Why do people put up with this? Some people might say I'm comparing apples to oranges, but Apples dont' cost 17,000 times more than oranges. There should be a class action suit over this.
Mmmmmmmm, I was a tad bit suspicious about the validity of your statement above, but further investigation suggests you may have a valid point.
In my local supermarket (Tesco, the UK retail equivalent of Satan), a Valencia orange was selling this evening at 32p per unit. A quick gander at the Apple store states that a bog standard 2.1 GHz MacBook is available for £699.00 (lowest spec of this particular range). Using elementary deduction, we can thus deduce that the correct orange:Apple ratio for all future benchmark tests is actually 2184:1.
With this in mind, we can deduce that Verizon is indeed ripping off the concumer in the aforementioned sad tale.
Mmmmm, you mention the America's Army game.
If those guys at NASA really were rocket scientists, they'd strike a deal with MS to rebrand Halo as their new MMO. It's a FPS, it is set in space AND it could be cheap/free- what better way to prepare the next generation of astronauts for a life in space?
This post should have been modded Funny rather than Insightful.
1) The only time they kicked the Romans butts was in the "Asterix and Obelix" Comics. Just to remind you, old time Gaul was where a certain Julius Caesar made his fame and fortune, thereafter becoming a nice little playground for the Romans for several centuries.
2) By the time Charlemagne appeared on the scene (mid-700s), the Western Roman Empire was long gone (as were the Romans themselves).
3) I think a certain guy with one good eye on a boat and a "Spanish ulcer" also played part in putting paid to Napoleon's territorial ambitions. Still, at least he got to see the Sphinx.
4) Held off the Germans in WW1? And what about the other members of the Alliance- where they mere observers? Just because the French were dumber than the British in wasting the lives of their nationals (despite Hague's best efforts), doesn't mean they held off the Germans on their own.
5) Held out against the Nazis while the BEF escaped? Yes, some French soldiers were there, just like some British soldiers were, but if you have anyone to thank for the miracle of that evacuation, it would be Goering and his ego.
In your last line, you say that "on continental Europe, only France stood against the Axis". Absolute tosh! Most countries had resistance networks, just like the French. As a matter of fact, some of them, like the partisans under Tito actually managed to do a decent job of fighting against the Germans.
Bleh!
So, Scientology, as a "religion" is allowed to maintain a copyright over its underlying dogma? Freaky!
That would be like saying that Scientology should be deemed a private source initiative where L.Ron Hubbard and family maintain the IP over the movement's ideas (much like they seem to benefit financially from that IP). By comparison, Judeo-Christianity-Islamism is largely an open source religious undertaking. This is since it was easy for anyone to contribute relevant parts to the religious kernel and its now forked innumerable times into different flavours of Mosesnix.
In what way is the Beeb providing a public service (as it should according to its original mandate) by offering Net based information that a private agency, be it Sky, Reuters or some blogger could just as easily offer?
All this equipment may be very pretty to look at, but where is the value for money and why should I be made to subsidize the costs incurred in providing BBC information to those users who are accessing it from outside of the UK?
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It seems that someone has taken the liberty of replying to the 419ers by leading them on until they go mad. Its quite a good way of treating these spammers with a taste of their own medicine.
The appropriate location is: http://www.geocities.com/scamjokepage/
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Why do people put up with this? Some people might say I'm comparing apples to oranges, but Apples dont' cost 17,000 times more than oranges. There should be a class action suit over this.
Mmmmmmmm, I was a tad bit suspicious about the validity of your statement above, but further investigation suggests you may have a valid point.
In my local supermarket (Tesco, the UK retail equivalent of Satan), a Valencia orange was selling this evening at 32p per unit. A quick gander at the Apple store states that a bog standard 2.1 GHz MacBook is available for £699.00 (lowest spec of this particular range). Using elementary deduction, we can thus deduce that the correct orange:Apple ratio for all future benchmark tests is actually 2184:1.
With this in mind, we can deduce that Verizon is indeed ripping off the concumer in the aforementioned sad tale.
Mmmmm, you mention the America's Army game. If those guys at NASA really were rocket scientists, they'd strike a deal with MS to rebrand Halo as their new MMO. It's a FPS, it is set in space AND it could be cheap/free- what better way to prepare the next generation of astronauts for a life in space?
that I didn't RTFA!
This post should have been modded Funny rather than Insightful. 1) The only time they kicked the Romans butts was in the "Asterix and Obelix" Comics. Just to remind you, old time Gaul was where a certain Julius Caesar made his fame and fortune, thereafter becoming a nice little playground for the Romans for several centuries. 2) By the time Charlemagne appeared on the scene (mid-700s), the Western Roman Empire was long gone (as were the Romans themselves). 3) I think a certain guy with one good eye on a boat and a "Spanish ulcer" also played part in putting paid to Napoleon's territorial ambitions. Still, at least he got to see the Sphinx. 4) Held off the Germans in WW1? And what about the other members of the Alliance- where they mere observers? Just because the French were dumber than the British in wasting the lives of their nationals (despite Hague's best efforts), doesn't mean they held off the Germans on their own. 5) Held out against the Nazis while the BEF escaped? Yes, some French soldiers were there, just like some British soldiers were, but if you have anyone to thank for the miracle of that evacuation, it would be Goering and his ego. In your last line, you say that "on continental Europe, only France stood against the Axis". Absolute tosh! Most countries had resistance networks, just like the French. As a matter of fact, some of them, like the partisans under Tito actually managed to do a decent job of fighting against the Germans. Bleh!
I know the feeling. It is almost as bad as finding that people cannot write in English, as in: "better THAN the alternative".
So, Scientology, as a "religion" is allowed to maintain a copyright over its underlying dogma? Freaky! That would be like saying that Scientology should be deemed a private source initiative where L.Ron Hubbard and family maintain the IP over the movement's ideas (much like they seem to benefit financially from that IP). By comparison, Judeo-Christianity-Islamism is largely an open source religious undertaking. This is since it was easy for anyone to contribute relevant parts to the religious kernel and its now forked innumerable times into different flavours of Mosesnix.
In what way is the Beeb providing a public service (as it should according to its original mandate) by offering Net based information that a private agency, be it Sky, Reuters or some blogger could just as easily offer? All this equipment may be very pretty to look at, but where is the value for money and why should I be made to subsidize the costs incurred in providing BBC information to those users who are accessing it from outside of the UK? [/rant]
Now that you mention it, yes. FWIW, Kim Basinger once demanded that her hair be shampooed solely in Evian.
http://www.anecdotage.com/index.php?aid=2051
It seems that someone has taken the liberty of replying to the 419ers by leading them on until they go mad. Its quite a good way of treating these spammers with a taste of their own medicine.
The appropriate location is: http://www.geocities.com/scamjokepage/