I agree. What a horrible way to discover that you chose poorly at the department store...your child gains access and injurs himself (or worse).

LMAO! "several three+ syllable words"

You do understand the folly of your 95% logic don't you? You haven't explained all of your points and then explained the explanations in an effort to leave no stone unturned...your post is a field day for the average slashdotian because there is too much room for interpretation. Heck, who knew only writing 3 sentences and putting TLDR would get an attack by the grammar police. They even got modded UP!

+1 for JoeMerchant and -1 for me please!

Sure would be, if I was trying to be snobbish. See my post to AK Marc. BTW, according to him, you're probably a snob too because you mentioned your time.

See my post to AK Marc.

Like any post on any forum, it's only as trustworthy as the source and since we don't know each other we'll never know if we can trust what's being posted. That being said, trust me when I say I mentioned "6 years" only because it was a point of expanding on the effects I've been able to witness. If you go two months with no TV (September and October) and then go to Thanksgiving dinner in November and don't notice yourself watching TV commercials like I do after 6 years of no TV, then don't be surprised that you aren't experiencing what I experience. That's all I meant. The author started with, "Unless you've managed to not watch anything in the past three weeks" and so I started with how much I didn't "watch anything". I look back now and see that I may have clarified that better but I only posted the comment to both share an experience and also to draw some attention to how much the advertisements can affect people (and coincidentally, how the lack of exposure kept me in the dark about this movie).

"Unless you've managed to not watch anything in the past three weeks"

(This is by NO means an attack on the movies...I'm just sharing my personal experience)

I haven't had "TV" for 6 years. While I've seen advertisements for this movie online, I didn't know it was anything different than the one with Heath Ledger...becasue "Dark Knight" was used in both. I haven't seen that one and don't plan to see this one. I'm sort of shocked that I'm just now realizing that they wouldn't be advertising the one with Heath Ledger in it. I guess I just care so little about the titles that I'm only now realizing that fact.

It's actually quite amazing how the human mind works when you don't submit it to advertisements all the time. During family gatherings (Thanksgiving for example) it becomes very obvious to me the power of these advertisements, especially on TV. When everyone is watching the football game, I could care less (I'm not a sports fan) so I don't watch the TV. When a commercial comes on however, my eyes are GLUED to the TV and everyone begins talking amongst each other and ignoring it because they've seen all of them a hunder times or more.

What about the black people that are offended by "African- American"? I have a friend who is black as midnight and hates that term because he's from Panama. He also hates the term "Panamanian-American". He also hates other blacks using "African-American". He's American and serving in our country's military and that's what he wants to be known as...American.

...in fact, I had a fanny pack (those were in at the time) and they scooped all our stuff into this fanny pack with the intention of taking it...then left it on the table when they walked out. I'm guessing they were too embarrassed to come back for it.

Oh no, we were cited. We had a court appearance for some type of minor paraphernalia possession which is on my record to this day. I don't remember if I had to pay a fine or do community service (maybe both).

In my college days (read: drug experimentation days), we were at my friend's apartment waiting for two more friends to arrive for our "after hours" party (2:01 am, after the bars close). While packing a bowl, we had our back to the door and there was a knock. We knew our friends were coming and we assumed it was them. "COME ON IN" we said. In walked two police officers (called to our location for a noise complaint). They confiscated our drugs/paraphernalia and cited us for something (I forget the details...20 years later). I don't see using the cell phone as any different. Funny ending....when the officers left, they forgot to take the drugs/paraphernalia so we ended up getting high anyway (but WOW, what a buzz kill) :(

epic hack that lasts a decade? You'd be dead long before then from the dry heaving.

dadump....tssss

I thank you!

I've not used it but my best friend swears by it. He showed me how it works and it seemed simple enough.

You are on slashdot. The people he are so geek intelligent that they're plagued with social challenges (dare I say stupid), not the least of which is interpreting between the lines.

Laptop and notebook have been synonymous for a long time and therefore when I see laptop I interchange it with notebook. A netbook, like you state, is small but it's also limited in what it can do compared to laptops/notebooks and therefore the price will be smaller compared to a laptop/notebook.