For investors following the strategy described in this column, it may turn out to be a case of having our cake and eating it too.

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It was very much a case of wanting both the cake and to eat the brioche at the same time.

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No, we don't think this Xbox 360 case mod oddity takes the cake, but it ranks fairly high up there in the long list of mods that are impressive from a technical standpoint, but next to useless from a practicality stance.

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The moral case, although easy to sympathise with, is a way of trying to have one's cake and eat it.

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