"To upgrade from 2x256 to 2x512, they charge 600$. They should be charging about 150$. When I purchased a DDR333 512MB SODIMM, I paid 144$."
Unless it's a true monopoly utillity company, you shouldn't be able to make a case for price fixing. It's all bullshit. The market does take care of these things. Like the parent said, Dell charged 200 dollars over retail for extra memory. This guy instead of buying the stupid Dell memory, he bought it from somewhere else. So what if some companies get together to charge more for thier ram, the smart company that doesn't do this makes out big time by selling a shit load of ram for a lot less.
Just like the CD's crap. When the CD companies charged too much for the cd's, you could have just not bought them. Know one was forcing you to get that Brittney Spears album for 24.95. You bought it cause it was worth buying.(at least in your view). Other people who didn't think it was worth it didn't buy it, maybe they bought something else.
You won't die if you don't get cheap ram. You won't die if you can't afford the latest music. Bottom line is that there is no way companies should get in trouble for raising prices on non-necessities. Especially when there are alternatives.
And if Kerry's centerpiece of his campain is that he is War Hero for doing a 4 month tour, then that is fair game and can be questioned also. Especially when that seems to be his only answer to any question.
I would agree. Both Kerry and Bush are surely not the same people they were 30 years ago. Lot's of politicians even completely switch parties in less time than that. So why bother with crap thats 30 years old.
BUT...
This is terrible. It's obvious that CBS doesn't do there homework before bashing Bush. This is more an issue with CBS bias than Bush or Kerry. You'd think a major News network would check to make sure that the documents were real before they went out to rehash an old story that was previously laid to rest about our President. I don't care if they did ask people about the memo or if the signature is real(photoshoped in maybe?) . These "new" memos are obvoiusly fake.
I'm not one to give into conspiracies about anything but this is screaming media conspiracy against Bush.
That's a good idea. I think other companies have tried that, but all the games were little stupid things like backgammon. If you could do it with real games, I'd probably sign up.
After your company made some money with this, then you could try to add a console to it, for people without pc's.
It's a shame that Moore doesn't try a un-bias documentary. I've seen Columbine and F9/11 and they are very entertaining movies. If he would just be fair and actually try to do a documentary without trying to push his agenda they would probably be very good movies.
Why he has to twist the truth and only show one side is beyond me. He could probably still make a case for his "media-is-just-trying-to-scare-you" and "the-war-is-only-to-keep-the-black-man-down" conspiracy theory's without making up newspaper headlines and and telling half truths.
Of course if he did that, he might just end up changing his own mind about things.
Actually the 9/11 commission did conclude that there were links to al-Qaeda (just not to the 9/11 attacks). And they did find that sarin gas bomb that had about a gallon of sarin gas.
" Why are most of the posts here negatively directed at the US? "
Because bashing the US is fashionable these days. Austrailia should have stood up and said they will take care of him with regards to their own laws, not US laws.
Could you imagine if Austrailia tried to extradite a US citizen like this? I would hope that my country would stand up for me and just put in US prison. (or let me be)
This makes the Austrailian government look like a bunch of pussies that don't care about thier citizens.
Conspiracy theorys asside, what could the reasons possibly be for having the arguments for the law in secret?
And the parent is right, who cares if you have to show your id? Searching and X-raying bags is a lot more intrusive that checking ID, should they stop doing that too? I still have to show my ID to buy cigerrettes and buy alchohol. Hell in PA they even make you sign for the alchohol sometimes.
Before all the terrorism hoopla I thought they just checked ID to make sure it was your ticket like the way they are supposed to check ID for an unsigned credit card. Even if the terrorist hijackers had proper ID, that was before. I think it may be reasonable to to think they would have a tougher time getting on the planes today.
"Even neglecting the entire cell phone issue, I don't understand WHY the FAA has not issued a requirement that ALL future aircraft use optical systems. "
Wouldn't that be expensive? The airlines seem to be having enough financial problems as it is.
Have a regulation like that would probably have the airlines not build new planes. A lot of companies just can't afford to build new refineries because the enviromental regulations make it to expensive. Now we have a bunch of refineries that are all using old technology. Even though newer refineries would polute less and be more efficiant (but not enough for new regulations) Same thing would happen with airplanes. in the year 2030, we would fly on plane from the year 2000 because the company couldn't afford to build a new plane that met regulations, even if the new planes were a lot better in other ways.
That doesn't even make sense. Bush is much closer to the Libertarianism on Taxes, Welfare, Social Security, Foriegn policies, and guns rights than Kerry.
