate care. GREAT just make the appointment, there is no playing tag trying to get records where they need to be. Which is not only what the Circle providers are doing but they take it a step further and have these bracelets, like fitbits, that track everything! Steps you take in a day, oxygen levels, heart rates and so much more. The employees at the circle are required to check in with their doctor every 2 weeks or if theres something wrong more often. They make their records public and Mae, the main character, has another doctor from across the world tell her that he has been following her charts closely and thinks she might end up having cancer down the line because of the things she chooses to eat. Like how crazy is that?  So then they introduce this character,Francis, who seems like a solid dude...at first. Him and Mae have a thing start up and we learn that he was a foster child who’s sister was abducted and I believe killed? (cant remember at the moment.) And he has this idea to put this tracer on children that has so many features. It can track where child has been and where they are going, set boundaries so that if they are to leave them an alert will be set to you. I have a 5 year old my self so at first I am like OMG! This would be great! I love it. Never will I have to worry again where my child is. Sounds amazing. And there are things like that already out there, when I phone with Verizon I was told that they have this childrens watch. What it does is track your child but it also allows them to call out to two numbers of your choice and of course 911. Which is great, there would be many cases which this would be great for the child to have. But later on we learn that they are going to take this steps further. They are going to track childrens progress in school and then you can find out where they stand in this world. They will use the tech to track so many things. Later later on at what I assume is like the TV show Sharks. Members of the community share their ideas. Well some of the community members came up with the idea to have theses trackers in everyone. That they would light up different colors depending on the crimes they have committed, and the hope for the woman presenting this is that it would stop police from targeting innocent people.The next presenter after that took it even further to where there would be some kind of system that would alert the whole neighborhood and police when there was domestic abuse or inappropriate touching, ect. Now all of this sounds great! No more child abuse, spousal abuse, no violence at all! No rapes, no human trafficking. It would end all kinds of crime. It sounds amazing! Now I am going to back track a bit. About halfway through this book they came up with this idea of transparency. Basically no government secrets anymore we the people have the right to everything that is going on at all times. Theses elected government employees would where these small cameras everywhere. And I do mean everywhere they were not aloud to turn them off until they are in bed and headed for sleep. Mae committed a crime was caught and now she is going transparent. In doing so more things are being tracked, there are more eyes on you all the time, she would get MILLIONS! of people watching her every move. Think of the kind of influence you could have on the earth. That is power. So at a meeting with all the higher ups. Mae stated that all of government basically should be ran through the circle. Voting should be ran through the circle and that it would be a requirement to have a circle account. And when I say requirement I mean its against the law to be without. They would implement a system to where all your electronics would shut down until you voted. Do you see how crazy that is. The Circle account does not allow privacy, it does not allow things to be delete. Everyone, everywhere would have access to everything about you. Things you like, things you dislike, your location, your friends, the school you goto, who your family is, who you are married to, your children. Hmm sounds like something most people use daily. I know I do. This makes me stop and think. I dont want people to know where I am every minute of the day. I dont want people to know everything about me. I really dont want people to be able to track me down if they wanted. The image the circle has is that they are creating a utopia and its not. Some of their intentions are good. It would be beyond amazing to make sure that every child is never hurt again. But all this tech would eventually be used for evil, for lack of a better word.   The Circle is what is starting to happen now already. The circle has eyes and ears everywhere. Doesn't that exist now? How many times has it happened to where you can talk about something, lets say taking a trip to Disneyland, and then when you go on facebook thats all you see advertisements for. I am pretty sure that is not a coincidence. I really hope this world doesn't become a reality because I may just end up like Mercer.
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The Weird Origin Story of the Viral, Dangerous Hoverboard
A few weeks ago, I bought a new toy. $595 on Amazon, Prime shipping, showed up 36 hours after I clicked buy. It weighs 22 pounds, and, after about an hour of practice, I had it going top speed, about 6 mph. (It feels faster than it sounds.) I’ve fallen off it a million times, often after it does this weird seizure-crash thing that I cant figure out how to stop or predict.
My new toy is called a Two Wheels Smart Self Balancing Scooters Drifting Board Electric (blue), and it’s kind of like a Segway—but with no handlebars. It’s not a skateboard, but it’s kind of like a sideways skateboard? It’s like a scooter, ish? The world has mostly decided to call it a hoverboard. I don’t know what to call it.
