I have been to Brazil, and the last time I was there in 2007, I think a 4GB MP3 player sold for somewhere around the equivalent of $500US. Electronics especially were insanely expensive there. Cell phone and cameras were especially so. I was staying with a friend and her family in Americana - a low-middle income city west of São Paulo, and despite the low SES of the area, it seemed everyone was making payments on a nice phone and/or camera.
One thing about Brazil, almost anything you buy retail is sold on the monthly payment rather than price. Price is still displayed, but not as prominently as the monthly payment. It seemed like everyone lived on credit down there...
But, to your point, there were LOADS of counterfeit products available there at just about every vendor, and the quality wasn't bad.
I had no idea Bush W went to work as editor in chief of the WaPo after he left office...
1) Something relatively harmless poses a grave threat to the US. Check. 2) International Law doesn't apply to us. Check. 3) We'll invade another country to apprehend him. Check.
And by that, I mean that when the government offers a $5K rebate on something, whomever is selling that something raises the price by $5K. The consumer doesn't actually get that money. Whenever the government artificially increases the demand for something, the supply artificially shrinks and drives up the price by a corresponding amount.
This is why college costs $35-50K/year now - there's so much cheap government money to pay for it that natural market forces have made it all but impossible to afford except for either the very wealthy or the very poor who qualify for the government money.
Those of us stuck in the middle end up graduating with a "second mortgage."
You are the one inventing a liberal/conservative dichotomy here. I said nothing of conservatives, so any meaning you interpret from my post along those lines is pure fantasy in your own delusional mind. The only dichotomy I brought up was Liberals vs. Non-Liberals.
These cars make no economic sense because the cost adder for the hybrid/plugin drivetrain never pays for itself in saved fuel compared to a reasonably-priced econono-box like the Mazda3 or Ford Fiesta. Therefore, only wealthy liberals wishing to appear green to their snobby rich liberal social elitist friends will buy these.. It's easy when you don't work for your money and have no sense of value.
For pete's sake. We are supposedly living in a modern, civilized society. I should be able to decide the time and method of my departure without negative consequence to my family. Departing this Earth should be something a family can embrace together, accept, and grow from - not something that we're forced against our will to drag out until the last possible moment, causing irreparable emotional harm to the survivors.
"Nine natural foods to enhance libido" "Eight instant benefits of meditation" "Five major health benefits of flax seed" "Five Yogic cures for respiratory ailments"
Smaller lithography necessarily results in less write endurance. It's important to intelligently handle writing to SSDs, and that is not something that any operating system currently does. Until OSes and filesystems are written specifically to handle the write endurance and amplification problems, SSDs will not replace HDDs in applications requiring high reliability.
That said, they're awesome if you do an image backup every day and just want your machine to scream...
I'll always gravitate toward multiplayer games for both the social aspect and the higher level of difficulty that comes with dealing with a human opponent.
You know, I get really annoyed every time someone at my office brings in some old broken POS electronic device from the 80s and asks me to reverse engineer and fix it. I am sure designers get asked to do G-jobs all the time and that it gets similarly annoying.
It's wrong to use company resources for personal gain. It takes less than 5 minutes to tape a photo to a piece of paper and write your message with a sharpie.
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... but I think whomever came up with the idea needs to come up with a short version.
I have been to Brazil, and the last time I was there in 2007, I think a 4GB MP3 player sold for somewhere around the equivalent of $500US. Electronics especially were insanely expensive there. Cell phone and cameras were especially so. I was staying with a friend and her family in Americana - a low-middle income city west of São Paulo, and despite the low SES of the area, it seemed everyone was making payments on a nice phone and/or camera.
One thing about Brazil, almost anything you buy retail is sold on the monthly payment rather than price. Price is still displayed, but not as prominently as the monthly payment. It seemed like everyone lived on credit down there...
But, to your point, there were LOADS of counterfeit products available there at just about every vendor, and the quality wasn't bad.
I am sure the OP is talking about the Profit Nike and the Retailer are making on the shoes.
Wikipedia will not be credible unless/until the editors stop allowing/encouraging the obvious and rampant political bias in the articles.
I had no idea Bush W went to work as editor in chief of the WaPo after he left office...
1) Something relatively harmless poses a grave threat to the US. Check.
2) International Law doesn't apply to us. Check.
3) We'll invade another country to apprehend him. Check.
Yup.. that's it.
If the government didn't make taxes so goddamn complicated, nobody would need tax software in the first place.
How much did you make: _____
Multiply by X: _____
Pay this amount: _____
Done.
When did India and UAE become the same country?
That's what I get for sleeping in on Sunday...
They're certainly capable of detecting the sudden lack of garbage laying around to live off of...
There are many many schools that cost in that range.
And by that, I mean that when the government offers a $5K rebate on something, whomever is selling that something raises the price by $5K. The consumer doesn't actually get that money. Whenever the government artificially increases the demand for something, the supply artificially shrinks and drives up the price by a corresponding amount.
This is why college costs $35-50K/year now - there's so much cheap government money to pay for it that natural market forces have made it all but impossible to afford except for either the very wealthy or the very poor who qualify for the government money.
Those of us stuck in the middle end up graduating with a "second mortgage."
You are the one inventing a liberal/conservative dichotomy here. I said nothing of conservatives, so any meaning you interpret from my post along those lines is pure fantasy in your own delusional mind. The only dichotomy I brought up was Liberals vs. Non-Liberals.
These cars make no economic sense because the cost adder for the hybrid/plugin drivetrain never pays for itself in saved fuel compared to a reasonably-priced econono-box like the Mazda3 or Ford Fiesta. Therefore, only wealthy liberals wishing to appear green to their snobby rich liberal social elitist friends will buy these.. It's easy when you don't work for your money and have no sense of value.
No, it isn't.
If I were to leave my house and forget to close the front door, why would I bitch at someone for closing and locking it for me?
For pete's sake. We are supposedly living in a modern, civilized society. I should be able to decide the time and method of my departure without negative consequence to my family. Departing this Earth should be something a family can embrace together, accept, and grow from - not something that we're forced against our will to drag out until the last possible moment, causing irreparable emotional harm to the survivors.
There is no credible evidence that supports the hypothesis that humans are causing the alleged, theorized global warming.
Your illegal, unlicensed use of that trademark must be punished immediately!
I think you are confusing Radical Veganism with Animal Rights Whacktivism...
Ghostery blocks all that tracking crap...
How is it a leak if all of these pages are available publicly anyway?
Didn't you just answer your own question?
"Nine natural foods to enhance libido"
"Eight instant benefits of meditation"
"Five major health benefits of flax seed"
"Five Yogic cures for respiratory ailments"
Smaller lithography necessarily results in less write endurance. It's important to intelligently handle writing to SSDs, and that is not something that any operating system currently does. Until OSes and filesystems are written specifically to handle the write endurance and amplification problems, SSDs will not replace HDDs in applications requiring high reliability.
That said, they're awesome if you do an image backup every day and just want your machine to scream...
I'll always gravitate toward multiplayer games for both the social aspect and the higher level of difficulty that comes with dealing with a human opponent.
You know, I get really annoyed every time someone at my office brings in some old broken POS electronic device from the 80s and asks me to reverse engineer and fix it. I am sure designers get asked to do G-jobs all the time and that it gets similarly annoying.
It's wrong to use company resources for personal gain. It takes less than 5 minutes to tape a photo to a piece of paper and write your message with a sharpie.