Intel makes more money on Itanium than AMD makes period...

If by "cash" you mean American federal reserve notes, you certainly cannot redeem them for gold. You could trade the cash for gold if someone were willing, but you can't empty all of your accounts and go up to Fort Knox demanding your gold anymore.

I would place the burden of proof on those that say electronics don't harm avionics considering if they're wrong, 300 people die a fiery death unnecessarily.

Correction. It is a publicly traded business, owned by private citizens and collectives. A municipally held utility would be an example of a publicly owned business.

So, Android, Blackberry, WebOS, and WinMo phones aren't competition to the iPhone? Sure, the Apple App Store is the only place to (officially) get iPhone software, but you're free to buy competing phones if you are opposed to the restrictions of that store. Since Apple does not have a monopoly on smart phones, it's perfectly legal for them to decide who gets to hang out in their walled garden and who gets the boot using any arbitrary rules they might want to impose.

Here's my attempt at a bean analogy. I run a store and I sell a magic bowl. The only food you can eat out of this bowl is food from my store. I don't sell beans, so you can't eat beans out of my magic bowl. I also have a history of randomly deciding other types of food aren't allowed in my bowls, and I generally don't care what customers think about it because I think my magic bowl is way easier to use than the competition (and I'm raking in money hand over fist). There are 4 other stores on the block with their own magic bowls and they each offer different combinations of food for their bowl. You're welcome to browse all 5 stores before buying a magic bowl from any of them.

Yeah, I have a friend that is a former EMT. He always said their rule of thumb for night accidents was "if you haven't found a drunk person yet, keep looking. They were either thrown from a vehicle or are wandering nearby in a daze."

Ever notice how the "please provide proof" people never come back when you call their bluff? Always makes me smile.

I think it would be awesome to use his driver's license at the liquor store...

Apple only says that iOS devices work with software that comes from their App store and they make the rules for their App store.

I'm a white male starting my PhD in the fall and I'm getting more money from the state of Arkansas than a foreigner would because I'm an Arkansas resident. I also had my undergrad degree fully funded by a state scholarship (to the tune of around $80,000). My university is practically begging locals to pursue a PhD. My foreign colleagues generally have to pay full retail and don't get the federally backed student loans my wife is relying on for her AuD. By the time I finish my PhD, it's looking like my state will have paid somewhere in the neighborhood of $250,000 to educate me. I'm thankful for that and plan on living in Little Rock for the rest of my life so my taxes can help future students.

Do you think the Stig is the same person each week? My theory is that they created the Stig persona so that they could have a handful of pro drivers in rotation. A pro racer could be anywhere in the world during a given week, so the Stig character enables them to have a rotating stable of drivers. Oh, and of course the practical concern is secondary to the Stig being a really great joke.

I don't know what field you're in, but there's probably a professional organization that gets access to those papers that you can join at student rates and still get access to the articles. If you're studying computer science, an ACM student membership will set you back $42 per year and give you access to a large volume of journals online. I'm fairly certain most other disciplines have similar student access to their professional organizations.

Someone above said (and I don't claim it's true, I'm just saying it's possible) that one of the specific apps for jailbroken tethering spoofs the user agent string on HTTP requests to match the user agent string from Safari on the phone.

He accidentally the verb, of course.

Your astounding rhetoric has convinced me. I now realize that Pokemon is the best thing in the world.