slay

As I said, I wouldnt bet money on it. If I would, I'd place put options on apple or buy stock. Just read my post and you'll see why. From your quick reply, I'm guessing you didnt even bother to fully read it

Me too and I was hoping for a phone as small as the nano!

I highly doubt it will be a success. I just watches the Video presentation of the iPhone ( over 1.5 hours long). I gotta give it to Apple, the phone simply rocks, and I'd love to get my hands on one of those, BUT 500$ including a contract for thze 4Gig version? I mean comeon, who is going to pay that much for a phone? I got my last phone for 100$ including a 2 year contract (that was about 2 years ago) and it was a State-of-the-Art 3G UMTS Phone that can place VIDEO CALLS and all that kind of stuff. The only phone I have ever seen that cost that much with a contract was the Nokia Communicator, and that phone does not sell good AT ALL. A Student cant afford to pay 500$ for a phone. The only ones who can afford this, are those that make 50k+ a year. And I dont really think that those want all the fancy stuff the iPhone has. Steve even said during the Keynote, the BEST selling iPod is the cheap one, the 4Gig Nano. Why do you think is that? Because ppl think 4GB is better than 8 or 80GB? No, it's because they say to themselves "60$ more is a lot of money for me, even though I get double the space, I cant afford it!" They sold a lot of those 300$ iPods, yes, but they sell MUCH MORE Nanos, Shuffles and iPodMinis (the much cheaper ones). The iPhone is HUGE, who can fit this mofo in his pocket?! Apple intends to sell 10 Million iPhones in North America in 2007. Let's see if they actually will, I certainly would NOT bet money on it!

see, my advice could have made you rich! Apple is up about 10% (thats a lot of Money for a few days). But take my advice and sell your apple stock NOW, wait a few days, till it goes down to 85-88$ and then buy again, and hold it till BEFORE (!!) the iPhone launches, because it wont hit the market as they expect (IMO) - its just too expensive to be a major success!

My Pighead will last at least 2000 feet!

I have a circa 50 year old movement that is very hard to wind, and I dont think its good on the crown and because of that I want to make the winding smoother. What could be the reason for the winding being so hard? On my asian unitas, the winding is very very smnooth. Even my 50+ year old Cortebert 616 has smooth winding compared to this movement. My guess is, that it could be because it has a harder mainspring, that is harder to wind. Replacing the mainspring with a "softer" one is probably not possible, is it (because then, the movement wont have enough power)? I'd like to try this on my own, without getting it serviced by a watchmaker, because other than that, the movement runs fine as long as you dont touch the area around balance and keeps good time. Thanks!

I just said they are not scamming like best swiss, who charges 1000$ for a submariner or other sites that send you nothing. Italian movement or asian movement, who gives a [censored] what they call it, I have bought watches from our dealers that were supposed to have sapphire (and had mineral), too. They just provide those who dont know anything about watches with reps and while doiung that, they bend the truth a little bit. But they dont use pics of gens or the like I dont care what you think, I never said I would buy from them, I just said their prices are reasonable!

Just a few very good ones: Le Meurice 4 seasons (they are ALWAYS good, I loved the ones in milan and hamburg) The Hyatt Ritz

happy birthday dave!

where YOU are, it is also illegal to buy&drink redbull without a doctor's prescription. where YOU are, it is was also illegal to use PGP for your emails (to crypt them) or any other encryption software (maybe it still is illegal, I do not know)

paul and josh also advertise their watches with "lemania movement" while it is NOT a lemania movement, its a seagull movement (copied venus 175). I was just saying, that the prices are not as steep as a lot of other replica sites. [censored]'s best-swiss shop (sells on TRC) has about the same prices

the rolex rotor was a real bargain for 120$

you are comparing apples with oranges. buying cocaine (and the posetion) is highly illegal. buying a replica is not. or else the whole CSI has to go to prison for handling fake daytonas! also, this global replica thing is not that much of a "scam". their items are reasonably priced. I see daytonas with chrono movements for 327$. Even if its asian, thats not much more than our dealers charge for an asian 7750 daytona! and I remember very well that members here paid more than 1000$ for a swiss 7750 daytona!

Why do some Rolex movements have "Rubis" engraved on them, and some "Jewels"?!

whenever I go into my bed (for whatever reason), I take my watch off. Especially when you lose your temper sometimes, a big pam can hurt your opponent really bad. I would feel bad if I knocked someone out with my fiddy. And it would probably damage my fiddy, too (if that someone happens to be a Gregarius) Also I dont like sweaty straps or bracelets!

lol not till february!

as for the superman costume, there is actually a whole book about this and other stupid things. take a look yourself: http://www.amazon.de/Wearing-This-Garment-...e/dp/0743244753 now eat your hat! as for there being more warnings for americans than for all other nations combined on certain products, the living witness is me. I have seen this many many times. Especially on beach gear.

:o :o :o

polishing (to a mirror finish) by hand will take you aproximately 48 hours.

In america they simply HAVE to do it, because america has such wonderful laws, that parents who lost a child, because they thought that their kid could actually FLY off the rooftop with the superman costume, can sue the company that produced the product for NOT warning them that the product does not give anyone the ability to fly...! It's always funny when you buy products that have warnings in different languages on them. It usualy has warnings in a few languages on them, very SHORT warnings, the most important ones. Maybe 1 or 2 warnings max. When it comes to "USA:" it has more warnings - only for americans - than for all the other 10 languages combined.

I do it, too. All the time. But mostly I do not go up to them and ask them about their watch or anything like that. Especially not if they are much older than me&total strangers (I'm still pretty young). But since I check out almost everyones wrist, I have seen quite a few PAMs, even at places or events where you wouldnt think anyone would wear a Pam. My niece (5 years old) had a play at her kindergarden and I saw quite a few parenty with Pams and omegas and so on! Even during our last thaiboxing tournament I saw the father of my victim wearing an Omega. But it didnt fit the rest of him, he came with sweatpants (had a mullet, too) and looked rather funny

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why do people pay 10.000$ to make their 500 HP car 10 HP faster?

But I talked to a lot of canadians, including a Dealer who lives in Canada plus I was around (maybe you werent) a long time ago when there WAS this rumor about canadian customs that no watch gets through. Maybe this has changed, I dont know, but dealers will have their reasons when they tell me that canada is a [censored]!

Okay, here you have a cookie for being the very _first_ one to notice (slay hands over a tasty chocloate chip cookie to Davedander). Enjoy.