I'm not trying to say he's perfect, he's a republican for a reason.
But while Kerry would raise taxes to fund more government(national health care). Bush cuts taxes. (Although he still grows the government.)
Kerry wants more money for the same social security system we have.(Despite greespan) Bush want's to have other alternatives.
Guns...Kerry no.. Bush yes.
Sure Bush could do more for privacy rights, the stupid war on drugs and stop giving out our money to poor contries, but Kerry would do all of that plus more.
If you're a Libertarian, voting for any democrat is stupid. (Unless you happen accross one that wants to cut government spending) It's like buying triple chocolate ice cream when you don't like chocolate.
It's like a green party member voting republican because he doesn't like a democrate.
That does not make sense.
I can think of reasons why a Libertarian wouldn't vote for Bush, but voting for Kerry is like voting for the Devil cause you don't like the little demon! It's like choosing the greater of two evils just because you don't like the lesser evil for some reason.
If Chewbacca lives on Endore..
Anyway, at least in principal the republicans are supposed to stand for smaller government and less government in our lives. The democrats come right out and say the opposite! They want more spending and more goverment.
If you don't like the republican vote Libertarian, not for the democrat.
Well I think that's a bunch of hippie crap. I sure as hell didn't plop down my 20k in tuition so I can get a variaty of view points. I did it to learn a trade so I could have a career and not just work at Fast food all my life.
I felt like most of the non major classes are a waste of time. If I really wanted to learn that I could buy a book.
Cursive, now that's something that they should stop teaching. Who actually writes in cursive anymore? The only thing I write out in cursive is when I sign my name on a check.
What the hell? Who decided that we needed another batman movie? It's already been beaten to death. Hollywood has got some balls puting another one out.
I don't have any faith in this one.
Batcar looks stupid. Stupid guy from Episode 1. Stupid guy from 5th element. Morgan Freeman wtf. Other wuss old guy wtf.
This is going to be just another Hollywood sell out movie, like I, Robot. I'm sure we'll see Batman, drinkin a Pepsi all pimpin in his batcar with his brand new Firestone Tires as the other guy is trying to explain midicolorians to Morgan Freeman (who is playing the smart old black man).
Here is a great example of the difference between a conservative and a liberal. The liberal views each person as a mouth to feed or a tax on the earth.
The conservative will view it as 6 more problem solvers. 6 more people to contribute and make things better for themselves and everyone else.
"The major problem with "free trade" is that it requires that all sides play fairly"
No it doesn't. When a country can do something cheaper or better than another country(for whatever reason) it will generally help the competing nations. When the US was importing a bunch of cheap steel the manufacturing industry grew. When the Korea's gave away cheap memory chips, Dell computers where able to lower thier prices and so computer sales grew. Maybe a few steal workers lost their jobs, but now they can go work for some manufacturer. Maybe a few memory chip makers lost their jobs but now they can go work for Dell. It all evens out.
"Simple as that. Make off-shoring and outsourcing economically unviable (tax the living hell out of it, for example) or simply make it illegal - or quite simply America is going to be totally and utterly fscked."
Except that when the company simply decides to outsource by simply moving the ENTIRE company off shore then you are really screwed. The real solution would be to find out why all the other countries are so good for outsourcing. I think you would find, unions, regulation and insurance to be at the root of the problem.
You left out the major video game marketing ploy. Man, that pissed me off.
What happend to Niobe's ship? Find out in Enter the Matrix, only $29.99 at your favorite video game store.
What did the Oricale say to Niobe? Find out in Enter the Matrix, only $29.99 at your favorite video game store.
They may as well had Niobe give Morphous a copy of the game and say, "Play this game, Morphous, and all your questions will be answered."
Quote from Amazon.com : "Game script written and directed by the Wachowski Brothers' as an integral part of the entire Matrix experience--the movie is incomplete without the game, and the game is incomplete without the movie"
Not to mention the fact that it wasn't stolen. They lost it in a war, which was started by them! What would you do?
bottom line is that people need to R-E-L-A-X.
Well that's what I would do. If I had a customer that wanted me to write a program, why would I reinvent the wheel for a costomer that wanted the same thing?
I guess my outsourced software better not be me primary business. The outsourced software better be software that I don't care if everyone sees, or I better not be selling software as my primary business.
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"To upgrade from 2x256 to 2x512, they charge 600$. They should be charging about 150$. When I purchased a DDR333 512MB SODIMM, I paid 144$."
