Posted by Lloyd Parsons on 12/19/07 20:55

In article <ptfaj.5039$Vg1.740@trndny04>,
Derek Janssen <ejanss1@nospam.verizon.net> wrote:

> Winfield wrote:
>
> > Lloyd Parsons wrote:
> >
> > [snip] ...
> >
> >> While I don't have a problem with one or the other winning the phony
> >> war, I think it needs to go a bit longer to keep pushing the prices
> >> down on both sides, both hardware and software. The war is what has
> >> gotten us all the BOGO sales and 2-fers and such.
> >
> > Great minds think alike. You're right on target with above comment.
> >
> > Thanks for being the "voice of reason".
> >
> > (Derek J. has gone totally FULLSCREEN over his new Blu-Ray pajamas)
>
> The one last defense we have for the War is "Look at all the bargains!
> :-P "
>
> Which is the Bottom-Feeding defense, those of vultures and war profiteers--
> Those who don't take sides, and don't care which side buys the missiles
> or how many casualties stack up, so long as They Get Theirs.
> "Hey, I got an HD player for $99!"...Yes, you got one because Toshiba/MS
> was reduced to slashing an unsuccessful item to below safe profit
> margins, and taking losses on their product to try and stem hemorraging
> income.
> Those who DIDN'T rush out and "grab a cheap HD player for $99" were more
> mercifully hoping to see Toshiba lose *all* their money on an
> unsuccessful product that was cluttering up a confused industry,hoping
> to see an industry that could refine and mainstream its more successful
> product to a wider and cheaper customer base, and hoping to lower prices
> in a more longterm way.
>
> I'm not asking that anyone here *CARE* about the War.
> I'm just asking your support in helping fight it a little more damn
> efficiently, and helping end it sooner. As I understand from most of
> the comments, that seems to be the popular goal.
> There were plenty of Black marketeers in every war, they got plenty of
> their own bargains on the sly, and I don't recall anyone ever calling
> them heroes.
>
> Derek Janssen
> ejanss1@verizon.net

Nah, you go fight the war, I want it to keep going for a bit longer to
keep all you BD guys doing the BOGO sales! I like cheap HD movies!!

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