On Fri, 03 Aug 2012 09:13:12 +0100, Invisible wrote:

>>> On current exchange rates, that looks like considerably more money
>>> than I will ever earn.
>>
>> Well, you keep self-selecting out of positions that might get you a
>> decent salary by not applying for them.  We've had that discussion
>> before.
> 
> Not any more. [More on this later...]

I saw.  Sounds like a pretty weird way of shutting a business down.

>>> Heh. I can still remember when I was a teenager people telling me that
>>> "in America, you can buy a CD for just £5!" (That's 3x cheaper than
>>> the UK.) I always wondered whether there was actually a shred of truth
>>> to such an outlandish claim...
>>
>> You *could* look at amazon.com and see that it is in fact true.  In
>> fact, some are even cheaper than that.  Then you wouldn't have to
>> wonder if it was true.  You'd know.
>>
>> Of course at that price, you're generally not talking about the
>> soundtrack to a recently-released film.
> 
> Well, today you can buy CDs in the UK for less than £10 - IF you buy
> them online.
> 
> That still doesn't tell me whether it was possible to buy CDs 3x cheaper
> in the US highstreets when I heard this claim 10 years ago. ;-)

It was.  I did.

Jim

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