Or perhaps Windows Pinto. Same kind of late '70's, clunky design, bad color pallet choices. I mean, it's bound to explode in the ass-end eventually, right?
Is there a comprehensive list of problems that regulation has "solved? Can you also include a complete list of the problems it has caused, so we can decide for ourselves if the cost is worth it?
Hereyago. "About 4,740,000 results". That work for ya', Sparky?
...but PCMag could say you had 30,000 great features and if every last one of them was ugly, unremarkable and tied to your stupid, memory-leaking kernel I'd still have to pass for the luxury of my boring, little green cli.
...is it any of the state or government's business whether or not I accept or decline their offer of help? "Thank you, yes" or "thank you, no" should be enough.
You're only welcome in my house if I invite you in. Short of that, you're an interloper.
Umm... Not to burst your conservative bubble or anything, but if that were true, wouldn't Amazon also be folding like a card table with one leg? I do believe they operate in the same economic free-trade market as every other retailer in the country.
Perhaps you should wield your wrath at shareholders who demand constant profits over customer satisfaction and return patronage.
See, the problem we have here is commun-ah-kayshun.
I'll back you up on that. I got my Supernova there for just over $150 which was, when counting the shipping/handling I'd have had to pay online, a much better deal in my estimation. Granted, they were prolly just trying to unload post-xmas stock, but lots of time BB has cool stuff like that.
And you know what? Now that I've rooted it, gotten rid of most of the B&N crud and installed my own personalized start-up screen (thank you Gimp), it's a pretty bad-ass little tablet! Thanks Best Buy:)
(Now if I can just figure out how to jink the firmware and install CyanogenMod...)
Is that big box stores have just forgotten how to be profitable. WalMart is a prime example of this: in their never-ending spiral of death to please those 5 greedy children of Sam's (and to a greater degree the shareholders of other such venues - ie, Sears, Kmart, et al) they've forgotten to put choice and quality in volume on par if not above the constant profit gain motive. Sam never did that - he knew if he could find it cheap enough and buy in bulk, he could pass those savings on to the average Joe and still make a handy profit in volume. He was also mighty keen on buying stuff made in the good ol' USofA. A good conservative if ever there was one.
Not so any longer. Go to a WallyWorld looking for something as innocuous as a stereo splitter cable and if you're lucky you'll get your choice of 1, and that at 300% over what you could find it for online. ShowCaseMuch? Yeah. But then meander over to the iPod accessories aisle and - looky golly gee! 223 different colors of earbuds from three manufacturers (low, middling and pricey)! Wow, that's helpful. Why don't I want an iPod/iPhone/iPad? Because every retailer in America is trying to shove one down my throat!
At least online, we have variety at reasonable prices. Too bad the big boxers have forgotten that.
On the bright side: look for your local small business to get a bump in sales when they're gone!
Later, Sony. I, for one, will be dropping your future platforms as a source of entertainment. I have truly enjoyed my PS3, PS2 and yes, even my venerated and much-wobbly PS/One. But attempting to control a free-trade aftermarket by locking users into your wonky website as the sole provider of goods is right out. What do we do with those shiny new units when you decide to upgrade your hardware again - toss them in a landfill? Try to make end-tables out of them? I think this is where I get off the planned obsolescence bandwagon. Bye now.
The question here, of course, is whether or not a human being owns their own body.
The answer to which is (equally as obvious): No.
You do not own your body, the State does. And it can do whatever it damned-well pleases with it, when it pleases, and how. Should you fail to recognize this in the course of your dealings with the State, I'm sure they can show you just how incredibly wrong you are.
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MS Edsel.
Or perhaps Windows Pinto . Same kind of late '70's, clunky design, bad color pallet choices. I mean, it's bound to explode in the ass-end eventually, right?
Proprietary Bullshit.
Ever, never - rely on "cloud" computing based on an ethereal internet.
EVER.
Is there a comprehensive list of problems that regulation has "solved? Can you also include a complete list of the problems it has caused, so we can decide for ourselves if the cost is worth it?
Hereyago. "About 4,740,000 results". That work for ya', Sparky?
Deregulate!
...If you enjoy watching humanity become a writhing mass of bottom-feeders!!!
