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My bullshit detector went off right where you said that it goes up even moreso if you are over 55 and have multiple credit cards.

Advantages of web based forums:

Any idiot can figure them out and navigate them pretty easily, whereas Usenet is more than a little intimidating to new users.

Google "liquidity" and you'll realize why having it is such an important thing. (and why gambling day traders provide it)

Just DONT accept the 4.2 update when the Wii asks if you would like to upgrade. Simple as that. Unlike the XBox 360 / PS3 they have no way to "force" you to take the update.

I call complete bullshit on this, even with $20,000 worth of merchandise, we are talking only $1300 with a 6.5% tax rate. you cant just pull someone over for buying merchandise in another state, especially since what youre SUPPOSED to do is just claim the merch on your state tax return.......what if you happened to like the sales staff better at a certain store?

More music sellers will be willing to provide music through such a system, making the available amount of music larger as a whole. (Kinda like how the vast majority of legitimate paying mobile application developers have flocked to the iphone, where the largest successful DRM implementation is)

I'm not saying I at all agree with this plan, i'm simply answering your question.

For the exact same reason Apple doesn't include a link to Crucial for people that buy MacBooks that want to buy RAM upgrades?

This is the kind of ignorance that leads to years of problems with backwards social policy, because it presumes that drug use isn't widespread throughout ALL social groups and classes. (read: If you knew the reality of the situation, every neighborhood would be "the druggie part of town")

"selection bias" ?

Then tell me, would you feel differently if people were simply bringing their already purchased consoles to him and he was making after-market modifications to them and simply charging a parts and labor fee? (Rather than reselling modded consoles)

The issue is that it is extremely easy to have a fatal overdose when using straight nicotine, as in consuming orally the equivalent of 30 cigarettes at once accidentally or not, will undoubtedly kill you. (cigarettes have about 2mg nicotine each, a fatal dose hovers around 60mg, this is not an issue when the drug is smoked, because it is impossible to ingest that much of the drug at once through smoking it)

From the wikipedia article on nicotine "The LD50 of nicotine is 50 mg/kg for rats and 3 mg/kg for mice. 40â"60 mg (0.5-1.0 mg/kg) can be a lethal dosage for adult humans.[37][38] Nicotine therefore has a high toxicity in comparison to many other alkaloids such as cocaine, which has an LD50 of 95.1 mg/kg when administered to mice. It is impossible however to overdose on nicotine through smoking alone (though a person can overdose on nicotine through a combination of nicotine patches, nicotine gum, and/or tobacco smoking at the same time.) [39][40] Spilling an extremely high concentration of nicotine onto the skin can result in intoxication or even death since nicotine readily passes into the bloodstream from dermal contact.[41]"

The greatest arcade sports game in history, this game is begging to be remade for xbox live, the simplistic game mechanics yet deep skill still holds up to this day.

After reading this post, I read the wikipedia article on New Balance and it absolutely sickened me how clearly astroturfed the article had been to make the average person skimming it think that they manufacture anything close to a majority of their products in the USA.

An example - New Balance is one of several shoe companies that makes some of their products in the United States. Co-op America states in the New Balance Responsible Shopper company information page that around one quarter of NB's shoes are made in the United States[2]. New Balance owns five factories in the United States: two in Massachusetts (Boston and Lawrence), and three in Maine (Norridgewock, Skowhegan, and Norway). [3] In 1994, New Balance manufactured 70% of its shoes in the United States.[4]

Is that REALLY the most recent numbers they could find? Or just the most recent ones that look favorable to investors?

When you design games completely open ended and based on the keyboard for RTS games, more often than not it becomes a game of who can master the controls, not who can actually master the game itself. (If you disagree, find me someone over the age of 40 that can play a clickfest game like starcraft well)

Whats your point? There has to be SOME barrier to entry. (and the $100 cost to produce iphone apps hasn't even come close to stopping the flood of garbage)