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Skriven 2007-05-13 21:27:59 av Mac Breck (917.babylon5)
     Kommentar till en text av rec.arts.sf.tv.babylon5.moderated
Ärende: Re: Babylon 5 Diaries Now Appearing
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"Shabaz" <shabaz.x@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:1179104217.408365.24180@e51g2000hsg.googlegroups.com...
> On May 14, 2:42 am, "Mac Breck" <macthevor...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> > "Shabaz" <shaba...@gmail.com> wrote in message
> >
> > news:1179087181.886392.140950@e51g2000hsg.googlegroups.com...
> >
> >
> >
> > > 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.

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

Oh, not at all.  Your post was fine.  Really, A-OK.  ;-)  You have no
idea how much it kills me to not be able to buy the things that I would
have bought without giving it a second thought, back when I had a high
paying job.  The icing on the cake is that the things that I've most
wanted (e.g. Nikon D-2 series camera bodies, the ~2000 Bullitt Mustang,
2005+ Mustang GT, the 2007-2007 Shelby GT500, GT500KR, Super Snake,
etc.) only came out *after* I was no longer able to afford them.  The
universe certainly has a *wicked* sense of humor.  LOL.


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