left hand to operate gear shift.

What a bullshitter you are. The article basically says there are lot of errors in the registration systems to the point that dead people are still in the roles (not that other people are using those identities to vote), that people that move often end up registered in more than one state (not that they are voting in more than one), that a high percentage of registrations contain data errors serious enough that the voter will not receive a ballot (flawed, but not "illegal" as you insinuate), and that approximately 1 in 4 eligible voters isn't even registered. It then says that Democrats want to make it easier to register people, but that Republicans don't want that because of fear that it could introduce fraud. The last election highlighted several occurrences of voter fraud, none of which being identity fraud that the Voter ID laws Republicans have been pushing would have stopped, and the most serious being perpetrated by Republicans.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/10/25/gop-voter-fraud_n_1990104.html
http://nbcpolitics.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/10/19/14556980-gop-registration-worker-charged-with-voter-fraud?lite
http://www.salon.com/2012/10/19/gop_voter_registration_scandal_widens/
http://www.npr.org/2012/10/02/162176990/republican-firm-tied-to-voter-fraud-allegations
http://tv.msnbc.com/2013/03/06/the-real-gop-voter-fraud-employees-admit-forging-voter-registration-forms/

You must be pretty young ;) Windows 95 had a HUGE ad campaign and I seem to remember a fair number of commercials for Windows XP as well.

Uh, No! There is NO fiberglass in (smokeless) chewing tobacco or any tobacco products. There is a widespread urban myth that fiberglass is added to smokeless tobacco to increase the efficiency of nicotine absorption.[13] Although small, glass-like particles can be seen in snus, this may be due to the formation of salt crystals.[14]

You forgot that Kyocera had licensed the Palm OS for a phone before the Treo from Handspring

yes, because you HAVE to live in SF when you make a SF wage, it's not like there are cheaper communities all around it, well at least not on the ocean side ;) the reason the housing is so much more than where you live is because more people WANT to live here.

My apologies, I see now that Cisco rebranded their Linksys VoIP phone to be named iPhone in 2006 resurrecting the name

than you bought some seriously OLD hardware off the discount shelf at Fry's because the Linksys iPhone was discontinued in 2001 and the first iPhone came out in 2007

Except that 2 out of the 3 started as Mac programs first and Windows was based largely on MS experience with Apple's GUI as the largest Mac software developer outside Apple.

"A Christmas Story" has been a very popular movie since it came out and so a large percentage of us on /. probably do have a clue even if it's not first hand ;)

Dude, get back on the meds! ;)

Have you ever been in Jury selection? While the judge asks preliminary general questions that may disqualify, the lawyers most definitely get to ask questions directly to the potential jurists as well as ask followup questions, and they are each allowed to eliminate a certain number for any reason they want.

I was almost selected as a jurist for an attempted murder trial involving a firearm so the judge asked if we owned guns, were a member of NRA, related to people that are police or lawyers. When I answered some of those in the affirmative, the prosecutor then asked some follow up questions. Granted this was for a state criminal case and the Apple/Samsung was federal civil suit.

I think you have it backwards....

The Grand Parent made assertions, I made refutations

1) Apple ships logic boards with sand in the box
2) "roughly" 2/3 of Macs failing off the line

3) $200 RAM identical to RAM bought for $50 elsewhere (this is the claim I think the post before you accepted as legitimate, as do I)

All with no "qualification" other than saying he had been a tech

I refuted point 1 with my first hand experience and I'll add that since you can declare any board DOA without financial penalty to the repair shop, it's in Apple's financial interest to ship the parts in good order. I used logic to explain how silly assertion 2 is, it doesn't require a business degree to understand. Now please go ASSert yourself away.

You have no clue what you are talking about. No General or Admiral with clearance to SIPRNet is then going to turn around and tell a minion to violate every security procedure and hook up a non secure network to a secure terminal. For starters the DoD was burned too badly by thumb drive based attacks on NIPRNet and so security awareness is much greater now, and secondly I doubt most General's with clearance to SIPRNet even access it themselves let alone your preposterous scenario of wanting to watch NetFlix.

yes, definitely don't sell your current phone to people more than willing to buy it if you feel the need to have the latest, greatest...