> The British nuclear weapons have been bought from America, and contain secret self destruct codes that Uncle Sam can turn on anytime it wants to blow the UK up.

So true. I had the exact same dream. And people claim that we are making this stuff up!

1. You assume that everybody has an LVDS panel lying around that they can use with the HDMI-LVDS converter you linked to.
2. The HDMI-LVDS converter you linked to costs $53. $35 + $18 shipping. I am not sure why 50 gram package costs $18 to ship. Shady. USPS can ship a small flat rate box anywhere in the country for about $5. And that is for 2-day delivery.

For some of us a package that includes panel, case and a converter is a better way to go than an overpriced converter alone.

I shoot videos with my DSLR. And I have often wanted a portable HDMI monitor for my rig. When I looked, I was quite surprised to find out that no reasonable options exist. Most portable HDMI monitors utterly suck. They are bulky and max out the resolution at 800x480 or 1024x768. The ones that do not suck are uber expensive. Since this is just a hobby for me, I did not want to shell out the big bucks.

I have been quite surprised that I can buy a $200 Nexus 7 tablet with 1080P display, but cannot get a 1080p or even a 720p portable monitor for anything even close to that.

Don't be a doofus. Is the 19" one portable? No! And that is important to some of us. We already have large/cheap displays. We want portable/cheap displays!

The 7" one you listed is utter joke. First of all it is not under $100. You forgot to look at the sneaky $70 shipping charge. After you add that, you are looking at $150. Oh and you also forgot to look at the resolution. 1024x768. It seems that you haven't been paying attention. But, by now, that isn't surprising.

I read the entire "The Telegraph" story. There was no mention of Pakistani spies in Britain, other than in the headline. And the two "spies" in the US, were more like lobbyists. They had donated money to politicians to get favorable opinion of Pakistani side of the Kashmir issue. This is hardly what you would call "spying".

So he is shooting at people and has already killed one TSA officer. Why even try to take him alive? If there is ever a justification for shoot first and ask questions later, this is it. Now we'll have to pay for his room and board and legal fees for years to come.

> and making sure that people have to pay vastly inflated prices to health insurers under ACA

Not true. At least for me here in Oregon, my insurance costs have gone down with the ACA. And that is without a dime of govt. assistance.

My question was: "What sort of *new* privacy concerns does the bluetooth device introduce?"

Your answer seems to imply that the older method of reading license plates is a more precise privacy busting tool. If that is correct then we are in agreement. The hoopla over bluetooth scanning of vehicles is unwarranted.

Your vehicle already had a big bright license plates, in the front and the back, advertising your license plate number to anyone who cares to look. People, cameras etc. etc. And yes we have had automated readers of license plates for quite some time. What sort of *new* privacy concerns does the bluetooth device introduce?

I imagine that you buy stuff over the internet, or hand your credit card to a high school kid working a part-time job at a restaurant. Do you perform the same level of evaluation at all these places?

Google lets me send money to other people. How is this different? I may have missed an important detail.

> ... if my email provider suddenly added an 'attach money' option and stored my card details I'd be thinking of moving to another provider that didn't integrate everything.

Wouldn't it be easier to not share your credit card details with the email provider? Rather than move away to another email provider?

I do not know if this is a good example. I have occasionally wondered if the abortion problem is mostly a manufactured problem used by the parties to divide people into groups. It appears to me that the majority supports a compromise of sorts. Late term abortions not OK, very early term abortions OK. There are people on the fringes, and they are loud but they are in minority.

I don't like buying from a dealer, but I don't like paying MSRP either. If dealing with the dealer means I save a few thousand dollars and not pay MSRP then I'll gladly sit through the upsell process and constantly say NO for an hour or so to various options they try to sell me. I have done that a few times by now and I think I have mastered it.

> If this work was being done by Americans who actually need to rely on the ACA for their health care coverage, you can bet your ass that it would have been done right - the first time.

We'd all like to believe that. Many states that setup their own local exchanges paid the big bucks to Oracle. They had similar problems too.