news.yahoo.com — There's no doubt about it: foreign technology can whet your appetite. Super-lightweight laptops from Japan, feature-packed smartphones from Europe, and shiny, gotta-get-it devices designed in India, but a few of the items that currently reside on tech's cutting edge. But chances are you will never see those gadgets on store shelves here in the U.S.
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neozeedOct 5, 2006
Speaking as a Sony U50 owner, I do get lots of people asking in the Americas where to get it, and just how cool it is, however Sony did release similar models here... But then Sony costs a metric ass load so I didnt see many takers for the VGN-UX280P...Then again with a name like that, its no wonder people can't find anything from Sony, even if they wanted it.Oh, and when I brought it over from Japan, I declared it & everything, and US Customs had *NO* issues with it. Its hardly banned.
larianlequellaOct 5, 2006
Ditto. I would say it's more a matter of foreign companies understanding the cost of the US market and our dire need for tort reforms.
felchdonkeyOct 5, 2006
I'm curious about the Digg burying system. If some users mark "inaccurate," others mark "lame," and others mark something else like "spam" or whatever, do they all add up the same as if everyone had just clicked "lame?"
ethergnatOct 5, 2006
If you're going to correct people's punctuation at least make sure you're right. You can find many authorative sources that state the period is an appropriate mark to end a rhetorical question. Exclamation points and question marks can be appropriate too. Incidentally there's even a "rhetorical question mark," which looks like a reversed question mark but hasn't been used in 400 years.
felchdonkeyOct 5, 2006
I've seen the "rhetorical question mark," which works great except for a couple of things. Since it's basically an upside-down question mark, you look like you're about to start a question in Spanish. Most American keyboards don't have that on their keys. Oh, and of course, there's the fact that it's completely unnececessary.As far as jhondi defending the use of three exclamation marks as "technically correct," I think it's pretty clear that the submitter did not check a Chicago Manual of Style or Strunk & White before putting those up. Yes, you could technically defend the use of a period or exclamation mark at the end of a rhetorical question, but that's for advanced users of the English language, something this submitter is quite clearly not.
uownedgeOct 5, 2006
Seriously! I can't believe I wasted valuable Megabits for this :P
margooOct 5, 2006
Its a good thing everyone agrees that this article is inaccurate and false. "Banning" is a type of Governmental corruption that I cannot see the United States enforcing upon its people.
ethergnatOct 5, 2006
The rhetorical question mark is NOT an upside down question mark--it's a mirror image.
quackslax29Nov 19, 2006
is banning drugs or animal sex a form of corruption? what if these technology gadgets posed a risk to national security...