...for the research into splicing zebra genes into produce to automatically grow barcodes into fruit and vegetables?

Hark! Do I smell an episode of 'Myth Busters'????

I had a run in with their warranty department/policy over a defective ilink (firewire/ieee 1394 to the rest of the world) port on a Sony camcorder. By the time I'd tested the camera with multiple interface cards on several computers and determined that the problem was actually with the camera, I'd used the full 90 days of SONY's advertised 12 month warranty so it would have cost me nearly as much to replace the defective POS as to repair it. When it comes time to replace the TV, lcd monitor, dvd player and other SONY products here in the house, there is one brand that will not even be considered....

Many years ago, we were bidding on a US Postal Service contract to supply computer equipment to all of their offices. We had several pallets of bid material on the loading dock, ready to go. Fortunately, one of the program managers made a last minute check and discovered (in time!) that nobody had bothered to tell the shipping department to ignore the standard, "Ship all contract proposals FedEx, overnight", procedure in this case.....