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optical cables, trying to make the aex work with my apogee. Apogee sez there's nothign wrong with it, so it must be the cable. Or something.

I'm primary support for a "national critical infrastructure" supercomputer. Even so, if I don't think it's important, I'm not gonna skip what I'm doing to fix it if it breaks.

There's a lot of variability in the levels for the music I listen to.

I'm a sysadmin who pushes back fairly hard when it comes to after hours support. If you don't push back, the company will get used to it, and stop respecting your time. If they need intensive support 24x7, they should have 3 shifts of people working. And no, I'm not the junior admin. I was the guy that would work whenever, for whatever. I worked hard, and long hours. What'd it get me? Fewer people to help. Less time off. More work. Not significantly more pay. It almost got me divorced, and I got to hear one of my son's first words to me..."bye bye daddy".

Yah, I wish I'd gone for the remote control ladder stepper and input switcher with my m3.

It's one of those things that if you don't see the motivation, you're not the target market

Except that search is still broken.

Much more likely is that the cable will be the same, and only the connector will change.

And that's why Boomy's the disciplinarian here

I bought my car on ebay based on hype I mean, come on, it was only 16 years old, and had only 293,000 miles...

Or it's a tv show, and they don't actually use the audio from the turntable in the show, and having it make noise is a drawback...

No, mikhail is plenty fast about shipping tubes, he doesn't have to build those. He has a million of em. (Literally, I believe).

My understanding is that it'd be nearly impossible to have enough capacitance to protect from a spectacular tube failure. It's one of the joys of tube amps

Nope, not at all wankery.

No worries about you not buying from me, I don't trade in the level of goods you do, so it's not an issue.

As a buyer, I wouldn't want to be like akwok, so I'd never ask someone to underdeclare for my benefit.

I guess we all keep our own counsel. I wouldn't commit fraud for some wanker who wants to avoid taxes.

1) You certify on the customs form that you're telling the truth 2) You could tell paypal that you never received the item, and paypal would refund your money 3) Some people don't like lying.

the toasters are a great value.

Sure, but you're still asking others to commit fraud for you, and some people look askance at that.

The singlepower is definitely a nice amp, adn that's a nice price.

You have the option of moving if you don't.

That has more to do with you than anyone else...

depends on the mom

That would be because it is fraud...just not credit card fraud. It's defrauding the government out of the taxes you support and enjoy the benefit of. If you like your form of government, you should gladly pay the taxes.