Like Wi-Fi, It's short for "Wigh-Digh". Idiot.

"first.. he was iliterate... how an iliterate people can count up to 100,000"

duh, pretty easily. 1, two, seven, capital A, smiley face, beer, dragonfly, 100,000.

Counting's not rocket surgery.

Presumably if you are selling widgets with the images AND you expect to do business in Mexico, you would. If not, you don't have to.

Wait, so if I understand you correctly, we are talking about $250 US per image. I have no idea how many images but let's just say $10,000 worth, or 40 different images.

Wouldn't it just be cheaper for starbucks to pay the $10K to Mexico than to go through all the trouble of hiring lawyers and stuff to fight this?

12345? That's the stupidest zip code I've ever heard in my life. That's the kind of code an idiot would have on their luggage.

"Is the movie 2012 a documentary ?"

Yeah, its a depiction of what happens when Palin/Beck win the upcoming election.

HEY! Cover your mouth when you cough!

Bad comparison. De-pussification is not the same as butchering.

That's OK, you should see how the Japanese butcher our words.

"Slashdot also reported study on mislabeling in 2008"

If by "reported" you actually mean "linked to an article in the NY Times which reported on".

"Let's see how far this lawsuit gets before the Supreme Court plays its wildcard in the Bilski case, which we have been discussing for a while now"

Um, if they make it all the way to the Supreme Court, then doesn't that, by definition, mean that they've made it pretty far? I mean, in legal matters, the SC is pretty much almost as far as one can possibly make it.

"Most IT work is like a janitor (Sysadmin) or a construction worker (programmer)."

You forgot Digital Buttwiper.

Tuition has outpaced inflation in publicly funded institutions because of shrinking state appropriations. Its pretty simple really. Somebody has to pay for education. If its not going to be the state, then tuition has to rise.

Can universities cut costs? Is there some degree of waste on some campuses? Absolutely, but you can only squeeze so much blood from a stone.

The reason why state funded schools are relatively cheap and private schools are relatively expensive is because of the difference in government funding, not because of some sort of wasteful spending, marketing, or evil scheming. Its because education is hard to do, and expensive to do right, and nobody wants to pay for it.

Incidentally, nobody really is bitching about private schools raising tuition.

Oh yeah, that's definitely the explanation. Tuition is high because the president of the college sits around in his office all day and lights his cuban cigars with rolls of hundred dollar bills, while wearing a tophat and monocle and scheming how to bilk the hapless freshman.

It couldn't possibly be that the cost of maintaining a university as a dedicated place of learning is just naturally expensive, what with the hundreds of content experts they employ and the hundreds of buildings they maintain. And it definitely is not linked in any way to publicly funded institutions having their appropriations from the state yanked back to pre-1993 levels.