This is by far the most incoherent OP I have ever read. Can someone translate this guy into English?

What does that have to do with either my spending too much on luxury goods or pride? And in any case, you have presented no evidence to substantiate your claims.

My iPhone cost me $25 after trading in a used hand-me-down during a sale at RadioShack. Hardly a "large ... expenditure of money," unnecessary or not. And I don't see how it's a status symbol at all.

Orrin Hatch is a U.S. senator from Utah. I don't think he tried anything in Michigan. Not very "informative" if you ask me.

That's not remotely true. I don't know where you got that idea. In Catholicism, the doctrine is that Jesus Christ had a dual nature, both human and divine. I'm unaware of any Catholic tradition that speaks of the Eucharist as the "Body of Jesus" instead of the "Body of Christ." If you were to find one, I'd be highly skeptical that they are in communion with Rome.

Australia is about as far East as it gets. And anime/manga porn is legal in the United States, regardless of whether it depicts children or adults. That's not to say that most Americans think it's a good thing. Most, including me, condemn its existence. But a government can't prohibit books and text and illustrations unless it has the authority to prohibit books and text and illustrations, and a government that has that authority is an inherently dangerous one.

If your concept of code reuse makes the code bigger, you're doing it wrong.

If your concept of code reuse makes the code less legible, you're doing it wrong.

You ate the sandwich on the hot dog buns and the hot dogs on the sandwich rolls?

Wha?

Yes but as someone who reads Slashdot regularly, the problem is that the ratio of users who know how to use ratios vs those who THINK they know how to use ratios is approx. 1,000,000 to 1.

Which wouldn't actually be a problem, except that you're the 1.

1. Customers paying $100/mo think they are entitled to $100 worth of network services and reliability

Fixed that for you.

My MBP just turned 3-years-old a couple weeks ago, and it's in like-new condition. 2.16GHz, BTO 2GB RAM (I might upgrade this to 4GB at some point), 120GB hard drive (also an upgrade candidate).

I guess laptops don't really count for this question, since it's nearly impossible to perform a "big" upgrade on a laptop - just minor upgrades like adding RAM or a larger hard drive.

And frankly, without the large educational sector in Boston, the city would be a run-down industrial dinosaur like Pittsburgh or Detroit. There would be no thriving biotech or IT sector in Boston without all the educational spin-offs and a large pool of skilled labor.

Yeah, seriously. Kendall Square is a hugely important part of the Boston economy.

Carnegie Mellon is not a state school. Their tuition is $40,300 per year. http://www.cmu.edu/hub/sa/sa_tuition.html

It's often best to know what you're talking about before opening your mouth.

Whoops. I'm a dumb***

as long as Alfred is the only one who can use it