...the UK (who is well known to be the USA's bitch in recent years)...
*sigh* You all have it so backwards. The USA is the UK's muscle. What? you didn't notice what happened when the Americans put an Irish republican into office?
Production capacity is already there, but nobody wants to flood the market and drive prices down too fast. The scarcity is artificially created for exactly that reason. The same thing happens with RAM all the time. So somebody has to burn down a factory or two every once in a while to keep production down and prices "stable". That's how the system works. Abundance is an anathema.. a bad thing.. Just like with food, the speculation market does very poorly when people produce too much
If people are willing to pay it, then by definition the price is not too high.
Of course it is. We can't go around letting the top ten percent of the population set the price for the rest of us. And then there's all the skimming every time the product changes hands with all the middlemen. It's a total ripoff.
And I, too, remember big ol' 5.25in. 20 megabyte hard drives at 2000 dollars.
Lots... The prices will always be too high while people are willing to pay it, but the cost of production does not justify it. I have a very hard time believing all that monkey motion going on in a regular hard drive costs less to make.
Well, since you have no idea where I live, I'll simply leave you to your assumption that you do, and to all your other preconceptions that make you such a great authority on such things. Feel free to suffocate in your 'process'. Obviously your mind is made up
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...the UK (who is well known to be the USA's bitch in recent years)...
*sigh* You all have it so backwards. The USA is the UK's muscle. What? you didn't notice what happened when the Americans put an Irish republican into office?
...we are America's bitch...
Wag the dog...
...watch me light up this joint.
Yeah, well, make sure to pass it around...
Production capacity is already there, but nobody wants to flood the market and drive prices down too fast. The scarcity is artificially created for exactly that reason. The same thing happens with RAM all the time. So somebody has to burn down a factory or two every once in a while to keep production down and prices "stable". That's how the system works. Abundance is an anathema.. a bad thing.. Just like with food, the speculation market does very poorly when people produce too much
If people are willing to pay it, then by definition the price is not too high.
Of course it is. We can't go around letting the top ten percent of the population set the price for the rest of us. And then there's all the skimming every time the product changes hands with all the middlemen. It's a total ripoff.
And I, too, remember big ol' 5.25in. 20 megabyte hard drives at 2000 dollars.
How much cheaper does it have to be?
Lots... The prices will always be too high while people are willing to pay it, but the cost of production does not justify it. I have a very hard time believing all that monkey motion going on in a regular hard drive costs less to make.
Whaddya gonna do?
And senate hearings on sports...
So good to see their priorities are in order...
Meanwhile we're still at war... with ourselves, it seems
You're magnetic ink
Google kills Flight Search and ten other apps
...it doesn't record any user-identifiable information...
You actually believe that?
The entire system is built on piracy. Might makes right
If there wasn't Flash, there's be something else. We wouldn't be sitting around in the living room staring at the radio.
He said, "The sheriff is near"!
Third world war? We're still in the first...
"If you think this country's bad off now
Just wait 'til I get through with it"
Heh, you talk like a cop... simply appealing to authority. If you were a member of the politburo, you'd be talking them up too.
Here today, gone tomorrow..
Of course it's fake. You think any reasonable person would park so far away and schlep all the way back to the ship in those damn suits?
I was expecting to see the rovers up on blocks with the radio and wheels missing. And the Russian one all decked out...
So Aldrin goes back into the LM and the door accidentally locks behind him.
When Armstrong climbs up, he knocks on the door
Aldrin: Who is it?
Now I can see how my car does on the quarter mile
Well, since you have no idea where I live, I'll simply leave you to your assumption that you do, and to all your other preconceptions that make you such a great authority on such things. Feel free to suffocate in your 'process'. Obviously your mind is made up
Peace!
And internet shopping.. very important.. gotta be quick to click on those JC Penny's white sales
All that has nothing to do with anarchy which apparently you are letting the authoritarians define for you.
When! As in, when am I gonna learn to type??