Of Course!
We used to spread smallpox and disease. Humanity gets much more out of the deal if we keep our victims alive.

My bad. I thought they were getting rid of the good ones entirely. Thanks for the response.

Don't get me wrong, I've love the MPB I have now. I've had it for 6 years. Before that, I had a PB G4 for 5 years. When the warranty expired, I made the fixes myself.
Problems with the new MBP Retina:

1. 1) I don't trust that they will work beyond 5 years without me tooling around the inside
2. 2) I don't want to have to trust my backups if my MBP bricks. I should be able to pull out my HDD myself and conduct recovery
3. 3) If I want a bigger HDD, I WANT TO INSTALL IT MYSELF!!!
4. 4) Information security relies on being able to remove an HDD in some cases, how can you do that on the MBP-R?
5. 5) Apple RAM is stupid expensive. I want to drop my OWN RAM in when I want to upgrade.
6. 6) I-WANT-A-FREAKIN'-ETHERNET-JACK.... JACK! Yes, I need one for the work I do. Carrying around a dongle is a huge clash with the "it just works" philosophy Apple has cultivated on this product line.
7. 7) No DVD drive is a problem... but I can get by without one.

An MBP is not a foldable iPad. It is a high-end general purpose computer. I think the App Store is a cool idea, but I hate feeling like Apple is herding me into their system to control my purchases.
I think it's safe to say you won't see me buy another MBP if they are serious about heading in this direction. I can go buy a cheaper boutique laptop that does most of what I want. I may just buy a mini for the wrest.

Sorry, it only works if your trolling in real time.

because it took an agent weeks to track down the package and pick it up from one of FEDEX's distribution centers in the boonies...
... just trolling because I've had to do that 3 times this in the last week with this guys.

They were too busy smoking cigarettes and taking naps to FIRE ZE' MISSILES...

Think about this: Mt. Everest is roughly 5.5 miles high. These "high surface features" are a little short of 2x that height and the satellites will fly roughly one Mt. Everest over that (equivalent to the cruising altitude of a commercial airliner). Now imagine that you will have the good fortune of standing on that surface feature watching it fly by at roughly 36,000 km/h or roughly 50x faster than a commercial airliner.

but AOL kept giving him free hours...

I tried yelling "BOIL!!!" over and over at the pot I was using to boil an egg just now. Never happened. Wait... wasn't there also a study proving that a watched pot never boils?

Do we really have to start worrying about Space Pirates?

/. has had users like this for years!

It would be way cheaper to build Rock Ridge... and you get twice the comedy value for it!

Because if you're Newt, English brings "enlightenment"

Because I'm NP-Awesome

The wheel WAS invented several times over. But Big Logging saw it as a threat to their log-rolling business and made sure the technology never made it to market.