Unless it's a true monopoly utillity company, you shouldn't be able to make a case for price fixing. It's all bullshit. The market does take care of these things. Like the parent said, Dell charged 200 dollars over retail for extra memory. This guy instead of buying the stupid Dell memory, he bought it from somewhere else. So what if some companies get together to charge more for thier ram, the smart company that doesn't do this makes out big time by selling a shit load of ram for a lot less.
Just like the CD's crap. When the CD companies charged too much for the cd's, you could have just not bought them. Know one was forcing you to get that Brittney Spears album for 24.95. You bought it cause it was worth buying.(at least in your view). Other people who didn't think it was worth it didn't buy it, maybe they bought something else.
You won't die if you don't get cheap ram. You won't die if you can't afford the latest music. Bottom line is that there is no way companies should get in trouble for raising prices on non-necessities. Especially when there are alternatives.
"It seems to include eveything except some device drivers."
So like linux it will work great if you could only find the drivers for your printer.
And if Kerry's centerpiece of his campain is that he is War Hero for doing a 4 month tour, then that is fair game and can be questioned also. Especially when that seems to be his only answer to any question.
I would agree. Both Kerry and Bush are surely not the same people they were 30 years ago. Lot's of politicians even completely switch parties in less time than that. So why bother with crap thats 30 years old.
BUT...
This is terrible. It's obvious that CBS doesn't do there homework before bashing Bush. This is more an issue with CBS bias than Bush or Kerry. You'd think a major News network would check to make sure that the documents were real before they went out to rehash an old story that was previously laid to rest about our President. I don't care if they did ask people about the memo or if the signature is real(photoshoped in maybe?) . These "new" memos are obvoiusly fake.
I'm not one to give into conspiracies about anything but this is screaming media conspiracy against Bush.
I don't understand how you can jab Drudge when he didn't even say anything about it. All he did was post a link to news sites!
That's a good idea. I think other companies have tried that, but all the games were little stupid things like backgammon. If you could do it with real games, I'd probably sign up.
After your company made some money with this, then you could try to add a console to it, for people without pc's.
It's a shame that Moore doesn't try a un-bias documentary. I've seen Columbine and F9/11 and they are very entertaining movies. If he would just be fair and actually try to do a documentary without trying to push his agenda they would probably be very good movies.
Why he has to twist the truth and only show one side is beyond me. He could probably still make a case for his "media-is-just-trying-to-scare-you" and "the-war-is-only-to-keep-the-black-man-down" conspiracy theory's without making up newspaper headlines and and telling half truths.
Of course if he did that, he might just end up changing his own mind about things.
"no links found to al-Qaeda and no WMDs"
Actually the 9/11 commission did conclude that there were links to al-Qaeda (just not to the 9/11 attacks). And they did find that sarin gas bomb that had about a gallon of sarin gas.
" Why are most of the posts here negatively directed at the US? "
Because bashing the US is fashionable these days. Austrailia should have stood up and said they will take care of him with regards to their own laws, not US laws.
Could you imagine if Austrailia tried to extradite a US citizen like this? I would hope that my country would stand up for me and just put in US prison. (or let me be)
This makes the Austrailian government look like a bunch of pussies that don't care about thier citizens.
Conspiracy theorys asside, what could the reasons possibly be for having the arguments for the law in secret?
And the parent is right, who cares if you have to show your id? Searching and X-raying bags is a lot more intrusive that checking ID, should they stop doing that too? I still have to show my ID to buy cigerrettes and buy alchohol. Hell in PA they even make you sign for the alchohol sometimes.
Before all the terrorism hoopla I thought they just checked ID to make sure it was your ticket like the way they are supposed to check ID for an unsigned credit card. Even if the terrorist hijackers had proper ID, that was before. I think it may be reasonable to to think they would have a tougher time getting on the planes today.
"Even neglecting the entire cell phone issue, I don't understand WHY the FAA has not issued a requirement that ALL future aircraft use optical systems. "
Wouldn't that be expensive? The airlines seem to be having enough financial problems as it is.
Have a regulation like that would probably have the airlines not build new planes. A lot of companies just can't afford to build new refineries because the enviromental regulations make it to expensive. Now we have a bunch of refineries that are all using old technology. Even though newer refineries would polute less and be more efficiant (but not enough for new regulations)
Same thing would happen with airplanes. in the year 2030, we would fly on plane from the year 2000 because the company couldn't afford to build a new plane that met regulations, even if the new planes were a lot better in other ways.
cus anime is teh suck
That doesn't even make sense. Bush is much closer to the Libertarianism on Taxes, Welfare, Social Security, Foriegn policies, and guns rights than Kerry.