Whatever it is, I love it. And it’s all Justin Bieber’s fault. It just looked so fun in his Instagrams.
All it took was one Instagram of Kendall Jenner on the board for the PhunkeeDuck to blow up.
If you’ve been paying attention, you’ve seen it before. It’s sort of a phenomenon. Here is a (very) partial list of celebrities who have tweeted, Instagrammed, or YouTubed themselves riding one in the last couple of months: The Biebs himself, Chris Brown (who is awesome at it), Nick Jonas, Zedd, Soulja Boy, Kendall Jenner, JR Smith, Nicki Minaj, Wiz Khalifa, Nina Agdal, David Ortiz, Karim Benzema, and Skrillex. It’s been on the Tonight Show, and showed up at the NBA Finals.
Every time anyone uploads a video or picture of this scooter, the commenters all want to know two things: What’s that called, and where can I buy it?
That’s where it gets weird.
What’s in a name?
In late May, in front of a Fleet Week audience of military members, Jamie Foxx rolled onto the Tonight Show stage on a scooter. Once he figured out how to get off it, Foxx explained to Jimmy Fallon, “It’s, uh, a PhunkeeDuck,” as he rolled the board toward himself to make sure he had the name right. Fallon got on it, and did what everyone does their first time: wobbled jelly-legged for a minute, and then slowly inched around before getting comfortable.
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That whole scene really annoys IO Hawk’s Curtis Hedges. Because, he says, that scooter was not a PhunkeeDuck. It was an IO Hawk, his companys product. Hedges tells me to look closely at the wheels, where there’s clearly an “IO” logo in the center. He’s laughing, too, as if he can hardly comprehend the idea that PhunkeeDuck isn’t stealing. And he’s right: PhunkeeDucks look just like IO Hawks, right down to the IO logos on their boards and wheels. That, Hedges says, is because they’re exactly the same thing. “Put a sticker on it, call it a totally different name, and start selling.”
That’s exactly true, actually. The PhunkeeDuck guys don’t even deny it. But they’re quick to dispute the idea that theyre rebranding IO Hawk’s board. “The owner of IO Hawk went around telling everyone he was the inventor of this product,” PhunkeeDuck co-founder Matthew Waxman says, referring to IO Hawk CEO John Soibatian.“That’s just completely false.”
PhunkeeDuck and IO Hawk are the two biggest players in this nascent scooter market, but there are many others. There’s Oxboard, Cyboard, Scoot, Future Foot, Monorover, Airboard, Freego, Esway, Airwheel, iEZWay, Overoad, and a hundred names more along the lines of Two Wheels Smart Self Balancing Scooters Drifting Board Electric (blue).
The real story doesn’t begin with IO Hawk or PhunkeeDuck. It begins, as just about any modern technology story does, in China.
Depending on which one you buy, you’ll pay anywhere from $600 to $1,800 for a scooter. But make no mistake: They’re all the same. The designs may vary slightly—sometimes the faux hubcaps are shaped in Mercedes-like triangles, sometimes there are five or six spokes—but like painting tiger stripes on your kitty cat, nobodys getting fooled here.
The real story of the scooter doesn’t begin with IO Hawk or PhunkeeDuck. It begins, as just about any modern technology story does, in China.
Made in China
Before we go any further, I need to admit that I don’t know, positively, where the scooter comes from. The Chinese manufacturing industry moves so quickly and with so little documentation that it’s basically impossible to fact-check any company’s cries of “first!”
But here’s what I think I know: Theres a company called Chic Robotics, which is also known as Hangzhou Chic Intelligent Technology Co., Ltd, and I think it invented the scooter. (There’s a scooter called the Hovertrax that predates it slightly, but it’s not quite the same thing.) Chic’s logo—the horizontal line on top of an oval that just so happens to look like “IO” when rotated 90 degrees—is plastered all over most versions of the board. And Chic’s name keeps coming up when you talk to the people selling the thing.
The company was founded in 2013, born in connection with China’s Zhejiang University. It was created to make stuff, obviously, but also to champion IP protection in China, to improve patents and copyrights and and foster what the company calls “sustainable innovation.” It holds a series of patents related to the scooter, and has diligently (and apparently pointlessly) attempted to protect them.
