Kevin Weaver wrote:
> "4phun" <vic.healey@gmail.com> wrote in message
> news:c5b035e3-bef5-4374-bc83-f5bd5ede2c76@c65g2000hsa.googlegroups.com...
> On Aug 13, 11:24 pm, "Carl" <croth...@NOSPAMoptonline.net> wrote:
>> 4phun wrote:
>>> On Aug 13, 8:35 am, Ron <ron.cliff...@peoplepc.com> wrote:
>>>> Starting September 7.
>>
>>>> http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1218...?mod=googlenew...
>>
>>> There is a nasty rumor that Radio Shack is also going to have the
>>> iPhone this fall.
>>
>>> How many stores is that, 5000 Radio Shacks? They have been closing
>>> so many I doubt they are really around much now a days. And I think
>>> Radio Shack ranks at the top for having incompetent low wage inner
>>> city employees who know nothing of what they sell.
>>
>> I live in a large and populated suburban area of NYC. We have two RSs
>> within
>> 2 miles of each other, one east of my home, one west of it, about
>> equidistant. I love having those stores around. They have things
>> that you would be hard pressed to find elsewhere. I would be very
>> disheartened to see
>> them go out of business. Where else would I find anything from a
>> Grundig shortwave radio to a germanium diode to some of the best
>> wall-wart power supplied around? I recently got a guitar amp that
>> blew a fuse on its first day. If there were not a RS around that amp
>> would have sat around for a week
>> instead of an hour.
>
> Frey's
>
> What's a Frey's ?
>
He meant Fry's. He was just too lazy to check his valuable work.
> Seems slimy, but this was before Costco had the iPod Touch in stock, so
> a local Apple dealer or Apple.com were my only choices.
>
> Costco now carries the iPod Touch cheaper then other dealers, although
> they don't quote prices on their website.
Apple has a history of selling through whatever channels can move the
most product. Costco, Wal-Mart, Best Buy, whoever they can get to carry
a product.
Larry wrote:
> 4phun <vic.healey@gmail.com> wrote in news:e81bdcfd-e501-4cab-af9a-
> 7fa604369f53@v57g2000hse.googlegroups.com:
>
>> And I think Radio
>> Shack ranks at the top for having incompetent low wage inner city
>> employees who know nothing of what they sell.
>>
>
> Wow! When I go into our RatShacks, especially in the malls, I start
> streaming Iranian music over the tablet in my shirt pocket over EVDO
> on Alltel. Half the staff turns and smiles.
>
> I spent over 2 years in Tehran in '78-79, leaving 28 days before the
> Shah left. I speak enough Farsi to get around and prevent
> starvation. Everyone used to get all excited when I signed my name
> in Farsi, rather than English, because they were afraid someone would
> accuse them of forgery... (c; Radio Shack is a great place to
> practice. Curiously, the Iranians know more about Radio Shack
> products than those you describe...
>
> Radio Shack is now hiring Mexicans, here, so they can communicate
> with the other 50% of the population.
>
It's a good thing you don't have a racist bone in your body. God knows what
might come out if you did.
"Carl" <crothman@NOSPAMoptonline.net> wrote in
news:48a5ad82$0$20899$607ed4bc@cv.net:
> It's a good thing you don't have a racist bone in your body. God knows
> what might come out if you did.
>
>
>
Huh? I lived in Iran for over 2 years, not in some American compound,
in a middle class neighborhood. Because I play Iranian music at Radio
Shack that suddenly makes me a racist as if I'd said the taboo word
"Jew" on Usenet??
You need to figure out what a racist is. Stop by Charleston, SC, I'll
introduce you to some I know.
I hated them so much I tried to learn Farsi and lived on the local
economy. I was a civilian not connected with the Zionist States of
America. We worked, and flew, with the Iranian Air Force in the
SIGINT/ELINT business recording every shred of Arabic from Iraq we could
record....and every RF emission. It was a great job and I'd go back to
Iran any time. You wouldn't believe how beautiful Iran is.....
What's fun is to ask the best educated American you can find, "How big
is Iran, compared to something in the USA?" They have no idea. We
don't teach geography any more, part of the dumbing down of the slaves
classes to make good, but stupid, corporate workers out of them. Very
few can say, fewer each year.
BTW, Iran is HUGE!
As the racist you want to paint me, I flew with the C-130 crews 24/7 for
3 weeks trying to keep the survivors of the Iranian city of Tabbas from
starving to death over on the Afghan border, back and forth, sleeping in
the sky and eating on the fly. Everyone pitched in. Tabbas was
flattened by a huge earthquake that happened while the city was eating
its 8PM evening meal, killing about 24,000 at their tables as the poorly
constructed buildings fell on top of them. The survivors fled the
stench of rotting bodies we could smell at 15000 ft over 80 miles away,
into the nearby desert where the old, reliable C-130's landed at a
makeshift sand runway. I carried broken children, terrified of their
wounds, broken bones and their first airplane ride, in my arms back to
medical help in Tehran. Yeah, I'm a total racist, alright, an ugly
American to be sure.
On Aug 15, 8:10*pm, Larry <no...@home.com> wrote:
> "Carl" <croth...@NOSPAMoptonline.net> wrote innews:48a5ad82$0$20899$607ed4bc@cv.net:
>
> > It's a good thing you don't have a racist bone in your body. God knows
> > what might come out if you did.
>
> Huh? *I lived in Iran for over 2 years, not in some American compound,
> in a middle class neighborhood. *Because I play Iranian music at Radio
> Shack that suddenly makes me a racist as if I'd said the taboo word
> "Jew" on Usenet??
>
> You need to figure out what a racist is. *Stop by Charleston, SC, I'll
> introduce you to some I know.
>
> I hated them so much I tried to learn Farsi and lived on the local
> economy. *I was a civilian not connected with the Zionist States of
> America. *We worked, and flew, with the Iranian Air Force in the
> SIGINT/ELINT business recording every shred of Arabic from Iraq we could
> record....and every RF emission. *It was a great job and I'd go back to
> Iran any time. *You wouldn't believe how beautiful Iran is.....
>
> What's fun is to ask the best educated American you can find, "How big
> is Iran, compared to something in the USA?" *They have no idea. *We
> don't teach geography any more, part of the dumbing down of the slaves
> classes to make good, but stupid, corporate workers out of them. *Very
> few can say, fewer each year.
>
> BTW, Iran is HUGE!
>
> As the racist you want to paint me, I flew with the C-130 crews 24/7 for
> 3 weeks trying to keep the survivors of the Iranian city of Tabbas from
> starving to death over on the Afghan border, back and forth, sleeping in
> the sky and eating on the fly. *Everyone pitched in. *Tabbas was
> flattened by a huge earthquake that happened while the city was eating
> its 8PM evening meal, killing about 24,000 at their tables as the poorly
> constructed buildings fell on top of them. *The survivors fled the
> stench of rotting bodies we could smell at 15000 ft over 80 miles away,
> into the nearby desert where the old, reliable C-130's landed at a
> makeshift sand runway. *I carried broken children, terrified of their
> wounds, broken bones and their first airplane ride, in my arms back to
> medical help in Tehran. *Yeah, I'm a total racist, alright, an ugly
> American to be sure.
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