There is no Free Market, The Free Market is handled in back rooms and the winners are the ones that fix the game. If we lived in a free market, things would look like Mad Max and Aretha Franklin would rule us all!

Let me just say this is very typical, I work for a big company that provides internet service, and it comes down to luck really, Any of these big ISP's can provide good service for a very long time with no issues, but if for some reason you have a hard to trace down issue that happens intermittently, the chances of you getting the attention it takes to solve that issue is not good. The bigger the company the smaller your problem is to them. If its something obvious that can be fixed quick you are ok, but if you have real issue, you can be waiting very long.

You can not fine them too much, or they will be so scared of fines and court battles, they will hold back and not hire people, you do not want that do you?

I think if it had been very obvious that it was Bush or Obama's head, I would have thought it was in bad taste, but when you actually see the head, you would never have known that was a Bush head if they had not have said something.

For me it was the scroll wheel, iTunes was a pain for me, I wanted to just copy my MP3's to the iPod, but because the wheel made it possible to go thru the 60gigs of MP3's I was loading on the device, it won me over, I stil have 2 old gen ipods (60gig and 80gig) and a iPad, i do not consider myself a Apple fan at all, and run home built PC's in my home. But the user interface of the iPod and iPad were both something worth buying. Sure there were tablets before the iPad, but the UI sucked so bad no one wanted one. I am not a big Apple fan, but give credit where credit is due, We now have many tablets that look like iPads, sure Apple did not invent the tablet, but they made it work and now everyones UI looks like Apples.

Or it could be a total BS advertisment I guess!

Anyone out there know anything about IPDR and how the communications companies use it today?

This is the third time now someone has posted that Greenpeace called ahead and that was why they were not killed, but it does not mention this in the article and no one has posted a link to where you get your info, you mind posting a link to where you are getting your part of this story? Or you just repeating what someone else posted 50 posts ago and figure they would not make shit up?

Using Midi controllers like many people mentioned would be the easiest way, but agree that many people in the Flight Sim community could help with building something more specific to your needs. I worked for a flight simulator company many many years ago, that made a flight simulator that eventually got bought by Jeppesen Sanderson (if you do not know them then you do not fly airplanes IFR, at least not commercially) and I used to put these consoles together for them (maybe 10-15 a day) for many years, was a cool job, and learned allot about PC's and hardware back then. All I can say is that these consoles were not easy to do yourself, but might be allot easier now a days. Here is the only picture of the console I built everyday I could find online anymore, kind of sad but this was pre/early internet days before companies had websites even.

I see no reason you can not have it both ways, it comparing apples and oranges really, its like saying, hardware running Linux fails more than Mac's that might be true, but that has nothing to do with the fact than the hardware people run Linux on is crap half the time. If you want a true comparison of the value of the OS compare Mac's with PC's running Linux on nice hardware. The article tries to make peole think that all Android phones are the same, and if you bought a nice Android phone you could have more issues than on a iphone, when thats not the case really.

I agree, its good to know not everyone is going crazy out there.

Well said! I think its really sad you can not mention a union or the idea of a union anymore in the US without someone telling you how thier Dad or Grandfather says they are the devil. My grandfather worked hard in a factory his who life and told me nothing but that it was the unions that gave us a middle class and finally made companies pay a decent wage. But somehow I think the companies figured out how to fight the unions, make them look bad, they will force you to join them and make more money. After all a union is just a group of workers that join together to fight for their rights, because everyone knows a company will fire anyone that stands up for themselves in fear it will grow to the rest. So make them all look liek the Mofia runs them all, because we all know there could never be a good union made up of workers that just want to stick up for themselves, they must ALL be evil.

Sounds about like any test I have ever taken to me, but I hate written tests anyway.

To be really honest, I for one love to eat meat, but can not stomach the thought of actually killing an animal myself, not even a ulgy animal.
I really love animals, but love to eat meat allot also, so I guess am just screwed up, not really sure what to do about this, but not eating meat just seems to drastic of a food change. It also seems to me that to kill something and look it in the face and watch it die is something that is either to hard to deal with or just to real for me, not sure but I just do not want to take that step in to being able to hunt and hold up dead deers in a photo for instance.