"Zero tolerance is for things like, violence, gun possesion, possesion of drugs, harassment, cheating, etc, etc."

You are doing exactly what parent is criticizing, and for exactly the same reason. Violence (self defense), gun possession (BB Gun, toys), possession of drugs (OTC, prescription, etc), harassment (online? name calling?), cheating (plagiarism, failed footnote).

You really, really need to rethink.

I put forth that "everyone is happy with an iPhone" until they realize what it can do when it is jailbroken. Then they are not so happy. In my case its even worse, a factory iPhone is practically unusable as it can't vibrate continuously and intensely and can't put my schedule on its lock screen.

I have an iPhone that is hacked to within and inch of its life. I will be replacing it with a Droid when my contract is up, as I am tired of playing cat and mouse with jailbreaks. I'm sure there will eventually be more like me.

4.1 was the first version you could get a CNA for...before that it was only CNE. Your memory is going as you get old...

Cadillacs in this case being analogous to a really good health care system, which we don't have. High costs for middling care is not a good thing.

Being 37th and paying like we're number one...well, at least we're number one at something....

Why yes, yes it is. However, the crowed usually gets something of value too, a la Google. You get your search results, they get to target advertising and gather statistics on you.

An AS400 is a mid-range, not a mainframe...

FYI, the Euro is tanking against the dollar right now, as investor's fear of a crash of the Euro due to the PIGS. And that is against an already heavily devalued dollar. Now would not be a good time to deny European banks access to the American market. Your plan would pretty much ensure the demise of the Euro as European countries end up pulling out of the Eurozone so they don't have to bail out the PIGS. If they don't figure out some way to devalue the Euro even further for the countries that are in deep trouble (Greece), people are going to have to start cleaning the crap off the walls....

Why wouldn't it, the iPhone does.

And your inane argument contends that the current way is the best way. They are out whoring themselves because they need money to win. If they didn't have to compete against others who had massive war chests then they wouldn't need the money. Then they would need to go out and whore themselves to get VOTES, which is exactly what I want them to do.

Your argument is that if you flood them with money, well, then they won't have to go out and get it. Well yes, but now who are they whores to? Who opened the flood gates? Yes, the corporations, not the people.

Since when did a corporation take a political stand on anything, endorsing anything? Corporations will contribute bucket loads of cash to EVERYONE, and in so control the entire process. Your simplistic thinking is almost cute...this isn't about one political ideology against another, its about corporations running things vs. the people. Democrats, republicans, libertarians, progressives, teabaggers, gays, right/left/up..it doesn't mean much now and especially won't mean anything in the future. It will be us (the people) against them (the corporations).

SysRq is the print screen button, and I use it all of the time too. It is cut and paste for me, alt-printscreen (or control-printscreen) then shift-printscreen. Fastest screen paste in the west....

I would like to know where my damages are. How can Microsoft sell a product with a feature, lose an intellectual property case, then take the feature out of my copy by way of "patch". Didn't I pay for that feature? Microsoft has done this before, and I didn't get a refund. How can they keep doing this without eventually even acknowledging that they are removing features from *my* product, not *their* product?

Well, just try disabling NetBIOS in a large enterprise. See how much stuff breaks...your first big-time IT job just became your last.

Ha! An old schooler. I remember back then I was examining some of this work. Everyone started running WINS servers on the net, trying to figure out how to scale and secure everything. It was fun, but man, there were so many problems in the modern era of the hacking mafia I don't see any way that it could have worked. Perhaps if NetBIOS had been improved at the rate the other protocols were over the same time, it could have happened... Keep in mind that Microsoft held on to NetBIOS like a rabid badger until the very end, and even tried to crush your Samba program like a bug (as I am sure you are aware). I think I'm happier using protocols on the net that Microsoft has little control over.