How safe one company operates vs. another is not a counterpoint.

Right. Which is why I said they don't know numerals beyond X, not numbers beyond X.

Right....because complying with trade regulations of every country should just be automatic, and not based on the growth of the company.

It's not a purchase. It's not an exchange of money for goods. It's a monetary gift that will hopefully be met with a thank you gift one day. Too many kickstarters are just using the wrong language.

Because of the language of "pre-order" that's used in a lot of cases. It makes it sound like a sure thing, when it's really not. It's not a pre-order, it's a gift for funding their project's success (and is contingent on that success).

The last kickstarter I gave to, was in an amount that was below any reward threshold. I just get to know that I did a tiny part in making something I really wanted happen.

Not too obscure. They like big imposing logos with hefty roman numerals as the supporting beams in the design. An "L" just doesn't do that. And most people who watch football don't know Roman numerals beyond X anyway.

It was designed for syncing a folder on your computer with a floppy disks. Now that we have flash drives, seek times aren't so bad and you can operate on them directly (or use cloud storage).

The feature's technically present even in Windows 7. Just add a desktop.ini file to any folder with the following lines:
[ShellClassInfo]
CLSID={85BBD920-42A0-1069-A2E4-08002B30309D}
ConfirmFileOp=0

Apparently there's a way to re-enable it in Windows 8, too.

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B...

What's the survival advantage of better than 20/20 vision? "Good enough" is really as far as natural selection can go.

The local maxima for specific traits don't continue to "level up". 20/20 vision is about the best we're going to evolve (with a few minor outliers), because there's no genetic advantage to having better.

Life is a fatal condition. Putting arbitrary value on specific lifespans that you deem acceptable aren't as eugenic as you believe.

Probably pattern recognition. If innocuous background noise is perceived to be intelligent data, the brain amplifies it (isolates / focuses) rather than filtering it out. It's possible that the voices go away in complete sensory deprivation.

On the other hand, some studies show people born deaf also have language hallucinations - in sign language or lip movement.

I have a feeling that part of what afflicts people like you is a superior ability of pattern recognition. Unfortunately, that means you can "hear things" in the background noise of the world and they are recognized as voices and words.

I would assume that it's closely related to genetic advantages that would allow you to learn people's faces more easily.

iTunes does not require iOS. It also runs as a client on Windows.

And many of those people think nothing good has been recorded since.

You can throw the bag of crap away. The album is tied to your account forever.