How is one supposed to pay for these things with digital currency? Pimps and drug dealers love paper trails!

My take on it is the only classes that should have computers, are the classes that are teaching something about computers. You need a computer to learn how to type, or for writing and compiling code. You don't need a computer for your core stuff like history, math, english, etc. Computers and electronics in the classroom are just distractions.

I was surprised to see 'dickhead' in an official response. Is it a less vulgar term in NZ than in the US?

That's true. It's might also be in their interest to allow ala-carte pricing. But it is their content, and they can distribute it how they choose. Since they also distribute it on the Internet (barring any illegal content providers) they can pretty much offer it however they want on any medium.
The only way for them to fight illegal downloaders it to make legitimate downloads/streaming as easy or easier than illegal downloads. That would mean no DRM (or a least a good implementation of it) in a cross platform format consumable by all types of devices.

"Throwing the gauntlet" worked so well for the music industry. They probably could have made so much more money, much more easily if they had embraced digital media from the onset.
Television needs to get on board with the digital age. If they fight it they are just going to fall behind as users find better alternatives to traditionally TV.
Perhaps it's time to offer ala-carte channel selection. Why should I have to buy a package from my cable company when I can just find what I want online.
The harder they fight it, the faster they will lose viewers. Especially now that TVs have Youtube and Hulu apps embedded, making it much easier for the average user to watch online content.

I'd agree with you on the caloric intake. You can get fat from eating Broccoli and grilled organic skinless chicken breast if you ate 5000 calories worth of it, the same as if you ate 5000 calories of candy and fried cheese and burned less than the number of calories consumed.
However, nutritionally speaking I'd have to say that eating processed food full of preservatives, and artificial flavoring etc has got to be worse for your body than eating something that simply grew from ground.
I keep seeing these news stories that say "did you know that eating can help reduce the risk of ".
Humans evolved eating only stuff that came from the ground. The earth provides nutrition needed by a humans (not to mention every other species).
Not to say that processed food is devoid of nutrients, but there is no doubt that fruits, veggies, and grains balanced with a moderate quantity of meat is what the human body will thrive on.

I wonder what the price tag would be. Of course, if you never have to replace them that would be a plus.
What I would really like to see is shocks that could generate electricity that recharge the battery in a hybrid/electric vehicle.
It could probably work somewhat akin to those generators that harness power from ocean waves. Not sure how much power you could get from the motion generated by 4 shocks moving a few inches in each direction.

Indeed, who wants to listen to people dictate commands to their computer, that would be the most annoying thing in the world. If you think hearing a one sided cell phone conversation is annoying, wait until you hear the douche making a snarky status update. No thanks.

I have never heard anyone describe a myspace page so perfectly! That is exactly how it should be described, haha. I love it.
As for face book, I wasn't sure if it killed myspace or not. All I know is facebook rose up and myspace fell.

Can I get free shipping if I use "Buy it now". What about local pickup?
Oh, and can you post picture of the back of the suits?

Facebook is an advertisers dream. I don't think it could be any more perfect from an advertisers perspective, and I'm sure facebook charges a premium for this kind of consumer data. However, targeted advertising only works when there are targets...what happens when/if facebook goes the way of Myspace and Live Journal (not that LJ was a behemoth like facebook or myspace).
  It seems like myspace was king for a few years, then tanked and facebook filled the void. I'm not sure what caused myspace's drop in popularity, but one has to wonder if facebook will see the same thing. Seeing as how "every one" read - everyone's parents/grandparents, are on facebook, you have to wonder if the people who fueled facebook's uprising (the college age crowd) will packup and move to the next big social net where nobody's parents are there to see the kind of debauchery in which they take part.
Then facebook is left with millions of square feet of data center space filled with thousands of idle servers. Cell phone company stop bundling facebook apps out of the box, and companies and news stations no longer update their facebook pages, because they too have moved on to follow the masses to next big thing.
If I were to invest in facebook, I would ride that wave for a very short time. Maybe I'm wrong, the world is much different than it was in 1999.