...but PCMag could say you had 30,000 great features and if every last one of them was ugly, unremarkable and tied to your stupid, memory-leaking kernel I'd still have to pass for the luxury of my boring, little green cli.
...Walkie Talkie.
"SQUIRREL!"
...Is trolling the new news?
...The FDA pulls their head out of Monsanto's ass first before they ask for any more money to goof with technologies they clearly don't understand.
...but Muddy Waters invented 'lectricity.
...is it any of the state or government's business whether or not I accept or decline their offer of help? "Thank you, yes" or "thank you, no" should be enough.
You're only welcome in my house if I invite you in. Short of that, you're an interloper.
Do you have a freaking spine?
Gross.
Could we just get to work on our new internet now?
...the amount of astroturf about this today makes me feel like the internet just turned into Edward Jones Dome.
In other news: (plugs NL900 into Windows computer, presses 'synch', BSOD on both devices). Dammit... Got me again...
...Welcome to 'Merica, where to err on the side of any extreme is a good thing.
And common sense is ignored.
I call Trollfat on this article.
Umm... Not to burst your conservative bubble or anything, but if that were true, wouldn't Amazon also be folding like a card table with one leg? I do believe they operate in the same economic free-trade market as every other retailer in the country.
Perhaps you should wield your wrath at shareholders who demand constant profits over customer satisfaction and return patronage.
See, the problem we have here is commun-ah-kayshun.
I'll back you up on that. I got my Supernova there for just over $150 which was, when counting the shipping/handling I'd have had to pay online, a much better deal in my estimation. Granted, they were prolly just trying to unload post-xmas stock, but lots of time BB has cool stuff like that.
And you know what? Now that I've rooted it, gotten rid of most of the B&N crud and installed my own personalized start-up screen (thank you Gimp), it's a pretty bad-ass little tablet! Thanks Best Buy:)
(Now if I can just figure out how to jink the firmware and install CyanogenMod...)
Is that big box stores have just forgotten how to be profitable. WalMart is a prime example of this: in their never-ending spiral of death to please those 5 greedy children of Sam's (and to a greater degree the shareholders of other such venues - ie, Sears, Kmart, et al) they've forgotten to put choice and quality in volume on par if not above the constant profit gain motive. Sam never did that - he knew if he could find it cheap enough and buy in bulk, he could pass those savings on to the average Joe and still make a handy profit in volume. He was also mighty keen on buying stuff made in the good ol' USofA. A good conservative if ever there was one.
Not so any longer. Go to a WallyWorld looking for something as innocuous as a stereo splitter cable and if you're lucky you'll get your choice of 1, and that at 300% over what you could find it for online. ShowCaseMuch? Yeah. But then meander over to the iPod accessories aisle and - looky golly gee! 223 different colors of earbuds from three manufacturers (low, middling and pricey)! Wow, that's helpful. Why don't I want an iPod/iPhone/iPad? Because every retailer in America is trying to shove one down my throat!
At least online, we have variety at reasonable prices. Too bad the big boxers have forgotten that.
On the bright side: look for your local small business to get a bump in sales when they're gone!
And y'know - if you SHOUT LOUD ENOUGH maybe someone in JAPAN WILL HEAR US!
Later, Sony. I, for one, will be dropping your future platforms as a source of entertainment. I have truly enjoyed my PS3, PS2 and yes, even my venerated and much-wobbly PS/One. But attempting to control a free-trade aftermarket by locking users into your wonky website as the sole provider of goods is right out. What do we do with those shiny new units when you decide to upgrade your hardware again - toss them in a landfill? Try to make end-tables out of them? I think this is where I get off the planned obsolescence bandwagon. Bye now.
As for Micro$oft: pfffft.
The question here, of course, is whether or not a human being owns their own body.
The answer to which is (equally as obvious): No.
You do not own your body, the State does. And it can do whatever it damned-well pleases with it, when it pleases, and how. Should you fail to recognize this in the course of your dealings with the State, I'm sure they can show you just how incredibly wrong you are.
Examples? See the whole of the internet.
Thank you Con Agra & Monsanto for manhandling state regulated school lunch programs: F*CKERS.