Of course, since everybody here knows Linux systems do not get attacked

don't all those companies that Amazon competes against elso provides jobs to workers who "in turn pay income taxes and sales taxes (when they purchase goods and services) which pay for the roads and infrastructure"?

It's the new math, previously put forth by Sun when they started calling Java 1.2 "Java 2".

They got the idea from GNU and Emacs: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emacs

Electricity wants to be free!

iPhones contain the long/lat of the place where the picture was taken. That's a little bit more than "letters have post marks and tell what town the sender lives in!".

Letters usually have the sender's address.

Like this?

Any company that engages in significant patent lawsuits for cash settlements (not patent portfolio license exchanges) should be classed a patent troll.

Nah, still too strict. How about anybody Slashdotters don't like who also holds any patens are patent troll?

Mobile phone account -- includes data

Paid by the company

Health insurance

Paid by the government

Home phone account -- includes broadband

Home phone - don't need, broadband - paid by company

Gym membership

Free gym at the apartment building

Car insurance or transit pass

Really only thing that applies

Birth control pill prescription

Male

NPR membership

Non-US so N/A

Oh come on, everybody knows dolphins are just gay sharks

Did the Chinese get the idea from Mad Men?

Actually, it does have something to do with it. When a woman takes parental leave, she goes on the bottom of the list to move up. And like it or not, women almost always get stuck with making sure the kids get to school, go to the doctor, etc. so she is usually the one who has to leave work early or miss an entire day on short notice, further putting her on bottom of the promotion list. When kids are sick, day care will NOT accept them (fever = no acceptance). Well shit, kids get sick all the time, and it is almost always mom that stays home with them, not dad. Who has to pick the kids up at school or day care? Mom usually gets that task.

In the US. In Norway, the fathers in my company is home just as often as the mothers.

And when a woman takes off for 2 to 3 months, PAID, it does hurt the perception of her in the workplace.

In Norway, fathers get 10 weeks paternity leave. He also gets 2 weeks leave just after the birth to take care of the mother and child (not counted towards the paternity leave).

There are still more men than women in IT in Norway.

I got a N97, and although happy with the hardware, is really unhappy about the Symbian OS. Slow response, bad UI (whether you are comparing to iPhone or the new Android or N900). Hopefully, they remove the ridiculous C/D/E drives and just use the unix unified file layout. If they hadn't done this, my next phone probably wouldn't be a Nokia phone.

I thought all Apple people decided that copy-paste was unnecessary.

Everybody knows that anything I use and/or are interest in, cause no problems at all.

I know about 3000 people driving Toyota, and one guy driving BMW. And, now that I think about it, at least 2500 Toyota users have had the car into service multiple times. That mechanic with the BMW just keeps his car going, and going, and going, and going. I think maybe he's getting some of the Energizer Bunny