Chic’s first scooter was called the Smart S1. It debuted in August of 2014, with a goofy commercial that almost certainly isn’t meant to be goofy. It shows a man walking down the hallway, laden with heavy books and a heavy heart, before finally being saved by the smooth ride of the Smart S1. It’s like a bizarro take on a heartwarming Coke commercial.
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In the fall of 2014, Chic took the S1 to the Canton Fair, China’s largest trade show. This semi-annual extravaganza attracts more than 180,000 buyers from around the world, there to see tens of thousands of Chinese exporters hawk their wares.
In China, the reward for being first is still just being first to be copied.
Chic’s supply of scooters disappeared quicklyeverybody wanted one. Soon, people were riding them all over the gigantic convention center. The hordes of buyers and suppliers were all over the Smart S1. Distributors across the world noticed, and so did other factories in China. Before long Alibaba was littered with manufacturers offering the same board—often using the same images and promotional videos, their logos hastily Photoshopped over Chic’s.
If you’ve seen one…
This manufacturing virality, where as soon as something is created it is immediately everywhere, isn’t unique to two-wheeled self-balancing scooters. It’s how Chinese factories make and sell everything from iPhone chargers to televisions to headphones. Or e-cigarettes, another recent favorite Justin Bieber accessory: Just about every brand is the same thing with a different label. “All you have to do is make a phone call to one of the six manufacturers or so in China that are producing these e-cigarettes,” says James Monsees, CEO of e-cigaretteer Pax Labs, “and youd say how much? And oh, I want it to be an orange tip on the end and say Orange on the packaging. Its an hour-long conversation…and youre in the e-cig business.”
In many ways, that’s one of China’s greatest assets as an industrial country. From iPhones to Harry Potter to Starbucks to basically the whole country of Austria, China’s ability to take anything and build it faster, cheaper, and maybe even better, is without equal. But China has made clear that it doesn’t just want to copy Apple anymore—it wants the next Apple to be Chinese. That would require better patent protection, and better regulation from the government. “The political economic institutions and system in China make it so entrepreneurs cant make profit by developing novel innovation,” then-Georgia Tech professor Dan Breznitz told the New York Times in 2011. As it is, the reward for being first is still just being first to be copied.
Because the Chinese manufacturing industry is so centralized, anything new spreads like crazy through the supply chain. One manufacturer creates a product; another reverse-engineers it and makes it too. And that next company can make it cheaper and faster, because it has no R&D costs. In most cases, this endless game of product-telephone makes the product worse.
Jeff Wells, who sells a scooter he calls The Scoot, ticks off a number of corners he’s seen factories cut. “Weaker motors, not as reliable batteries, gyro boards, improper motherboard design,” Wells says. “There are a lot of areas where they can shortcut.” He laughs when I tell him about my board’s nasty tendency to randomly start shivering uncontrollably, before spinning completely out of control and shutting down.
The PhunkeeDuck costs $1,499.99, and there’s a waiting list to get one.
“You probably, right now, have five manufacturers in China that are beginning to make these,” Wells says. He’s been importing products from construction materials to medical equipment for years, and says the key is quality control. “Youve got to tour the facilities, youve got to see them manufacturing over the long-term basis.” Because when factories take shortcuts, the problems that crop up can be hard to see in an online listing, and they can be devastating.
That’s why the Scoot costs $695, when you can buy a seemingly identical device on Alibaba for $200 or so. (He thinks the magic price is somewhere in the $500 range, though, and says we’ll be there by Christmas.) The craziest part? Wells is actually leaving a lot of money on the table. IO Hawk, an LA-based company with a virtually identical story (and product), sells its scooter for $1,799.99 and still can’t keep up with demand. The PhunkeeDuck costs $1,499.99, and there’s a waiting list to get one.
Lets talk about the PhunkeeDuck. Its sold by PhunkeeTree, a New York-based company that began as two guys repackaging and re-branding phone cases and chargers for stores like Nordstrom and Forever 21. Last year, the guys went to the Hong Kong Electronics Show, to talk to their existing suppliers and to see what else they could add to their selection of chargers, cases, and cables. “While we were there we actually found this other factory that for the first time debuted this product to a select few,” Waxman says. “And we happened to be in the right place at the right time, so we started working with them to customize our own version of it.”
“Customize,” at least in this first version, consists of putting PhunkeeDuck stickers on the board and its box. Waxman and co-founder Maxx Yellin say they’re working with the factory—which they won’t name—to modify it in more significant ways, and says patents are a-pending. But they won’t share details yet.
