I agree with you that shit happens in manufacturing. I buy electronics products with my fingers crossed, always hoping they are in the "good batch".

This is a different case. Other manufacturers are reporting the same problem in 2003. However, Dell just kept on churning out 11 million PCs from 2003 to 2005.

Wow, took them 2 years to discover the problem and educate their support to cover the problem? For what? Capacitors that costs a few pennies each? In exchange for their goodwill and brand name? How much is the Dell name worth now?

Nothing to me. The capacitors still costs a few pennies each though.

It may actually cost Dell less to stop production, wait for new capacitors before continuing. Retail consumers may not care, but Dell have no integrity at all to bulk purchasers and will have to push prices further down to attract any new customers. Dell have nothing to gain in this debacle, short or long term.

That will depend on how you look at it. If taking the placebo means you will still die of the disease you take the pill for, the author interpretation is valid.

Some traffic lights are handicapped friendly, ie they beep so the blind knows its ok to cross.

I live near one in an apartment block, if the button doesn't work my neighbors and I will get to hear the traffic light beep all day long.

Can everyone in the world sue Facebook? Considering everyone actually has a "Face" and Facebook used it as a trademark?

What planet are you from?

The government requires them to. Value Added Tax and Import Duties.
Add wages and transport costs the price should be the same as third world.

Care to share some example of high level work being outsourced? Thanks.

You mean $0 No wages to Chinese workers -> starve to death and $100 to American workers -> new car every year The dirty little secret of armchair economist.

Singapore is not a third world country. The median personal income in Singapore is very similar to that of America's. Your example may be out of the articles's context.

Thanks to getting rid of you, my iPad costs $900 instead of $9000.

This is what you get paying another president to spend 7 trillion on an unnecessary war.

they deserve jobs India can do for a cheaper price?

If the parents of the girl are liable, so are the care givers of the old lady. Someone must be looking after the 4yr old girl on the sidewalk. Why the fuck is there no one to look after the 87 yr old? If the 4yr old knocks into the 87 yr old and dies, is the old lady liable? As if the old lady is fast enough to avoid an incoming bike. How this case goes to court is beyond reason.

Nope, he was not done on a technicality. If he used a megaphone to say the same things he would have been beaten into a bloodly pulp that will take more than 18 weeks to heal. I don't think he will find a sympathetic prosecutor, judge or jury.