Fixed that for you.

This reeks of "think of the children". Instead of going nanny-corp on us, why not spin the positive marketing angle? "Official Apple Accessories: Ours WON'T electrocute the shit out of you".

It's not, because he didn't..

They had to create the molds for the part before they rolled the car off the line. They produced two(?) of them for ever unit, plus scrap factor, plus extra stock for whatever failure rate they expected for x amount of years. The cost of the tooling was already factored into the cost of producing the car. The only reason why there should ever be extra cost incurred is many, many years down the line when the spare stock is depleted and there exists a sufficient demand for more. A $1 piece of plastic on a recently produced car should not cost $100+.

Do combat personnel feel emotions regarding the loss of other pieces of equipment, such as rifles or transport vehicles? If a pilot has to ditch a multi-million dollar aircraft, does he not feel anger/sadness/guilt? Have these feelings been shown to be an emotional attachment, or feelings of personal failure, etc?

Normal was a cakewalk; almost a tutorial. The difficulty did not scale in a linear fashion after that. They also adjusted the difficulty after release, and fixed some bugs and exploits..

Even if a legendary dropped, the chance of it being of any use to me was extremely small, so I wasn't holding my breath. I just realized after I quit playing, that I had never seen one drop, ever.

Which would be a valid point, if anything nice ever dropped. I played through the game 6 times, on two characters (one through hell, one half way through inferno), and never saw a single legendary item drop. True upgrades to gear petered out after Nightmare, which pretty much forced you into the AH to just be able to advance without being slaughtered. Diablo has always been about buckets of trash and vendor loot, with the occasional gem thrown in to make it worth your while. I found none of that in D3, just mounds and mounts of garbage. Unless they tune the loot rates to account for NOT having the AH, it'll be even less desirable for me to give the game another shot.

They could go through all this trouble to try and capture your code, defeat your security system.. Or, they could go to one of the other hundreds of thousands of houses in the country that have no security system whatsoever. You want to keep a burglar at bay? Get a dog with a mean sounding bark.

Japan has earthquakes too, much more often and intense than we have on the west coast (we haven't actually had a large one since 1999). Japan has a fairly substantial rail system, complete with high speed lines. If they can do it, why can't we?

Three? How about four. Nobody ever talks about http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sodium_Reactor_Experiment It's effects are still being felt in my city today, with elevated rates of certain types of cancer, and Boeing generally being dicks about cleaning up the massive amount of contamination in the mountains immediately above a town of 100,000+

Infantry, light armor, and air support are ALL networked these days. Do you think they still relay intel by semaphore?

This was at least partially explained by the Cylon's disappearance for decades. How do you build systems to fight and defend against an enemy you haven't seen in 40 years, but who have also infiltrated your society and military? They know your weaknesses while you can only guess at theirs, with zero time to adapt due to the surprise assaults.

It looks like you've pissed somebody off and now they're just screwing with you. What would motivate a stranger to randomly open free online accounts under your email address, which they presumably don't yet control, when they can get one of their own just as easily? The days of breaking into and squatting somebody's paid AOL account are long gone. If this was true identity theft, things would start showing up on your credit report, you'd be getting nastygrams in the mail, and the collectors would start calling. Go change your passwords and move on with life.

When you factor in the various tax credits/deductions, I think I paid effectively $0 in tuition for my AS degree. Books and parking were my only major expenses, and some of the book costs can be offset by buybacks/ebay. School was more an investment in time, in my case.