The parents bought it for their business and for us kids.

I'll never forget sliding up to a Chase Bank ATM in the car and being greeted by an XP Desktop.

Wonder what the financial sector has done, or will do, between now and the EOL.

Flashback? My mother got bit by it and I spent a hour or two remoted in cleaning and securing.

But hey, I'm just another anecdotal tale myself. : )

"Will the public ever sour on [tech gadgets produced in China] in light of the constant media attention on supplier working conditions?"

FTFY, because if we face facts Apple is simply the richest, most high profile company using Chinese manufacturing at this time.

If Apple had it's 1999 or 2000 market cap I'm not sure we'd be hearing squat about this.

Many things that are desirable can be bad for you, or are outright addictive. Our fixation on fossil fuels as disposable assets to power transportation arguably qualifies as both.

Another thing to consider: The world added 80.1M cars to the gasoline leech line last year alone, every one of which was outside the US (PDF documentation).

Face it, we've exported our bad habits to the world, and now we're going to have to compete for resources we've taken for granted for decades.

As No Child Left Behind.

Learning is the *student's* responsibility; or has the old adage "You can lead a horse to water..." been thrown out the window along with common sense?

Ha-HA!

Like it affects uptake of all opiate/opiate-analog painkillers, then the vaccinated has an operation/accident/dental procedure and literally has to bite the bullet?

an iota of attention?

Barretta quotes aside, this is something that public schools are no longer able to do.

You can't "punish" Johnny for fear of reprisal from a variety of sources, and make no mistake, with the levels of parental non-involvement, Johnny *needs* some reining in.

Now, does the school need to keep $190K of "fees"? No. They need to make an effort to do something visible and positive with that money, preferably involving the students, in their communities. That would be a lesson everyone could get behind.

Heartland concludes their attributable post with "But honest disagreement should never be used to justify the criminal acts and fraud that occurred in the past 24 hours. As a matter of common decency and journalistic ethics, we ask everyone in the climate change debate to sit back and think about what just happened."

My question to them?

Where was that same call for reasoned response in 2009? (http://www.factcheck.org/2009/12/climategate/)

Train 'em right, and they'll never leave.

Wasn't there a church with that same philosophy?

"It's not that we didn't maintain our infrastructure, or improve it, didn't do cost analysis on expected usage, expect that our heavily subsidized sales would result in an explosion of users, or were incapable to realizing that you would actually believe our marketing.

No, it's because YOU surf to too much."

Right. I have some wonderful retirement property in Death Valley I'll sell ya cheap.

Post the Wired link to every Senator and Congressman's FB page and Twitter account.
Sit back.
Watch the hilarity ensue.