Posts by Sindwiller

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I wonder how much he had left after taxes.

Enough. :roll:

Gratz.

Yeah, well... o_O @ curved bricks.

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Just purchased Earth 2160 off Steam. It's quite the lovely game, but I didn't get to give it the time it deserves earlier. And now it's on for $4.99 on Steam, so I just couldn't resist it.

Must... get it... too...

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...Now doesn't that make fuckin' sense! But you really can't do that on black friday unless the stores bend over backwards handing out numbers. Sometimes people wait in line for the store to open days in advance...It wouldn'y be hard to have an employee keep track of who got there first..etc. No way you could handle it like at a deli.

There's a little machine that prints out a number when you press the button and then you wait until your number comes up. That's how it like in banks and post offices here in CH (and probably in most shops in Sweden, too). Although you could get even more retarded and just fight over the numbers...

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you know, you could also just "ban" black friday. if a holiday results in people getting killed every year, you might as well just remove it. saves you the trouble of getting your civil rights removed.

No, you can't. [Blocked Image: https://migrationtest.mapcore.org/public/style_emoticons/default/mapcore_smilies/emot_shakehead.gif] I don't say that as often as other people (Americans), but I didn't know you could just go Soviet Russia on that one.

you know what i really dislike? when people tell me, "no, you can't" without a reason. i don't see the problem in some sort of prohibition and/or fining of black friday, if this is a persistent problem.

Well, as for the enforceability in the United States, you have a) a raging bunch of firms who would never let go of such an opportunity to make quick profit, b) a lot people who'd protest against regulations such as said one. As for the viability of such a prohibition: The state would have to check the majority, mostly big ones, of shops - obviously not all, since that's neither doable, nor feasible - whether they have discounts on that day; or, in a much more moderate regulation, police would have to control the crowd in front of all the shops. That is, after all, too big of an effort to prohibit a hooray-day for consumerism and firms - especially in the United States.

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you know, you could also just "ban" black friday. if a holiday results in people getting killed every year, you might as well just remove it. saves you the trouble of getting your civil rights removed.

No, you can't. [Blocked Image: https://migrationtest.mapcore.org/public/style_emoticons/default/mapcore_smilies/emot_shakehead.gif] I don't say that as often as other people (Americans), but I didn't know you could just go Soviet Russia on that one.

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For those who also have a wacom tablet: the tip of the pen starts wearing too fast? Min0 thinks I'm paranoid (), but the tip of the pen here is not round anymore as it was when I received the tablet, and It's only one week old. Is that common?

I don't know how it is like with the Bamboo pen but I've got an Intuos 2 and it's aeons old (I think my brother has bought it back in 2001 or something) and the pen's fine.

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edit i see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Friday_(shopping) there is another story there about two guys shooting each other over something from toysrus

I'd be proud of 'our' laws for possession of firearms if I were a US citizen. [Blocked Image: https://migrationtest.mapcore.org/public/style_emoticons/default/mapcore_smilies/emot_shakehead.gif]

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Wal-Mart at least should be charged for encouraging this kind of shit, or at least not trying to prevent it in any significant way.

That should actually be enforceable if the US has a reasonable bunch of laws for labour conditions and stuff I'd reckon. Or at least I'd think if an employee here in Switzerland had been injured by idleness of the employer to potential dangers (eg. no safety precautions, etc.), the employee would be able to sue their asses.

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Isn't $50 us normal price?

Not in Switzerland, for example. It's much cheaper, thankfully

With todays rates, $50 is the normal price.

I bought L4D for 45$ (pre-order), so around 54 CHF - if I had bought it in the shop, it would've cost me around 90 CHF.

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Isn't $50 us normal price?

Not in Switzerland, for example. It's much cheaper, thankfully

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The original Klatuu was very charming and Keanu is one the most expressionless actor ever.

He wasn't that expressionless in Siddartha (it was Siddartha, right? Or had the movie something with 'Buddha' in it? Whatever.)

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It seems the latest trend in Hollywood is to remake old sci-fi classics in modern settings.

iRobot. A horrible film if you have read Asimov's stuff. Susan Calvin would never kiss a man (except in that one story where they accidentally build a robot that could read other people's thoughts), Elijah Bailey isn't a cool cop ready for action and the earth didn't use that many robots at the time. But we all know that we can fill a whole book with things that Hollywood did wrong when porting over classics.

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Oh Darth Brush, that crazy guy

Yeah, good luck mates! Don't let the 'economic crisis' fuck you again.

Nice racks.

Nice photos

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/me runs

I can't come to Germany sadly

Comme si tout le monde peut regarder Canal+/CanalSat :wink: