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Comment Re:Captain Trips? (Score 1) 236

Perhaps it's time to get that airline ticket to Madagascar before they shut down everything.

If the great oracle, Mr. King, is accurate, we might need a little more distance than Madagascar.

And Elon Musk is right, too: "[which do we want,] Lipstick or a colony on Mars?"

This virus is bad, but it's not Captain Trips. This is a wake-up call to remind us that extinction-level events remain possible and arguably become more likely as our technology reduces our individual isolation.

How much do you think it would take to get Kareem to march around as the harbinger again with the bell?

Comment Re:The More You Read the Uglier It Gets (Score 1) 417

Umm... do you know how retail works? It's not the up to the store. There's a little more involved but basically the margin is the difference between how much the store got said item and its MSRP (manufacture suggested retail price). If the store got a laptop for $800 but it's MSRP is $824.99 you'll begin to see that in order to make a decent profit it would need to sell hundreds of units. Now throw your attachments in there where it costs almost nothing for the company do. That $199 3 yr extended warranty really costs the company $19. On let's say 5 of these sales: (($824.99 - $800) + ($199 - $19)) x 5 ~ $1025... that's a lot more impressive than just 5 lone laptop sales giving the store a revenue of $125. CHA-CHING!

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