I have a similar story about patio furniture. The store, a large national hardware chain, had the patio chairs for $24.99, tables were something like $150 with umbrella.
I went to the store, asked for some help, the guy helped me load 6 chairs and 1 table onto a cart. I went to pay and the helper guy left to...I don't know, just left.

The cashier scans and says, "That will be $26.74." (ie. $24.99 + 7% tax, the cost of one chair) Needless to say I was shocked. I asked her to scan again, so she did. "26.74"

A lady who was near the cashier then says, "What's the issue?" "He just asked me to rescan." The nametag on this new lady said, "Asst. Mgr."
So I say, "I have 6 chairs and one table set, can you scan once more?"

This Asst Mgr scans it and says, "Yeah, $26.74."

I put away my credit card, paid cash and got out of there...

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My girlfriend has an old pinball machine in her house. She also teach piano. One of her students parents was late to picking him up, and so she said he could play the pinball machine. He jumped the first time it made a noise. Scared him good :-) He complained that the ball wasn't moving (essentially) linear, and it wasn't predictable. Not like in a video game at all. It made noises as the ball rolls around, and each hit of the flipper wasn't the same. And it was loud with no volume control! He definitely loved it though and would have played all night if he could.

If they do this, Bing will forever be charged for news. Not only from Murdoch's site, but everyone else will want in on the money.

What happens when it's time to renew the contract? Highest bidder? Stay with Bing? Move to Google?

MS needs to be very careful. Short-term gain (if any) for long-term pain it seems to me.

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FTA, "Jails are a sort of lightweight virtualization technique available on the FreeBSD platform. They are like a chroot environment on steroids where not only the file system is isolated out but individual processes are confined to a virtual environment - like a virtual machine without the machine part."

Not knowing much about FreeBSD and it's complementary software, what is the difference between FreeBSD Jail and Solaris Zones?
A Solaris Zone could also be described the same way.

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While not our Prime Minister, gay MP and cabinet members are already in Canada.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_Brison
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Svend_Robinson

Just to add to your fears, we also have had a variety of faiths and disabled Members of Parliament.

http://www.muslimcanadiancongress.org/20040723.html

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