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IO Hawk is a step ahead, having launched first—at CES in January—and already offering a few improvements in its model. Theres a metal frame, for one thing, which can take a heavier load. It can handle up to 400 pounds, though they don’t advertise it as quite that high. The company is also developing custom firmware for the device to make it run better. And, like PhunkeeDuck, IO Hawk claims it has big ideas it’s not ready to share for fear they’ll be stolen.
While they wait for patents to be granted and modifications to be implemented, though, this scooter just keeps popping up in unexpected places under new names. And with every celebrity appearance, every Instagram of Chris Brown dancing or Nick Jonas rolling into a pool, the pace picks up even more. After PhunkeeTree managed to get Kendall Jenner a board, thanks to a well-placed friend in LA, all it took was one Instagram of her being a little bit too confident on the board for the PhunkeeDuck to blow up. (That gram alone netted 1.1 million likes.) Celebs starting hitting them up left and right for samples, and as they shared their adventures on social media more people wanted to try them too. “We didnt have to ask them to post,” Waxman says. “They just loved it so much that Chris Brown was riding it around, and Wiz Khalifa was using it onstage.”
One of their most consistent askers was the rapper Soulja Boy, who finally got a PhunkeeDuck after months of pestering. A couple of days after his board arrived, a new device hit the market: The Soulja Board. $1,500, available in green and red. Its site, souljaboard.com, was put together so quickly there’s still dummy text on the About page.
“He starts posting, hey guys come buy my Souldja Board,” Waxman says. “And he’s standing on our PhunkeeDuck!”
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Big boys don't cry
“Big boys don’t cry” of course. We are conditioned for that from delivery and even from our mothers. Yet the reason I’m writing this to try to explain why men tend not to cry in public and why they often will not even do it in front of their wives. The fact is clearly a frustrating, infuriating and phenomenon that is confusing women, when faced with emotional crisis, the man shuts down and disappears into the garage to fiddle with all the carburettor. The women is left no focusing on how he really seems, what he is thinking, planning or what he may do next. Perhaps more than anything else its also a maddening fact that two different people who love people just cant speak openly. If this offers any help for women facing this dilemma great, but also I hope it might help other machos not to feel so bad about crying.
This male emotional shut down is not just a cause of childhood upbringingings, but, in my estimation, something which has become hardwired into the male system that is emotional hundreds of thousands of existence, an existence which was quite different from the situation which we live in now. Let us remember that depending on when you classify the emergence of modern human, 5 millions or the modern species 500,000 years ago many of our lives has been lived as hunter-gather/warrior. The male predominantly playing the role of the hunter-warrior and the ladies the gather and up bringers of children. Life in suburbia has only existed for a hundred or few hundred of those thousands or millions of years. While the brain that is modern developing quickly and adapting rapidly, it overwhelmingly still lives under the conditioning of the thousands of years, which preceded modern life and this goes for women as well as men. We know biologically that we have a triune brain - the reptilian and mammalian brain and the recent neocortex that is human. This human neocortex or human rational brain is where we find all our wonderful intelligence and technique. However, research shows that still in times of crisis the human neocortex can be quickly overridden and controlled by our animal brains. This is especially the case when in times of social and crisis that is personal the mask of social respectability drops and the fangs of sabre tooth homo sapiens bear their teeth.
Now back during the very early years of our evolution, normal selection designed a certain division of Labour for the male and female. We will concentrate on the male here. Men became the warrior/hunter class. These activities were obviously the most dangerous occupations needed for the survival and progression of the tribe (excepting childbirth). However, Why were men, instead of women chosen by natural selection to become the class that is warrior? The reason is men expendable. They cannot reproduce. From an evolutionary standpoint, within the species women are more valuable. Many men can die in hunting or battle, but so long as some males remain, it is always feasible to replicate the species. The species would have risked extinction if the women had been the warriors and hunters. But this has had a effect that is negative many means on the male psychology on the eons and continues to filter down today. Hunting and battle necessitate the perfecting of certain emotions than those of hyper alertness, sensitivity, assertiveness and decisiveness Hunting/fighting means the sharpening of the emotions of fear, anger, aggression, self-defence. You have to cut off yourself from being hurt and upset by the sight of death and loss of friends, yourself or others because you may let your guard down and cause injury to. In basic you must become less empathetic and more brutalized to be successful and effective. You have to learn to shut down your emotions in times during the crisis. Indeed, failure to develop such emotions of anger, hate, aggression, ruthlessness, apathy would, in fact, be dangerous for the male under these conditions. Therefore these so-called emotions that are negative, in fact be lifesavers in life threatening situations of hunting and war.
