Yeah my experience with Futureshops warranty coverage sucked and our camera was actually replaced/reapaired twice without too much complaint. The second time is why I'd never recomend extended warranty coverage. It refused to turn on one day and it would have been outside the manufacturer's warranty. We took it into future shop and they agreed to send it out for repair, it was all handled without too much difficulty. However it was more than 3 bloody months later before we saw our camera again.
Is the failed device something you actually use? Do you want to go/ can you live without it for 3 months?
Save the cost of the extended warranty and just buy a better/newer replacement for immediate use on the extremely rare occasions where the warranties might actuallly be used.
I didn't purchase the warranty above myself and in fact I've only ever bought one which I was delighted with (even if I never use it). From a repair/refurbishment center for Sony they offered a 5 year extended warranty on my PS3, the $50 extended warranty also included 3 brand new games (from a choice of around 50, I took Drake3 and GoW3 plus something else) and a second brand new controller.
Most extended warranties suck and are just a very nice extra profit for the store, the only time I've ever personally seen one used the experience was so slow I would much rather not have had the warranty at all, I felt obliged to make use of it when it would have been better to just replace the device.

You might want to ease up on the rum; you go by 'Dread Pirate Robberts' nowadays and don't want to let that secret slip.

A thumb drive is a method of hitching a lift, flash drives would be something like a Lamborghini and memory sticks are like ummm....Christine maybe.

I use XP mode almost daily but find VMware player to be much faster and a more pleaseant experience. I forget the exact steps but it was pretty simple to use the free XP mode download with VMware instead of the default in Win7.

Here is a tellephone call with Astronaut Scott Carpenter speaking to President Johnson from the helium atmosphere in the 1963 Sealab II project. The President's operator is very suspicous of Scott's voice and they have some trouble getting connected to the President. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gg0pMbc7Opk

I was quiet impressed with the fact both headlight bulbs in my Hyundai died in the same week after ~13 years of use. If the lifetime were anymore consistent I might have been stuck in the dark without replacements; as it was I had the second replacement close at hand when I needed it. I admit this is not very relevant to the topic at hand but horrah for chaos and randomness.

The worms that go in are long and thin,
The worms that come out are fat and stout.

Not the best place to ask I imagine but... Does anyone know which Pouges song these lyrics were from? (it might have been more of an intro to the song rather than actual lyrics as they have never come up on a search)

I didn't see this episode but I assume it is a homage to Dice Man by Luke Rhinehart. The purpose of the dice in the book was quite different as it was a way to achieve freedom by removing his responsibility in choices. It was a pretty interesting and thought provoking read so I thought I'd recomend it here. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dice_Man

I was amused to see a can of WD-40 being wielded above an F1 car before it left the garage for qualifying ealier in this season.

I had a temporary warehouse job where I worked with drug sniffing drones; generally a bunch of tedious mother&*@#*s.

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I've never failed to get a job after serving the interviewer with a Gargle Blaster and despite the reoccurring dreams noticing I'm half naked in the middle of the interview has never been a hindrance.
On the other hand being over qualified, under qualified or just plain nervous have been problems. I'm glad it turns out that in these cases the interviewer was in the wrong rather than myself.

Your maths is a little wrong in the second case. You still only sell two games and Gamestop or whomever sells the third.

I like the way it works in video games, such as Wipeout and a hundred others. To recharge your electric car without even stopping just pull into the lane with the glowing >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> and in a matter of seconds your fully charged. If your car could be charged every few miles you would need far smaller battery packs saving weight and whatever rare or unpleasant materials your batteries are made of. I hate filling my car with gas in the winter and I'm not keen on the concept continuing with electric vehicles. In fifteen years of driving I've rarely ever emptied an entire tank in a single journey, I fill up because of the inconvenience not because I need the range. I'm aware of certain impracticalities with the above suggestion but electric vehicles are different to ICE vehicles and we shouldn't cripple them by relying on infrastructure and ideas based on the latter.

My alternate (more fun but even less practical) idea involves distributing and then irritating huge numbers of Yorkshiremen hitch-hikers. You look for one who wants to go in the opposite direction to which you heading and you then just coast downhill both ways.