Cars are a different game. They are not stolen to be sold as a whole unit. They are stripped down and sold in pieces. The most stolen cars and pieces are the ones that still have the most on the road that need the most repair parts or ones that the repair parts are very expensive. The 1989 Toyota Camry was still one of the most stolen in 2012. It's not like they are collector items or a status symbol that people must have. I don't think people are stripping down an iPhone and selling off the parts.

I have never had an issue using fake information on those shopping member cards. I imagine trying to use fake info for air travel would be frowned upon.

I wasn't done.

A major factor here is when a child is killed with a gun in a school, it is instantly world wide news and people grab their pitch forks. When a child is killed by a falling TV, it may get a few seconds in the local news or in a community paper and not many people outside of the family ever hears about it. Both are equally tragic, both are equally as dangerous. People know about guns, barely anyone even thinks about a TV falling. People need to think about these dangers. Don't just jump on the ones that make the national news.

Last year 29 kids were killed by falling TVs in their house and on average 18,000 people are inured every year from them. This is just what was reported and documented. Before people start jumping on the bandwagon that guns kill when these horrible tragedies pop up, remember.... there are many other common things that can happen in and around your house that are statistically just as dangerous as guns to children.

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2012/12/12/falling-tvs-children-deaths/1764539/

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Let's assume Joe sees me making $500 profit and he goes to western PA and does the same thing. Now there are 20 of them, not as many people want to pay $1000 so we lower out price to $800. Jim wants in on the deal, he brings some in and now we are selling them for $650. Home depot gets wind of this, loads up a truck load of them from Arkansas and sells them for $625. They wouldn't make money selling them at $500 for the trip. At $625, they are willing to give it a try. In the end EVERYONE wins. Obviously there some more details here but there has to be an incentive for businesses and regular Joes to bring in the supplies. Without that incentive, no one gets anything. The answer? Take some personal responsibility and do some basic preparing for a disaster yourself when the prices are low. If everyone did that, there would be less shortages and panics and those that got completely wiped out and lost everything can be helped first.

Assume I live in western PA where generators and gas are plentiful. I load 10 of them in my truck, fill them up with gas and drive to NJ and try to sell them. What if I want $1000 a piece for them even though I only paid $500 for them. What if I live in NJ and made a round trip to western PA instead to get them. Am I gouging or am I helping someone out? What if I try to sell them for $2000? If I get arrested for selling them for anything over $500, where is my incentive to attempt to bring supplies in?

Is selling an iPhone lightning cable for double the price on CL considered illegal and gouging? Where is that line? Do these people need gas to survive this disaster? I don't think so.

I don't think televisions were a bubble, I think the switch over from CRT is done and lcd and plasma televisions are generally now just plain old commodity items. The industry tried keeping the prices higher by adding small incemental tweaks to the line up and exracting more money with higher end units by adding internet functionality and applications, wireless, changing from florescent to LED, DLNA, slightly thinner, 3D, 120hz, 240hz. All the while adding features but the overall prices were still about the same. Now, what's left to maintain the premium price and to keep people looking for something better, what specific features seperates one brand from the other now? They are all "good enough" and cheap enough for the average person. The premium is gone.

Nice try. Facetime is an app, Google chat is an app. Either one when a contact is clicked will allow you to start up a video chat. In fact, with various Goolge apps on a comuter or a phone, you can click on a contact name basically anywhere and start a video chat right from there, inside your contacts, inside your SMS, from your phone call history, from inside Goolge lattitude, your contacts and so on. Have you ever actually used a video chat on an andriod phone? I don't think so if you are claiming Facetime is unique in that it is easy to use by anyone. Starting a video chat with Goolge is as easy as making a phone call or browsing your contacts. Hell, I can give a voice command from the home page on the phone and start one.

When I travel, I leave my stuff out everywhere similar to what I do at home, throw loose bills and change on the table, laptop sitting out possible still plugged in and on. I average about 30 nights a year in a hotel room and I've never had a problem with anything mising that I've noticed. When my room is cleaned, all of my stuff is still in the same exact place or its moved into one neat pile instead of many scattered piles. It only takes one corrupt person though but its not like the one time you forget to grab your wallet or leave your smartphone out it is going to disappear.

If they truely can not fix these locks without physically replacing them, I can garentee any prior contact with them about this bug would have resulted in every legal and possible assumed legal resposnse they could think of to prevent him from disclosing the information.
The end result would be no disclosure and everyone that stays in one of these hotel rooms is at risk. At least if the information is public, people can take action to protect themselves and their stuff by using the deadbolt/latch, the safe, taking their shit with them, leaving in their trunk or at the place they are working if this is a business trip.

Remove the in show popup bubble advertising from the bottom, shit scrolling across the screen, the huge station logo and maybe I'll watch some regular commercials.

How are stations are getting away with playing the ending credits in 3x FF mode in a small section of the screen at the same time as playing the title scene of the next show at the same time in another small section and thirdly showing station ads at the same time in a third small portion of the screen? I'm sure they are contractually obligated to show the ending and beginnings or they would have cut them out all together. What they are doing is probably technically legal per their contracts but sure does not meet the intent if no one can actually see them.

I understand the benefit to Facebook and the various companies. It just seems like another version of AOL emerging.

On the flip side, the more sites that reference facebook for their own services and advertising, the more estsablished Facebook gets and the more users that get cemetened in or stuck using it. I find it odd that more and more companies are now advertising "See us at www.facebook.com\ourcompany" instead of their own companies web site.