From: Gary Britt 

We'll just have to disagree as to both of your replies below.

Gary

Adam > wrote:
> Gary Britt wrote:
>> You are correct.  I must have been thinking of Win2K or Win98.  I must
>> have created my XP control panel shortcut the old fashioned way by going
>> to control.exe and right clicking and telling it send shortcut to
>> desktop.  The create shortcut option is available if you right click on
>> the control panel icon in "My Computer" which would work
also.  Either
>> of those two ways work reliably every time, and you identified a third
>> way.  So again the guys an idiot.
>>
>> The parts you quoted in his message wasn't the anti-USA euro-trash
>> snobbery.  It was the part about USA currency sliding to 3rd World
>> bannana republic levels that was the Euro-Trash snobbery.  A totally
>> gratuitous and irrelevant to his article side remark.
>>
>
> Nope it was accurate. If a good is priced at USD4 & it's 1 USD to the
> UKL then it's 4 UKL. If the USD slides to 2 then it's 2UKL.
>
> As it is the opposite has happened where are USD4 good is priced by MS
> at UKL8 which equates to USD16 when the currency slips.
>
>> The high cost of high tech in Europe is related no doubt to the economic
>> policies that make Europe made high tech so expensive and importers of
>> low cost USA goods have no reason not to price their goods in line with
>> the local market conditions established by the inefficient European high
>> tax socialist welfare economic models.
>>
>
> Nah that's bullsh*t. They just think they can get away with it & no US
> state attorney types such as Spitzer in NY who might take them to court
> for ripping off the consumer.
>
> Personally I think it's just (A) Typical MS arrogance "take or leave it
> where we think you've got to take it" & (B) Marvelous coz then even
> fewer will upgrade to Vista & will consider their alternatives.
>
> Adam

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