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Well the zoos are the ones making them assholes, they want them to be absolutely ready when the female is fertile.

It seems the feminist movement got to the panda communities before the zoos could. Now they're too self-respecting to let themselves be mounted purely for the survival of the species.

Have the zoos considered finding male pandas who aren't assholes?

Sounds like my ex! Am i rite ,folks?!

[quote="Jewlian"]I don't understand why we can't simply give them Viagra.[/quote]

It's not the male panda that is causing the problems. The ladies are only fertile for a 36 hour block each year and the one in the news recently is in Edinburgh, where the male panda attempted to multiply the species but the female punched him in the face.

There would be no change in gravitational attraction due to increased wang volume, it only represents a relocation of blood rather than a gain of mass.

I don't understand why we can't simply give them Viagra.

Shut up Spinalcold, we're talking about Pandas now!

I've always assumed they are inherently and ironically racist.

I'm thinking that some of the reason for the high price is to prevent tampering and saving of formulas. still doesn't explain the crazy cost, but may explain some of it.

It's popular amongst many self-proclaimed cynics and wits to let the panda die out.

But would we want them to let us die out? What would Jesus want us to do?

The problem is that pandas have a strict "no fatties" rule.

Oh god, well then isn't it our [i]duty[/i] as fellow sentient beings to help them breed.

Although we're doing that with the panda and we are not being met halfway there.

You guys are all idiots.

Clearly the reason that graphing calculators are so expensive is that they are actually nearly extinct sentient beings.

The reason the prices don't come down is that the only reason people buy a TI-83 is because they are required to for school. So, as long as prices aren't so high that they inspire people to complain to the school, it doesn't matter - you don't have any choice in what calculator you buy anyway.

[quote="Drocket"][quote="JTDC"]Patents are more responsible.[/quote]

I find that explanation somewhat questionable, since patents last 20 years.
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Unless Disney owns them

[quote="Drocket"][quote="JTDC"]Patents are more responsible.[/quote]

I find that explanation somewhat questionable, [/quote]

I imagine they continue to be that expensive because students are required to buy them and I've yet to see any teacher/professor use anything but a TI after many years of school.* So TI basically has a captive market. It might not be a huge market, but it is a stable one that has little other choice.

[size=85]*My mom bought me a non-TI graphing calculator when I was in high school a long time ago. The teacher had no idea how to use it and I had great difficulty following any of the class demonstrations because the UI was completely different. It sucked[/size]