Staying with the tribe for a moment, consequently, the male who tends to openly show “weakness” emotionally by crying and depression, etc. , could be looked on as a potential liability for war and hunting. Being potentially less of a bread-winner, it might also make him a less desirable mate for a female. Consequently, over thousands and thousands of years the male has learned to suppress “soft” emotions and allow their expression only in special occasions – a funeral, a non-war lack of a wife or child etc, but even then, always as a phenomenon that is temporary not part of a longer grieving process, which might bring into question their overall manhood. For the warrior to cry in public was a shame and a sign of weakness. clash of clans hack It could cost him his respect, trust, place and also even his wife. Therefore, the traditional method of the male was to walk off into forests or sit on the top of a mountain alone and grieve here. Right here they could let the tears flow in private, where nobody could see them or pass judgment. .
Of course, the male, in fact, hurts no less emotionally than the female, but has been conditioned into not expressing it in the same healthier way, which do and which learned most likely women by living in the collective tribal village. This imbalance in the emotional development of the male manifests itself in numerous ways in modern society, from domestic violence, drunkenness, social violence, sabotage at work and self-destructive behaviour. Changing these behaviours is incredibly difficult and sometimes not worth it for the women. However, if you are prepared to understand and put up with this if you have a husband who is the “disappearing-to-the garage” type”, ironically you probably have a relatively healthier man and one you have a better chance of living with. You can’t force a man to improve a million years of conditioning in one life time. When he goes out to the garage The reason for this that he is probably following his age-old conditioning and ways of finding release from inner pain. Men tend to prefer to cry alone to this day and I think that while being able to open publicly as a man and cry in front of a group is a thing that is positive I think we must also at least observe that this male isolated grieving is something, which men will and have to still do.
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Steve Morgan
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The Weird Origin Story of the Viral, Dangerous Hoverboard
A few weeks ago, I bought a new toy. $595 on Amazon, Prime shipping, showed up 36 hours after I clicked buy. It weighs 22 pounds, and, after about an hour of practice, I had it going top speed, about 6 mph. (It feels faster than it sounds.) I’ve fallen off it a million times, often after it does this weird seizure-crash thing that I cant figure out how to stop or predict.
My new toy is called a Two Wheels Smart Self Balancing Scooters Drifting Board Electric (blue), and it’s kind of like a Segway—but with no handlebars. It’s not a skateboard, but it’s kind of like a sideways skateboard? It’s like a scooter, ish? The world has mostly decided to call it a hoverboard. I don’t know what to call it.
Whatever it is, I love it. And it’s all Justin Bieber’s fault. It just looked so fun in his Instagrams.
All it took was one Instagram of Kendall Jenner on the board for the PhunkeeDuck to blow up.
If you’ve been paying attention, you’ve seen it before. It’s sort of a phenomenon. Here is a (very) partial list of celebrities who have tweeted, Instagrammed, or YouTubed themselves riding one in the last couple of months: The Biebs himself, Chris Brown (who is awesome at it), Nick Jonas, Zedd, Soulja Boy, Kendall Jenner, JR Smith, Nicki Minaj, Wiz Khalifa, Nina Agdal, David Ortiz, Karim Benzema, and Skrillex. It’s been on the Tonight Show, and showed up at the NBA Finals.
Every time anyone uploads a video or picture of this scooter, the commenters all want to know two things: What’s that called, and where can I buy it?
That’s where it gets weird.
What’s in a name?
In late May, in front of a Fleet Week audience of military members, Jamie Foxx rolled onto the Tonight Show stage on a scooter. Once he figured out how to get off it, Foxx explained to Jimmy Fallon, “It’s, uh, a PhunkeeDuck,” as he rolled the board toward himself to make sure he had the name right. Fallon got on it, and did what everyone does their first time: wobbled jelly-legged for a minute, and then slowly inched around before getting comfortable.
