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dandy72 wrote: a) nobody but young women in their 20s and gay couples want anything to do with small useless dogs
+ Rich widows (including rich 'business widows' where the husband is always 'away on business')
+ Some Asian nationalities ... mustn't add that's because food that follows you around is damn handy ...Doh!
there really is a thriving market out there for useless mutts.
[ @OriginalGriff - long before the thriving market for useless IOT, there's still nothing new in this world ]
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... or are Amazon taking the urine?
Tiamat's Wrath: Book 8 of the Expanse[^] is due out on Thursday.
And the Kindle version is 3 quid more than the paperback.
OK, electronic books have VAT on them - 20% - but even without that we are looking at £9.16 vs £7.99. And the paperback includes packaging, next day delivery - the electronic version has no print costs, no material costs, no delivery costs ... so why is it more expensive than the "physical" version?
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OriginalGriff wrote: so why is it more expensive than the "physical" version?
I have been wondering that for a while... this is already happening since a couple of years
M.D.V. 
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megaadam wrote: But there is something off there. The pricelist says hardcover, the heading Kindle...
If you would visit the Q&A section, you would already know that many "developers" are unable to even copy + paste in a correct way 
  
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why does the latest samsung or apple phone cost more than a laptop?
why do low profile tires cost 5 X the price of normal ones?
why is stuff in the department store 10 X the price of the dollar store?
why does water from the corner shop cost more than petrol?
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These are not questions to ask the people selling... it's the buyers that got it wrong.
Buy the paperback, and bank some good karma [when you've read it] by donating it to the sallies. (The polar whales won't miss one tree.)
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I haven't bought a book in ages. I have library of more than 500, and I can't read a single one of them anymore (eyeballs are degrading, and not gracefully). Everything I have in on Kindle, and generally go for the free ones. Cataract surgery left me with poor close up vision, but just right for monitors, and after more than 60 years of wearing glasses, I can put up with poor closeup vision.
I FINALLY get to buy stylish sunglasses!
A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, navigate a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects! - Lazarus Long
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Dilbert 20190324[^]
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Fixed Link to "Hard" link, per post from Nelek[^]
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Well, there's lots of videos on YouTube that the world is flat too. 
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Marc Clifton wrote: the world is flat
And thank goodness it is. Can you imagine trying to go for a nice walk on a round object?
Social Media - A platform that makes it easier for the crazies to find each other.
Everyone is born right handed. Only the strongest overcome it.
Fight for left-handed rights and hand equality.
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That's the first time I've ever seen Dilbert's eyes!!
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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Speaking of which... reading my employee agreement right now...
There is a section called "Maximum Weekly Hours of Work", 38 hours plus reasonable additional hours.
I am not sure this definition is a good fit for "Maximum"....
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You should have used the comic link, not the home link... now it is pointing to a wrong one and the answers make no sense
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Munchies_Matt wrote: Arabic Techno Pop
Nah, they take that in their stride. It's European Classical music that they can't stand
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
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Nickelback?
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I never gave you one!
They are awesome inconcert
I do all my own stunts, but never intentionally!
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Only you are calling it a war crime.
I'd call it conduct unbecoming, and put those responsible on report.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Back, long ago, when I worked for US Dept of Energy, the then Director of the facility said that line about the Squeaky Wheel - trying to make me feel I should keep shaking things up.
I noted to him that it is also the Squeaky Wheel that's first to be replaced.
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Without mercy!
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Learning to code with python is like learning to swim with those little arm floaties. It gives you undeserved confidence and will eventually drown you. - DangerBunny
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73. Time creator backed wall hanger (3)
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Who ?
We can’t stop here, this is bat country - Hunter S Thompson RIP
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Mmmm.... no.
I may have over thought this one just a touch...
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