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quoting my cousin ...

"One person's silliness is another person's enjoyment." Lovely quote ~ :)

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As I was trying to figure out how to secure a couple units of the heavily discounted tablet last weekend, I thought, there should be a sequel to this sale. Although HP meant to discontinue it, end users should still be able to get the product. My rationale was as below. The seven weeks before the sale had proved that Touchpad had no (very small) market. So when HP tried to move its inventory with a pricing change, it doesn't make sense that all of a sudden there will be a demand for it. Although pricing is used to establish an equilibrium between supply and demand, the fundamental problem is that there was no demand, regardless of price. Hence my most logical guess is that those who took the inventory off the shelves were not end users. Another clue that coincided with my guess is that there is no purchase limit per customer. That's why the inventory could move so fast. That means, there should be another stage in the move of inventory after the sale ended, ie. fro

Can I sit here?

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Hello, my name is Jia Jia.

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The monkey put a basket over my head. But he lifted it a bit so that my eyes were not covered.