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That whole scene really annoys IO Hawk’s Curtis Hedges. Because, he says, that scooter was not a PhunkeeDuck. It was an IO Hawk, his companys product. Hedges tells me to look closely at the wheels, where there’s clearly an “IO” logo in the center. He’s laughing, too, as if he can hardly comprehend the idea that PhunkeeDuck isn’t stealing. And he’s right: PhunkeeDucks look just like IO Hawks, right down to the IO logos on their boards and wheels. That, Hedges says, is because they’re exactly the same thing. “Put a sticker on it, call it a totally different name, and start selling.”
That’s exactly true, actually. The PhunkeeDuck guys don’t even deny it. But they’re quick to dispute the idea that theyre rebranding IO Hawk’s board. “The owner of IO Hawk went around telling everyone he was the inventor of this product,” PhunkeeDuck co-founder Matthew Waxman says, referring to IO Hawk CEO John Soibatian.“That’s just completely false.”
PhunkeeDuck and IO Hawk are the two biggest players in this nascent scooter market, but there are many others. There’s Oxboard, Cyboard, Scoot, Future Foot, Monorover, Airboard, Freego, Esway, Airwheel, iEZWay, Overoad, and a hundred names more along the lines of Two Wheels Smart Self Balancing Scooters Drifting Board Electric (blue).
The real story doesn’t begin with IO Hawk or PhunkeeDuck. It begins, as just about any modern technology story does, in China.
Depending on which one you buy, you’ll pay anywhere from $600 to $1,800 for a scooter. But make no mistake: They’re all the same. The designs may vary slightly—sometimes the faux hubcaps are shaped in Mercedes-like triangles, sometimes there are five or six spokes—but like painting tiger stripes on your kitty cat, nobodys getting fooled here.
The real story of the scooter doesn’t begin with IO Hawk or PhunkeeDuck. It begins, as just about any modern technology story does, in China.
Made in China
Before we go any further, I need to admit that I don’t know, positively, where the scooter comes from. The Chinese manufacturing industry moves so quickly and with so little documentation that it’s basically impossible to fact-check any company’s cries of “first!”
But here’s what I think I know: Theres a company called Chic Robotics, which is also known as Hangzhou Chic Intelligent Technology Co., Ltd, and I think it invented the scooter. (There’s a scooter called the Hovertrax that predates it slightly, but it’s not quite the same thing.) Chic’s logo—the horizontal line on top of an oval that just so happens to look like “IO” when rotated 90 degrees—is plastered all over most versions of the board. And Chic’s name keeps coming up when you talk to the people selling the thing.
The company was founded in 2013, born in connection with China’s Zhejiang University. It was created to make stuff, obviously, but also to champion IP protection in China, to improve patents and copyrights and and foster what the company calls “sustainable innovation.” It holds a series of patents related to the scooter, and has diligently (and apparently pointlessly) attempted to protect them.
Chic’s first scooter was called the Smart S1. It debuted in August of 2014, with a goofy commercial that almost certainly isn’t meant to be goofy. It shows a man walking down the hallway, laden with heavy books and a heavy heart, before finally being saved by the smooth ride of the Smart S1. It’s like a bizarro take on a heartwarming Coke commercial.
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In the fall of 2014, Chic took the S1 to the Canton Fair, China’s largest trade show. This semi-annual extravaganza attracts more than 180,000 buyers from around the world, there to see tens of thousands of Chinese exporters hawk their wares.
In China, the reward for being first is still just being first to be copied.
Chic’s supply of scooters disappeared quicklyeverybody wanted one. Soon, people were riding them all over the gigantic convention center. The hordes of buyers and suppliers were all over the Smart S1. Distributors across the world noticed, and so did other factories in China. Before long Alibaba was littered with manufacturers offering the same board—often using the same images and promotional videos, their logos hastily Photoshopped over Chic’s.
If you’ve seen one…
This manufacturing virality, where as soon as something is created it is immediately everywhere, isn’t unique to two-wheeled self-balancing scooters. It’s how Chinese factories make and sell everything from iPhone chargers to televisions to headphones. Or e-cigarettes, another recent favorite Justin Bieber accessory: Just about every brand is the same thing with a different label. “All you have to do is make a phone call to one of the six manufacturers or so in China that are producing these e-cigarettes,” says James Monsees, CEO of e-cigaretteer Pax Labs, “and youd say how much? And oh, I want it to be an orange tip on the end and say Orange on the packaging. Its an hour-long conversation…and youre in the e-cig business.”
