Ultimately, stars like Kjellberg don't need MakerStudios — the beauty of YouTube is that independent content can exist without major backers — so it'll be interesting to see whether he tones down his videos in the future (unlikely) and whether big brands like MakerStudios manage their independent stars differently going forward (possible).
So it comes as a surprise that, at this early stage of the short campaign, New York's Ninth Congressional District finds itself talking about an unlikely subject — whether Mr. Weprin, who is unabashedly pro-Israel, is the best pro-Israel advocate.
An unlikely issue — whether to vaccinate preadolescent girls against a sexually transmitted virus — has become the latest flashpoint among Republican presidential candidates as they vie for the support of social conservatives and Tea Party members.
What is not yet known about the reduced total of $684 billion in security spending for 2012 is whether Congress will hit the Pentagon with the entire $5 billion cut — budget analysts said that was unlikely — or whether the reductions will be spread throughout government agencies, or perhaps even leave the Pentagon untouched.
In the first place, it is unlikely that whether a performance-based payment system was previously introduced or not directly correlates with factors in the error term that determine the current layoff decision, after each firm's current situation and original characteristics, such as capital size, firm age, and rules of voluntary retirement, are controlled for.
Further instances of false claims or exaggerations could determine not only whether Williams ever gets back in the "Nightly News" chair, which many at the network consider unlikely, but whether he has any future in journalism at all.
The sales associate asked the unlikely pair whether she could help them, and Mindy demanded, "My friend here would like to buy some clothing, and I want to make sure you treat him with the same respect as everyone else here".
The extent to which genes influence character is still a matter for scientific debate, so while the experiment may reveal whether the last Plantagenet king had straight or curly hair, it is unlikely to establish whether Richard was likely to have murdered his way to the throne, his victims including his young nephews, the little princes in the Tower.
