terça-feira, janeiro 27, 2004

Oportunidade de negócio

Ao contrário dos vendedores de material de escritório, os vendedores de desfibrilhadores têm muito olho para o negócio, e quando se lhes depara uma oportunidade não a perdem.

Quatro desfibrilhadores para cada estádio(*), já! A pagar pelo Estado, presume-se.

(*) Um estádio é uma casa de espectáculos, frequentada por, em média, umas centenas de cidadãos, de quinze em quinze dias, e apenas durante umas duas horas.
"In North America the black bear was seen by [Samuel] Hearne swimming for hours with widely open mouth, thus catching, like a whale, insects in the water. Even in so extreme a case as this, if the supply of insects were constant, and if better adapted competitors did not already exist in the country, I can see no difficulty in a race of bears being rendered, by natural selection, more and more aquatic in their structure and habits, with larger and larger mouths, till a creature was produced as monstrous as a whale."
Darwin, Charles; "The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection" (On the origin and transitions of organic beings with peculiar habits and structure)