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Skriven 2007-05-13 17:56:57 av Shabaz (913.babylon5)
  Kommentar till text 14497 av rec.arts.sf.tv.babylon5.moderated (909.babylon5)
Ärende: Re: Babylon 5 Diaries Now Appearing
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On May 14, 2:42 am, "Mac Breck" <macthevor...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> "Shabaz" <shaba...@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> news:1179087181.886392.140950@e51g2000hsg.googlegroups.com...
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>
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> > On May 13, 2:22 pm, Amy Guskin <aisl...@fjordstone.com> wrote:
> > > >> On Sun, 13 May 2007 00:52:55 -0400, Richard Fallstrom wrote
> > > > Yikes! You can get a better machine in many areas for about $200
> US.
> > > > Even a Mac running OS X Tiger.<<
>
> > > Apropos of the poverty thread running elsewhere, I'd just like to
> point out
> > > that not everybody _has_, or can get together, $200 of discretionary
> income
> > > just like that.  Or wants to accrue more credit debt.
>
> > > I'm not saying this is Mac's situation -- but let's remember that
> $200 is
> > > still _real money_ to many people!
>
> > > Amy
>
> > If that's someone's situation you can fairly easily find something
> > second hand that's still 5-10 times as fast for 50-100 bucks. Looking
> > through my local ebay website, you can get something around a
> > gigahertz for around 50 bucks fairly easily, and something in the 2
> > gigahertz range for around a 100 bucks. If that is still too much you
> > can find something 4-5 times as fast as Mac's rig for around 30-50
> > bucks. (of course, if you go the ebay route you need to make sure that
> > 1) you're not paying an arm and a leg for shipping, and 2) that the
> > thing you're buying actually works beforehand)
>
> > If you're on a budget you need to be more resourceful, but there are
> > still alternatives to getting a completely new 300-400 bucks rig
> > (which actually buys you a lot these days, as long as you're not
> > interested in gaming). Which I think is what Richard was trying to
> > say.
>
> Right now, the real estate taxes (County, Borough and SCHOOL) are more
> important.  My income went down (downsized->start over-> crappy job,
> long hours, no vacation, lower pay, etc.) and the taxes keep going up
> (The borough is building a new Taj Mahal of a Jr/Sr High School.).
> IMHO, the school board should be strung up.  The town has less than half
> the population it once had at the height of the US steel industry years,
> they recently remodled the Jr/Sr High School, and now they're building a
> NEW one.  Grrrr.
>
> It's not that PCs cost a lot these days.  It's that the money is
> allocated for other stuff, i.e. necessities.
>
> --
> Mac Breck (KoshN)
> -------------------------------
> "Keen Eddie" (2004)
> Fiona: Get out.
> Eddie: Out of the kitchen?
> Fiona: Out of the kitchen, out of the flat, out of London, out of the
> world. It's full. Get out.
> Eddie: I can't get out of the world. I didn't pull the kind of math
> grades you need to qualify for the space program.
>
> "Brimstone" (1998)
> Angel: Oh, there's one more thing you should know. Your fate was never
> determined until you killed Gilbert Jax. All in all, you've led a good
> life, Ezekiel. Have faith. Your work's appreciated.

Understood. And my apologies if my previous post sounded a bit more
bullish than it should have.

-Shabaz
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