Companies that mass-produce computers usually operate on a razor-thin profit margin.
That's a valid point.
If money is no object and you're willing to pay extra for something that you might never see like a heatsink as a casual computer consumer, then you are purchasing a luxury item.
Please! His points were accurate. If you are HP or Gateway or Dell, then that statement is wholely true. The differences are trivial and end-cost is a hugely important factor. This is not flamebait, merely a statement of why purchasing apple is a status symbol!
I'm at my wit's end... a few months ago, in a matrix discussion here there was a link posted to a very old (Commodore 64?) computer game which was pegged as having a hideously similar premise.
ie. you play a character who discovers that he's in a computer game.
Anyone know WTF I'm talking about? I've been searching for it to no avail tonight.
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Have you ever heard the expression "buyer beware?" She alone is responsible for her own actions. "Ignorance" is not a defence in the eyes of the law.
Somehow, however, I don't think you're here to discuss corn. You have a political anti-government message to push.
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No, but you can filet them and eat their... meat. Say it with me: MEAT! MEAT MEAT MEAT MEAT! MEEEAAAT!
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Why would this make me want to boycott corn? Why is it that because it happened in Mexico, you think she is outside of the law?
Whether YOU think it is fair or not, when she bought the corn she did it under a contract. She broke that contract, and was dealt with in the manner that the law allows.
Your "prior art" argument is flawed. Unfortunately traditional strains of corn have been around at least as long as steamboat willie, and would fall into the public domain.
You're absolutely right: the problem is distribution. Unfortunately, evil corporations are not to blame. Whiny, ill-informed europeans are at fault. Thanks to their irrational and ill-formed opinions on GM food, millions of tons of corn that the US donated to africa were turned away a few years ago, for fear of contaminating native strains. Millions of people continue to starve to death.
A frenchman will eat a piece of unpasteurized cheese that's crawling with cooties; a japanese person will gamble their life eating possibly deadly fugu; these people are experts on food safety? Fuck that.
Bah, the solution is obvious. The casinos just need to start using subatomic particles as Roulette balls, so that you would have to build a Heisenberg Compensator to cheat like this.
Last episode of ST:TNG, the one where picard was alternately prescient/bizarre/senile. I believe it was called "All Good Things." I'm sure there is an after-the-fact explanation ala "the Kessel run," but it was said, never-the-less....
Let's assume for a moment here that I'm not Buckaroo Banzai and I'm a little bit vague on what the upper limit has been for manned flight (or travel in any medium, salt-plain automobiles or whatever). "Mach seven" really doesn't sound all that impressive. THIS IS 2004! We should be on mach ten-hundred by now.
For Christ's-sake, in that episode of ST:TNG where Riker had salt-and-peper hair and he didn't play trombone, I clearly heard him say: "WARP THIRTEEN! ENGAGE!" What the hell mach was Tom Cruise going before he entered into coitus with that blonde? What is the top theoretical speed of the current US fighter/and or/stealth aircraft?
What are the records here, that my tax-dollars are allegedly breaking?
Don't mod this retarded shit up, this is the uninformed wanting to become informed.
The New Mexico Office of Space Commercialization was created in 1994 by legislation to coordinate the promotion and marketing of New Mexico's space-related resources and to develop and operate a regional Spaceport in New Mexico.
Just reading the word "Spaceport" outside of a Heinlein novel is nearly enough to bring a tear to my eye. The saddest part of all of this is that they have to offer a prize to get anyone to try this... I keep hoping for news of mineral resources somewhere in the solar system, that would make space travel profitable. There has to be a way to make money off of outer space, but what is it?
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Two words:
Space herpes.
All of your links are broken.
fuck you there is a custom heat sink
pee-are-zero-enn
duh get with it
its what all the cool kids call pornography these days
porn is so pre intarweb
Yeah, and the GIMP is $500 for personal use.
Riiiight.
I beat Jesus.
The boss is hard.
The best part of those CRT + computer iMacs is how if you want to open it up to fix something, you can melt off an appendage on one of the capacitors.
I don't need any fingers, I have an adorable computer which I have named "bubbles!"
Companies that mass-produce computers usually operate on a razor-thin profit margin.
That's a valid point.
If money is no object and you're willing to pay extra for something that you might never see like a heatsink as a casual computer consumer, then you are purchasing a luxury item.
