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My son spent a happy holiday exchanging secret messages with a friend by printing them in speckly-filled yellow print on white paper. Very hard to read until you scan it.

Recent printers add colour speckles in a predetermined pattern to let the government follow you up if you do naughty things.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Printer_steganography
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Actually, it's not really a water resonator. It's secretly a dual-purpose brain/wallet resonator. The synergistic energy balancing mode transfers energy from your wallet to your brain and back again in a harmonic way letting your common sense trickle from your nose and you cash float from your wallet.
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Bah - 20 years or more ago I wrote a draft plot for a novel about using low-flying drones to smuggle drugs across the US-Mexico border rather like a scaled down V1.

In this case, however, it strikes me as a bit too likely to attract attention. I reckon a gas mortar firing tennis-balls full of drugs would be a lot cheaper and less likely to get caught.
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This seems to be a lot about education rather than anything else. Poorly educated people are hard up all over the world, but in states where there isn't a social security safety net they end up in sweatshops.
While there's someone poorer than you somewhere in the world there's someone who can undercut you, though this is more true of low-skilled work for uneducated people.
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pomokey:- Except it may be wrong. Retailers are supposed to make unit prices in the UK, but the units appear to be left to their choice, so not only can they choose units that make it hard to compare, but also there's more scope for errors.

Also - the larger packet isn't always the cheapest. Heinz ketchup is often cheaper in the second largest pack in UK stores.
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My brother's got a ha-ha. It's not quite as good as it's supposed to be - young lambs and frisky rams can just about leap up it and get into the orchard. He doesn't mind much though - I suppose he like the exercise.
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This is what I hate about My Little Cash Cow. Every time Hasbro has to pay the mortgage they slap a different sticker on the poor thing's arse and send it out the door to milk small girls' parents the world over.

Oh, and the same goes for the apocryphal "Daisy Meadows" the the awful Rainbow Magic books. There's about as much thought in each of those as in a My Little Cash Cow repaint.
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It's someone else's idea of what's good - of course it doesn't reflect reality. If it did, we'd not need shops, choice, different sorts of anything, we'd all be like her. Or me.
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It's be interesting to know two things.

Firstly, what's the cost/benefit of this decision - not just in the narrow sense, but in the wider sense of the impact on small traders and kids' enjoyment of a wider range of items that arent mass-produced.

Secondly, who lobbied for the law.
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