Yeah but it rather looks as though you're voting for Cheap not voting for US-Made!

Yes, it is. a fake bomb threat can directly cause harm to other people, insofar as it causes panic amongst public (also see: crying fire in a theatre) This, clearly, could (and did) cause a waste of police time which is in itself a) unwanted behaviour and b) illegal, but it's not as potentially harmful as a bomb threat.

In statute, perhaps - but I would suggest you wake up and smell the coffee if you genuinely believe that in practice what you say is true.

The advice I was given when travelling to Romania this year was to leave my passport in the hotel safe, and if asked for ID by a police officer, explain where it was and invite them to accompany me back to my hotel to see it. If the police really wanted to see it, this is hardly an unreasonable offer, and it nicely reduces the chances of it being nicked.

I would think that this spirit of the legislation is in requiring foreign nationals to be able to produce ID when requested, but not necessarily have it on their person (though that legislation may be enforced with rather less leniency in some states)

Topped with a light smattering of redundant apostrophes

Actually yes, that's a decent suggestion but it doesn't beat the simplicity of Winamp (nor, apparently that other thingy, but we've yet to see about that)

Well, y'know, extremely, I'd have thought. And getting that engine to mach 0.9 will be tricky too, unless you want to use an wind tunnel, but you'd need a disposable one of those, because I don't think they react well to being sandblasted and having jet engines explode in them. Unless you know differently, in which case of course be my guest

Plus whilst they did restart all four engines, one failed again right afterwards anyway. There seems to be a hint of 'well even that incident turned out alright and there's less ash here now so it'll be fine' but the thing that made the remaining three engines OK whilst affecting number four was basically luck, for want of a better and more scientific term, and there's really no clear reason why whatever affected that fourth engine couldn't, didn't and wouldn't affect the others next time

And still others depend on the regularity of it - look at Kenya, whose biggest export (fresh flowers and produce) requires regular shipment out form their refrigerated warehouses and such. With the fridges at airport and fields full, there was every chance of massive spoilage (though I don't believe it got that bad) and frankly, there's little could have been done to prevent that.

Right, well then I'll take a look. But if you're wrong then I'm going to come over to your house, uninstall your fancy media player and install iTunes, Quicktime, Adobe everything and Java on your computer. So there.

Is there a better all-purpose, lightweight media player with a plethora of plugins and support for just about every format around? Is there an objectively better way to play the 13 MP3s that constitute an album?

I honestly cannot imagine how you ended up on Slashdot, let alone as registered user. Really now, we consider that someone 'stealing' (there are enough off-topic threads on that definition already) phone service is meriting jail? Troll or idiot, I can't decide, but I don't much like the idea of either...

You don't get to buy a product then bitch that it doesn't do what you wanted it to.

If it advertises itself as all the things you want, but turns out not to be, then fine. But you attempting to impress upon it your ideals after you've bought it is ridiculous.

You know you can't do a number of things on an iPad(/Phone/Pod) so if that's a problem, don't buy one. Move on.

Dude, seriously. Apple, and certainly Steve Jobs have every right to design their product in any which way they want, (except perhaps making it a deadly weapon.) I can design, manufacture and market a range of single-pronged forks if I like, or a television that can only receive single-digit channels. You, if you like, can not buy it.

Forget this is Apple for a moment, just imagine it's x company making y product. It doesn't do what you want it to do, or it doesn't do it in the way you want it to, or perhaps it even specifically prevents you from doing some things you might have liked to do.

It won't let you do what you want. So don't buy it, fine. (I certainly won't, but then I've no use for a tablet PC) But please, everyone, stop feeling the need to tell everyone how outraged you are and they you'll be taking your business elsewhere. You (general comment here, not specifically aimed at OP) have an over inflated sense of the impact of your consumer decisions on Apple's (or anyone's) income.

FTFY