I'm not trying to say he's perfect, he's a republican for a reason.
But while Kerry would raise taxes to fund more government(national health care). Bush cuts taxes. (Although he still grows the government.)
Kerry wants more money for the same social security system we have.(Despite greespan) Bush want's to have other alternatives.
Guns...Kerry no.. Bush yes.
Sure Bush could do more for privacy rights, the stupid war on drugs and stop giving out our money to poor contries, but Kerry would do all of that plus more.
If you're a Libertarian, voting for any democrat is stupid. (Unless you happen accross one that wants to cut government spending) It's like buying triple chocolate ice cream when you don't like chocolate.
It's like a green party member voting republican because he doesn't like a democrate.
That does not make sense.
I can think of reasons why a Libertarian wouldn't vote for Bush, but voting for Kerry is like voting for the Devil cause you don't like the little demon! It's like choosing the greater of two evils just because you don't like the lesser evil for some reason.
If Chewbacca lives on Endore..
Anyway, at least in principal the republicans are supposed to stand for smaller government and less government in our lives. The democrats come right out and say the opposite! They want more spending and more goverment.
If you don't like the republican vote Libertarian, not for the democrat.
Well I think that's a bunch of hippie crap. I sure as hell didn't plop down my 20k in tuition so I can get a variaty of view points. I did it to learn a trade so I could have a career and not just work at Fast food all my life.
I felt like most of the non major classes are a waste of time. If I really wanted to learn that I could buy a book.
Cursive, now that's something that they should stop teaching. Who actually writes in cursive anymore? The only thing I write out in cursive is when I sign my name on a check.
I agree.
We are current migrating away from ms sql server. Since a lot of our app is written in Stored Procedures, a lot of the app has to be re written.
It's definately a mistake to put everything to stored procedures. Especially if you want to keep your app somewhat database independant.
What the hell? Who decided that we needed another batman movie? It's already been beaten to death. Hollywood has got some balls puting another one out.
I don't have any faith in this one.
Batcar looks stupid.
Stupid guy from Episode 1.
Stupid guy from 5th element.
Morgan Freeman wtf.
Other wuss old guy wtf.
This is going to be just another Hollywood sell out movie, like I, Robot. I'm sure we'll see Batman, drinkin a Pepsi all pimpin in his batcar with his brand new Firestone Tires as the other guy is trying to explain midicolorians to Morgan Freeman (who is playing the smart old black man).
Booo...
Here is a great example of the difference between a conservative and a liberal. The liberal views each person as a mouth to feed or a tax on the earth.
The conservative will view it as 6 more problem solvers. 6 more people to contribute and make things better for themselves and everyone else.
"The major problem with "free trade" is that it requires that all sides play fairly" No it doesn't. When a country can do something cheaper or better than another country(for whatever reason) it will generally help the competing nations. When the US was importing a bunch of cheap steel the manufacturing industry grew. When the Korea's gave away cheap memory chips, Dell computers where able to lower thier prices and so computer sales grew. Maybe a few steal workers lost their jobs, but now they can go work for some manufacturer. Maybe a few memory chip makers lost their jobs but now they can go work for Dell. It all evens out.
"Simple as that. Make off-shoring and outsourcing economically unviable (tax the living hell out of it, for example) or simply make it illegal - or quite simply America is going to be totally and utterly fscked."
Except that when the company simply decides to outsource by simply moving the ENTIRE company off shore then you are really screwed. The real solution would be to find out why all the other countries are so good for outsourcing. I think you would find, unions, regulation and insurance to be at the root of the problem.
You left out the major video game marketing ploy. Man, that pissed me off.
What happend to Niobe's ship? Find out in Enter the Matrix, only $29.99 at your favorite video game store.
What did the Oricale say to Niobe? Find out in Enter the Matrix, only $29.99 at your favorite video game store.
They may as well had Niobe give Morphous a copy of the game and say, "Play this game, Morphous, and all your questions will be answered."
Quote from Amazon.com : "Game script written and directed by the Wachowski Brothers' as an integral part of the entire Matrix experience--the movie is incomplete without the game, and the game is incomplete without the movie"
Bastards....
Not to mention the fact that it wasn't stolen. They lost it in a war, which was started by them! What would you do? bottom line is that people need to R-E-L-A-X.
Well that's what I would do. If I had a customer that wanted me to write a program, why would I reinvent the wheel for a costomer that wanted the same thing?
I guess my outsourced software better not be me primary business. The outsourced software better be software that I don't care if everyone sees, or I better not be selling software as my primary business.