From: Adam <""4thwormcastfromthemolehill\"{at}the field.near
the bridge">

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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