Comments on: 500 bucks for a $4 ethernet cable? http://pixelthinker.wordpress.com/2008/06/21/500-bucks-for-a-4-ethernet-cable/ Science, tech, graphics, innovations, computers and other bright ramblings from a female geek Sat, 21 Jun 2008 06:28:37 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: Schoon http://pixelthinker.wordpress.com/2008/06/21/500-bucks-for-a-4-ethernet-cable/#comment-13 Schoon Sat, 21 Jun 2008 06:28:37 +0000 http://pixelthinker.wordpress.com/?p=21#comment-13 isn't consumerism great... i picked up on the same article. and your rock idea... yea, not so far off. except try 60,000 for speakers with a granite enclosure. why? someone has sixty thousand dollars to waste... on something that may have cost 1,000 to make... and thats including (and mostly) the granite and carving of said granite. oh yea, and they were french. maybe that justified it? isn’t consumerism great… i picked up on the same article.

and your rock idea… yea, not so far off. except try 60,000 for speakers with a granite enclosure. why? someone has sixty thousand dollars to waste… on something that may have cost 1,000 to make… and thats including (and mostly) the granite and carving of said granite.

oh yea, and they were french. maybe that justified it?

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