This is going to result in many grandmothers calling their techy grandkids

I’m not sure what Dell is thinking here. They’re offering to give people their Dell DJ music player for only $99… with trade-in of your iPod. Yeah, I’m gonna give up my $200 iPod for a Dell piece  [more...]

I guess that high income, sales, and property taxes combined with high user fees on almost everything is not enough -- California also has to double-charge (read: defraud) citizens as well.

Told ya so. This is how the price gouging system works. First, you raise your price higher and higher until people are shaken out of their inertia and begin to complain. Then, you bring it back down just far enough that  [more...]