No that is just a dog and pony show just like abortion and gay marriage. They take a topic that most people are either very strongly for or against but has no real barren on whats really going on in the country. Then they "fight" tooth and nail over it making a big scene, making sure that the topic is on every 24 hour news station while quietly doing things like passing the National Defense Act or just avoiding news on things like how bad we are getting fucked by the NSA. Think of it like a magic trick. It's all about misdirection.

*They = politicians and the media.

People that have something worth saying usually end up gagged, blindfolded, thrown in the back of a van, and end up in some secret prison.

Ok go back to the 80's or 90's when they weren't needing to build/upgrade their fabs with every new chip design.

But if everyone did start wearing the non-conformist hat and you used to be the only kid on the block with one wouldn't that make you a trendsetter and thus the biggest conformist of them all?

In fact forget the boat racing and the blackjack.

Something tells me your kids aren't immunized.

Yeah but in the end it's all the same. The people that break their backs for the company don't get anything but the shaft.

Everyone knows that plasma was made up by Hollywood to keep Ghostbusters scientifically accurate.

Ok I am probably going to get blasted for this but.... The ZuneHD was a great piece of hardware and gave a hell of a lot more bang for the buck than the comparable priced iPod of the time. That being said it wasn't the device itself that was horrible but the lack of any real apps or support from Microsoft that made it such a joke.

How many of those living room computers can handle playing modern games with decent settings and getting a decent frame rate?

I'll make sure to tell that to the veterans that got drafted and were forced to fight for a war they wanted no part of. Sorry gramps you should have jumped the boarder when you had the chance.

When the hell did this become about George W. Bush?

I've never seen a drunk stumble and kill a family of 4.

What part of violating the TOS don't you understand?

AMD did this back with their Phenom X3's. There was such a high demand for the low cost triple core processors that they disabled a core on some four core processors and sold them as X3s till they ramped up production. I was lucky enough to get one of the four cored processors and was able to re-enable the fourth core through my bios.