so the apple logo is looking down from on high... does that imply that the windows logo is staring up from hell?

But at least at iTunes, each developer is the one mucking with the price, for their own benefit/loss/risk. The amazon method is to muck with the price of the product whether or not the developer wants them too, primarily for amazon's benefit/loss/risk.

Which might explain Trump's three bankruptcies...

It's always interesting to watch a store, battling for marketshare, destroy the source of its products, who are battling for marketshare, all in the name of "good business"

in fact that's the only way they *can* end with a winning record.

but what you say is true.
the nba is full of geniuses, *geniuses at having sex.*
slashdot is full of 'retards...' (as you put it)

intelligent doesn't necessarily mean good at science.
sad to say, revenge of the nerds was not a documentary...

you make a general rule, people break it, you make a more specific rule, it causes a problem, you make an exception, people exploit it... etc.etc.etc.

pick a system, any system.

here's a reasonably good generalization of how law systems work and fail.

I've wondered about this... what's the point in watching movies in a resolution greater than the screen that you are watching them on?

it always seemed to be that a lot of discussion about apple products had the character of a lot of people who couldn't afford them trying to convince themselves that they didn't want the products.

there are similar conversations in other circles about BMWs and jewelry and such.

personally, I don't like everything apple does, but I prefer them to the alternatives.

as with the rest of the economy, it was a 5% with a disproportionate share of expendable wealth.

number of people matters less to a business. it's number of people with money.

"all right, I'm never saying *that* again..."

one wonders whether the injury rate is indicative of the inherent dangers of a tablesaw as much as it is indicative of the nature of the types of people who buy sawstop saws...

gloves and a table saw just mean that rather than losing a finger, you lose your life when the whole of your lower arm is ripped off...

gloves will work for a bandsaw given the nature of the blade and the size of the teeth, butchers use them. but with a table saw you're just looking for death.

fwiw the contractor saws seem to run around $700, but the cartridge replacement is still @$170 a pop

it's been done with ladders... google 'ladder lawsuit' for fun...

for the sake of argument, many people have raised the fact that there were lawsuits regarding cars with and without airbags. the major difference between laws about cars and those about powertools, is that cars are used in groups, there are other people on the road who may need to be protected from your negligent driving. since you could be injured by another's car, as well as yourself, there is some area where the legislated (or court mandated,) safety equipment may be necessary. when govenrnments pass laws, (when done properly) they are intended to govern or limit interactions between citizens.

however, outlawing tablesaws without sawstop tech because some idiot thought they knew how to use a table saw is legislating to protect you from yourself. and like many other current morality laws, is equally stupid.