One avenue companies utilize in trying to get you to use their products and services is through TV advertisements. While I have seldom been swayed to use products or services because of a TV ad, I often go out of my way to NOT use products or services from advertisers with either annoying ads or ads which go out of their way to insult the viewers' intelligence. Given Bing's current 'search overload' annoyvertisement (yeah, I'm coining a new word here), and regardless of Bing's competence in producing useful search results, I'll use the more-than-adequate Google search results which are easily customized using a few easy to remember search operators (http://www.google.com/help/cheatsheet.html).

Insanely profitable corporations? The average profit margin of hospitals is around 3.4%. Health care plans ring in at a whopping 4.4%. (source: Yahoo! finance - http://biz.yahoo.com/p/sum_qpmd.html). Sure, the healthcare companies have the economies of scale on their side, but with margins that low I would rather place my investment dollars into higher margin businesses.

Wow... here, have some Prozac. I've often wondered why folks on Slashdot... Nevermind. I was just about to start ranting about how folks here on Slashdot rant as if they're actually going to change someone else's opinion.

... and used to interconnect medical devices, it'd give a whole new meaning to "blue screen of death"

...as his ego is no longer blocking the halls.

Since his system uses algae, I bet my fish tank could feed and power a small country.

And I bought a DeLorean in preparation just for this... Thanks a lot, Steorn. Bah!

Okay... maybe not.

I think it's scientifically more plausible that a malicious flying gremlin is responsible for the disappearance of the plane. If it's a good enough explanation for WWII airmen, it's good enough for me.

I read part of the summary as:

My first thought was to picture an elderly person sitting on top of my TV.