I know it's pricey and not perfect, but some cons of a mule compared to this machine:

• You can't chuck a mule into storage to wait until it's required
• You can't ship a mule in a, say, container
• You can't (at least easily) airdrop a mule
• You can't temporary hide a mule for couple days in a forest or under snow
• You cannot remotely controll a mule
• Mules might have difficulties in staying calm when bullets and bombs start flying arround
• In case of injury the whole mule must be replaced, no spares

Disclaimer: neither military, nor mule specialist ... Based on very general understandment about military

Happy user of Lenovo X1. Got it with Windows8 (no other option), played for 4 hours and installed Ubuntu. And since Windows for some reason showed me that there's only 65 gigs of free space left on my shiny new computer with 128Gb(Gib?) SSD I wiped windows cleanly (including recovery partition).

I also got a new Dell workstation at work. Not sure if it was managements fault or there is no choice but it came with Windows8, which was wiped immediately. Got it on VirtualBox now for IE testing which is about 1hr/month. I'm not sure if many of those millions had a choice.

Perhaps prices that other similarly developed countries pay?... http://www.macstories.net/stories/the-great-disparity-in-global-itunes-prices/

Since 2001, NASA has used Aquarius for its NEEMO (NASA Extreme Environment Mission Operations) program, to study various aspects of human spaceflight in a similar environment. Like the environment of space, the undersea world is a hostile, alien place for humans to live. Aquarius provides a safe harbor for scientists to live and work for weeks at a time.

"I don't know a single person that doesn't bike because they have to wear a helmet. And I suspect anyone that reports such is just looking for a socially acceptable reason for their lack of exercise."

You probably do not spend much time with young people. All of my friends started cycling because it's hip/cool and only later understood that it's actually a good, quick way to get around. And don't even mention ecology. Nobody cares. Mandatory helmets are show stopper in this case. And yeah.. It did not take long until they started cycling to work daily and started wearing helmets.

While playing in studio with stupid audio effects we once discovered that reversed delay* of ~1 second does jam speech quite well.

* More like instant reverse playback of 1 second recording

4chan* & reddit* animated reactions plague spreads.

* IANAME - not a meme expert, not sure if these two are to blame for this.