That is at least partly because many people do not want to buy specific bits of hardware for particular applications.

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It could also be telling us that a rising number of investors do not want to buy it at any price.

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Shockingly, consumers do not want to buy expensive and unreliable energy.

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If you pay your kids enough to allow them to do and buy whatever they want, then they will not learn vital lessons about how to wisely allocate limited resources.

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By what stretch of the imagination (or the commerce clause), they ask, does the constitution give the feds the power to force citizens to buy insurance they do not want?

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Deposit holders who do not want the bonds will be given bank certificates that they can use to buy big ticket items such as properties and cars.

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But if we want to see the practice fade away, all players have to do collectively is not buy the packages.

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These typically do not charge for app-to-app calls, but do require the user to buy credit if they want to call or send a text to a standard mobile or landline number.

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