Right, that's obvious bullshit, since I read a book when I fly, and am completely inattentive. No one minds.

Considering digilent just announced THIS yesterday, ...

http://www.digilentinc.com/Products/Catalog.cfm?NavPath=2,892&Cat=18

Arduino Uno/Mega compatible, 80mhz, moar pins, on-board ethernet.

$50.

This other thing is crap in comparison.

Isn't there a photo of dead Bin Laden that's been all over the internet and 4chan?

And now it's making coffee like in Pulp Fiction.

"You don't have to tell me how good the coffee is; I MAKE the fucking coffee. When humans make coffee, they make SHIT!"

Also, this joke was already old and stupid 20 years ago when I was in high school.

You know, on the flipside, the TomTom also gives you a loud audible warning when approaching any intersection with a traffic camera.

They are selling out both sides of this war!

Plenty of businesses have to take this sort of thing into account. Look at any food service; they have to constantly calculate their 'food cost' and margin because food they buy doesn't always equal portions served; you sometimes get more or less in a dish, not to mention the stuff the cook dropped on the floor and didn't put back in the bowl, plus what the employees helped themselves to....

I thought stoners were the people who staffed the food service industry. I guess either I was wrong or they were just too high to notice how the business works.

I know at least three places in my immediate area that will deliver a burger, and they arrive quite tasty.

On the flipside, I can't find a single Indian place that will deliver!

You can have that today. That the bus or train.

If you haven't got 'em, take a carpool. Or taxi.

For true nerds, not buying into fallacious arguments is the only game in town.

Can't mod so I'll just say THIS.

Seriously, if you are dumb enough to believe in this stuff, I guess you're also too dumb to have any sense of self-preservation. It's just sad that there ARE no such things as ghosts or else they'd have taken out the idiots already.

I can tell you this is true; my brother tried calling me from Prison here in Illinois. There's only one way to do it, you have to work through this company that the state contracts with, and the fees they charge are INSANE. I wrote it all down at the time but I've lost it... it was something like $6 to connect and $.75/minute to talk.

They put the wrong people in the jail! Those folks are ROBBERS, pure and simple.

No really. Talk about depressing. It's about a six-year old kid and his mom, the kid dies. That's sad enough, but they have to give you some horrible details and imagery that's incredibly depressing.

I'm gunna go run a hot bath and slit my wrists now. Or maybe make some toast.

Which other system is both easier and cheaper?

Reprap Prusa; cheaper, not easier. Same results.
UP!; easier, not cheaper. Better results.

Are there any other serious contenders before you get completely out of desktop price range?

If you have more money and want something that is quality out of the box, that you don't have to build, check into the UP! printer.