Millions of people bought a device with bugs, certainly. The serious performance issues with the Captivate running the default ROM were on their own a serious QA failure.

US Cellular, MetroPCS, and other smaller carriers have significant market share in the areas that they're available.

Even better: MetroPCS has unlimited data for cheap, lets you activate any CDMA device you like, and has no fixed-length service contracts.

Employing people monetarily-driven might make them more of an espionage threat.

What is "crippled" about BB OS, specifically? Is it the strong support for encryption? Conformance to Java standards? Excellent hardware, especially the radios?

Despite your snark, CIQ is completely absent. Tested on devices from AT&T and Sprint.

It's nice to have a Blackberry through all of this. The WP7 users are probably pretty happy too.

It was originally in the Washington Post. It's beyond a subscriber wall, though.

The 3000 warhead number was based on the interpretation of one study group, and while it's interesting, I'd take it with a hefty grain of salt. 1000 sounds a bit more reasonable.

The US uses steam catapults, which are even better but are more expensive and are fairly involved to design.

Which specific people in "the banking community" would you have arrested, and for what specific crime?

I agree that they fucked things up, but going into witch-hunt mode might not be desirable.

If it's the only use they had for the PS3, why did they install the patch that removed it?

I'm an American, and I know that Iran only recently was able to reverse-engineer the F-5 (early 60's tech) and still hasn't been able to do the same for the F-14 (mid 70's tech.) If they can't reverse-engineer a fighter that they've had for thirty years, and is based on decades-old US technology, what makes you think they can reverse-engineer current US tech in a reasonable amount of time?

There's quite a distance between "they're all primitive camel-riders" and "they're a technological power to rival the United States."

In other words, technology the US had in 1960 and 1945, respectively. So impressive!

Let me know when they reverse-engineer the F-14. They've had 30 years to work on it.

There's a new one every year, dumb fuck. It provides the military budget. The amendment is only in the 2011 version.

Er, no it didn't. It's still in reconciliation committee.