In many ways, that’s one of China’s greatest assets as an industrial country. From iPhones to Harry Potter to Starbucks to basically the whole country of Austria, China’s ability to take anything and build it faster, cheaper, and maybe even better, is without equal. But China has made clear that it doesn’t just want to copy Apple anymore—it wants the next Apple to be Chinese. That would require better patent protection, and better regulation from the government. “The political economic institutions and system in China make it so entrepreneurs cant make profit by developing novel innovation,” then-Georgia Tech professor Dan Breznitz told the New York Times in 2011. As it is, the reward for being first is still just being first to be copied.
Because the Chinese manufacturing industry is so centralized, anything new spreads like crazy through the supply chain. One manufacturer creates a product; another reverse-engineers it and makes it too. And that next company can make it cheaper and faster, because it has no R&D costs. In most cases, this endless game of product-telephone makes the product worse.
Jeff Wells, who sells a scooter he calls The Scoot, ticks off a number of corners he’s seen factories cut. “Weaker motors, not as reliable batteries, gyro boards, improper motherboard design,” Wells says. “There are a lot of areas where they can shortcut.” He laughs when I tell him about my board’s nasty tendency to randomly start shivering uncontrollably, before spinning completely out of control and shutting down.
The PhunkeeDuck costs $1,499.99, and there’s a waiting list to get one.
“You probably, right now, have five manufacturers in China that are beginning to make these,” Wells says. He’s been importing products from construction materials to medical equipment for years, and says the key is quality control. “Youve got to tour the facilities, youve got to see them manufacturing over the long-term basis.” Because when factories take shortcuts, the problems that crop up can be hard to see in an online listing, and they can be devastating.
That’s why the Scoot costs $695, when you can buy a seemingly identical device on Alibaba for $200 or so. (He thinks the magic price is somewhere in the $500 range, though, and says we’ll be there by Christmas.) The craziest part? Wells is actually leaving a lot of money on the table. IO Hawk, an LA-based company with a virtually identical story (and product), sells its scooter for $1,799.99 and still can’t keep up with demand. The PhunkeeDuck costs $1,499.99, and there’s a waiting list to get one.
Lets talk about the PhunkeeDuck. Its sold by PhunkeeTree, a New York-based company that began as two guys repackaging and re-branding phone cases and chargers for stores like Nordstrom and Forever 21. Last year, the guys went to the Hong Kong Electronics Show, to talk to their existing suppliers and to see what else they could add to their selection of chargers, cases, and cables. “While we were there we actually found this other factory that for the first time debuted this product to a select few,” Waxman says. “And we happened to be in the right place at the right time, so we started working with them to customize our own version of it.”
“Customize,” at least in this first version, consists of putting PhunkeeDuck stickers on the board and its box. Waxman and co-founder Maxx Yellin say they’re working with the factory—which they won’t name—to modify it in more significant ways, and says patents are a-pending. But they won’t share details yet.
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IO Hawk is a step ahead, having launched first—at CES in January—and already offering a few improvements in its model. Theres a metal frame, for one thing, which can take a heavier load. It can handle up to 400 pounds, though they don’t advertise it as quite that high. The company is also developing custom firmware for the device to make it run better. And, like PhunkeeDuck, IO Hawk claims it has big ideas it’s not ready to share for fear they’ll be stolen.
While they wait for patents to be granted and modifications to be implemented, though, this scooter just keeps popping up in unexpected places under new names. And with every celebrity appearance, every Instagram of Chris Brown dancing or Nick Jonas rolling into a pool, the pace picks up even more. After PhunkeeTree managed to get Kendall Jenner a board, thanks to a well-placed friend in LA, all it took was one Instagram of her being a little bit too confident on the board for the PhunkeeDuck to blow up. (That gram alone netted 1.1 million likes.) Celebs starting hitting them up left and right for samples, and as they shared their adventures on social media more people wanted to try them too. “We didnt have to ask them to post,” Waxman says. “They just loved it so much that Chris Brown was riding it around, and Wiz Khalifa was using it onstage.”
One of their most consistent askers was the rapper Soulja Boy, who finally got a PhunkeeDuck after months of pestering. A couple of days after his board arrived, a new device hit the market: The Soulja Board. $1,500, available in green and red. Its site, souljaboard.com, was put together so quickly there’s still dummy text on the About page.
“He starts posting, hey guys come buy my Souldja Board,” Waxman says. “And he’s standing on our PhunkeeDuck!”
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