Please! His points were accurate. If you are HP or Gateway or Dell, then that statement is wholely true. The differences are trivial and end-cost is a hugely important factor. This is not flamebait, merely a statement of why purchasing apple is a status symbol!
I'm at my wit's end ... a few months ago, in a matrix discussion here there was a link posted to a very old (Commodore 64?) computer game which was pegged as having a hideously similar premise.
ie. you play a character who discovers that he's in a computer game.
Anyone know WTF I'm talking about? I've been searching for it to no avail tonight.
Have you ever heard the expression "buyer beware?" She alone is responsible for her own actions. "Ignorance" is not a defence in the eyes of the law.
Somehow, however, I don't think you're here to discuss corn. You have a political anti-government message to push.
No, but you can filet them and eat their ... meat. Say it with me: MEAT! MEAT MEAT MEAT MEAT! MEEEAAAT!
meat
Why would this make me want to boycott corn? Why is it that because it happened in Mexico, you think she is outside of the law?
Whether YOU think it is fair or not, when she bought the corn she did it under a contract. She broke that contract, and was dealt with in the manner that the law allows.
Your "prior art" argument is flawed. Unfortunately traditional strains of corn have been around at least as long as steamboat willie, and would fall into the public domain.
You're absolutely right: the problem is distribution. Unfortunately, evil corporations are not to blame. Whiny, ill-informed europeans are at fault. Thanks to their irrational and ill-formed opinions on GM food, millions of tons of corn that the US donated to africa were turned away a few years ago, for fear of contaminating native strains. Millions of people continue to starve to death.
A frenchman will eat a piece of unpasteurized cheese that's crawling with cooties; a japanese person will gamble their life eating possibly deadly fugu; these people are experts on food safety? Fuck that.
...also dude, "chinaman" is not the preferred nomenclature. Asian american, please.
Check out Opportunity's LiveJournal. It's good for a chuckle or two :)
Yet the insurgents don't stop, obviously, and the killing breeds ever more hatred against you Americans.
Yeah, just like in that book, where the DESERT POWER nomads were willing to sacrifice themselves against the evil Sardaukar terror troops!
Except that the lines in this situation are a little less black-and-white than your oversimplified spin of things would imply. Get a grip.
I'm sorry, but this "blood for oil" raving is clearly bullshit. Gas is nearly $2.00 a gallon right now in my area.
Bah, the solution is obvious. The casinos just need to start using subatomic particles as Roulette balls, so that you would have to build a Heisenberg Compensator to cheat like this.
mesh transmission barrier
Like a Faraday Cage? That's quite clever, if it would work. I'm no electrical engineer, though.
According to this paper, land mines are as little as $3.
Last episode of ST:TNG, the one where picard was alternately prescient/bizarre/senile. I believe it was called "All Good Things." I'm sure there is an after-the-fact explanation ala "the Kessel run," but it was said, never-the-less. ...
Let's assume for a moment here that I'm not Buckaroo Banzai and I'm a little bit vague on what the upper limit has been for manned flight (or travel in any medium, salt-plain automobiles or whatever). "Mach seven" really doesn't sound all that impressive. THIS IS 2004! We should be on mach ten-hundred by now.
For Christ's-sake, in that episode of ST:TNG where Riker had salt-and-peper hair and he didn't play trombone, I clearly heard him say: "WARP THIRTEEN! ENGAGE!" What the hell mach was Tom Cruise going before he entered into coitus with that blonde? What is the top theoretical speed of the current US fighter/and or/stealth aircraft?
What are the records here, that my tax-dollars are allegedly breaking?
Don't mod this retarded shit up, this is the uninformed wanting to become informed.
Yes, I've heard the gold argument before. I was thinking of something a little more outlandish, like technetium, or bucky-balls.
The New Mexico Office of Space Commercialization was created in 1994 by legislation to coordinate the promotion and marketing of New Mexico's space-related resources and to develop and operate a regional Spaceport in New Mexico.
Just reading the word "Spaceport" outside of a Heinlein novel is nearly enough to bring a tear to my eye. The saddest part of all of this is that they have to offer a prize to get anyone to try this... I keep hoping for news of mineral resources somewhere in the solar system, that would make space travel profitable. There has to be a way to make money off of outer space, but what is it?
Bah. The new sexual vampire fish are way cooler.