My understanding is that the cosmetics industry has a huge problem with counterfeit products. Many of the products are available online and it can be difficult to stop the sellers of these products. The counterfeit cosmetics are rarely made to quality or safety standards that the law requires and consumers expect.
   

The Foxconn suicide rate was lower than the surrounding community. I would be curious what the comparable suicide rate is for GM, GE or any other large factory.

Worse, this could seriously damage the Red Cross brand. If they start getting involved in the culture wars (a term I despise, but can not improve upon) they will lose there long earned reputation as an impartial provider of aide to those in need.
This sort of action significantly reduces the likelihood of my donating to their usually good cause.
They need to stick to their core "business" and avoid controversy.

Been a long time, the place won't feel the same without you.

>> How many Mickey Mouse cartoons have you seen lately ...?

>>Mickey is used as a logo, and in merchandising.... but not as a character ?

You are joking right? I will give you the benefit of the doubt and assume you don't have a small child and the disney channel. I only visit folks with TV, but with toddler in tow I have seen the mickey mouse clubhouse show http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mickey_Mouse_Clubhouse
The animation is 3d, but they captured the whole fixed ear position from the original.

To be fair, this is a post retirement Bill Gates.

The default settings on safari doesn't. display the target of the link. It is pretty annoying.

I live in a beach house. My toaster rusts. Everything I have rusts.
I deal with this by buying less expensive stuff and budgeting for replacements.
This would not be acceptable for my office.

Would you say that you can see a plethora of people?
-El Hefe

Can't remember the name, but that movie was abysmal... It either made no sense at all, or was a waste of half a day

Now more and more x360 games are coming with one time only codes that you need to unlock a significant portion of the game. Forza 3, for example, had a bonus track area and a ton of bonus cars. mass effect 2 had a very effective character locked out by default but was unlocked with a one use code. I would expect that in the near future this trend will accelerate.

Again I am going to blame the driver, but because most people do not use the full range of motion for the pedals they sit too far back from the dash.
Many drivers have the car set up to not give enough leg extension to fully engage the brake.
They can get away with this for day to day driving because power brakes can stop the car with the slightest amount of pressure.
I am also tempted to add a comment about belly size interfering with the steering wheel.

The bad soldering and protruding wires may have been the point of the piece. It was likely a statement contrasting technology with what came before, or trying to capture how odd it looks when you modernize something old badly. This is like when you tour an old castle and see conduit along the wall.

Here I was about to look the word up and then figure out how to put it in my next report.

obstreperous
1. Noisily and stubbornly defiant.
2. Aggressively boisterous.

I think the word works where you used it.

The cheapo two year old GPS I have does this already (garman Nuvi 200 series). If I am 1/2 a mile from the next turn it leaves off most smaller side streets. When I get within a certain distance of the turn it shows all of the details. You need this because when you are coming into a strange inter section you do ned to see that there are two streets that are very close together and you need a third street that is hidden behind a building.