No the manufacturer sold it to you "as is" and "fit for purpose" if you want to do something else with it either buy a product that does what you want or go make it yourself. I personally don't like "restricted-boot" so I don't buy a product that has it - exception if the product is well designed and needs no modification

Once upon a time a junkman had a dream

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salvage_1

and pics of the spaceship http://www.webcitation.org/query?url=http://www.geocities.com/CapeCanaveral/Launchpad/9782/salestes.html&date=2009-10-25+06:41:49 [webcitation.org]

I loved that show as a kid now I just need a cement mixer, fuel tanker, and some recycled tyres

http://www.webcitation.org/query?url=http://www.geocities.com/CapeCanaveral/Launchpad/9782/salestes.html&date=2009-10-25+06:41:49

I loved that show as a kid

Insurance needs fear to sell.

It used to be rational fear e.g. you might have a car accident that turns out to be expensive to repair and pay for damages. However here is a fear that is irrational Climate change the climate always changes, day to day , year to year, century to century. And the difficulty will be was the damages caused by climate change or were you in a flood zone anyway. and fearful governments afraid of being sued are complicit in this. A recent example I have is a local council declaring a flood zone in an area that would only flood if sea levels rose 2-3 metres insurance companies without question simply rose all premiums in the area $3000 -$7000 if you wanted flood insurance. It did have an effect as people in this area were generally concerned about climate change now many I spoke to have seen the money maker it really is

A good Quote "In a hundred years The car I drove, the house I lived in, the amount of money in my bank account, even the clothes I wore won't matter, However if I changed the life of a child that will be remembered, talked, sung and written about and in that I will be remembered.

Patrick Moore inspired many children (I still have some of his astronomy books). I have seen people who became doctors after being inspired by watching a doctor save a loved one, another become an electrician after listening to adult electrician passionately talk about his work. I've also heard how many engineers were inspired by James Doohans character Scotty

So yes your grandmother didn't make the slashdot headline, mine didn't either, Patrick Moore on the other hand would be remembered by many older /.'s for his inspiration.

Are your sure it was the police ? Lets see

1) Obtain Police looking uniform

2) print out official looking warrants

3) raid house and collect desirables

4) profit

Hmmm no ??? step the gnomes would be proud

Until you can give me a robot to lay bricks, dig trenches and any other number of back breaking and time consuming tasks needed to build houses, roads and other items to make our lives comfortable we need those with low IQs. In the past they were slaves now we pay them, give them safety equipment, and call them workers.

However when you make that robot don make it too intelligent otherwise it won want to work either

an illegal wiretap

you need to talk to your grand parents and great grand parents they were far more pornographic than you give them credit for

please note they have modern distractions like TV (the greatest contraceptive ever invented according to my grandmother) and came up with their own "Entertainment"

The ideology behind religions is generally not bad, most teach good behaviour, morals and tolerance as the basis of the religion. For some humans who cannot think for themselves need something to guide them. The problem is those that deliberately misinterpret the teachings to promote their own agenda

The problem with making the biggest is that someone just has to make something bigger then your tourist attraction loses its all-important title

Copyrights the MPAA an RIAA merged and then added a number of other organisations that they formed on other planets and covering the new copy mediums. they are called ATAG. and just like today their self interest harms society in general with your picard example showing how billions of lives could have been saved if not for their draconian copyright rules

Thats Android Dallas Data edition a reasonable copy of the iOS1138 from a few years before. Both find the type of owner they like the main difference that iOS1138 will bend you over and take your wallet from behind and spend all the credits, while Dallas Data will simply deep throat your man-bag not realising you don't have any credits to pay for any services

The first is correct most of the wealthy I know talk about not wanting to be hungry ever again and worked hard those who got it easily(inherit family win etc) tend to lose it once they have control. So starvation is a good motivator long even if its a distant memory

Just a thought if you risked losing 2000 years of life with your actions or only 50 years would you do the risky action/activity ?