Ugh. I guess I just have to roll with these jokes.

Tired! Ha! I get it... Good Year?

That does not really describe the USA anymore. Most of us don't pin too much nationalist pride on things like the tallest this or the longest that anymore. Hell, we didn't even bother maintaining a manned space program.

If you speak "leet", like I do, those are the letter z.

That's not very original. They should call themselves the Dawg Pound or something.

There is no way MTV would have rejected a Pearl Jam video in the early 90s. Contemporaries like Smashing Pumpkins "Cherub Rock" were just simple videos of the band playing.

Woah, woah. Fear and hatred of children is firmly in the domain of Cowboys fans, not Republicans fans.

What a load of pretentious crap. At the very least, film a video of yourself singing the song in concert. That way the TV viewer is no more influenced by the visual than the concertgoer. Considering Vedder's fight with Ticketmaster, he clearly didn't object to the concert experience.

1. Good enough.
2. Free.
3. Familiar.
4. When they shut down, they usually give you a way to get your data.

Still, they aren't just a drop in the bucket - they are more like a liter in the bucket... that was my surprise.

I might suggest that manufacturing is harder than you seem to think it is. Months can be spent fine-tuning a single part in a complex product. That part might not even be available to other manufacturers. Process can be a very difficult part of manufacturing - simply getting the drawings is insufficient (though quite helpful).

I have a Mac.

Your comment made me chuckle, because clearly you bought a mechanical watch over a quartz watch for some unspecified aesthetic reason.

That is a danger, but I think we would approach it as a one-off. We make capital equipment and so are used to ramping up and down. It's all fantasy-land anyway, since nothing ever came of it - I was just struck by the scale they operate at.

Yes, but inventory is going to be pretty tightly controlled by Apple. Foxconn couldn't just set up a little side business pumping out a few extras here and there without Apple noticing the missing parts.