[geeks] Is it too much to be pissed...

[Kris Kirby]

On Thu, 20 Jun 2002, Geek wrote:
> The problem with shipping, as one list member had found already(sorry
> again), is that a)the customs office is very much out of the way and
> hard to get to by public transportation, and b)is quite costly. I have
> found that Canada customs thinks a lot higher of computer equipment
> then reality dictates. Mind you, they are used to size=price, and
> usually see more PC's then they do Sun's and so on.

It just occured to me that one could have a PC board made with several CPU
sockets on it and carry a `$100' computer over the boarder with 9 or more
expensive CPUs in it -- though it would be non-functional. Then you could
carry the empty machine back and do it all over again.

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