I am laughing so hard I can hardly type. Take a look at this note from the San Jose Mercury news today... Did someone at Apple finally decide it was time to payback Brussels for the lead free fiasco?? Or is it an advance surcharge for banning Gallium Arsenide? Belgium sticker shock: iPhones to cost nearly $1,000; highest price in the world Department of dubious distinctions: You may be feeling oppressed and downright surly due to the soaring cost of gasoline, airline tickets, sweet corn and so forth. But have a little sympathy for those poor folks in Belgium. They finally get a chance on Friday to buy one of Apple's new iPhones and it's going to cost <http://www.mercurynews.com/breakingnews/ci_9828168> them $825 for the 8-gigabyte model and $966 for the 16-gigabyte version. In the U.S., the same phones are priced at just $199 and $299 respectively. Although the explanation our news wires provide for this is a bit fuzzy, it apparently has to do with a quirk in Belgian law. Whatever the case, the Belgians are going to be paying the world's highest prices for the gadgets and some people in that nation are in a tizzy about it. Thank goodness, nobody's tried yet to jack up the price of their Belgian waffles. John Burke (408) 515 4992 --------------------------------------------------- Technet Mail List provided as a service by IPC using LISTSERV 15.0 To unsubscribe, send a message to [log in to unmask] with following text in the BODY (NOT the subject field): SIGNOFF Technet To temporarily halt or (re-start) delivery of Technet send e-mail to [log in to unmask]: SET Technet NOMAIL or (MAIL) To receive ONE mailing per day of all the posts: send e-mail to [log in to unmask]: SET Technet Digest Search the archives of previous posts at: http://listserv.ipc.org/archives Please visit IPC web site http://www.ipc.org/contentpage.asp?Pageid=4.3.16 for additional information, or contact Keach Sasamori at [log in to unmask] or 847-615-7100 ext.2815 -----------------------------------------------------