FTFY: Bad the Yoda fight either wasn't? :-)

Highlander is an excellent movie. Where else could we have a Scots actor playing a Spaniard and a French actor playing a Scotsman?

... a bit of a Tardy-is joke.

That would make this an Old Joke :-)

The question is whether you could tell the sound output in a blind test, not whether you approved of the construction quality.

...work at a very high pitch!

...not to include a couple of clunkers in the test; the sort of violins the average student may possess at high school.

He may be right about literacy rates etc. His comments are probably embellished for entertainment, and it really worked in that sense, but I suspect that it's not totally divorced from the truth.

Peanut Butter landfill time....

So passe - you only have real street cred if you have a copy of The Downfall DVD signed by Adolf....

Your point is? As a 49 year old I love my all singing all dancing Samsung Note, I like tablets (my family has 3), I like laptops (2). But because of the crappy battery life of all of them I keep a very basic mobile switched off close to hand just in case of an emergency. All of the rest aren't happy unless their charging port has a USB cable/ charger in its ass.

Q. What Would You Do With the World's Most Powerful Laser?
A: Fit it to the head of the worlds largest shark

As far as I'm aware the difference is that elections in Turkey are reasonably free and fair. In Iran you have to be an approved person to stand for election, and with Mugabe election fixing and intimidation appears to have been rife.

The last I heard was that he was Prime Minister of a party fairly elected in elections which were probably fairer than those of the US. Also his policies have not been without opposition as the riots last year have shown.

You're not wrong, but what often happens is that new patents are acquired by the company as they research their golden goose further. The original patents may have expired, but Motorola almost certainly had a library of patents covering years of research and improvements in the field.