Pretty limiting flaw in your logic. If they never change anything, they'd never get better.

Disclaimer: Not a fanboy. I only use MS for gaming and have no plans to move to 8.

There is a difference between what the workers are paid, and a demonstrable loss to a business during an outage. The loss to a business with fines and penalties can very easily run higher than 500k. And, that's not counting the reputation loss in the industry, which can account for a great deal more.

from the theater, for theater.

While not entirely germaine to this discussion of quantity limits, exporting iPhones, presumed innocence, and iElectricity I hadn't seen this part mentioned yet.

There is only one reason to skip most of the apple stores near or around Newton, MA. It's to avoid the Massachusetts sales tax, as New Hampshire has no sales tax. She was reportedly carrying $16k in cash so without paying sales tax, she would be able to purchases potentially 2-4 additional iPhones.

I think she knows a bit more English and "how things work" than her story would otherwise have us believe.

I want for mod points.

That the country formerly known as the US is now officially Upper Mexico? And more than half full of assholes.

We were robbed when tax dollars were spent on green energy.

We won't have to worry about running out of oil for a bit; somewhere around 100 years depending on which source you believe. The price fluctuation is a game for profits, nothing more. This can be observed by the distribution stream,where people are paid NOT to produce at full potential, creating false demand. Also, the futures are suspect when a moth farts somewhere in the Middle East and the price immediately goes up -at the pump-, but there are no outcomes (aside from near miss global economic failure apparently) which cause an equally sudden decrease. Given advances in technology for producing and moving this stuff around, one could assume that the price would remain more stable It's a scam.

Says a lot about Chinese manufacture if they need to be crushed before they are considered built.

There are movies out there the studios should be paying people to watch (not the other way around) because they are just that bad. Do those people need to be compensated as well? If you answer with something along the lines of compensated with a shovel to the face, I agree.

It's not stupidity, its recon. Using the non-standard word in many mediums rather quickly reveals people with large sticks firmly wedged up their asses. These are usually people that can safely be ignored without any meaningful loss.

I too have all but given up buying new movie content, unless there is something special or magical about it. My BRD collection is about 4 movies. I chalk up my much larger DvD collection to not knowing any better. Disney is on the same list as Sony and Walmart; I vote with my wallet, but it seems not many others do.

They are, in fact, the crowd that believes they are entitled to your money; i.e. consumers OWE them, regardless of the content.

So when I fill the microphone device on my set top box with glue, will I get ads for a better cable provider?

Put one of these in my backyard and let me plug in. There, now you have it, I'm willing to go green (nuclear green) for my electricity.