You want geeky? Come see the largest (?!?) nanotechnology institute in Canada, and the home of BioWare. Sometimes they'll give you a tour, sometimes they'll just frag you when you open the door.
Hey! You're from Austrailia? Do you know Karen? She's a friend of mine, lives in Queensland.
Oh yea, get used to question like that from North Americans.
I hope people at home spoof them and make their own 'anti-piracy' commercials and distribute them.
Scene 1: Narrator "This is the actor that got paid $20 Million to star in this really bad movie. The movie Cost $500 Million to make, and lost $100 Million at the box office."
Scene 2: (Cue pic of 3 people living in an alley, 2 adults, one 3 year old girl) Narrator: "This is the gaffer who worked on that movie. The studio cut him to save money on their next film. Now little Amy doesn't have a home..."
Who wants to pay for local phone service (if you're already paying for it with your wireless plan) if you just want DSL, which would then be an additional cost to the local line?
Some changes to your math:
$24.95 local phone
+$24.95 DSL service
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$49.90
True, but it could make for some fun on a weekend. Install MSNIM and a script to randomly send messages to people "Congratulations! You just won $1000.00..."
I wasn't talking the decoder, only the smartcard reader/programmer. As for the analogy;
I have several IBM thin clients that use smartcards containing a bootable BSD kernel to load an image from an AS/400. They are pretty much the same card that DirectTV uses. Reader/programmers are expensive, and if this reader/programmer were cheaper than one I already have, then I might pick one up and save myself some money.
Irrelevant that they could be used to reprogram DirectTV cards, that's not what I intended them to be used for. I'm just cashing in on a cheap deal for a tool I use quite a bit.
Now, if I got a cease and desist letter from DirectTV, I'd be rather unhappy about it. I bought it legally, I use it in a legal manner, piss off!
If you have a legal use for such a product you shouldn't buy it from someone who is specifically advertising it as being illegal.
I don't care if things are 'advertised' as being illegal. If I buy a crowbar because someone says it can be used to break windows and steal cars, and I use it to tear down a wall I don't want in my house, is that illegal? Perhaps a used crowbar is more in my price range, or that crowbar costs less than one down at the hardware store. It doesn't matter how it's advertised, it matters how I use it. Note: I didn't say "how I intend to use it".
the US does this as a exception to protect industries long enough for consolidation.
Bullshit. Why has the US taken the softwood lumber dispute to the WTO 8 times in the last 10 years, and lost 8 times. Why has Canada been declared BSE (Mad Cow) free by the CDC, but the border is not expected to be open to imported beef till August? It only took 1 day to close it!
Could it be that US cattle ranchers are seeing the highest price for cattle - ever?
The US is just as protectionist as everyone else. That's the job of a country's government. It bullies everone to take it's own exports, but the US will throw up tarrifs when it comes to superior quality imports from other countires.
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He gave the phone 2.5 out of 5 for poor sound quality. So it makes poor phone calls. Therefore it fails as a phone. So why would I buy this as opposed to a gameboy?
If I'm going to buy a phone, make sure it makes phone calls!
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Hey! You're from Austrailia? Do you know Karen? She's a friend of mine, lives in Queensland.
Oh yea, get used to question like that from North Americans.
Scene 1: Narrator "This is the actor that got paid $20 Million to star in this really bad movie. The movie Cost $500 Million to make, and lost $100 Million at the box office."
Scene 2: (Cue pic of 3 people living in an alley, 2 adults, one 3 year old girl) Narrator: "This is the gaffer who worked on that movie. The studio cut him to save money on their next film. Now little Amy doesn't have a home..."
Once they realize this, the ?IAA won't be a legislated monopoly and will have to develop a workable business model.
I'm in the US, so we're all relatively screwed anyway.
I feel your pain man...
Some changes to your math:
$24.95 local phone
+$24.95 DSL service
-----------------
$49.90
True, but it could make for some fun on a weekend. Install MSNIM and a script to randomly send messages to people "Congratulations! You just won $1000.00..."
I wasn't talking the decoder, only the smartcard reader/programmer. As for the analogy;
I have several IBM thin clients that use smartcards containing a bootable BSD kernel to load an image from an AS/400. They are pretty much the same card that DirectTV uses. Reader/programmers are expensive, and if this reader/programmer were cheaper than one I already have, then I might pick one up and save myself some money.
Irrelevant that they could be used to reprogram DirectTV cards, that's not what I intended them to be used for. I'm just cashing in on a cheap deal for a tool I use quite a bit.
Now, if I got a cease and desist letter from DirectTV, I'd be rather unhappy about it. I bought it legally, I use it in a legal manner, piss off!
I don't care if things are 'advertised' as being illegal. If I buy a crowbar because someone says it can be used to break windows and steal cars, and I use it to tear down a wall I don't want in my house, is that illegal? Perhaps a used crowbar is more in my price range, or that crowbar costs less than one down at the hardware store. It doesn't matter how it's advertised, it matters how I use it. Note: I didn't say "how I intend to use it".
Liquor? I don't even like her!
You think wrong. If you didn't see the Southpark episode, you won't get it.
The technical term is "the brown noise". :-)
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The rain in Spain...Err...nevermind.
You can download it from here. But you may have to use this as a compiler.
Bullshit. Why has the US taken the softwood lumber dispute to the WTO 8 times in the last 10 years, and lost 8 times. Why has Canada been declared BSE (Mad Cow) free by the CDC, but the border is not expected to be open to imported beef till August? It only took 1 day to close it!
Could it be that US cattle ranchers are seeing the highest price for cattle - ever?
The US is just as protectionist as everyone else. That's the job of a country's government. It bullies everone to take it's own exports, but the US will throw up tarrifs when it comes to superior quality imports from other countires.
I think that's 'women'.
I don't think the robots are unionized...yet.
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If I'm going to buy a phone, make sure it makes phone calls!
The bigger the better. If your funding runs out due to excessive power and A/C bills, you can always live in it.
Nice, ignore the comments you asked for! Ssssssmart!
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