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A quick google of prices tells me 299 for a 26" is a pretty good price. knock another $50 off and it's hard to beat. My guess is that you're not going to do better because nobody on the other end will care enough about it to really negotiate, they'll just say send it back. Though I guess the corollary is that there's no harm in trying either. Asking for a warranty since you don't know what may have been done to it is fair, assuming they normally offer them. Personally, that's more effort than I would put in on a $250 TV. By the time it breaks, buying a new one is probably a much better deal than getting it fixed.

I think the standby is www.xtube.com Though I think if you can learn to navigate gay torrents its an absolute goldmine and far, far better than any of the free sites you'll find. It's worth the effort to figure out.

Don't know much about his work. Just heard he was a bit of a wingnut and that he and his wife lived separately. Can't seem to validate that as I go and read obits. I guess, however, he knew how to generate buzz.

What a shock! Steve Jobs lies and tries to control the media. Color me surprised.

Windbag maybe, but I don't think Keith has done the left's equivalent of calling the 9/11 widows harpies. He's not a shock jock. If we're just listing windbags, it will be a very long list. For that you'd have to pick Al Sharpton or the equivalent.

I suspect Sarah Palin is smarter than she comes across, but she needed training too. She didn't know what she wanted to say in the interview, and worse she tried to dodge easy questions. I'm not sure why. Now she's just turning into a whiny loser. Katie was an easy interview and she blew it. It wasn't Katie that ambushed her. Tina Fey's character was no worse than Biden or Clinton got. It was just funnier because it rang so true.

This is why shirts were invented.

I agree. She's a political shock jock. As long as people keep feeding her, she'll keep popping off. I ignore her.

"Free societies are hopeful societies. And free societies will be allies against these hateful few who have no conscience, who kill at the whim of a hat" Who knew haberdashers were purveyors of items that not only sit on your head, but also control what goes on inside it. Why has there never been a twilight zone episode revealing their pernicious influence?

If you're this kind of person, you'll enjoy it. I did. But it is a pretty bad movie. I just have a weak spot for silly Sci Fi stuff.

I've seen Jason Carter too, and I'd definitely see him again. If Benjamin is in San Antonio when I am in february, I may see him this year.

Strange I've never come in contact with it. I completely believe that it's common, just never in my personal experience. I personally wouldn't stand for it for a minute. The "I'm so sorry, you just made me mad, I love you baby." bullshit is just that.

I've been on the internet for 20+ years. It's weird to me how as it's grown, anonymity has brought out the worst in so many. The "free market of ideas" quickly becomes a drunken brawl. I don't post there anymore either, and visit rarely. Some good threads, but I don't have much interest in wading through the invective.

Well there's a vote for name recognition, or maybe just the look of her. I listened to some interviews yesterday and have to say, "girl, get some media training, it isn't as hard as you're making it."

I think the problems with CIA are management problems, not intelligence problems. So putting in a strong manager while leaving the strong intelligence folks in place seems like a reasonable course to me. Frankly, I think just a change of administrations will be a big improvement so that all the agencies can move past the "who fucked up Iraq" blame game.

Creating cool in marketing really isn't that tough, though it does require some discipline. That's the sizzle of marketing. I'm more talking about the marketing of product marketing. Figuring out what you need to do to make your product absolutely compelling. Apple in the computer space has only ever been lackluster at this as you might note by their marketshare. They've clearly found themselves as a consumer toy company, but then they lack the depth and breadth of Sony, so it's hard to call much of a record from an ipod and an iphone.

Personally, I think Gates biggest strength as a business leader was doggedness. He just never let go and never gave up. It was windows 3.1 before anybody used it. He just kept hammering at it. That's something I can respect. I agree, though, that Jobs did really get that it was the user experience. He just wasn't great about the business/marketing. Years ago I was on the team that offered to license the Apple interface for all UNIX systems. Apple could have really become a player. They weren't interested.

I guess he isn't on his deathbed after all. Too bad. I have an iphone and I like it quite a lot, but the cult of apple built around a guy whose ego has always outstripped his talent is inexplicable to me. I'm an old school tech guy, and I remember what a joke his company next was. The mac is great because it doesn't have to interoperate with anything. The ipod and the iphone are great products, but seriously.

Thanks for the warning about revolutionary road. I'd been interested from the preview, but will take a pass. A depressing story about a guy trapped in a middle management job that ends badly sounds too close to home :-) Here's Stanley Fish's list of top 10 movies from the ny times: http://fish.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/01/04/t...ican-movies/?em I thought it was funny that only two movies on the list were after 1958: Raging Bull and Groundhog Day. Groundhog day is brilliant though.

Fair enough. She is at least a real new yorker.

Does anybody else find her late discovery of interest in politics a bit perverse? I'm not a fan of the whole 'I'm an amateur who knows nothing about Washington so vote me in" school of campaigning in general. I want a politician who has a clue, and preferably one who has done enough to warrant my vote. Other than her name, does she really bring anything to the senate that thousands of other new yorkers who would probably like to be senator wouldn't?

I may be cooking when I get some, but I'm not sure I want to cook with it....

Saw slumdog millionaire last night and recommend it. I feared it would be too cute and contrived, but didn't feel that way. I thought it was heartwarming without being saccarine. Gritty but sweet maybe is a better way to describe it. And the flashback mechanism for telling the story I thought really worked well.

I'm hoping I'll get to pop my Rio cherry this year. If not, it is high on my list. Sounds like tons of fun.

I'm saving my pennies. Looking for a new Job, trying to come up with an excuse to go to Rio for the first time, and trying to lose about 40 pounds with my personal trainer. I'm hoping I manage at least 2 of these :-)