« Reply #14 on: Sun, 15 December 2013, 08:53:47 »
I get the idea of why NIB is appealing to some but in practice
Not everybody puts it back into storage. Some people just want a virgin to make sure that nobody else has done anything previously to mess it up.
There is a member here who really wants a Model F 122-key terminal keyboard, but will not buy it unless it is new. Good luck with that! Some of those places like "overstock-computer-parts.com" will list them as if they have them in stock, but they do not actually exist.
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“No political truth is of greater intrinsic value, or is stamped with the authority of more enlightened patrons of liberty: The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands .… may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny.” —James Madison, Federalist 47
“All the powers of government, legislative, executive, and judiciary, result to the legislative body. The concentrating of these in the same hands, is precisely the definition of despotic government. An ELECTIVE DESPOTISM was not the government we fought for; but one .... in which the powers of government should be so divided and balanced among several bodies of magistracy, as that no one could transcend their legal limits, without being effectually checked and restrained by the others.” — Thomas Jefferson, commentary on Federalist 48
