Comment Re:NEWS FLASH (Score 2) 298
"Look at the MSRP on the book, and compare that to the price you paid at the register. They're the same."
That merely happens to make them equal in those circumstances. They are not definitionally the same.
"Look at the MSRP on the book, and compare that to the price you paid at the register. They're the same."
That merely happens to make them equal in those circumstances. They are not definitionally the same.
"if they had broken that down into the 2 components of cost and value"
You can be sure the publisher/retailer tracks costs with exquisite precision, but they are apprx. none of the business of their customers - or their own competitors.
Leave it to the NY Times to pen something so illiterate: "no one will know what a book's "real" price is. Price will be determined by demand and perhaps by whim."
The "real price" of something is exactly determined by each transaction where it is sold. This is the realest price you can get. A MSRP printed on the book is not "real".
You can see though why in the presence of surveillance+gag orders, even such personal assurance may be less than satisfactory. That's one problem with the scheme: even honest people+companies become suspect.
Perens is not making a legal claim, so your answer is nonresponsive.
Because the NSA is apprx. not restricted at all when spying on us foreigners.
"It's simply not considered a crime
The drivers may simply not have been at fault in the incidents you are aware of.
OK, that'd be different; still not an automatic "bring down" though.
A couple-pound plastic widget is not going to bring down an airliner after a collision, unless it's exceedingly (un)lucky. Large planes can take impact from much bigger objects and keep flying.
Luckily not "many" - many enough to be referred to as a voting block in the grandparent. Surely less than 47%.
If many voters need politicians' help to satisfy their "needs to eat", something is very wrong.
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