The razor blades are patentable. That's the reason that they add another strip of metal every few years. There is an older Gillette model called the Atra that has knock off blades available here in Canada because the patent has expired. However, the handles have not been manufactured in a long time. I've had the same one for over ten years and I expect it will last as long as blades are made.
There is a similar scam in the diabetic testing supplies business. They practically give away these little credit card sized blood glucose meters. In fact I have a small box of them because the tech changes every few years. I doubt if I spent more than hundred dollars on the whole lot.
The down side is that the daily cost of the little strips that go into the machine can cost up to four dollars a day.
1-I'm sure I'll be too old, but my son says he will be the first one to hang out on the coast of Baffin Island with a missile launcher.
2-It's ice FLOE, not flow.
3-The arctic is ANYTHING north of the arctic circle. Lots of land and water both.
4-In any case, the cold melted water will probably cause the gulf stream to either shift south or quit altogether. When that happens, everybody above the tropics will freeze their nuts off. If they have any.
1917 ish. Somebody in the Canadian Expeditionary Force to WWI figured out how to accurately direct counter artillery fire using two human ears, a telephone and some trigonometry. The Germans never did figure out why they couldn't fire more than a round or two before they got nailed.
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When I saw this I thought I had it made. 1.First post 2.Tinfoil hats 3.Profit Damn
The razor blades are patentable. That's the reason that they add another strip of metal every few years. There is an older Gillette model called the Atra that has knock off blades available here in Canada because the patent has expired. However, the handles have not been manufactured in a long time. I've had the same one for over ten years and I expect it will last as long as blades are made.
There is a similar scam in the diabetic testing supplies business. They practically give away these little credit card sized blood glucose meters. In fact I have a small box of them because the tech changes every few years. I doubt if I spent more than hundred dollars on the whole lot.
The down side is that the daily cost of the little strips that go into the machine can cost up to four dollars a day.
1-I'm sure I'll be too old, but my son says he will be the first one to hang out on the coast of Baffin Island with a missile launcher. 2-It's ice FLOE, not flow. 3-The arctic is ANYTHING north of the arctic circle. Lots of land and water both. 4-In any case, the cold melted water will probably cause the gulf stream to either shift south or quit altogether. When that happens, everybody above the tropics will freeze their nuts off. If they have any.
You know how lottery tickets are a tax on the statistically challenged? Just think of this as a tax on the rich idiots.
They're using cement to heat coffee?
How strange. This very same stuff is used as a green wood preservative. Maybe it could preserve brain cells too. Or not.
1917 ish. Somebody in the Canadian Expeditionary Force to WWI figured out how to accurately direct counter artillery fire using two human ears, a telephone and some trigonometry. The Germans never did figure out why they couldn't fire more than a round or two before they got nailed.