Real offer? or Rick S. just blowing smoke? Where is Rick S.

Apparently with the Bong and a pack of matches you can't.

Tell me tho, he is the kind of guy that you would like to leave in New Delhi or some other populous place.

Just get him to stand on a street corner.

"Stay here Matt, don't go anywhere, I'm going to get us a cup of coffee".

Then hail a cab to the airport.

Matt would probably not move for at least 2 days, and then start working in a sweat shop making shirts for Nike and Wal Mart.

At 2 cents an hour, it will take him approx 35 years to make enuff for air fare back.

By then, yer long retired, gone to some tropical isle with crystal blue water and white sand.

Me, I will probably be long dead and gone also for at least 15 years so there would be no chance of him trying to move in with me.

So, in that last PM Matt, what were you saying about fishing. Something about me catching minnows and calling them fish.

Pink, its not Snaches, its Snakes.

You know, I put the numbers S & N in front of the word Aches.
 
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Originally Posted by jimmyg View Post
About the same amount as for clean drinking water during a hurricane or maybe a pint of blood during surgery.

Have we become animals, do we eat our children?

J

It looks like a pint of blood during surgery costs about $200 to $300. Of course, if it cost a nickel, the whole collection, testing, and distribution system would break down and we would have much less blood during surgeries. That would be really bad.

Prices are pretty good at directing efforts towards the production of things people value.

And if "they" told you just before your, hopefully, life saving surgery that the pint of blood you required would now cost you $10K just because, well, because you will die without it and they happen to have an extra pint for you?

I guess there would be fewer surgeries. It's called acting unconscionably and it's one of the traits that identify psychotics from people who care about their fellow beings.

J
 
And if "they" told you just before your, hopefully, life saving surgery that the pint of blood you required would now cost you $10K just because, well, because you will die without it and they happen to have an extra pint for you?

I guess there would be fewer surgeries. It's called acting unconscionably and it's one of the traits that identify psychotics from people who care about their fellow beings.

J

Wait, aren't you from NPR?

I didn't think that this sort of thinking was allowed there?

:p

{ducking the inevitable firestorm}
 
Wait, aren't you from NPR?

I didn't think that this sort of thinking was allowed there?

:p

{ducking the inevitable firestorm}

Had to blow my cover, didn't you? :)

Actually I'm originally "from" NYC, not NPR, but it's perfectly understandable that some would think otherwise.

No firestorm here, I said my piece, and now "I'm out". :duck:

J
 
And if "they" told you just before your, hopefully, life saving surgery that the pint of blood you required would now cost you $10K just because, well, because you will die without it and they happen to have an extra pint for you?

In all fairness there is a astronomical difference between things that are required to sustain life and and are not available anywhere else (and hiding or changing a price at the last minute on top of it), verses things that are not required to sustain life or that can be gotten from other sources.

There should be few exceptions to people being able to set their own prices for their own goods and services. In some cases a good argument can be made for some kind of price cap on things that are required to sustain life and that are not available elsewhere.

Some people in this thread are saying people have a right to pay what they want but not to ask for what they want, and it just couldn't be more ridiculous and backwards. I mean come on, think about it. This isn't rocket science here. You do not have any basic right to pay what you want for things. You do have the basic right to ask for what you want for the things that you sell.
 
Wtf does he have to blow up aboot? He SOLD stuff that was DONATED to him with the belief it would benefit someone OTHER THAN HIM.

He gave donating a bad name. He killed pool. Bad guy.

I missed that...guess I need to spend more time reading. I've always found him annoying, now I can add active dislike.
 
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