Comment From the sublime to the ridiculous. (Score 1) 409
It appears Lucas is trying to give the White Album a run for its money...
Build better bugs, experience more fruitful testing.
Some jokester will probably respond and say it can, if you "sudo apt-get install print-money"
I agree. I actually held off on buying a backpack recently because the "add to cart" price seemed *too* good. Turns out the manufacturer had started enforcing the Minimum Advertised Price forcing smaller webshops to hide the price, this was also the reason that eBags.com had suddenly increased their price beyond the MSRP. This way eBags perpetual 20% off coupons don't run afoul of the MAP.
Thanks US Supreme Court...
I wholeheartedly agree that current immigration policy punishes the people that take the time, spend the money and have the ethics to immigrate legally. My wife is a legal immigrant and we absolutely hate it when we hear stories about amnesty, or in-state tuition.
Think about it this way, legal immigrants and have to utilize some of his own resources (time/money) and have some sort of ethics and desire to do it legally. I don't know abut you guys, but being an Citizen of the US, I'd rather have immigrants that display some moral fiber and real desire to be here.
On the other hand, illegals know full well what they are doing is illegal. It is not like they can say "Sorry, I didn't know. I must have immigrated by accident" They by, definition, display no respect for our country or our laws.
ZeroExistenZ,
What you want to say really seems to be interesting but, without punctuation, it requires a bit too much effort to decrypt.
I wouldn't care if I wasn't almost sure there was something interesting to read, somewhere in there.
I hope you don't take this as destructive criticism.
I'm sure our politicians would never be so careless....
Then you must grow 'em smarter over there than we do over here.
Could we borrow some of your breeding stock?
You're assuming that smarter means less greedy. I'd rather have a greedy incompetent politician who screws us over a little than a greedy intelligent politician who screws us over a lot. Of course, what I'd really like is an intelligent politician who wasn't out to line his own pockets, but that's definitely straying into the realms of fantasy.
On April 23, Yodobashi Camera announced through their online sales site "Yodobashi.Com" and their telephone sales service "Moshi Moshi Yodobashi" that they are discontinuing sales of Apple products. Sales at their retail stores will still continue.
According to Yodobashi Camera, "it has become the case that [they] can no longer sell any Apple products, including iPods, MacBooks, iMacs and related accessories." Furthermore, they say that it was "according to the wishes of Apple."
Customers can continue to use the "store pick-up" service where they order an item online at Yodobashi.Com and pick up the item in person at a store. They can also continue to determine whether a product is in stock through their "in stock inquiry service."
"We have no comments beyond what has been said online" is the statement from Yodobashi Camera.
With regards to online sales of Apple products, many other high volume retailers such as Bic Camera and Yamada Denki have similarly stopped. Bic Camera also stated that they cannot comment on what led to this, but vehemently state that "since you can pick up ordered items at the store, we don't believe it should be that big of an issue."
In addition to high volume retailers, Mac-specific small-time shops "Akihabara Mac Collection" and "kitcut" that were selling Apple products through Rakuten [an online market place in Japan] have also stopped sales. (However, kitcut as of this writing, April 26, still continues selling products on their own site.) Furthermore, upon seeing many Rakuten shops having marked [Apple items] as "out of stock" or "no longer available", one might be able to say that this issue is a life and death situation for online shops who do not have physical storefronts.
With so many retailers stopping online sales of Apple products, Apple's very own "Apple Store" still continues to sell them, unsurprisingly. Furthermore, the foreign-owned Amazon continues to do so as well.
As of April 26, Apple has not made an official announcement and refuses to comment on the situation.
He has not acquired a fortune; the fortune has acquired him. -- Bion
