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Here is how you can stop that before it happens...
CitiBank Has This[^] very nice trick. You give the online merchant a credit card number which you limit, both time and money.
If they try to hit you for more money than the number is worth, the transaction is denied.
A very few other banks also have this. I am surprised that it is not more popular.
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Turn out the lights, the parties' over.
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Look for rising prices.Less competition is never good.
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Member 10088171 wrote: Look for rising prices.Less competition... Agreeing with that !
I wonder if ...
- The market is just in its final phase
- The market is not in its final phase, it's just downsizing now that computers are no longer so groovy
- The unfair reality of economic recession chose this company to hit
- The company is okay, but the owner(s) are lonely for the old days of mega profits
- This is just one company's business decision (i.e., an anomaly, not a major market indicator)
- Space aliens heisted the inventory
- None of the above
- All of the above
I wonder, wonder, wonder, if another company (quite likely, ex-employees) will form a Phoenix from the ashes. Then again, I'm thinking of my own actions with them. I did hundreds of dollars with them between 2000 and 2010, maybe in the thousands; but then far less in this decade.
And so...
Is this an anomaly ? Or a market indicator ?
i.e., Does America have enough paying customers for such a possible Phoenix to emerge ?
Does anyone have any on-the-ins perspectives from them or NewEgg or CDW or others in that market ?
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Are they shutting down entirely? Their listings for laptops/tablets are extremely sparse as well...
I'm not that surprised to see them going. Buying a bunch of stores from a failed boxmart chain was dumping money down the toilet. Online they suffered from being less searchable than Newegg and not having cheap/free expedited shipping like Amazon (prime).
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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I haven't bought from them in several years but they were my #1 hardware for a very long time. Too bad!
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
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kmoorevs wrote: I haven't bought from them in several years but they were my #1 hardware for a very long time. You and me both; I'm asking myself, you and me and two million others ?
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Hi All,
Something odd has happened my Parents phone line appear to be on the right number! I accidently used the home contact on my phone it rang my Mum answered, I fell off my seat. It also appears the broad band is connected (I can't say for sure if it's higher speed until the weekend). it appears that BT have quietly done the job, nothing has broken I can think of
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Check the bill!
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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I'll be sending the bill presently.
Decrease the belief in God, and you increase the numbers of those who wish to play at being God by being “society’s supervisors,” who deny the existence of divine standards, but are very serious about imposing their own standards on society.-Neal A. Maxwell
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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Plot twist, everybody's number is now your mom's number
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Yes, very nice lady. Strange accent. She wants you to stop by and fix her computer.
I'm retired. There's a nap for that...
- Harvey
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Trying to move very large files to / from USB drives. We're talking 80GB+, takes hours and hours. I am looking for a utility that supports resuming operations if interrupted.
Any suggestions?
Charlie Gilley
<italic>Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape...
"Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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TeraCopy for Microsoft Windows - Code Sector[^]
This should help.
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.
Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???
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You just beat me to posting it!
"Computer games don't affect kids; I mean if Pac-Man affected us as kids, we'd all be running around in darkened rooms, munching magic pills and listening to repetitive electronic music."
-- Marcus Brigstocke, British Comedian
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Yeah I second TeraCopy, I've used it for a couple of years now and it's light years ahead of uSoft Copy!
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I second (third really ) TeraCopy too, some cow orker showed it to me at work and it works pretty good.
GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP. -- TNCaver
"When you have eliminated the JavaScript, whatever remains must be an empty page." -- Mike Hankey
"just eat it, eat it"."They're out to mold, better eat while you can" -- HobbyProggy
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Wow, what a match. Thanks
Charlie Gilley
<italic>Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape...
"Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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Charlie Gilley
<italic>Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape...
"Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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Personally I would not hold any hope of it being any good.
The rebooted film franchise, now that is good!
Every day, thousands of innocent plants are killed by vegetarians.
Help end the violence EAT BACON
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The executive producer worked on both the reboot films: he co-wrote the first one, and co-produced both.
So it has a chance. I'm hoping it will work - if it can avoid being "Enterprise II" that'll be a good start!
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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OriginalGriff wrote: if it can avoid being "Enterprise II" AGREED!!! Although, there were several good episodes.
Decrease the belief in God, and you increase the numbers of those who wish to play at being God by being “society’s supervisors,” who deny the existence of divine standards, but are very serious about imposing their own standards on society.-Neal A. Maxwell
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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